what their struggle was to get used to what you have everyday. reporter: multiple generations of families to a positive event. it s been a week long full of protests and rallies in new york city and times square as well as los angeles and california where rallies were a little more violent blocking the interstate. the verdict has passed but time to move forward to other major issues, stand-your-ground laws and other race issues like racial profiling. jamie: great report. thank you very much. kelly: politicians of all parties have been dealing with race issues since the founding of this country. let s take you back through history how one prominent democrat robert f. kennedy handled a crucial moment back on april 4th, 1968. that was the day that martin luther king was assassinated. what we need is not division, what we need in united states is not hatred. what we need in united states is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another feeling of justice of those that still suffer within our country whether they be white or whether they be black. [ applause ] kelly: he said that time was not to divide the country but bring the country to unity. he was urged not to announce mlk s death but he went ahead anyway but two days later he was also shot to death in los angeles. and it s royal baby fever in great britain. it s sky high has everyone awaits for baby to arrive. all eyes on the london hospital where the duchess is likely to give birth. future king or queen of england so the we. amy kellogg is there and letting us know if anything has happened. it s not any minute but hopefully soon and relieved by the reports that the duchess has left her parents home and has come back to london because the longer she stayed out there, the more likely it was a contingency plan would have to be activated in an emergency for to her give birth out there. the any not any by the press has gone past full term was broken briefly by some imposters who at that lovely evening hour, pulled up to the ward, with drivers and ear pieces and hurried in like a married couple only as the cameras moved after them like a school of fish. they revealed themselves as a publicity stunt. people seem certain that kate will make a great mother begin the interests she has shown in children so far and particularly vulnerable children. she has been known in the past couple of years, very personal attention to some of the sick children. he has said he wants to be the delivery room with his wife. prince philip playing squash when charles was born however the story goes that he quickly high tailed it over to see the queen and presented with flowers and champagne. she wasn t a queen at that
but in later years, her career was marred by controversy. she resigned from the hearst newspapers after sparking an uproar with comments on jews living in israel. the president releasing a statement today, what made helen thomas the dean of the white house press corps was not just the length of her ten ui but her fierce belief that our democracy works best when we ask tough questions and hold our leaders to account. she died at her home in washington. she was 92. jamie: growing concerns this week about the implementation of president obama s healthcare law. falling care act. we have seen lots of changes to it. from the delay of the employer mandate and pushing back to other key parts to the critical supported of unions. does president obama need a new strategy what is rolling out to be his signature plan? let s bring in washington
been much more difficult for him had a lot of these unpopular parts took effect before. now people on the hill that are concerned, he is facing reelection next year and if the employer mandate and other unpopular positions take effect, they are going to have be the ones defend it. so what we re seeing is a real crumbling of support among his own party. the truth about the law in my opinion is starting to come out. jamie: what about the employee mandate. are you hearing or finding that unions are also concerned that one the mandate is in place, employers will perhaps have an incentive to hire lower hour workers, not 40 hour workweek workers. do they have something to lose here? absolutely. i think you put your finger right on it. the big signal that a lot of changes was about to happen, you have seen more and more unions step out and publicly condemn the law and demand changes be made. any time you are talking about democrats, when you get the unions involved and they started pushing democrats around, you know that democrats are in real trouble. you know they are very scared because without the union support, democrats are going to have a real hard time in the election. that is exactly what has happened here. the problem is when president obama delayed the implementation of the penalty for employers who fail to provide insurance, he didn t provide the same delay for individuals. so it s one of these situations where you have basically help coming in president obama and democrats are willing to help big companies but not give it to individuals? it raises questions about the influence of corporate influence and influence of lobbyists in this town. i think it puts president obama in an unfavorable light and puts democrats in a real bind when they are out on the campaign o campaign trail. jamie: appreciate your help today. kelly: we re just getting started. secretary of state john kerry shuttle diplomacy takes off as israel and palestinians agree to new peace talks but the devil is in the details. jamie: plus heartbreaking new information on the plane crash in san francisco. what investigators have found and released. kelly: motor city running on empty and serving as a warning to other cities teetering on the edge. how the bankruptcy is being felt nationwide. if anybody is think 40-year-old trees going
