this wrong. i am a machinist and i work with all guys. sorry about that, joe. fox & friends starts right now. happy friday. good morning. today is friday, october 10. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. an explosive warning from the fort hood shooter to the pope. raising jihad, praising it and calling himself a soldier of allah. can his massacre still be called workplace violence? we ll tell you. we will. anger against police in st. louis reaching a boiling point. now protesters are thr knives and even burning, as you can see right there, the american flag. thanks, steve. ladies, would you like a raise? before you go asking your boss for more money, a top male c.e.o. says it s much easier to rely on karma instead. we ll discuss it. mornings are better with friends. hi. i m billy baldwin and you re watching fox & friends. thank you, billy baldwin. he calls himself the white sheep of the family because he s the one who is just a normal guy. and you re practically a member of the family. right and they might adopt me. because his father was a history teacher at your high school. maria is trying to work her way into the hasselbeck family. we ll see about that. cousin steve and cousin brian in our family. welcome aboard. it is a friday and we start with a jaw dropper. the fort hood shooter has sent a handwritten warning to the pope and to the vatican and to other religious leaders around the world. nidal hasan rambling about jihad and radical islam in his latest correspondence. we re live in washington with more on this. we re all sort of shaking our heads on this. what more can you tell us? good morning. his lawyer says this letter shows how much convicted fort hood shooter nidal s hasan thoughts are driven by religious zeal. he asked to send a letter to pope francis and hasan tells the pontiff, quote, the willingness to fight for almighty allah can be a test in and of itself. mujahedin have a greater rank in the eyes of allah than those who don t fight and are encouraged to inspire believers. the he went on a shooting rampage in fort hood in 2009 and was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 31 more; also writes in a letter to the head of the catholic church, quote, those who inspire divinity through christ and reject the koran are liars and disbelievers. please take heed. hasan describes himself in the letter as he has previously as an s.o.a. or soldier of allah. the obama administration called the fort hood massacre an example of workplace violence rather than islamic terrorism. we called in arthur aidallah. i m holding in my hands the letter he wrote to the pope and other religious leaders. he has nice handwriting. the only good thing i m going to say, he does have nice handwriting. isn t this terrorism? isn t this written terrorism? i m racking my brain. i don t believe there is any ethical obligation on behalf of a lawyer to disseminate information like this. what the hawr has said is he wants what the lawyer has said septs to use this letter in an appeal to show he wasn t thinking properly and apparently in the trial he was not allowed to testify about his religious beliefs. but there is no reason to be releasing this publicly. here is the lawyer s explanation officially. it says it also reenforces my tblef that the military judge committed reversible error by prohibiting major hasan from both testifying and arguing how his religious beliefs motivated his actions during the shooting. so this is proof that he didn t get a chance to talk at trial and it was because of that that he sent this to the pope. this is a unanimous decision. panel 13 across the board said death penalty. what the attorney leaves out is that last step. it s reversible error. he wasn t able to testify. he goes if he was able to testify, x, y, z. that s not there. usually it would say it would create a defense of extreme emotional disturbance which would mitigate it from a death penalty case to a nondeath penalty case. i don t understand why this lawyer did this in such a public way. it doesn t make any sense to me. i don t know. it doesn t seem like the most professional action. that is the nicest thing i can say. when you see quotes like this, this is from the letter, those who die their final death worshipping other than allah are not forgiven. their good deeds are rendered useless. and this is going to the pope. it is not like he s just releasing it. it s going to the pope. all i can tell you this, brian, if i got a letter like this from my attorney regarding this or anything else i apologize from my client as an attorney, i want you to disseminate this, i have no obligation. i would say no. this is what bothers me. he s still able to write and play a role. the fact that he s able to do this and offer threats. he should have broke his fingers. allowed to communicate? brian, hold on a second. even the worst people are allowed you re still allowed to write a letter. the lawyer doesn t have the obligation to correct. disseminate it. he s in a horrible place. nobody would want to be where this guy is, physically where he is. nobody wants to trade places with him, and he is allowed to write letters. there are a bunch of people that lost their lives i m not saying he doesn t deserve to be there. there are many that died at his hands who would love to at least have the ability to write a letter. his lawyer passing this on and i think you hit it right on the head, arthur, by saying he s under no obligation about this. why is he? it does not make sense to me, elisabeth. if you want me to tell you i think he s being used by this guy or maybe he wants five minutes of fame look now he s on fox & friends now he s famous. here s what makes it worse. he s an islamic extremist. this guy is becoming a celebrity amongst the people that hate us most. i agree. that is why i would never do this. i don t understand what the motivation is. if it is reversible error, put it in your papers and send it to court. it pretty much solidifies even though the department of justice decides it is not terrorism, we re going to try him on workplace violence, dr. jasser was on with megyn last night and said this proves it was terrorism. the report on fort hood was 84 pages and never mentioned islam, jihad. there were copy cats after nidal. another who wanted to commit another fort hood. how many recurrences, hundreds we ve seen of this violence of jihaddism that keeps represent replicating and because of the fear of our administration, groups that are apologists that want to put a cover over the real cold war of the 21st century which is islamic we ll give you the last word. let s talk about it from a realistic point of view, he wasn t prosecuted under terrorism but he did get justice that he deserves, and that s the ultimate, ultimate goal that these families want. i shame on you, attorney, for doing this, in my opinion. you represent all attorneys and i feel that way and any time i step into a courtroom or act, you should know better than that than to be this guy s tool. this guy s pawn. he want to be famous. he s famous but he still is on death row. with his fingers, though he can write. many people didn t realize he had the option to not send it and you just opened that up for them. thank you for that. all right. nine minutes after the top of the hour on this very busy friday. heather s got the headlines. it is the weekend; right? we have some other news for you. the clock is ticking. in less than 24 hours new screening for ebola goes into effect at jfk, new york s largest airport. next week four other airports wip join in. newark, dulles, o hare and heartsfield jackson in atlanta. travelers from west africa will now have their temperature taken. but airports are already on high alert. take a look at this video just into fox & friends. fire fighters in hazmat gear swarming a plane in alabama after a passenger gets sick mid flight. turns out it was just a case of motion sickness. breaking overnight, protesters in st. louis, missouri, are burning american flags over the shooting death of a teenage boy by police. [chanting] don t shoot! no peace! during the chaos rioters threw a knife at a knife at an officer hitting him in shoulder, two people were arrested. jason miller in custody this morning after a three-hour standoff with police. he tweeted during the entire thing. all of this unfolding in california. officers tried to apparently serve him with an arrest warrant on a list of charges including domestic violence. here s just one of his tweets at one point saying just don t let them shoot me. miller looking pleased with himself in his mug shot. he is being held on $200,000 bail. how about good news for this friday. the nobel peace prize awarded this morning. pakistani child malala and satyari getting this year s honor. the nobel committee citing them for work for children. an alabama mother furious after her five-year-old kindergartner is forced to sign a no suicide contract at school. did you say she s five? she s five. you have the story for us. what s going on here? good morning, elisabeth. the mother rebecca wants to remain anonymous but says it started when mobile county officials called her about an incident involving her daughter. she said, quote, they told me she drew something that resembled a gun. according to them she point add crayon at another student and said pew-pew. rebecca said she questioned her daughter about suicidal thoughts but that is not all. rebecca said she had to sign a sign a contractor promising not to commit suicide. she is now pushing to have the incident removed from her child s record saying the situation should have been handled differently. she said as a parent that is not right. i m the one who should be able to talk to my child and not have somebody else mention words like this. the school not commenting and according to alabama state law anyone under the anal of 19 can under the age of 19 cannot legally sign contracts without a parent. that final point is so crazy. you don t have kids sign a contract. that is my opinion as the mama of a five-year-old. she said pew-pew, not bang-bang. what do you think about that? please e-mail us at friends at fox news.com or tweet us at fox & friends. this story had so many of you outraged yesterday. did the e.p.a. pull an i.r.s. because thousands of text messages that were supposed to be handed over accidentally deleted. we have brand-new details that are going to get you going on this friday. forget boys and girls. call them purple penguins. a school is going gender inclusive. a very unhappy is here. we won t tell you if it s a man or woman. it looks like the government has not learned much from the lois lerner scandal. her e-mails vanished when congress launched its probe but now it s happened to a top e.p.a. official as well. the environmental protection agency agency says it deleted thousands of text messages after a conservative think tank started asking questions. so what is the agency trying to cover up? here to explain is the fellow fellow at the energy and the environment chris warner. first we saw the text messaging correspondence of the woman who had been the deputy in charge of what s known as the war on coal, e.p.a. s most expensive, most aggressive regulatory agenda. gina mccarthy, she s now the administrator. on 18 separate days because we had been told she had been warned about what she was writing and was going to get the administration in trouble. for 18 days we requested and got no answers. we ran the odds and figured she was not texting on those days but she actually texted like a teenager instead of e-mail. we sought all of them. once again they said she doesn t have any. it turns out in one lawsuit she admitted through counsel to having destroyed all over 5,000 messages over a three-year period. we got meta data that shows she was corresponding with her senior aides in the war on coal even though she defended her cyber bonfire by saying they were all personal. they wiped out theirs too. e.p.a. is destroying an entire class of correspondence. what do you think those text messages could reveal and why did you if you look at what happened to lois lerner, she got her job for about a year because she pleads the fifth and she s living okay. what do we learn from lois lerner? better to give you the stiff arm than tell the truth and realize what she might be doing is flatout corruption. we ll see if everybody gets away with this. on its face it violates the criminal code, you can get up to three years per incident. i m not saying she needs to fit herself in stripes but gina mccarthy was the person in charge of making sure the laws were abided. some politicians in these coal states should be applauding you for what you re doing because you re keeping their industry alive. thanks so much. he s fired up on a friday. ten minutes before the top. het me tell you what s straight ahead. they are here and hired to serve and protect but how are they supposed to do that if they have no weapons? wait until you hear about a plan to take away their guns. more and more schools forcing kids to get flu shots and what happens if you don t want your child to get one? can they be denied an education? we separate facts from fiction. campbell s® fiesta chicken lime tortilla. sausage and pepper rigatoni. southwest style bean & barley. tuscany style chicken and pasta. if you think campbell s® 33 new soups sound good. imagine how they taste! m m m m good!® all around the world the dedicated people of united airlines are there to support you. that s got your back friendly. we have some friday morning headlines for you now. the u.s. supreme court stopping officials in wisconsin from requiring residents to provide photo i.d. before voting. hours later a federal judge in texas blocked that state s voter i.d. law calling it a poll tax. texas attorney general greg abbott says it will be appealed. who s the bully here? the kansas chapter of the united auto workers using its website to call out g.m. workers who chose not to pay union dues. it dedicated an entire page with the names of 30 people who are not in the union. critics say it s an all-outest to intimidate and pressure them into joining. pressure tax. that s the news. here s the doctor and elisabeth. thank you. october is the start of flu season. while no one is immune parents may be hesitant to get their children vaccinated with the flu shot. should they be worried with that? here to separate flu from fact fiction is fox news medical a team dr. marc siegel. the flu season starts earlier, lasts longer; a lot of concerns with parents. let s go through fact or fiction possible myth. the flu vaccine is safe for children? absolutely a fact. it is completely safe for children. you can get the injected vaccine which is a dead virus. that is completely safe. it can t cause the flu. children sometimes do better with the inhaled vaccine which is a live virus. you can t have that if you have asthma but that is easier to take and there is some evidence it causes better immunity. i m all for that flu mist for children. as long as they don t have asthma. second, children can be denied from school without a flu shot? that s fiction. but i ll tell you something, there s a couple of states where it s becoming fact. in new jersey, connecticut and new york over the last couple of years if you want to go to preschool, your kid to go to preschool or day care they have to take a flu shot. there s an advantage to that. it decreases the amount of flu that is circulating. we know our preschools are like petri dishes, spreading and touching each other. there is a decrease of hospitalization of young people who take the flu shot. the flu shot doesn t usually prevent the flu but it decreases how severe a flu you get if you get the flu. for a young child or old person especially important. by law? right now. in those states. not across the country yet. very controversial but i think it is very valuable. if you re trying to get pregnant you should avoid the flu shot? fact or fiction? fiction. there s three reasons you should have the flu shot. flu shots do not cause miscarriages. flu shots when you re pregnant protect you. if you get the flu when you re pregnant it s very severe. itcan be quite severe and can lead to problems in fetuses, birth defects. it protects the baby for the first six months of life when you can t give them the flu shot. c.d.c. recommends giving them the flu shot after the first six months. in the first six months you re relying on the immunity you got from your mom. you can get the flu from a flu shot? you absolutely cannot. many times i tell people that, they still think it s the case. you cannot. the first 24 hours after you get the flu shot you may get some symptoms, you may get under the weather, may get a little fever, muscle aches. that is an allergy to the flu shot. it is a dead virus. what about the nasal spray? the nasal spray is a live virus. you always ask the smartest questions. it is a live virus but can t give you the flu. what about those with an egg allergy? this says those with an egg allergy can t get the flu vaccine. also fiction. we now have a version of the flu shot that is egg free. if you have a severe allergy you can get a different kind of flu shot that won t cause the allergy. get your flu shot no matter what. great message. dr. segal, always great to have you here. you ask the best questions. thanks for being here. i have my flu shot. coming up now, it s a fox & friends exclusive. brian sits down with mark cuban, a guy who doesn t worry about what comes out of his mouth at all. are you worried about political correctness today? 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at legalzoom you get personalized services for your family and your business that s 100% guaranteed. so go to legalzoom.com today for personalized, affordable legal protection. we are celebrating. it s our shot of the morning. we re kicking off columbus day weekend with an italian feast. pizza for everybody. we have the head chef of l & b gardens, lenny gardens. you guys came here as a family in 1917? grandpa came as a young boy. he came with practically nothing. he came, he lived in a little place on president street and he was all by himself and he started from a kid that came as an orphan and created a pizza dynasty. i mean, the dpie went the guy went on the cover of your box you ve got a horse and buggy. he delivered by horse? that s right. the ice cream. great. family recipe. it is basically a grandma pizza but mass produced. grandma pizza is a pizza cooked from fresh and it goes in the oven with the sauce on top. if it goes in fresh with the mozzarella on top, the mozzarella would burn. this is the pizza i grew up with. what is this? my mother s salami sandwich from coney island. does she know you took it? she passed away. this is the best. you have salami on the bottom. it is almost like a salad. will you be here all morning? our friend arthur aidala has been telling us about your place for many years you ve got a friend. we invite you all. thank you very much. love it. time for some news. for that, heather childers joins us. nothing like pizza for breakfast. we begin with this, 1,000 air force service men are losing health care because they re told they never should have had it in the first place. the air force says that they mistakenly issued medical coverage to voluntarily separating air men earlier this year. the problem is anyone optingor voluntary separation is not eligible for health care. and now that it s being taken away, air men and women, they re furious saying we were told one thing and now we re being told another. the police are there to serve and protect, just not with guns? one d.c. council man wants to disarm cops. independent david grosso saying he wants to get rid of all guns in the city including for police officers. other city council members quickly jumped to defend him even saying officers in other countries aren t armed. grosso adding he s not introducing any legislation. he s just starting a conversation. like a bad game of dodge ball, a democratic kentucky senate candidate alison grimes ducking question after question on whether she voted for president obama. take a listen. did you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? this election isn t about the president. it s about making sure we put kentuckyans back to work. did you vote? i was in 2008 a delegate for hillary clinton. she didn t answer. the latest fox news poll puts mitch mcconnell ahead of grimes by fow points. a firestorm of controversy surrounding the c.e.o. of microsoft after he told a group of women not asking for a raise is good karma. it happened at an event celebrating women and technology. he said it is not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along because that is s good karma. twitter went nuts, one woman tweeting maybe he meant the good women who don t ask for raises will be reincarnated as men who get those raises. he tweeted back saying was inarticulate about how women ask for raise. our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of bias. what do you think? he could have just said everyone. if he says everyone, for me, if i m a worker, i want my boss to give me a raise i don t want to ask for it, no problem. i don t know why it was specific to women. other people say you ve got to go ask for it. go storm in there. it s a strategy. it s a style. here s the thing. he was answering a question of if you re a woman, i think in his mind i don t know him he was probably saying in general people who ask, i would like to recognize them rather than he would like a do-over. what do you think about that? e-mail us at friends at friends@foxnews.com. in the meantime you re looking at an image from nasa of a major typhoon heading for japan. more than 50,000 american troops are stationed there. maria molina joins us and she s got an eye on that big storm and our whether as well. good morning. hello everyone. that storm system is equivalent to a category 4 hurricane that would be in the atlantic. it has maximum sustained winds now of about 140 miles per hour and landfall is expected out there coming up very shortly over the next few days not only across okinawa about northward across parts of japan. in the lower 48 we have rain across a stationary front. anywhere from texas to parts of arkansas and into missouri you re going to be looking at several inches of rain possible. there are flash d into watches in effect and eventually that rain will be moving into portions of the mid-atlantic. tomorrow morning you can expect showers in places like washington, d.c. along this front boundary the risk of severe storms that will start today and pick up in intensity sunday into monday. we ll be watching in in states like oklahoma, arkansas and parts of texas. otherwise temperatures to the north of the front very chilly. only in the 50 s in places like kansas city and chicago but 90 s across texas. let s head back inside. thank you. on monday i had an interview with the owner of dallas mavericks mark cuban. we talked about everything from his first job selling garbage bags to his tough talk on washington. here s an excerpt you re going to see on monday. i vote for the guy who s going to do the least. in what way? about what? about everything. because again, politicians are there to be reelected. i don t think they do a good job of thinking. i don t care if it s republicans or democrats, there is no difference between the two. they re there to get elected. i think what i look for is you just stay out of the way. because the more they try to do, the harder it gets. has president obama lived up to your expectations? good tease. that s a great way to put it, although i don t know how many candidates are going to run for i will do the least. he characterized himself as a libertarian. i said rand paul is your guy? he said, no, he s not my guy. he s very much on the fence. he voted for president obama twice but he s actually probusiness, go out and get it. he talks about entitlement and kids. he talks about owner of the mavericks and where he gets his drive from. he looks at himself as an average guy with an above average work ethic. too bad he s so shy about his opinions. i give him a lot of credit because he s so honest. he mentioned he voted for the president twice. on monday find out does he regret voting for president obama. find that out and more. mark cuban talking with brian on monday. next, if you recently bought a blizzard with a credit card. dairy barn dairy queen? 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our next guest was the first parent to learn about the training materials. her e-mails to other parents on the matter is what sparked this debate. good morning, rachel. thanks for joining us from lincoln. good morning. good to be with you. as i understand it, you got a heads up on this because a teacher or two e-mailed you and said you ve got to spread the word; right? right, right. and i really respect and honor these teachers for putting their jobs on the line to do what they thought was best for their student. apparently the school district believes this is part of their antibullying campaign to get rid of this, you know, eliminate saying boys and girls because there are transgender students perhaps in the classroom? yeah. bullying is a big topic and i think we can all agree that no child should be bullied, that all children should be welcomed, included. but i feel like the political correctness here is really distorting reality and probably isn t the best way to help children feel safer at school. what do you mean, the political correctness? i think that s probably where this gender spectrum idea is coming from. you know, it s not everybody feels comfortable with the boy and girl, let s get rid of it for everybody. it s extreme political correctness being misused in a way that s confusing to children. when the teachers reached out to you, you say they were concerned, they don t think it s a good idea. why? because well, i think part of the reason is clearly you can see how teachers might feel uncomfortable with the directions to speak this way. it s unnatural to the teachers and probably goes against the belief system of many of the teachers. i m sure that they re concerned about parental rights as well. the school district superintendent had this sound bite and talks about how the media portrayal of the training papers not accurate. listen to this and then your reaction. have we or anybody inside our system mandated that a teacher take boys and girls or ladies and gentlemen out of their interactions with children or interactions with adults? this was about adults, professional educators, who care deeply about trying to reach and establish relationships with children, looking for strategies on how they can be more effective in their classroom. there you ve got the superintendent denying they ve asked teachers to stop doing that. you say what? i wasn t at the training meeting, and as far as i know, they haven t told teachers you re not allowed to say boys and girls or ladies and gentlemen. you know, what i ve heard is that the handouts were given out as suggestions for teachers to use in their classroom. but, you know, i think he s probably trying to distance himself a little bit from that around this firestorm. i know there s a big school district meeting coming up on tuesday and you re encouraging parents to show and speak out against it. everybody gets five minutes. all right. rachel terry joining us from lincoln. thank you very much for telling your story. thank you. what do you think about that? e-mail us. coming up, he was the defense secretary and head of the c.i.a. for president obama, but obama s supporters say he s dishonorable? 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when is that going to change? he was the defense secretary and head of the c.i.a., but president obama s supporter says he s dishonorable. it s kind of sad that in its twilight, he s done such a dishonorable thing by by going after the president that he served at a time of a lot of different instabilities around the world. so does bill burton have a point? we report. you decide. he wrote a book. a kindergartener is forced to sign a no suicide contract at school because she drew a picture that kind of looked like a gun. what? oh, boy. thank you for joining us. it s friday. you re watching fox & friends . hello, everybody. this is lenny from l and bspumoni garden! manja! i know it s 7:00 o clock on friday morning, but i ve already had one piece of pizza. it s delicious. it is a mob scene outside. like we starved the crew for 72 hours. they brought us italian food to kick off columbus day whether isñr monday. right. we told but this in the cold open. fort hood shooter sending a handwritten warning to pope francis and the vatican. rambling on about jihad and radical islam in his latest correspondence there. molly henneberg is live. we got a copy of the letter. tell us what he s saying. reporter: good morning. the letter is a message to pope francis and others instructing them how they can get right with allah and how jihad can, quote, inspire the believers. nidal hasan s lawyer says this letter shows how much of the convicted fort hood shooter s, quote, life actions and mental thought are driven by religious zeal. hasan asked his lawyer to mail a six-page handwritten letter to the pope that begins, quote, a warning to pope francis, members of the vatican, and other religious leaders around the world, with all due courtesy, i invite you to understand the purpose of life as defined by almighty allah. in one section of the letter titled jihad, he tells the pontiff that muslims who wage jihad, quote v a greater rank in the eyes of allah. hassan, a former army psychiatrist, went on a shooting rampage at fort hood in 2009 and was later convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 31 more. he also writes in this letter to the head of the catholic church, quote, christians are specifically warned by the god of abraham to believe in the koran and not to say jesus is the son of god. hasan describes himself in the letter as he has previously as an soa, or soldier of allah. the obama administration has called the fort hood massacre an example of workplace violence rather than islamic terrorism. back to you all in new york. allall right. molly henneberg live in our nation s capitol, thank you. interesting look at the letter, we all got copies of it. in this letter to the pope, hasan while he says i m ready for jihad and ready to do what it takes because he s a soldier of allah, and yeah, and i m the guy that murder 13 people and tried to murder 31 others. you can only put so much in a letter, steve. the other thing to keep in mind is how was he radicalized? by writing to al-awlaki. by doing this, he s making himself a star in that underworld and trying to radicalize other people by telling them what he thinks is the right way to serve allah. so in other words, if you want to wind up on death row like me, here is a way. but he s surviving. to some people in that warped sensibility, it s like wow, he s my idol. his attorney decided to pass it on. one of the quotes is this: the willingness to fight for almighty allah can be a test in itself, believing fighters have a greater rank in the eyes of allah than believers who don t fight. that s from former major nidal hasan. his lawyer this is the extraordinary part about it. he wrote this letter and asked his lawyer, deliver this to the pope. and the reason he about it was he said this makes my case. he says, quote, this letter also reinforces my belief that the military judge committed reversible error by prohibiting major hasan from both testifying and arguing how his religious beliefs motivated his actions during the shooting. so in other words, the lawyer says this is proof his religious zeal drove him to murder. yeah. so who is can we at least acknowledge he s being motivated by islamic extremism? that s the part that gets us. it was clearly terrorism, but this department of justice decided to prosecute him and he was convicted on charges of workplace violence. here is what you re saying. stephanie e mailed us this, because this case was designated workplace violence, the military members were treated incorrectly. there are victims who survived, but lost their careers. the designation made a horrible situation even worse. it did indeed. also kevin e mailed, if the president does not now after this letter admit he was wrong about this not being workplace violence, our country is in danger. keep the e-mail coming. facebook us. you can tweet under the circumstances. as we toss to heather, keep in mind, we got another shot at this. that s the oklahoma beheader, that lunatic that went into his workplace after being suspended and started screaming islamic phrases and we know what he did. so let s get it right this time. that happening in moore, oklahoma. yep. the clock is ticking. in less than 24 hours, new screening for ebola goes into effect at jfk, new york s largest airport. next week four other airports will join in. newark, dulles, o hare and atlanta. travels from west africa will now have their temperature taken. but airports are already on high alert. take a look at this video. this is just in to fox & friends. firefighters in haz-mat gear swarming a plane in alabama after a passenger gets sick mid flight. turns out that was just a case of motion sickness. breaking overnight, protesters in st. louis, missouri, now burning american flags over the shooting death of a teenage boy by police. during the chaos, rioters through threw a knife at a police officer and hit him in the shoulder. two people were arrested. theç violent crowd also smashig this glass door at a pharmacy. also shattering the window of a patrol car. an alabama mother is furious. have you heard about this? after her five-year-old kindergartener is forced to sign a no suicide contract, all because she drew a picture of what looked like a gun. rebecca, who wants to remain anonymous, says while she was waiting in the lobby, the school questioned her daughter about suicidal thoughts. but that s not all. they also had her sign a suicide and homicide contract promising not to hurt herself or others. she s now pushing to have the incident removed from her child s record. there is a look at your headlines. five years old. yep. teeny little one to have to write such things. i don t know if i could write my last name at five. then promise in crayon not to do it again. we asked for comments and got a lot. ruth says, quote, so ridiculous, i m a preschool teacher and some of my students make guns out of toys. i simply tell them we don t do that in schools. jean says this whole political correctness nonsense about guns and the like is nuts. when i grew up, every kid brought a toy cap gun or water pistol to school and we played cowboys and indians during recess. and brian tweets from the couch, i agree with those first two e-mailers. thank you. and i retreat. thank you very much. appreciate that. leon panetta has a new book. it is rocketing up the best seller charts. in it he talks about how the president of the united states, he s got really good intentions, but he has made a lot of mistakes. didn t listen to leon panetta a lot of times. essentially didn t listen to anybody. well, cnn needed somebody to counter that, so they called up paid attack dog bill burton who was a spokesperson for the campaign and also the white house and now did a super pac. apparently will he they couldn t get anybody from the administration to attack leon panetta, who by the way has had a long and storied career in washington, d.c nobody said leon panetta is an attack dog. but that s bill burton s role in this sound bite from cnn on tuesday. it s kind of sad that in its twilight, he s done such a dishonorable thing by going after the president that he served at a time of a lot of different instabilities around the world. this president has shown his leadership time and again. he has moved this country in the right direction and to attack his leadership i think is small and petty. that s very interesting for leon panetta to be challenged by bill burton, deputy communications director who is no longer even with the administration. it s hardly equal weight. we talked about this yesterday. if you want to push back against leon panetta, get someone on par with him, then it s an equal fight. when you try to have bill burton compared to leon panetta, it s like spitting in the wind. if it s only leon panetta, that s one issue. this is someone who i believe if you listen to his interview, he s expressing deep concern with the chance to actually make changes moving forward for the benefit our national security. gates book that came out, hillary clinton s book came out. there are a lot of those lining up that were all part of this administration s team at one point saying that they have reservations about how things were handled. charlie rose s why did you write the book to leon panetta and he said i did it to get a message to him, you can still change it all around. in the last two years of his administration. so somebody who is not critical of the president, in fact, is crazy about him, is gwyneth paltrow. the president is he s had a really busy week of fund-raiser. he held one at her house in brentwood and as she was introducing him, she said this is the president, i am one of your biggest fans, if not the biggest. and then went on to say, it would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass. also she said at one point, you re so handsome that i can t speak properly. right. and that s what elisabeth said to me when she first saw me. very similar. if that is true, no one was taping. you know i love you. you may have 100% approval rating from me, and you do, too, steve. obama may have 100% approval rating from gwyneth paltrow, but not so much so in the state of california. his approval rating dropped 20% here. down from 65% in 2009 to 45% approval rating there now, which is astounding, which may explain why he headed this, had a big party in brentwood, julia roberts was there and bradley wickford and it sounds like she was the hostess. the mid terms are important. she likes him. she likes him a lot. a lot of people like him a lot. this coming up soon, were agents caught up in the colombian prostitution scandal thrown under the bus to cover up the white house s involvement and protect the president s reelection? 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. it s specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. the white house embroiled in yet another controversy after a new report claims that senior officials knew about the involvement of a white house aide in the secret service prostitution scandal. many are surprised. our next guest is not. more than a year ago, he wrote, quote, i assure you, if the same level of investigative scrutiny i can t say applied to white house staff members conducting advance work as was applied to the secret service, the results would not be flattering. joining us now is the author of life inside the bubble, former secret service agent, dan bonjino. thanks for being with us this morning. i want to say your brother was a secret service agent accuse evidence being involved in that colombian scandal there. and was exonerated. given the new information to many that s come out, what are your thoughts? the hypocrisy here is absolutely stunning. this is a two-tiered government. you re either a connected insider on the inside or you re not. and if you re not, you re going to be paraded to be tarred and feathered in front of the public and everyone else. the white house staffer gets a promotion and is celebrated. and others punished for looking into it. the lead investigator on this was told to delay this information as it was reported and then also instruct to do sort of step aside. this is david nieland and his account here. why is this happening? step aside, hold this so that the white house doesn t look bad. was this always the case? no, elisabeth. this is pattern of of behavior with this administration. they jump in front of the cameras. they act horrified and aircrafted at what happened and then pick a target and go after it. another example is the irs case where they blame the cincinnati rank and file employees, or benghazi where they blame the c.i.a. here they ran out in front of the cameras, called the secret service agents knuckle heads. we can argue about the punishment for the secret service agents, harsh or lenient, but what we can t argue about is there were clearly two sets of rules. the insiders got promoted, global initiative, and everyone else was fired and humiliated. including, by the way, some pressure put on the i.g. s office to make this investigation go away the last of the election. as it seems. i m so glad you re here because you were there. you know this. you write about it. but connect the dots for me. going back from this scandal to now where we re seeing these security breaches and white house making statements about the secret service, did it all start back then? it seems as though there is such a wall between the white house and the secret service that maybe wasn t there before. where did it start? that s a good question. i ve never seen in my 12 years when i was with the secret service and three administrations, i ve never seen the relationship so strained. it didn t just start here. there were things like the sequester. remember they blamed the secret service for the closing of the white house tours. that was ridiculous. everybody knew it was. the secret service had nothing to do with that decision. and i know a lot of the men and women that worked there felt thrown under the bus there as well. elisabeth, one point on this, when i wrote that book, i knew a lot more than i wrote. that s why i kind of was cryptic about what i wrote. everybody knew that there was staff involved in this cartagena scandal and everybody knows there has been a pattern of staff misbehavior as well on foreign trips. i m not apologizing or justifying what anybody did in the secret service, but applying those two sets of rules has definitely built that wall and made it higher between the service and the white house. your insight could not be more important adds all these new reports come in. we thank you for joining us this morning and always. thanks, elisabeth. great to see you. coming up, this story has so many of you ticked off. teachers not allowed to call kids boys and girls. just call them purple penguins? we re going to read some of your comments on that. they re firey. and from the state to the kitchen, martina mcbride is here to share her favorite recipes with us, like corn chowder and chicken. 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(male announcer) today s the day to ask your doctor about levemir® flextouch. covered by nearly all health insurance and medicare plans. we ve got quick headlines for you right now. women don t need to ask for a raise. they should just trust the system. yep. the ceo of microsoft facing criticism after he told a group of women at a tech conference just that, saying not asking for a raise is good karma. he tried walking it back and he said that he had been inarticulate. none the less, he s in a little hot water. who do you prefer working with in the office? a new study found both men and women are happier when they don t have to work with each other. the women interviewed in the study said they sometimes felt bullied by guys. the guys said they felt like they had to walk on egg shells around the women. that s some of the news. all right. she s used to entertaining millions with her music. currently on tour with her latest album which debuted at number one which i think is good. but now she s teaching her fans how to entertain with her brand-new book called around the table. welcome, more tina mcbride to our show. good to be here. you were tired of eating catering. you could whip up a home made meal on the road. good one at that. yeah. i mean, i love to cook. i ve always loved to cook. and entertain people in my home. so decided to write a book that kind of has a lot of not only recipes and menus, but a lot of tips for entertaining. you and i have something in common. we re both from little towns in kansas. and i understand your bedroom was right off the kitchen where your mom taught you how to dot dot do the cooking. exactly. my mother-in-law later. what are some of the best tips? it can be really easy. you re busy, but you always make time and good food. i think people get intimidated by the whole process of having people in their home. you never think your house looks exactly right and you think you re going to mess something up. it s really about jumping in and doing it. this book is a lot of tips to make it easy. why don t you teach us? allall right. this is that chowder. yeah. how do you make that? show us a demo of it. first you cook some bacon and you have the leftover bacon fat, which is always a good thing. absolutely. you bring your own fat? takes it to a next level. then put in the vegetables. i have celery, onion, jalapeno pepper and bell pepper. you have a chopper? my kids help me chop. it takes a lot of time. cook that a little bit. then put in just spices. i have cumin and cayenne pepper, a little salt. by the way, the recipes will be on our web site. put it all in. soup in a pot. how hard can it be? once everything is kind of cooking and smell it, then you can started aing ingredients and then add the stock? let your vegetables get soft. then a little white wine. i m surprised the crew left that here. a little chicken stock. do you bring it to a boil and let it cook? with soup, usually the longer it cooks, the better it is. everything kind of gets all cooked up. then add some potatoes. this is for a lot of people, how many people you serving here? as many as she wants. this serves about ten to 12 people. then you can easily double it. you can add more stuff. it s good the next day, too. and then through the magic of television, it winds up looking just like that. delicious. with a a great fall treat. also on our web site, you ve got the recipe for an autumn chopped salad and spiced zucchini bread. that s it, yeah. everybody talking about the zucchini bread, i have to say. it is good. what s the secret? it s just a great bread for you can have it for dessert, with coffee in the morning. my daughter and i like ours cold with butter on top. here is what s so great about your book. people think when you become as famous as you, you have a butler and full-time chef. you re saying no, i still cook. i still do things to keep me grounded. yeah. i love to wbr id wbr53150 cook. for me, it s a way of nurturing and taking care of people. and there is nothing like putting some love into some food and then sitting down and having everybody enjoy it. sure. you pass it on. the good news, brian, you can have your butler do the preparing. exactly. i open he s watching. he needs to run out and get the new book around the table. thank you for joining us live. thank you for having me. /b we ll get your cd, too. switching gears, coming up, major nidal hasan sending an explosive letter to the pope. we want to know, since the government ignored the warning signs with hasan before the fort hood attack, is history repeating itself? 