cenk: well looks look we re out of time. if you want more young turks, utubd.com/tyt, all the young turks you can handle. viewpoint is next. john: cpac 2013 is underway. and the speaker told us how barack obama is an evil socialist mastermind, and at least they re on message. the budget stayed up in d.c. with the president offering cuts to medicare now. this is turning into a new reality show. new deal or no knew deal. we ll be joined by congressman peter welch. and it s pi day. today is the birthday of the late albert einstein and tom coburn and michael caine is 80 years old. and julius caesar was an emperor, now he s a salad. here s viewpoint. [ theme music ] john: good evening, i m john fugelsang, and this is viewpoint. day three of president obama s so-called charm offensive saw him meeting with senate republicans and house democrats following the meeting yesterday with house republicans. next stop, tomorrow he ll be speaking at cpac. obama did offer an explanation for his recent outreach in a speech last night to a support group organizing for action. obama: over the last several weeks the the press here in washington has been reporting about obama s charm offensive. the truth of the matter is all i ve been doing is calling up folks and trying to see if we can break through some of the gobble di di gook of our politics politics. john: gobble di gook indeed. it s hard to differentiate between the gook and the gobble di. here is john baner. republicans want to balance the budget. the president doesn t. the republicans want to solve our long-term debt problem. the president doesn t. john: it s worth pointing out the last two republican presidents ever to balance a budget was named richard nixon. our biggest problems in the next ten years is not deficit. something that the president bases not only on facts economic theory and last four years of being president but we haveand thereduction we ve already done to slow our pesky recovery, but republicans demand leadership. in an op-ed. it says for all of washington s focus on the president s outreach to republicans it s his engagement with members of his own party that will germ whether we succeed in dealing with our own challenge of dealing with our economy. meaning, he would be a true leader and we would have a budget that cuts entitlements strips money from programs from those who actually need it. and it balances out. maybe that s why the president likes to stay at home in the white house after all. joining me is peter welch of vermont, who had a chance to meet with the president today. congressman, thank you for being on viewpoint this evening. thank you. john: you met with the president earlier. how would you describe the meeting? were you encouraged at all by what you heard? quite a bit? john: really? yes, the president had a brutal campaign and he won on a very explicit commitment that he would about up the economy bring down the deficit. that was the argument to bring down the debt. there is not a disagreement between him and mr. boehner about the debt. it s how we do it and when we do it. it was reassuring when he said he was not going to chase a bad deal. he was asked about the cpi which was a great concern to democrats. what he said was look, he s going to totally maintain the medicare and our social security, but he was acknowledging that sometimes we don t like to remember ourselves, we got a divided government. he said if we re going to demand a balanced approach then obviously we have to talk about things that we don t like. the context that the president presented this in is he would only get engaged on anything related to medicare if it was in the context of a very solid balanced deal. and i think what was reassuring was his emphasis on the commitment to the middle class bringing down unemployment, creating jobs. and you know, the difference here is that mr. boehner and the republicans actually do believe in austerity. they think if we just squeeze squeeze, squeeze, even as we lower taxes at the high end that will create prosperity. that s really a pipe dream. john: i m confused. the president said he doesn t want to touch medicare at all but because of a divided government we might have to do things we don t like. no, he said if we want to get revenues they ll bring up topics like the entitlement issues that we will have to discuss. he was not backing away from my view a solid commitment to maintaining it. he said those of us who are supporters of medicare and social security have to focus on maintaining solvency and stability going forward. he said, this was music to our ears. he said social security was not part of the debt issue. it is a totally different issue. to the extent that we get involved. social security at all it has to be about that problem and it s solvent and committed to that 75 year window we ve been committed to. as far as medicare, with what wave done with the affordable care act we re in good shape for the next ten years. but after that even the cbo numbers show with the demographics of ten thousand folks coming into healthcare each year and then healthcare costs continue to go up higher than the rate of inflation we have to do something. those of us on the democratic democratic side said it s reform, not shifting the costs as paul ryan is suggesting. he left pretty confident with the solid commitment to the middle class that he expressed in his campaign, and the solid commitment to revenue as part of the budget deal. he gave us confidence, i would say. even though some of these things are going to be raised by the republicans we have to evaluate them if over all it s a solid deal for the middle class. we re not going to chase a bad deal. john: that s great to hear. of course the president has been vocal about a possible willingness to support a reform. but you congressman welsh you have a proposal that will save $156 billion over the next ten years. right now medicare has great benefit and drug benefit program part d. we pay retail prices even though we buy wholesale. if we purchased drugs like we do in the v.a. or medicare, we would save taxpayers $156 billion a year. right now in medicare if we buy a certain drug, and buy that same drug in the medicaid or v.a. program, we would pay 60% less. so we re buying wholesale and paying retail. and obviously that makes no sense. it s a legacy of the law that was jammed through by tom delay known as the hammer when it was made illegal for the government to negotiate full-price discounts in the medicare program. no capitalist would do that. they would pay wholesale if buying wholesale. john: congressman peter welsh, i would have to say that particular plan would upset big farm ma, but you could take that on yourself and win. thank you for your time your service, and your very promising new bill. john: also joining us tonight to unpack the budget battle for newsweek the one and only michael tomas tomasky. welcome. thank you. john: if the president leads were behind, he s criticized. if he stays at home, they a they say the guy s not leading. what can he do? what can he do? accept the ryan budget. that s what they mean by leadership, john as you know, as you said at the top of the segment. they re not going to bend on revenues and they re not going to give an inch. what they mean is that the deal has to be done on their terms. that s what they mean. it s ridiculous. john: we have economists on both sides saying we don t have a deficit problem, something that dick cheney once said. how have republicans been so successful at framing the entire budget issue as one needing to balance the budget. is it that the media swallows everything that they say? the media swallows deficit hawkry all the time here in the beltway whether it comes from republicans or democrats. while bush was president the republicans weren t talking much about deficit hawkry. they were running up the big deficits. but then the big crisis came, the meltdown came in 2008 and we did spend, of course, we spent the stimulus and the auto bailout and other things. the deficit did go up very high, and the usual deficit hawks inside the beltway who are always complaining about the deficit started really ratcheting it up, and the republicans saw that. they said, aah this is our opportunity. what they want, of course, is to cut government spending cut domestic discretionary programs, and reform i can t believe that word came out of my mind, but to drastically cut change, cut programs. that s what they really want to do, but they now they can couch it in the we must reduce the deficit terms and that a lot of people will fall for it. you re correct in the premise of your question, it s correct. the deficit has gone down to $845 billion. that s still a high def sit but its falling pretty fast. if the economy keeps going at this clip, 250,000 private sector jobs a month, who knows. john: and economists claim the stimulus saved the economy. sir, have we reached a point where the best deal for our country may be no deal at all? well, a lot of people have said this going way back, going back to when this budget control act was passed in 2011, which is the act that led to the sequestration. yeah, this is an entirely possible outcome that no deal is the best deal. i just don t see what is going to make the republicans move on tax revenues. i didn t see anything in ryan s new budget that suggested this was possible. he wants to cut taxes even further, especially for rich people, of course. the democratic proposal that was put out by patty murray makes an attempt, and i think a reasonably honest attempt to have a balanced approach, you know, 1 trillion-dollar over ten years in revenues, and 1 trillion-dollar in ten years in spending cuts. but it s not the republicans aren t going to give that the time of day. they re not going to look at it. john: why isn t the president using his bully pulpit on the tax issue. they were supposed to expire in 2010. the american people voted for me twice on the promise of tax cuts. i made 80% of those tax cuts permanent. we re just talking about closing loopholes which is what governor romney talked about. why aren t we bringing the fight to them on this issue. in some ways he has. he goes out and makes these he goes out on the stump and makes these appearances and says these things. he may not say them the way you and i would like them. he may not say it as directly and emphatically as you and i would say them, but he s trying to say this stuff. whenever he does that, of course, the republicans say oh, he s out he s in permanent campaign mode. why doesn t he come back to washington to negotiate. then he comes back to negotiate and they have say, well, nothing came out of it. he can t win with them. john: in fairness to the president, you and i don t have the burden to appear presidential. the great michael tomasky. thank you for coming on the show tonight. thank you. john: anti-police protest in brooklyn three nights running now. the shooting last week that may have started it, but this was building up long before. now that s coming up next. now find the most hard core driver in america. that guy, put him in it. what s this? 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[ male announcer ] visit redlobster.com now for an exclusive $10 coupon on two lobsterfest entrees. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie get the sensation. john: it s time for our thing of the day and it s the smackdown of the day. senator dianne feinstein delivered on her hearing on her bill to ban assault weapons. after senator ted cruz tried to instruct her on the constitution, the good senator from california replied with this. i m not a sixth grader. senator, i ve been on this committee for 0 years. i was a mayor for nine years. i walked in, i saw people shot. i studied the constitution myself. i m reasonably well educated, and i thank thank you for the lecture. incidentally, this does not prohibit you used the word prohibit it exempts. 2271 weapons. isn t that enough for the people in the united states? do they need a bazooka. john: nice lecture, senator cruz. the bad news, senator feinstein apologized to senator cruz later. but hey she has to work with the guy. those people who were shot were harvey milk and senator marscone. the riots erupted after the shooting of 16-year-old kimani gray. one officer was injured but behind this protest is a larger story. most people shot by police in in 2011 were black like, kimani gray or hispanic. and they are routinely detained by police. the police have been stopping and specificking frisking people in wholesale numbers. any of those stops could turn violent, even with just verbal resistence. and more than 86% of the people who have been stopped have been black or latino with many of the young men getting frisked over and over and over again. i m pleased to welcome back to the show host of twi radio, elon james white and l. joy williams. thank you for coming back. thank you. john: just this tuesday at the city council complies commissioner ray kelly credited stop and frisk, the policy that i was just discussing about a sharp decrease in crime. is it worth it? did definitely is. you re asking american citizens to give up their rights, and you re saying, o because we re finding guns, because we re stopping future murderers. but we re giving up our rights. no other communities are asked to do that. there are no other communities across the city besides communities of color, who are asked to give up their civil liberties. john: stop and frisk does not happen on wall street. it doesn t happen there at all. and let s stop and look at the statistics on it. when you break it down, over 80% of people who are stopped on stop and frisk are absolutely innocent. this is a great thing you re doing even though most of the people you are bothering have done nothing wrong. it s not as if you get stopped and frisked and then they say oh, sorry this is the issue, and an explanation of why you may look like a perpetrator none of that happens. john: the privacy and civil liberties issue you might see rand paul get on the bandwagon. i doubt it. john: do you see the effects of it in private buildings or women? i ve been a witness to it more often than not it s young african-american and latino males as well as adults, who are targeted that way. i can t say that i ve personally experienced that. i ve never seen it or experienced it and i m not quite sure of the numbers that say a lot of women experience that but the target is males. our co-host a regular he has so many stories about this specifically because he s large african-american with long dreadlocks, literally he s stopped. if he sees someone cops will look in his direction he ll walk over to the car. how can i help you officer. that s how bad it s gotten in brooklyn. john: would you like to see stop and frisk end all together even as commissioner kelly said it would lead to a rise in violent crime. i m not sure that it would directly lead to a rise in crime. i m different. i know there are organizations likes naacp, who want the policy ended. me personally, i have a different view. i think it can be an useful tool but it s not used properly. when you have a systemic view across police departments because it s not just here in new york. there are other places as well where they don t use the tool properly, then i think you do have to end it because people don t know how to use it. i differ with l. joy on that. if your statistics are that high that you re finding the wrong people then maybe the tactic you re using shouldn t be used. john: this is not just about locking people up for small amounts of marijuana. that s a misdemeanor. even for a long time. first of all that was supposed to be kind of the misdemeanor for quite some time. people were still being arrested at full volume. even with that being on the books it doesn t mean that the young men on the street that get stopped actually will have that happen to them. remember, you mentioned even if you assert verbally without any physical violence or anything, even if you assert verbally yours rights there are still african-american and latino males who know their rights and will say it to police officers, that talk back will get you arrested. john: you could try to end poverty and watch it all disappear in a generation or so, but that won t help. they don t believe in prevention. john: no, in is america. let s shift over to the protest. elon you ve been there. what have you seen happening at the protest over the last few nights? people are frustrated. there are multiple things happening right now. there is a dead child. that s what it is, as much as we want to talk about the gang banger and his background there is a dead child. you have a city where literally there has been a battle between the community and the actual police department for decades. this is not something that just started. this is not some weird new thing. you have all this brewing around things. then you have people who are genuinely angry and they believe things should happen. at the same time they re coming to the neighborhood and they re not actively thinking what is going to happen in that neighborhood. you have so many different aspects and parts of this going on that no one is having the discussion about the complication of this. i should mention, he had been arrested four times previously but we have not heard a word whether his prints were found on the weapon near his body, and in my opinion the fact that there were three bullet wounds in his back does not mean that this controversy is going to go away any time soon. we re still waiting for the results of this investigation that continues to go on. his family held a press conference denouncing the violence that has been rising, and has been happening as protests have been going on, and they just want an investigation in terms of it. we see witness who is have come forward and say he didn t have a gun. he didn t have anything in his hands. we need this conversation to happen to figure out what happened. but as elon mentioned there is still the tension and anger in our communities that this consistently happens in our communities. even right now, just as a point of reference where we acknowledge that he had been arrested four times before. that didn t matter. they didn t know that information during the altercation at that time. john: indeed, they did not. i thank you for coming back two nights in a row. as i told you we ll continue to cover this because i think whether you live in new york or not this affects you. i thank you both for keeping on top of it. l. joy williams, and elon james white. thank you both for stopping by. yes. john: other children at risks. this across the world in syria. that s coming up. you re invited to take the lysol wipes challenge. try lysol dual action wipes and see the cleaning power. lysol dual action wipes have 2 sides instead of one. a scrubbing side that cleans tough stains better than clorox. and a smooth side for everyday touchups. all while killing 99.9% of germs. take the lysol wipes challenge today. available at walmart. cheap is good. and sushi, good. but cheap sushi, not so good. it s like that super-low rate on not enough car insurance. pretty sketchy. and then there are the good decisions. like esurance. their coverage counselor tool helps you choose the right coverage for you at a great price. 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a closer shave in a single stroke for less irritation, even on sensitive skin. gillette mach3 sensitive. gillette. the best a man can get. john: welcome back. moving now to syria, in the civilian cost of the deadly civil war in syria has been well documented. it has claimed the lives of some 70,000 people with several thousand more dying every month. what has not been documented until now is the story of children caught in the cross fire of unrelenting syrian violence. according to a report by save the children 2 million children are in need of assistance facing death, trauma, suffering deprived of basic humanitarian aid. many have been lost at least one loved one and some have even been used as human shields. carolyn mills, thank you for your service on this horrible issue and the statistics that i just cited are alarming. can you shed light for our viewers on what is happening in syria? sure, i think children are really caught in the cross fire. this is the children s emergency more than anything. it s an attack on childhood. that s why we wrote the report. it s kids inside syria about two million kids are at risk, and horrible things are happening to kids. we did this report with interviews with children both inside and outside of the country. they re telling us things like they re watching their family members be tortured, they re being tortured themselves. we have reports of kids being used as human shields. we have reports of girls being married off at 15, 16, to protect them from being raped. really horrible things that are happening to children inside syria. john: when you follow the news on what is happening in this horrible conflict it s the politics. it s assad, it s who is to blame. can we trust the resistence, is turkey involved, and can john kerry do it? we don t talk about the statistics like this. i want to share this from your report. 