hampshire which will be a town hall, same format as sunday s debate here on cnn. dana bash joins us with the details and political strategy behind this. this basically seems like an obvious dry run for sunday night. one source told me it was a scrimmage. they really want donald trump to kind of retain his muscle memory from town halls. he hasn t done as many town halls as chris christie or john mccain who basically lived in new hampshire where a town hall is part of the political tdna there. but the fact is they want him to be in an intimate settic just like on sunday night. they have chosen the place where chris christie had his first down hall when he announced for president in 2016. and chris christie is involved in trying to get donald trump ready stylistically for the idea said, explicitly to me and others that what made him success flfl that debate. he had the practice. one texted me as it was going on last night, practice practice, it matter. i spoke to a source familiar with trump s debate strategy and i said are you going to fly some of pence s people into trump tower to help him and the answer was of course not. they could not be more different. what difference would it make? it couldn t matter. and hillary clinton is taking a liter schedule and focussing on debates. gre. she s doing what she did before the first debate. the debate team now has shifted back. i will say that trump s schedule is clear on friday. he s not going campaign and he s going to be prepping. stay with us. i want to brick in the rest of the panel. the fact that trump is doing this, essentially run-through town hall for those who said he didn t prepare enough it will certainly i assume come as good news. i think so. look, i think inside the trump campaign there is a sense that donald trump needs the practice. and that the only way to get him to focus is to actually have this dry run or scrimmage, as dma is calling it. and i think it could really help him. however we re all going to be watching it. don t forget. so he s going to be judged on this town hall before he does the one on sunday night. and it doesn t work with donald trump to say be like mike. that is not going to work with for him. so he s going to be donald trump. how concerned are you that a town hall format might not be to his greatest strength? i think the moderator is going to be a concern on sunday night. he s tough. bold. brash. anderson cooper is going to be there he s going to be tough on donald trump. he s going to be tough on anybody but think what people don t remember in the process is donald trump did a lot of town halls. in salem, some in london the day before the primary. won in rochester, new hampshire. in iowa. donald trump did one in virginia on monday with the veterans. this has been a consistent message. who most people are accustomed to are large scale rally wills donald trump talks for 40 minutes. and hopefully what you are going to see is donald trump at his best interacting in a small environment one on one with those people and really answering their questions and really hopefully getting a head start, if you will on what the questions are that will be asked on sunday night. hopefully the same concerns people have sunday night will be addressed tomorrow night in new hampshire. and as a trump supporter are you worried he s not taking enough time off in advance of this debate? no i think friday is good to take that time in the mock town hall tomorrow is good. the veterans town hall. he just had that on monday. he does very well in this format. i think back to the commander ner chief town hall. where the consensus is donald trump did better. they were upset that hillary clinton, how she appeared in a town hall. he did well because of the simple fact he likes people. he s got at engaging with people. take hillary clinton. she seems to hold in contempt anyone who disagrees with her. so i think he likes people and engages with people in a real way and hillary clinton does not. is there consensus among republican there is a donald trump needs this debate? needs to do much better? yes. 100%. 110% if that is possible. amongst republican whose like donald trump, those who don t. those who are his nearest and dearest say he needs do better. and that means saying on the message of what he wants to talk about as much as possible and don t get into a tit for tat with hillary clinton as much as he tries to go to him which is tlo question he ll try to do again. there is till zoing to be tit for tat. but whether it is on policy or. her terms or his. or her terms. how concerned are you ? the stakes are high for hillary clinton. she comes in with wind at her back but the pressure is on to keep that going. that is right. and i think expectations manage at this point. i agree with the first part of what she said. there is a format that works good for donald trump. he does engage people really well. i think hillary clinton depending on the person it can be hit or miss. so i m concerned there is a question that comes up and she comes across as guard order protected and that is normally when she comes across as not likable. i will say i ve seen several videos where she s been in the town hall and gone very very well. essential things are on her side and that is all the more reason i think the clinton campaign and clinton supporters have a lot more to worry about. i would agree. and the clinton campaign and spoupporters across the board should always be concerned. that is how you win: the lead nationally in every battleground state now especially in ohio, i would say to clinton supporters, don t believe them. get out and vote and mobilize and make sure donald trump never gets to the white house that is basithe only way that will happen. and anything can happen. i actually agree with corey. i think this town hall format will be good for donald trump because it can keep him boxed him. he won t have a teleprompter or notes but he ll have the kind of parameters of the moderators, the people in front of him that i think will keep him much more managed. or at least i think that is what the campaign hopes. if the king of town halls is john kasich. he did more than a hundred in new hampshire. he emotes and hugs people. he was great anyway in that format. i actually disagree with you guys. i think that donald trump has had some difficulty at town halls. and you have done them with him. he doesn t address the the person directly. he turbid and talked to you. didn t seem to embrace the person who asked the question or ask that person more questions about their question which hillary clinton does really well. and your town hall, one of the key moments so far for hillary clinton is when she said she s not a natural politician and said that at a town hall. donald trump has not sort of oured part of his personal self. in any of these settings. even when people were asking for it. and i think that is a difficult part for him. doesn t want to share that way. we re going continue this conversation with the panel in just a moment throughout the evening. of course the two human resouou on. on sunday starting at 4:00 eastern time. as corey mentions it ll be ducking out for a bit to actually moderate. and our cnn live coverage duets under way at 4:00 eastern time. and just ahead eric trump on whether his dad pays federal income taxes. and the line from last night s debate that became a head line and what latino