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here to weigh in, peter johnson, jr. this isn t just a guy on death row just spouting off. there is more to this. there is more to this. i m afraid history will repeat itself. the government at every level missed jar in a san s radical radicalization. the letter that was received by the pope or sent to the pope by his attorney is a typical jihad convert or die. he s telling the pope, convert or die. so i believe this is violate of the law. if there is spwckal administrative measures in place, meaning if a federal bureau of prisons is a military prison at leavenworth, you can t send letters out, you can t make contact with supporters. you can t radicalize. and then the lawyer carries that letter out in the u.s. mail and says i m going to send this to the pope because, quote, i was instructed, unquote, by my client to send this out, i find that to be utterly disturbing and we are repeating history in this country, ignoring the warning signs that we have with major hasan. do you see this letter as a threat? oh, absolutely do see it as a threat. when you send a warning to pope francis and you talk about in the letter that the past of the precious few and it talks about peter, read this. he says worshiping allah, those who died their final death, worshiping other than awill are not forgiven and their good deeds are rendered useless. peter, let me ask you this. when you came in, you were remembering and you ve got a great memory you were remembering another attorney based here in new york city who also dealt with somebody who was involved in terror. let s remember the blind sheik, convicted for seditious in the early 2000s, he was going to blow up part of a conspiracy to blow up about five sites in new york city post the 93 world trade center bombing. he had a lawyer named lynn stewart. lynn stewart was ultimately convicted after the conviction in which she represented him of passing messages to his supporters. she went to federal jail. she s out on it now. so the point that you ve been making really well this morning is that he s never been convicted of anything more than workplace violence. the d.o.d. said it s workplace violence. but what are we doing in this country that we would allow this man not to be part of special administrative measures prohibiting him from contacting people? there is something called a fatwa, that s what the blind sheik was involved with. there is something brian talked about radicalization. there is go messages. there is about ten different things. all in there. we re dealing with a terrorist. this is a terrorist who happens to be on death row. in my mind, he s lost his rights to send letters. so there should be restrictions? oh, there absolutely should be restrictions. but there aren t. so either the prison system failed and the military failed in opposing them, or they haven t been regulating them. but to have a lawyer would he have these rights if it were not deemed workplace violence? no, there are people in prison, 40 or 50 people in federal prisons that have special administrative measures. not all of them are terrorist related crimes. and so we do this to protect ourselves. one final point, the people, some of the people, some of the families received e-mails from the isis terrorists before and after the beheadings of their loved ones. is this any different? should this man be writing to the pope or to you at home or to any of us around the world? he shouldn t be. he shouldn t be. he should be dead. he s on death row. peter, great analysis this morning. thank you. it is 23 minutes before the top of the hour. heather has got some headlines. yes, we do. we begin with college students who so enthusiastically supported president obama. now feeling the effect. at the university of colorado, boulder, students are finding out that their work hours are being slashed all thanks to obamacare. under the affordable care act, employers must provide health care coverage to any employee working 30 hours a week or more. ad junct faculty are seeing their hours reduced. 1,000 members of the air force areç losing health care because they re told they never should have had it in the first place. they said they mistakenly issued medical coverage to voluntarily separating airmen earlier this year. the problem is anyone opting for voluntary separation is not eligible for health care. airmen and women are furious, saying they were told one thing and are now being told another. i.d. laws were just struck down in two states. the supreme court stopping officials in wisconsin from requiring residents to provide photo i.d. before voting in the upcoming election. and a federal judge in texas blocked the lone star state law calling it a poll tax. texas attorney general greg abbott says he will appeal that ruling. and finally, have you heard the one about a horse walking into a police station? no joke. this actually happened. look at the video. it happened in england. the sliding glass doors opened right up for the horse. he walked right into the lobby. yes. and an officer quickly brought him back home to a nearby field where it had escaped. those are a look at your headlines. the first thing they said to the horse when it walked in? why the long face? no. i got another one. they said, hey, and he said, yes, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, she ll be here all week! all right! now let s go out to the streets of new york city and see if maria molina will engage in a joke. i don t have a joke. that was so good. i do have the weather forecast. let s switch gears. we want to talk about the stationary front that s in place across parts of the central plains. this system is going to be producing some areas of heavy rain coming up today and also into tomorrow. we do have a concern for some flash flooding out here. we have a number of watches that are in effect. those areas of rain will be across missouri, arkansas, and also into texas. there is also the risk for some severe storms across portions of texas and oklahoma not only today, but take a look at this. as we head into sunday, we also have the risk for more severe weather and that does include tornadoes, damaging winds and also some large hail. temperature wise, north of this front you ll be on the cool side. only in the 50s in kansas city and chicago. temperatures making it into the 90s across parts of the south, including texas. let s head back inside. thanks, maria. thursday night football for you. colts and texans played a great game. indy taking a huge lead early. richardson would punch one in from one yard out. you ll see that. andrew luck throwing for another touchdown three minutes later. impressive. but then the comeback. watch the texans j.j. watt, one of the two emerging super stars in this league pick up a fumble and score on his third touchdown on the year. the colts come away with a hard-fought victory. are you ready for some football and katy perry? wow. there you go. the new york post reporting the star will be performing at half time on super bowl 49. figure out those roman numerals. she s been rumored to fill the slot and the poster saying perry is negotiating with the nfl to finalize the deal. the super bowl airs february 1. you don t get paid for that, but you make so much in your downloads because you grew up in the music industry, you know what bruno mars benefited last year? absolutely. he was fantastic and he sold a million albums after that. downloads. i predict tight outfits on her. i don t know what s going to happen in the game. i know whatever she has will be tight. very tight. okay. thank you. time will tell. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. up next, this story has so many of you ticked off. teachers not allowed to call the kids boys and girls. just call them purple penguins? your comments pouring in. we re going to read some of them next i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn t treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. i my body doesn t work the way it used to. past my prime? i m a victim of a slowing metabolism? i don t think so. great grains protein blend. protein from natural ingredients like seeds and nuts. it helps support a healthy metabolism. great grains protein blend. we were telling you the story earlier on fox & friends this morning and i m going to just read out of the lincoln star journal. it says lincoln, nebraska, public schools administrators have begun talking to staff about transgender issues so they can better help students and they have some parents worried that the district is promoting an agenda. what they say is according to one parent who was with us about an hour ago, they want teachers apparently to stop saying boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, hey, guys. instead, say things like, okay. who likes bikes? who likes skateboards? who likes milk? who likes shoes? or create nick names for the classroom that are all inclusive. all right, let s come up with a nickname for the class. let s call ourselves the purple penguins. all the purple penguins over there by the rugs. all 12 easy tips to follow so you don t get gender specific. you spoke with the mom, rachel terry, three students in the lincoln school district there and she said this is just political correctness run amuck. i think we can all agree that no child should be bullied, that all children should be welcomed, included. but i feel like the political correctness here is really distorting reality and probably isn t the best way to help children feel safer at school. if not everybody feels comfortable with boy or girl, then get rid of it for everybody. i think it s extreme political correctness being misused in a way that s confusing to children. they ve got a big school board meeting coming up on tuesday and she is suggesting that parents show up and go ahead and voice their opinions about whether or not they think this is a good idea. apparently it is all part of the anti-bullying campaign that the school district is trying to promote. over there, this is pretty much conservative state. you think about you don t expect things like this. what are you saying about this? ben says, i have three girls, daughters or young women. they are females. that s how god made them. they are making us all sound more like lucky charms than human beings. interesting. donna said this, i have ten grand penguins and a little great grand penguin on the way. has everyone lost their purple penguin minds? and addressing children as purple penguins instead of boys and girls is simply madness. i was a teacher for 34 years and i would have refused to comply with the district mandate of this nature. one of the other suggestion social security rather than call them boys and girls, hey, campers! come on, campers. what if they don t camp? oh, no! all the parents should show up in purple penguin outfits for the big meeting. they would think it s for halloween, which is just around the corner. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. up next, star studded cast, robert downey, junior and robert duval starring in the judge. does it live up to the hype? kevin mccarthy is here to tell us if it s worth your money or not this weekend. 2002, a moment like this by kelly clarkson was number one song in america.
save your coffee from th switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness. .from the stevia leaf. welcome back. a big weekend coming up at the box office. the judge starring robert downey, junior, and men, women and children will be lighting up the silver screen. are they worth seeing it and your money? here to tell us is our friend and fox news contributor, kevin mccarthy. great to have you right here. awesome to be on the couch. you know i love being here. great to have you. tell us about the judge. this is a passion project for robert downey, junior. it took a couple years toity get it made. his wife produced it. he s a big shot lawyer who travels back to his childhood home after his mother passes away and his father, the judge in the town, and while he s there, he becomes a suspect of a hit and run murder. robert duval? he does. robert downey, junior defends his father. what i ve been saying is it s inconsistently great. you have these phenomenal scenes between the two. like the dialogue is phenomenal, acting is amazing. the best performances from both of them in a long, long time. then mixed in with this 2 1/2 movie of these cheesy lifetime moments. you have cheesy music. it s overexposed. for me, it was like going from a 2 1/2, then to a five, then a five. for me overall, i gave it three. it didn t blow my mind. there are great scenes. he might be the best actor in the world today. robert duval i heard had to be convinced to do it. he s absolutely phenomenal. it s one of the best things he s ever done. three out of five. then men, women and children. the idea here is it deals with the idea of how technology affects our relationships. jennifer garner stars in the movie. one thing i wanted to ask her about, as a mother, when is the appropriate time to give your child a cell phone and also how do you balance out not being too overprotective cause her older daughter is nine years old. check it out. there will come a point where she ll everyone will have a phone and then a year later, she s going to be saying, mom, dad, and we re going to say, oh, i want to know where she is and i want her to be able to text me after soccer, whatever it is. this technology is changing and growing faster than we can keep up with and kids are way ahead of adults. so we re trying to figure out how to parent it. they ve already figured it out, learned it, mastered it and moved on and we re trying to figure out what boundaries do we set up? how do you set up a boundary about senate chat? what do you do as a parent. when is the appropriate time to give your child a cell phone? it s scary. with snap chat, you set a bound spree it disappears in 30 seconds. we can actually right now give kids under a certain age, we can learn it if not with them, a little bit ahead of them and get versed in all things on line. kevin, today you re wearing kind of a faded pink shirt. right. this is so different than not long ago when brian attacked you on the air. violently. for your choice of shirt. take a look at this. you look great in your red shirt. really? i picked it out just for the show. i went to express last night and picked it out just for you guys. kevin mccarthy joining us from dc in his beautiful red shirt from express. so apparently express saw the ad and they wanted to deliver a shirt to brian here, but they said you weren t answering their e-mails. i said i would deliver it. the only tribulation is you have to try this on on the air. you need to put this on on the air. you were the one who commented on the show. why do i get in trouble? at the end of the show, will you have this on? right now. you need to get this on. okay. it s a large. so it s custom. i appreciate it. i love the color. watermelon. let s see how it looks on you. it s 100% rayon. that s beautiful. really good. rock it out. i bought this tie to bring for you. by the end of the program, brian will be wearing that shirt. i m not sure why i have to wear one, steve pointed it out. by the end of the show, that needs to be on. 2 1/2 stars for men, women and children. thank you very much. thanks. coming up on this show, if you are a woman and if you d like a raise, don t ask for it. just rely on karma. that s the ceo message from microsoft guy. geraldo rivera will weigh in. why do i cook? because i make the best chicken noodle soup because i make the best chicken noodle soup because i make the best chicken noodle soup for every way you make chicken noodle soup, make it delicious with swanson® [ female announcer ] we love our smartphones. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fast your business needs to adapt, if hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter. imagine what they can do for yours. 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. good morning. today is friday, october 10. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert, an explosive warning from the fort hood shooter to the pope, praising jihad and calling himself a soldier of allah. can his massacre still now be called workplace violence? geraldo rivera weighs in in minutes. and he was the secretary of defense and the head of the c.i.a. during the obama administration, but an obama supporter says that guy is dishonorable. it s kind of sad that in its twilight, he s done such a dishonorable thing by going after the president that he served at a time of a lot of different instabilities around the world. spit it out. wouldn t that president have something to do with the instabilities? does bill burton have a point about leon panetta in his twilight? we re going to report and you decide. it s like a bad game of dodge ball. democratic candidate ducking out of this question. did you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? this election isn t about the president. really? is that the question? what about the answer? it s what the candidate didn t say that has you fired up this morning. we ll examine it because mornings are better with friends you are watching fox & friends. and i apologize for it. thank you very much, bill o reilly. welcome to the world s number one cable morning news show. we re the number one show on all of cable right this second. not just news. all the channels. when we get geraldo up and put a suit on him, the ratings go up even higher. and you know why the ratings are going to be even higher this hour? because by the end of this hour, you re going to be wearing that crazy pink shirt. that bright red shirt. then you can write in how many stars you give it. why not? it was a different shirt and now i m forced to wear it. heather, you look very nice today. thank you. no pink, but i blend in with everybody. absolutely. here are some headlines. the clock is ticking in less than 24 hours, new screening for ebola goes into effect at jfk. new york s largest airport. next week four other airports will join in, newark, dulles, o hare and heartfield-jackson in atlanta. travelers from west africa will have their temperature taken. airports are already on high alert. take a look at this video. this is just in to fox & friends. firefighters in haz-mat gear swarming a plane in alabama after a passenger gets sick mid flight. turns out it was just a case of motion sickness. breaking news overnight, protesters in st. louis, missouri, now burning american flags over the shooting death of a teenage boy by police. no peace! during the chaos, rioters threw a knife at a police officer, actually hit him in the shoulder. two people were arrested. the violent crowd also smashing this glass door at a pharmacy and shattering the window of a patrol car. jason mayhem miller in custody after a three-hour stand-off with police. he tweeted during the entire event. all of this unfolding in california. officers apparently tried to serve him with a warrant. they say that on a list of charges, including domestic olence. here is just one of his tweets. take a look. i wish you no harm. i respect the police. but this is overkill for something that would be settled with one piece of paperwork. miller looking pleased with himself, to say the least in this mug shot. he is being held on $200,000 bail. and a fire storm of controversy surrounding the ceo of microsoft after he told a group of women not asking for a raise is good karma. at an event celebrating women in technology, he was asked to give his advice to women who are uncomfortable with requesting a raise. his answer? it s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along because that s good karma. he apologized, saying his comments were inarticulate. your comments are pouring in and we want to know what you have to say. steve, you have a couple of those, right? we do indeed. thank you very much. lisa tweeted, is microsoft paying their employees through karma now? that must be why their software is so full of bugs. and candy said out here in the work world without agents who ask for raises, we generally wait for reviews and then ask for a raise, whether man or woman. you know he shows up every friday. we re happy to have him. you love him, you hate him. you can t live without him. geraldo rivera. elisabeth and heather are like a singing group. we should all be like them. that would be great. look so good. i saw you right away when this letter was obtained, a message to the pope. as peter johnson, jr. examines the verbiage, this is essentially condition vote or die message. should we be giving this guy a trumpet? i think you have to be very careful. when lynn stewart, the attorney in new york who represented the blind sheik was convicted, she was convicted basically of being a terrorist. she was convicted of conveying a message from the blind sheik to clients in egypt. it was true. i remember condemning her at the time. and then her two-year sentence was made a ten-year sentence because it was found she lied during the trial to the judge. this is a little different. you can t stop someone from ranting and raving in a lunatic fashion. i think that is what this is. should there have been ethical pause on the part of the lawyer here in passing this on to the pope? i guess. i guess. i m not very excited about it because the guy is a creep. major hasan is a greeny terrorist. he can blather all he wants. the pope is not going to take it personally. there could be a go sign to somebody well, that s different, brian. if indeed there is an operational signal that can be proven and it is indeed an act of criminal act that is being inspired or conspired, then it s actionable, then it s a crime, then the attorney would be in severe jeopardy, as lynn stewart was. this is very serious. go to jail for ten years, man. the only reason she was released is is she has terminal cancer. let s switch gears. leon panetta has written a book and it s going to be number one on the new york times best seller list. you didn t ask me about workplace violence and terrorism. it s a broad topic, but if you would like to weigh in, go ahead. i think that we have to get past the rhetoric. it is the new face of terrorism. i think there are two things that have to happen. because it is an act of terrorism and we have to recognize that and moore, oklahoma, and the guy that killed the prep school student you re talking to eric holder. not only does it make it clear in terms of the lines of communication and who is in charge of the investigations, but there are also implication when is it comes to the victims and their rights. for instance, in the fort hood case, those guys that were shot, the 13 who died, they died in combat, i believe. so get past the rhetoric. let s declare the new face of terrorism what it is and put this issue to rest. what should we call it, oklahoma? i think okay o clock is terrorism also oklahoma is terrorism also. because if your inspiration is jihad, then that s it. that s the end of it. it s not more complicated than that. we pardoned your interruption. really, i feel so badly. leon panetta has written a book and in it he talks about working for president obama since he s gotten his heart in the right place. he s gotten a lot of advice, but he s m of mistakes and we re sending out mixed messages. so the white house needed somebody to go out on television, apparently they couldn t get anybody from the administration, so they got former spokesperson bill burton, a flak for the president for many, many years. his name was at the top of my list. he said this about leon panetta. listen. it s kind of sad that in its twilight, he s done such a dishonorable thing by going after the president that he served at a time of a lot of different instabilities around the world. this president has shown his leadership time and again. he has moved this country in the right direction and, you know, to attack his leadership i think is small and petty. without getting into the substance of what the former secretary of defense, c.i.a. director leon panetta said in the book, i wrote a bookç in 10 called exposing myself. we read it. 20 years later, one of the women mentic d in the book said you ruined my life with that book. and i said oh, my god. what have i done? so you have to be extremely careful when you tread lightly, when you re not just exposing what you did, but you re affecting someone else. i remember when scott mccollum, this guy reminds me of him. george w. bush s press secretary, he got out of office, i remember how sleazy we all felt that that was. this is kind of like that. leon panetta. gates book i thought was better, more vivid. it was more pointed and the criticism was more constructive in a way. but this book a lot of stuff has gone wrong. i don t feel really intensely negative about leon panetta for writing the book. it s kind of like, you know, i wish i hadn t quite written mine, or at least when i wrote it. who came up to you and said you ruined my life? bette midler? shhh. by the way way to go, brian. thank you so much for your discretion. i can always count on you to be discreet and understated. you always do the right thing. of all the names in that book, that s the one he brings up. peggy noonan was very critical of the book. peggy noonan, too? i ll meet you after the show. we ll go to have a meat ball and a beer and a glass of wine. have a good weekend. you, too. thank you. coming up, it s a top concern in this election, how to lock down our borders. but our next guest has a blueprint to keep our nation safe. congressman michael mccaru coming up next. then this story has a lot of you fired up. teachers not allowed to call the kids boys and girls. just call them purple penguins instead. keep those comments coming. we love them and we re going to share them. from drug cartels to isis, the threat to america s national security has never been higher. but texas congressman michael mccaul says he s got a blueprint for keeping the country safe and starts at the border and joins us now live from the capitol city of texas, austin. good morning to you, congressman. good morning, steve. thanks for having me. i want to start things out, there is a story out today, judicial watch says that in the last 36 hours, four isis terrorists were arrested at our southern bopdi9ñ do we know anything about that? that hasn t been confirmed. i talked to homeland security officials. they claim that s not accurate. i m obviously investigating the matter. i think this demonstrates why the border is such a concern and why it is still vulnerable and why we need to get operational control of the border. that s what my blueprint does. we go sector by sector and address the needs and threats of each one and what assets, particularly technology assets and aviation assets need to be put down there so we can better secure it. and your blueprint to secure our southern border in particular, because let s face it, it s pretty much an open door down there. you re suggesting to use some of the equipment from afghanistan, repurpose it, and use it on our southern border to keep an eye on who is coming in and whatnot. that s right. last time i was in afghanistan, i met with general allen in kabul and their aviation assets and i said, what are you going to do when we withdraw from afghanistan? he said i m going to leave this technology over here and i thought, you know, what about redeploying that to the southwest border? since that time, we ve had five redeployed and six more are on their way. that s good news to the dod department of homeland security security coordination where we can get some progress done there. it does make sense. we ve already bought the stuff, we might as well put it to use, right? correct. also i understand later today you re going to be involved in a hearing on ebola and if there is one state in the union particularly interested in ebola, it is texas where mr. duncan was until he passed away a couple of days ago. tell us a little bit about the concerns of texans regarding ebola. i think it s a national concern. certainly my state, having had the first fatality due to ebola in the united states, it is of grave concern. you talk a lot about isis, this is an enemy and a threat that you can t see. it s very insidious. when you re infected, it s a very nasty virus. so what we re going to talk about today is we re going to have the top federal officials from cdc and homeland security talking about what are they doing to stop this virus from getting into the country? we already have five cases in the united states. in africa, it is spreading like a wildfire that needs to be put out. and so it s going to be very interesting hearing. tune in. it was announced in the last day or so that at five different airports where some people from west africa do enter our country, they re going to have another getting off the plane, taking of the temperature, stuff like that. given the fact that i think british air, also air france and some other airlines have already stopped serving that area of africa, shouldn t the united states seriously consider stopping air service right now until they get a handle on things? that s going to be the first question i m going to have at the hearing is a lot of my constituents want all flights banned and why shouldn t we do that? if they don t think we should, then why not? and i think it will be interesting to hear what they say. we do need the health care providers to give them access to go to west africa to contain and control this virus so it doesn t spread out of control in africa and then bleed over into other nations and continents. so i think it s going to be a very interesting hearing. the first one on the ebola virus and in a state that s been probably impacted the most. absolutely. you got a busy day, thanks for starting with us here at fox. thanks a lot. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, they re bravely serving our country. now members of the air force are losing health care because the government screwed up. that story coming up. and it s a fox & friends exclusive. brian sits down with mark cuban, a guy who doesn t worry about what comes out of his mouth. are you worried about political correctness today? i m not worried so much cause i don t give a damn. it s easy like that when you re a billionaire. more about what he feels regarding washington politics coming up. campbell s® fiesta chicken lime tortilla. sausage and pepper rigatoni. southwest style bean & barley. tuscany style chicken and pasta. if you think campbell s® 33 new soups sound good. imagine how they taste! m m m m good!® s insurance companies are spending millions of dollars trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here s the truth: 46 will save lives. it will save money too. i m bob pack, and i m fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i don t want anyone else to lose theirs. the three provisions in 46 will reduce medical errors and protect patients. save money and save lives. yes on 46. over the last four weeks, we have teamed up with the ailes apprentice program and aliciaacuna. she s here to tell us about a man who is changing young lives with his music in a most remarkable way. this is quite beautiful. thank you so much. francisco nunez was raised by a single parent in new york city. back then there was little to do outside except get into trouble or worse, but his mother introduced him to the power of music and it opened up a whole new world for him, one he s been sharing with the children of new york ever since. i never wanted to teach. when i was younger as a pianist, i wanted to be a pianist. so when i worked with children for the very first time, they became human. they became incredible. they were limitless. i said, you know what? i have to be an amazing musician to teach these kids cause they re good. they re as good as itches when i was a child. the difference is they don t know it yet. francisco nun. and his young people s chorus of new york city may not act like most choral groups. they dance and sing songs like something you would hear in a rain forest and come from just about every neighborhood in new york city, rich and poor. their voices mixed together perfectly and their friendships run deep. after all, most of these kids have been singing together for the past eight to ten years. something that you kind of learned day one is that you have in common with people that you might not think that you do. get that first pitch. one, two, three. again. louder and softer. one, two, three. outside of the chorus, your first impressions are how does someone look or what are they wearing, that sort of thing? but when you re in a chorus environment, the first impression is how well can they sing? it seems like everyone at ypc, as they call themselves, can do just that. sing. just listen to a performance they can last summer in tokyo. it s an opportunity, you join because your friends are there, you want to sing, or maybe your parent loved that you sing at home. but when you come to ypc, once you join us, something starts to transform. you start to see it s a little bit more than singing. that s what we re about. raised in washington heights by a single parent, his mother bought him a piano from the salvation army to keep francisco and his older brother out of trouble. it was terrible conditions, but it worked enough for me. little by little, i started to figure out that i have a talent for a piano. my mother worked very hard and she got piano me and she would clean their homes in return for the piano lessons. it also kept him safe inside. washington heights was a different place back then. certain blocks were blocks you were not supposed to enter no matter what. i happened to live on a great street. once you go one street up, i would never go up that block. music would be his way out. opportunity landed when his mother enrolled him in a public school further downtown. there he met a young lady who invited him into her house after school. and it was a beautiful building. there was even a doorman inside in the elevator who pushed the button for you. i thought wow, what a job. and i went upstairs. her mom was there and she served me cookies. and then we sat down and played the piano. and i started giving her piano lessons. it was a turning point for francisco. for a kid who didn t leave his room, much less his neighborhood, music became his entry into a whole new world. and that s what starts to break that entire feeling of difference. so here is a kid with money, sitting a poor kid and saying hey, i respect your music. and it started changing everything for me. so after college at nyu, he created a music program where kids from every social economic background could meet and sing together. i want to help poor people. if you surround yourself with poor people and everybody around you is poor, a lot is going to happen. a lot of inspiration is going to happen. but it s much harder. i want to fight poverty for education and getting rid of racial differences because we are taught that if you re a different color, different religion, you re not good enough. and i want to change that. it didn t happen overnight and it wouldn t be easy. but today the group travels around the world providing life-changing experiences for everyone in his group. i love working with young people today cause it s so smart. when you teach them in such a way to change so quickly, they want to go wherever you want to go with them. the hope that i have is they will keep music alive in their lives and they ll become better doctors, better engineers, better teachers, better social workers because they knew that through music, they gave their voice to society. awesome. that was beautiful. thank you. francisco has been nationally recognized for his great work with the chorus. he won a mcarthur fellowship in 2011. but his greatest wish is to start similar music programs in every city across america, bringing all kids together, rich and poor, to sing as one voice. so an amazing man doing some extraordinary things for young people. wow. such an ear for music, heart for kids and vision for this world and this great nation. i m just blown away by his story yes. 100% of the kids who have worked with him have gone on to college. so there is an investment there. sure is. and his part what he s doing, exceptional. thank you for this package. if everyone wants to see more, you can see all this celebrating hispanic heritage month series that alicia has brought us. visit us at foxnews, latino.com. great work. now this, it s like a game of dodge ball. did you vote for president obama in 2008, 2012? this election isn t about the president. she s not the only democrat dodging the president. so how is this going to play out in the midterm elections? we re going to look at that with chris wallace next. you start tomorrow? tomorrow we re booked solid. we close on the house tomorrow. tomorrow we go live. it s a day full of promise. and often, that day arrives by train. big day today? even bigger one tomorrow. csx. how tomorrow moves. speak to the president today, he gave a speech in california to motivate young voters by talk being his new devotion to technology. unfortunately heard him because they were all on their phones. the president, i think has been in washington one or two days this entire week because he s been fundraising. somebody you can always count on to be at his post in our nation s capitol, particularly on friday to do a free plug on this program is that man right there, chris wallace. listen, we don t even have to mention fox news sunday and the fact that we re going to have a great debate between ted olson and tony perkins about same sex marriage or have rove and trippi go over the midterm elections. that s not why i m here. i m not here to plug. i m here because i think i love talking to you guys. we don t have to put up those full screens. that s not why you re here. not at all. you re also not here to talk about the mid terms with us. one important one we want to talk about is in kentucky and dodge ball. we keep calling it, because allison lundy grimes refused on camera to say whether she voted for president obama and whether he has anything to do with her. this is the little dodge. i like it. did you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? this election isn t about the president. it s about making sure we put kentuckians back to work. can you answer the question? i was actually in 08 a delegate for hillary clinton and i think that kentuckians know i m a clinton democrat through and through. i respect the ballot box and i m going to let the members of the board do as well. you re not going to answer? i don t think the president is on the ballot. as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be, it s my name. she looks a little silly there dodging that ball. chris, why would answering yes, i voted for president obama, why would that kill her? i don t think it would kill her. but it does show the lengths to which democrats, particularly in red states, states that romney beat obama in in 2012, are trying to distance themselves from the president. he ll come to the state, hold fund-raisers to raise money for the candidate. but the candidate won t be seen in public with him because of the fact that their approval ratings are in the 30s. his approval rating rather. but that was crazy for her not to say of course i voted for him and yes, i m disappointed in some of the things he did and liked it. but to be unwilling to say that you voted, she s the democrat running against mitch mcconnell in kentucky and she s not even willing to say she voted for the democratic candidate for president. it seems to me it s kind of silly. this is the i don t know midterm elections. gorman in kansas. i don t know how i d do on that. i don t know about obamacare. he said he voted for black hawk down. at least he said. i don t know about that. the same thing in north carolina. kay hagin, won t say what she did agree with the president or not. that s an opportunity. it s not a trap question. particularly because the amount of voters across the nation are trending that way, too. yeah, they voted for him, but they re kind of disappointed. why not just go with the majority there for your own sake? i agree with you. it seems it s a question you can answer and sit there and pretend when you get into the talking points and somebody says, did you do this? you say, this is really about the future. it s not about that. but it goes to the it shows just how unpopular allison launder grimes, think she s a smart politician, even if she didn t handle that well, feels that obama is in her home state and that even saying i voted for him six years ago or two years ago would damage her and i m sure that knowing mitch mcconnell as i do, he s going to have some fun with that. right. name dropper. this is normally the part of the segment where you would tell us what s coming up on your program. do you want me to tell you? anyway, we are going to be talking with karl rove and joe trippi. we re going to ask rove is take us to the majority. get us how you think the republicans are going to take it over and take us state through state and then we ll ask joe trippi. south dakota, there were three states, montana, west virginia, south dakota, seen as gimmes, turnover to republican. now south dakota is getting very close. kansas is close. not at all clear that pat roberts is going to hold on to that seat. on the other hand, there, a bunch of seats we thought were going to be tough for the republicans to take over and they re moving out ahead in those. so this race isn t decided at all. it s very much up for grabs. it will mean big ratings for you again. good job. thank you for joining us. wait, wait. one last thing, is it true that the great white shark is on the premise? yes. greg norman. he s just hanging out. come on over here and just wave real fast. say hello to chris wallace. you drop names. we have the actual person. there he is. ask him how his hand is. how is your hand? it s working. it s working, look. the lesson we learned from you, is if a chain saw is falling, let it drop. don t grab it. glad you re okay. do you know a lot of people mistake me for the great white shark. i ll be walking down the street and they ll go, greg norman? and i go no, greg norman. really? chris wallace joining us from our nation s capitol revealing we have a vast studio audience, including famous people. right. chris, thank you very much. see you on sunday. mr. norman, thank you very much. we ll see new a bit. you have no idea who else is in theç studio. heather childers. i ve already taken a picture with him and tweeted it out. they tweet each other. we have some headlines. nobel peace prize just awarded this morning. activist malala si, indian child rights active getting this year s honor. the nobel committee citing the two for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people. mullah la, 17 years old when she was shot in the head by a taliban gunman two years ago. 1,000 members of the air force losing health care because they re told they never should have had it in the first place. the air force says they mistakenly issued medical coverage to voluntarily separating airmen earlier this year. the problem is anyone opting for voluntary separation is not eligible for health care. airmen and women are furious, saying they were told one thing and are now being told another. and it is a fox & friends exclusive, mark cuban billionaire owner of the dallas mavericks sitting down with our very own brian kilmeade and he s not afraid to say what s on his mind. are you worried about political correctness today? i m not worried so much cause i don t give a damn. and he does not mince words about politics in politics. what role do you think washington should play? as little as possible. i vote fort guy who will do the least. in what way? about everything. the entire interview with mark cuban coming up monday morning. so that should be exciting. not a lot of people surprised that he s not afraid to speak his mind. that s great thing about being a billionaire with your own plane. exactly. you downtown have to kiss up. coming up on this friday, this story has all of you talking this morning. teachers not allowed to call the kids boys and girls. just instead call them purple penguins. what? where is that happening? your comments coming straight ahead on fox & friends. 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we order stuff on line and the stuff is there the next day. prime. in new york city t cost 50s bucks to park the car. i like touching the stuff. is there any more of this? congratulations, the store is coming. this is the number one story you are e-mailing us about today. school district in nebraska,ç e lincoln, nebraska schools, i m going to read out of a local newspaper. they have the administrators began talking to staff about transgender issues so they can better help students and that has some parents worried that the district is promoting an agenda. what this handbook, these guidelines they put out say is don t refer to them as boys and girls. don t call them ladies and gentlemen.: instead say, who likes juice? who likes milk? i like bikes. who likes bikes? who likes camping? campers or refer to them as purple penguins if that is the name that the class picks out. a mother who has got three kids in the school strict here on this program said this is pc correctness run amuck. i think we can all agree that no child should be bullied, that all children should be welcomed, included. but i feel like the political correctness here is really distorting reality and probably isn t the best way to help children feel safer at school. if not everybody feels comfortable with the boy or girl, then we ll get rid of it for everybody, i think it s extreme political correctness being misused in a way that s confusing to children. exactly. here is what you re saying now. jack tweeted, what are the students supposed to call their teachers? polar bears #purplepenguins. greg tweeted this, is there anyone think being how purple penguins might feel being used in that way? finally. bear don tweet, i m a teacher. somewhat liberal. i think that is silly. what do you think? keep e-mailing us. i got a feeling we re going to be talking about this throughout the weekend. we have explosive stories today. i m surprised that this one has dominated. can you imagine in a classroom of grade school kids, you can t call them boys and girls? it sounds like a zoo. it s a little different. bucko, hey you. this up next, it s the perfect time to buy a new home. we re going to tell you where you can find one just like this for $260,000. look at that. that s beautiful. right now let s check in with bill hemmer who could use a house like that. yeah. i ll take two. how are you? good morning. happy friday. what we are learning about plans to close gitmo. details on that in a moment. also breaking news on the isis offensive. live on the front lines there. why an ebola quarantine is exactly the wrong thing to do in the u.s. dr. mark siegle makes his case. only weeks from that election, we ll talk to a rising republican star in iowa. can joany ernst win her senate race? 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saturday and sunday, 1 to 3, head over there this weekend. okay. follow the balloons. if you re near lewisville, texas, where should you head? you want to head to lawrenceville, texas. this is a great property. $260,000. four bedrooms. 