2,000 schools have been damaged. more than 200,000 children are missing out on education and a third of syrian hospitals are now closed. it may seem like a trite question but what is the impact like this on the children? something to remember, this is a middle income country. before this disaster, and this crisis, these were kids going to school. they had healthcare. they had the basics. they weren t rich by any means but were families that had the basics. now you have kids not going to school. huge psychological trauma on these kids. no health services. john: that includes inoculations. exactly. vaccinations are not being kept up. we re hearing stories that mothers are going at seven months pregnant to have an emergency c-section because they re afraid they won t be able to get into a hospital when they re actually due. and then within 4 hours less than 24 hours after the emergency c-section they leave the hospital. you know, the healthcare everything basically everything serving these kids is gone. john: what kind of psychological damage has this done to syrian children now and of course exponentially down the road? yeah, that s something that we re worried about. it s something that save the children does a lot of work on to get to those psycho social issues. you can see it in the drawings and in the reports that the kids are doing. they re drawing about these horrible things that have happened to them. that s a good part of what is happening because you want kids to get some of those feelings out so the draw is drawing is part of getting kids to deal with these feelings. the trauma, you know, if you think about children watching, you know, parents die watching their brothers and sisters die being tortured. that s trauma that s going to be there for a very long time. john: i really hate to have to ask this question but how is this civil war impacting girls as opposed to boys? well, i think girls always, unfortunately, are targets in war. we re hearing stories of rape of young teenage girls. parents are marrying they are girls off early for protection. we definitely think that s happening throughout the country. john: the report is largely nonpartisan, i respect that, but let me ask you, do you feel comfortable saying whether or not the assad regime is more responsible for these abuses of children than the resistence? well, we certainly see the regime targeting civilians. that absolutely is happening. and children are being targeted along with those families. you know, it s hard to get all of the information. it s a very hard place to work, so i do think there are things happening on both sides. the other thing is that there is not one rebel force. there are multiple fragmented groups in syria so some of these things could be happening in small groups but not across the forces. john: one quick question. everyone wonders how can we help? where is the aid going? what is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of getting aid to the syrian children, financial aid or humanitarian aid? the point is we re getting aid in to children and the million refugees who left the country, 52% who are living in jordan, lebanon and iraq in refugee camps. we are getting aid to children and aid into the country, but we need more access. we need access to the hardest hit areas. john: carolyn miles, i m grateful there are people like you on the planet. thank you. you thank you. john: conservatives are now meeting in maryland to echo at each other cpac. we have more from the scene. that s coming up next. while your carpets may appear clean. it s scary how much dirt your vacuum can leave behind. add resolve deep clean powder before you vacuum to expel the dirt within your carpets. resolve s deep clean powder is moist. absorbing and lifting three times more dirt than vacuuming alone. leaving you with a carpet that s truly fresh and clean. don t just vacuum clean. resolve clean. [ male announcer ] it s red lobster s lobsterfest our largest selection of lobster entrees like lobster lover s dream or new grilled lobster and lobster tacos. come in now and sea food differently. visit redlobster.com now for an exclusive $10 coupon on two lobsterfest entrees. john: the 40th annual conservative political action conference kicked off this morning, and as always the theme of the day: lies and hatred. some of the intellectuals who took the stage today included one of the and done former congressman alan west perhaps allen west can sum up what happened today. there is nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black american who wants a better life and a smaller government. conservatives believe it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed. john: because liberals were the ones who kept a black man down as long as you didn t own a dictionary. let s check in with a brilliant american who is actually there. tom welcome. hey john. john: it s great to have you. you were at cpac talking to more of the folks in the crowd. that fascinates me. what was the vibe like for those attending? you know, it s almost giddiness. a lot of people are there because they got scholarships, as it were, members who of their young republican clubs so they packed the house of these folks. and there is an enormous amount of money an enormous amount of swag, bags of stuff that they could take back. the thing that i found fascinating with the c-pac are the billionaires behind it. how they pushed my dad generation to the right and how their sons are pushing the generation today to the right they re almost there. john: david koch favors marriage equality, he may be quicked out of his own conference. does this seem like the future of the republican party or just a side show to get hillary clinton elected history? well, i think that s a good question. a, i don t think it s the future of the republican party. i think we re looking at the republican party being torn apart. and the billionaire takeover of it and b, hillary clinton? well, we ll have to wait and see on that. i don t think they have a viable candidate yet. jeb bush is the most likely. john: the viable candidates were not invited this year. what topics were people most interested in talking to you about? turning social security over to the banks. let wall street take care of social security. let s turn medicare over to the health insurance companies. the stuff of paul ryan, the stuff that they put in their budget, voted for two years in a row and said, this is what we like. doing away with entitlement programs. anything that helps average working people or poor people they re opposed to. and anything that helps billionaires they re in favor of. john: i m glad that the serfs have realized that the lords are the feudal lords are the top. were there any topics you wanted to avoid? probably the billionaires, the influence of the billionaires on the port. it s a topic that does not discussed in c-pac. it doesn t get discussed in the democratic party either, and it should be more. there are a few billionaires who support democrats but there is a distinction. when the billionaire is supporting a democrat, they re supporting someone who is going to raise their taxes. you can t in any way call that an investment other than a social investment. a genuine society societal investment. john: someone called that patriotism. well said. on the other hand, when billionaires are supporting republicans and conservatives they re investing in having more money down the road because their taxes will be lower. and which is really kind of sad. john: and everyone is waiting for their trickle down prize. we have ten seconds are people coming up in the next couple of days, sarah palin, donald trump who are the folks most are excited to hear speak. donald trump, i m looking forward to. john: me, to. syndicated radio talk show thom hartmann. good to see view listen to this guy s radio show. he s dynamite. here to discuss everything c-pac is alexsi mcgill johnson and rick ungar and mr. karl frisch. we re going to have fun. first of all is this meant to be taken seriously or is this just to get the party fired up. when you re doubled down and crazy you can t be serious. when you re trying to ignore some of the core issues that are going to be key to any 2014 or 2016 challenge, i can t see how this is either/or. john: rick, what do you think? we love it. the circus comes to town. it s funny. we re the ones talking about this. i watched fox earlier. they weren t talking about c. pac the-pacthe way we re talking about it. it s a circus. did you see donald trump? allen west. john: it s fun to mock them. i don t mock them. i depend c-pac s right to exist. it s the south by southwest homophobes muslim haters immigrant bashers racists sexists. the more that they exist in their 41st and 42nd and 43rd year it will only do better for the country because it will show the american people what the republican party is becoming. there were benign comments but putt toomey s speech, here he is discussing his version of the 2008 financial crisis. the fact is the policies that got us into this mess are the policies of a big government, the failed monetary policy and encouraging lending to people who couldn t pay loans back. it s the left that got us into this mess. john: the only way the left got us into this mess is if you want to blame roosevelt for making glass-steagall which was repealed decades later. how did the left get us into this mess? the right will always look for an excuse to blame the left. it s as if bush never happened. everything that happened during bush that was bad was clinton s fault. anything john: we can give clinton credit for the repeal of glass-steagall. sucking up to the right is not being left. the senator you saw was a pin for billionaires for decades pouring vast amounts of money into senate races all over the country to elect the most conservative corporatist members of the body they could. i just think it speaks to the irony of all of these wall street folks who are you know, definitely trying to get away from big government, but at the same time putting their hands out in front of big government. the fact that they re embodying that is really speaking volumes. john: they worship ronald reagan who grew big government by 60,000 jobs. we talk about how an g.o.p. speaks empty rhetoric with no real ideas. this won t change your mind. when i m done speaking i ll tell what you the criticism i ll tell you the problem on the left. one, he drank too much water. there is no idea. the idea is called america, and it still works. john: okay, no one has made fun of the water. they made of him being a bad speaker and there are no new ideas. they don t come up with new ideas because of america? blah-blah-blah blah flag. bengahzi. alexis? of all the new ideas that rubio should have been talking about is path to citizenship and noticeably it s absent from his speech. john: he has the path away from citizenship. you put your finger on it. substance is always missing. he does not deal in substance. give this kid a break. we all know the letters, shapes numbers, they all have a liberal biased. john: we ll talk about some people who are not at c-pac, the guys who could actually get elected. we ll be right back. plan. john: back with our panel alexis, karl, and rick, rand paul enters the sandman. he played metallica to try to appeal to the young folk. the facebook generation can detect falseness and hypocrisy a mile away. ask the facebook generation if we should put a kid in jail for the non-violent crime of drug use. you ll hear a resounding no. ask the face become generation if they want to bail out too big to fail banks with their tax dollars, you ll hear a hell no. john: i like the second two points, but if facebook generation could detect falseness, they would not be giving their information to farm apps. at the end of the day it shows how completely out of touch he is with young people and the millennial generation. john: i don t know,. i disagree. i disagree. i think that john mccain made a big mistake picking on rand paul for trying to appeal to college libertarians. he knows exactly what he s doing. john: in fairness john mccain was lifting somebody else s line when did he it. karl why do you think that jeb would not want to be part of the poll this year. i think jeb bush is looking at the situation here. he knows that he stuck his foote in his mouth not two weeks ago when he flip flopped on immigration reform. i think he ll play it safe until he has to get aggressive. i think he still has another year or two before he has to do that even if he ends up running. john: i agree. i think he will end up running because he ll have the best fundraising apparatus in place and it will be he and crisisy. christie doesn t have a snowball s chance in new jersey of winning the republican nomination. he ll be the rudy giuliani chance. chris christie still speaks the truth for a lot. in new jersey. in iowa they elect people like pat robertson and pat buchanan. john: mitt romney was hated by two-thirds of that primary party and still got through. he was pro-life he was against gay marriage. chris christie is the least positive on gay marriage. john: he s against gay marriage and abortion rights. he could get back there quickly. john: he doesn t hate muslims enough. they do don t like that. what does it say about the resist in the party, alexis that these two guys were not invited and trump was? i think it s interesting. you have a sector of the party that knows that they re to blame for 2012. so that they are they re kind of like doubling down on crazy. and they re trying to reinforce their position because they know whoever the candidate is will have to move a little bit to the left of them. john: okay, rick, speaker is coming up. mitt romney, sarah palin, donald trump. are these three people irrelevant so far as the party. obviously they re irrelevant. i want tickets to all of them. john: that s why they re not irrelevant. there is a difference between a freak show and being politically relevant. bob mcdonald is relevant in the sense that he could appeal to some people but not necessarily a serious candidate in 2016. he would not sell tickets. but he is relevant. john: i think it s going to come down to who is as good of a public speaker as hillary clinton in 2016. that s w
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1 in 6 and growing, imagine the enhanced dignity they must feel today after what happened late yesterday in rome. the election of pope francis is something so new it may take a while to get our heads around it. it won t take that long for people who come from latin american backgrounds. all the people here in our country from central america and the caribbean, they must be thrilled. and the cardinal from buenos aires was a surprise last night. he wasn t even mentioned of the possible popes of the newspapers. my sense is he ll be very offbeat from what we re used to in politics in this country. usually you hear someone from the suburbs say i m a liberal on social issues but conservative on economic issues. well pope francis is the opposite from you. he s conservative on issues like marriage and equality, but progressive on poverty and justice. some old style democrats who are pro life but solid on health care for the poor, protection of the minimum wage, sort of like bob casey. so get ready for a pope who will be perfectly on the old progressive issues dear to dorothy day and tip o neill and more conservative when it comes to matters of sex. that s hardball for now, thanks for being with us, the ed show with ed schultz starts now. welcome to the ed show from new york. america met scott prody last night. and what a reaction. i ll tell you what members of the romney camp are saying about comments now. let s get to work. i don t know how i describe myself, but i i was behind this whole thing. the world is reacting to our first interview with the bartender who changed political history. tonight, the footage you haven t seen including the heroic act that convinced scott prody he needed to release the tape. looking back on it, it s one of the proudest moments of my life. they re refighting the vietnam war over at cpac. vietnam was winnable, but people in washington decided we would not win it. howard fineman has a wrap-up of the conservative conclave. plus more republican obstruction of appointees has democrats fuming. i ll ask former senator tom daschle if harry reid needs to revisit the filibuster reform. and yesterday it was the president. now democratic leadership looks like they may cave on social security. i ll ask the big congressional panel where they stand. good to have you with us, folks, thanks for watching. people around the country are still buzzing about the man behind the 47% video who revealed his identity on this show last night. now, today the world is getting to know the real scott prody. he described himself on this program as a regular guy. he s got bills to pay, he struggles in the middle class like anybody else. he has a dream to go to law school and he s really, here s another thing about him that i think you should know. he s a bartender. this is interesting. bartenders are in the service and hospitality industry, they are also some of the best armchair psychologists you can find. some of the best people readers on the earth. they can tell if somebody s in a good mood, one of the nicest people you ve ever met. you know huh it is, they interact with everyone. people confide in bartenders. they tell bartenders things that they might not tell anybody else. people come into the bar, you know, that they come in happy, they come in sad, they come in after a real tough day. oftentimes they come in to celebrate. what i m saying is that the bartender sees it all. the bartender knows people. in a way, you know, it s kind of perfect that the guy who secretly recorded mitt romney was in this industry and a bartender. you know, a working guy, a wage earner. you know, bills to pay. a guy who knows people. you know, it took him about 30 seconds to sum up the phony in the room. he saw a guy who was ordering the wait staff around when he walked through the door. but he also understood the seriousness of what was being said. he knew that the impact what it was going to have and was not going to be careless about his responsibility. you were convinced that you had something the media never had. right. maybe the media had it. i i when listening to this speech. i thought if he had said something silly or stupid or off the cuff or, you know, if something didn t actually come out right and he just had said something embarrassing, i would never have just released it. but when i listened to him talk, that wasn t off the cuff, i believed he meant what he said. he spoke with the most conviction i d ever heard him speak with. i felt that, you know what, this wasn t just a mistake, it wasn t a gotcha moment. this is what he believes. scott prouty knew the words were romney s real beliefs. romney s people also knew it. peter alexander told matt lauer the romney campaign knew how harmful the candidate s words were. the release of that tape last summer stunned the staff. the governor, i was told even apologized to them for the mess he had caused. and even now i still remember what another frustrated adviser told me at the time. he said when you re running for president, you ve got to know that the camera is always on. well, he forgot that. scott prouty wanted to make sure that the american people understood the true meaning of what was being said by a man running for president. the country needed to know what this candidate thought of workers. his analysis came from experience because he has dealt with a lot of people. he can see people coming from a mile away. he s a bartender. that s his job. the outpouring of support for scott prouty captures the importance of what he did. people understand the courage it took to come forward. this is not the first time scott prouty put his neck on the line. here s another part of my interview with him. it sums up scott prouty, i think, pretty well. there was a story about you that you stopped on the side of the road of an accident and jumped in the everglades and saved a woman and her child. is that true? it was a single mom, the baby seat was in the car but there was no child in the car. but, yeah, it was a few years back, five years back and i was honored for saving a lady s life that her car crashed in the water and i d gone down and swam up and down and was able to cut her out eventually and, you know, brought her out and david had said, you know, the reason that it was even involved in this, i was on the phone with david early on when we were discussing david cornyn. discussing the release and he d said, you know, this is incredibly either incredibly brave of you to do or incredibly stupid. you know, and it was that second i said, well, the last incredibly brave or incredibly stupid thing i did looking back on it is one of the proudest moments of my life. so, you know, i think we re going to roll the dice here and we re going to go down that path one more time because it worked. i m glad i did it then, and i think and i slept at night because i didn t watch this woman drown in her car. i was able to live with myself because i jumped in and was, you know, there was other people on the bank and other people trying to help, but i was able to go and pull her out and dive back down and look for the baby. but i came out of it okay. she survived, but i i m glad it s one of the most proudest moments of my life. and it was it was something that said, you know what, if you can jump in, jump in. and i had a chance to jump in with this again and said you know what, i m going to jump in one more time. well, the american people are thankful that scott prouty decided to jump in one more time. as a broadcaster, i m honored to have been able to tell the story along with him. it was an honor to be a part of it and i appreciate it very much. you know when you do big interviews in this business, there s a stroke of luck that goes along with it. not everybody gets what they want. most people feel if they get close to a story, they deserve the interview. i don t know if i deserve the interview or not, but i do know this, that scott prouty and i do align ourselves when it comes to workers rights and workers issues in the middle class and maybe he just felt a little bit more comfortable here. and i m proud of our team for that. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. it warms my heart to see what has unfolded in social media since the interview aired last night. is scott prouty a hero? text a for yes, b for no. you can go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring the results later on in the show. i m joined by leo gerard. good to have you with us tonight. good to be with you, ed, and congratulations on the interview. well, thank you. what has been your role in scott prouty s story? well, i i don t want to speak necessarily about my role. i talk about our union s role. through our relationship with charlie kernagen and the institute for global human rights, we got to meet scott during the inauguration festivities in washington and got to sit down with him and talk about his views about life and his respect for charlie and what charlie does every day going around world trying to help people who are working in terrible conditions. and scott managed to see charlie s work on that very same factory that romney was talking about. and you and i did a show on that, i think, at some point in time where that factory was purchased by romney s bermuda corporation. and when charlie put that out, he and scott connected. and through our relationship with charlie, we got to meet scott. and i m happy to say that scott is now going to come and work for the united steel workers. and we re going to do everything we can to help him to make sure he gets the kind of support he needs to take himself through this very, very emotional time for him and this very important time frame for him. he s just, i think, a rare human being that did the right thing for the right reason and didn t want to be the center of attention but wanted america to see the difference between the make believe romney and the real romney when he was behind closed doors with his ultra rich friends. what kind of work is he going to do for the steel workers? i think we re going to talk to him and do the kind of work he s excited about doing. he s very close with charlie and we do all kinds of work in different parts of the world. we send people into countries where workers are getting oppressed and we try to help, for example, we ve helped build unions in liberia, now working with in nigeria. we were in bangladesh with charlie when the fires occurred. and all the women got killed. charlie and scott have been talking about those things through the relationship and the friendship they ve built since they met along the way. and scott is a very talented and smart and strategic young person. and if we can help him meet his dream of going to law school, earning some money to go to law school, we re going to try to do that for him. he s a hero in this election. and god bless him because i can t imagine what we d be doing now had mitt romney been able to fool the american public. well, how much weight do you put on his actions in the outcome of the election? do you really think that it was the game changer? and had this not been exposed maybe romney would ve won? or would he have won? i m not smart enough to figure that out, but i do know this. when i was on the campaign trail talking to ordinary workers spending our time with our members or people that weren t our members talking to workers in various settings. they resented what they saw mitt romney say. mitt romney basically called 47% of america free loaders, those are people that are living, veterans that have come out, people who are disabled, workers who don t earn enough to pay taxes even. and so there was a lot of anger that got generated. and i think it also generated a lot of motivation. i know that our people got more mobilized as a result of that video. and i m sure that others did. and i think that what scott did, and i think his strategy was flawless. i think what he did with no prompting by anybody but him thinking it through, he wanted those that couldn t afford the $50,000 dinner to be able to see the real mitt romney. and the others that got scott upset is that mitt romney was talking about himself being a job creator and then he saw what mitt romney was doing in china buying these factories at bain capital. and he saw that as a complete sort of contradiction of what mitt romney was trying to portray. i think in the sense that mitt romney helped the obama machinery show what romney really was about, i think it was if not a game changer darn near a game changer and i think america owes scott a big debt of thanks. well, he is a hero in my opinion and a lot of americans on social media are saying the same thing. it took a lot of guts to do what he did. it certainly is going to change fund raising, there s no such thing as behind closed doors anymore or whoever s going to be the next person to get caught isn t going to be thought of as very intelligent. but well i the treatment of workers is what really tripped his trigger to release this whole thing and the oppression of the workers is what it was really one of the things that captured his attention. and i want to ask you, mr. gerard, do you think the republican party will change its attitude to the 47%. senator cruz the other day said at least i interpreted his comments as not really. look, i think the current batch of republicans and those that are behind him in the extreme republicans that are the voice of the 1%, i don t think they re going to change. i think they re just sorry their guy got caught. sure. and they keep if you watch what they re doing, we have a contest going on in america right now between the president who wants to get out of the current mess we re in through growth and the republicans and those in the congress that are republicans wanting to get the country into austerity. anif you look at what s happening in europe, look at what s happened at great britain that accepted austerity. they re in a triple-dip recession. so i think that they re not going to change. and the one thing that about scott to tell everybody. he wanted everybody to see the real mitt romney. and when romney was almost arrogant enough to say that hep went into that factory and saw the barbed wire in the fences and sure. and that was to keep people out, right. to keep people in. to keep people out. well, look, i m not the smartest guy in the world, but i ve driven by prisons and when it s turned inside, it s not so that you can keep people out, it s so you can keep people in. thank you, mr. gerard, i appreciate it so much. thanks for being on the ed show tonight. remember to answer tonight s questionnaire at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. and do that for the weekend show coming up too. conservatives are out in full force at their annual convention. we ll tell you who shot first. 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[ female announcer ] almost nothing can dampen a baby s mood, when he wakes up dry in pampers. unlike other diapers, pampers has 3 absorbent layers, for up to 12 hours of protection overnight, and more beautiful mornings. pampers. peaceful nights. playful days. republican elected officials who vote for tax increases are rat heads in a coke bottle. comedy hour. there s going to be a lot more of that nonsense in the coming days. the gop s best and brighters are gathering outside of washington, d.c. for the largest republican gathering of the year cpac. this year s conference theme is america s future the next generation of conservatives new challenges timeless principles. i think i ll puke now. here s what the next generation of conservatives looks like at cpac. a good chunk of their speakers are old and bad, very bad at winning elections. meanwhile, you can tell republicans are still pretty sore about mitt romney s loss. this year s conference offers panels like csi washington, d.c., november 2012 autopsy. and here s another one, should we shoot all the consultants now, question mark? you mean they actually would shoot people at this thing? one consultant said they wouldn t be shooting who they would not be shooting is dick morris. that s good because we like to have him around for comedy. after his horribly wrong predictions in the election, morris was invited to speak at cpac, is that an improvement? he addressed a mostly empty side of the room telling republicans they need to change on issues like immigration and abortion. yeah, that ll happen. former congressman alan west thinks otherwise. here s what he said about change today. there s no shortage of people telling us what conservatism cannot accomplish. what we can t do, how we cannot connect, how we must change our values to fit the times. well, ladies and gentlemen, i want to tell you that truly is a bunch of malarky. yeah, pay no attention to the people, it s us. texas congressman gomert got things cooking today. the tea party rock star shared an odd thought on the vietnam war. i m not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it. when was the last time you had an in-depth conversation about vietnam? this was at the cpac convention? what they re talking about? gohmert also said we should ve gone to war with iran in 1979. now, i still believe today that we have americans dying for their country because we did not send a message in 1979. you don t attack american soil and that s what an embassy is. we should stand up. there s a time for war. and that comedy ticket is only $29.95. well, $25 if you get it early, i guess. senator marco rubio also spoke today, he defended his stance on gay marriage. i respect people that disagree with me on certain things. but they have to respect me too. just because i believe that states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot. with two more days of cpac to go, there will be plenty of other memorable moments, i m sure. let s turn to howard fineman prelim analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. nice to have you with us tonight. hi, ed. issues to rest. that s what my little note here is. can the republican party put some of these issues to rest like gay marriage and immigration? will they make any forward progress at cpac? your thoughts? well, i don t think they want to put them to rest. i think in a way the the mentality of cpac is also reflected in congress in the mentality of representative paul ryan s budget. he s putting forth the same thing that lost in the election, the cpac people are basically saying for the most part, for the most part, actually rand paul was one of the more interesting and disruptive characters there intellectually. disruptive? well, disruptive in the sense that he was willing to take up ask some fundamental questions about things, about privacy, about banks being too big to fail. he doesn t fit directly into the traditional mode. but most of the speakers, including marco rubio were saying, hey, there s nothing wrong with our message. our message is just fine. on the social issues, on every issue. as a matter of fact, rubio didn t even mention immigration, which i think is fascinating since that was his original calling card. at cpac, he strictly hit every traditional red button and did it in a traditional way and got a lot of applause for it. that s sort of the mentality of cpac. i ve covered cpac for many, many years back in the day, it was a pretty serious in kind wonkish exercise intellectual debate. it really isn t that for the most part. it s all political positioning and their political position is we ain t changing. well, these politicians want to come away with the biggest headline and the biggest buzz. isn t that part of their mission, as well? sure, yeah. it is. and it remains a sort of emotional testing ground for sound bites and for personalities. yeah. rubio got a lot of good applause lines. rand paul got a lot of good applause lines. rick perry got applause lines for saying go ahead, go ahead. it s always good to throw the loser under the bus. rick perry knocked mitt romney pretty good today. here s the clip. the popular media narrative it s that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals as evidenced by the last two presidential elections. that might be true if republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 in 2012. was that the biggest response that anybody got? that was a good line that was a good line and goes to the point i m making. which is this is about purity. this is about their traditional stance on things. rick perry s probably not the best expert on who s salable on elections on a national level. if a conservative by his lights didn t win the nomination this last time, it s partly rick perry s fault. because he tried to put out a conservative message there that didn t work. so that s the situation they re in right now. all right. what do you expect for mitt romney s speech tomorrow? what does he have to offer cpac? well, he s i think he s going to have to say announce? if he wants any applause, he s going to have to say i screwed up. i didn t carry the conservative message purely enough or strongly enough, in my heart i m a conservative but i got waylaid, sand trapped by the bartender in florida. you know, et cetera, et cetera. that s what he s going to have to do. i don t expect him to suddenly come in there and pound the table in defense of the moderate republicanism that he used to represent. yeah. i don t see that. howard, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. thank you, ed. the big three on the chopping block with the democrats. and i ll ask the ed show congressional committee. what are you going to do to stop it? still to come, the congressional panel on the future of the big three. president obama wants the senate to fix the filibuster. former senate majority leader tom daschle is here to respond. and i can t wait to tell you what i have planned for the new weekend show. stay with us. welcome back to the ed show. today president obama finished his meeting with republicans and democratic caucuses of both houses of congress. now, according to several gop sources, the president wanted to convince republicans that he was serious about cutting entitlements. congress said it was a really great first step. he did express a willingness to give on entitlements. the word give bothering me. here s what the president said today. i think we ve had good conversations. but ultimately, it s a matter of the house and the senate, both caucuses getting together and everybody being willing to compromise. house leader nancy pelosi said chained cpi and medicare means testing were possibilities. if there can be a demonstration, the cpi does not hurt the poor or the very old. then it s something to put on the table. other things that might sustain social security for a longer period of time recognizing the demographic shift that is taking place. what s going on here? the washington post reports leader pelosi and senate majority leader harry reid are prepared to rally, rank and file around a grand bargain. then there is house speaker john boehner trying to place the entire burden on democrats. listen, i m glad president obama reached out yesterday and visited with the house republican conference. and i think we had an honest discussion. but this is going to take more dinner dates and phone calls. it s going to take the president and senate democrats rolling up their sleeves and making tough choices about how we solve our nation s problems. all right. let s turn to our congressional panel tonight. congressman keith ellison of minnesota, congressman tim ryan of ohio. i ll take the liberty to say three of my best friends in the congress. no doubt. that s right. gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. congressman ellison, you first, what s going on here? well, we have 107 people in the house caucus, democrats who say that we are going to stand firm on social security, medicare and medicaid benefici beneficiaries. the bottom line is, you know, they re anyone who wants to make any changes there is going to have to talk to the rank and file democrats. and a lot of us are very clear on where we stand when it comes to seniors, people with disabilities and people who are living on survivor benefits. these are folks with very limited income and they have already given. do you have enough to stop what i m hearing on some of these sound bites tonight and the coverage from today? what do you think? is this a softening from the white house or what? well, the white house has pretty much been here for a long, long time. we pushed them back earlier on when they wanted to change the medicare age to 67, which is probably one of the worst policy ideas i ve ever heard. and i was insurance commissioner for eight years in california. i know that would really terminate medicare even as much as the voucher could because it really sets up a situation. you re going to have sicker and sick people in that particular area. there are things that we can do and what we really need to do is to focus on growing the economy. the deficit is there. we can deal with it. but growing the economy is the first priority. yeah. congressman ryan, president obama campaigned on protecting the middle class. so why all of a sudden is chained cpi up there for grabs. even nancy pelosi is starting to embrace it here. are we seeing the democrats shift towards the republican position on protecting the big three? well, i m not sure nancy pelosi is there just yet. i thought she was very careful on what she said, protecting the poor, protecting those seniors. so everything s fungible. and i ll go over battles for the poorest of the poor, our children and senior citizens with nancy pelosi any day of the week. and i m confident in the house with the leadership of people like keith and john that we will be able to hold a line on some of this from the democratic side. but it does get worrisome every now and again when you hear these comments. i know you ve got to be conciliatory and be ready for a grand bargain, but we re not going to sell our soul in the process. in an op-ed, speaker boehner wrote during our debt discussions in 2011, he wrote that president obama supported such reforms such as raising medicare eligibility age something you talked about, john, in achieving savings in medicaid. he has since taken these reforms off the table. and boehner said this today. and the president s idea of compromise is just do it my way. and that s just not going to work. well, i hope that s the case because they re not going to give up any revenues, congressman ellison. absolutely. i mean, here we win an election where governor romney s signature position is repealing obama care. and yet, in the ryan budget, that s the main thing they say they re going to repeal. i mean, they seem impervious to the facts. and i think it s very clear that their opening bid is no revenue, we re going to repeal obama care. i mean, i think it is the leadership of the republican caucus that needs to take a look in the mirror and roll up their sleeves. and congressman garamendi, i have not seen or heard of any defined loopholes that the republicans are willing to close in the tax code. they love to throw out we ve got to fix the tax code, but when you ask them about that, they start to talk about lowering corporate tax rates. well, we ve talked from years about ending the loophole that the oil companies has. the richest industry in the world does not need our tax subsidies. there s still a lot of subsidies going for american corporations when they offshore jobs. but the republicans haven t identified any of them yet, have they? well, they re not willing to talk about it other than loose generalized, terms. you need to get down to the nitty-gritty. they don t do that. but there s many out there that the taxpayers are giving away to very wealthy corporations and individuals not necessarily toward the growing of the economy. there are things that can be done to rein in those loopholes and we need to do it. whether that gives us the money we need to lower the corporate tax rate as we ve closed those loopholes, that s a discussion that needs to be taking place. tim, what do you think? well, we had a budget mark-up last night. we were in until about 11:30 in the evening marking up the paul ryan budget. there was an amendment that said we need to protect the mortgage tax deduction for middle class people. and every republican voted against that democratic amendment. so that shows you where the priorities are. they re not even willing to sit down and say, hey, we re going to protect this mortgage tax deduction that so many middle class families take advantage of. and i think that s a sign of what s to come. well, the next big indicator of where this is headed is what, gentlemen? you first, congressman ellison? well, i think the next big indicator. i d like you to take a look at our back to work budget. we re putting forward an affirmative vision that says jobs, good jobs needs to be the measuring stick by which and have the republicans addressed that at all? no, they re not talking jobs, just talking about austerity. where do we go, john? the republicans for austerity, the democrats for growing the economy by making the traditional investments that grow an economy. education, research, infrastructure, manufacturing, make it in america. that s our mantra and do it in a balanced way with reasonable tax and revenue increases that come from ending unnecessary loopholes. congressman ryan, do you think the public is still very strong with the president on this? i would like to think so. i mean, i think as long as we stand our ground. but leadership is about empowering those grass roots people that were just going door-to-door. and i think we ve got to stand firm. even if we have to play the long game, ed, we may have a tough year or two, but there will be midterm elections. and i think we ve got to stand for what is right. the top 1% has seen 93% of the income growth in the last few years. we ve got to stand up for middle class people in the small businesses. we can t keep having this system where we have economic growth, but it goes primarily to the top. we re not mad at people for getting rich. god bless them. what we re saying is we ve got to grow the pie and let everybody participate. so standing our ground is going to