voters are saying about it when we continue. federal income tax for ulta 18 years. we did talk with dana bash and here is the answer he gave. has your father paid federal income taxes. we pay a tremendous amount of income taxes. federal income taxes. yes. and beyond taxes we also employ tens and tens of thousand os people. eric my question now is he has paid federal income taxes over the last 15 years, yes or no. of course. absolutely. my father pays a tremendous amount of tax. we vas a company pay a tremendous amount of tax. if we ever see your father s federal income taxes it will show no question about it. he pays federal income taxes. for some this puts the answers to rest. few people have dug deeper than . i spoke to him earlier this evening. when eric trump insists his father had paid federal income tax, based on your reporting over the years are you skeptical? well i m not really sure anderson what anything is that eric trump has sceeen. i think both of the trump boys tend to get their father in hot water whenever they speak up on these issues. i think the returns in question go back, you know, two decades. and eric trump is i think his early thirties. so i m not really i doubt that his father was showing him all the tax returns when he was a toddler. that being said, i think one of the interesting things that s dwo gone on in this debate off the new york times story is that there is a lot of focus on the legality of this massi ivive deduction he took. in fact the writeoff represent an epic business failure. it is i think representative of about 9 hundr$9 hundred million of loans he guaranteed personally in the late 1980s and all of it, all of it ended up in a giant train wreck. he bought airlines, hotels. he overleveraged his casino business. and he ended up with a ton of debt he couldn t repay because he overpaid for properties. he didn t think far enough ahead about the prospects for the various businesses he was entering and classic donald trump decision making. he s actually a very undisciplined, short-term, non strategic thinker. and that writeoff is a big numeric emblem of that tendency he has. you know, obviously trump could put all of these questions to rest by releasing his tax returns. he says he won t release them while he s under audit even though there is nothing preventing him from doing that. and by his lawyers own admission his returns from 2002-2008 are no longer under audit. and by the way anderson the trump campaign has not given any proof to anyone they are actually under audit. they could release the letter interest the irs showing that to be the case and they haven t. secondly, even if there were an audit and they haven t made that clear that would prevent him from releasing anything. that is just not all of the audit stuff a red herg. as somebody who was sued by trump for writing that he wasn t as rich as he claimed he was a suit that was dismissed by the way how much does something like that actually bother him? i think it bothers him immensely. for all his bluster and bullying and bragging, he s immensely insecure about some very fundamental things. and one of them is his sense of himself. and he his net worth and how rich he is, and where he figures on the pecking order is much more important to him than it is to anyone else. no one cares about his wealth as much as donald trump himself carries about it. appreciate it you being on. thanks. still plenty of questions out there. back with the panel. dana you had that conversation with eric trump. does that settle anything? or does it raise more questions? no. i think questions that were out there remain. there was only so much time and there were a wloft unanswered questions even as he was answering the questions. one of which frankly looking back i should have been specific. personal income taxes or income taxes or maybe the obvious is he said he d seen them. did you see the check, how do you actually know he paid the income taxes? it was his knee jerk reactions as the son of somebody who s under fire to try to put it to bed by saying yes because that was the only answer seemed like he could give. but we don t know. donald trump, even him not releasing the actual return, the full returns which are obviously very large has eric trump pointed out in the past. he could just ak a knowledge one way or the other whether he did or did not pate personal income tax as result of this writeoff. he did release a statement saying i paid hundreds of millions in taxes. federal taxes was part of that. i think this whole new york times story is emblematic of the reason he shouldn t release his taxes. they put on a headline that says donald trump could have not paid income taxes for 18 years. since when do we have speculatery head lines with no basis to make that fact other than the fact there is a loss claim on a tax form. there is no proof me didn t pay taxes. why would you release hundreds of pages that could be misconstrued by the media. he could release his information. what he paid and made and charitable contributions without releasing all pages. i think it is irrelevant at this point. the issues that are affects american people today job, immigration, their own personal tax, burden of washington d.c. regulations. look if people want to dwell on donald trump s taxes, they are welcome to do that. that does nothing to set the agenda moving forward. and what we do know is 11% of people think hillary clinton is honest and trust worthy. and 55 points in the wrong direction if you think the country is on the right track or the wrong track. the american people don t carolina they care about jobs and safety. they are so tone deaf when it comes to these issues poll after poll, multiple majorities of mesh people. trump supporters. believe wurm number one stacks are the civic duty and people should pay them. and above 70% believe he should release his taxes. and put legality aside. it is unseamly when you have a multi billionaire who touts his business ak meyou men and how rh he is every 18 seconds and then there was a news article today how about back 1978 and 79 he did a lot of losses so not just he didn t pay taxes but his business acumen is. if you want to buy the argument he had a good accountant and he didn t have to pay taxes. a question is where are his investments? what potential conflicts of interest are there with foreign governments? particularly since he s said i m going the hand over my business to my kids. and they will still be running that business. these are the things that would be outlined in a tax return. not just the bottom line and not the charitable and all these are