2 1/2 baths, 3,000 square feet. it s a gorgeous brick, very stately, lots of upgrades, hardwood floors, open floor plan. got a private study, fireplace, eat-in kitchen. granite counter tops, and it s got a wonderful, big master bath that s allegra nate and tile. if you want to check this one out, it s open. head over there on sunday, this weekend, between 2 and 4. i love being able to go open houseç shopping. one of my favorite things to do. a lot of people do. that last house looked like it had nine-foot ceilings. if people want more information about all the houses that you ve shown us today, how do we find it? just go to fox & friends web site. okay. perfect. thanks. have a great weekend. you got it. we made you a promise at the beginning of this hour. let s hope we can pay it off. we ll know in two minutes. we re going to try. brian, you ready? 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time to home school. robert was said he should have been asked to stop talking and then escorted out. thanks to everyone who responded. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight. big primary results with some races still undecided. what you need to know and how it could change the balance of power in washington. how exciting. guess who s back? monica lewinsky. that s her right there speaking out and setting the record straight. but whyç now? could this all be part to help hillary? we re going to report, and you decide. put on your beret, folks. m.v.p. tribute to his mom gets a standing ovation. you made us believe. you kept us off the streets, put clothes on our back, food on the table. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you re the real m.v.p.ç a speech that has everyone talking this morning. more than just the nba. finally good news to come out of the nba. mornings are better with friends. hi everybody. welcome to the telecast live from studio e here in the heart of midtown manhattan. it is the seventh day of may. that s right. it s a birthday. my son. happy birthday, son. is he the one with the car dealership? yeah. that is funny. whose birthday is it for real? pç it s brian kilmeade s birthday. i am officially 50. elisabeth, when you turn 30, you ll understand what it s like to turn 50. the phone keeps ringing. hello. who s there? hi. it s dawn kilmeade. i m sure she s thrilled to be up this hour. she just made me breakfast at 2:30 and then goes back to sleep. you re on the phone with somebody else? yes, i am. hi,ç dad. hello, little brian. you re up 90 minutes early. i m sure you re thrilled by that. this is brian s official last day of high school. he s up at 6:02 in the morning. the nerve of you to have a birthday it s always about me. happy birthday, brian. thank you very much. brian, you were studying spanish yesterday. how did it go? well, i have it today. i know. but it s for today. he went on to skate for a living. he dropped out of school. that s ice ka paid. i guess this is me and brian skating. dawn s in the picture there too, i see. that s back in the day. big family. that s elisabeth photo bombing because brian did fou go to the book party that we had. so there you go. there s the quirky cousin, me. dawn, you re up early. there you guys are, your family out at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. dawn and brian, what sort of plans do you have for the old man today? gosh. when he gets home, it s the usual running around. but then tonight we ll have some dinner plans with the family. did he make any birthday demands? no. brian s pretty easy when it comes to birthdays. noç birthday demands. but we re hoping to have a special family night. it s a big birthday. dawn, how long have we known each other? we have pictures from the 1970 s. these are old, old pictures, some of them. we go way back, back to high school. for the folks who have forgotten, it was just a couple of weeks ago that brian and dawn celebrated jointly a birthday out near your home. right. i apologize for you having to get up this early. i m up any way. good luck with the spanish test, brian, too. and then he can celebrate. thanks for getting up. i appreciate the birthday wishes. hope i get a chance to see you in the afternoon. happy birthday. we love you, brian. love you too. you can only shake katie andç kirsten so much before you go. grammar school, they have to be there at 9:30. why don t you just get there at noon? any way, happy birthday. thank you very much. and todd? we d all like a deal. he d like a hybrid this year. you know whose birthday it s not? heather nauert. brian, happy birthday to you. i do have news to bring you. you travel around the country and seeç political campaign ads all over the place right now and that begins our first story. while you were sleeping big developments in the political world that will affect mid term elections. let s start in north. republican tom tillis winning the nomination. he will face kay hagan. then to the state of ohio, house speaker john boehner defeating two tea party challengers in his bid for a 13th charm in congress. the u.s. is now joining the manhunt for the leader of a nigerian terror group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 young girls. the u.s. is sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria to assist in the hunting down of theç leader of boko haram and to help free the girls. this as we just learned that eight more girls have been kidnapped. last year the state department offered a $7 million reward for the warlords who have plans to sell those girls into slavery. an investigation is underway at this hour to try to figure out who is threatening republican congressman trey gowdy from south carolina. gowdy got e-mails after being tapped to lead a select committee to investigate an attack on benghazi. the e-mails threatened to hurt him if he goes forwardç with those hearings. those hearings certainly are going forward this morning. fox news just confirming that the 12-member panel will include seven republicans and five democrats. we ll keep watching this story carefully. oklahoma city thunder superstar kevin durant is now the nba s most valuable player. listen to this moving acceptance speech and his real shout out to his mom. you made us believe. you kept us off the streets, put clothes on our back, food on the table. when you didn t eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you re the real mvp. speech. those are your headlines. a perfect prelude to mother s day this sunday. don t forget. that s this sunday? i mean that s this sunday! of course you knew that. of course i knew it. thank you very much, heather. tomorrow vanity fair officially is going to be publishing, after ten years she s broken her silence. monica lewinsky. it will be on vanity fair s website tomorrow. the new york post has some ofç the excerpts. she writes it is time to burn the beret and burn the blue dress. in a preview she talks about being suicidal at times and wanting to reach out to somebody going through something of a similar fashion. she says this about how hillary called her a narcissistic loony tune. yes, i get it hillary clinton wanted it on record that she was lashing out at her husband s mistress. she may have blamed her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to lash out at me troubling. she thinks it s all about timing. she sç saying it s a lot about timing, let s clear the decks to get ready for 2016. take a listen to this great debate. i don t think this is actually relevant as we go forward into 2016 because it has no bearing on the ability of hillary clinton to be a national leader and whether she can lead our nation. any time monica lewinsky is in the news, it does not help either of the clintons. it brings back all sorts of bad memories, you know, certainly of the president s bad behavior. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out ofç the way. would vanity fair publish anything about monica lewinsky that hillary clinton didn t want in vanity fair ? i haven t seen the whole article but from the excerpt i see, i don t think hillary looks great. she might be saying i ve got to say something because i think i ve turned a corner of my life. she is saying get it out now and america will chew on it for two years and by the time the campaign rolls around, yeah, we ve already talked about that. what s curious is she s quite adamant, monica lewinsky stresses this was her, having sex with the president, was consensual. not like he forced her on it. she makes it very clear it was consensual. she says the only time sheç was abused was by his cronies, the people who scapegoated her. she does mention she does feel taken advantage of. so if this is indeed on the part of the clintons to get this out of the way, this could be the second time she has been used by the clintons in the white house. let us know what you think about this. who does it help? does it help monica? does it help hillary? does it not help either one? let us know on facebook. you should call barbara walters. she got the interview. i called her thisç morning. barbara, i know you re up. i spent a lot of time with her, so i d be curious. coming up straight ahead. a new rule banning parents from spanking their children in certain areas when they misbehave. we ll tell you where that is. there is a new rule on the books. we re going to explain. protesters refuse to let condoleezza rice speak at rutgers university, but something big just came out of that. it s big. it s next. to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck. . good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram. why do results matter so much? 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former secretary of state condoleezza rice decides to not be the commencement speaker at rutgers after a group of students and faculty protested her would-be appearance. but it turns out she is welcome somewhere else. texas tech wrote her a letter immediately saying this, quote, i want to let you know that you are more than welcome to speak at texas tech. if a university attempts to stop their free speech, it is the greatest suggestion for the market of free ideas. we salute you and your dedicated service. joining us is the texas tech university chancellor. chancellor, why was it important for you to write thqá letter? i think it s important in that we want to let people know we would love to have condoleezza rice. she s welcome at texas tech and the love of texas. this is a great role model for students. she grew up in the segregated south. she overcame a lot of things. she became provost at stanford, became secretary of state. i think she would be an excellent speaker. when you re looking at criteria of a speaker, you look for accomplishment. you don t necessarily need to agree with her policies? don t have to agree with their policies or their ideas. we want someone that s been highly successful in some area, and we ve had all kinds of speakers. president obama s secretary of the navy, governor ray mabus did an outstanding job. we ve had former secretary of state james baker. we ve had scott pelly, one%of ym angle, one of our distinguished alums. he s with fox news. and ed whitaker, c.e.o. of at&t. does it disturb you when a group of students seemingly led by professors organize a push-back. what does it say about the university system? it s not good. here s what s happened. on the left, a lot of people are for free speech as long as they agree with it. they re notd3uju free speech they want to stifle it if they don t agree with it. we re in the idea of business. any time you try to stifle free speech, you re going against the liberty and justice and freedom that this kupt was built on this country was built on. aren t they exercising free speech by speaking out against her experience? there are ways they can do that. they can petition the administration and ask someone be allowed to speak at the next commencement that has ideas that are different from condoleezza rice. they could do that. they could show up in front of the building with placards. there are ways that one can do that. but you shouldn t be in a situation where they try to stifle it to keep them away or they threaten to make so much noise and yell that no one can hear the speaker. i want toç you hear condoleezza rice, what she posted on facebook. commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for graduates and their families. rutgers invitation for me to speak has become a distraction for the university at a special time. it is not because of the push back she has decideed to speak. it is because of this. universities have become so liberal they stifle people that don t necessarily agree with them. and a professor is so great,ç kids will start agreeing with that to get long. you ve got to look at free speech any time something comes up. the key is there are those on the left that want to stifle free speech and they want to stop free speech for the people they disagree with. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. and i think it s just it s bad. it s happened throughout the country. and some places a person would get up to speak and the students would yell them down so they couldn t speak. there s a lack of civility in that and there s also an element in that that s against free speech of thoseç that they disagree with. not at texas tech and that s why you re here this morning. chancellor, condoleezza rice s office got your letter. they thank you and they ll consider it. thanks for talking about it today on this very special time for not only the chancellor, the professor and students in may. kent hance, thanks so much. coming up straight ahead, kids, take a book, any book as long as it s not that bible thing. one kid in serious trouble in his school for reading about religion in class.ñi lawmakers wanting to bring let me try that again. she won t talk, but lawmakers want to bring lois lerner back to capitol hill. is this just a waste of your money or can we expect a change of heart? we ll discuss it. make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love served daily. music go watch your kid catch her first fish. go jump in a lake. go to bass pro shops for great deals on great gear. like ladies gathered v-neck ts and drawstring shorts starting under $10 each. iwas thathe biggest vit gave me.ar. confidence to buy my very first car. and to walk out of that dealership. and know that i got a good deal. save time, save money, and never overpay. visit truecar.com welcome back. some quick headlines for you. he served no jail time for his crime but now the family of the so-called affluenza team has to pay up, a $3 million settlement with one of his victims families. that teen was left paralyzed after couch crashed his truck while driving drunk. four others were killed. should the stow away teenager be criminally charged. this video shows the moment a 15-year-old climbed out of the wheel well of a 767, shopping down on to the tarmac. no oneç knows how he survived the five-hour flight where temperatures dropped well below 80 degrees. he has been placed with child services. i think that is 80 degrees below zero. a fifth grader admonishes a fifth grader for reading the bible. listen to the message to his parents. he has religious books in the classroom. he s not permitted to read those books in my classroom. joining us is fifth grader giovani rubeo along with his dad paul. i understand,ç paul, in april let me back up. giovani, you got the bible as a gift from your church around christmastime? yes. why did you decide you wanted to read the bible during your free time? i love reading the bibl m ald it. apparently the school had given you some trouble in the past. paul, you went in to the principal, talked to the principal, i believe in april, is that right, and got a letter that said he can read it during free time? i had spoke to them numerous times. in march they told him to put it away a coupleç of times, and he came home and said dad, they re telling me to put away my bible and i told him they can t do that. a couple of days ago, giovani, your teacher says you ve got to put that away and you don t. then what did you ask her to do? i asked her to call my father. and she called your dad and said that you couldn t that go ahead. why do you think she said you had to put your bible away? because she didn t want me reading it. paul, why is it that teacher didn t want your son reading his bible during free reading time? that, i can t answer. it seemed they were very hostile about the whole thing. i found that the voice message kind of speaks for itself.j4(p&c@ well, it does. i understand none of the other students were queried what they were reading at the time. so let s bring in the attorney right now, jeremy dice. jeremy, what s going on here? why do you think the school s got a problem with the bible? it s a hard question to answer. but what we do know is that students across america are permitted to read their bible while they re at school especially during free time in free reading periods like this. the bible is not contra band and shouldn t be treated as such. for a teacher to single out a student during free reading time is an egregious violatiof nf the constitution. absolutely. we ve got a statement from the school board. they say broward county public schools respects and upholds the rights of students to bring personal religious materials to school, including the bible, and to read these before school, after school or during any free reading time during the school day. giovani, one of the things is, i read in the local news stories down there in florida that apparently the school said that that was not a free reading time. you were supposed to be reading some other assigned book. is that right? no. that s not right at all. it was definitely free reading. paul, you had received word that during free reading time it would be okay for your son to read his bible? yes, i have received that. okay. so what do you want from the school? right now all we want is a written apology. if you made a mistake, be diligent enoughç to admit it, and everybody can move on and just allow my son and all the children in the entire school district to have that freedom to read their bible if they choose to do so during free reading time. jeremy, that s fair; right? i would think so. for the largest school district in the united states to be able to walk across the street and say we re sorry our teacher tried to remove the bible during a free reading period, i don t think that s a tall order to ask. students in america are permitted to read their bible while they re at school. giovani is no longer in that teacher s classroom. he has been moved toç another one as he concludes the year. giovani, paul, jeremy, thank you for joining us. what do you think about that? why did that particular teacher crack down on that particular book, the bible? go ahead and send us an e-mail, friends@foxnews.com. you can facebook us or tweet us. next up on the rundown, he oversaw the agency accused of leaving our veterans to die on a secret waiting list. should the head of the v.a. step down? 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[laughter] it s your shot of the morning. these three hot dogs told to wait for their treat. and then they re finally given the go ahead. the smallest one makes off with everybody s food. that s how it goes in my house. you know what? i thought in the dog world you don t want to cross a pit bull. i m like, okay, buddy, i ll let you get about five feet and then i m coming after you. got to be fast. to the littleç guy, just another dog. that s the mind set? somebody else with a flea collar. i don t know in the dog world how they punish each other but a lot of people throughout time have decideed to discipline their children by spanking. in kansas city, in one hospital in particular, spanking is no go. the point is they actually have a plan if they catch you spanking and it leaves a mark. they have pamphlets and banner. the no-hit zone at children s mercy hospital.ç a policy that says you cannot use any sort of spanking. if they see it happening, they will bring in a representative from child services to deal with it, giving alternatives such as bubbles and coloring to make the situation simmer. it s not even a ban on spanking. it s a ban on any sort of, let s see, hitting of any kind. and the goal of the hospital is if they see something escalating they re going to try to defuse it because they don t want it to lead anything else. if a staff member sees something escalating, get the kid a coloring book or bubbles. if somebody gives their kid a spafrpg or something like a spank or something like that, sounds like they re going to call in a social worker. a lot of people say we re not spankers. there are a lot of people in this world who discipline theirç children with a spank. they don t define it as hitting. here they blend the two together. they say no hitting. they re bringing them in together in terms of discipline. on one hand, anybody who has had a kid in the hospital understands it is a stressful time. it is the point where you feel the least amount of control over a situation. for one more access to the ability to control a situation in your family is hard for those parents out there right now and have that taken away. but if things are escalated, it could get tense in a hospital. so this kansas city,ç missouri, mercy hospital says we looked at these studies and it said you basically raise bullies if you start spanking kids. are they taking the parent out of parenting? are they going to a place they don t belong? or is this hospital doing something that is necessary on behalf of what they think for the child? are they trying to create peace or trying to take your rights away? sure. some families do spank. if you ve got somebody in the hospital and suddenly you ve got to deal with the social worker because you gave your kid a whack on the butt, that doesn t make it any easier. they say if it leaves a mark. they re not going to decide if it s over the line unless it leaves a mark. they re going to be looking at this. is it a distraction to the overall health and well-being to kids in the hospital? let us know what you think. facebook or twitter. it is 24 minutes before the top of theç hour. heather nauert. speaking of spanking, there may be a little bit of a political spanking in washington. the house of representatives now inching closer to charging former i.r.s. official lois lerner with contempt. there is a meeting to be held today to consider that as well as a g.o.p. request for a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting scandal. the way this looks, you know, it looks so political, a political process, pure and simple, aimed at trying to appeal toç the political base. the facts don t seem to matter. nobody can find a scarier organization, at least one without guns, than the i.r.s. there could be a full house vote today or tomorrow. an emotional moment caught on camera. the mother of a u.s. marine hears her son s words from inside this prison for the very first time in mexico. sergeant andrew tameri s eu has been locked up in a mexican jail. he says he took a wrong turn while driving and accidentally went over the border. he had three legal guns in his truck. listen to this. i m a pretty good man, good morals. i believe in god and i put my faith in good that he will take care of me. that took me by surprise. i hadn t heard that interview. that was the jail house heard that. a local san diego newspaper conducted that interview. tahmooressi faces 21 years in prison if convicted. new calls this morning for v.a. secretary shinseki to step down following that massive scandal at the phoenix v.a. hospital. it is accused of hiding treatment delays that reportedly led to the death of 40 veterans. on monday the american legion called for shinseki to resign. it is the first time since 1941 that the veterans group calledç for the resignation of a cabinet official. shinseki telling the wall street journal that he s not going anywhere. from the fields of battle to the fields of the nfl, take a look. this army ranger who hasn t played football since 2009 has just been signed by the philadelphia eagles. 25-year-old lieutenant villanueva weighs 277 pounds. he spent the last four years serving three tours of duty in afghanistan. the eagles signed him after seeing him work out last month. at the end of the day the ranger training and the physical fitness they have out there in the rangers and also in the army means a lot from every soldier. there wasn t a huge transition i had to make. he says if the nfl doesn tç work out he ll head back to afghanistan in september for his fourth tour of duty. what a brave young man. we ve got a bunch of nfl draft picks coming in later today. we have 15 nfl draft picks. it s been a five-year tradition. exciting there. thanks, heather. maria is standing by. hello everybody. i want to take you first to wyoming because in wyoming, we saw a very rare tornado. the state only sees about ten tornadoes per year. this oneç lasted only about two minutes and hit an undeveloped area. again, very rare especially this early in the year to be seeing tornado activity across the state of wyoming. that same disturbance is headed eastbound. today it will be tapping into some very warm and humid air across parts of the center of the country and we are going to be seeing the possibility for severe storms not only today but also as we head into tomorrow and also on friday to wrap up the work week. there is still an elevated fire danger in places across parts of the southern rockies due to dry conditions, gusty winds and temperatures well above average. take a look at those highs in places like dallas and kansas city, 89 degrees for your high temperature. let s head back insides. thank you, maria. straight ahead, they have known ties to terror but they can travel freely throughout the united sttls. how does this happen? find out next. they re on a hands off list. how to go from nothing to the top of the tph l. top of the nfl. the secret to success the secret to success coming up next. 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will senator charles grassley raise the issue with usda officials? a student terrorist in pakistan paying homage to bin laden, paid the library after the founder of al qaeda. a large sign at the entrance reads we love osama bin laden. he s known for nfl stardom but former all star matt burke is telling a different story. it s about health. he describes it in a book allç prowisdom. congratulations on the book. where did this idea come from? you guys were neighbors and they came through fellowship? fellowship in the cul-de-sac. we got in the cul-de-sac, corralled our kids and talked about life. i would share my experiences in the tph fplt rich would share experiences in life and we found there is a lot of overlap. i want to talk about being a line man. are the seven steps, is that the best protection moving through life,ç business, family and friends? absolutely. i would say there s seven questions any person needs to ask themselves if they want to be a person of positive influence, whether they re a young person getting instruction from a mentor or a business leader. the seven questions are crucial in establishing your foundation. it s not only we re in a time right now where faith is being questioned, the freedom to express, especially when it comes to christianity. taking a strong stand when our rights are called into question. in 2013 you chose not to attend the white house celebration with the ravens. ñ%y is that? it starts with the question who are you? my identity starts with being a christian and it is important to me. i understand that is who i am. because i understand my identity, i have the confidence to beç myself. at that time it just was not consistent with my values and with what i want to try to convey and pass on to my children to visit the white house. not an easy decision and one that came under critique. did you have regrets? it came under critique but it wasn t difficult for me. it was right after president obama addressed planned parenthood and said god bless planned parenthood and my wife and i are very involved in the pro-life movement. my kids know that we re involved in the pro-life movement. they know what it means. they know what the president standsç for. so i didn t want to confuse my kids. i wanted to send them the right message. a strong message indeed there. talk about the seven choices. that being the first step there. what are some others people can take away from this today in the book? i think if a person understands his or her identity, the next question is what is your purpose? this has to do with passion, whether it s at work or your vocation. the next person is what kind of person do you want to be? a person of character establishes depend ability. to become a trustworthy person we need to ask what kind of a person do i want to be? it progress s from there. coaches, c.e.o. s, this is reaching a broad audience. one high school golf coach is having the entire team go through it and do a lesson plan about it and write aboutç it. matt birk, well done. rich, you guys are good friends and have done a good job with this. thank you for being with us. coming up, should high schools be handing out homework with graphic references to sex? this father questioned it and guess what? he got arrested. we re serious. what s better than howard stern stopping by our studio? not much. he is surrounded by puppies and naming them all.ç just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks. signature favorites, just $10 all week long, at olive garden. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. when sales rep steve hatfield books at laquinta.com, so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. and when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings? 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we did. he is as big an animal lover as i am. that s why i fell in love with him. good move for a guy. by the way, these animal looks at you as now i m in good hands. describe these dogs. this is el bell. she s tearier mixer. between eight to ten weeks old. they re ready to be adopted. spayed and neutered, ready to go home. you have ainsley, she s a collie mix a. big girl. you have lukey. he s going to be a really big boy. so a big yard, great, great, great family dog. they re so great with one another. yeah. we have lula who is a chihuahua mix. great dog for the city, your apartments. you can put in your purse. carry her around. i think that these dogs know that they have to be extra special good. so when you bring them home, they re extraordinary. they know they ve been saved. they do. i feel every animal that s been rescued i feel that way with our cats. they just know. we re actually coming to our final d of our touche for life. we went to 52 cities with four of our mobile units. over 2,000 adoptions with our partnered shelters across the united states. what do you have to say to families who are considering not adopt ago did you go from a rescue. what s your message? my message is when they buy from a pet store, they re facilitating a horrific cycle of puppy mills. these animals in puppy mills are bred solely for money. most of the time they re in horrible conditions. rescue a did you go. you re saving a life. they know it. i heard two things that involve you. between howard stern s party, when i heard about that, which was incredible, and then that big open forum with billy joel across the street. can i say billy joel, on his birthday, this friday is donating all of his proceeds from his concert to the foundation that howard and i came up with. wow. where is that going to be? madison square garden. i ve heard of that! on friday in the met stadium on sunday for mother s day. thank you so much. thank you. great to see you. it s great cause. bark at the park this sunday. meanwhile, she s back. monica lewinsky break her silence and criticized hillary clinton. but is there a chance hillary okay with this? your e-mails and theories at the top of the hour. you remember film beverly hills 90210 . jason priestly revealing the secrets from his personal life. was that a bible thumping moment? 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[ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables at od, whatever business you re in, that s the business we re in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. wbecame your business. passion. at&t can help simplify how you manage it. so you can focus on what you love most. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love served daily. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight. big primary results with some important races still undecided. what you need to know and how it could change the balance of power in washington. yep. she s back. monica lewinsky break her silence to criticize hillary clinton? why now? one possibility might surprise you. i really wonder if this isn t an efforts on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. that s an interesting theory. your theories straight ahead. and forget the royal treatment. guess who was just spotted flying coach. who is behind that great big question mark? thank you for joining us on wednesday. it s a wednesday. it is a wednesday. right. we got to get a calendar. mornings are better with friends. happy birthday to you i should have known today was wednesday cause today is the big day. ladies and gentlemen, brian kilmeade is celebrating a birthday that ends with a 0. right. this is the longest birthday celebration ever, cause i had a surprise party three weeks ago. that s right. so it s ongoing. i could always say i m not 50 yet. now i m officially 50. wait a minute. is that the telephone? hello, who is there? is that jim and steve kilmeade, brian s brothers? yeah. they just woke us up. they re in another location. from what i ve been able to tell, you re the only member of the kilmeade clan that gets up before noon. i think so. they like to sleep in. we re from a long line of bartenders. we ve been up late cleaning and sweeping. actually we don t know how to sleep very well. we can t s family. doesn t work. jim, thanks for that s a live shot. that was from last night. yeah. steve and jim, slide over. we ve got to get a pictures. brian, you are the little one? i m the middle one. evidently we re out of room. is that you with the bow tie? that is me there without a neck. that s an outfit that i grew out there you go. grow the hair over the eyes. jim, tell us something we don t know about your brother, brian. what can i tell you? i think you found out everything after the book tour. except for the back that brian cries for every family picture. it s true. he didn t like having his picture taken. so almost every picture we have except for three we showed, he s in tears. did that give him the nickname crying brian? a lot of people wouldn t do that. i wish you were around back then. we weren t that clever. we couldn t come up with things that rhymed. unfortunately, when we were growing up, elisabeth wasn t born. you guys threw a beautiful big, fantastic party for brian out in long island. was that it or is he getting a cake today? he s getting one more cake on the traditional sunday kilmeade dinners. very nice. i love that. good brotherly love. brian is crying right there. how do we have crying shots? thank you. guys, thanks a lot for getting up. that was great parties. happy birthday, brian. thank you. as a special tribute, what better way to have a talking point with monica lewinsky? we re going to in about two minutes. right. you re so desperate to get out of that, you destroyed the talking point. i didn t know. it s your birthday. you get to call the shots here. like calling the shot over to heather. hi, heather. hi. nothing will make you feel old than monica lewinsky turning 40. right. good morning to you. i ve got news to bring you. politics now, while you were sleeping, there was big developments in the political world that will affect the midterm election. let s start in north carolina. republican tom tillis winning the republican senate nomination. he will face democratic senator kay hagin in november. also in north carolina, the congressional primary race between democrat clay aiken and keith chrisco still too close to call. in ohio, john boehner defeating two tea party challengers in his bid for a 13th term in congress. united states now joining the manhunt for the leader of the terrorist group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 girls there. the u.s. is sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria to help with the hunt for the leader in an attempt to free the girls. this as we learn eight more girls have been kidnapped in the last 24 hours. the warlord says he plans to sell those girls into slavery. we ll keep you posted. condoleeza rice getting an offer this morning to speak at texas tech university after she turned down rutgers invitation amid all those protests there. the chancellor of that school joined us earlier on the show. he said it shouldn t be about politics, but about the person s credentials. listen to this. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. rice is said to be considering that offer. we ll let you know what happens. listen to this one, every parent needs to hear this. a father shows up at a school board meeting to express his concerns with a risque novel that s required reading for his 14-year-old daughter and here is what happened. what are you charging me with? disorderly conduct. disorderly conduct. taken away in handcuffs. here is what happened. he went over the two minutes of that allowed for him to address the school board in new hampshire and so he was arrested and taken away. the center of the controversy is a book called 19 minutes. it s by jody picall. there is a love scene in it that is too graphic for ninth graders. listen. it reads like a transcript for a triple x porno movie. we had no notice about it. school officials say they are standing by that book. they say it s been part of the curriculum since 2007. they ll update their policies, but listen to this one, instead of being able to opt out of controversial material, including this one, parents have to be forced to sign off on them. so it s still part of required reading. nothing changed there. i got to send something home to the parents. you re hearing from people on this, right? yeah. a lot of you are weighing in. wayne tweeted us this, he says his fry dom of speech was violated. very sad that parents aren t allowed to voice their concerns about improper books. that s right. susan tweeting this: they allotted him two minutes? he could have expressed his outrage in that time. no infringement on free speech. sean says, officer, how about arresting the teacher who hands this out and teaches it? check out how helpful to the students. yep. keep e-mailing us regarding it. you can fake book us or you could tweet us as well. meanwhile, today you re going to discover that monica lewinsky is back. she s written an article in vanity fair. the whole thing comes out tomorrow. we do have some excerpts, which it s curious, she makes it very, very clear that the times she had sex with then president of the united states, bill clinton, it was consentual. it was between consenting adults. he didn t force himself on her. didn t abuse her. the only people who abused her were his cronies, it sounds like, when she was made the scapegoat and was all to protect the clintons. right. that way she felt taken advantage of and also suicidal. she reveals during the height of the scandal, actually prompting her to write and actually get some word out here in the vanity fair article and help others who may be feeling like a victim going through something like this. i really feel bad for her. she points out to what happens at rutgers with the 18-year-old who felt humiliation. she said she felt same to that in the same fashion as she turns 40. shear an excerpts from the article which has not been fully released yet. she said my first thought as i was getting up to spied, that s the worst thing she said about me, i should be lucky. yes, i get it. hillary clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husband s mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate, but i find her impulse to blame the woman and herself troubleing. and things that we know from her then friend in the 1990s said hillary referred to monica lewinsky as that narcistic looney toon. what s curious is why is vanity fair publishing this right now? we ve got one theory from lynn cheney, you re about to hear, and also we ve got a republican strategist and a democratic strategist because the timing is curious, don t you think? we haven t heard of monica lewinsky out of the blue til now. why? listen to this. i don t think this is actually relevant as we go forward into 2016 because it really has no bearing on the abilities of hillary clinton to be a national leader and whether she can lead our nation. any time monica lewinsky is in the news, it does not help either of the clintons. it brings back all sorts of bad memories, certainly of the president s bad behavior. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. would vanity fair publish anything about monica lewinsky that hillary clinton didn t want in vanity fair? probably not. my question is, is vanity fair going to do something with broderick or gennifer flowers or paula jones? if they re doing, so to speak, monica lewinsky if you google mistresses of bill clinton, there is a shocking number of people who come up. the timing of this is certainly coming under question. we re going to have the opportunity to talk with lynn cheney in a bit here on the show. we asked you what you thought in the meantime and barbara is saying this: monica may be the only honest person in a sad situation. we know the clintons aren t truthful. theresa posted on facebook, hillary stayed with bill for her own agenda to once again occupy the white house. and ralph s up and he says what difference does it make? you re funny. mark saying it s all good until a republican does it, then all hell breaks loose. yeah, there is a little bit of a double standard. continue to e-mail us, tweet us and facebook us. she was over wasn t she at oxford? she got a degree at oxford in london. she did. but she said she had a difficult time finding jobs after. moments of being stressed. she says it s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. okay. none of this would have happened if that blue dress disappeared, or she had gone to the cleaners. 7:11. you re right. he s being tapped to lead an investigation into the benghazi attacks. now congressman trey gowdy is getting death throats. is threats. is that just the start of something? and the university of utah s fight song, utah man, under fire for being sexist. should the school have to change it to protect others feelings? what about utah people? we report. you decide. he scores. hi, i m terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it s hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. 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joining us is congressman devon nunez and members of the house select committee on intelligence who joins us from d.c good morning to you. great to be back on with you. it s great to have you. a couple of days ago, democrats were saying, no, no, no. nobody should show up. suddenly yesterday, nancy pelosi said, well, we ll show up if it can be half and half. which is funny because when she was running things, it was nine democrats versus six republicans. what sort of recipe are you guys looking at? it s going to be seven republicans and five democrats, steve. the point that you make is right. this congress has a long history of these investigative committees. we attempted to do it through the existing structure with the four committees of jurisdiction, but as you know, we ve been stonewalled by the administration, so much so that the legislative branch of our government was unable to get the e-mails that you guys in the press were able to get. that s totally unacceptable and i think it broke basically john boehner did the right thing by coming out strongly and putting one of our great new members of congress, trey gowdy, who will do a great job as chairman. as we look in, you re in the thick of things in washington, d.c., it does look like stonewalling, in addition to the fact they would send you guys documents that were completely blank because they had been completely redacted where you couldn t even tell where it was about, which is kind of nuts. they ve also made it impossible for to you talk to the people who were there. it sounds like from what we ve heard some of you guys talk about these guys have been threatened with their jobs. if you say anything, there goes your pension. we might sue you. will witnesses be able to testify in fronts of your committee? yeah. i think that s the important point, too, is we re going to have good witnesses like greg hicks, who was the number one man, after ambassador stevens was murdered in cold blood by al-qaeda terrorists, greg hicks was the man in charge. greg hicks has been put out to pasture by this administration. he s been said that he s not a credible witness. but i think what we re going to find through this investigation is that guys like greg hicks, who were on the ground, the station chief that was there in libya working for the c.i.a., all of those people are going to be extremely credible. if we can ever get the rest of the e-mails out of the administration, we re going to find out we re going to get to the bottom of what really happened in benghazi and who made up these most ridiculous stories. the white house goes well, we had you, congress, you ve had a bunch of investigations, plus there was that arb, accountability review board, they looked at things. but the arb talked to greg hicks, to your point, and he told them that the reason chris stevens was in benghazi was because hillary clinton personally asked him to see whether or not they could establish a permanent post there. that s what he told the arb. but the arb, when they finally released the report, it said chris stevens wound up in benghazi independently, which is crazy. that s a flat out lie! yeah. we haven t gotten to the bottom yet of what was chris stevens actually doing there. he did meet with people that day. i think that s something that the committee should look into, who exactly did he meet with. i think the committee should trio meet with those folks, or at least have investigators meet with those folks. there is still a lot of information out here. i don t blame anyone but the white house. the american people should blame no one but the white house. they had an opportunity and they have a responsibility as leaders in this country to provide the legislative branch of government all of the documentation when the legislative branch asks. they did not do it and they get what they deserve on this. well, to a lot of people, it looks like there was a conspiracy and a cover-up and a lot of people would like the answers and it s up to you guys now. all right. congressman, thank you for joining us from washington. my pleasure. it is now 20 minutes after the top of the hour. she refuses to talk. now democrats say enough s enough when it comes to questioning lois lerner. maybe we can get ken star to come out of retirement and do another investigation and waste taxpayers money. should we give her a break or keep paying to watch her plead the fifth? that s coming up next. and you know him as the heart throb from the hit drama 90210 . jason priestly is dishing it all, like his former roommate, br what does he know about him? plenty. and he spills the beans to liz and brian and me as we roll on live from new york city. ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i m sold! a selling machine! ready for you alert, only at lq.com. why do results matter so much? it s probably because they are the measurement of everything we do. for a wireless company, results come down to coverage speed and legendary reliability. so go ahead, stream, game or video chat. that s why verizon built americas largest 4g lte network. because the only thing that really matters are the results you get. so for the best devices the best network and for best results, use verizon. we re become now for your consumer news. another general motors recall. this time nearly 60,000 saturn aura cars that affect the 2007 and 2008 model years with four speed transmissions. the problem can cause cars to roll away unexpectedly because the driver thinks it s in park. it led to 28 crashes and four injuries. but no deaths thankfully. office depot looking to scale back in a big way. the company plans to close 400 stores by the year 2016. a move expected to save the company $75 million a year. 150 stores will be closed by the end of 2014. subway testing new menu option. some of the chains started putting thinner slices of deli meat on sandwiches. there are 12 slices on a footlong instead of eight and testing a new topping called hummus. really? what do you think about that? it s too controversial to comments on. he burst onto the hollywood scene as a star of one of the hottest prime time shows ever. brandon, i know you were mr. popularity back home. but i m not going to miss minneapolis. nobody knows me here. i could be anybody. i could be somebody. like what, homecoming queen? the life for the man best known as brandon walsh on 90210 hasn t always been glitzy and glamorous f. sudden stardom to a life changing car crash, jason priestly reveals his dramatic journey from heart throb to family man in a new book titled jason priestly, a memoir. and he s parked on our couch. good morning to you. good morning. why did you write this? it kind of felt like time. you talk about my car crash that i had back in 2002, while i was lying in my hospital bed starting my recovery from that car crash, i said a lot of set a lot of lofty goals in my recovery. i found myself in 2012 having achieved all those goals, my wife, my family, my career was back to where i wanted it to be. it just felt like time to write this book. what was the toughest part to write about? the toughest part to write about was the accident and my recovery from that accident. i suffered a lot more catastrophic injuries than i had ever really talked about. you were in the hospital for three months? three months i was in the hospital. i suffered three skull fractures in the accident. skull fractures, 7, 8, 9 in my lifetime and class 3 concussion. i could barely talk when i was in the hospital. my cognitive thought capabilities had been lost completely. i couldn t remember anything. so i had to relearn how to speak and how to think and how to memorize things. they had to take my eyeball out and rebuild part of my skull here. this whole side of my face wouldn t work for a long time. so there were a lot of things that i had to overcome. physically, my back was broken, my feet were shattered. so i had to do a lot of work to bring myself back to the place where i am today. so you said you grew up and you were watching television, you always thought, i want to be part of that, from the electric company on down and it happens really quick. is fame hard? the struggle was short. you said you arrived in los angeles in 97. in 98 you re on the top show. is it hard to be famous? well, no. i wouldn t say it s hard to be famous. fame has a lot of positive aspects to it. i think it s difficult to manage sometimes. sure. cause there is no self-help book that you can go and just pick up on the shelf and it tells you how to manage it. you ve known a loft famous people. lot of famous people. for instance, brad pitt was your roommate. what sort of dirt can you dish on brad? look, i tell a lot of stories in the book about some of the famous people that i ve come across in my lifetime. but i really do that just for contextual reasons. there is some funny stories that happened in my life, certainly before i got famous. and those experiences are there because those kind of friendships and those experiences are things that kind of make you who you are. i like the story where you talked about how he went home, brad pitt did, and came back with a box full of bibles. he sure did. and gave them away, right? yeah. and we were all young actors and it was back in the late 80s and everyone wanted to be a bad boy. so everyone is handing out cartons of cigarettes and bottles of jack daniels and trying to be all cool. brad handed us all bibles that were embossed with our names on it cause he had just come back from missouri where he s from. did you think it was a joke? oh, no. no, no. he s very earnest. do you still have it? of course i do. read it? of course i ve read it. listen to what shannen doherty treated. memoirs are so funny. the truth is rarely told. after all, they re trying o sell a book. she actually tweet that had about somebody very inflammatory headlines that have been written and priestly lashes out at dougherty. i certainly would never lash out at her. i she shannon and shannon and i had four fun years together on the show. maybe it s from in the book, you talk about how she was yelling at a publicist because, what, you sent me a town car! i should have a limo! we ve all done that, steve. come on. a lot in this book. we re so glad you re fully recovered. love to hear about the kids, too. yep. and the first time i met you, you were racing with paul newman. yeah, that s right. congratulations. thanks, appreciate it. coming up, new video this morning of the kid who flew across the pacific ocean in the wheel well of a plane. now investigators have questions for the teen who just wants to do see his mom. and in 24 hours, these guys will be multi-millionaires. the 2014 nfl draft picks. 15 are here to talk about their big night tomorrow night. now you can have it all with red lobster s new seafood trios! choose one option from the wood-fire grill, one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta. all on one plate. three delicious choices. all for $15.99 for a limited time only! come sea food differently today! it s built to be as fast as it is strongor advil. and fights pain at the site of inflammation. advil has the strength and speed to help you move past pain. advil. make today yours. 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yeah. very exciting time for us because it s a time of year where america s top college athletes, football players come to new york city to see where and what teams will be drafting them. before they get picked in less than 24 hours, they ve come here before they go across the street to radio city. let s meet some of the soporose effects. give yourselves a round of applause for getting here right now! let s go around the horn. where are you from? bama. where do you hope to go? anywhere. mike evans, texas a & m. mike especially for you, a lot of people really excited about the prospects. you proved yourself in the combines big time. i did my best. right. you went to one year high school football? yes, sir. how did that play into this? are you surprised how quick you picked it all up? i already knew how to play football. i just didn t decide to do it in high school, but in my last year. one of the best decisions i ever made. thanks a lot. and by the way, johnny manziel, that s a guy you play with. he s all right. we ll see where he goes. some say number within overall. morgan moses, university of virginia. usc. university of minnesota. ohio state. ohio state. indiana university. university of north carolina. are you having fun this week? it s been all right. kind of nervous? yeah. we just trying to get through it, you know. it s not like you re in competition with these guys. universities of louisville. teddy, you are got the quarterback and wide receivers to throw to. have you been throwing the ball around? not yet. nice to be here with these guys. they re always open. always open. okay. jordan from vanderbilt. a lot of people looking at you and saying isn t he related to jerry rice? that is true. kind of a fun fact. kind of cool. puts a lot of pressure, but i like it. you like it. of course, he comes out of nowhere to be the greatest nfl wide receiver ever. that must have been inspirational. is he still running the hill? yeah, i m trying to get throughout and do the same thing he did. of course, shine in the colleague get better as a pro, which all you guys do. of course. just don t drop anything. of course. louisiana state university. odell. oregon state. brandon, what s the experience been like for you? it s been fun. been fun of the been around a lot of good talent. compact what about the combines? is that nerve racking? no. i watched a lot. tcu. what are your thoughts about tomorrow? i m excited to be there. have these guys become your friends? yeah, dick cheneyly. this go definitely. is this going to be one of the greatest drafts ever? yeah. congratulations. good luck tomorrow night and don t forget fox friends friends as you grab your jersey with your new team. elisabeth, take it away. wishing all of them well tomorrow. thanks. the u.s. jumping into the search for hundreds of girls kidnapped in nigeria. who are the terrorists who are kidnapping them? peter johnson, jr. going to run down their history coming up. first, the aflac question, trivia of the day. born on this date in 1945, this actress is best known for her role as dorian lord on one life to live. be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer. passenger: road trip buddy. let s put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you ve got to be kidding me. driver: this is good. woman: vamanos. driver & passenger: vamanos. woman: gracias. driver & passenger: gracias. passenger: trece horas en el carro sin parar y no traes musica. driver: mira entra y comprame unas papitas. vo: get up to 795 miles per tank in the tdi clean diesel. the volkswagen passat. recipient of the j.d. power appeal award, two years in a row. aflac, aflac, afc! 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what is it that they believe in exactly? joining us is fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. 300 young women held captive by these folks. it s important to understand who this terrorist organization is. in 2013, the united states declared it a terror organization. its leader, they espouse hatred for everything modern, secular and western. they especially oppose education for women. so they ve become known for these attacks on schools, including burning schools, holding people hostage, suicide bombs, and attacks. this is their leader that is pictured right there. yeah. and he suspect out a series of videos saying that allah ordered him to do this. that s interesting because they do have ties to al-qaeda, the terrorist organization we know so well. they ve received training from al-qaeda and shakal declared his allegiance to al-qaeda in the past. there is no firm evidence that they intend to take their efforts beyond the four countries in africa that they ve been involved with. who are their targets that we know of? their targets are schools, government officials, christians, christian churches, nigerian security and police forces. they re known most famously for december 2011 bombing of a cathedral in nigeria. in fact, last year i met a nigerian bishop who told me that priests were so terrified in that country that they needed to change christmas midnight mass to early in the afternoon to 4:00 o clock in the afternoon because they were afraid that the parishioners would be kidnapped and murdered in the middle of the night on christmas morning. and it s taken a terrible, terrible toll. 1500 people have died this year alone. thousands have died in the last few years. now america and the world, including great britain, are saying, we need to get involved in this. the hashtag has taken hold and foreign policy is following this saying, what can we do to save these children? it s an absolute heart break. the president spoke out as well. he actually called it, quote, heart breaking and outrageous. so what exactly precisely can be done? it s interesting. in some ways it s ignored this situation in nigeria for a while. there s a $7 million bounty on the leader s head. now the white house is sending a team of military officials, negotiators, intelligence officials and law enforcement personnel to see what they can do to bring these children back, to return them to their parents. can you imagine at any school in america to have almost 300 children snatched and then parents literally chasing these terrorists with bows and arrows against their ak 47s? they re afraid of reprisals. they don t want their names out there. unfortunately, the nigerian government has been absolutely powerless in reapproximatelying this kind of attack repelling this kind of attack. they ve been known they ve not repelled these attacks and they continue. in fact, eight other children abducted yesterday. and bombings continue. heart breaking to hear that. glad at least something is being done in this area. peter johnson, jr., we thank you for always keeping us up to date. america again the policemen of the world. we will follow this story for you. prayers for them. coming up, his career didn t end when he walked away from baseball. nolan ryan now cooking up a storm. his simple recipe for burgs that won t strike out. in 1975, he don t like you like i love you by tony orlando and dawn was the number one song in america. sfx: car unlock beep. vo: david s heart attack didn t come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. time for the answer to the aflac trivia question. born on this date in 1945, this actress is known for her role as dorian lord on one life to live. who is she? it s robin strasser. the win letter get a copy of brian s book george washington s secret six. from one book to another, they couldn t be more different. power pitcher who off the field turned his passion for ranching into a successful meat a business. that s why we smell like hamburger right now. nolan ryan right here sharing some of his favorite dishes in his new book the nolan ryan beef and barbecue cookbook, recipes from a texas kitchen. good morning to you. good morning. this is great. when was the last time you talked to nolan ryan about a hamburger? you got two kind here. one, the all american. what does it have inside it? it has bacon and it has cheese and then it has montreal seasoning. it s got an egg in it! and you put that in there. bind it together so when you grill it, it stays together. the cajun burger. is that blue cheese? yes. and bacon? yes. and different cajun flavoring. you have a choice this morning. look at the size of these burgers. you can see how great they are. this is not these are not small patties you might get at a fast food place. you talk about different things you can do with the meat, from chuck stake to skirt steak. this is grilling season in texas. it s a little early in new york. that s what i enjoy. you re at the point, you could have a full time guy grilling stuff that you want for breakfast. but you prefer to grill yourself. that s just kind of what i enjoy doing and i m kind of particular how i like my meat. so i want to make sure that i don t blame it if it s not right on someone elimination. you ve been work for this meat company for a dozen years. you started putting the recipes on line and this is where this was born, right? right. we wanted to do this for our customers and give them an opportunity. they would call and want to know, i bought t bone what, do i do with it? how do i prepare it? you got the american burger, cajun burger. it s all in this new book. it s weird not seeing with the rangers. you re now with the astros. i remember your relationship with the bushes. you seem really tight. i don t think the president missed a game now that he s retired. he came to a lot of games. he s really a baseball fan. he was the owner of the ball club when i was there as a player. so we ve been friends for a long time. it was hard to wiggle away from him cause he was sitting right next to you. he kind of liked those seats. i bet he did! he s president, but you re nolan ryan. nolan, do you ever see yourself fighting ventura again? i hope not. i hear he s got a cookbook coming out. the president said one of the most inspirational said he saw is a 40-year-old guy on the mound, ventura charged the mound, and to see you pound him that, inspired the former president! it s just one of the unfortunate things that happened in my career and i think rob feels that way, too. once again, the book is called the nolan ryan beef and barbecue cookbook. will you make me one of the cajun burgers? you got your bun? i got my bun right here. it really comes down to what all do you want on that? a lot of bacon. bacon is in there. it s already got bacon in there. i ll take one protein style here. homeruning with the burgers. loving that with the guys. coming up, timing is everything. why is monica lewinsky speaking out now for the first time in a decade? i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. lynn cheney joining us live in minutes. plus, brian turns 50 years old today and we have a surprise guest for him who brought a very special gift, right after the break. don t miss it. get all your favorites all day, everyday. olive garden s signature favorites, just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks. signature favorites, just $10 all week long, at olive garden. we cannot let the fans down. don t worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority. amazing! .is you! the amazing spider-man 2 delivered by the united states postal service. 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(announcer) all-new friskies saucesations. a taste experience like no other. in cheesy, creamy, homestyle, or garden sauce. friskies. feed the senses. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight, big primary results with some important races still undecided. how will it shift the balance of power in washington? everything you need to know straight ahead. and monica lewinsky breaking her silence to criticize hillary clinton. but why now? one possibility could actually surprise you. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clints part to get that story out of the way. excellent theory. lynn cheney is actually here this hour. with james madison. he s been tapped to lead the investigation into the benghazi attacks. now someone wants congressman trey gowdy dead. do you believe this? float the pictures. mornings are better with friends. of course, we would play that because today is brian s birthday. right. tomorrow we will not play it. look who we booked for this final hour today because it s your birthday. lynn cheney and i grew up together. that s right. plus you remember the movie goonies ? guy fieri and two special mystery guests. i think one of the mystery guests is joining us right now behind the blue door. open it up. ladies and gentlemen, happy birthday, brian. happy birthday brian happy birthday to brian happy what is that? it s going to be rogaine, viagra and magazine subscription happy birthday. he s the first man who kissed me. there you go. it s good to see you. open that up. all right. when you continue 50, geraldo rivera that s right. i show up. do you know what he got you? he wrapped it in headlines. look at this. balls. it s a margarita mixer. oh! wait a minute. last time you had a lot of margaritas, you wound up in a towel. he didn t bring the towel. that s right. a little later today i m doing a selfy. no shirt on. i m doing the geraldo. after this, you just might. thank you very much. happy birthday. you re so youthful. what s hard to believe you re qualified for aarp magazine now. i think i ll wait on the subscription. feel any differently? not at all. i actually do not feel 50. it feels surreal, which is crazy when you start at the same job 17 years ago 17 years. my goodness. in 97, when my son called in, he was one. when you think about high school and college, four years each. now you double that. brian, we watched you grow up. it s brian s song. i d like to jog in a football uniform! you know what? since you re here, geraldo, we want to ask you about the monica lewinsky story. she now is appearing on the covers of talking about time flying. exactly right. she s 40. she writes in vanity fair for the first tile time ever about her affair with bill clinton. among other things, she talks about how when i had sex with the president of the united states, it was consentual. he didn t force himself on me. the only time i was abused was by his cronies who tried to scapegoat me. you know, when i first came to fox, bill o reilly said that fox audience would never accept me because i was bill clinton s prime defender during my cnbc days. i have a source, the reason i could report with great accuracy about what was happening is that the president s best friend, whom i have sworn never to name, would call me on a nightly basis with the story du jour. how many does he have? well, if you sort through, you could probably figure it out. there was an amazing shift within the dynamic of the pro-clinton forces during the arc of the story. monica lewinsky is absolutely right, as i recall, as the story was evolving right before my very eyes there, that there was a lot of she s nut job, she s a loose cannon. she s a crazy it s her faults. basically she came on to him. she pursued him. then if you ll recall, i was the one who broke the story that the stain on the blue dress was indeed president clinton s dna. so i was able to report that. the story changed dramatically as that revelation was reported to me and i passed it on to the american people. then it was much more about all men lie about having affairs, oral sex is not real sex. then the story became not monica. monica was now in every way affirmed. now became the minimummization of what the offense was. why do you think she s coming out? that s good question. i don t necessarily agree with lynn cheney. great to see her again in the green room. i don t necessarily agree that hillary clinton is behind the timing of this. put yourself in monica lewinsky s shoes. i don t know where the hell she has been for these many years. why bother? why do it now? you know, let s take her at her word. the 18-year-old rutgers student who jumped off the bridge in front of my house, that she was motivated because she similarly felt humiliation he felt. and she wants to do self-destroy as he did. will it play in 2016 for hillary? will this matter that she s coming out now? i think it meters who the republican nominee is. i think a senator rand paul has made very clear, elisabeth, that he considers the president s character and the actions of his spouse during this traumatic period in american history to be relevant to the 2016 election as it refers to the clark of the family character of the family. if it s rand paul, that s one thing. if it s jeb bush or mitt romney again i actually see a woman that s turning 40 that wants to make sense out of what happened to her. i think that s very profound. you just turned 50. i 70. can i throw a curve ball in here? could women, could the clintons or hillary clinton maybe assume that there would be a bunch of women who feel like she does and maybe this would relate to them? could this bode well for her if she was on the ticket? well, all i know is that she got tremendous support from the women s movement and monica lewinsky points out with great bitterness, if you read even the excerptses, the limited excerpts, how feminists deserted her and blamed it all on her, the intern, after all, and the suffering spouse. why were they ever defending her? why weren t they? that s an excellent question. i think the woman s movement really has to assess its own performance during that trauma. we re going to listen to you on the radio? i m going to radio right now. i got my radio voice on now. we re going to be talking to lynn cheney. her take on it. she s coming up in a couple of minutes. geraldo, thanks very much for dropping by. didn t expect so. thank you very much. 52 minutes now. right. keep the cameras away from the man. heather, what s in the headlines? let s start with political news. while you were sleeping, there have been major political developments that will affect the midterm election. let s start in north carolina. republican tom tillis winning the gop senate nomination. he will now face democratic senator kay hagin in november. also north carolina, the congressional primary race between two democrats, clay aiken and keith chrisco is still considered too close to call. we ll let you know what happens as we got it. ohio, john boehner defeating two tea party challengers that we told you about yesterday. he won that in his bid for a 13th term in congress. the united states now taking part joining the manhunt for the leader of the nigerian terror group behind the kidnappings of more than 270 young girls. the u.s. is now sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria in its hunt for the leader of the group. this as we learn eight more girls have been kidnapped within the last 24 hours. the warlord of that group says he plans to sell the girls into slavery. the republican congressman trey gowdy is now receiving death threats after he s been tapped to lead a select committee to investigate the attack in benghazi. the e-mails threaten to hurt him if he goes forward with the hearings. the hearings will go forward. fox news now confirming that the 12-member panel will include seven republicans and five democrats. but will they got any answers? i don t blame anyone but the white house. the american people should blame no one but the white house. they had an opportunity and they have a responsibility as leaders in this country to provide the legislative branch of government all of the documentation when the legislative branch asks. they did not do it and they get what they deserve on this. today we expect to learn more about who will be on that committee. a fifth grader in florida says he was simply humiliated by his teacher. he was reading the bible during free time at school, but listen to this voice mail that his teacher left for his parents. i noticed that he has books, a religious book in the classroom. he s not permitsed to read those books in my classroom. those books. 12-year-old boy says his bible is one of his favorite books. he and his father joined us, along with their attorney, emergency roomier on fox & friends. listen to what they had to say. all we want is a written apology. if you made a mistake, be diligent enough to admit it and everybody can move on and just allow my son and all the children in the entire school district to have that freedom to read their bible if they choose to do so. the broward county public school district says it upholds the right of students to bring religious materials to school. what do you think about that? those are your headlines. back to you. thank you very much. i m looking in the e-mail box. many happy birthdays. very nice. i appreciate it. it was great to see geraldo again. great, with clothes on. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, rutgers university paid $30,000 to bring in snooki from jersey shore. but let a speech by condoleeza rice slip away because of a few protesters from faculty and students. now the former secretary of state has a new offer. and she refuses to talk. now democrats say enough is enough when it comes to questioning lois lerner. maybe we can get ken starr starr to come out of retirement. maybe he can come out for another investigation and waste taxpayer money. should we give hear break or hold her accountable? i ll take the fifth. i ll let you take the fifth because it s your birthday. he s drinking a fifth? you ve reached the age where you know how things work. this is the age of knowing what needs to be done. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? 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yep. she s back. monica lewinsky speaking out in a new interview with vanity fair. some are questioning the timing of the article. why now? joining us to weigh in on exactly that is the wife of former vice president dick cheney, and the author of james madison. good morning. good morning. and i want to give brian a birthday present. thank you very much. especially signed for you. it is signed. congratulations. i m not in your class, especially after i see this. i m fascinated by the period in which you examined. first i want to get your comment about what broke in the news. you find the timing of this article interesting. well, politics i ve been lucky enough to have a front row seat for quite a while it s never what it seems. there is always an explanation below the surface. it s usually more accurate than what you immediately lead to. in this case, i just can t imagine vanity fair running an article that the clintons wouldn t approve of. it seems so timed to inoculate mrs. clinton s campaign against this kind of thing popping up later. sure. put it out now. a couple years in advance, and then by the time people go to vote, they ll be oh, that s old news. vanity fair is going to do this. do you think they re going to do something with paul paula jones or gennifer flowers? no. i think that, you know i have a great empathy, sympathy for monica lewinsky and i do think she s been suffering. but i m sure if you were able to sort it all out, vanity fair probably reached out to her and the article came about that way. so let s talk about why you re here. not only to see steve and elisabeth on the couch. and wish awe happy birthday. but talking about james madison. what is underappreciated and what needs to be revisitd about this founding father? his accomplishments were such great height and scope and depth, father of the constitution, crucial to the founding of the first government. president when the country went to war for the first time under the constitution. so all of that, plus a really interesting life story. there is one story that occurred to me when you asked me about monica lewinsky. dolly madison was the subject of whispering campaigns. she was just a little too attractive. really? yeah. attracted for him? no. but too attractive to not attract this kind of notice. and she at one point was said to be having an affair with x. and y, a friend of the madisons, stood up and defended her in an embarrassing way. so madison, went to x s house, the person rumored to be having an affair with dolly. personally invitessed him to dinner. it was a very clever move because what it said to everyone is the secretary of state had gone over there, invited the fellow to dinner. he came to dinner on f street. he wasn t having an affair with dolly madison. i think it s useful and you know this. even when you re looking at past times, to always be aware that there is another scenario playing out. the past is prolog. it seems like those what would he say today about the president s role? well, he d be appalled by the scope and reach of the federal government. but i think he would also be very troubled that the president seems to decide for himself what the law should be. we won t enforce immigration laws even though they are on the books. they ve been passed by the congress. we ll delay mandates and requirements under the affordable care act, even though that s no prerogative of the president. so i think he would be troubled at the constitution having become not the rule of law, but the rule of it s also important in your book, you chronicle anybody who thinks america is in hard times and never been so bad, how about a president standing, sitting by himself in a horse in the pouring rain while washington burns and he s overlooking it? that s grim in 1812. he was the president then and he brought everybody back. dolly goes out and gets all the priceless artwork. before you go, how is your husband, dick cheney? he s wonderful. we re so lucky. how is liz? she s great. i m hoping she ll run for office again. the book is terrific. everything you ever wanted to know about james madison. right there! i ll talk to you on radio about it, even more ostensibly. you want another copy? it s his birthday. thank you. coming up on this wednesday, he is oversaw the agency accused of leaving our veterans to die on a secret waiting list reportedly. so should the head of the veterans affairs step down? we have an update on that. and what do you call your in-laws? mr. dell dev. is it normal or nuts to still call your in-laws mr. or mrs.? dr. ablow has that answer. mr. keith ablow. doctor. when la quinta.com sends sales rep steve hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. you know what he brings? any questions? can i get an a, steve? yes! three a s! he brings his a-game! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! female narrator: the mattress price wars are on the mattress price wars are on at sleep train. we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. now it s posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years interest-free financing. plus, free same-day delivery, set-up, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save. mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. your ticket to a better night s sleep got quick headlines for you. new calls for veterans affairs secretary eric shenseki to step down. texas senator john cornyn demanding his resignation following accusations of the phoenix v.a. hospital hid treatment delays that led to the deaths of 40 veterans. several other senators, as well as the american legion, have called for his resignation, telling the wall street journal he s not going anywhere. has the epa gone rogue? today the agency s inspector general is expected to tell congress their homeland security office, a unit run by president obama s political staff, is illegally blocking investigations. the office is accused of impeding probes into employee misconduct and computer security as well. who is normal and who is nuts? it s a question we ask dr. keith ablow every week and he joins us now to tackle it once more. good morning. good morning, team. all right. sir, here is your first e-mail. after four years of marriage and a baby, our daughter-in-law still calls us mister and mrs. i told her it s fine to call us by our first names but she won t. normal or nuts? she won t listen and that s not normal. that s nuts. are you kidding me? four years and a baby. you re lucy and ken. you re not mr. and mrs. anderson. she s just being poe lights. no, she s not. she can t cozy up. there is something in the way of her and more intimate relationships. this could be a big problem, by the way, social anxiety, some form of asburgers. there is something going on here that could be a major problem. okay. so she s not just being extra polite. good to know. she s not. unless these people are really stand-offish, but doesn t sound like it. we have another question for you. my husband always exaggerates the truth. for example, if a hotel room costs $57, he ll say it costs $77. it makes me crazy. is he normal or nuts? well, look, what s that? that s a 25% exaggeration. so i m going to say normal cause it s not quite nuts. he s not saying it s a $700 room. not that you would believe it. but the bottom line is here is somebody who doesn t think he s enough. he thinks he s 25% too little. so you can be kind to him and tell him he is everything you hoped he d be and he doesn t need to do this cause you love him. if that s true. wants to know my theory? cause i watched bob newhart in the 70s. i think he has to spend his whole life trying to get attention by exaggerating. this is another example of it. well, i think we agree. but that sense of needing to exaggerate, listen, he doesn t have to. he s always been good and decents and enough and if he doesn t realize it, his wife has to help him see that. and here is another one. i just wrote it to myself. can i get the typing noise at least? today is my 50 birthday. i m not going to read this. come on, you wrote it. i m thinking of quitting all this and becoming a soccer player. am i normal or nuts? normal. that s normal? normal because you at 50 are like another man at 22. why not? hit the field. i like this guy. i think i might satisfy your deductible. i d buy my tickets right now to see that. go to the revolution to see me weekly. i think he was wrong on two of them. you think he was wrong? dr. keith, thank you very much. thank you. take care. happy birthday. thanks. coming up straight ahead. should high school be handing out homework with graphic references to sex? that father questioned it and he got arrested. are you kidding me? no. it really happened. what happens when moms take a night off leaving dads in charge? it s the topic of the new movie and it s christian [ male announc ] your eyes. even at a distance of 10 mis. the length 146 football fields. they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are amazing. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins with lutein and vitamins a, c, and e to support healthy eyes and packed with key nutrients to support your heart and brain, too. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. cen rum silver. 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swimming skills. the zoo wants to make sure it is safe to transfer them to a public viewing area, which contains a pool of water. and more room for them to roam. they all passed with flying colors. therefore, they re going to have a pool in their backyard. come see them. pool party coming in june. how fun. as we mentioned earlier today is brian she phone right , say hello to your mother. that s right. hey, mom. how are you? i m good. happy birthday, bri. thank you very much. i appreciate it. i know you don t like the channel, so it s hard for you to flip over. she never changes the channel. marie, great having you on the program today. it was nice seeing you at brian and dawn s big party a couple weeks ago. elisabeth had the observation earlier that in a lot of brian s childhood pictures, he s crying. she referred to him as crying brian. did he do a lot of crying as a kid? there he s crying right there. only when we took his picture. right. even when he received communion, he didn t cry. he just wouldn t smile. yeah. i refused to take pictures. i didn t like the paparrazzi even back then. it was before tmz, but i had a sense it was coming. now you like it photo bomb everyone else. come a long way. so mom, thanks for giving birth to me. i appreciate it. really enjoyed these years and thanks for taking pictures. what picture is this year? i think i m five. brian, brian. there they are. i understand one of your favorite pictures is of your three sons in their pajamas, right? i know. everybody said i always took pictures of them in their pajamas. it s so cute. i didn t think it would be on international television. i thought we would hand them to our aunts and uncles. all your kids wearing pajamas, i hope you went to the drive-in, cause that s what we would do. cause the kids would fall asleep in the car. we went to the drive-in and it was the story about sharks who ate people. no wonder you were always crying. mom, what do you think about elisabeth? i love elisabeth. okay. don t yell at me. i just asked you a question. you raised a great guy here for sure. i think birthdays are sentimental for moms. we get mushy on the birthday of our kids. i am very mushy. especially with him. brian has been all these years, brian has been an incredible rewarding journey me. he s been wonderful son and a special person as well. i m not prejudiced. now you re going to make jimmy and steven feel bad. so say something nice about them. i don t need to hear oh, he s your favorite. she didn t say that. i didn t get to the other two yet. you got to call back august 3 and august 9. we got to have them on. brian, you have a very happy birthday and many happy things. thank you. thanks, mom. let s keep in touch. okay. i love you. i love you, too. and i ll see you a little later. okay. we all love you, mom. i am the son that can t fix anything, so she calls me just she knows i feel bad about that. when the light bulbs go out, she calls me. she literally leaves the light bulbs so i can change them so i don t feel bad. that was not my mom. that was an actress, but still, a lovely woman. i don t know what to believe coming out of your mouth anymore, kilmeade. all right. you should believe this, the news. we turn to heather nauert. she s such a lovely lady. good morning to you all. news to bring you. this morning police in california are trying to determine if that teen-ager should be charged with a crime. this comes as newly released surveillance video shows the moment the 15-year-old climbed out of the wheel well of that 767 whether it landed in hawaii. no one still knows how the boy managed to survive that five-hour flight in temperatures 80 degrees below zero. unbelievable. condoleeza rice is getting an offer this morning to speak at texas tech university after she turned down an invitation at rutgers university amid all those protests there. the chancellor of texas tech was on our show earlier and he says it shouldn t be about politics. it should be about the person s credentials. listen. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. rice is said to be considering that offer. we ll keep watching that story for you. the house of representatives is now inching closer to charging former irs official lois lerner with contempt charges. there is a meeting to consider that today. the way this looks, you know, it looks so political. a political process, pure and simple. aimed at trying to appeal to the red meat, throwing red meat to the political base. the facts don t seem to matter. nobody can find a scarier organization, i think, at least one without guns, than the irs. there could be a house vote today or tomorrow. we ll watch that story as well. here is a story that we re hearing a lot from you about. a father shows up at a school board meeting to express his concerns about a very risque novel his daughter was required to read, who is 14. watch what happens at the school board meeting. what are you charging me with? disorderly conduct. disorderly conduct. okay. so what happened here? you see him there, he went over the two minutes that he was allowed to address the school board in new hampshire and he was arrested. the book in question is called 19 minutes. it has what s described as a, well, pretty rough teen sex scene. reads like a transcript for a triple x porno movie. we had no notice of it whatsoever. no written notice, nothing. okay. so what happens now? school officials say they plan to update their policies. but instead of allowing parents to opt out of their children reading this controversial material, parents will be forced to sign off on them. so basically no real change. the kids still have to read the stuff. more on that, let s bring in sean astin. he plays a dad in the movie moms night out and in real life you have three children. i have try daughters. you ve done everything. everything. what about that story, the guy goes past his two minute limit and they arrest him. you didn t show what he was like in that room, so i m not sure about that. but the solution that the school came up with seemed reasonable. what would you do if that raiding was forced on your kids? i prepare my kid for anything going into it. no matter what they throw at her, i m there to support her. but i like the idea that parents have to sign off on questionable material. how do you feel about, with you, cable, you have young kids, growing up, did you watch anything on line or watch anything you you want? we talked a little bit about it. but one thing is the kids are pretty self regulating. if there is something scary, they don t wants to watch it. or political, they don t wants to watch it, or news. that said, my feeling is i m very liberal about what they watch as long as they know that i m going to talk to them and we have to communicate for a long time afterward until i m sure that they put things in the right place. my wife is very protective. she insulates them from a lot of stuff. it s like america. kind of a grab bag. your wife in the movie needs a night out. yeah. i m thankful for this because it sort of gets into the complexity and funny moments of moms have. they got to get away and the dads left to watch the kids. how did that go? you know what? this story is just kind of an unabashed look at life in america with christian families. sarah drew, who plays the mom, is gorgeous. she s in gray s annot knee. she s having a moment where she needs support. my character, you got to find something to do. you ve got to go out with your friends. and then, of course, me and the other dads get left with the awesome responsibilities of finding some ways to keep our children safe and entertain them. which is challenging. absolutely. when people see you on the street, you walked in, i said hi, rudy. but a lot of people say hey, goonies. when are they going to make a sequel? the director made some comment about how it was happening. if it is happening, it will be nice to know about it. this is the first you ve heard about it? yeah. right here. do you have anything else to tell me? i m ready to negotiate your deal. how about this? rudy goes pro and we put you on the vikings. why the vikings of all teams? this is mother s day weekend. my wife, we re doing whatever we can to figure out how to give my wife, our mom, something beautiful to do. taking your kids and your family to see moms night out is a lovely thing to do. it s a sweet, fun, family film. people are saying we wish there was a film that reflects our values. this does. we find it everywhere? yeah. 1100 screens. it s big. it s wide! america, go see this! for kids as well? dads will like it. it s a ready made thing. dads will like this because they ll see, you see what you re like? moms will see, you don t understand. they ll say, that s sean astin, he s great in everything. happy birthday. thank you very much. thank you. we ll be watching. coming up. a fox news alert. the u.s. jumping into the search for hundreds of kidnapped girls. we are live from the white house with the brand-new details on that. guy fieri is here. find out what he s cooking up and if sean wants a bite. delicious. starts with back pain. .and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. .for all day relief. start your engines in front of our house again. it s a free country dad. our house. our spot. those are the rules. ok who wants sweet rolls? i do! me too! are those king s hawaiian rolls? thanks, carol! people go pupule for the sweet, fluffy deliciousness of king s hawaiian. find us in the deli or in-store bakery. is levy using our clippers? fox news alert. american military and police are joining an international manhunt for the leader of a nigerian terrorist group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 girls. molly henneberg is live at the white house with the latest. we re in now? reporter: we are in. good morning, brian, steve, and allegation. president obama has adequate in media interviews he can only imagine what these parents of the abducted girls are going through. nearly 300 of them taken from their schools, teenage girls taken from their school on april 15 by an islamic extremist group. now that nigeria has agreed to accept help, president obama says the u.s. will do, quote, everything we can. we ve already sent in a team to nigeria. they ve accepted our help, a combination of military, law enforcement, and other agencies who are going in trying to identify where, in fact, these girls might be and to provide them help. reporter: haram is the group that says it took the girls and translated, that means, quote, western education is sinful. their leader says allah told him to sell the girls. while the white house says the u.s. has sent military advisors to nigeria, there is no plan to send combat troops. we re not considering at this point military resources. we would urge nigeria to insure that any operation to free the girls would protect civilians and human rights. reporter: as far as any f.b.i. resources being sent to nigeria, that s still being sorted out. a senior federal law enforcement source says the elite hostage rescue team has not been sent to nigeria at this point. brian? i know the british are helping out as well. hopefully we ll find some answers. thanks a lot. we ll talk to you again. on a much lighter note, guess who is here. guy fieri, one of the most famous faces in grill something here. first let s check in with another famous face, martha mccallum for what s going on on her show at the top of the hour. hemmer pretends like he has pull. but you make all the decisions. nicely done. happy birthday. thank you. we re going to hear from john boehner this morning and we expect new details on the make-up of the select committee to investigate benghazi. who and when. those are the big questions there. also we expect he s going to talk about the vote to hold lois lerner in contempt, discussion and vote on that expected shortly on the irs scandal. lot of big news. and which way does the monica lewinsky story really cut these days? bill and i will see you at the top of the hour. fancy feast elegant medleys. inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. a medley of love, served daily. he s the ultimate culinary rock star and his new book will get you ready for summer with the best grilling recipes. and here he is right now, the guy on fire, the host of diners, driver-ins and dives. it s cold out here! you are warming up, guy. this is fine for me. i m from northern california. i know a little bit of chilly. grilling time. what is the number one thing people screw up? pork chops. why? they overcook them. and they don t treat them right the first time. let s talk about the first thing which is called a brine. warm waters, sugar, peppercorn, thyme, chile flake. pour it in. this brine. this is a double cut chop. we re good on the sugar. it s equal parts of salt and sugar. we drop these chops in and what we ll let them do is sit in the brine from two to eight hours. just depends on the thickness. plan ahead. exactly. when they come out of the brine, what s going to happen is we re going to make a little pocket on the inside of this chop. remember the trick with the banana when you were a kid where you put it inside the banana? and then unpeel it and it was cut in half? this is the same thing here. we if in with the knife. we cut inside this chop just with a small incision. after you take it out of the brine? exactly. now we re ready to stuff. now i got peppers and onions. we re going to mix that in right here with some provolone. give it a little stir. brian is having a pork chop birthday. we do this osmosis. now we grab this mixture of peppers, onions, proscitto. we got this all stuffed. we take it over to the grill. here is the key. let s make sure that when we take it to the girl it doesn t spill out. look at her go. i can just take off now. you got this. this recipe here is the idea. we re grilling it on both sides and then what happens, right when we gets done? we ll set it over here, let it rest for a little bit and we re done. i know you re the pro. who do we have here? you re going to pull me away from this? 30 seconds. french toast. everybody loves it. the key to great french toast, we have a mixture of eggs and cream and little bit of vanilla and cinnamon. the key is when you get done with the french toast, brown sugar, butter, chopped apple the, calvadose. wait a second. let s do this right. right over the top. top that french toast. we have the recipes. this is inspired by my kids. we have a little whip cream on top. go gets his book. guy on fire. go to his house. he has good food. more fox & friends in just a moment. new car! hey! 