throw gasoline on all of that energy and that fire that we had over the past year during the election. i keep hearing from senator sanders that chained cpi hurts veterans, any of you want to comment on that? he s right. it certainly hurts people in the lower end. remember, the median income for seniors on social security is less than $20,000. yeah. that s the median, not the average. well, not just the chained cpi, these millions of vets we have coming back. it s the hundreds of thousands that have some injuries. it s the tens of thousands that have post traumatic stress. we ve got to address this problem. go to the republicans right now and you say, hey, we need a little bit of dough to help make this happen so we can honor the service of these veterans. yeah, they re not there. nowhere to be found. and that s a major issue. we ve got to pay for some of these things, that s the responsible thing to do, but these vets in this scenario need the help. congressman keith ellison, tim ryan, john garamendi. my long time friend senator tom daschle joins us. what should the senate do about the filibuster rule? people could decide for themselves whether they agreed with him or not. but i felt like it was my duty to make sure that as many people heard it as possible. a humble scott prouty tells the ed show last night why he released the secretly recorded videotape of mitt romney slamming 47% of americans at a closed door fundraiser. social media lit up immediately and we when we aired the exclusive interview last night and this is what they ve had to say on facebook. jodi wrote, thank god for this man. he single handedly saved us from disaster. ruth says the man changed history. thanks, mr. prouty, you are a hero. and tinah says, thank you, scott, you are so brave and i appreciate the risk you took. god bless you. go to our facebook page right now and join the conversation and like the ed show. thanks for staying with us tonight. thanks for staying with us tonight. we needed serious filibuster reform long before the 113th congress was sworn in. now republican obstruction is even worse. and the confirmation process has come to a screeching halt. today, president obama asked senate democrats, say, will you do something about this thing? this thing called the filibuster i didn t like either. there are 18 nominees pending and republicans have blocked five of them so far. senator jerry miran of kansas justified the obstruction saying i think in every instance i know of, they ve either been controversial nominees like senator hagel or there s been senators who wanted more information before another secretary was confirmed. hagel controversial? give me a break. the republicans once said they d only filibuster reform nominees under extraordinary circumstances. right wing senators are threatening to filibuster the unnamed nominee for labor secretary. the head of the alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the director of the consumer financial protection bureau. senator elizabeth warren says that filibuster would hurt the agency. i see nothing here but a filibuster threat against director cordury as an attempt to weaken the consumer agency. the filibuster is crippling major agencies and threatening the nation s judicial system. there are 85 vacancies on the nation s appellate courts right now and the president has nominated 30 judges who are waiting for the republicans to get their act together. the filibuster is designed to empower the minority but republicans have turned it into really a devastating political weapon to stop everything. democrats forced 18 filibuster votes on nominees during the entire eight years of the bush administration. the republicans have forced 30 filibuster votes on president obama s nominations and apparently they say they re just getting started. not to mention the national labor relations board. we could go on and on. let s turn now to former senator tom daschle who is the former majority leader for the democrats and author of the book the u.s. senate. tom, great to see you, good to have you with us tonight. great to be with you, ed. you bet. well, in your book, the u.s. senate, what do you say about filibusters now? well, it s been abused, you re absolutely right. the numbers speak for themselves. we have more than twice as many cloture votes in the last congress, ed, as we did in the 50-year period between 1917 and 1967. that was a time during the civil rights era and vietnam and all of the other things we faced. twice as many in two years as we did in 50. that s all you need to know about the abuse of filibusters today. yeah. you re a close friend, worked with him for years, harry reid, what should he do? what can he do? well, harry s done all, i think he thinks he is capable of doing right now under the circumstances. he doesn t want to violate the rules of the senate in ways that would speed the process for dealing with rule change. but i actually think there are a couple of things that we could do. one, i think you ought to hold the floor when you re filibustering. just the other day when rand paul did that, i think that went back to the traditions of the senate and we ought to force every senate who is going to require a filibuster to hold the floor. we broke that filibuster in part because senator paul could only hold the floor for about 13 hours and that s really what history is all about. the second thing is i don t think we ought to have a dual track. set bills aside and take up other legislation. if we re going to filibuster, you stay on the bill and you keep the people filibustering until they can t take it anymore. are the democrats and harry reid especially and you were in this position, as well, worried about any senate rule changes? because the shift of power could change and it could really possibly poison the cooperation within the senate and the minority would be completely diminished. and i know the answer to that but i want to hear what you have to say about it. but also, your thoughts on just how far this has gone. doesn t that change the dichotomy of it at all? well, it does. there is a concern. what goes around, comes around and everybody knows at some point the majority is going to be in the minority again. and people want to make sure we have the rights that are the minority in the senate. you also have the character of the senate and that s what senator reid s thinking about maintaining the kind of character that we ve had historically. what we ve seen is an abuse of the character of the senate in the last few years in particular. but clearly we ve got to look at ways which especially to deal with nominations. it s one thing to deal with legislation that will ultimately be permanent in law. it s another thing to deal with nominations where the people who get nominated are only going to have that job for a couple of years, three, four years. and to filibuster them for a fourth or a third or half that time is just not acceptable. what do you say about republicans threatening to block funding for obama care? well, i think that they re really making a huge mistake. ultimately, obama care has been already we know. it s been a far greater success than most republicans are willing to acknowledge. virtually the entire health sector right now recognizes the importance of moving forward, expanding medicaid, making sure we get the exchanges up and running, making sure the protections that are there for the for all the american people are actually implemented. all of that is real progress. and i think the american people overwhelmingly support it. so to defund it or to oppose it at this point, they don t get it. citizens united. give me 15 seconds of what you think of that and what it s doing to america. i think one of the single biggest disasters electorally and politically we ve seen in 200 years. no connection between speech and money. and yet the court continues to insist there is. what it s doing is destroying the american political process. it s corrosive, wrong and i think it sends all the wrong messages about how to be successful in politics. i m very, very concerned about its implications for the future. senator tom daschle. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. you bet. you bet. tonight in the survey i asked you, is scott prouty a hero? 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that s our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. here it is your moment of zen fox news alert on the sequester. just the word is so weird. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org [eagle caw] stephen: tonight, big changes for texas. their 10-gallon hats are now 38-liters. [laughter] then, can our drone program win the war on terror? yes, if you go up, up, down down, b, a, b, a, select. [laughter] and my guest, physicist michio kaku believes an asteroid could destroy the earth. global warming, solved. [laughter] ice land is considering a ban on internet porn. now there s nothing to do in iceland. [ laughter ] this is the colbert report. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) [cheers and applause] welcome to the report, everybody. thank you so much for joining us. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting stephen! ] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please sit down. [cheers and applause] welcome to the show, everybody. thank you for joining us. [cheers and applause] thank you, everyone in here welcome to the program. dominus vobiscum. folks, as the cardinal of cable, i m giving you nave to narthex coverage of pope benedict s resignation in my new series popewatch: inde-schism 2013. [cheers and applause] remembers remembers folks remember, it has been over 700 years since anyone has voluntarily depoped themselves. [laughter] well, buckle your chausable, because there are dramatic new developments. we all know that when a cardinal is elevated to the papacy, he becomes the heir of st. peter there choose a new name. so, naturally, now that benedict xvi is leaving office, he has asked that we call him simply: benedict the xvi. [laughter] okay. okay. that s understandable. he doesn t want to have to get new towels and stuff. [laughter] but that s not all. he says he s still going to be pope emiritus and his holiness, continue to wear the white robes and live in the vatican. [laughter] folks, that means there s going to be two pontiffs. we re one pope over the line sweet jesus, one pope over the line. [laughter] [cheers and applause] it ll be chaos. you can t have one vatican with two popes. it s like gotham with multiple batmans. [laughter] you shine the bat signal, all these clowns show up. [laughter] i mean [cheers and applause] holy sausage fest! [laughter] [cheers and applause] after all, i mean i mean, which one s infallible? say you re having a smoke break in the apse, and the two of them start walking towards you from different directions. you re getting double-poped [laughter] you know d-p ed [cheers and applause] think about this which pope do you bow to and which one do you just go sup? [laughter] and imagine the confusion in the breakroom fridge when there s more than one yogurt labeled pope. [laughter] i m so worried. i m so worried about this. as an observant catholic, -6- but, to the man s credit, he s not holding onto all the trappings of power. he ll trade in his famous red shoes, the prada red shoes, for a pair of hand-crafted brown loafers out of mexico. stephen: okay, red shoes are gone. meaning he is no longer able to transport himself to kansas. [ laughter ] and this is significant, i think he s losing the symbol of his office. on february 28th, they will take away his ring. the symbol of his authority and destroy it. stephen: so, i guess it is over and i m worried about nothing. because there shouldn t be any problem with a really old person losing his ring of power. [laughter]ñi he looks good. nation, if there s one thing the reelection of barack obama proved, it s that demographic shifts are making it harder for the gop to win nationally. apparently in 2012, minority voters just didn t connect with the republican message of stop thief! [laughter] the man behind obama s minority outreacharound was jeremy bird,i [laughter] who focused on face-to-face communication with core obama support groups, nonwhites unmarried women, and millennials. because we know how much millennials love two face-to-face communication. [laughter] well, now bird has set his sights on a new target. team obama s former national field director jeremy bird, one of the masterminds behind the president s reelection victory has decided his next job will be turning texas blue with a new grassroots organization battleground texas. you re not considered one of the battleground states. although that s gon be changing soon.ñr stephen: yeah, that s gon be changing even faster than obama s accent! [laughter] [cheers and applause] nation, this means the democrats are messing with texas! a, i believe that s unconstitutional, and b, i believe it might work. texas is one of four majority minority states, and its 9.5 million hispanics, currently 38% of the population. just 4.1 million hispanics are registered to vote, and only about half make it into the voting booth. stephen: which means if jeremy bird can get these minorities to the polls texas republicans may soon be saying the spanish word for adios. [laughter] so can this jeremy bird character enact his sinister plan to win the next election through the dirty, underhanded trick of voting? [laughter] here to tell me is the field director of obama 2012 and the founder of battleground texas jeremy bird. jeremy, thanks so much for joining us. good to see you. [cheers and applause] now, jeremy, let s talk turkey for a second. how much of this is bluster? can you reallyñi flip texas? because there s a damn good chance before the next election they will this is definitely more than bluster. if you look at the state, if you look at the demographics it s the state that is changing. the country is changing. stephen: what do you mean changing? a more diverse state. it s becoming a lot more young people. we re going to go out and expand the electorate. get the new voters, register them, bring them into the process. the folks registered to vote and not turning out in texas we re going to build a grassroots campaign and turn it into a competitive battleground state. stephen: if you do that, that will upset the natural order of things. we know it s in the constitution that ohio and florida get to pick the next president. do you not believe in the constitution? in texas if you go there and talk to volunteers. i ve seen theçó volunteers whetr it s in el paso driving up towards new mexico or calling down they want to focus on texas. we re going to bring the fight to texas and make the a battleground state so that anybody that wants to be the commander in chief, they have to fight for texas. stephen: what do you mean the demographic shifts are happening? that s just liberal you ve mixes for hispanics and black people d you ve ms.ims deuphemisms for hispanics and black people. if you look. [laughter] if you look at the state it s not just about the demographics it s the turnout. only 54% of the latinos were registered to vote and only 35% turned out. with only 50% of a population turns out to vote you get a government in texas. it for half the people and by half the people. we plan to change that it s not the demographic shift in the future it s the folks there in the future. stephen: you are reaching tout african-americans and hispanics? of course, and young people, women, across the state. stephen: you are a racist. what i want to do in texas is make the people there part of democratic process. get everybody in the state to turn out and vote so that the government reflects the people of texas. stephen: is voter i.d. going to stop you. rick perry behind the voter i.d. law, isn t he? if you look at the state the way republicans have gerrymannedered it. stephen: it s an ugly word. it s extremely accurate but ugly word. the laws they put in place make it hard to vote. we re going to get people out to vote, fight tour their voting rights and turn them out in force. stephen: do you want to make a bet? $100? yes. stephen: i bet you $100 you cannot get barack obama reelected in 2016. jeremy bird, [cheers and applause] stephen: welcome back, everybody. thanks. [cheers and applause] folks, over the past few years, as i ve been watching the story unfold in the news, america s fleet of drones has semi-autonomously piloted its way into my heart because it works. [laughter] last week, senator lindsey graham revealed that drones have now killed 4,700 people. [cheers and applause] all right. if fans here tonight. and most impressively, many of those 4,700 people were the ones we were trying to kill. [laughter] unfortunately, not everyone is as proud of president obama s drone program as i am. for instance, president obama. [laughter] just listen to former press secretary, robert gibbs. when i went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was you re not even to acknowledge the drone program. you re not even to discuss that it exists. stephen: though, truth is, the secret got out a long time ago. i don t know how, but it was leaked to at least 4,700 people. [laughter] i just don t get why the administration is so ashamed of its extrajudicial robosassination spree. [laughter] after all, a whopping 83% of americans approve of it. even among liberal democrats 77% endorse the use of drones. and those remaining 23% of liberal holdouts are just the same spoilsports who eventually ruined the iraq war, the japanese internment camps, and the 1902 law permitting the irish to be catapulted into the sea. [ laughter ] why don t these liberal peace-humpers get how successful our drones have been? i mean, over in pakistan drone strikes have made travel to the tribal areas so perilous for western al qaeda recruits, that terrorists are actively dissuaded from making the trip. thus cancelling this year s mtv s spring break: waziristan. [laughter] [cheers and applause] the party lasts all year because the girls are never in school! [laughter] folks, our heroic drones have so rattled al qaeda, its leaders are distributing a 22-point tipsheet on how to avoid them. like tip number twelve maintain complete silence of all wireless contacts. here s a pro-tip: switch to at&t. no one will ever find you! [laughter] [cheers and applause] i love it and then there s tip number 18 encouraging militants to arrange fake gatherings using dolls andi statues to mislead the enemy. in the al qaeda training video home al lone. [laughter] [cheers and applause] but that s not all. this tip sheet also has the key to bringing reluctant liberals on board with our drone program. number ten reads: hide under thick trees because they are the best cover against the planes, advice that originated with bin laden himself, who wrote, i want the brothers in the islamic maghreb to know that planting trees helps the mujahedeen and gives them cover. trees will give the mujahedeen the freedom to move around. you hear that, tree huggers? [laughter] [cheers and applause] our drone program is encouraging reforestation. [laughter] so unless you support our deathbots you re killing the planet. remember, think locally, bomb globally. [ laughter ] we ll be right back. [cheers and applause] stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is a theoretical physicist who s written a newsweek article entitled asteroid apocolypse. shocking stuff there s still a newsweek ! please welcome michio kaku! [cheers and applause] thank you for coming back. good to see you again. glad to be on it. stephen: everybody knows you are the author of the national best seller the physics of future. you are the professor of theoretical fizzists in new york. you awjerred the cover story on the newsweek let s call it magazine, will after the roves destroy the earth. okay. what are the theoretical physicists know about actual asteroids? well, we look at the evidence. in 1908 we had a city that fell on sigh beera, wiped out 830 square miles of siberian real estate. stephen: the tungasta event. that s right. it could have happened last week. it scimed the earth. we dodged a bullet and then another asteroid hit russia. and if that meteor was delayed by two or three seconds, it would have been a ground burst rather than an air burst and at 40,000 miles per hour do the math it s 20 hero sheema bombs. her hiroshima bombs. stephen: i m happy do you the math. how often is this happen something in. we didn t have large metropolises hundreds of years ago, we had fishing vil yanlz they hit the earth before. we were oblivious, blissfully unaware that we had near misses and actual collisions with objects about the size of an apartment building. these are city buses. and then we have a nation buster which is going to come grazing past the earth and may even hit the earth. that s called the asteroid apofet. it s ten times bigger than the asteroid that scimed the earth last week. stephen: what do you mean may hit? what is the do the math. [ laughter ] what is the math on that one? well, first it s going to skim by the earth in 2029 and it s going to graze the atmosphere. that s the question mark. we don t know how much friction it s going to encounter. that cannot be factored relyibly. when it grazes the atmosphere on the second pass in 2036 there s a window of opportunity where the thing could actually hit the earth even though it s still very small. stephen: because of the friction it encounters on 2029. that s right in the second pass. stephen: can we lubricate the earth in some way so there s not so much friction? [cheers and applause] and just duz [cheers and applause] the russians have taken this seriously. stephen: of course, they would. they almost got tagged. they said we have to maintain serious propals. maybe in 2029 steve: where do you stand in space to do the nudging? first you have to land on it, put a rocket on it and the rocket will push it slightly out of the way so in the second pass it will miss the earth. stephen: i assume this is like bruce