serious foreign policy issues. i think the public deserves answers. on that point certainly. but there is at point and that is, this is the same person who s called for transparency from potential opponents from this opponent. he s asked for wall street transcripts. he s asked president obama whechbs just thinking about a run for a birth certificate. so why would not not meet the very staple standard. one of the famous lines is he s not even meeting the nixon standard. donald trump said in the first debate he ll release his full tax returns as soon as hillary clinton releases 33,000 e-mails. very clear. and more over he did call for hillary clinton to release her transcripts from those wall street speeches and she refused to do that as well. where she s made 10s of memos from executives. if you want to see donald trump d holdings. go to elections and commissions and poult the piece of paper with the properties he owns and the there is a lot of totally different. not in those documents that would be in the tax returns. yes. no question about it. the federal the financial disclosure has some information. but not nearly as much as you would learn by what he pays or doesn t pay in taxes with with regard to hisregard to his company. if hillary clinton, if none of her tax information was out there, wouldn t the trump campaign or any opponent be raising lots of red flags about that. i think congress has put in place laws that suggest what we complaint expect of someone running for the highest office in the land. you fill out financial disclosure furm. donald trump did that. we have a law that required her to keep the e-mails that she disobeyed. one candidate has violated transparency laws. and thaz hillary clinton. nub of that has been proven. it has been no no [inaudible]. by a continue to say there is no law that donald trump has got to release his taxes. but the fact of the matter is that again for 40 years this has been the standard. and the american people expect that. for all the reasons that we just talked about. the most important one i do believe is what gloria mentioned. when you have someone who we know has a very strong bromance with vladimir putin and you have somebody that we already know has connections with chinese banks who owe, who actually own the debt that he holds. and he is asking us to give him the position of commander in chief when he would have the ability to pass laws and to be favorable [indiscernible]. 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[inaudible] we got take a break. more with our panel ahead. mike pence has been getting good reviews for his debate performance. also controversy about his comment about the mexican thing. and the deadly hurricane barrelling towards the u.s. tonight, where it s head and how bad the damage could be picking up for kyle. here you go. you wouldn t put up with part of a pizza. um. something wrong? so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? you want the whole thing? yes, yes! live whole. not part. aleve. hey, it s been crazy with school being back- so we re constantly going over our data limit. oh, well, now - all of our new plans come with no data overages. wow, no more overages? so that means. go on.say it. we ll finally be in control. and we re back. introducing new at&t plans with no data overage charges. are rapist or criminalsful or john mccain is not a hero he s showing you who he is. senator. you whip t out that mix can thing again. can you defend it? aliens who have come into this country illegally and perpetrated violence and taking american lives. he also said and many of them are good people. you keep leaving that out of your quote. that mexican thing sparked a lot of discussion. joining me your reaction to what the governor said last night about whipping out that mexican thing again? well what can i tell you? i giggled a lit bit because i thought it was a weird phrase. for a while i thought maybe anthony weiner had gone crazy celebrating national taco day which was yesterday. but when he was part of the republican conference he was a very compassionate man who supported and spoke up in immigration reform. so i give him the benefit of the doubt. but most of america doesn t know mike pence. and only knows him as donald trump s running mate. and whirn the running mate of a man who s spoken about mexicans and said some are rapists and said this things about mexicans for 16, 17 months now. somebody who s attacked a judge for being of mexican heritage. an indiana born judge. from the state that mike pence represents you don t get the benefit of the doubt from most americans and we ve seen it turned into a hashtag, a rallying call for a lot of latinos. do you think it is actually going to hurt him in the latino community? look at the latest national polling on the latino hispanic vote. donald trump winning 17% of likely hispanic voters. and secretary clint 65%. that was before the debates. do you think this hurts? i ll be the first to concede we re not doing great among vote oefrs color and by the way the republican party hasn t finish me wlex cycles so this is hardly now donald trump. it has done better in years past. what matters to me as an hispanic is he went down to mexico and i thought acted very presidential when he met with president nieto down there and he said that the mexican american community is a treasure to the united states. e we need and we love legal immigration. and no one by the way is mored a versusly affected by legal immigration than legal immigrants. they are the ones most cheated when we say it is okay illegals to hop the line and get in front of them to. we are going to get control of our border. we love immigration. he s the son of an immigrant. married to an immigrant. we know what immigration does to the united states in terms of culture, vitality. but we ve been right as a people to do it through legal means. and there are only key states with largely hispanic populations. it is not monolithic population by any means. is it possible the way governor pence handled donald trump s statements on undocumented immigrants how he pivoted away from trump s cross-talk about conservative deportation that might help some conservatives vote for trump. there are some conservative latino voters but they are the huge minority. the very small minority. i came to this country legally too. i came by plane. i did it legally. but i also understand and i think most latinos have the empathy to understand that but for the grace of god there go i. i came as an eight-year-old girl. but could very well have been a dream ad girl. had not my parents not had the money