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of our traditions. does president obama owe netanyahu an apology after someone in the administration called him a chicken bleep. head to our facebook page. use #keep talking. fox and friends starts right now. hi everyone and good morning. today is thursday, 30th of october, 2014. it s a word so bad we can t even say it on television but forget an apology from the white house for insulting our only ally in the middle east. they don t even want to investigate who said it. you have gone after reporters again and again in this administration and then when it comes to insulting the prime minister you don t seem to care who leaked it. maybe they don t care because they already know. we ll tell you what we know this morning and you can decide. what would our attorney general eric holder s biggest regret be? i think about the subpoena to the fox reporter, rosen. well, this morning the fox reporter rosen responds to that stunning admission by our top law officer. can t wait to meet that rosen guy. and the husband of a democratic candidate caught red handed. those aren t your signs. there s no there s no what. there s no name on this sign. yes there are. right here. property of the republican party. the rest of that tape and the name on those signs straight ahead because mornings are better with friends. unless you re that guy. hey, you re watching fox and friends. bam! boom! welcome aboard folks live in studio e. it s fox and friends. we got anna with us. good morning everybody. glad to have you. we have enough enemies in this world. it s amazing how we re talking about our friends. you would think we would save verbiage like this for our enemies. according to a senior obama administration benjamin netanyahu is chicken blank. you talk about tensions between our best ally maybe on the planet but in the middle east where does that come from? it s so extraordinary that that sort of talk goes on at the white house and you have to wonder who exactly said that. the white house couldn t possibly like that unless they feel like that. jen had an exchange at the department of state with a reporter about you are going to apologize aren t you. you don t feel a need for an apology because this was said by an anonymous official rather than let s say the vice president saying something about turkey or saudi arabia in which he makes a phone call to apologize for. well, obviously every circumstance is different. i have been clear and the secretary will be clear when he speaks to netanyahu next that that doesn t represent our views. she says it would be a waste of time to figure out who said this and to apologize. it doesn t make any sense. the other piece that struck me from the piece by goldberg was the biggest frustration and the biggest person the white house is frustrated with is benjamin netanyahu. it s not kim jong un or vladimir putin. how do they spin it? you spat with the people that you love the most. i think that it s very clear to everyone that the united states and israel are key allies. they are, you know, bond together in the middle east and so the frustration i think you re sensing steve is why isn t the administration more angry at the north koreans or the russias et cetera, but it s when you have a close friend or a husband or lover that you re frustrated with them that you see this kind of out cry. i get it and that s fine if you didn t read the last article but they go into detail about all the problems we have with our loved one. he s a small timer that s the pay your of jerusalem that doesn t have the guts to bomb iran even though we begged him not to a couple of years ago. the part about that is the juicy part. we talked netanyahu out of taking out iran. he followed our orders and now he s a chicken bleep? clearly the administration knows who said this. in fact, there s a real good possibility that our president said this about mr. netanyahu. i mean, come on if my lover called me a chicken you know what, that would be the last time in the barnyard. i ll tell you that right now. but are we showing our true colors about how we feel about benjamin netanyahu in israel. remember this in 2008. he said i cannot bear netanyahu he s a liar and obama said you re fed up with him but i have to deal with him more often than you. there s a lot of ways you can describe benjamin netanyahu but as a guy that s chicken or not aggressive or a coward, did you see what just happened over the last six months. have you seen in the past what he has done? he s cracking down almost too hard. i thought that s why the world was so upset with him. they re not going to apologize and the white house does know who said it but what is interesting is if they were upset they would go after the leaker. they would try to figure out who exactly leaked that to the atlantic. we re going to talk a little bit shortly about how eric holder was asked about some regrets but ed henry is also talking about the whole thing of aren t you going to try to get to the bottom of this and he too, not very curious. look. why then are you kind of fluffing off this idea that you kind of don t care who leaked that story that not might have but insulted the prime minister of israel. you have gone after reporters again and again in this administration to find out who leaked information to them and when it comes to insulting the prime minister you don t seem to care who leaked it. again i don t think that s an accurate reflection of the administration s policy. it s not an accurate reflection of our views. hasn t this department gone after all series of reporters. no, and they have put in measures to ensure that journalists in this country are able to do their job. so you don t seem curious because that s not how we feel however one thing is clear the defense minister came to this country to meet with our secretary of state and he was not able to get an appointment. i guess secretary of state kerry was all booked up. one of the reporters they re talking about are james rosen. turns out holder regrets that subpoena and here s how james rosen responds to all of this. the attorney general s latest comments about my case like his previous remarks scarcely address the relevant facts of his conduct. in this case they don t have to go after the reporter because they know who said it to the reporter probably and they probably feel like that anyway. the thing that eric holder did say though i think i could have been a little more careful looking at the language in the filing regarding james rosen and when you take a look at what was in the language the fbi claimed that rosen had perhaps opened the law. he was either an aider or abettor or coconspiritor and they grabbed his e-mail a couple of years after and suddenly people are saying you can t do that. unfortunately during this administration, not so much. we just want journalists to be able to do their jobs. how about when you start going after their parents. remember that? james s parents in staten island. yeah, they have always been a problem in this country. yes eric holder. a lot of people have been complaining about his parents. it s good they cracked down on them from the white house. it s good he has regrets. i don t have regrets tossing it over. i have a show down to tell you about taking place in maine this hour. police troopers in front of her house. we re talking about the nurse that treated ebola patients in west africa. she is now thumbing her nose at officials there that want her quarentineed. her civil rights are being violated since she tested negative for the disease. she defied that by stepping outside of her home to speak to officials. state officials are looking to get a court order to force her to stay inside. while you were sleeping the husband of a democratic state senator was wide awake at this hour that he was busted stealing republican campaign signs at 4:00 in the morning. police are releasing an arrest warrant. those aren t your signs bud. there s no there s no what. there is no name on these signs. yes they are. look right here. property of the republican party. we got you brother. we got your license plate, your face and everything. oh my gosh. what is it high school or something? 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so if you think that inciting these people is a good idea i m going to pull the plug on you. when you report the news, when you report the reality the people in charge want to shut you down. he didn t let up did he? this morning even more fall out. oh, boy. hi everybody. 23 minute afs the hour. stories making headlines at this hour your tax dollars paying for the health care of foreign diplomats. it s legal thanks to an obamacare loophole. according to health and human services if diplomats have the right visa they are eligible and russian jets and bombers spotted where they re not supposed to be across europe. what they re calling unusual incidents. u.s. officials believe it s just a show of power by putin. all right, they re responsible for some of the greatest military achievements in our history but overseas they face challenges at home like transitioning to regular civilian life. scott news helped raise more than $1 million for these heros. they face the very same transition for himself. scott, so glad you re up early. i knew that wouldn t be an issue. first off for people outside that associate with green berets the movies, what do you do? we specialize in unconventional warfare. we go into places behind the scenes and create stability and defense and diplomacy. you go to the eye of the storm. so out of the entire army, 1% get to be green berets and it takes two years to train you guys. it does. there s 6500 green berets and we re around the world doing the country s business. if you have a job that that s intense and rewarding that shows immediate gratification especially fighting for a country how could you possibly match that in the civilian world. when you re home you re just like everybody else. you still have the skills. we were all selected for a reason. we re can do. we re positive thinkers. we can go into situations and sort them out. those are the kind of people that american businesses would love to have. i agree with you but do you realize that when you come home? how do we transition you from the face paint world to our world? we have a process called the next bridge line. we have green beret and business mentors that take you and repurpose you and make you adapt to the civilian world just like the combat situation. so you get google and say get that linked in profile going. get your resume going. start making contacts. this is how you present yourself and this is what you do. living with insurgence might not be what morgan stanley needs. he was honored at the dinner i was privileged to be at. here s what he said about what you guys do. when president kennedy helped form the green berets they knew they would be needed. the values and principles that make you go into harm s way willingly are great american traits. the people in this room particularly the green berets have my greatest respect because they re prepared to risk everything for an idea and that idea is called america. what do you think? it was a great speech. his wife spoke as well. part of behind the green beret is a great wife and family that supports them as well. we want to participate in america too. we want to come home and be great americans. and some of you getting pink slips in battle right now aren t you? i think so. the draw down in the military. this lust just to come down to a normal size is effecting everybody and we ve had several green beret officers get pink slips in the battlefield. it s so unacceptable it s beyond words. how can we get involved? see us at green beret foundation org. and all the money go to support the green berets and their families. thank you so much. great to see you in person. coming up straight ahead they re in the country illegally and casting ballots at the polls. crash test dummies are packing on pounds. can you believe it? first happy birthday to ivanka trump. she s 33 and so much smarter than me. 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so if you think that inciting these people is a good idea i m going to pull the plug on you. when you report the news. when you report the reality the people in charge want to shut you down. oh, well, that reporter nearly getting shutdown by the festival s organizer as drunken college kids spark the violent riots. police just announcing they have now arrested three more teenagers charging them with reckless conduct. more than 80 were arrested in that all together. and this is the shot of a lifetime times four. nice, a senior at ryan college in tennessee making four straight shots in 30 seconds winning a $10,000 scholarship. the student says he s never even played basketball. no way. that s the best part. all of them looked like they were about to come out but they went in. can you imagine how he would do if he had a lesson. all the kids around him are going give me a dollar. give me a dollar. i didn t know about brian college. meanwhile we ve got the streets of new york city and look at her standing in the dark. that s right. good morning and i ve got my coat on today because it s a lot cooler across part of the northeast and only going to get colder as we head into this weekend. let s start off with today s high temperatures. you re seeing the high temperatures in the 40s and 50s and farther west not bad in texas. highs in the 80s and 70s and across the west coast, california you look good. the high temperature in l.a. forecast to reach 80 degrees. much quiter conditions with a lot of sunshine but we have areas of rain moving in and here s the next storm almost producing areas of rain early this morning. i want to show you your forecast for friday, halloween, we have an area of low pressure exiting the great lakes and moving into the north. with that system we could see area of rain and transitioning over to snow in the areas holding up and that includes the appalachians. otherwise quite conditions expected across the center of the country. thank you very much. well, it s a thriller perfect for this halloween weekend. first, go around. get a shot inside the car. hey, back away. i ve got it. i m back. i m back. will this be on television? morning news. if it bleeds it leads. are you currently hiring. i resent that. night crawler hits theaters tomorrow and stars a top notch cast. good morning, just in time for halloween is this creepy grizzly movie from screen writer director dan gilroy starring renee russo and jake gyllenhall. he goes from crime scene to crime scene every night in l.a. photographing the most horrific accidents and i think this culture actually exists. it does. you were telling me about it earlier in the green room and he went all out for this role. he lost about 30 pounds by eating kale. geled his hair it looks like. jogging every night. about 15 miles a day and eating gum. the critics are raving about his performance. oscar is probably in his future for this role definitely. we caught up with him recently at the red carpet premiere in new york city. to tell us about how he went all out for this role and what his first meal was after he was done dieting. there s movie tough and there s life tough. i don t like to merge the two which is why i try to go all out whenever i make movies. whenever you can know what real pain is then when you re working in a fictional world you can push it pretty far. first meal i had when i was finishing the movie was rosco s chicken and waffles. i had fried chicken and waffles and a ton of maple syrup. delicious. so he s really good. do you like it or no? 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let s talk to the judge. judge, the thing about this woman that freaked people out was when she came to newark airport. they did that scanner thing. she had a 101 reading on that device and later tested negative for ebola but was on her radar. that s why she was released from a tent in the parking lot in the downtown newark. but that s why she was confined to the tent because she had a 101 temperature. accept that s an insufficient basis to confine someone under the law. the presumption of liberty. we re all presumed to be free in america. she does not have to prove that she is not contagious. rather the state has to prove that she is contagious. now she may have some professional obligation consistent with maine haw as a licensed health care professional to comply with professional guidelines but as an american citizen she cannot be confined against her will unless and until a judge decides that, in fact, she is contagious. under the 10th amendment don t states have the right to protect the welfare and safety and health of the people. yes they do. that s the area of the constitution that says all the powers that the states gave the federal government that s all we gave and the rest we retain. traditionally health, safety, wealth or informal ration is retained by the state. but they feel it s within the safety of the state to have her confined. that s subject to everything in the constitution that says you re presumed free. the burden is on the state to show it. if they want to test her blood to see if she s carrying the disease. they can do that against her will but they would still have to demonstrate to a judge with her lawyers there resisting this demonstration that, in fact, she s contagious. she cannot be quarantinedbecausd in africa. she cannot be quarantined because she has a fever or they think or feel she is contagious. the way i remember the 10th amendment, all of that stuff, my daughter the law school student sent me a bunch of stuff regarding this. wait a minute, you went to your daughter to double check my research. no, i wanted to have the counter argument. i m happy to be challenged. my daughter told me if the states want to enforce this they can t be oppressive about it. she is staying in a house so they confine her to that it would be reasonable. what would be oppressive and unreasonable is to confine her without any evidence. confine her just on the basis of where she had been. again, the exception to this is if she agreed as a nurse, licensed in maine, to comply with certain maine-generated guidelines for health care workers and if those guidelines say you should self-quarantine they can do that but they have to prove she is in fact contagious. this is just going to keep going on and on and on. and she s clear. she wants to leave the house today. god bless her. he is written about the legal fall out of ebola at washington times.com. thank you very much. thank you. what do you think about the nurse? is she being selfish or just defending her rights? e-mail us and send us a message on facebook or twitter and we ll read them in about ten minutes. coming up the new breed of terrorists destroying banks, and putting american lives in danger. we re talking about a cyberattack. what you need to know coming up. and this is the real way to get out the vote. your vote is your voice. usa. let s hear it. usa. where you from. cosmo magazine teaming up with one of the nation s biggest colleges to bring these guys to campus on election day to get people to vote. for what? a person named osama bin laden. the leader of al qaeda. sweet, spicy, savory! red lobster s endless shrimp ends soon! the year s largest variety. like new spicy siriacha shrimp, or parmesan shrimp scampi. as much as you like, any way you like. but it won t last long, so hurry in today. and sea food differently. a new breed of terror could pose the biggest threat the united states has ever seen. it s called cyber terror and an attack would wreak havoc on banks, expose classified government information and put american lives in danger. so are we prepared here at home? here to explain is kurt the cyber guy. good morning. good to see you. we re not prepared. and i think this country should be very concerned about the level of cyber security and how firm our borders as it relates to i think we talk about isis and the fear that they actually have an attack op u.s. soil, set that aside because the bigger threat is a cyber attack from anywhere in the world back on u.s. soil. let me talk about one example that is already happened. we turned a blind eye to it. but we need o wake up to this. the office of homeland security has a contractor that in august admitted to the fact that they had been hacked. this is the company, the defense contractor that is responsible for vetting every one of the government employees who work for the office of homeland security, especially those officers and border protection, the officers at tsa officers, and 20,000 records of these people, including their home address, their families names, their past history is out on the open. all exposed? what do we do? we see that and go that s just terrible. but let s do the math here. you re a mexican drug lord making billions of dollars trafficking drugs around the world and your biggest problem has been getting across the border in the southern part of the u.s. across texas. well, what would you pay as a mexican drug lord how many millions of dollars would you pay for access to those agents personal details? if i were up with of those agents, i would feel betrayed by the u.s. government at this very moment, especially by this contractor and it s just sloppy and must stop. the next idea you have for us is hackers wanting to gain control of banks. is this something that is happening jpmorgan chase is the big one we talked about so far the last couple of months. they ve already spent now $3 billion towards security. then they ve learned their lesson so far, but they re not remotely there in terms of sealing up the u.s. financial system. so we ve talked about our dangers of hacking into banks. well, imagine the fact that now banks here is a type of scenario that s absolutely real. hackers are quiet and they have been inside of systems for not just weeks, but many times months. it gives them a chance to understand the systems so that they can get in and do an attack. now, one group of hackers may say, we re just out for money. another group could actually have ill intentions for not just the u.s. economy, but the global economy. let me tell you the scenario, cause this is very real. a group of hackers right now could do one attack where they simply go in and control the trading of any one bank, moving billions of dollars in a matter of a few minutes before it triggers and it stops it. you ve now caused some serious concern. simultaneously, they do what s called a denial of service attack on the bank s web sites and also at the atm level, they can just have those disabled for a certain period of time before the bank can catch up with that. that could create like a run on the bank? what it can create is let s say we go down to the atm, it s not working, so we go in to the bank and they re like, our systems are down. we trio log on to the web site and that s down. you go, wait a second. where is my money? you ve got great information there. just go to the cyberguy.com. thanks so much. thank you. coming up, governor mike huckabee rallied you to stand up to the houston mayor bullying pastors to turn over their sermons. this morning a huge update and the governor is here live to tell you about it. the what are you doing? dish issues? . . get cascade complete. one pac cleans better than six pacs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. now that s clean. 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we ll tell what you we know. and forget everything you ve ever heard. this is the real way to get out the vote. your vote is your voice usa u-s-a where you from i think one of them is tim tebow. cosmo teaming up with one of the nation s biggest colleges to bring these guys to campus on election day. we ll expand on that story because mornings are better with friends. i m ivanka trump and you re watching fox & friends, the best show on news television. thank you very much. today is her birthday. happy birthday. i know she s watching. what do you get ivanka trump? a building? something gold. a gold building. yeah. with trump on the front. happy birthday to her. we got some big news this morning. at this hour, showdown is brewing between the state of maine and that nurse who treated ebola patients in west africa. nurse hickox refuse to go self quarantine and health officials in maine are promising legal action. you re not going to believe this. doug luzader has got it and he s why hickox is getting a lot of support from the white house. but not a lot of support elsewhere, doug. reporter: good morning. a lot of anger in the public about her response to this. casey hickox says she s being bullied by politician, that there is no scientific reason to keep her quarantined. it looks like she may try to violate that quarantine and launch a legal battle in the process. here is what she s now saying: i m not willing to stand here, she says, and let my civil rights be violated when it s not science based. state officials, though, may now seek a court order to force her to stay inside her home to run out the clock on ebola s 21-day incubation period. we have been trying to work cooperatively with her. there are concerns about the lack of reliability and the lack of trustworthiness and the information that has been received. reporter: while hickox has received a great deal of criticism for her unwillingness to quarantine, president obama has largely agreed with her sentiment, saying returning healthcare workers should not automatically face a quarantine. we need to call them what they are, which is american heros. they deserve our gratitude and they deserve to be treated with dignity and with respect. but at the same time, there is a discrepancy here because you have the pentagon and this new policy that requires all service members returning from west africa to observe a 21-day quarantine just in case. the white house, meantime, says that the country s new ebola czar, ron klain, a guy we really haven t heard from up to this point, and he s going to the cdc in atlanta today to talk about the nation s response to ebola. back to you guys. thank you very much. the military and also the white house is saying the people in the military, they re not volunteers, so they re going to have to do the quarantine. wait a minute. they are volunteers. we ve got a volunteer army for decades. we certainly do. when the president said they should be treated like hero, of course they should. they have these huge hearts, amazing healthcare workers going over there. but when they come back, they continue to sacrifice and stay quarantined for three weeks. they ve made a big sacrifice. can we extend it a little bit long tore keep the american people safe? judge napolitano is here and believe it or not, he thinks she has a case in saying her freedom her right to be free has been violated. you re presumed free. again, the burden is on the state to show it. look, if they want to test her blood to see if she s carrying this disease, they can do that against her will. but they would still have to demonstrate to a judge with her lawyers there resisting this demonstration that in fact she s contagious. she can not be quarantined just because she s a nurse and worked in western africa. she can not be quarantined because she has a fever. she can not be quarantined because they think or fore she s contagious. she can only be quarantined against her will if she is contagious. the doctor in new york that was running all over t when he landed october 12, he was fine. then he got ebola the next week. i hope she s fine and i hope next week she s fine. but what is wrong with showing us the same compassion and interest that she showed the people of africa? why not be responsible? seven out of ten respondents in this abc poll said she should be restricted to home quarantine for 21 days. our own military says and families want that had to happen. our army did it. so why is that good enough for them? they re not complaining. why is the president going to bat for her? we ve had other lawyers on the channel since the story broke saying the opposite of what the judge is saying, that the state has an obligation to keep its residents safe. sure. a lot of our viewers on facebook are saying some of the same things. sherry was typing a while ago and said she, the nurse, has the right to refuse, but has the responsibility to comply. an e-mail, laura says, i applaud the compassion she shows for sick people around the world. i firmly believe she should show that same level of concern for her fellow countrymen and stay home for the remaining 21 days. john tweets, why is she better than the family in texas that were under mandated quarantine? excellent point. and the judge brought this up. doesn t she have a professional obligation? she could be wrong. the test could be wrong. why not just sit there? there are people in maine who are freaking out about this. there are a bunch of people, i was reading the local people up there who said we ve given up surgery. we re going to have elective surgery. we re not going to have it because she might have been there. she wasn t there. there is no evidence that there is any ebola up there, but that s one of the reasons why this panic that has set in with some in maine is why the state is saying that if she leaves, we re going to arrest her. the president brings up fear. it s not fear, it s being responsible and smart. heather nauert is here and she s going to have more news, including what s going on with gitmo. this is quite a story. no surprise here. a fox news alert, former gitmo detainees reportedly back on the battlefield fighting for isis in syria. just moments ago, sources confirming to fox & friends that dozens of detainees who were released within the last two to three years may have joined the terror network. sources say of the 620 detainees that have been released from gitmo, 180 of them have returned to the fight all around the globe. in colorado, he was sick of football and wanted to take a walk. that s the missing bronco fan s reason for vanishing from the stadium last week, leaving his son behind and searching for him. police found paul kiterman nearly a week later and 100 miles away. he says he just wanted to go somewhere warmer and started hitchhiking. friends believe he may have some sort of mental breakdown. glad he is safe this morning. the giants win the world series for the third time in just five seasons. 2-2. popped up. sandoval! wow. the final score 3-2. is that an enormous celebration or what? thousands packing the streets of san francisco to celebrate that win. then while you were sleeping, the husband of the democratic state senator was wide awake and he was caught on camera as he stole republican campaign signs at 4 in the morning. check this out. those aren t your sign, bud. there is no there is mo what? there is no name on these signs. yes, they are. look right here. property of the republican party. we got you, brother. we got your license plate, your face and everything. what a dopey idea! it s like a high school election or something. happens all the time, okay. strange. police issuing an arrest warrant for dana long, the husband of delaware state senator bethany hall long. he faces a year in prison and a $2,300 fine. unbelievable. caught red handed. did he think it would make a difference in an election? it s the kind of thing where you re so down and out and so emotional about it, i guess you start doing silly things. perhaps. caught red handed. let s take you out to chicago. democrat there, apparently what leslie did was, they offered followers on facebook she that, is to say the opportunity, if you go vote and we don t care who you vote for, we ll give you a gift card either for wall green, starbucks or pot belly, stuff like that. that s vote buying. free sandwiches sandwiches a. the board of elections said this is not okay. she s since apologized and said it was well-intentioned. still illegal. i remember in eighth grade the guy running for president was offering a bazooka gum and he was kicked out. he s not president today. in illinois, something else happened that s kind of interesting, too. they re aware see this video now of people actually voting for one candidate and the other candidate gets voted for. they re trying to vote for the republican. watch this. and it pops up the other name. people have complained about this in the past and now we re witnessing it. this one guy said he voted in moline on october 27 and saw the problems on the news, but then shocked it happened to him. some people who watch this on youtube think his fingernail is accidentally touching it. both those stories are in the great state of illinois, which the president reminded people about a couple days ago. one week from today you get to choose a new governor. and because early voting runs through this friday you don t have to wait until election day. you can vote all week! i mean, you can only vote once. this isn t chicago now. that s funny. fantastic. also, la raza, the hispanic amnesty group, what they did was on their web site, they linked to a washington post story that showed people where you can vote, which of the 50 states you can vote in without an i.d. because the courts are struggling with it. evidently you need i.d. to do everything in this country, including to get in this building or to fly on a plane, but the big debate is, are you racist if you demand i.d. from everyone? while that s locked up in the courts, there is directions on where to go to show up without i.d. is the washington post promoting voter fraud or just doing a public service? 20 states don t require i.d. they put it out there, but this immigration group tweeted it and then la raza retweeted it and it wasn t just nonpartisan. it had the hash tag to turn out the democrat hash tag. on this thursday, you answered governor mike huckabee s rallying cry. you saw it here. send her your sermons. and here is another thought, everybody watching the show ought to send her a bible. now houston s mayor with her demand to get pastors sermon, but he s not done. that groom s grand gesture is about to go really, really wrong. we promise you ll want to see what happened. i do. when the game s on the line. okay patrick, let s go base, shark, blitz. the nfl trusts duracell quantum to their game day communication. abort! abort! he s keeping it. duracell quantum. lasts up to 35% longer than the competition. big day? 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(laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. i hait s tough, but severi ve managed.ease. but managing my symptoms was all i was doing. so when i finally told my doctor, 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. after much contemplation and discussion, i am directing the city legal department to withdraw the subpoenas issued to the five houston pastors. the mayor of houston back off her controversial bid to subpoena pastors sermons. tear no coincidence that americans answered a call from governor huckabee to send her their sermons and their bibles. and joining us right now from santa rosa beach down in florida is the governor himself. good morning to you, mike. good morning. we were talking about this case a week or so ago where because she is trying to defend houston s equal rights ordinance, she was asking for all the sermons from all the pastors and anything that regarded her as well. there is this little thing, the separation between church and state we hear about all the time and religious liberty and we talked about it and you were furious. i was, steve. i ll tell you why, because government has no business demanding of pastors that they cough up their sermons or their correspondence with church members to satisfy some government official who is unhappy and upset because somebody dared challenge the way that she heavy handedly stopped an election. a lot of people don t seem to understand, this is about the mayor overruling the city clerk who had certified the petitions and said there was going to be an election to overturn this transgender ordinance and the mayor just decided, no, we re not going to have an election. i ll just say that those signatures weren t valid. this is an outrage. it s the kind of thing that ought to scare the daylights out of people all over the country, not just houston. part of the equal rights ordinance would have allowed 40-year-old men to share restrooms with a fourth grade girl which didn t make a lot of sense. the pastors stood up for it. you feel like the mayor isn t going far enough. you d like a personal apology. i think she not only needs to issue an apology, but she needs to declare that there will be an election, that the people have a right to vote on it. if they lose the election, that s one thing. but for her to arbitrarily decide that she is going to overrule the city clerk, anna russell, who has been in office for 42 years, and decide that what she certified is not right and the mayor and the city attorney decide arbitrarily that they re going to say there won t be an election? this is really at the very heart of america. we have a right to vote. we have a right to have our views held. i think this mayor is on quicksand, not on solid rock constitutionally. she knows it, but it s not enough for her to say she s withdrawing the subpoenas. that s just a small part of the outrageous behavior that she has done in trampling over the religious liberty and constitutional rights of really all the citizens of houston. not just these pastors. governor, we re out of time. but you ve already made a difference. let s see if you get that apology. i wouldn t be surprised if you get it before the day is done. thanks for getting up with us and good luck over the weekend. great to be with you. next on our show, cosmo magazine using these guys to get college girls to vote, but only if it s a democratic vote. we love women, suffrage and amendment 15. now we got the power to choose know what i mean your vote is your voice your vote is your voice u-s-a u-s-a why do people count on sunsweet amazin prune juice to stay fit on the inside? it s made only from prunes, nothing else. it works, simple as that. it s a natural source of fiber and five essential vitamins. it s the smart choice for me. try sunsweet amazin prune juice. also available in light. 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you got to protect the bride. i m going to stick up for the groom and say it was all the tulle under her dress. very kissinger like. see you later. it s now time for weather with maria molina. good morning. at least they went down together, right? yeah. but only one person felt the pain and it was the woman in white. hopefully that cushion did work out well for her. let s look at the weather map. we do have some cooler air moving into portion of the great lakes and the northeast. highs widespread in the 50s and 40s. across the plains, not bad. temperatures in the 80s and 70s across texas and parts of oklahoma. as far as rain goes, a very quiet day across parts of the east coast. we have a system move through. those showers are offshore. so we are expecting a lot of sunshine out there. across the pacific northwest, continuing to see that rain impacting washington state and oregon state as well. otherwise many of you wondering about the weather conditions for tomorrow. halloween, rain forecast across areas in the great lakes interior northeast and down through tennessee and some of those areas could see the rain transition over to snow because of the colder air moving in as well. let s head back inside. thank you. you remember watching tia and her twin sister face the struggles of adolescents and sibling rivalry on sister, sister. today tia is married and raising a family of her own and starring in the season of instant mom. i called my teacher miss dufus. erin! do you think she knows you got that from me? how dumb do you think she is? joining us right now is tia. congratulations also as a mom. how are you feeling? i am feeling amazing. my son is the joy of my life. he s three years old now. on the picture you saw there, he was only nine weeks. so he s in the best stage. i absolutely love him being three years right now. you don t leave him alone at this age and fly to do our show. that s the hard part. so your son is three. when he gets to be this old, how close do you think your motherhood personality will be to the personality you play on instant mom ? what s really cool is my personality on instant mom is very close to my personality in real life. she s fun. she s sassy. she s a mom. but she s also extremely fashionable. but i am learning a lot from playing a mom on television. studying the role. yeah, i am. the idea of instant mom would appeal to some people. you don t have to carry a baby for nine months. i don t. in your case, instant stepmom. exactly. i was a party girl before i ended up marrying the character. the guy with the kid. yeah. so she was a fish out of water, but now she s learning how to be a mom and she s enjoying every step of the way. it s still new to her, but she s getting better at being a mom. all right. and tell us now about moms and dads are worried about halloween coming up, right? yeah. halloween right now, it s a time where teachers and parents are talking about child safety. of course. think about the concept. hi, stranger, can i have some candy that you may or may not have bought yourself? i m here bringing awareness and visibility to the national center for missing and exploited children and what they re doing about this special program such as kid smart. it s a program that helps just teach kids about child safety. it s a fun, cool way of teaching kids about how to be safe on halloween. where do we start? you can go to kidsmart org.com and it s a cool tool kit that you can download that teachers can download to help encourage and empower kids about their safety. check first, make sure you re trick or treating with a friend and mom. say no and find help. what scenario is that? sorry. say no and find help. yes. there are four safety rules that this organization or this program is teaching the kids how to be safe. how to be kid smart. yeah. tia, thank you very much for stopping by. thank you. coming up on this show in the 20s minutes we have left in this hour, this is video of f.b.i. agents pretending to be cable guys. they cut the service to these rooms with suspected criminals inside. is that legal or entrapment? peter johnson, jr. next. then from a mobster in one of the country s most notorious crime families to finding god. ex-colombo captain is going to explain that next happy thursday. stories making headlines at this hour, new tensions are brewing after nato intercepts 19 russian jets where they weren t supposed to be. flying over europe. nato adds they are putting commercial flights at risk. and your tax dollars paying for the health care of foreign diplomats? it s legal thanks to an obamacare loophole. if diplomats have the right visa, they are eligible. steve? thank you. it is one of hollywood s most iconic undercover stings. keep watching. this town, your luck can change just that quick. that s such a good movie. this new video, no scene from a movie. watch as f.b.i. agents in las vegas trick their way into three luxury villas at caesar s palace gathering evidence to bust an illegal sports betting republican. was any of that stuff legal? joining us right now is senior judicial analyst, peter johnson, jr. i think that s the judge. but i think i m the senior legal analyst, but good morning. is it legal? that s a huge, huge question and the people who are arrested, part of this international gambleing prostitution ring, says the government broke the law by sneaking in to the caesar s palace villa to get evidence about an illegal gambling ring. what they did was, caesar s palace shut down the internet connection. these folks allegedly said, we need computers. we need equipment. we need one lines, we need the internet. if you re in a hotel and ask for that stuff, that s a red flag. $25,000 a night villas, so they re entitled to that stuff. so then caesar s palace says gaming commission, hey, f.b.i., we think there is something going on. these people are competing with us at caesar s palace. let s shut this down. so the f.b.i. and the gaming commission go in making believe that they re internet repair people from the hotel and based on that, go get a search warrant. when they got the search warrant, they didn t tell the judge that they had snuck in there in order to allegedly repair it. they need to repair it because they re the folks that broke it. so the federal government is saying no. we had consent to go in. we had consent to go in because it was a ruse. people are saying this is a violation of the fourth amendment. what do you think? fell the truth to the judge. they should have said to the judge, this is what happened. this is how we found out. this is what we do. but the problem is, the problem is the federal judge said that s all nice and good, but i m not giving you a search warrant. that s the problem in america. that s when they dressed up illegal ring, we don t want illegal rings. shut them down. but you can do it under the law. here is what one of the defense attorneys said, quote, if this court recognizes this due policity, the government will be free to employ schemes to enter the houses of innocent people. they will have no i think they screwed up. i don t think that s the norm of the f.b.i. or gaming commission. unfortunately we re seeing stuff like this around the country. the seattle times ap, there is an issue there with regard to using malware, or spyware. that s where stuff is sent to your computer when you click on. they can find out what your accounts and what you re doing. apparently they did that to catch a bomb threat suspect in the seattle area. so they sent a fake story that showed that person s name in it and they thought they d click on and use as malware or spyware to find their location. the f.b.i. says this is a closer call and i think i m for the f.b.i. in this one. they say in certain cases, if there is a threat and here is a bombing suspect, someone who may be bombing schools, we need to find out where this person was and find them. so there is a narrow exception to the law in terms of an urgent threat. but it s treading the line, too. the press has gone crazy about it and the a.p. has gone crazy. let s look at that one a little bit more. if we can stop a threat, then maybe sometimes, sometimes it s okay to impersonate a reporter. so once they got it right, once they got it wrong. yeah. close call on the second one. peter johnson, jr., traditional analyst. legal analyst. i m not on the bench yet. but i ve been on the couch. living room. thank you. coming up, he made more money for a crime family than anybody since al capone and then suddenly he found god. ex-colombo captain here with his unbelievable story. first on this date in 1964, baby love by the supremes, number one. all do you is treat me bad break my heart and leave me sad roccaaaaaaaaaaaa! 