you ll be able to see it with the naked eye for about an hour after the sun goes down. look for it near the moon. it s time for your brew on this question of the day responses. earlier in the show we told you how some companies are offering nap time to employees. we want to know if you think that s good or bad for business. here are some of your responses. bill said have you ever tried working up my 11-year-old on a school someday. i m laughing thinking about waking up an office full of workers after their afternoon noon nap. in my 12 years in the navy i often take a 30-minute nap during lunch. kent says we take a one-hour lunch which includes at that half-hour nap. this works really well and boosts morale and productivity. thanks to everyone who responded. i don t know. you and i take a lot of naps because we wake up early and do this and you re groggy after a nap. i m not a nap person. if i nap, i can t go to sleep at night. what about your son? does he nap? no, he s always awake. stay awake because you know what s next? fox & friends. gretchen: good morning everybody. it is fox & friends. it is tuesday, march 12, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us today. fox news alert for you to start the morning. time to pick a pope but there may be one problem. there is no fronts runner. we re live at the conclave. steve: battle of the budget. both sides are leaking new plans today but one balances the budget and the other doesn t. we re going to break down both. look, brian s back. brian: they stormed our embassy and took americans hostage but now the iranian government wants to sue over the movie. they didn t like it. really? really? fox & friends starts now. steve: we ve been waiting a couple of days. brian kilmeade is back and so now we can start the conclave. brian: i love the way everyone is taking the pope thing to sport. no front-runner. anyone could win. steve: there is a blog called the sweet sistine which takes a look bracket style. gretchen: brian started to sweat because he heard that music and thought he had to go to confession. the last time you went to confession? brian: i don t know. nixon was in trouble. gretchen: i was glad i wasn t catholic because my giffords had to go to because my girlfriends had to go to confession and i didn t. brian: confession was the hardest. number one, it was usually on weekend and you had a game. number two, you had to memorize the act of contrition before you went in and you couldn t bring a flashlight to read it out loud and the priest had to pretend he wasn t shocked by what you said. gretchen: could you see him through that window? brian: the one time we did it in the auditorium, they didn t even pretend not see. steve: you are now actually sitting in the same room with him looking at him eye to eye. gretchen: that s worse. in the meantime, we re going to be talking about this all morning long. we have lauren green live. brian: about his confession? i hope not. gretchen: no. we re going to be talking about picking the next pope. here is a developing story overnight. a blackhawk went down in kandahar. no survivors. initial reports showing no enemy activity at the time of the crash. the karr crash happening hours after another green on blue attack. the colorado movie massacre suspect headed to court today. if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity the 25-year-old could be given a truth serum and polygraph test to prove he s not mentally fit to stand trial. a crash that killed some in ohio was stolen. family members gathered for service in warren, ohio. we hit the whao el and i got knocked unconscience. it was upside down. i hit my head on the dash board and flew to the back seat where everybody was at: the water was so cold. gretchen: henry smashed a window to escape from the car. he and a friend ran to a nearby home for help. iran taking aim at ben affleck? iran says it s planning to sue hollywood over the movie argo. officials are not happy about the way the country was portrayed in the movie. they are also unsure how to file the lawsuit. in case iran forgot the movie is about how tehran stormed our embassy holding americans hostages for 441 days. brian: imagine how angry we re going to be when iran does a movie about how we took their hostages. we never did that. steve: five minutes after the top of the hour. right now take a look. you are looking live at st. peter s basilica in vatican city. the cardinals attending a mass before they enter the sistine chapel and begin the conclave to elect the next pope. lauren green is live in vatican city with the latest. good morning. today they start the vote? they have one voteght. the mass you re watching right now is the solemn mass that begins the whole process. it is the mass for the election of a pope. it will take about two hours. the public actually is invited. it s a mass that will have the old and new testaments of course and the gospel reading. one of the reading is a verse from ephesians talk about that each one has been given unique talents. that is the verse to guide the cardinals to choose a man best suited to lead the church. that is the question the cardinals have been trying to answer. one of the top contenders is cardinal angelo scola, 71 years old from milan. if you re an odds maker you re putting your money on him. a lot of people are. it s a question of what do they want for the church. one analyst we talked to said this might be one of the cry tear were a. take a listen. in the last two conclaves, what they tended to do is elect the smartest man in the room. john paul and benedict were brilliant theologians. the question this time is do they want to do that again and maybe go with scola or do they want to go with someone who will listen to all the smart people in the church, bring together the creative and smart people to work on the problems facing the church. this afternoon the cardinals will make a procession. they will make one vote. they are not obligated to vote tonight. but if they do it will likely be black smoke that goes up on the chimney of the sistine chapel. you re watching this mass that is incredible but abouts no pope. but there is a pope because somewhere among the 115 cardinals attending that mass is the new pope but we won t know maybe for a couple of days. steve: lauren green, brushing up on her italian and latin. brian: when you get elected pope, you don t go home? you ve got to sit there. they have vicinity clothing, close to anybody s size. i guess it s elastic. gretchen: your knowledge is unbelievable. brian: i don t believe you don t have a second to go home and get your stuff. gretchen: maybe that is why it took so long to get there. they were waiting on that pope from vietnam. what s happening at home, guess what? do we have a budget? stko we have a budget do we have a budget proposal? looks like we might. dueling budgets revealed. congressman paul ryan says he s not going to spend more. he wants to simplify taxes and get more tax revenue because more people under his plan ostensibly will have jobs. and that will bring in the increased revenue. brian: to balance the budget within ten years, he s going to do it by killing obama care. medicare will go for years. he s going to simplify the tax code to 25% and 10%, cut corporate taxes. for the most parbt he s going to for the most part he s going to leave the sequester cuts in place. steve: when it comes to energy, regarding energy, because we re sitting on the largest supplies of gas, enough to runed run the planet for 90 years, what he s going to do, the obama administration is grabbing this land brian: when did that start? gretchen: we ve been reporting that. a lot in the west. steve: they re trying to prevent development. what the republicans would do would be to open that up. of course green light the keystone pipeline. in the wall street journal today, mr. ryan writes: by giving families stability and protecting them from tax hikes, our budget will promote a healthier economy and help rate jobs. the truth is the nation s debt is a sign of overreach. government is trying too much to do too much and government does too much, it doesn t do anything well. gretchen: it s interesting because the democrats have been forced now to write some sort of a budget for the first time in years. how long have we been sitting on the couch and telling you democrats in the senate, the entire senate has not come up with a budget for that period of time. and when the president proposed his budget most recently, it got zero votes. now what will the democrats come up with? yesterday it was interesting because a spokesperson for the president said president obama not looking to balance the budget. really? so the whole goal is to not balance the budget? the democrats looks like it s kind of balanced but will it make a difference? they want to cut the deficit by $1 trillion but they also want to increase spending by $1 trillion. it s a wash. brian: washington promising debt is not going to be touched according to their plan but it will not get anything in balance. the trillion dollars in tax hikes are a nonstarter. steve: the senate democrats are going to come out with a budget tomorrow. the president is going to come out with his budget two months after the deadline. when it comes to particular taxes, the expert says we re going to raise $1 trillion in revenue but doesn t specify where the money will come from. she says the committees will have to figure that out. brian: the house is dramatically different from the senate and the president will be different from all three. gretchen: it s interesting to see whether or not you ll still have your optimism after you listen to charles krauthammer. brian: because the president is still on his charm offensive. three visits to the capitol this week. the problem is he s not interested in cutting. ryan says if we don t, we re going to go over a cliff. that s the real issue here. it s not that he s not hanging out with mitch mcconnell. it s that the republicans believe that unless we get our fiscal house in order, we are doomed. and obama thinks that he can, should, and is destined to be the one who increases american entitlements. that s the problem. steve: as we review the plans, we ve heard the republican want to make taxes easier, and the democrats want to raise $1 trillion worth of new taxes. what could possibly be easier than the plan we have right now? when you look at the tax plan and who knows what bracket you re in wouldn t it be much easier if you simply didn t pay taxes? take a look. we ve got some stats. of federal employees who do not pay taxes, look at this: white house aides have not paid their 2011 taxes, federal taxes, to the tune brian: the president s appointees? steve: right. congressional staffers owe close to $11 million in unpaid federal taxes. and federal employees, $3.5 billion in unpaid threfrpb threfrpb 2011 taxes. gretchen: remember thefrp going to they were going to hire more i.r.s. people to come after you if you didn t pay taxes for obama care? brian: for the record, the control room said amy fisher. amy fisher visited mass pea kwa where she perpetrated a crime. steve: to the control room, you re thinking buttafuca. brian: a new study says red wine can slow down the aging process. rub it all over you. dr. samadi is here with the details. details. pop the cork. look what mommy is having. mommy s having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. 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not anymore. the benefit suspended because of sequester, they say. why are those who sacrifice most for the country being hit the hardest and first? joining us is lieutenant donald, the most decorated medical service corps officer in the navy s history. a pleasure to see you. thank you for coming in and for your service. in reality, when sequester hits and you find out about tuition assistance, what are your thoughts? first of all, very disappointing. a large portion of our military, it s an all volunteer force, we have to remember. a large number of those men and women join for those judicial benefits and now they re being stripped away. i don t think anybody looked at the long-term effect. if you look at the bureau of labor and statistics, it shows that veterans from this gulf war is approximately 9.4%. you also can look at that same bureau of labor statistics and show that the lower the educational level, the higher the rate of unemployment. so what we re doing is prolonging a wave of unemployment for our veterans. i don t think anybody wants to do that. brian: which is incredible when you think of your priorities and your hit list. why are you hitting veterans and their aid and their medical benefits, and in this case their tuition costs? you can t tell me there s not other things to cut. i believe the military spends anywhere from $300 to $400 million annually on tuition assistance, a small amount from what is actually needed than elsewhere and other cuts. brian: i want to talk about something else. you re helping veterans every single day. when you came back from war, iraq and afghanistan, and the first persian gulf war, you did have suicidal thoughts, correct? absolutely. it was something that slowly gained on me. what i refer to as impasse stress. i don t like to use post traumatic stress because that is only one component. there s multiple components people feel until a point of helplessness. brian: what got you through it? my mother reaping out to me at the right time my mother reaching out to me at the right time. brian: did it almost ruin your marriage? yes. brian: almost took your life. as we look back at ten years in the iraq war, are you proud of what you and the others accomplished there? i m obviously proud for what everybody has done there as far as service members, government employees and americans in support. we need to focus this ten year anniversary on the positive because war is a horrible thing but there s positives out of it. there s valor, service and sacrifice given. brian: why were you able to keep your head down and have so much success and save so many people through the course of your service? 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her former boyfriend says he meet her on february 12 and oscar interrupted them twice. the treasury could lose more than $12 billion on the $49.5 billion taxpayer bailout of general motors. the news comes as the treasury sold more than 17 million shares of g.m. stock last month. steve? steve: raise your glass and drink to this. at least wait till lunch. a study says a compound found in red wine may actually slow down the aging process. here with details is fox news medical a team doctor, dr. david spwad did i. good morning. spwad samadi. it s called v i ritrol. they are figuring out how it helps us. got a lot of media publicity. it was one of the biggest antioxidants. so many doctors jumped on the band wagon saying how it s great from you. obviously it comes from red wine and it is the skin of grape. it was thought this antioxidant can help with you diabetes, heart disease, et cetera. the news today is coming out of harvard medical school, tells us it is not a great antioxidant and now they are finding out the real mechanism. there is something called the longevity gene. this gene is the secret. it activates an enzyme called sirt-1. now we know the gene and we know the enzyme, companies like glaxo smith are jumping on this trying to come up with a concentrated extract medication. it can help with d.n.a. repair so when you go to sleep, seven hours of sleep, that s when all the d.n.a. repair happens. all the diseases we have from diabetes to heart disease have to do with inflammation. this respiritol extract can help. imagine obese rats where the resferatrol is clear is exciting. steve: right now you need to take 100 glasses of wine a night. instead when they concentrate it you will be able to pop that and wind up with perhaps great benefits? no one in their right mind is going to drink that many glasses. steve: many try. i love red wine. i drink three to four glasses a week. there is some quality in red wine. what we re talking about is serious signs coming up. if we can get this drug that is going to reduce a lot of inflammatory diseases such as parkinson s, on and on, we are getting closer. very exciting news. steve: dr. samadi, thank you. next up on the rundown, the romance continues to heat up. what dennis rodman plans to do this summer with his fellow kim jong un. white house tours shut down. was that really necessary? stuart varney says there s other programs president obama could have cut before closing the white house. first happy birthday james taylor. he s 65. 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[ male announcer ] centrum. always your most complete. when it comes to this stupid sequestration thing, mayor bloomberg told people not to panic. he said we re not going to run out of money. i m no financial expert, but when you re $16.5 trillion in debt, haven t you already run out of money? we ran out like nine years ago we ran out of money. how can we not run out of steve: why are they applauding. gretchen: maybe they agree with limb that we ve run out of money. here s an idea. how about cutting some of the waste. this might anger you because there is a bombshell report by the congressional committee whose job it is to find waste and recommend cuts says the president ignored them to the tune of $67 billion a year. brian: does this mean the sequester could have been avoided after all? or cuts could have been put in different places. how many times have you heard the expression waste and fraud? we re going to get rid of it in the federal government. we re going to press down hard s-rbs we re going to get rid of that nonsense. we ve been hearing that for many years. no president has taken action on it. you go back to 2009, the government s own bean counters, these inspectors general, they came up with $29 billion worth of savings that could be easily made. now that number has gone up to $67 billion worth of savings easily made. there are 16,900 measures which have been proposed. these are easy to do cuts in how we spend our money, but they have done none of them. result? the president ignored the bean counters and insisted on inflicting pain on the american people. gretchen: this is really getting me going. i don t know if it is midwestern sensibility. i hate to waste any money. i just hate it. you would think doing something like this would be such an easy fix. why don t they? look, this is an opinion. i think the president wants to inflict pain on america. he wants to inflict the pain so he can turn around and say it s the republicans fault. he s looking for a political victory. he s predicting armageddon. look at the hurt that these cuts will impose, and it s all the republicans fault. now that is an opinion. that is a political opinion on my part. but that s the way i read it at the moment. brian: close yellowstone park, shut the white house tours. i think the closing of the white house to tours, i think that was the turning point. that was the turning point in public opinion. we ve got a new poll out that shows a sharp drop in the president s personal popularity and approval rating. gretchen: i ve been waiting for him to reverse the white house tour decision. why hasn t he done that? can he reverse those things? he s on the record countless times predicting pain and disruption. if he now turns around and says i made a mistake, it doesn t look good. you can t reverse that kind of public stand. steve: what he s trying to do ultimately is get the republicans to agree to raise taxes which they re not going to do, so we re at loggerheads right now. brian: varney and company 9:20 eastern time. are you going to talk about this? we ll have a little on this one. steve: are you wearing the same necktie right now that you are in that picture? yes, it is. you re right. you caught me, didn t you? brian: turn to the other side. gretchen: give us that british grin. oh my gosh. it s okay for a guy it s okay for a guy to wear the same tie on more than one occasion. but for a lady to wear a dress more than once is that right? gretchen: excuse me, mr. varney. should i just get up and take this dress off now then? because i ve worn this several times before. i didn t realize there was such deep trouble coming on fox & friends this morning. can i go? steve: thank you, stuart. gretchen: see you later. cheerio. brian: your other stories of the day, a vigil for three crew members on a navy jet killed when their aircraft went down in washington state. they were on a training flight from the would-be island base. their prowler went down in a remote area. no parachutes deployed. the crew s names will not be released until their families have been notified. gretchen: they are the most recent victims of hackers. it appears to be the social security numbers and credit card information of 13 celebrities and politicians. some of the targets: vice president joe biden, hillary clinton, kim kardashian, beyonce and donald trump. steve: was this driver running on dunkin ? she was definitely running through one. customers jumping out of the way as a car in reverse smashes through a dunkin donuts location in philadelphia. one guy holding his coffee completely knocked down by the force of the crash. thankfully nobody was seriously hurt. police say the driver accidentally hit the gas. she will not be charged. brian: a full court press by dennis rodman. the former nba star revealing he s going on vacation with kim jong un. the trip set for august. we don t know where the trip will be. he s trying to get president obama to call the dictator and work out a peace deal. and also the apprentice. gretchen: plain weird. he won t go down without a fight. new york city mayor michael bloomberg promising to