to hire lawyers and make me legal the way they did. i could have been one of those girls who found out when they were 19 and going into college that i was illegal. but for the grace of god i realized that wasn t the case because i was a lucky and fortunate one. but because this campaign has preyed on latinos, has preyed on immigrants. has made it a pillar of their campaign to attack hispanics and attack immigrants and make it one of the things they stand on they don t get the benefit of the doubt. and [ inaudible ]. donald trump has made it so since june 16th when he first announced and called mexicans rapist. it wasn t me, steve. it was donald trump who went on the attack against mexicans from day one of this campaign. steve go ahead. what you are doing is you are trying to make the illegal immigrants the victims. they are breaking the law. the victims are not illegals. people who break our immigration laws, people who come here in a way not allowed by our laws. the victims are the american people. steve, anna is talking about language that your candidate, the candidate you are supporting has used when you hear some of the lack she s used, do you have any problems with it? anderson i ll be the first to say particularly early in the campaign i didn t like the tone. and i think he alienated some hispanics unnecessarily. i think we re doing our very very best to win them over now and try to convince voters of color whether hispanics or african americans that the democratic party has taken you for granted and pandered to you whether it is illegal immigration or schools or economic opportunity and what we are saying is we have a better way forward for you. and part of it by the way for legal hispanics is that illegal immigration is a non start are for us. okay. i got to go. and there is a reason why your hispanic advisory council has shrunk every day. they are ashamed of the words donald trump has used and you should begin by not calls us voters of color and understanding that african american, muslims, hispanics we are all different people with different priorities and mike pence and tim kaine will both be on new day tomorrow morning. a closer look at the impact gary johnson and jill stein can have, my conversation with ralph nader next. smoked chicken, bake fresh foccacia and hand-slice avocado. there s nothing or something about it. ii d look her right in that fat wbr id= wbr25265 /> ugly face of hers.age. she s a slob. she ate like a pig. a person who s flat chested is very hard to be a 10. does she have a good body? 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[indiscernible] . are you supporting any particular candidate this president no because what i would like do is comment favorably or unfavorably on what they do or say. if as the choins between hillary clinton or donald trump do you see much difference? of course. but they both flunk. the country deserves a lot better. a failed gambling czar who became a corporate welfare king that s cheated his way to a billion dollars. and the secretary clinton. more wall street, more war. a hawk that scares the generals. the libya disaster. she over raid gait whose didn t want to top teple the regime in libya because of the chaos. what will you do on election day if you don t like any candidates? there are third parties and there are write ins. you know the argument about spoilers. you have called the whole idea of a spoiler candidate as the politically bigoted word. the two major party candidates never call each other spoilers. it is only directed to a third party candidate who is considered someone who takes votes away. if you have equal right to run for election, then we are all trying to get votes or so we re trying to spoil one another or none of us are spoilers. there are some folks watching the polls and saying that hillary clinton is having a hard time getting some millennial voters who were you i peel to back then who are also went for president obama. if gary johnson or jill stein are taking votes from hillary clinton but don t have an actual chance of getting into the white house themselves, aren t they by defense spoilers. not at all. why don t major candidates take away votes from johnson and stein. in the 190s, he took away some of his platform. so this idea of scapegoating. whining, constantly whining in instead of the democratic party looking at themselves in the mirror. they have been fiddling in the house of representatives trying to assemble all the bad republican votes they passed in the house. they still haven t come out with it. so if donald trump won on election day and it is a close election you don t think or hillary clinton won, that the third party candidates would have had anything to do with that. not when they are at one, two, three percent. and they are both going to shrink from the present polls. they will be lucky to get 1 or 2%. in. so states they are doing double digits. there are all kind of sine que non. like in florida. 300,000 registered democrats voted for bush. the secretary of state with her shenanigans. the butterfly ballot misidentifying thousands as exfelons, taking away their vote. the supreme court decision selecting 5-4 george w. bush. there are a lot of seen sine que nones. and i would be surprised if by pushing gore he made critical comments on corporation, oil companies and stronger on the environment that he got far more votes than whatever would have you actually think by being in the race yes. when you are at that small level percentage that we were. just a surge of getting out the vote in wisconsin because they thought that the green party was nibble away at them, you know, ensured them gets wisconsin. do you think about how the world would be different had you not run in 2000. i think the result would have been george w. bush. there was a poll right after the election. without me in it and he won it. but look how crazy it is, anderson. we have an election where gore won by 550,000 votes national and the electoral college took it a way from him, this crazy electoral it s scapegoating at its worst. the democrat party doesn t want to look itself in the mirror and ask itself, why isn t it land sliding the worst republican party in history and defending the country? they don t want to look at those. they re dialing for the same commercial dollars. thank you very much. you re welcome. coming up, breaking news. after battering the caribbean and killing ten people, hurricane matthew heads for florida. we ll get the latest. hrimp. and try as much as you want of flavors like new parmesan peppercorn shrimp. just come in before it ends. i m jamie foxx for verizon. in the nation s largest independent study by rootmetrics, again, verizon is the number one network. hi, i m jamie foxx for sprint. and i m jamie foxx for t-mobile. 