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[ gong ] m m! m m! good! a single ember that escapes from a wildfire can travel more than a mile. that single ember can ignite and destroy your home or even your community you can t control where that ember will land only what happens when it does get fire adapted now at fireadapted.org a single ember that escapes from a wildfire can travel more than a mile. that single ember can ignite and destroy your home or even your community you can t control where that ember will land only what happens when it does get fire adapted now at fireadapted.org fortune magazine once named him one of the 50 most wealthy and powerful mafia bosses. even referenced in good fellows. there was pete the killer who was sally ball s brother. and you had nicky eyes. and mikey francese. he says he found jesus, so while he was in jail, now he s chronicling his journey to faith and a new movie. joining us now is ex-colombo crime family captain and motivational speaker, michael francis. good morning. good morning. what you went through in jail, you were a bad guy. you were in the mob. you were one of the big guys? i was, yeah. almost 20 years. your dad was there first. kind of got you into the business. my dad was the underboss back in the 60s. tell bus the bad stuff you were involved in. all the traditional stuff, gambling operations, i get asked this question all the time. but it was a violent life. you re part of the life. you re part of the violence. did you kill anybody? let s just say i was around it quite a bit. so 3 1/2 years, you were in jail for a while. and for 3 1/2 of those years, you were in solitary confinement? yeah. at which time y said you had a revelation. i did. first night i was put in there, i was violated op my parole. i had already done five years. i was home 13 months. they violated me, put me back in and it was a night that first night of my life, the only time i ever experienced hopelessness. so i was laying on the cot in and a prison guard pushed a bible through the door. it fell on the floor. i heard that thump. when i first saw it i was angry. i was mad at god. you re in that situation and you blame everybody but yourself. eventually i picked it up and spent three years really studying my faith and for me, christianity is rock solid. what s happened in my life afterwards has to indicate that there is something to it because i shouldn t be here. as people watch this movie, this god the father and watch the news clips from the actual time line of when you were doing really bad things and the reenactments and even animations and all that, how do you think they will translate this for their own lives? if he was able to find jesus and be saved, how can i be? that s exactly it. for the past 15 years, i ve been telling my story in churches and corporate events and colleges. i work with a lot of these gang bangers. i m going to a high school when i leave here and speak to the kids. but it s encouragement. if i can come back from the situation that i was in, if i believe god has forgiven me for all the things that i did, then it s the same for everybody. your dad who got you into it, 97, still in jail. you talk to him. this is all real. you couldn t believe how much footage they shot of new surveillance. no. so this movie is very unique. we didn t have to take any dramatic liberty. it is what it is. it s very real. i never realized now i know how much trouble i was in because they had so much stock footage of me. i was in jail when most of it happened. how do we find out about the movie? godthefathermovie.com. it s here on 42nd street. starts tomorrow night. tell everybody on halloween, don t be squared. be blessed. thanks a lot. coming up straight ahead, the nurse who treated ebola patients thumbing her nose at officials who want her to stay inside. but the people who live there are thumbing their nose right back. wait until you hear what they re doing. then charles krauthammer is here. he s looking into his crystal ball. don t miss it, 8:30 [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first, we were protecting networks. then, we were protecting the transfer of data. and today it s evolved to infrastructure. .finance. and military missions. we re constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber bate, wherever it takes us. that s the value of performance. northrop grumman. there are more reasons 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 ever pricing with double the data on select plans. and three: you can now get our best ever single line pricing starting at $45. so get all this now, on the network ranked #1 for data performance nationwide. verizon. yei could come by your place. my place? 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that story straight ahead. the water bottle was definitely there at the right time, unlike marco rubio. mornings are better with friends. live from the news crossroads of the world, this is fox & friends. he s back, isn t he? he is. get off the beach! by the way, we should point out that while she s here on thursday, you re going to run the marathon. i m getting nervous. i m going to run for folds of honor. a military charity we feature all the time with major dan rooney. it helps families of fallen and wounded veterans. are you training hard? yes, very hard. i m going to be there every step of the way watching on tv. yeah, you can track it. in fact, a lot of people watch tv to get things like the news and heather nauert. anna, congratulations. didn t know you were doing that. congratulate me on monday. you will make it. that s for sure. good morning to you. some headlines, fox news alert at this hour. the former gitmo detainees reportedly back on the battlefield and this time they re fighting for isis in syria. moments ago sources confirming to fox & friends that dozens of detainees released within the last two to three years may have joined that terror network. sources say 620 detainees released from gitmo, 180 of them have returned to the fight all around the globe. while you were sleeping, the husband of a democratic state senator was up and at em, caught on camera stealing republican campaign signs at 4 in the morning, all caught on camera. those aren t your signs, bud! there is no there is mo what? there is no name on these sign. yes there are. right here, right here. property of the republican we got you, brother. we got your license plate, your face and everything. busted. police now issuing an arrest warrant for dana long, the husband of delaware state senator bethany hall long. he faces a year in prison and a $2,300 fine. hillary clinton created quite a stir with these comments. remember? don t let anybody don t let anybody tell you that, you know it s corporations and businesses that create jobs. this may be a preview of the next presidential election. former florida governor, jeb bush, taking a swipe at hillary. here it is. this last week i saw something that was breath taking. candidate former secretary of state who was campaigning in massachusetts where she said that don t let them tell you that businesses create jobs. well, is this a sign he s jumping in? bush says economic growth creates companies and that in turn leads to more jobs. new jersey goff chris christie marking the second anniversary much super storm sandy when a war of words erupted with a guy in the crowd. he s holding up that sign that says, finish the job. he accuses christie of not doing enough to help storm victims who are still suffering. the governor then gives this guy a piece of his mind. i ll be more than happy to have a debate with you because something like you doesn t know a damn thing about what you re talking about except to show off when the cameras are here. i ve been here when the cameras aren t here, buddy, and done the work! you want to have the conversation later, i m happy to have it, buddy. but until that time, sit down and shut up! there you have it. the guy he s talking to is james keady, a former democratic councilman from new jersey. he brought out a group called finish the job and that s been critical of the pace of rebuilding taking place in new jersey. isn t that refreshing? whether or not you agree with his politics, it s refresh to go hear from a politician like that. you could say refreshing is a good word. unless it s you. can t wait to be in the audience next time. i have a sense he knew who he was. i m sure. so i think he knew this guy is trying to make some political hay. but then again, he s dealt with people like that before. he certainly has. he s called out those hecklers in the past. thank you very much. let s talk about this. if you are you know jeffrey goldberg wrote an article regarding our relationship between those two men, bb netanyahu and the president of the united states. and according to a top barak obama administration official, there is a quotation and it is this: the thing about bb is he s a chicken something. well, when people heard that, given the fact that israel is one of our closest allies, people were saying, wait. people in the administration can t talk like that about our greatest ally in the middle east. there is going to be an apology, right? well, apparently there is not going to be an apology. general jen tsaki says they re not investigating it. take a listen to this exchange with a reporter. you don t feel the need for an apology because this was said by an anonymous official rather than let s say the vice president saying something about turkey in which or saudi arabia, in which he makes a phone call to apologize for? well, obviously every circumstance is different. i think i ve been clear and the secretary will be clear when he speaks with the prime minister netanyahu next, that doesn t represent our views. he said so much more than just that expletive. they say that he is essentially myopic, netanyahu said to people in the past, i am writing off the obama administration and plans to speak directly to congress from here on in. he s scared to death, like many of us, that we re going to sign a terrible deal with iran to allow them to keep nukes. juan williams tried to rationalize last night. i give him an a for effort. i think ha it s very clear to everyone that the united states and israel are key allies. they are bound together in the middle east. so the frustration i think you re sensing, steve, is why isn t the administration more angry at the north koreans or the russians, et cetera, but it s when you have a close friend or a husband or a lover and you just are frustrated with them that i think you see this kind of outcry. okay. if you are married to somebody and calling them a chicken something like that, you got major problems. but the white house insists, and every spokesperson who was asked about this yesterday said look, you know, yeah, that s an accurate quote, but the relationship between the united states and israel has never been better. and it really sounds like it, doesn t it? if my lover called me a chicken you know what, that would be their last time in the barn yard. that is for sure. the other thing that really struck me that i guess didn t make as big a headlines because the words weren t so spicy was that somehow bb is the biggest frustration and it s not kim jong-un and not vladimir putin. with everything we re dealing with right now, come on. it looks like they believe we re going to stop protecting them at the united nations because the whole world seems to be against them. this is bad. their secretary of defense came here and our secretary of state wouldn t meet with them. and we ve known that they ve said very abracesive things about john kerry. he could collect his nobel peace prize and leave us in peace. when you think about leaked stories, this is one of the biggest leaks that we ve heard out of the white house and given the fact that it is so big, do you remember they went after james rosen, they we want after the a.p. rosen had it coming. according to the department of justice, maybe not. according to what eric holder said yesterday. but we ve gone after the department of justice has the leakers before, but why not after this particular one? that s a great question and that s what ed henry asked the white house yesterday. why then are you kind of sloughing off this idea that you kind of don t care who leaked that story that not might have, that insulted the prime minister of israel? you ve gone after reporters again and again in this administration to find out who leaked information to them. then when it comes to insulting the prime minister, you don t seem to care who leaked it. again, i don t think that is an accurate reflection of the administration s policy and certainly isn t an accurate reflection of our views of the prime minister of israel. in fact, they ve actually put in place measures under the leadership of the attorney general to insure that journalists in this country are able to do their job. remember the associated press? remember our james rosen? attorney general eric holder was just asked about his biggest regret. and the answer may surprise you. i think about the subpoena to the fox reporter, rosen. here is he regrets that. he regrets the language in the subpoena. to remind you what was in that, what they did was the department of justice was investigating leaks regarding some north korea stuff. in the affidavit, they claim that rosen had broken the law either as an aider and abettor or a co-conspirator and even brought up the espionage act. all to rationalize why they went after james rosen s phone data, which now they say, we really shouldn t have done that. they re always up to no good, the rosen couple. so they looked into that. so this is as close as it s going to get to an apology, but not far enough. james rosen responded yesterday in a statement. suffice to say for now that the attorney general s latest comments about my case, like this, previous remarks scarcely address the relevant facts of his conduct and he said nice things about roger ailes and fox news having his back. that s james rosen, not eric holder. exactly. he doesn t say anything nice about fox news. let us know what you think about those stories and we ll share some comments. here s is what s coming up, the nurse who treated ebola patients thumbing her nose at officials who want her to stay inside. but the people who live near her are thumbing their noses right back. wait til you hear when they re doing next. a lot of thumb nosing. and have you seen the new crash test dummy? 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(train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. there is a showdown brewing between the state of maine and a nurse who treated ebola patients in west africa. casey hickox is vow to go fight officials who want her quarantined in a house in maine for the 21-day period. now a new showdown is brewing between her and some of her neighbors who want her to stay in the house. they started a petition and it reads, quote, the intention of this petition is to have casey hickox do her quarantine time without it being voluntary or risk having her medical license revoked. joining us right now is the founder of that petition, jamie gas d sky. good morning to you. good morning. so you want her to stay in that house or lose her medical license. why? for the quarantine time. yes, because we don t want her possibly spreading this disease and endangering the lives of others, not just in our state, but everywhere else. she came outside and actually left the house, came out and said i m healthy. and i m not going to back down. i m going to leave the house essentially and i know the state of maine is saying, we re going to go to court to keep you there. what s the reaction been from your neighbors regarding her there? i have actually got a lot of support on the web site for the petition. we actually on the actual petition site only asked for 1500 signatures. we exceeded that within 12 hours time. sure. we are very afraid of her, just spreading the disease. we just want her to know that she is an rn, she should be knowing these things. do you feel like she has a professional obligation since she is a nurse to quarantine herself? yes. by not doing this, she is setting an example for other practitioners everywhere to just do what they want. right. but jamie, right now she says, i don t have a fever. i don t have any of the symptoms. i m okay. i can t spread it. well, say that to the other soldiers that are being quarantined as well. everybody else is being quarantined for the 21 days. they had no symptoms or anything. they should be able to let go, too. what makes her different? you know what? there is a real good possibility she is watching this right now because she s there in that house with nothing else to do other than wanting to get out. what would your message be to her? our message would be that us mainors, i don t want her to feel like we don t want her here, cause we do. it s just that we don t want her putting her wants and needs over the health and the safety of everybody else. we just want her to understand that we only want you to do this as a precaution, just to make sure that you re not spreading it and that everybody else is okay. all right. so so far your petition has ove. there is another one out there as well. there is a good possibility she s going to leave that house today. well, hopefully the governor will listen to our opinions. we ll see. all right. jamie, who started an on line petition to keep the nurse in the house in maine, thank you very much for joining us today. thank you. it s 19 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, is this what happens when we give up on our space program? yeah, that s not good. this morning brand-new details as to why that rocket blew up. then what s the big delay with the keystone pipeline? anna went to find out and her answers from oklahoma, stunning. kids will love campbell s soup? 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this gal here went down to cushing, oklahoma, the pipeline crossroads of the world, to see how their portion of the pipeline has created a lot of jobs and to find out why its northern extension, the part we re talking about, still in limbo. the southern leg is done. the northern leg held up many times. who are the bigger players in keystone xl s debate and why is that same economic boost being denied to other states? take a look. the pipeline crossroads of the world lies right in america s heartland, cushing, oklahoma. oklahoma now has the fourth fastest gdp growth in the nation and the energy sector is a big boost to that. part of that boost comes from the partially complete keystone pipeline which began carrying oil 487 miles from kush to go refineries on texas gulf coast in january. the southern leg provided some 4,000 american jobs. everything from labor and trades, project managers, specialists and consultants. economic shot in the arm. with the stand still of the projects, the creation of more than 42,000 additional temporary jobs was installed. so why is the pipeline northern leg, keystone xl, still awaiting presidential approval? we ve been waiting for six years for our state department to issue a permit and here we are missing out on this great opportunity for job creation, revenue creation, helping our national security or economic security and producing american made energy. in an exhaustive environmental study, the state department determined the pipeline would have a minimal impact on carbon emission. many environmentalists still say it s not worth the risk. this pipeline would cross 1400 american rivers, streams and lakes. we don t need to be putting our drinking water at risk. we need to be investing in the clean energy economy of tomorrow. but there is another kind of green in the equation. billionaire and anti-pipeline advocate, thomas dyer, is the largest democratic donor of 2014. contributing some $42.9 billion. the super pac producing this 2013 anti-pipeline ad. to think that oh, that little old-fashioned. it would be good for the economy. but keystone isn t an evenly partisan fight. in fact, 19 democratic congressmen and 16 senators support the construction, as well as democratic governors from missouri and montana. so as witnessed to her state s own pipeline success story, oklahoma s governor is demanding the president s attention. what would you tell him? say, mr. president, please allow the state department to approve the keystone pipeline permit and let s get this nation moving. so they had thousands of jobs that were created, but many of those were temporary jobs and it has since slowed down since this other portion of the project has houston up. the house voted to approval the pipeline some eight separate times. the white house says it s waiting for a legal battle in nebraska. no, no, they re waiting for the election. conveniently. it s been postponed til after the mid terms. the senate would vote for it, but harry reid won t put it up for a vote. there s a majority in the senate, it will be on the president s desk. coming up, they re in this country illegally and now new proof that they are casting ballots at the polls. the outrageous voting fraud exposed coming up. and charles krauthammer is here and looking into his midterm crystal ball next. ññ next month joe biden is scheduled to make international stops in turkey, ukraine and morocco to discuss foreign policy issues while his advisors are learning how to say we re sorry in all three languages. all right. that was a quick look at what jimmy fallon had to say last night. with us right now, charles krauthammer author of things that matter, sold over a million copies now. outstanding fox news contributor. congratulations on the book. but because of that, we have to use you often, early and often, to talk about what s happening, especially with the mid terms inside a week. if the white house is so unpopular, if the president so unpopular and his policies are on the line and he says everybody that s up in these red states votes with him, why is this even close? why is this too close to call on election day? it shouldn t be close. it should be a run away. it should be obvious right now. there are a lot of knife-edged senate races. the main reason is that the perception is that republicans are the party of no. they ve only had control of one house of congress for the last four years. when you only have control of one house, essentially you re a blocking mechanism. and that is the role of the opposition. so it s nothing against the republicans to say that they have been the ones to block i would say the overintrusive liberal agenda of obama. but none the less, it doesn t play well in an election. in 2016, if the gop captures a senate, it can develop an agenda, pass legislation in the house and senate, dare the president to exercise a veto, and then it will have an agenda for the country. you don t blame you re kind of tough on them a couple days ago. you said essentially you better win this, republicans, you ll never have a better opportunity. just looking at the field. you don t fault them for not having a hard and fast agenda? because in our system, you can have it in a british or canadian parliamentary system where you have a shadow prime minister. you have the opposition with a real agenda. here we ve got 20 entrepreneurs who are going to run for president. there is no unity in the opposition. if i ask you, what was the democratic agenda in 2002, in the off year elections, there was none. that s not how it s constructed. an agenda will come from the nominee and it will come from the senate and the house if the gop captures the senate. to back up your point, in 2006, it was i don t like what s happening in iraq and then the surge happened and all turned around. mid terms are referendum on the incumbent. that s the way it is. an important poll, the american people were asked, has this administration been competent and effective in managing the government? 40% say yes. almost 60% say no. let s move on and talk about our international relations. editorial in the washington post, relations with turkey have never been worse. now with israel the same exact thing. according to a high ranking senior obama administration official, personally ripping into benjamin netanyahu, calling him chicken [ bleep ], because they said he s too worried about starting a war, only worried about his own political skin, getting real personal about a guy that s just coming off a war the administration didn t want him to fight. what s behind this? look, i think there is animosity between the leadership, the president and prime minister, unlike any in the history of israel. it goes back to 1948. this is unique. however, there is an underlying policy issue here. what the israelis are worried about more than anything else is that obama cuts a bad deal with iran. the deadline is in three weeks. no one is sure what s going to happen. but the way that the administration and the western powers had been making one concession after another in the middle of the negotiations as a way to almost beseech the iranians to go ahead and make a deal, it looks as if if there is a deal, iran will be a threshold nuclear power, meaning it will be three months away, four months away and any time it wants in the future of getting a nuke and that for israel would be an exist essential threat. jeffrey goldberg in the atlantic says a lot of things. he goes on to say that the administration official, this anonymous source, high ranking, says netanyahu essentially doesn t have the courage to defy america and bomb two years ago and he missed his opening. is there any doubt that these feelings in your mind are accurate? is it truly the way the administration feels about netanyahu and company? there is no doubt that what we saw is an accurate reflection of what they think. that s the reason they won t offer an apology. everybody knows it s how the president thinks about the israeli leadership under likud. you re not supposed to say it. you re supposed to deny it when it becomes published. but this is the tension between them. this is the worst relations between administrations, israeli and american probably in 50 years. you know what i would like? i would like this to leak out about vladimir putin. i would like this to leak out about assad. we have so many enemies in this world, why does it have to leak out about our so-called friends? we actually knew what the pres unfamiliar with the open mic con accept. he s had problems with it in the past. remember when he was sitting with sarkozy. he came out and said, how do you think i feel? you re fed up with him, but i have to deal with him even more often than you do. so the bed was made. the larger issue is that obama s relation, american relations with all the major powers are at the lowest ebb relations with russia, as you mentioned with turkey, with the gulf states. saudi arabia refused to see the security council, first time that has ever happened in the history of the u.n. cause it was so angry at the united states over the way it negotiated over its head with iran and has been shutting it up. the gulf states are unbelievably upset with us. egypt has been flirting with russia and china cause it is so upset with the u.s. the policy of the u.s., no matter if you re a man of the left or right, however you see this, is that it s lowest ebb with the president who promised to improve relations, they are at their low ebb everywhere. this is a measure of his imcompetence. just think that the senate and house had a chance to sign off on the nuclear deal. right now the president doesn t plan on doing that. the russia deal in a lame duck session. they would reject it in a flash. the american people have not turned on the president when it comes to ebola. it s about 50/50 right now. but when it comes to this quarantine with this nurse in maine, what s your take on this? this morning she s essentially saying you have no right to take away my freedom even though i was treating ebola patients and are still in the gestation period, the 21-day period. what is your take on the way the president is condemning those who condemn her for not going into the quarantine? the president is contradicting himself. his own army is going to be quarantining soldiers returning from the region. quarantining them in italy. so how can you on the one hand quarantine your soldiers and then declare that a governor or even a state of maine that wants to quarantine a healthcare worker is doing the wrong thing? it s a complete contradiction and the president has not answered it. let s hear what he had to say yesterday as he sat in front of some patients that once had ebola. when i hear people talking about american leadership and then are promoting policies that would avoid leadership and have us running in the opposite direction and hiding under the covers, it makes me a little frustrated. so i put those on notice who think that we should hide from these problems. that s not who we are. that s not who i am. that s not who these folks are. this is america. we do things differently. long pause threw me off. he answered that three times. hiding what we re doing? quarantine is not hiding. quarantining probably is the most ancient of all practices of all states back to antiquity to protect populations from a contagion. the risk is low, but the fatality of this illness is 70%. when you have a low risk and a high fatality rate, i mean, a house quarantine simply stay home for three weeks is there are four liberal states, including the northeastern states that have already instituted that. it is perfectly rational. the democrats are in charge of those states in those cases. do you believe charles krauthammer, that by general odierno saying that without checking with the white house was a step of defiance? well, i don t know what the motive was, but he has to look after the welfare of his soldiers. that s what a commander does. in battle and also in the barracks from disease, which is an ancient problem for all armies going way become in history. more soldiers, more armies have been destroyed by disease and contagion than by rival armies. so this is an elementary practice and he did exactly the right thing. he s a doctor, psychiatrist, and a commentator. charles krauthammer, thanks so much. we within right to your areas of expertise. except baseball. right. by the way the giants were victorious in game 7. right. good to see you. sorry the nationals weren t in it. he goes to every single game. heather nauert knows that and take away the news. hi there. that brings us to politics. they are calling this a smoking gun. there is stunning evidence that illegal immigrants are voting in maryland. four people from frederick county are suing the state. they say they want a judge to intervene before tuesday s election. the group says that thousands who stated that they were not u.s. citizens to get out of jury duty went ahead and then voted in elections since 2006 and that s how officials caught on to it. this is massive voter fraud. this is a national story. this is the smoking gun. we have formal documentation, never been done before. that republican, pat mcdonough, says it makes a strong case for a voter i.d. law and says he ll push for one in the next legislative session. the rookie cop who was attacked by a terrorist swinging a hatchet in new york city is now out of the hospital. 25-year-old kenneth healy was greeted with applause from fellow officers as he left the hospital. he now faces weeks of physical therapy before he can go back on the job. healy and three other cops were attacked last week by a man with ties to islamic extremism. this happening in the queens part of new york. watch your tummy, dummy? crash test dummies are packing on an extra 100 pounds. on the left is the original dummy. on the right is the new heavier dummy. it has a thicker waistline and bigger butt to resemble today s americans. they say it makes test results more accurate. what do you think of that? those are your headlines. what a story there. pound for pound, they re better dummies. all right. thank you. we ve got a fox news alert. brand-new weekly jobless numbers just out. what do they spell for the state of our economy? nicole petallides live at the new york stock exchange. stand by. you re next time for more quick headlines on this thursday morning. what s your definition of a perfect body? victoria secret thinks it looks like this. the company being slammed over its new perfect body underwear campaign. it looks like this. apparently so. thank you very much. look at that. critics saying their particular posture is under realistic and hurts a woman s self-esteem. some day in the future we ll show what you it looks like. a new ad released by college republicans receiving some backlash. much is a big deal for me now that i just graduated from college. rick scott is perfect. rick scott is becoming a trusted brand. well, it s a play on the show say yes to the dress called say yes to the candidate. cosmo magazine coming out saying against the ad saying, quote, the only female voters who reliably support republicans are those who are married and who don t have a college degree, which explains perhaps this video s wedding theme. with more women going to college and putting off marriage than ever before, the gop may need more than strapless white rick scott gowns to attract female voters. i guess we know which side cosmo is on. right. 13 minutes before the top of the hour. your comments are pouring in about this. mark says, whatever it takes to get the vote out is fine. as a free nation, our voter turnout knows are deplorable. every man should vote. and kim says, the fact that anyone is looking to cosmo for direction speaks volumes. because cosmo especially with magazines like cat fancy out there. they can give them a run for their money. a fox news alert. jobless numbers moments ago in. nicole petallides from fox business has them live from the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning. we get in our weekly jobless claims and so ultimately we re getting some good news. it shows that employers have stopped the layoffs. the demand has returned from our great recession. and what we saw the numbers, exact numbers for the latest week, 287,000 claims versus estimates of 283,000. we are hovering around these 14 years. these are the fewest claims that we ve seen in 14 years. ultimately it means we are seeing demand returning. we are seeing consumers back to a certain extent, back to work because it laid the ground work for higher wage growth. that s something that we ve watched closely. the gdp numbers which talks about goods and services shows that the economy expanded and so that s good news as well. for the month of october, which sort of felt volatile, we ve been on a wild ride, it turns out it s been a decent month. the s & p 500 gained a half a percent. it wasn t a losing month. the dow is slightly low. s & p still holding on to gains and have a happy halloween tomorrow. thank you very much. don t miss nicole on the fox business network. to find it in your area g to foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. nicole s reality show. coming up on fox & friends, you make sure your kids are safe on halloween. but how about your pets? stick around for that. speak of mr. america, there he is. mr. bill hemmer. i m wearing my mask today, guys. i looked a lot like yesterday. it is scary. a warning for a postelection surprise. this is scary. is your insurance about to skyrocket under obamacare? five days now until the big day. we ll talk to joni ernst who wants to be the next senator out of iowa. defiant american nurse, is she practical or is she selfish? a showdown today on ebola. martha and i will see you at the top of the hour. i wanted to hold scooby do. everybody wants to have a good time on halloween and that includes man s best friend. how to keep your pet safe? we re joined by the vice president of the american kennel club, our friend gina dinardo and some of her nury friends. good morning to you. what s the number one thing people do wrong with their dogs? let them have chocolate. it would kill them. you need to restrict dogs access to the treats around the house at halloween time. for chocolate, any candy. sticky candy can upset their stomach. it s best to keep it away. who is this one? this is scooby doo, a manchester terrier, dressed up like a shark. this next dog is in a movie. yes. this is mr. america. he s dressed as henry the viii. important to be mindful of the costumes your dogs are wearing. you don t want them to get caught on things. they may be flammable. keep them away from things like jack-o -lantern and be aware of dogs with furry coats. they may overheat in a costume. our next contestant who looks like a member of the bush clan. this is tiza. she s decorated like a pet. it s also important to realize that dogs could get scared of children in costumes. so if you re going to take your dog for a walk, make sure it s during the daylight hours and make sure that you can see what s on the ground in case kids have thrown toys or candy and stuff on the ground. and superman doesn t look like he s scared of anybody. this is reilly. again, it s just really important to make sure that if you re trick or treating with your dog, that you keep your dog away from the children. they could be scared and if you re opening the door for trick or treaters, maybe put the dogs away so that they don t run out and get scared. all right. and give your dog liver treats. not kryptonite. i bet you got a web site? got tons of tips there. if it s cold, buy your dog a warm costume. thank you. we ve got one for the road coming up next. she could jog there it is. this is where i met your grandpa. right under this tree. (man) some things are worth holding onto. they re hugging the tree. (man) that s why we got a subaru. or was it that tree? (man) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it s what makes a subaru, a subaru. one for the road. i m going to orlando tonight. my book in paperback. at 7:30. you can go to kilmeade and friends.com for more. and on friday, northern florida, at 4:00 o clock, books a million on atlantic avenue. 8:00 o clock, i ll be on with sean hannity. we ll have some fun in the university of northern florida. we still have seconds left to talk. we do. by the way, earlier we showed you my body and i did not have the perfect body. victoria secret says that is the perfect body. however, critics saying the new campaign it s unrealistic and hurts women s self-esteem. that according to victoria secret, the perfect body. thank you. brian is like, keep it up there a little longer. i m enjoying this. coming up tomorrow on fox & friends, we have geraldo rivera and cyber week continues with day five. deleting your personal information off the internet. we ll show you how. because wherever you go, the web sites actually have tracking devices and track you and they know what you buy and then they can sell it to people. can i have this? absolutely. we have the halloween parade tomorrow. join us. so long. bill: thank you, guys. they are getting ready for a showdown. a nurse being monitored to ebola says she ll not submit to a quarantine without a legal fight. casey hickox says her legal rights are being violated. martha: this could get very interesting. casey hickox refuses to listen to the state officials she says the science doesn t back up this quarantine decision against her. individuals who had direct contact with ebola patients stay in their