appeal a judge s decision yesterday striking down his soda ban. we re by a lucky cafe where owners still plan on enforcing the ban. they re going ahead with it. they ordered the cups necessary before the ban before the judge overruled it. they say they won t serve anything over 16 ounces at their restaurant. one of the only few restaurants we heard of in this city implementing this ban voluntarily. a lot of people are happy with the fact that this ban has been stopped in its tracks. so your soda is safe for now after that ruling yesterday. a state supreme court judge overturned the ban. he called it nonsensical, arbitrary, capricious. he said mayor bloomberg s ban on anything over 16 ounces was filled with so many loopholes that he basically was getting in the way of his own objective, which was to fight obesity. the mayor is not taking this lying down. he says he will fight even though businesses say this will affect their bottom line. take a listen. if you know what you re doing is harmful to people s health, common sense says if you care, you might want to stop doing that. and it may i don t think it will hurt your bottom line. but even if it did, we re talking about lives versus profit. round 1 goes to those opponents of this law. round 2, if there is a round 2, we ll see what happens in that case. as you heard, the mayor is vowing to appeal. brian, i ll send it back to you. brian: i ll do sports, as you requested. you owe me a favor. straight ahead, the nfl, team switching can start about nine hours from now. packers wide receiver greg jennings, raven linebacker paul krueger and wide receiver mike wallace, three of the biggest names out there. already a big deal is being reported. you ve got sources saying the ravens already sent bolden to the 49ers. got to wonder if that s a gift from john harbaugh to his brother jim after his victory in the super bowl. they got a six round pick for one of the top five receivers in all of football. michael vick is closing his book because of threats. against the family and book retailers. protesters upset because of vick s dogfighting scandal that landed him in jail. watch this. a hooters ball girl disrupts a play during a game. she thought it was a foul ball. she scooped it up. it was fair. then threw it to a fan. someone in the stands said that ball was fair. she laughs, sits down, takes off her glasses and gets her closeup. if i m going to mess up a game, i might as well get my picture on television. coming up on kilmeade and friends i wore those headsets in the 1970 s we have william cohen, former defense secretary. representative peter king and so many other great people. are you coming up to join me today? gretchen: i would love to but i m immediately leaving. brian: you re taking off? that s right. steve: who knew chris wallace had a brother in the nfl. brian: he doesn t talk about it because he wants the spotlight on him. gretchen: who knew peter king was boxing? all those stories if you listen to brian s radio show. next on the rundown, not getting enough sleep? it s making you fat. just how fat? coming up next. steve: it s the coolest in si. anna kooiman will pull back the curtain on cirque du the curtain on cirque du soleil. if you think most hybrids are a bit under sized then this will be a nice surprise. the curtain on cirque du soleil. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ride to everyone it knows. c max has more passenger volume than competitor prius v and we haven t even mentioned. c-max also gets better mpg. say hi to the super fuel efficient ford c-max hybrid. mommy s having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. 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[ green giant ] ho ho ho. green giant brian: do you remember when president obama s supporter said this? i voted twice. absolutely no intent on my part to commit voter fraud. brian: an ohio poll worker facing eight counts of voter fraud. an indictment says she voted at least six times last november and voted illegally in 2008 and 2011. focus on that for a second. not getting enough sleep makes you fat. a study found people who found less than five hours a night gained two pound a week because they snacked more. lack of sleep also slows down your metabolism. i ve heard that. gretchen: if las vegas wasn t vibrant enough for you, cirque du soleil s classic show missed air is. anna kooiman went behind the scenes. good morning. for 20 years missed air has been dazzling audiences. 8,000 shows have been down. 12 million people have been able to get an up-close look at it. we re taking you behind the scenes. they are letting me dangle from trapezes and bungee cords. let s take a look. cirque du soleil is celebrating 20 years of taking the world by storm. all that started with this very show, missed air. we re going to take you inside and show you how all the magic happens. obviously sicker due slow is known for sicker do you soleil is known for their performers. how do you describe this look? the makeup. it s going to take how long to transform me? about an hour. you re even pow tkerg my lips. this has to last through twa? two shows. they re sweating, they drink a lot through the show to stay dehydrated. you re all done. voila! think you ll be able to take me seriously doing the news like this? walking in here, this is unbelievable. all these costumes are custom made. all the heads are formed. they get a plastic hat for their head. what would you estimate the cost of a costume is? probably about eight grand. eight hundred would sound like a lot. michael, this is a snapshot of all the costumes. how many are there in the theater completely? over 10,000 in our show. what do you have for me? it is clean right? it is very clean. this will go on first. this is your opening. this is the unitard. this is your body. i ll have at it. wo w! wild thang you make my heart sing let s do it. time to be a real performer. here we go. i m the king of the world! there you go. now what? reach up for the ropes. [music playing] and then go again. good job. [music playing] think i need c.p.r. that was tough. that was a workout. thank you, guys. how did i do? you did really good. how much work do i need? maybe a little bit. she was being very nice. just a little bit of work. i think i needed a lot of work. the cast members, they do about 700 hours of training throughout the year. the youngest performer is 21 and the oldest guy is 80 years old. steve: that was great, anna. you re a good sport. how dizzy did you get when you were spinning around like that? honestly i didn t get too dizzy. i m going to be very sore in the next probably two, three days. gretchen: looks like a lot of fun. thanks so much, anna. brian: i m sure that earned her a free show. that was great. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. proof you re living in a regulation nation. we ll show you how easy it is to break 33 laws in seconds. gretchen: proof that says the obama administration is more secretive than ever before and the judge says that s the tip of the iceberg. here he comes. what s droid-smart ? with google now, it automatically knows when you need to leave for the airport, how much traffic there is, and has your boarding pass ready. the droid razr maxx hd by motorola. droid-smart. droid-powerful. bikes and balloons, and noodles on spoons. a kite, a breeze, a dunk of grilled cheese. catches and throws, and spaghettio s. a wand, some wings, soup with good things. sidewalks and doodles and wholesome noodles. puddles and pails and yes, puppy dog tails. for a lunch like this, there s a hug and a kiss. because that s what happy kids are made of. campbell s. it s amazing what soup can do. the longest 4g lte battery in a razr thin profile. with 32 hours of battery life that turns an all-nighter, into a two-nighter. the droid razr maxx hd by motorola. droid-endurance. droid-powerful. this is the most transparent administration in history. just about every law that we pass, every rule that we implement, we put on line for everybody there to see. gretchen: president obama says his administration is the most transparent in history but a new analysis by the a.p. finds our government is becoming more secretive. last year the feds rejected a third of requests for information. more worrisome, the length they re going to protect government secrets. here to explain, fox s news senior judicial analyst, andrew napolitano. good morning to you, judge. interesting to see the juxtaposition for the president saying the most transparent administration ever. and then the fewer documents. this is the most secretive administration ever. the president likes to do executive things without telling the congress and without telling the public. and when someone asks for information under the freedom of information act, a statute written in response to abuses in the nixon administration, the presumption of which is that everything the government does is available for everybody to look at, the administration reacts to that act by saying it s a secret. and it s such a secret we can t even tell you why it s a secret. i ll give you an example. the government s drone policy is based upon legal argument. and the legal argument is based upon published opinions by judges. there s nothing secret about those opinions. but the obama administration persuaded a federal judge here in new york city that their reasoning, their legal arguments in the opinions was so secret and so sensitive that they couldn t even share it with her, the federal judge, much less the public. and the federal judge accepted that argument. gretchen: the c.i.a. last year became more secret alternative. secretive. it is your argument that the president sets the tone for his other department heads? the president couldn t possibly review all of these freedom of information act requests. the numbers can be a little misleading because they are percentages of requests. and requests change each year depending upon the public s appetite for information. but the thrust of this administration has been stonewall and find a way not to show to the public what we are doing. why? because this administration more than any other in modern times, the hallmark of it is the president doing things on his own because he can t get the congress to agree with him, because he wants to move the country too far to the left. if he can do it on his own and not tell us about it, we won t know what he s done. that is their theory and they re getting away with it. gretchen: judge andrew napolitano, thanks as always. fancy dinners and calls from the oval office, the president pulling out all the stops to reach across the aisle. but is it sincere. dr. ben carson tells it like he sees it. he s here top of the hour. this football player has done something the pros can t do. now the nfl is calling. he s here with his story. he s here with his story. fabulous. look what mommy is having. mommy s having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. 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the smoke. brian: i m going for cardinal dolan. battle of the budgets. both sides release o clock new plans. one balances the budget. the other doesn t even try. which would you choose? we ll break both down for you and let you decide. steve: we ve got proof you re living in a regulation nation. we will show you how easy it is for to you break 13 laws in under 30 seconds. honest. fox & friends hour two for is today? tuesday, starts right now. gretchen: good morning, everybody. hope you re gonna have a great day. brian: i have a clue the people of avon dale, virginia, people say our infrastructure is falling apart, they ve never been there. steve: brian, whole washington, d.c. area. think about it, all those federal tax dollars going to washington to build a beautiful city. brian: right. my nine-year-old soccer is in annan dale over the weekend. steve: congratulations. you finished in the top two. brian: yeah. i m still waiting for a few red lights. i don t know what it is about virginia, but when you re at a red light, you might as well have a picnic. do they ever change? gretchen: to balance your budget for the soccer books, to go on that trip. we re going to talk about the budgets now. it s plural now. could we trial have two budgets on capitol hill coming up soon? steve: three. gretchen: that s right. the president will have one. but the republicans are going to have one and now the democrats will have one. congressman paul ryan for the republicans says he s not going to spend more than we have. he s going to simplify the tax code, and he s still going to try to get more tax revenue because according to his plan, if everything works, more people will have jobs, so there will be more revenue coming n. here is the best part about his plan, the new tax bracket. raise your hand if you want to simplify the tax code. 10 and 25%. steve: yeah, but half the country doesn t pay any. so 10% would be daunting for them. the details will not be released until 10:30 this morning, but we ve actually seen it. however, does he write broadly about it in the wall street journal in the op ed page. he says in part, quote, by giving families stability and protecting them from tax hikes, our budget will promote a healthier economy and help create jobs. the truth is the nation s debt is a siphon overreach. government is trying to do too much and when government does too much, it doesn t do anything well. so today we re going to see the republican budget. tomorrow we ll see the democrat in the senate budget. and about two months after the deadline, we will see the president s budget, which last year was so unserious, i think it was voted down 97-0. brian: he s not going to cut taxes. he s going to raise those. without spending, $4.6 trillion over the next ten years. so he wants to cut back gradually the spending while having growth t. do that, he thinks the tax before the accidents will do that and thinks stopping the purchasing for the federal government of land rich in natural gas will revitalize our energy sector and help us grow. gretchen: what do the democrats want to do? the first thing is forced now to come up with a budget for the first time in i think four years in the senate. why? because after the whole debt ceiling discussion now, they are under pressure to come up with some sort of a budget plan. but is it really just more of a wash? you be the judge. apparently the basic tenets will be to raise taxes by $1 trillion, and then cut the deficit by $1 trillion, so will that actually balance the budget or is it just more of a wash? steve: in comparison, our budget is $46 trillion over the next ten years. that s how much we ll spend. the democrats say 46 trillion, we ll spend 45 trillion in the next ten years. meanwhile, the republicans south of that say, we would spend 41 trillion. when you look at such a big number, i mean, look at the sequester, they just sawed off 2%. yet the people in washington, d.c. are screaming. brian: we don t know what the president s plan looks like. we know he would not be focusing on balancing the budget, according to jay carney. looks like paul ryan will and paul ryan in this editorial says get ready, the critics will come u. i ll tell you exactly what they ll say and here are my answers. let the games begin. steve: when you just look at it, you ve got the republican plan that s going to balance the budget. the democrat plan that would not balance the budget. the democrat plan that would raise taxes a trillion dollars, and the republican plan that would not raise taxes at all. so when they both get out there, people will be able to eyeball both of them and say which one do you like and with any luck, they ll go into conference and come up with a deal. you ll see some white smoke out of the chimney of the capitol. gretchen: i ll wait with baited breath for that. now your other headlines for today. a developing story, chopper crashes in afghanistan issues leaving five people dead. the blackhawk went down in kandahar. no survivors. initial reports show no enemy activity at that time. the crash happening just hours after another green on blue attack. two u.s. special ops killed in an insider attack, making it the deadliest day in afghanistan this year. truth serum may be on tap for james holmes, the colorado massacre suspect headed to court. if euploids not guilty pleads not guilty, he can be given a truth serum and a polygraph test to prove he s not mentally fit to stand trial. holmes charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. the crash that killed six teens in ohio was apparently a stolen vehicle. the owner making that report to police. friends and family gathered for a prayer service in warren, ohio, to remember the victims. the driver of the suv apparently speeding, lost control and landed in a pond. 15-year-old brian henry and another teen managed to survive. we hit the rail and i got knocked unconscious. it was upside down. i hit my head on the dashboard and i flew to the back seat where everybody was at. the water was so cold, it woke me back up. gretchen: he smashed a window to be able to escape of the he and his friend ran to a nearby home to try and get help. a police officer goes beyond the call of duty risking his own life to save a man from a burning car. officer responded to a car fire in iowa. the driver was apparently doing doughnuts in the parking lot when he crashed into the building. the officer says he didn t think twice about getting the driver out. i really can t even tell you what i was thinking at the time other than it s not good to be breathing all this stuff. you just got to try and get him out as quick as you can because nobody can last that long in that much smoke. gretchen: the officer served three tours overseas before joining the police force. those are your headlines this morning. steve: meanwhile, our big story today, you re looking live now at saint peter s square in vatican city. you can see a few people there gathered out in the square. moments ago, the cardinals finished mass at saint peter s basilica. later this morning, around 10:30 eastern time, they, the cardinals, will enter the sistine chapel and begin the conclave to elect the next pope. brian: lauren green is live with more. hey, lauren. hey. you re talking about the mass. they just wrapped that mass up. that is designed, the solemn event, to give the cardinals strength and direction how to elect a new pope. they re calling on the holy spirit, they re calling on god to actually help them find the new leader of the catholic church. during his homily, the dean of the cardinals said, we implore the lord that throughout cardinal fathers, he may soon grant another good shepherd to his holy church. right now the cardinals are headed back to the sequestered residence where they ll be staying during the conclave and then after lunch this afternoon, rome time, they will get down to the business and the spiritual sanctity of electing the new pope. what one analyst said the most exciting event in the world. it s not like baseball where you have innings nor is it like basketball where you play against the clock. there is no clock and there is no fixed set of innings. i think many hope it not be too long because if it s shorter, it may indicate greater unity from the get-go among the cardinals. this afternoon, the cardinals will proceed in procession from the pauline chapel to the sistine chapel and when assembled, the master of ceremony also in tone, say everybody out. they will lock the doors, they will close the doors of the great chapel and the voting will begin. the next indication we have will be the black or white smoke that will billow from the stack of the sistine chapel. black meaning inconclusive vote. white meaning we have a pope. guys? steve: all right. lauren green live in saint peter s square. thank you very much. you know, the final vote, the winner of the pope job gretchen: sounds like celebrity apprentice. steve: is the person who winds up with two-thirds plus one vote. so as soon as somebody gets that, they will be the new pope. brian: they burn the ballots. steve: they do and add those chemicals to either make the smoke black or white. gretchen: fantastic. got to love the historic relevance for all of that. brian: unlike the celebrity apprentice, donald trump picks the winner. steve: just at the end. gretchen: can you imagine him firing all the cardinals. brian: all my money, gary busey. not for pope. steve: this past week, he was crazier than normal. brian: right. steve: meanwhile, at buzz feed, they have put together just a show of how many crazy laws there are out there. they have shown via a 33-second video how you can break a whole bunch of laws in no time. watch. . . steve: amazing. gretchen: it was so quick, you missed the last one. unreasonable noise, street vending, littering, charging admission to a house party. there they are. there is the whole list of those 13 infractions in just 30 seconds. steve: how many have you done, folks out there watching? it s pretty easy to steal a wi-fi signal if it s just out there. how often have you done some loitering? we re loitering right now on a curvy couch. brian: they re never enforced. steve: exactly. brian: that s the whole thing. steve: like the guy throwing the frisbee on the beach. brian: that s really not enforced. just like the whole soda thing. almost impossible to enforce. gretchen: by the way, that was overturned by a judge yesterday. mayor bloomberg wanted those sodas not served here. steve: it was a crazy rule cause certain places could sell them and certain could not. it s a mess. peter johnson, jr. will tell us the legal analyst analysis coming up. straight ahead, fancy dinners and calls from the oval office, the president pulling out all the stops to reach across the aisle. but is the charm offensive sincere in dr. ben carson always tells it like he see it is and he joins us live 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do you think anyone will