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all. a gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. eight people have been shot, including at least four students. we can only make an appeal to the gunman. stop. there s been enough already. an all white jury acquitted four white police officers of assault in the videotaped beating of black motorist rodney king. i was scared. i was scared for my life. across the nation, people were paying attention to this. the officers struck him with batons between 53 and 56 times. it was one of the first cases where there was actual video of a case of alleged police brutality. for 13 months, the city of los angeles has been a pressure cooker, building up to the rodney king trial. we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the from the intersex intersection. and they said, don t go down there. don t go down there. and they said to dana, who s very blond, very white, don t go down there, and that s the worse thing you can say to a journalist is don t go down there. she turns around. she s been hit in the head with a rock. i tell them where the closest hospital is at, and he says come on, let s get out of here. i looked at him and said i live here and i can t go. so i said goodbye and i did what i could do, i took pictures. in the midwest, the story of a notorious serial killer opens another chapter. jeffrey dahmer came back to his hometown today, back to face justice and the family whose son he took from them 14 years ago. already convicted and sentenced for 15 murders in milwaukee, jeffrey dahmer returns to ohio to stand trial, where his killing spree began. jeffrey dahmer, who had made some incriminating statements, if you will, a confession, that he had actually picked up his first victim back in the late 70s in bath, ohio. he picked up this young boy on the highway and the kid was about 18 years old. steven hicks was hitchhiking. dahmer picked him up and brought him to his house. and when hicks wanted to leave, dahmer attacked him with a barbell and killed him. then he chopp epe eped the k and put him in a garbage bag and then in the back of his car. the police for some reason stopped him. the detective rich muncie made a notation that there was a garbage bag in the back seat of the car and jeffrey dahmer indicated that he was just taking it to the dump. police let him go. he turned the car around, went like in this new jersey since the lindbergh kidnapping, and it was just something that didn t happen. you are about to see some of the most horrible video to come out of the los angeles rioting. you can see how this fire is really taking off now. people are running back and forth, looting is under way. it was like wildfires that were just sprouting in different parts of the city. a helicopter reporter spotted a man being dragged from his truck and beaten. i don t think anybody anticipated what took place at the corner of florence and normandy. this is just horrendous. the man s name is reginald denny. he s alive, but very badly hurt. when 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under siege. los angeles is shrouded in smoke from arson fires. like scenes from a nightmare, the television helicopters needed to just turn their cameras on, for it seemed anywhere they were focused there was looting. i see this guy tearing off down the street pushing a shopping cart and looking up going, are those pampers? and it wasn t just south central l.a. large-scale violence broke out in the suburbs too. we went towards the edge of korea town and south central and just filmed people going in and out of the stores and coming out with television sets and stuff. a store overstocked for mother s day, nothing left. why? do you know know? i don t know. they said, we re going shopping. it wasn t just african-americans. it was a lot of latinos. it was white people, lots of them. they were poor people. then suddenly the story wasn t a racial story. it was an economic story. looters of every race and color. just like their victims. that s not right! that s not right what y all doing! i came from the ghetto too. by late morning, it was clear that if anything, the lawlessness was increasing. fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney reso, president of the exxon international corporation, disappeared yesterday morning. on the second day, exxon received a phone call and the message of the phone call was that a letter could be found in the livingston shopping mall taped to a lamp post. federal authorities say they prefer not to speculate on the conditions or whereabouts of sidney reso while they re still searching for him. they say only that they hope to find him alive. mass murderer jeffrey dahmer made his return to summit county amidst a mass of security. they drove me to the prison where they were holding him and he was in a cell that was a suicide watch cell. guards behind glass on a little balcony that watched every move you made. we had to do all the paperwork that would probably take weeks and months in less than 24 hours. i spent that evening trying to figure out what i was going to say. it was very difficult. i had no warm feeling for this guy. he had no compassion. he had no emotion. why the cannibalism? it made me feel like they were a permanent part of me. but on april 30th, dahmer s heinous crimes are not dominating headlines. for the past 24 hours, residents of los angeles have seen their city caught up in a kind of free floating anarchy. gangs of street thugs neighborhoods and the violence spread well outside the core of l.a. the disturbance was moving west toward the affluent areas of the city, and the city s elite were starting to panic. while beverly hills and other west side areas are protected, neighborhoods closer to the turmoil are left to fend for themselves. the store owners in korea town were arming themselves and making outposts on the top of their stores. shopkeepers say all of this damage happened because police ignored this neighborhood and ignored businesses built over a lifetime. 