bid committee. a beautiful place to be. nightly news is next. at 5:00, the stanley cup finals. good night. on our broadcast tonight, plan of action with heavily armed fighters working their way across iraq. president obama lays out the options for u.s. military power. tonight, what s on the table, what s not with iraq on the verge of collapse. bergdahl s return, the army sergeant held captive by the taliban for five years now back on u.s. soil, tonight an update on his transition to american life and what he knows about what s been said about him. the surge on the southern boarder with mexico, an exploding number of children flooding into the u.s. illegally. tonight we re there with a firsthand look at this growing crisis. and dear dad on this father s day weekend, a new father on our team gets a preview of what is to come. nightly news begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening, their name is isis, heavily armed, ruthly motivated fighters, they carried out daytime crucifixions to make their point and swept from syria to the east and are rolling across iraq, and on their way, they have taken over major cities, some oil facilities, u.s. weapons and vehicles. make no mistake, what is happening in iraq now is a direct out growth of the u.s. decision to invade the country over a decade ago. the question of what the u.s. should do now, what it can do, the president talked about that today. we re not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which while we re there we re keeping a lid on things and after enormous sacrifices by us, as soon as we re not there, suddenly people end up acting in ways that are not conducive to the long term effects of the country. what we ve come to know as iraq could fall, it appears iraq is headed for partitioning, if indeed, that hasn t happened already. we want to begin coverage with richard engel back in iraq after living there for much of the decade. richard, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. today the president talked about days to consider options but many iraqis aren t sure they have days before this fight reaches baghdad. militants from isis are 40 miles from baghdad and they are growing in number joining forces with other sunnis who opposed u.s. backed shiite government and former military officials from saddam hussein s regime looking for any chance to get back into power. isis also now has the money to buy allies. it stole $450 million from the mosul central bank. the governor told nbc news today making it the richest terrorist group in the world. and after robbing mosul, today isis imposed islamic sharia law there ordering women to wear vails or stay at home. out lawing freedom of religion and barring all other armed groups from entering the city. and the men the united states trained to fight the isis assault, they are still surrendering. some told us they were ordered to by commanders. without the army s protection, hundreds of thousands of civilians are leaving mosul. they are building tents as fast as they can. there is a massive wave of people fleeing homes. the fear here is that this is just the beginning. this family, all 12 of them walked 20 miles to escape mosul. now at a refugee camp, a mother of five calls iraqi troops cowards, says she would be better fighting than them. but today this conflict may have changed, today the committee awoke. in the holy city where islam was surged in battle 14 centuries ago, volunteers signed up for a new war. clergies called the faithfully to arms and promised those who die fighting isis, a place in paradise. the war is closing in on baghdad where it is tonight. the people are worried that when you speak to them, you sense there is fear about perhaps the unknown would come. reporter: tension in the capitol, the u.s. freed from a dictator but fears it is once again in the cross hairs. and brian, as we talked about last night, there are still several thousand american contractors and u.s. diplomats in this country. many of them at the embassy in baghdad. the state department won t say if extra security procedures have been put in place but i can tell you in some of the streets not very far from the embassy, the locals are barricading homes. brian? richard engel in the north of iraq for us tonight. thanks. you heard the president say he s considering options, none of them are good. while the u.s. is making it clear, the iraqi government needs to step up, chuck todd there with more, chuck, good evening. reporter: the president chose his words carefully. laying the ground work for possible military action but he also had a clear message for iraq s political leaders, any american help comes with conditions. in a hastily arranged press conference, the president outlined his options quickly eliminating one of them. we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces. reporter: but even as he hinted at some military action, targeted drone strikes the most likely, the president made it clear help won t come if the prime minister doesn t stop shutting out his sunni adversaries. the u.s. is not going to involve itself in military action in the absence of a political plan by iraqis that gives us assurance they are prepared to work together. reporter: the president didn t stop there. he went on to blame the government for the performance of the security forces. the fact that they are not willing to stand and fight and defend their posts indicates that there is a problem with moral ultimately that s rooted in the political problems that plagued the country. reporter: and illustrating how this crisis created strange international problems, the president called iran to help but never mentioned the name. iraq s neighbors have responsibilities to support this process. nobody has an interest in seeing terrorists gain a foothold inside of iraq. reporter: iran s president took to the airways yesterday promising iran would quote not tolerate the terrorism in neighboring iraq. the president who is keeping his weekend schedule, which includes down time in palm springs, said a decision whether to get involved military is not imminent and it s that delay that spurred criticism by republicans on capitol hill. this request is made to take action with drone strikes. it is far past time for us to take a decisive move here. reporter: brian, two reasons the president is hesitant, first, pentagon officials say their intelligence is not good enough right now to launch strikes and they certainly don t trust information from the maliki government. they said he won by promising and delivering american withdrawal from iraq so the last thing he wants to do is go back in. chuck, thanks. we re joined by david gregory, moderator of meet the press. he s in our washington newsroom. david, how does the president sell any action at all to the component of the american people who feel to coin a phrase, it s not our dance after the blood and treasure spilled there even though to coin another, we broke it? right, that pottery barn rule you broke that you own it, you got to somehow fix it. this is a terrorism problem, brian. that s what the president made clear today. this is not about the civil war in iraq or a neighboring syria. those are certainly involved in a really the foundation of this. the reality is you ve got terrorists who are much greater in numbers going to the number of foreign fighters perhaps even at 10,000 between syria and iraq. this could be a real threat to the united states. the american public may not want to get involved again but the president has to outline the fact it s a core belief of his that he cannot allow a failed state to emerge while saying politics is at the root of it. he s not going to help unless the iraqis demonstrate they will help themselves. there will be a debate about that. david, i saw at least one news organization fond of branding isis as the group too extreme for al qaeda. what about al qaeda in all of this? well, this is really a fight for what al qaeda is going to be, post osama bin laden in the middle east. you re right, there is branded an organization that s too extreme for al qaeda. that tells you how awful it is. i spoke to one source who said this is worse than afghanistan before the 9/11 attack. so that might draw in iran that doesn t have a good relationship with al qaeda, either. david gregory, in our newsroom. the situation in iraq will be among the major top picks covered on meet the press. among david s guest, mitt romney. he will sit down for an exclusive interview. for this nation s military men and women, those who served in iraq the pictures are confusing and tough to watch. it was a big topic at the home of the unit known at the time as the tip of the spear. fort steward, georgia where the third infantry is based, nbc s stephanie gosk is there for us tonight. reporter: in the spring of 2003 the u.s. military s third infantry division from fort steward was among its first to fight its way to baghdad. there were four deployments in total, more than 400 soldiers killed. you don t know what the outcome is going to be. reporter: he served three tours as a combat engineer, the guys at the front of the front line. do you ever think we should never have been in there in the first place? no, i don t ever have that opinion we never should have been there. we was called on to go, and we went there. we done our part. they got to do it on their own. it s their fight. reporter: each person we spoke with here has strong opinions about iraq, whether they fought or not because in a military town, everyone feels like they have been at war. ellen mark s husband fought in korea. she thinks the u.s. military did pull out of iraq too fast. they should have left some back and brought them back in smaller quantities at a time. reporter: at the opening of a brand-new va clinic, there was a sense of relief that years of combat are finally ending and there is not a lot of appetite to go back in. kerry harvey was a tank commander in the first gulf war. we can t keep putting soldiers in harm s way over and over and over again. you know, somewhere it has to stop. reporter: no one we spoke with here wants boots back on the ground. does the u.s. have a role now? we have a supporting role, yes. but we don t have a role in fund. we should assist them from the back. reporter: for the war weary, the battle to secure iraq now feels like somebody else s fight. stephanie gosk, nbc news, georgia. the uncertainty over the crisis is having, as you might have guessed, immediate economic impact at home. iraq is the number two oil producer in opec. analysts say gasoline prices will go up five to ten cents a gallon in coming days following an increase in crude oil prices for a second day today. their highest levels now in ten months. while the attention on much of the world is on iraq, russia is moving tanks and heavy weapons into ukraine to aid russia and back separatists there is. the tanks and multiple rocket launchers were moved into ukraine yesterday and are now being spread out across multiple cities in the eastern portion of the country that has been the center of so many of those violent clashes of late. tonight, u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl back on american soil after more than a week in a u.s. military hospital in germany and five years held captive by the taliban, nbc s katy tur is out brooke army medical center tonight, katy, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. he did the first two stages of his reintegration in germany and will continue onto the third here in san antonio. he arrived around 1:40 a.m. last night on a military plane and was immediately taken to the medical center. here, they will start the process of helping the now 28-year-old make decisions for himself one. one of those is seeing his parents. they are not here now and so far he hasn t had contact with them. doctors say it is up to him to decide when he is ready to reach out. now when asked if sergeant bergdahl is aware of the controversy surrounding him, no, he is not. they wouldn t go into many details about his state of mind, whether he s happy, sad, excited or nervous but they did mention one of the things that he is starting to request is peanut butter. in the coming days, he ll undergo more comprehensive testing, including conversations about just what happened during the five years in captivity. brian, there is no word on exactly how long he ll be here. katy tur in san antonio for us tonight. thanks. still ahead for us this evening, crisis on the boarder this friday night, a sudden surge in children all alone making their way into the u.s. illegally and later, that luxury home teetering on the edge of a cliff in texas, we ll show you what happened to it today. texa what happened to it today. two medium cappuccinos! let s show em what a breakfast with whole grain fiber can do. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, two espressos. make one a double. she s full and focused. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. it s specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. back with more on this growing crisis involving children along our boarder with mexico. the number of unaccompanied children trying to cross into the u.s. has increased 92% in the last year. the reason being blamed for this huge surge, more smugglers are selling a safe passage to escape increasing violence in central america. tonight the situation is overwhelming local and federal officials. we get our reporting tonight from nbc s mark potter on the boarder in mission, texas. reporter: in a field near mission, texas, boarder patrol agents gets four young men and teens from central america. but the agent in the chopper spots something else and it s a startling sight. a young man who had been hiding in the mud after entering the country illegally slowly crawls out of the field to join others. he s part of the wave of more than 47,000 unaccompanied children, mostly central americans picked up at the u.s. boarder. in the last 90 days, it s gone through the roof. reporter: the surge puts a big strain on his department. the river is shallower, as you can see. reporter: along the rio grand, he shows us where the water is so low, the immigrants simply walk into the united states keeping his and other officers so busy, they have little time for other boarder police work. it takes a group of officers leaving other areas unattended where something else can come across. this is the neighborhood where i was raised. reporter: dutch piper says it s so bad immigrants have been hiding in his yard. by the time i got in my vehicle and made the call, they were gone. reporter: undercover video shows seriously overcrowded conditions facing newly arrived immigrants at the u.s. boarder patrol station in mcallen. advocate groups allege young arrivals are being mistreated. federal officials say they are scrambling to improve conditions and praise the overworked agents. i ve been watching them do absolutely heroic efforts. not only rescuing children but taking care of them way beyond some of the skill sets. reporter: skills constantly tested as more desperate kids cross the u.s. boarder every day. mark potter, nbc news, mission, texas. another break, we re back in a moment with the end of an era tonight in the tv business. 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[speaking foreign language]. happy father s day, daddy. happy father s day. there you go. wishing a happy father s day to all. thank you for being here with us. i m brian williams, we of course hope to see you right back here on monday night. have a good weekend. we ll leave you tonight with pictures of a darken and stormy friday the 13th night here in new york and up and down the east coast. good night from new york.
welcome back. let s get a check on the day ahead. president obama will follow up on the immigration announcement with a visit to nevada.announce. and the capitol christmas tree arrives in washington, d.c., the tree hails from minnesota this year, and it will be lit on december 2nd, that is it, morning joe starts right now. if you register, pass a criminal background check and you are willing to pay your fair share of of taxes you will be able to apply to stay in the country without the fear of deportation, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law, all we are saying is, we are not going to deport you, the critics of this action call it amnesty, it s not. it s the immigration system we have today. good morning, it s friday, november 21st, and welcome to morning joe, can you believe it s friday? it sort of has been a long week. that was president last night. amazing speech. we have political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman, hear old ford, jr. did you do wiell? he gave a good speech. controversial? no doubt. and morning. good to have you on board for just this reason. and the host ofof before we t to immigration and the big conversation about that, we want to start this morn onning in up-state new york where massive snow storm is going wrap up finally after pounding the buffalo region for the last few days. it has been breaking news over the past 36 hours. it has been blamed for ten deaths after dropping up to 7 feet in some area of snow. roof collapses are a major concern, with warmer temperatures this weekend expected and flooding will be an issue as well. lester holt has more on this . reporter: more than 100 patients had to be evacuated when the roof showed signs of weakening. there s potential for collapse. reporter: two dozen people driven from the roads by white-out conditions and deep snow has been holed up in the wall mrt store since tuesday. could not ask for a better place to be stranded. reporter: from the air, we could see the area painted in white, rooftops looked like they are slathered in whip cream. we can count dozens of cars that were stopped in their tracks, buri buried in snow, the roof is barely visible. even as road crews make progress, there s neighborhoods still can cut-off, surrounded by chest deep snow. we went down one street on foot where we could only shout a conversation. have you ever seen it like this? i have never seen it like this, i have lived here my whole life. reporter: the officials are doing their best to reach those with emergencies and are reminding hope-bound residents to take precautions. you are looking theity buffalo bills stadium. it s covered in snow, the schedule game on sunday has been moved to monday night in ford field in detroit. they were trying to get people to shovel it out, it s impossible at this point. let s bring in bill with the latest, bill? the snow totals are off the chart. the highest total we have in is over 7 feet of snow in this three-day event. it s really two storms that were separated by one day. all through theier, hamburg was 80 inches, orchard park where the stadium was cloelocated, it was a front end loader dug this woman out, and this is just from her driveway, you can see her son went out to climb the mountain of snow in her front yard. this is what they will deal with all winter long, it will be there all season. we will melt considerably, we will up to 61 on monday, it will be humid out there too, so that melts the snow faster. a half inch of rain, we are worried about flooding. worse damage was done by the snow and the wet of the snow. we will watch it as with we go through the weekend and good news is over the weekend, warm air builds across the country. we are two weeks of january type weather and it s over with after today. all right, bill, we will be in touch with you, we have the big news now this morning out of w with a, in the words of president obama, we were strangers once too. last night that speech to the nation the president made the emotional case for wide ranger immigration reform. but with a nod to the political blow-back that lies ahead. he heads to las vegas today to curoccucurry favor for the acti. it is intended to protect human trafficking victim. it will remove barriers for foreign workers to come here and work and stay longer, especially in the high tech industry. and the center piece will prevent the deportation of 5 million americans. he has argued that every president since eisenhower has taken action on immigration, it is clear that he is aware of the politics aa head. don t let the disagreement on a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. it s not how the democracy works. okay, javier, let s look at how the new york times, first line, president obama chose you know, i think first and foremost, our association, the 3.2 million hispanic in the country that collectively contribute billions of dollars in the economy stand in support of the president s action. it s not the action that anybody hoped for. i understand that, you and i are on the same page, could he have waited? could he have given them a deadline? what would have changed this this deadline? he could have, but the reality of it is, there s a bipartisan bill that has sat in congress now for over a year. and we prefer some action versus no action at all. ray suarez, when do you think? there was risk involved by the president, but it may have been a bigger risk to way longer. the president has been calling for congress to act on this for a long time, for years in fact. congress could not even fas dream act, which for a long time was considered the low hanging fruit of immigration reform. if you could not take the most sympathetic immigrants, people that were brought here as babes in arms in many cases and make them safe from deportation, what could you accomplish? the house had a long time to do something on it and did nothing. the president was advised by many to act earlier and he didn t. the clock was running and he was under pressure too. and the republicans are sounding the alarm. they are insensed about this. the top leaders are using the president s own words against him now. the president said before, he is not kin. and he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like one, and he is doingi ining it at a time wh american people want us to work together. he was talking about immigration, and i know that some wish i could by-pass congress and change the law myself. but that is not how democracy works. indeed, mr. president, it isn t. previous comments were looked at on executive author aity, an they said it s false that his position has changed. it will embolden more desperate people to make the often deadly crossing from the united states to the united states from mexico it is said. and there s division on how best to respond to the president. some are pushing for budget strikes and others are dangling the idea of a shutdown and some are not fully ruling out impe h impeachment. we can defund areas of president obama s lawlessness, so we should do so, use the power of the purse. are you worried about the political blow-back on the republicans if they do that? not if it s targeted and limited. what are we talking? it s not government shutdown or anything drastic. third would be kuth out the appropriations bill. i don t want to could the last thing. nobody wants to do the i word, the president has thrown us in to the situation. you hear caution. lindsey graham is cautious saying if you make it about us, then it s not about the president and immigration. they can pass their own law that the president can vito. and the president said do it. pass the bill. first of all, i think the substance of what the president said, spot on. these are steps that should have been taken, his timing is wrong, however. i think it would probable have been better to give the republican new congress three months to act to it, and lay it out, and if they didn t, the president could still act on executive action. you have to wonder, there will be ramifications for this. the republicans warned before this happened and the president is taking a big risk on other parts of other important parts of the agenda being enacted. now this issue is important. and it may end up being the only issue that gets done over the next several months. hopefully the republicans are not equally silly and shutdown government or try to impeach the president. the democrats in the congress could have negative blow-back from this. do you feel the timing was provocative? putting the republicans in a place where they always do, trying to knock down what he has always done, instead of doing something productive. which he could have given them time to do. no doubt, it s provocative. the reality is that there s an amazing hispanic electorate that is growing by leaps and bounds. many turn 18 and become an eligible voter. every 30 seconds, a hispanic turns 18 and becomes a voter. the republicans have a chance here to illustrate leadership to this electorate, and finish what has begun long before president obama came along. ray, do you think the republicans will see it as an opportunity? no, but in some ways the president painted them in the corner. it s true when the president said that what he has done is limited. it is only in effect for the life of his administration. it can be rescinded by the next president or over ridden by legislation. but do the republicans want to aggressively move to break up families and start sending people home by using their legislative tools that they have been reluctant to use so far. do they want to do that? the president cannot make them legal, and he didn t do that last night. all he did was move them to the back of the line for waiting to be deported. he the cannot regularize their status, he didn t do it. do the republicans want to move in and say, sorry, buddy, you want to get on the next plane. i know it s a question with a long answer. give me a quick one and distil it down, what is your in my opinion? what do you think had hispanics and latinos in general are looking for, what is a sound immigration policily? you know, i think something comprehensive and permanent is what everyone is looking for. we are an organization that is focusing on economic development and the commercial and economic interest of the nation. anything that helps entrepreneurs and small business in the country is what we are looking for. this is not what anybody hoped for, there s an opportunity here to illustrate demonstrate lly d needed leadership. we will talk more about what is brewing on this after the president s comments last night t white house is pushing forward for the pick of the top treasury post. the administration has no plans to pull back on the nomination of antonio weise. it s said that he helped companies avoid taxes by moving money overseaoverseas. it s time for president to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over this issue warren s growing power is described as a test. and liberals are showing strong support for the massachusetts democrat. she tops hilary clinton in a poll. she has popularity on the left. and the far, far left for sure. bill cosby is scheduled to take the stage tonight for a performance as the lift of women accusing him of sexual assault grows. a 57-year-old florida nurse said cosby drugged and raped her in las vegas when she was 19. but she continued to see him and later asked for and received thousands of dollars from him. he changed the course of my life. instead of empowering me like he said he does to people. he made me a victim and a all my life i have been a victim because of this. and that doesn t go away for all of the days of my life. the wife of the incredible hulk actor, lou ferrigno is speaking out, she claims that cosby try to force himself on her in his home and she was able to get away. and new york daily news has an interview with another woman that said the comedian lured her in to a hotel room in 1992, and assaulted her. and an actress who appeared in one flew over the cucoo s nest said she was assaulted. the attorney for bill cosby said we have reached the point of absurdity, the stories are getting more and more ridiculous. the producers of the cosby show are break their silence saying the accusations are beyond our knowledge or comp hengz. cosby is scheduled to give a stand up performance tonight, he did not address the allegations last night in his performance. in the past, cosby has denied allegations made by other women, and has never really been criminal charged. he is going to have to come out is and say something at some point. it s getting away from him. if these allegations are true, it s obviously horrible. but that ap interview he did a couple of nights ago, he on camera ask today correspondent to edit out the question and his response to this. he did not respond. he did not respond, he told h them to take out the question. none of it is proven, but so far, they are allegations, he needs to talk about it. josh ernest, congressman aaron shock and actress brooke shields with her new memoire, and a thanksgiving day the communicate. you are watching morning joe. 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no.soup! oh! soup! loaded with vegetables. packed with taste. all right, it s time for the must-read opinion pages, we have a bunch of different ones. this is the washington post on bill cosby, hard to keep the faith. and he writes in part this, a few weeks ago, i spent a delightful afternoon and evening with bill cosby. i was the emcee of a gala for historically black claflin university which is this my hometown of orangeburg south carolina, i was having a jolly old time with a serirapist? i m having trouble squaring the allegations with the man i was with that day. many people may be experiencing the same. cosby has spent his long ground breaking career in the entertainment industry being such a good guy. how could he possibly be such a bad guy too? i would like to believe the man i met is incapable of such montsrous acts, but his stoney silence is making it hard to keep the faith. to your point, i think he needs to say something. and that puts it in perspective why people are having a hard time talking about this. he has done amazing transformative things for society. his life and his work means so much to so many families and to black and white americans in terms of understanding each other and bridging the gap, fair? no doubt, he broke barriers. look, he has to answer this at some point, these allegations continue, it s not one or 10. and you don t know if it s a pile on. the argument i say it so carefully . gene said it well. there s nothing proved. nothing proved. no convictions, just allegations. but there are a lot of them at this point. peggy noonan. let s move, the nihlst, the bomb white house assumes it will happen to them, thus they can do pretty much what they want. what they forget is that facts largely decide what the history thinks. history will be written by liberals, fair enough and they will judge harshly because he has failed to do anything to last. keystone will pass and a veto overridden and the president has failed liberals through unpopularity which is another word for incompetence, ray, obviously not a fan of the president, what do you think of the piece? i think there s a lot of chapters to be written this the obama presidency. she makes the point that liberals are disappointed and i think they are. i talk to them and they say, how come he will not go big. the people on the other side are people that will not agree with anything. how come he comes in prebaked and willing to compromised no matter what he says, the people that consider themselves his political opponents are never going to give him an inch. they cannot understand why the president precompromises, comes in at his final number and then sees that start to tear down. all right, we are going to bring in chief white house correspondent for political michael ennow, with the morning playbook. one of the lead stories this morning, j governor chris christie is finding little 2016 support from his fellow governors. govern eor christy was a gra sl slam, was a big part of his comeback story. he raised $100 million traveling the country can. but at the big annual meeting, jake sherman asked some of the governors that he helped elected, if governor christie runs for president, will you elect him? those governors said he is a great guy, but we are not going to commit to him yet, he can run if he wants to. he got a lot out of this. he said that he does not begrudge the governors for holding back. he said, they cannot commit if i won t commit, it would be presumptuous of me to say will you back me if i sflun. what is the grassroots opinion of chris christie, what is the feeling about him among republicans across the country? well, as you know, represent cans feel he would be a very strong match up with hilary clinton. the way that one top republican said it to me, he is the only guy that hilary clinton cannot be sure she could beat. along with jeb bush. how does he get to that match up? so the question is, could he navigate iowa? people think he probably could play fine in new hampshire, it s how do you get to that match up? it would be the same issue with governor jeb bush, probably strong against hilary clinton. hard to see how he gets through a republican primary where they are not going to like his stand on immigration and common core, what the represent condition voters call obama core. and democrats bet big on demographics why many think the president s action on executive action in immigration will pay off in a big way. what are they saying? it pulls back the curtain on what happened last night and makes the point that it s a bet on the emerging voting groups. socially progressive younger voters and latino hispanic voters. democrats, the president s party may face a backlash among white voters in the south, and in to the rust belt for the immigration action, but in a state like virginia and florida, both so important in a presidential race of course you have populations there where it will be popular. michael en, itke mike all. it s friday. it friday! this is i m going read this, i m going deeper, okay, she said this, and harold, i want to know what could be done avoid this. in recent years president obama has repeatedly turned to nominees with close ties to wall streelt for high level positions. the president s choice for treasure t treasury s highest position, and the president tabbed stanley fisher, a bank of america executive, was put in charge of international trade in the commerce department. the two recent picks for commodities futures trading commission, are lawyers that spent their careers representing big financial institutions. she guess on to say, it s time for the obama administration to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over economic policy making. sure, big banks are important, but running this economy for american femaamilies is a lot m important. her premise is right, but if the wall street bankers are dominating the administration, they are doing a poor job of drafting policy for wall street, because wall street is complaining. they raise the point of what liberals are thinking. government does not work if one group thinks they are going to control it. it s wrong to think that. there s nothing wrong with compromise. elizabeth warren can say she is opposed to the nominees that the president put forward. but i would challenge conservatives and liberals alike to call this president an over compromiser or precompromiser if he deserved that title, that would be a good thing. that means we get more things done in washington. one of the things that i think the times is off, i think the president could have gotten more from the republicans before doing this, i would love to see the minimum wage increase. right, where are the bargaining chips being used? i don t think they are being used effectively. liberals complain that he is not liberal enough and he should put more on the table. look, government should work, it s main function is to work for every family, regardless of how much they lobby. in terms of platform, it does not work. elizabeth warren should push, push the minimum wage, if you want to work with republicans and you think he is compromising too much, layout a plan that will allow democrats and liberals alike to get more of what they want. i don t see enough of that coming out of the liberal wing of my party and for that matter even the white house at times. do you think elizabeth warren has a point? i think she does and to the congressman s point, it s all about moving forward the president has done what he can in the areas he is called upon. there s no surprise in what he is doing. he signaled all the things long before he took action. up next on morning joe, linda sanchez who was just elected new chair of the hispanic caucus and brooke shields will join us. you are watching morning joe, don t go away. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really literal? 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the house gop made a promise that they would take up the issue of immigration reform and they did not come through on the promise. the step last night was a huge step forward and it may propel them to sit down and think seriously about proposing something. because they have done nothing. and so, i think in the grand scheme of things but isn t it a step forward politically? because might he have said, look, i m going to do this, unless you and then given them time to pass a bill? we have been waiting more than 500 days. that is more than a year for the republicans in the house to put up a bill on a yes or no vote. all they have to do is schedule the vote. they don t have to write something, it was worked out overwhelmingly passed in the senate on a bipartisan basis. that is democrats and republicans. and he promised, the speaker promised he would take it up and then back tracked on that. so, you know, republicans have never really wanted to work with the president. they want to thwart attempts to move the country forward and take care of our country s business and then when nothing gets done because they fail exercise leadership, they love to point the finger of blame at others. the fact of the matter is, the president has been urging the speaker of the house for more than a year to put something on the floor. and it has not happened. and you know, these sudden, you know, cries from the republicans side, we need more time, we need more night titime, it s disinge i m not saying that they are whining, i m wondering in the president s decision was politically strategic? well i m asking ray, hold on, and then it will go to you. he set a high bar for himself. he had promised action when he began this congress if the house did not act. the house did not act, many people were urging him to make this announcement before the just completed elections. he didn t do it. now, the pressure was really going to rachet up and he moved. all right, harold ford, jr.? congresswoman sanchez, good mo morning. good morning. we heard people say he acted how he did last night, do you take them at their word that it poisons the well and may make it difficult to move and find progress on other issues from either the minimum wage to energy to health care to other issues that are important to the democratic caucus? i will tell you that i don t believe that there was ever any intention to really compromise and sit down and try the to work on areas where we can find common ground and i think they look for excuses not to really work with the president on the business that the country needs to get to. right. you talk about tax reform this year. i sieve on the i serve on the ways and means committee, we tried to work with the republican chairman of the committee to try to get it done and it was their side that derailed the attempt and not the democrats. they promise, we want to really work on this and we need more time and the reality is they don t have any intention of trying to compromise and workout differences in areas where we may have common ground. all right. and i think they use the issue of immigration to do what, you know, secretly they want to do anyway, which is just try to thwart attempts to get anything moving in the congress. all right. congresswoman linda sanchez, thank you for being up early with us. we appreciate your time. my pleasure. javier, let s take it all told, does the action the president took make the comprehensive immigration reform, everyone agrees it needs to take place, and disagrees on how to get there, does it make it more likely or less likely to get something done next year? sadly the only thing more broken than our immigration system is our congress. i hope and pray that there will be leadership from both sides of the aisle. they need to work collaboratively to find an answer for the american people. do you think it will happen? i surely hope so and i think the american business has spoken loudly on this, small business has. voices like lowell mcadams at verizon, randal stevenson in at&t and goldman sachs have called for clarity and movement forward, we want immigration reform. thank you very much, both of you for being on this morning. coming up next, one of our favorite jimmy kimmel bits. celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves. we will be right back. 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denying a couple of million dollars in spending in month, it s not threatening government shutdown or anything drastic. third would be to cut out of the appropriation s bills those funds that would fund this, that is the progressive effort of this moving forward. but, i don t want to do the last thing, i don t want to do the i word. some republicans urge caution, lindsey graham said if you over react, it becomes about us and not about president obama. matt lewis, is the president acting like an emperor or what could he have done to prompt action like he did last night? well, the emperor word is something that president obama brought up. that comes from him. i know, everybody is going to talk and say the republicans are calling him that that, he has said multiple times that this is not legal. what he did last night and what he said he was going to do was beyond his purview as president. and congress would have to do it and he said i m not an emperor i can t do that. i think there s a temptation for republicans to kind of use his language against him. it s a bad idea probably. i think i m with the majority of americans on this. i think most of the policies are good policies, but the problem is that the way our system works the way democracy works is, this has to go through the legislative process. that is best for everybody. it not going to happen, matt, and i m not going i m trying not to you know what side of this i m on. but it s do you think something would have happened had the president not done what he did last night? do you think we would have had a bill? come on, nothing would have happened. do we agree on that? i don t think, well with, it s hard to tell what might have happened over time. i agree that not within the next couple of weeks or even months. but i think it s less likely now that we will have a bipartisan consensus on this. where people like me, who have been arguing in favor of immigration reform actually now have a harder time making the argument to conservatives and republicans because of the over-reach. he has poisoned the well on it. couldn t they approximatespa? i think it s a disservice to hispanics ultimately. the fundamental problem, i think, is the precedent it sets. if a president can just rewrite had this law, what can t a president do? and so but you are acting like it has never happened before and it s an incredibly strange. it has happened before. the presidents have issued executive orders before. i think it s unprecedented. if you look at what president reagan did, i m proud he tackled immigration reform. when ronald reagan and george hw bush tweaked the law, that is different, they were operating on a law that had recently passed and they were fixing sort of using their authority to make fixes to a law that congress had just approved. vastly different than what president obama is doing. there s no law for him to base these on. and in fact, he is going against what the voters just told him two weeks ago. i m picking on matt, harold ford, jr., i don t mean to, couldn t the republicans still do something in response to this that would produce results? one would hope that is the reaction. i think they could. let s layout a couple of facts. this is good policy that the president laid out and what he has done is different than what he said he was going to do, because he said that he could not act alone. th matt is correct. and it will have affect on other legislation in the congress. which is a equal and bigger concern of mine. taxes, health care, energy, minimum wage, there s a number of things and the president will need republicans support on the continuing avalanche of foreign policy changes. the timing is a little provocati provocative, was it the right time to do it should he have given congress time? and if they did not act, he acts. that is a legitimate question and one had the white house has to answer, particularly if they cannot get other things advanced. let s try and be productive. everyone could find something wrong with what has happened and how the republicans are responding and we can sit and argue about that. but matt, could the new republican congress, maybe perhaps respond with a bill? well, look, i think they could and i think they should. i mean, the problem is, i think that president obama was trolling republicans, i think that what he has been hoping to do is to actually, i believe that the democrats essentially want to own, they want to be the party of immigration reform. and that by doing this, he actually makes it harder for people like me who believe in immigration reform. and i think the danger is republicans will over react. and it does not even have to be a leadership. it could just be a back bench member of congress that says something horrible now that will dominate. so my advice is look, i think republicans should tune it out and go about doing their business and i think they should pass a series of immigration reform bills that can start with border security, but they cannot end there. it has to continue. i personally believe in a path way to citizenship. assuming people meet all sorts of criteria along the way. don t tell anyone i agree with a lot of what you are saying. first, you have some news on the form president, jimmy carter? it s great that matt talks about the context of former presidents and when executive orders have happened in the past, we sat down with jimmy carter, former president, in a wide ranging discussion and they discussed everything from voting laws to edward snowden and recurring criticism on the right. john mccain, reaching for the worst possible insult for president obama earlier this year said this, i have never seen anything like this in my life, i thought jimmy carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president in my opinion. the serious question is, what does it feel like and what is your response to these moments of being used as an insult? your legacy being used a as an insult? that is a compliment for me coming from a war i was lucky enough when i was president to keep our country at peace and to provide peace for others. i was lucky enough to go through my four years, with he never dropped a bomb or fired a missile or shot a bullet. wow, okay. here with us now from washington we have nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd, who is the author of the stranger, barack obama in the white house. i wonder when you watch today president if he adhered to the narrative in your book as opposed to being consiliatory, do you feel he had no choice? he well, yes, of course was politically provocative. they knew they were doing that and i think there was different clae calculations that they made. i think they regret that they waited. i think the senate democrats over panicked and over reacted, and they are right, had he announced it this earlier, some would have lost by big more points. there s regret that they did not do it sooner. they worried about credibility with hispanic activists and he put the republicans in the box. they have control of congress. you know, that line, pass a bill. look, i think there s people that are going be okay with the policy that was announced and not like how he went about doing it. right? so, that s the box the republicans are in because what he announced is not something that is offensive to the american people. what they don t like is how he went about doing it. they wish washington do it in a more functional manner, all of those things. but the policy itself is not that unpopular, which is why i think it does put the onus on the republicans they have to put their money where their mouth is. chuck, good morning, harold ford, you look at congress and how they behave and treat the president. the president traveled to china and announced that the internet should be regulated like an old telephone monopoly that angered congress. and he now takes this step, what does it mean going forward, play it 3 to 6 months going forward. other important issues and obviously the avalanche of foreign policy challenges, does the president now have not only a different congress and republican congress to deal w perhaps a more polarized congress to deal with in the coming months? it could, it will be interesting to see how mcconnell a and boehner handle their base. it s the base conservatives that would like to be more aggressive. they feel the president is being away aggressive against them. fight fire with fire, if it means using the power of the purse, threatening government showdowns when it comes to funding, so beit. now the leadership does not want that. they are kind of hoping that the way to challenge the president, have the lawsuit, maybe it s the state of texas, constituent of ok state of oklahoma, but states are pondering the idea of suing the president over it and trying to get the courts to do it. but i don t know if it changes the relationship with i guess i just don t believe that things would be any better or worse if he did this now or didn t. all right, we have one more for you, chuck, this is on obama-care. thomas? the department of health and human services acknowledging that it made acceptable mistakes for including dental plans. this error added 380 dental subscribers to the roles raising the total sign ups to over 7 million. once the numbers were readjusted it puts the enrollment below. and the administration was using the number as the benchmark goal. the cbo set it out there. this error came to light through the house oversight and government reform committee. this is adding insult to injury after all of the gruber comments have come to light and the numbers have been a lynch pin of bragging rights, so how do they spin it? they have to have a better second year number. i think at the end of the day, 6.7 to 7.1, if they are within 400,000, or 500,000, of the second is year number, it s not such a big deal. now they revise the second year estimate down, and now this is being revised down. they have to start worrying that they have that they ve got a marketing issue here with the plan itself. but, you know all right. i think it proves that they are not anti-dentites. that is it. there you go. thank you very much. chuck, what do you have on meet the press on sunday? we are going to do a lot of focus on immigration and do a look at energy and how it is totally changed some of our foreign policy attack whattacks comes to iran and russia and our economy here at home. we will be watching that sunday morning on meet the press. thank you. come canning up, aaron shock and brooke shields and we go live to a snow weary buffalo to say the least. where dylan is standing by somewhere underneath the snow banks. josh earnest is our guest. you are watching morning joe, we will be right back. get to the terminal across town. are all the green lights you? no. it s called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. they cut the power. it ll fix itself. power s