advocate a flat tax? paul ryan has 10 and 25%. well, it s getting flatter. so we re moving in the right direction. what we have to remember about taxation is when this country was founded, our taxation rates were relatively small. the tea party grew up over something that wasn t anywhere become moree re doing today and and more intrusive. and as we allow the government to take more and more money, all it does is fuel their growth. so we have to be cognizant of whether we, in fact, want to be a nation where we rule our own lives or whether we have the government invading every aspect of our life. this is a very, very serious issue and i don t think i think a lot of people are asleep at the whoa he will and we have a sleep at the wheel and we have to realize we re giving away the freedoms of our nation. brian: one area of expertise you have is the medical profession. you talked about it at the speech the paul ryan goes specifically after medicare. he wants to give people money to buy their own insurance, seniors, start not starting in 252025. and he wants to say good-bye to obamacare. two things you could support? absolutely. i ve looked at the ryan plan and the way that they have gradually phased things in so as not to hurt the elderly people who have planned their lives around the existing system. i think that s very sensitive. but i spend a lot of time looking at budgets. people say he s a doctor, he doesn t know anything about budgets. but the fact of the matter is, you have to plan, you have to strategize these things. when you look at the ryan budget, it works. and i m willing to look at any budget that works. when the president puts one out, when the senate puts one out, i m going to look at it objectively. but ryan s budget does work. steve: you know, this charm offensive started after the president s poll numbers dropped after the sequester imploded at the white house. what do you think about these cuts, for instance, the white house tours that look like they re trying to inflict as much pain as possible to get the republicans to cave on taxes? well, that s pretty obvious i think even to a child. when you know that you have the ability to move money around and you allow the most severe things to happen, you know, look what s happening to the veterans educational benefits. i mean, that s absurd. these people putting their lives on the line, many of them who joined the voluntary military force for the educational benefits, and now we say no, we re not going to give those to them because of the sequester. that is so absurd. this is the very last thing anybody who cares with our nation and our veterans should be doing. brian: i know you got a full day ahead, hence the lab coat. dr. ben carson, thanks so much. my pleasure. steve: making rounds with us. gretchen: next up, college football big business. but should taxpayers foot the bill for stadium renovations? cause they are. brian: oh, yeah. we need to. then, he s only in h but this player, football player has done something even the pros can t do. now the nfl is calling. but first college is calling. he joins us live next what s droid-smart ? with google now, it automatically knows when you need to leave for the airport, how much traffic there is, and has your boarding pass ready. the droid razr maxx hd by motorola. droid-smart. droid-powerful. great first gig! let s go! party! awwwww. arigato! we are outta here! party.. finding you the perfect place, every step of the way. hotels.com then i read an article about a study that looked at the long term health benefits of taking multivitamins. they used centrum silver for the study. so i guess my wife was right. 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(scream) gretchen: that s a good one. it s your shot of the morning, a man dressed as a plant scaring the people in the middle of a busy outdoor plaza. brian: did he call in sick for that or is that his job? steve: good question. what am i, a potted plant? gretchen: don t do it to the kids. steve: it s so fake looking. why are they so scared? brian: i m not sure. i just don t think you expect a bush to grab you. gretchen: they don t usually leer out. brian: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. gretchen: time for headlines. a vigil last night for three crew members on the navy jet killed when their aircraft went down in washington state. they were on a training flight with the island base. their prowler went down in a remote area. no parachutes were deployed. the names will not be released until 24 hours after their families have been notified. steve: meanwhile, new york city may michael nanny bloomberg vowing to fight back after a judge struck down his soda ban. the judge ruled it s unfair because there were too many loop holes. they would have banned drinks larger than 16 ounces, but did not apply to all drinks, like milk shakes or some coffee drinks. some restaurants also exempted. others not. bloomberg says he believes the ban is reasonable. we re going to appeal. we believe that the judge s decision was clearly in error. people are dying every day. this is not a joke. this is about real lives. steve: the judge also said the city health board doesn t have the power to create regulations, which is good to know. brian: the fight continues. the rich, famous reportedly the most recent victim of hackers. the web site supposed to what appears to be social security numbers, credit card information of 13 celebrities and politicians and was a hoax. some of the alleged targets, hillary clinton, kim kardashian, beyonce, and donald trump, all were at my house on christmas. gretchen: a bipartisan group. brian: i did. we are still investigating. gretchen: dramatic rescue in new zealand. beach goers form a human chain to save a boy. he was playing playing when a we pulled him under. he was dragged 500 feet and fought for almost ten minutes. with the help of the good samaritans, he survived. wow. steve: rough surf. all right. rough business, brian. brian: it s like one of the most exciting things to happen in the off season of football without football. free agency kicks off today. the teams switching teams and outstanding players are available now. if you can fit them under the salary cap and if there is a need. you have greg jennings, cougar available. steelers wide receiver mike wallis, who was really available last year. already a big name gone from ravens to the 49ers, from the champs to the runner ups, bolden now with the 49ers. you have got to wond for this is a brother to brother deal. john, you won, so give me your best guy. looks like that s what happened. jim gets this pick for a six round pick. incredible. watch this. i know what you re saying. they ve been at baseball games. hooters ball girl there disrupt ago fair play. she thought it was foul. she scooped it up and threw it into the stands. the problem is it was a live ball. there were guys running around the bases. instead, only she scored. she would later take off her glasses. richard authorren never been on our show until that victory. getting doused with a drink. he was doused, he slips and goes down. not sure if any broken bones, but he had a lot of time to goes. that s not the way harry carson designed it back in the 80s. coming up, don t forget kilmeade and friends, peter king, william cohen, the defense secretary, former defense secretary, and his wife, live in studio. steve: good radio show. all right. a friday afternoon late in the day, there was a document dump. the united states department of agriculture released the numbers of how many americans are on food stamps. it s the biggest number in history. in december, 47,791,996 americans had to get these cards to put food on their table. gretchen: some people are concerned that the fact this number continued to escalate dramatically over the last couple of years. here is fox news contributor herman cane last night. because the federal government has made a mess of the program by exploiting the program and exploiting those people who have learned how to abuse the program. the food stamp program, greta, is a misnomer. with two words, food and stamps. it s no longer just about helping people to get food. it helps them to get free stuff and secondly, because some bureaucrats thought that people going in and handing in stamps was a somewhat insulting, they now have given them a government credit card. i found this out today, greta, on my radio show, a guy called in who says he owns fitness centers. the government has even allowed food stamp recipients to use their cards for fitness training programs. so the problem starts with the exploitation on the part of government because ideologically, they want as many people dependent on the government as they possibly can. steve: we spend a trillion dollars each year on federal poverty programs. that s more than defense. it s more than social security and yet, the poverty number gets worse. something really has got to be done. gretchen: all right. the next story has a picture of the president when he was out getting a burger. you know the chain, five guys. lots of people love getting their burgers there. well, now that burger chain says that obamacare is going to boost their burger prices and that s a problem for them because then they ll have to pass that cost along to the consumer. brian: i just want to have mrs. obama feels about that, always eating at fast food restaurants. the only thing he eats healthy at five guys is the veggie burger. steve: or the peanuts they have. mike, a fellow who owns eight restaurants in the raleigh durham area was at a heritage event and said that because of obamacare, he s got eight locations. he s going to have to take all the profits from one of his locations just to pay for health care going forward. also he asked his employees, he said, do you realize that if there is a real good possibility that you would be fined if i don t provide for you health insurance? only one out of 20 of his employees had any idea what he was talking about. obviously, low information viewer. gretchen: yeah, that would probably be the case for many small businesses across the country. i bet if you did a similar poll. brian: we had the guy who owns 20 applebee s and says i m going to cut my guy to under 20 hours. they can t work anymore because i can t afford to give them health care. steve: the choice in many cases, you either got to fire employees or cut their hours. brian: all right. meanwhile, straight ahead, the dugger family getting even bigger. they re here live with some big news. yes, growing and expanding. gretchen: then that s our green room right now, full of one big family. brian: cheryl casone left. steve: going to try to find them all jobs. gretchen: i only heard laughing. are you one of the millions of americans looking for a job? don t change the channel. cheryl casone here with the top five companies hiring right now. yeah. immediately. 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( [ laughter ] gretchen: joining me now the entire dugger family, except for one. good morning. good morning. gretchen: i just want to go down the list, raise your hand when i say your name. jim bob, michelle. those are the parents. josh, janna, john david, jill, jessa, ginger, josiah, joy anna, jedidah. jeremiah, jason, james, justin, jackson, joe hannah, jennifer, jordan, jonesy, we re missing joseph. and then we have anna, who is the wife of josh, right? we have mckenzie and michael and the big news of the day is what, josh? number three is on the way for us. we re very excited. gretchen: congratulations. when are you due? june 7. gretchen: just going to be right around the corner. i thought michelle might be announcing that she had another one on the way. we re trying. [ laughter ] gretchen: that does not surprise me. what was it that made the dugger family think, we need to go to east asia? well, we had some requests to do media in japan. so we ended up adding the china trip on of the we had a wonderful time. we were there three weeks. west nile virus it will a great experience for our family to see the culture and we went to an orphanage and did a lot of fun things. gretchen: we saw you were trying some sushi. let s be honest, of all the kids here and the parents included, who liked sushi before you went to japan? none of you did. i don t know that any like it now. gretchen: we saw you trying it. yes, i did try it. gretchen: was it true that josey put together your sushi for you? yes. we did a contest at the fish market. the one that lost had to eat josey s sushi. and i was the loser. i won. i got it. and so i think it was a great competition, though. a lot of fun. the people in japan, they were just very welcoming of our family, even though it s unique no matter where we go that there is a large family. there was a lot of questions, a lot of things. a lot of people recognized us cause our show is over there sometimes as well. gretchen: wow. i m trying to i m leaving on vacation today with just my two kids and thinking, that s tough enough. how do you keep a family this size together? who is your travel agent? everybody works together. we are a team. we buddy up and we make sure that we don t forget the wet wipes, the coloring books, the crayons, you name it. jess is our travel agent. she makes sure everything is packed and has their clothes together. she does a good job. gretchen: off future in organization. i can tell you that. so what other sights did see? i understand you went to beijing, china? how was that? saw the great wall and we within in japan we did samurai fighting, and the girls dressed up in kimonos. it will be on our show tonight s, it will be the season premiere. for the next several weeks at 9:00 o clock on tlc. we had such a great time. amazing time. gretchen: michelle, put it in perspective to the lessons that young people can learn from traveling to other nations and seeing things in a little bit of a different light. yes. definitely. seeing a different culture and getting to connect with the people, i think, it is such a neat experience. they were so wonderful and welcoming of us. we learned to smile a lot and bow a lot because we couldn t speak the language, but love is the language that everyone can speak. we just felt very welcomed and loved. gretchen: that s so nice. learned a little japanese. gretchen: okay. and how does it feel to be part of this huge family? any pressure for you to have as many kids as michelle did? oh, my. it s wonderful because i have such a great support network and i m so thankful for the gift of life and for the two children that we have and i look forward to welcoming our third baby and as many more as god gives us. gretchen: fantastic. josh, since he said you learned japanese, did you learn how to say good-bye? thank you. gretchen: it s time to wrap it up. everyone be sure to tune in tonight for the premiere of the dugger family and their east asia trip first and then the new season. thanks so much. so great to see you all. thank you. gretchen: have a fantastic season. the white house tours have been shut down. was that really necessary? laura ingraham says there are $67 billion president obama could have cut before closing the people s house. she s on deck coming up next. then militants stormed our embassy and took 62 americans hostage. now iran wants to sue over the movie argo because it made them look bad? can they even do that? right back [ male announcer ] you ve reached the age where you don t back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. viagra. 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. mommy s having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. gretchen: good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, march 12, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us today. it s going to be the battle now of the budgets on capitol hill. democrats and republicans releasing new plans today. but only one is going to actual lea balance the budget? we re live in washington to break them down for you. steve: here is one way to balance a budget. ask the people inside the white house to pay their taxes. there are a number of delinquent taxpayers there. we re talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars. we ll do some explaining straight ahead. brian: they stormed our embassy and took our people hostage and now the iranian government wants to sue us over the movie argo. they didn t like argo. you kidding me? you didn t like argo. how dare you. fox & friends starts right now jump in jump, jump for my love . steve: instruments cost too much. so have an a capella group that makes the sound not only with their voices, but they sound like instruments. they re fantastic. how do you say this? gretchen: i don t know. let s see. steve: it looks like perpetum jazz eal. gretchen: okay. brian: all i know is that they re really good. steve: they re fantastic. gretchen: they re the number one youtube big group apparently. so a lot of folks out there love them. we re going to be talking to them and hearing them perform a little bit later on in the show. brian: by the way, that s an instant flash mob. steve: absolutely. brian: maybe we ll give them that idea. steve: speaking of flash mobs, any chance that the country of iran would go out to the oscars and take ben affleck s academy award for the big win? brian: i don t think so. i have think the problem with iran is that there is actually footage of it actually taking place. if they don t like what happened, this don t like what happened. gretchen: morestin ster ways than just stealing that trophy. anyway, let s get to some your headlines now. we ve developing story. crash in afghanistan. five american service members dead. the blackhawk went down in kandahar. there were no survivors. initial reports show no enemy activity at the time. the crash happening just hours after a green on blue attack. two u.s. special ops were killed again in an insider attack, making it the deadliest day in afghanistan this year. you re looking live, saint peter s square in vatican city. in three hours, 115 cardinals will enter the sistine chapel and begin the conclave to elect the next pope. earlier this morning, they celebrated mass inside saint peter s basilica. assuming they vote, the first puffs of smoke should emerge from the chapel chimney around 3:00 p.m. eastern. black smoke for no pope. white smoke, a pope has been chosen. truth serum may be on tap for james holmes. the colorado movie massacre suspect headed to court today. if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity, he could be given a truth serum and polygraph test to prove he s not mentally fit to stand trial. he s charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. iran, here is that story, taking aim now at ben affleck. the embassy has been seized and 60 american citizens continue to be held as hostages. gretchen: iran says it s planning to sue hollywood over the movie argo. officials are not happy about the way the country was portrayed in the movie. they re also unsure how to file that lawsuit. in case iran forgot, the movie is about how militants stormed our embassy in tehran in 1979, holding 52 americans hostage for 444 days. brian: so they re upset about the second group of hostages that they didn t get. so i guess that makes them look bad. steve: i think the best thing they could do is simply not allow it to be shown in their country, which they probably couldn t see it anyway. four minutes after the top of the hour. at 10:30 this morning, paul ryan will unveil his plan to balance the american budget. democrats also have a plan. they re going to talk about it tomorrow. but one of them will balance the budget. the other will not. one will raise taxes. the other will not. doug mckelway live at the white house where they ll come out with a budget two months late, with the very latest. good morning to you. good morning. this could be the week where we find out how willing the two parties in washington are to work together to solve the nation s budget crisis and to perhaps start to pair down almost $17 trillion in debility. the tone is pretty much shifted dramatically in washington. rather than make the campaign style appearance around the country, the president is turning his focus now to washington with a series of metings on capitol hill. it begins today. first meeting with the senate democratic caucus. then on wednesday he meets with the white house republican conference. thursday he meets with the house democrats and senate republicans. here is jay carney at yesterday s briefing about all this. our focus now as the president has said, is on working with congress in regular order on the budget process and through that process, hopefully produce a bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction, balanced deficit reduction, couples entitlement reform with tax reform that achieves the deficit reduction in both ways. that as house budget committee chairman paul ryan unveils his budget. the claims to balance the budget in ten years without raising taxes. in an op ed in the wall street journal, he spells out what could signal some room for compromise as he calls for simplifying the, quote, rubic s cube of taxes. he wants just two simple tax brackets. 10% for individuals. 