20 years down the drain. i mean, can t people realize what they re doing is wrong? this is not the way to overcome racism. law enforcement simply could not be everywhere. and quite often, the tv trucks would get there before the police did. los angeles is bracing for a second night of burning, killing, and looting in response to the rodney king verdict. now officials prepare for night fall. i can t predict what s going to happen, but it s going to be worse. good evening, the saga of sidney reso is now a kidnapping case. in the case of exxon executive sidney reso, the fbi is racing against the clock to interpret clues from a ransom letter. investigators have received a ransom note from a group that calls itself the rainbow warriors. rainbow warrior is a name of a ship owned by green peace l.a. the first letter clearly wanted to make the point that this was in fact in retaliation for the exxon valdes, which had occurred a few years prior to that. they threatened to kidnap additional exxon executives. the fib recovered a ransom letter demanding millions of dollars and a cell phone number for further instructions. they set a ransom demand, which was the highest ransom demand in the united states, $18.5 million. you made the obligatory calls to greenpeace. you called other environmental organizations had you ever heard of such a thing, and the answer is no. first another terrible drama is unfolding in california. a gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. a horrific story in a small town in northern california is about to play out on live television. in 1992, it s a rare media event, but today all too common. 911 emergency. listen carefully. it s frank crawford high school, and there s someone with a gun. it was a normal workday. i heard a commotion in the dispatch area, and i asked someone what was going on, and they said there was a shooting at lyndhurst possibly. and my first reaction was i had never heard of anything like that. this was seven years before columbine. i and other detectives took off toward lindhurst high school. makes history selling at just over $30,000. and to think this one actually has a surround-sound stereo. the 2016 cla. lease the cla250 for $299 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. this has been the worst night of violence in los angeles since the 1965 watch riot. a nonstop orgy of burning, looting, and chaos. i don t believe this stuff. i just can t. the number of injuries has reached two dozen and the number of arrests has reached 2,000. los angeles is still a city under siege this morning with scores of fires still burning. as a third day of rioting dawns on los angeles, the mayor and police are slowly securing the city. we have got to make a commitment to have a sufficient show of force that we can gain control over the situation out in the field. good morning. 4,000 additional national guard troops will be sent to los angeles today to beef up the 2,000 troops which are already here. and federal troops regular army have been put on alert. city officials want a massive show of force to quell the rioting, looting, and burning which has rocked this city for the last two days. the bringing in of the national guard makes some difference in terms of enabling the existing law enforcement resources to be where they needed to be to try to hold more territory. what exactly have they been asked to do? we re re-enforcing law enforcement and clearing areas that have yet to be cleared or have yet to be damaged. in the short term, it had a very useful effect. however, it also added to the perception in low-income neighborhoods among some people that they were like an occupied territory. i was welcomed by some people and i think was resented by others. no justice, no peace! while authorities in southern california are bringing order to the streets, spectators in akron, ohio, are lining up to catch a glimpse of notorious serial killer jeffrey dahmer arriving to stand trial for the first murder he committed. dahmer is already serving life terms in wisconsin for 15 murders. oh ohio prosecutors say dahmer killed his first victim in ohio where he was raised. part of what made him such a monster was his ordinariness. i think that s what scared people a lot about him is he looked like you and me, and that s pretty scary because his deeds were unspeakable. the trial begins nearly ten months after the nation was exposed to the grisly discovers at dahmer s apartment. what they discovered upon their arrival was almost unspeakable. numerous pieces from as many 15 human bodies, including three heads preserved in a refrigerator. it s been two and a half months since he was convicted of 15 murders in milwaukee. jeffrey dahmer, cannibalism, murders, lobotomies. now dahmer is facing judgment for the final outstanding murder charge in ohio. as gruesome as his crimes were, many showed up at the summit county courthouse as early as midnight last night to be one of the 35 spectators allowed to see the proceedings firsthand. it s just really interesting to me. it s not often somebody famous comes to akron. i just want to see what s going on and how it s handled and things like that. he had letters from women proposing marriage to him. he got mail like he was a rock star. i haven t seen anything like it. i haven t seen anything since that. while the trial unfolds in akron, it s been three days since exxon executive sidney reso was kidnapped and no one has heard from him. the media wanted answers and a lot of the time we just didn t have them. it s enormously frustrating. frankly, i remembered so many more details about the l.a. riots than i did about a story i was covering. so dramatic was the footage and here we had no footage. that night, investigators get a new lead. on may 1, around 9:30 at night, we had received a call that directed me to morris park. they said that a second letter could be found under a white rock near a fence. we did in fact find a letter. they wanted a plane. they wanted the money put in eddie bauer bags. and obviously, our concern was we wanted to make sure that sidney reso was alive. we had a lot of concerns about sidney reso s well-being. while the fbi s behavioral science unit pours over the letter this is an nbc news special report. president bush addressed the nation regarding the l.a. riots. i want to talk to you about violence in our cities and justice for our citizens. two big issues that have collided on the streets of los angeles. george h.w. bush went on television. i assumed at the time he was going to make a statement to try to restore order in los angeles. what we saw last night and the night before in los angeles is not about civil rights. it s not about the great cause of equality that all americans must uphold. it s not a message of protest. it s been the brutality of a mob, pure and simple. the speech that bush made seemed to make things worse. the violence will end. justice will be served. hope will return. the president s words echo in households across the country. what is your plea to the charge of