back on. quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. thrillingly predictable. my fellow americans, we are and always be a nation of immigrants. we were striangers once too and whether our forebarers crossed the pacific or the rio grand, we are here because the country welcomed them in and taught us that being american is more than what we look like, what our last names are or how we worship. that does not sound like an emperor to me, it sounds like a leader. good to have you back on the show, gary. he is the co-author of latino america, how america s most dynamic population is poised to transform the politics of the nation. what do you think the impact of the president s action will be if the republicans don t come back in kind with the bill? i think in the short-term, it s going to dramatically improve the lives of a lot of people who are here just trying to earn a living and support their family. it s going to protect them from the threat of deportation and the threat of family division. i think it s going to be a big political win for the president, in terms of support for his party s success on the democratic ticket. some of the things that republicans have said in the last few days and they screamed about last night, i happen to agree that the presidents remarks were on point. some feel it s going to serve as an invitation for people to come to the border with the hopes that they will be legal. do you think it s a valid criticism of the president? i don t think it s a legitimate criticism, it suggests that any action that addresses the situation of the 11 million undocumented in the united states would create more undocumented. the policy is very clear. that it does not address anyone who has been here a short period of time and it prioritizes deport tagzs, folks that arrived after january 1st of this year and it redirects border enforcement to the border to try to make sure that no additional people cross. so, i think it s actually a rational policy. if the idea is that if you do anything about the undocumented that you invite more the only logical solution is to do nothing forever and i don t think that is viable. do you think the president should have programmed tried to work behind scenes with congress before taking bold action? i think that that s a talking point from the right. but i don t think it s a realistic view. to believe that that would have worked is to believe that a republican congress, which has been obstructionist for four years is taking control of the senate and going to be in the mood for more compromise. the house of representatives has had 500 days plus to act on a bipartisan senate bill or offer their own and they have done absolutely nothing. gary, thank you very much. we want to go to the white house now, white house press secretary josh ernest joins us now. josh, let s get right to the heart of the fight. let s do it. the republicans blasted the president ahead of his address, using his own words against him. take a listen, boehner/mcconnell. the president said he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like one. and he is doing it in a time when the american people want us to work together. he was talking about immigration that day. i know that some wish that i could bypass congress and change the law myself. but that s not how democracy works. indeed mr. president, it isn t. okay, but this is not democracy working either. first of all, is he acting like an emperor, it is a new congress, should he have gone behind the scenes and said, let s see if we can work together and give a window of time and come up with something and pass it? i will say a couple of things. if he was a king or e in mperor, he would have implemented the bipartisan senate bill that passed the law 500 days ago. he asked the attorney general to review the authority he had under the law and he used every element of the law within the confines of the law to reform the immigration system. and that is what he did last night and it s entirely consistent with the way that the president bush, president george hw bush tried to address that when they were president. as it relates to waiting to the next congress, 2 or 3 days after the mid term elections, speaker boehner was asked if he intended to bring i mmigration reform to the new congress. he would not commit to doing so it s a clear indication that we cannot wait for them to act to this. we need something acted to right now and the president delivered last night. i found parts of the speech to be beautiful as it pertained to what this country is businessbusiness is based on and the concepts and immigrants. having said that, he lectured the republicans and we got lectures back from the other side and we are hearing lectures on both sides. is it warmer behind the scenes, how do we get to a point where we get action that is not just one side kicking the other over the edge? i mean, as it relates to the president s speech right now, i do think that everyone who watched the speech last night could tell that the president was speaking to the heart. he was talking about the values that animated his commitment to public life for the last couple of deck a aades and he was talk about what he believes the united states of america can and should be. i think the steps he announced last night are consistent with those values, those are the kind of values that the democrats and republicans across the country can will say they share, and people that did not vote for the president or are supporters of the president understand how the steps that he announced last night are consistent with the kinds of of values that we embrace as americans. what is that at this point, since we are here, almost what is happening behind the scenes? has he reached out to republicans? is there any attempt to negotiate on this or is that over on this point? well, i think we consider the announcement that the president made last night a first step in trying to fix the broken immigration system. the president is standing ready to work with democrats and republicans. we have a good temporalate for that. we have a great template for the congress to take up legislation and work with the administration and try to advance it through the senate and the house. the president would be happy to do that. it would be good for the economy and good for job creation and good for border security and good for reducing the deficit. there s a whole host of reasons to make progress on a piece of common sense legislation like that. and the president is ready to do it. if the congress passes legislation, the president will rip up the legislation made last night. what about the idea that it s a change in tune and a change in substance in the president when he said he could not do it alone. how does the white house or president respond to that? he cannot implement the senate bill, we need the house of representatives to pass the senate bill and that means we need house republicans to stop blocking the bill. he did everything that he could within the confines of of the law to use his executive authority to repair the broken immigration system. that is not as much authority as congress has in the matter. what the president did yesterday was of consistent with steps that were taken by president george hw bush, and president reagan. what president obama did is consistent with what president reagan did. when bush tried to fix broken aspects of the system, expanded legislation that congress passed to include 40% of the undocumented population in the country at that time. so, president george hw bush took a sweeping step to try to address problems president obama did the same thing last night. all right, josh ernest, good to see you, thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity guys. have a good friday. thanks, you too, coming up actress brooke shields remembers her remarkable career and how her relationship with her mother had a major influence on it and first, more than 7 feet of snow. there she is! very good. dylan dreyer is right there in the thick of it. there s no angel in 7 feet of snow. she is a an angel, a live report from buffalo new york, next. and ah, so you can see like right here i can just. you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim.you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that s so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you re on the jumbotron! whoa. ah.yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, shopping online is as easy as it gets. carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? 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welcome back to morning joe, finally january is going to end, or the weather we are experiencing. what happened in buffalo is tragic, now the deg dths are upo 12. dylan dreyer has been there covering the story. you were in jersey and you lived in boston for a long time, people cannot relate and picture this. you were in one of the most intense bands in your life that you have been in your life, try to explain it to people, they see snow every year and not compare it to what you saw. i m used to snow. i grew up with it, boston, we cover nor easters all the time. you saw the stuff i was tweeting yesterday. you could not see two feet in front of you and we got stuck in the snow bank because of the white out conditions. here, covers are buried in snow and in walmart, there s several people that were living there for the last five days. monday, they are making their own community there. and communities all across the area, they are finally breathing a sigh of relief that the snow is over. but now, they feel the concern of the long lasting impact of the snow. widespread concern this morning that a year s worth of snow over a few days is too much to the bare. we have been deing with reports of collapsing roofs. reporter: no sooner than the snow stopped that the residents were getting the snow off of their roofs. i looked up and had a 16-foot crack between the wall and ceiling. reporter: patients were evacuated over concerns that the roof would not hold. crews are working around the clock to clear the streets. here, more than 30 people have been stranded in a walmart since monday. i know exactly where my vehicle is, it s under 10 feet of snow in the main entrance. their cars buried. these guys have camped out, where else? in the entertainment section and in the automotive section. when we left, we got stuck too. a plow helped ous out of the walmart parking lot. the buffalo bills will have to hit the road as well. the game against the jets has been moved to someplace that is not in snow. and the nfl has announced that the game will be played monday night in detroit in ford field, which is a domed field, so snow will not be an issue and as for the people in the walmart, they can dig out their car cs today, but there s travel bans so they cannot get to road until that is lifted and the concern with the flooding this week. it s one thing after another. i m sure everyone is glad that the snow was over. it was like a thunderstorm of snow, cool, but yeah, it was. amazing stuff. coming up on morning joe, it s not a question of if republicans want to block the president s decision on immigration, it s a question of how. morning joe will be right back. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don t know exactly. kid: what if you re not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn t work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab
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i cannot assess motives, i don t know if he is sticking an eye in the republican party or not, sure, if he is not intending to it, it sure happened. and one of the things that happened, if you step back a minute, to me, it s having the same impact as the less fortunate comments that the president on the health care plan. where the debate immediately is moving away from the substance of what he is doing to how he do it. the same statement, if you like your doctor, you can keep it, dominated the discussion of health care, what we are hearing now is the debate whether he exceeded his constitutional authority. and i think the idea, this is somehow, when i hear people say, cooler heads will prevail, i don t believe that for a minute. i don t think we have seen it for the last six years by and large. in the wake of the election and the act, whether it s legal or not is provocative, it s going to make the less calm members of your caucus enraged. so, i know i don t mean to come out here on the eve of thanksgiving and be pessimistic, but bet the under on my meaningful accomplishment. let s ask a member of congress, will cooler heads reisrar prevail? on what issue? on this issue. will there be a bill? will had there be an outcome that is consilcilitory? the president has blown up the trust. so, it kind of stopped any progress in the house. our hope was now, with the republican senate that no only immigration reform, but the other 380 bills that we passed with bipartisan votes in the house will get to the senate and get to the president s desk so we can negotiate. josh earnest said he will rip it up if he come up with a bill. any immigration bill, the president said if you do not like what i have done, pass a bill. i think congress should. i have been pushing for on it. it will not be a massive bill like the senate passed. we will do a border security bill like we did had in the homeland security that passed unanimously, and a visa expansion and deal with the dream act kids. so, we have solutions on to these problems. the problem is harry reed said we are not taking your bill and the house said we are not taking the senate bill and we were in a stand still. which is why it did not get done. now after the election, we have the ability to get our ideas to the president s desk so we can negotiate with him. jack? very simple question. is the republican house caucus and the republican senate caucus now more or less charitably disposed to comprehensive immigration, i would say less. after his actions? after the election? the new republican senators from what i saw, they are not inclined to embrace anything approaching comprehensive immigration reform and i think some of the new house members are the same. and they are the ones that are going to get the most attention fairly or not. last night, if i may, last night, watching your network and fox. oh, that must have been fun. cnn was covering college costs, which is another thing. who did hannity book? michelle bachmann and he did not book you, did he? and i think that is not his fault. i mean, don t pick on aaron. he is a good guy. i m sympathizing with aaron, that is not who the folks are turning to. and i can t understand that feeds to your point, the method at which the president is using that will be the distraction to getting something done. so congressman, last night in listening to the president, what was aggravating to the methodology to the president s executive action, leading with border security and leading with wanting to do immigration reform and talking about protecting american families, not felons. what was aggravating to your ear about that approach? what was aggravating was had that i agreed with a lot of what he said, but i did not deal with his action. his executive action tammys to do legislatively what he wants the congress to do. that is getting around the operation of powers of our congress. he talks about a visa program for people that are in college that he wants to keep. he talks about border security, additional bored security. so, this is not just another clinton, regan bush type order. it s sweeping and so what was aggravating from my standpoint was mr. president, if you really want to do those step by step issues you just outlined then come work with congress. what s the part, jeff, from your covering presidents over decades and the strategies for negotiation, and the behind the scenes part, is there something missing from this process, was the president s action last night provocative because it missed something else? what is missing is what has changed completely in washington. every time i hear the auction about well, this is what reagan and tip o neal used to do. right. i mean, this is what clinton and newt gingrich used to do. everything looks good in retrospect. that is right. and there s a change here. you know, part of the thing that i was thinking about, was back five years ago when the republicans drew lines in the sands in first weeks after obama s inaugural, a lot of them said this is good for us, because the american power pl public does not like obstructionism. do you think it has hurt the republican party? 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[ whistling ] that is of course one of brooke shields legendary jean commercials, which she says she still has some in storage. she s here to talk about her new book. good morning, good to see you. thank you. the most important news out of this book, not only do you still have those jeans, they still fit you. my mom saved everything. she saved two pairs from that commercial. one, i gave to the met, as one does with their jeans. of course, old jeans. ah, give them to the met. the other one, they go up so far. well, it was a different time. it looks like sausage encased. but they fit. to your great credit. let s talk about what this book is and what it s not. okay. this is not, like, your life story. this is the story with your mother. and i think the impression that people have some people anyway, of your relationship with your mother, that it was kind of a mommy dearest thing. she put you in pretty baby when you were 12 and the commercial when you were 15. that s not really the way it was though, was it? it s not. i m not trying to discredit that we did do all of those things. but the main sort of point that i was trying to make is i wasn t a victim. you know, i wasn t we weren t making career decisions as to what meant any difference now to the next job, to the next, the next. we were just in this business. we were sort of taking what was offered to us. if it worked, if it paid, if we were able to get a car, a house. you know. we sort of just did these willy-nilly jobs. was there any part of you later in life that looks back and says, ooh, pretty baby, maybe i was too young for that? no, those are the more enduring pieces of art that i m involved with. there s plenty of other things whether it s a brooke at all or a bizarre jeans campaign that failed or all of a sudden now selling shampoo or whatever the thing is, you know, that i was secret. underarm. you know, those are the things that i sort of look and think, that s a disconnect. how do you start with pretty baby and that s the trajectory of your career. that s, a, giving my mom a lot of credit for even thinking of a plan. and also thinking that, you know, there was something about those those particular jobs that were important. and i think we knew it. you know, we knew we were doing something unique when we did the commercials. we were making commercials that were a minute long that were supposed to be played in movie theaters. and at the last minute, they pulled then and said, oh, they ll never be advertising in movies. we were able to be at the forefront of some of that stu and that s what was fabulous about it. but that s not a sexy story. sexy story is the drunk mother who sells her daughter into prostitution. like that s the headline knowing you and how grounded you are and how in touch and present in people s lives you are with your husband and your kids. i read this book and i say, my god, look at the life she s lived. is it ever crazy to you that you didn t stumble somewhere along the way there? for the longest time, i didn t know why i was why i was graced, you know, why i was saved. why there was this sort of saving grace about it. i used to attribute it to everybody else. but i do think there was something i have to now start owning up to something. there s a bit in my character that will not be the victim. i have to ask you because there s this big chunk at the end of the book dedicated to you being at the bedside of your mother as she s dying. and it is absolutely gut wrenching when you read what you two have been through together, to say good-bye. you describe it as the moment you feared all your life. what was it like? it was during hurricane sandy. there you are, running on generators at a hospital in new york. there s your mom. you watching her leave you. it s nothing you know, i wouldn t have had it, excuse me. any other way. i knew i needed to be there because i never would have forgiven myself. but it s a horrific thing. there s no hallmark moment. you know, there s no and it s not even a exhale like it is in the movies. and it s there s something bizarre, there s something kind of freakishly funny, there s something psychotically horrible. you re watching it, thinking, okay, i m going to get this, i m going to understand it. i m going to internalize it. and i don t know anything more about it now than i did before, you know, it s like ah. i think you turned to the nurse and said, is this it? yeah, she was doing she was busy. she had a lot on her plate that day. brooke, i can t say enough good things about this book and what an incredible life you and your mother had together and now what an incredible mother you are and wife and it s just been fun to get to know you. you must read this book. it s called there was a little girl. the real story of my mother and me. thank you, brooke. we ll be right back with more morning joe. twhat do i do?. you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tracking system will get you to the loading dock. there should be a truck leaving now. i got it. now jump off the bridge. what? in 3.2.1. are you kidding me? go. right on time. right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. we call that predictable. thrillingly predictable. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.. can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. get to the terminal across town. are all the green lights you? no. it s called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. they cut the power. it ll fix itself. power s back on. quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. thrillingly predictable. if you register, pass a criminal background check and you re willing to pay your fair share of tax, you ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. all we re saying is we re not going to deport you. i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it s not. amnesty is the immigration system we have today. good morning. it is friday, november 21st. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s sort of been a long week. that was the president last night. pretty amazing speech. with us on set, we have msnbc political analyst, visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. did the president do well? thought he gave a good speech. good speech. controversial? no doubt about it. the president and ceo of united states hispanic chamber of commerce, javier palamerez joins the table. good to have you on board for just this reason. and in washington, the host of al jazeera america s inside story ray suarez. thank you very much for being on this morning. before we get to i grammigratiod the big conversation about that, we want to start this morning in upstate new york where a massive snowstorm is expected to wrap up finally after pounding the buffalo region in the last few days. this has been breaking news over the past 36 hours. the storm now being blamed for at least ten deaths after dropping more than seven feet of snow in some areas. seven feet. roof collapses are a major concern. with warmer temperatures expected this weekend, flooding will be an issue as well. nbc s lester holt has more on this. reporter: more than 100 patients evacuated in this nursing home in chicktogowa when the roof showed signs of collapsing. there s a potential for it. reporter: more than 2 dozen people driven from the roads by whiteout conditions and deep snow have been holed up in this walmart store since tuesday. couldn t ask for a better place to be stranded. reporter: from the air, we could see entire sections of the buffalo area painted in white. rooftops that look as if they ve been slathered in whipped cream. we worked our way south of buffalo and it gets a lot worse. these are unplowed streets. we can count dozens of cars that were stopped in their tracks, barely the roof is visible. it s like the day the earth stood still. reporter: there are neighborhoods still cut off, surrounded by chest deep snow. we venture down one cul-de-sac on foot where we can only shout a conversation with mary ann. have you ever seen it like this. i ve never seen it like this. reporter: officials say they re doing their best to reach those facing emergencies and are reminding home brown residents to take precautions. you re looking at the latest photos from the buffalo bills football stadium which is covered in snow. their scheduled game on sunday against the jets have been moved to monday night at ford field at detroit. they re trying to get people to shovel it out. that is just impossible at this point. bill karins with the latest. these snow total are also off the chart. the highest total we have in is over seven feet of snow in this three-day event. it s really two storms that were separated by one day. all through that area, hamburg with 80 inches. orchard park where the stadium was located was 71. al de n, new york, 56. sarah sent me this picture. she s finally free. a front loader came in overnight and dug her out. her son climbing the mountain of snow now in her front yard. that snow s not going anywhere. we are going to melt a considerable amount this weekend. we re going to get to 51 on sunday, 61 on monday. it will be a little humid out there too so that melts the snow faster. half-inch of rain. we are worried about flooding. worst damage was done by snow and the weight of the snow. the good news is, over the weekend, warm air builds across the country. are two weeks of january-type weather over with after today. bill, we ve got the big news now this morning out of washington. in the words of president, we were strangers once too. last night in a speech to the nation, the president made the emotional case for wide-ranging immigration reform. with a nod to the political blowback that lies ahead. curry favor for the plan that he says focuses on deporting felons, not families. the white house says the plan shifts resources to the boarder, streamlines immigration courts and protects human trafficking victims. it would remove barriers for foreign workers to come here and stay longer, especially in the high-tech industry. but the centerpiece prevents the deportation of as many as 5 million americans. most of whom are the parents of children who were born on u.s. soil. while he argued every president since eisenhower has taken executive action on immigration, it is clear the president is aware of the perilous politics ahead. don t let a disagreement over a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. that s not how our democracy works. and congress certainly shouldn t shut down our government again just because we disagree with this. let s look at how the new york times, first line, president obama chose confrontation over conciliation. i know you support what the president has done. however what could have been more conciliatory in terms of the moves here? i think first and foremost, our association of 3.2 million hispanic owned firms in this country that collectively contribute over $486 billion to the american economy stand in support of the president s action. it is not the panacea that anybody has hoped for. i get that. i understand that. you and i are on the same page. could he have been more conciliatory? could he have waited? could he have given him a deadline? certainly, i think he could have. the reality of it, there s a bipartisan bill that has sat in the congress now for over a year. we prefer some action versus no action at all. ray suarez what do you think? well, certainly, there was risk involved for the president, but it might have even been a bigger risk to wait any longer. the president s been calling for congress to act on this for a long time, for years, in fact. congress couldn t even pass the dream act which for a long time was considered the low-hanging fruit of immigration reform. if you couldn t take the most sympathetic immigrants, people who were brought here as babes in arms in many cases, and make them at least safe from deportation, what little could you accomplish? the house had a long time to do something on this. did nothing. the president was advised by many to act earlier this year in advance of the elections. he didn t. his clock was running. he was under a lot of pressure too. yet, willie geist, the republicans already sounding the alarm here. it almost goes without saying, republicans are incensed about this. using the president s own words against him now. the president has said before he s not kin. and he s not an emperor. but he s sure acting like one. he s doing it at a time when the american people want nothing more than for us to work together. he was talking about immigration that day. i know that some wish that i could just bypass congress. and change the law myself. but that s not how a democracy works. indeed, mr. president, it isn t. looked at the president s previous comments on executive authority and what he s saying now. according to the site, it is false when he says his position has not changed. saying the move will only embolden more desperate people to make the dangerous crossing to the united states from mexico. there is key division on how best to respond to the president. many considering legal action. some are pushing for surgical budget strikes. others have dangled the idea of a shutdown. others still will not fully rule out impeachment. appropriation bills are the one area in which the senate and congress can prioritize funding. we can defund areas of president obama s lawlessness. we should do so. we should use the power of the purse. that happens all the time. on the republicans if they do that? not if it s very targeted, very limited. what are we talking about? denying a couple million cars worth of spending issuing those permits? this is not threatening government shutdown or anything drastic. a resolution of disapproval. second would be a censure. third would be to cut out of the appropriation bills those funds that would fund this. that s the progressive effort of this moving forward. but i don t want to do the last thing. i don t want to do the i word. nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil. the president has thrown us into this situation. you hear some caution being exercised there. senator lindsey graham joined that chorus. he said, quote, if you overreact, it becomes about us and not about president obama. harold ford, where does this go from here? we ve got the executive action. we re going to have a republican house and senate come january. they could pass their own law that the president could then veto. the president said do it. pass the bill. hopefully they do that. i think first of all, i think the substance of what the president said last night was spot on. there s no doubt these are steps that should have been taken. i think the timing is wrong. it probably would have been better to give the republican new congress three months to have acted on this. they chose not to, the president would have still had the opportunity to act back on executive action. don t agree with the president or ray on that, this should have been done. interest will be ramifications for there. the republicans warned kwint fra quite frontily before this happened. this issue is important. it may end up being the only issue that gets done over the next several months because republicans are hopefully not stupid enough to try to impeach the president or equally silly and try to shut down government. i do think the democratic party in the congress is going to have reverberations from this and it could be negative. do you agree? do you think the timing is perhaps a little bit evocative? putting the republicans in a place where, again, they do what they always do, try and knock down what he s done instead of try and come up with something productive. he could have give be them time to do. no doubt, it was provocative. the fact of the matter is, he s the leader. he attempted to lead. i think there s a wonderful opportunity here for the republican party to look at this as a wonderful option. the reality of it is, there s an amazing electorate. hispanic electorate that is growing by leaps and bounds. every month in this country, 52,000 hispanics turn 18 and become an eligible voter. every 30 seconds, an hispanic turns 18 and becomes an eligible voter. the republicans have an opportunity to ingratiate themselves to that electorate and finishing what has begun long before president obama came along. ray, do you think the republicans are going to see this as a wonderful opportunity? no, they re not going to see it as a wonderful opportunity. but i think it is clear that in some ways the president has painted them into a corner. it s true when the president says what he s done is very limited. it only is in effect for, in effect, the life of his administration. it cab be rescinded by the next president. it can be overridden by legislation. but do the republicans want to aggressively move to break up families to start sending people home by using their legislative tools that they ve been reluctant to use so far? the president, they re making believe they ve never heard of prosecutorial discretion. all he did was move them to the back of the line for waiting to be deported. he can t regularize their status. he didn t do that. do the republicans want to move in there and say no, sorry buddy, you re getting on the next plane? i don t know if they want to do that. javier, i know this is a question with a long answer. what is your membership? what do you think hispanics, latinos in general are looking on? what is a sound immigration policy? i think comprehensive, permanent. we are an organization that focuses on economic development. anything that helps entrepreneurs and small business in this country is what we re looking for. there is an opportunity here to illustrate desperately needed leadership and collaboration in this country. that s what american business wants right now, clarity. the white house is pushing forward with its pick for a top treasury post. despite growing criticism from democrats. noticeably, senator elizabeth warren. the administration has no plans to pull back on the nomination of antonio weiss, a former global investment banker who critics say helped companies avoid taxes by moving their addresses overseas. in an online op-ed, entitled enough is enough, senator warren writes, in part, this, it is time for the obama administration to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over economic policymaking. sure, big banks are important. but running this economy for american families is a lot more important. politico describes warren s growing power in the party as a test for senator schumer who is looking to strike a balance between them. in a poll of thousands of members of the left leaning group democracy for america. she definitely has popularity on left and the far, far left for sure. bill cosby is scheduled to take the stage tonight for a performance, as the list of women accusing him of sexual assault grows. a 57-year-old florida nurse says cosby drugged and raped her in las vegas when she was 19. but she continued to see him. and later asked for and received thousands of dollars from him. he changed the course of my life. instead of empowering me like he says he does to people, he made me a victim, and all my life, i ve been a victim because of this. that doesn t go away for all the days of my life. the wife of the incredible hulk actor lou ferrigno is also speaking out. claims cosby tried to force himself on her at his home in 1967 but she was able to get away. new york s daily news says it has an exclusive interview with another woman who says the comedian lured her into a hotel room in 1992 and assaulted her. and an actress who appeared in one flew over the cuckoo s nest says cosby forced her to perform oral sex in a tonight show dressing room. cosby s attorneys disputed the allegations. saying, the stories are getting more ridiculous. i think people are trying to come up with these wild stories in order to justify why they have waited 40 to 50 years to disclose these ridiculous accusations. the producers of the cosby show break their silence saying the being accusations are beyon knowledge or comprehension. florida is scheduled to appear tonight in melbourne. he did not address allegations last night during a show in the bahamas. in the past, cosby has denied allegations made by other women. has never been criminally charged. he s going to have to company out and say something at some point. it s getting away from him. if these allegations are true. it s obviously horrible. that ap interview he did a couple nights ago where he on camera asked the correspondent to edit out the question and his response about this. he didn t even respond. kind of what i thought was telling. none of this is proven. but he needs to talk about it. still ahead, the congressman from california joins the conversation. ahead of the president s event in las vegas today. first, breaking bad fans rejoice. amc sets a premiere date for the highly anticipated better call sal. i love him. he s one of my favorite characters. you know who i m talking about? 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las vegas has a large hispanic population. the largest hispanic population in the country at about 7%. he has been to the high school where he s going to sign the executive action twice before, including in january of 2013, when he laid out what he hoped was going to be the immigration reform bill that passed. there s a lot of symbolism here. but it s also a big favor i think to harry reid who you just met, you just saw. harry reid has talked a lot about astrid silva. the president brought up astrid silva in his speech. what s not as well known is astrid silva s father has been under a deportation order for some time and it appears he is going to be covered by this executive action. jose diaz-balart, i d like you to take it to representative cardenes. first, give me a sense of how you think the president did last night. for millions of people in this country who have been living here for more than five years who have u.s. born children or residents in the united states, this is a life changing thing. because even though it s going to be limited for a three-year period, this is going to be the opportunity of millions and millions of families to company out from under the shadows of fear and be able to participate in this country in a way they ve been doing, many of them, for many years, but now they will be able to do so without the fear of disappearing. there are millions of people that every day leave their homes, to drop their children off at the bus stop or to go to work and don t know if they are going to come home at the end of the day because they don t have the papers. this is a life-changing thing for millions of people. and we have to remember, the last six years, 2 million people have been deported from the united states. that s the entire city of houston that has been deported. and this is going to mean a b big for millions of people. when we look at this and we think about astrid silva and her dad, their situation existed prior to the midterms. and that s painful for their family. it s painful for millions of families that are suffering just like theirs. but how does this not look just blatantly political from the president not trying to steal the football from the republicans try to get any type of senate from being the ones to helm immigration reform for congress and he s trying to get credit for it, the president that has supported millions of people as jose points out. everybody in every elected office has a job. the president is the executive branch. they have a responsibility to exercise and follow through with the laws that have been enacted and the right to interpret them as well. that s what an executive order is about. the one thing i want everybody to understand, this is not just about 4 million undocumented people who are working really hard. it s about over 300 million americans. i say it s really three top issues that we re covering here with this executive action. and that is the economy, the economy, the economy. the president just set in motion an additional close to $4.5 billion over the next five years. congressman, why do this now? why not do this? astrid s situation, her father s situation, the situation for millions of people that have been struggling through a broken immigration system has existed and it has languished for a very long time. the president campaigned on this in 08. here we are now in his last two years seeing some type of executive action. and this is now the time where we re seeing the gop-led house, the gop-led senate, saying that they want to lead. take the football on this. and this is just the democrats saying we don t want to give you any credit for immigration reform and getting any type of thunder with the latin community. i would love for the republicans to take credit. the 14 republican senators should take credit. they help pass a bill. 68 out of 100 u.s. senators. this is actually instead of bipartisan tripartisan. there were two independent senators who voted for it and 52 democrats. 68 united states senators voted for this legislation. now it s been sitting in our house. republican-controlled house. for over 500 days. so i think what happened is the president finally said enough is enough. we need to take care of our economy. we need to take care of business. and the bottom line is, like i said earlier, it s not about the president doing anything that congress didn t do. it s about the president doing something to help our economy forward. the congress refuses to do. so he s using his authority to interpret the current laws and he actually did a wonderful job. congressman tony cardenes, thank you. thank you very much. still ahead, willie geist goes behind the scenes of saturday night live s weekend update as the late-night comedy show enjoys its 40th season on the year. more morning joe when we return. let us be lovers, we ll marry our fortunes together i ve got some real estate here in my bag it took me four days to hitch-hike from saginaw i ve come to look for america i wish. please, please, please, please, please. 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well, there is this friday morning celebration. and the driver is central banks. not in this country, but globally. we got some comments very early this morning from europe, the head of the central bank there saying he s open to doing more when it companies to stimulus for europe s economy. also china cut interest rates. that was a surprise. it s basically an indication that easy money, easy policies all over the world, even if they re coming from overseas, continue to drive money into u.s. stocks. and with that said, we are set to open at record highs for the s&p 500, for the dow jones industrial average and 14 1/2 year highs for the nasdaq, the tech heavy index. we re looking at our fifth week in a row of gains. a lot of people talk about the santa claus rally where the markets jump toward the end of the year. better economic data in this country and easy central bank action overseas and that is a recipe for pretty strong stock market at the open. behind you, can you tell him it s looking good. yeah. excellent. thumbs up, yeah. he was having a hard time there. wearing a tie on casual friday. it really has been a pretty solid week. i want to underscore the news in this country, guys, has been good on the economy. you talk about retailers during this time of the year. we got the latest report from gap beating expectations. retailers have had challenges lately with store traffic and getting people through, having to deal with a lot of promotions. but overall, everyone from on the low income scale and the middle income scale like walmart and target have been beating the streets forecast and even some of the higher retailers as well. all in all, it s been a pretty solid week. awesome, sara eisen, thank you very much. up next, what, if anything, did we learn today. 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we ve been working this since april. we have the first call from one of our partner hospitals there in april, saying we ve got some ebola cases, what can you do for us? we ve been providing personal protective equipment. iv fluids for patients. over 4 million relief items. we also mobilized medical teams to go and serve there. so part of what you do is to get companies to jump in and try to get the support from wherever you can find it. medical supplies, food, whatever. how has the response been to getting help to where the problem is, west africa? it s an interesting response. i think our government has responded well. maybe a little slowly, but relatively well in terms of setting up these ebola treatment units. we ve had great support from our corporate partners who are there with a lot of material aid. this has not caused a lot support from the american public generally. we need support for the efforts we re doing not only right now but considering what we need to do to accomplish long-term goals here. thomas. when we talk about the situation of the spread, michael, and the containment of that, where does it stand right now? countries like sierra leone, liberia? what we re seeing in liberia is the case counts coming down, which is really good news. that s a success story. we should be grateful for that. that s evidence the strategy s working. if you put health workers in there, you give them the materials they need and you train them, you do public information messaging to the people in the community, and it works. this works. now, it s not happening in sierra leone quite as fast. the numbers are still rising there. guinea seems to be flattening out a little bit too. we ve got a new scare in mali. this is not done by any means. who are the corporate partners who have been most helpful, you know, because it s i think were you saying to me this is hard to sell? to the general public. think most of the general republican has been the few cases in the united states. the reality is people are dying every day in west africa and that s where we really need to be focused. we need the general public to come stand with us as well. and support us the way they have done in earthquakes and typhoons and those sorts of incidents as well. we need them along. corporate partners have been great. the company backster donated 50,000 bags of iv fluids. and cardinal health just hundreds and hundreds of thousands of items of personal protective gear, masks and gloves and boots and gloun s a. we need the public to stand up too. when we talk about health workers, we have is the extreme situation where we just had the unfortunate loss of a 44-year-old american doctor who passed away after coming back from sierra leone. and then we have the huge example of kaci hickox who came back and was treated with the isolation in maine. from what you re hearing on the inside is that stopping people from wanting to be of service? 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