25% for corporations. one part of his budget will be a likely nonstarter at the white house. it assumes the repeal of obamacare. here is paul ryan. you have to remember, all that money that was taken from medicare was to pay for obamacare. we say we get rid of obamacare, end the raid and apply those savings to medicare to make medicare more solvent and extend the solvency of the trust fund. the president today meets with the senate democratic caucus. tomorrow is the one to watch as he meets with the house republican conference. the tone and tenor set there could set the tone and tenor for the weeks ahead. back to you in new york. steve: you re right. doug, thank you. brian: let s see if laura ingraham is buying the charm offensive because it s been going on for over two weeks. at first you were skeptical. are you skeptical no longer of the president s big push to get in touch with the other side? guys, i live in washington. i m a conservative. i was born skeptical. okay? that s just the way it is. look, i think it s great that everybody is feeling like the tone has changed and the president actually broke bread with republicans, had an actual conversation, the first one he s ever had with paul ryan last friday when he had lunch. that s great. the bottom line, though, is both sides have to do the hard work of governing, which so far they haven t really wanted to do, right? the democrats, first time in four years as doug pointed out, they are working out a budget. they re going to have a budget. patty murray has to wrangle together all these democrats on her senate budget committee to agree on this blueprint that then will have to be meshed or put together with what the house republicans come out with. so as much as we talk about the new kumbaya mentality, there is a huge divide between both sides. i think if both sides believe it s politically expedient for them to have a deal and that they can sell it to their bases as not compromising or not selling out, maybe, maybe there is a possibility of it. that s what i think you re seeing now. the president sees his popularity maybe dropping a little bit. and the new york times even criticizing him about the perpetual campaign. so he s perhaps changing his tone. gretchen: it s interesting when his own spokesperson says the goal of all these discussions is not to balance the budget. oh, no. jay carney? yeah. never been a concern. steve: no. just spend less. the concern has been to redistribute money, to make life more equitable in the united states. it s a markedly different approach to governance and even bill clinton had 1994 on ward. for him, it was, we actual will he have to get this thing balanced. i have to work and play with the chess players that are on the board. i can t imagine that the house is now run by nancy pelosi. it isn t. we ll see if the president actually deals with the world as it is rather than the perpetual demonization game. brian: how about this? paul ryan saying his idea in his budget is to eliminate obamacare. that s not practical, even though you might want it, the supreme court has spoken, that s never going to fly. well, i raised the same point yesterday and i think you re exactly right. how would he factor this in? but i think there is some the magic in that, in that the public is still against what obamacare is doing to the health care system. and i think paul ryan sees that even in some democrat states, you just saw massachusetts yesterday say that they want a medicaid waiver from massachusetts. they re seeing what s going to happen in a state like massachusetts. i think ryan thinks he has some philosophical space to move in there and again, a lot of reasons why he s putting that in there. but nevertheless, you re right, brian. it s a very optimistic and generous way of look at the money that will be on the table and available to him. steve: one of the other things that apparently he s going to propose, right now if you re a high earner, you pay close to 40% in federal taxes. he would like to make things flatter. have two brackets. 10% and 25%, or you could be like a federal employee and not pay any federal taxes. did you see this? we ve got some graphics to show people. at the white house, there are people who work at the white house who have not paid their taxes to the tune of $333,000 for last year. congressional staffers, $10 million. federal employees have not paid their taxes for 2011 to the tune of $3.5 billion. so they want us to do it. but they haven t done it themselves. come on, doocy. the rules are for the little people and the sacrifice that has to happen in the united states happens in the hinter lands. all the working people outside of government have to keep sacrificing to fund the government where people don t pay their taxes. okay? this is why people watching this across the country, hearing washington, my hair hurts. they re so turned off from politics right now. and it s the reason i think people just are so skeptical, they re so suspicious. they don t trust government today as much as they may be would like given the seriousness of the problems we re facing. it s cause of stuff like that. you have to lead by example and it s not that everyone is going to be perfect, people aren t going to make mistake on taxes, people fall into that category. it s not a big deal. but we had a treasury secretary who blew off tax obligations. okay? so of course these guys at the white house are going to have tax troubles, too. it s not surprising. gretchen: have a fantastic week on the radio and we ll see you soon. take care. steve: straight ahead, it s the coolest show in vegas. anna kooiman, that s her, is going to pull back the curtain on cirque de soleil. she s got a costume and the world s largest bungee cord. brian: right. and let s see if she survives. then mayor bloomberg vowing to fight back after a judge cans his soda ban of the does he have a case? should he just let the whole thing fizzle out? peter johnson, jr. is here without props. steve: a newnany state law was supposed to take effect today here in new york. but at the last minute, a judge canned mayor bloomberg s ban on big sodas. mayor mike bloomberg, the champion of this law, says the fight isn t over. think the judge is totally in error in the way he interpreted the law and we re very confident that we will win on appeal. steve: somebody who knows all about the law and appeals and stuff like that, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. good morning, steve. how are you? now it s on to the appellate division of the first department in manhattan, new york. judge kingly, supreme court justice, has said that mayor bloomberg s law is a, quote, administrative laviason, the biblical sea monster that became the model for thomas hobbs, about an absolute monarch and the need for absolute government in our society. and so the appellate division will decide whether the judge was right when he said that the mayor overstepped the city council s bounds, that they overstepped the separation of powers between the executive branch and legislative branch, and whether the law was, quote, arbitrary and coo appreciation, meaning in common sense language, it didn t make any sense because you could go next door and buy a sugared coffee, while at the same time, you couldn t buy a 16-ounce soda. steve: cause at one restaurant, they had to abide by the rules. next one over or someplace else, they didn t. it s crazy. ultimately, though, peter, what has a lot of people upset is simply the overregulation. it seems like okay. in this town, you can t have too much salt. he wanted to crack down on sugary drinks. i understand the nanny state, burr i also think i understand and all parties understood obesity is a problem in this city. diabetes is a problem. it cost hundreds of millions of dollars. but how does a government regulate it? in this particular case, it was an administrative regulation of the department of health. not a dually passed will you by elected city council people. they re going to look at the evidence here and say, did they have a right to do it? there is a lot of case law on that and it goes both ways. secondly, was the city of new york rational in its basis? did they have some evidence to show that they were doing was appropriate? whether this is decided by mayor bloomberg s term by the end of the year is unknown. probably not. steve: you re real good at reading the appeals process. do you think the appeals court will say that judge was right or bloomberg was right? i ve argued these types of article 78 many times before. i believe it s a 50/50 shot at this point. the record is a long one interest and a big one. did the city put together what they needed to do to prove their case? did they overstep their bounds? a lot of legal scholars think they within abridge too far. so in new york today, it s drink i dr. , drink, drink. steve: look, all of the camera guys are singing. 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[ male announcer ] make the switch. n. take advil®.d soreness is just out of the picture. and for sinus congestion, now you can get advil® combined with a proven decongestant. breathe easier with advil® congestion relief. . steve: it s catching on of the shot of the morning, it s the harlem shake duck dynasty style. pro golfer bubba watson joining the reality stars for the fun. he is shaking it. the video already has over 1 million views. gretchen: who is on the floor? brian: i m not sure. gretchen: that s our own personalizeed version. gretchen: i think the harlem shake is good for everyone because it shows everyone can dance. brian: i m not sure what it is yet. i mean. gretchen: you just move however you want to move. brian: really? steve: it s not like the hustle where you would be in a line and all be synchronized. everybody does their own thing. brian: i come from a synchronizeed dance background. steve: i remember when you were doing the synchronized swimming. you were in the seoul olympics? brian: yes. i showed a lot of soul. when was that, 1988? i apologize. i don t remember the seoul olympics. gretchen: you re looking now at live pictures of saint peter s square in vatican city, around 11:30 a.m. eastern time. 115 cardinals, it s all going on inside the sistine chapel where they will gather steve: tuesday afternoon. gretchen: and begin the con cliff to pick the next pope. but there may be a problem. there is no front runner. lauren green is live with more. good morning, lauren. good morning, gretchen. it s about 1:30 in the afternoon here in rome. so the cardinals are now having a preconclave lunch in the sequestered quarters at the vatican. earlier today, they participated in a public mass before the election of a pope to give them spiritual direction and guidance before they head to the actual conclave voting. in his homily, the dean of cardinals appealed for unity among the 115 electors saying each of us is therefore called to cooperate with the successor of saint peter. and they will be choosing the successor to pope benedict xvi starting that process this afternoon. as you say, there is no strong clear front runner, but there are several top contenders. the italian press is writing about, the canadian cardinal, america s timothy cardinal dolan, of course. cardinals appear to be in two camps. the reformers who want to clan up the canneddal plagued scandal plagued vatican and those who want the status quo. it leaves the possibility of compromise. there are two names. philippino cardinal and one from hungary. there is strategizing going on, but one they hope is led by the holy spirit. you have to get to know one another. they have to vet the potential candidates. they also need to promote the ones whom they think would be the best pope. so there is a kind of politics. i m sure none of this politicking, however, is that of self-promotion cause it would be crazy for anyone to want to be pope. it s an office of tremendous sacrifice. i m sure that they re in fearful awe, even terror, about the possibility of them coming out pope. they will have a brief rest and then they will head into the sistine chap toll begin the voting process. the conclave will last probably two to three days. fun facts to know, the longest conclave was in 1268. it lasted almost three years. i don t think we ll be here that long. because the longest in modern history was five days. that was to elect pope pious xi. brian: if that happens, are we subletting your office and your apartment if you re there for three years? well, if you water my plants and take care of my cats. brian: all right. fine. i ll water something. gretchen: you re italian. sounds pretty good. but you would be really good after three years. maybe you can find a piano to practice on, too. yes. steve: now she s showing off. brian: did she just tell me off in italian? gretchen: you should know, you re half italian. brian: so my mom keeps telling me. steve: in the meantime brian: you ll see the chimney live? steve: we don t know exactly the time. gretchen: that music scares me. steve: it s angelic. brian: it should be the last tune we hear. gretchen: very heavenly. brian: that would be bad. if that s the last song you hear, not good. steve: we ve got headlines for you. a vigil last night for three crew members on a nature of jet who were killed navy jet who were killed when their helicopter went down. they were on whidbey island base. their prowler went down and no parachutes were deployed. the names will not be leased until 24 hours after their families or next of kin have been notified until 4.7 earthquake rattling southern california. you can see groceries thrown around in a store right after it hit. no reports of major damage or injuries. people in southern california walked that off. but it did interrupt the taping of a tv show on the tennis channel. there is a tennis channel. you can see the shaking and brett s instant reaction. those comments were so powerful, neil, we actually just endured an earthquake while that was going on. brian: he s having some fun. tracy austin, a form guest here, will be telling us about that when she comes back in two years. the largest quake to hit the l.a. region in three years. gretchen: i used to work with brett in cincinnati. brian: just the three of you? gretchen: no, there were others. not getting enough sleep doesn t just make you tired. it makes you fat. a new study found people who slept less than five hours a night gained two pounds a week. that adds up. they ate more snacks high in carbohydrates. lack of sleep slows down your metabolism. brian: second part is true. steve: brian, this is a sports story, so you better take it. brian: you sure? steve: we were talking about it. brian: the biggest highlight of the hockey game happened before the puck even hit the ice. listen. watch. brian: wow. staff sergeant first class philip gallardo surprised his kids. he had been deployed to afghanistan for over a year. it was his fours deployment and his children could not be happy tore have him home. first i was like, is that him? yeah. i was nervous. i was just happy that he was here. brian: the family will have about ten days together before dad has to report to his base in kansas. other hockey news, it s the shot everyone is talking about this morning. he s going to bring the puck in on the stick. the swivel, no! brian: wow. casper of the senators attempting a legendary move against the bruins, putting his blade on top of the puck as he goes in fort goal. he just misses. the bruins go on to win 3-2. steve: very nice. gretchen: as if las vegas wasn t vibrant enough, cirque de soleil has been entertaining people for years. anna kooiman give us a sneak peek. good morning. 12 million people have been wowed by the original cirque de soleil show. it has been over the last two decades the cast of 75 let me get a taste of what it s like to be in the air. cirque de soleil is celebrating 20 years of taking the world by storm and all that started with this very show. we re going to take you inside and show you how all the magic happens. obviously cirque de soleil is known for their performers. but it s not just the action. it s the costume and the make-up. so how do you describe the dramatic look? it s a theatrical make-up for theatrical show. me sitting in the chair for the first time will take long to transform me? about an hour. you are even powdering my lips. this has to last through what? everything. two shows. sweating, right? they re work hard. they re sweating, talking, they re drinking. they drink a lot during the show so that they can stay hydrated. you re all done. walla! think you can take me seriously doing the news like this? walking in here, this is just unbelievable. all of these costumes are custom made. all are custom made. we have measurements for each artist, all the heads are formed to get a plastic cast from their head. what would you estimate the cost of a costume is? probably about eight grand. eight grand? i thought maybe 800 would sound like a lot. this is probably 800 right here, the one we re going to put you in. this is just a snapshot of all the costumes. how many are in the theater completely? over 10,000 costumes in our show. 10,000? yes. what do you have for me? you promised it s clean, right? it is very clean. this is the yellow bungee. this will go on first. this is your opening. so this is the front. this is the unitoward. this is your body. the make-up done. outfit is on. time to sign my life away. here we go. time to be a real performer. here we go! there you go. i m king of the world! yep. there you go. now what? now you re going to reach up for the rope. [ laughter ] oh, my god! then go again. yep. good job. solid ground. i think i need cpr. that was toughment that was a workout. how did i do? you did really good. how much work do i need? maybe a little bit. [ laughter ] during the editing process, my producer said he could really tell how everybody i was because i was breathing so heavily. but tickets range from $35 to $120 and they offer military discounts. a lot of people say, what the heck is this show about? as with most of the shows, the plot is very loose. but this one is similar to totem and chronicles the evolution of human life. steve: very nice. she flies through the air with the greatest of ease on the trapeze. thank you. good job. brian: all right. gretchen: thank you very much. the white house shut down public tours, blaming security cuts from the sequester. but a form secret service agent says that s not the whole truth. he s here live after the break. brian: then now they re taking america by storm. see what all the buzz is about, or hear what all the buzz about. 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take that. never having to surrender the things that matter. gotcha. that s powerful. verizon. gretchen: welcome back. the white house officially closing its doors to the public, blaming the move on the sequester cuts. now a form secret service agent is speaking out, saying the president is a guest in the white house. the people of the u.s. are the homeowners. closing the white house to public tours is clearly a petty naked gesture of pure politics. you remember the white house cited overtime by secret service as the reason fort shut down. joining me is the former secret service agent, republican u.s. senate nominee. good morning to you, dan. thanks for having me. gretchen: so naked petty politics. you want to expound upon that? absolutely. gretchen, the president doesn t get a mortgage bill in the mail every month for the white house. the fact that it s our house is not a campaign slogan. it doesn t go on a political sign. it s true. it s our home. your tax dollars, your hard work paid for it. your ancestors paid for it. it s our home. he s our guest there and he works for us. that s a fact. gretchen: you know the retort from the other side of your point of view is that oh, look at republicans, now we finally make cuts and now they don t like the cuts that are in place. your response? gretchen, we re spending a trillion, that is a thousand billion more dollars than we did in 2008. are you seriously going to make the case, the democrats at this point, that there are no cuts to be found other than keeping school kids out of our house, the white house? it s absurd. just the idea of it is absurd. gretchen: let s look at what the oversight committee recommended in recent ways to cut some of the waste that s going on in washington. money wasted of unimplemented recommendations, 2009 it was $29 billion. it skyrocketed to $67 billion in 2012. the number of those unimplemented recommendations also on the rise since 09, 10,000. 2012, there were 16,000. would that be a good place to start, dan, to try and look for a way to cut costs? it s time for this administration to grow up and govern. this is the new political air stock i can t city. i call them the downtown abbey crowd. ask you to cut. a tax hike is you cutting your budget. it s more money out of your pocket that goes to the government. but the very idea of them cutting and making responsible cuts so you can live your life, to them is considered almost political heresy. think about the nonsense. this is our government, take it back. you deserve better than this. gretchen: he called it naked petty politics. former u.s. secret service agent and a republican nominee for u.s. senate in the great state of maryland. thanks so much for your time. gretchen: they are the hottest thing in europe and now taking america by storm. . gretchen: see what all the buzz is about coming up next. first let s check in with hemmer for what s coming up at the top of the hour. gretchen, good morning to you. it is a huge day, by the way. why, you ask? she s gone. great day. we re going to break out the chimney camera, watching for smoke at the vatican. meanwhile, the north korea saber rattling continues. paul ryan is back, his plan on specifics. what do democrats have to show for it? you can not tour the white house. we ll tell you who others are. we ll see you in ten minutes [ male announcer ] how do you make america s favorite recipes? just begin with america s favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell s. it s amazing what soup can do. brian: they re the european phenomenon taking america by storm. gretchen: we re talking about this group. the 35-member choir brings an a capella flair to the greatest hits. steve: they have sold out stadiums here in the united states, racked up millions of hits on youtube and this morning they re here to perform live on fox & friends right here. we ve got sandra and boston. good morning to you. good morning. steve: what are you going to do for us? 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