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Now, after a 3,000 mile trek by bike across the country, kenny thomas has arrived in washington, d.c. where he hopes to bring his message to lawmakers and even to president obama. kenny thomas joins us from our d.c. bureau along with his daughters katie and chloe that inspired him to pedal his message from california to d.c. welcome to all of you. >> good morning, thank you. >> great to have you guys here. kenny, i know this idea was born out of a conversation that you had with your daughters there about the deficit and they didn't know much about it and you figured many americans may not know...

She joins us from our d.c. bureau. sarah, what's it going to take to get them to step up? >> it's going to take a lot of effort on the part of vice president biden. you know, we have been pretty much hands off with their internal political situation for quite a while now in iraq. but, you know, with the drawdown date looming and just 50,000 troops being left, i think this administration really wants to see the iraqi government push forward and solidify something. so, biden, i believe, this trip is -- is that true most important issue for him right now is to move the process forward. and hopefu...

Completely separate, from that time. martha: very interesting, we expect more fireworks to come. in all of this and we'll take you back to washington, bret, thank you so much, bret baier monitoring this for us from our d.c. bureau there, go on-line as well to our web site, foxnews.com, all of this will continue streaming live, we have a lot of breaking news and a lot of coverage this morning. so we'll move on now to general petraeus, bill. bill: the second big issue, that faces the future of the country, general petraeus, we fully expect him to be -- pass the senate hearing and be the man who ...

Taking tough questions on what the government is doing to keep you safe. welcome again, everyone, i'm megyn kelly. holder on the hot seat today grilled on his decision to make civilian courts the primary option for prosecuting terror suspects. senator jeff sessions, who's the ranking republican on the judiciary committee, firing back on that one. >> isn't it true and isn't it appropriate that after they've been taken into military custody if you chose to try them in civilian courts you could still do so? >> i suppose that's true, but i think there's -- >> we've done that a number of times, hav...

After it recalled more than 8 million cars because of accelerator problems and other issues. the automaker says it has repaired about 1 million of the vehicles so far. but a small portion of drivers, about 60 at last count, say they are still having pedal problems, even after the fix. toyota reports it has locked into some of those complaints and investigated them and can't find anything wrong with the throttle or with the repairs. u.s. lawmakers though want more. today the house committee that's been investigating toyota sent a letter to the company. they are asking for more data and more int...