aggravated murder as contained in count one of the indictment? guilty as charged, your honor. an attorney spoke for dahmer and his family. jeffrey dahmer is a human being. he is a tortured and sick human being. i just talked about redemption and mercy, and i wanted to say he was sorry for his conduct, and i don t believe he was. for the first time ever, dahmer faced martha and richard hicks, steven s parents. mrs. hicks called dahmer a monster and spoke of the horror her family endured. we saw pieces of our son on tv every night, some smaller than a toothpick. i have always believed in capital punishment. but since the state of ohio didn t have it in 1978, i will not be able to pull the switch on the electric chair, but i know i could do it to this animal. dahmer is given his 16th life sentence and returns to wisconsin to serve out his time. jeffrey dahmer s stay in akron may have been brief, but his effect on the city will last for sometime to come. as one spectator put it, it may be gruesome, but it s history. pamela dennis, 23 news day at the summit county courthouse. we got word rodney was going to make a statement. you know, can we all get along? the gunman has released 11, but he has shot at least nine people. parents rushed to find out if their child had been released. it is happening as we re going live here. and sprinkles on just the right amount of brown sugar streusel. so that you can spend more time making special moments. .with your family. marie callender s. it s time to savor. unlikeso babies can sleeppampers stasoundly all night.s drier, pampers. i invest with e trade, where investors can investigate and invest in vests. or not in vests. sign up at etrade.com and get up to six hundred dollars. a hazardous materials team breathing from air tanks confiscated a number of items from the suspect s apartment. among them police say photographs and drawings of dead, mutilated bodies. sidney reso disappeared yesterday, but this case is being handled under the assumption of foul play. at lindhurst high school at this hour the s.w.a.t. team is still in place. parents are waiting to get word. murder, kidnapping, hostages, major stories playing out in america while all eyes are on the riots raging in l.a. at least 27 people are now dead since it all began following the acquittal of four police officers in the rodney king beating trial. on friday, may 1, there were still a lot of hot spots, but the authorities were better organized. and my assignment was we got word that rodney was going to make a statement. an enormous assemblage of media gathered around this yard area around this podium, because we hadn t heard from him. i just want to say, you know, can we all get along? can we get along? initially, that wasn t what he was supposed to say. he was given a script to read. he felt it was necessary to just speak from his heart. please. we can get along here. we all can get along. we ve just got to you know, we re all stuck here for a while. you know, let s try to work it out. i have always been very proud of him. very much. that s something that s still brought up to this day. i think it made an impact. as king pleas for calm people are still reportedly being held hostage by an armed gunman in the library building at the lindhurst high school in olive hurst. officers arrive on scene and are briefed by a fellow sergeant. they pointed to this big building. they called it building c. there was one suspect perhaps armed with a shotgun, who was last seen entering that building. shots had been fired. didn t really have time to talk about what the plan of action was going to be. rilg p boeb pe when this door to building c burst open, a burg bunch of kids came running out. 25 students and at least one teacher seem to have escaped what is now a very dangerous situation there at lindhurst high school. first room i went in, there were two victims there. a teacher and a student. that would set the tone for what we have a person who has committed homicide. we know that eight people have been shot, including at least four students. medical professionals are calling this a phase 3 disaster. the highest level of medical alert. on the east coast, days turn into weeks as authorities hunt for missing exxon executive sidney reso. while his kidnappers remain at large. fbi agents are still investigating the ransom letter and the kidnappers possible affiliation with an environmental organization. that s when we learned about the kidnapping of victor samuelsson. 18 years earlier, exxon plant manager victor samuelsson had been kidnapped by marxist guerrillas. there s no word from argentina today on the whereabouts of an american oil company executive named victor samuelsson who has been kidnapped. after $14 million in ransom was paid, samuelsson was returned unharmed in april 1974, 18 years to the day sidney reso disappeared. we need to know if indeed there is a group that is holding mr. reso. but the fbi s behavioral science unit becomes suspicious of the group s international claims. there were no international calls. i think we had one call from new york and then one call late in the investigation from georgia. all of the phone calls that we were able to capture were all within maybe a five to ten mile radius. in fact, the kidnappers seemed to have intimate knowledge of morris county. investigators have a hunch the kidnappers are not the environmental crusaders they claim to be. they re locals. mrs. reso says she s concerned about her husband s health. he had a heart attack three years ago, but she says she has faith. he s courageous, he s honest, and he s good. so if anybody can survive any set of circumstances like that, he can do it. the suspect has been identified by the sheriff s department as eric houston. in olive hurst, california, the local community is facing a terrifying hostage situation. tom, are we any closer toward understanding what it is he wants? no, we still know nothing other than he came here with a grudge over treatment here when he was a student. i just remembering about the teacher that failed him, the teacher that broke up with him, that he had lost his job, so basically his entire life that s unraveling or falling apart so to speak all came back to the one teacher. school authorities and peace officers are trying to establish some sort of contact with the gunman. i don t know if they have been able to achieve that yet. at this time, we re trying to gather intelligence as to the exact location of which room he appears to be moving. come to find out he s directly overhead on top of us. he had placed lookouts on the stairwells. at that point, jim downs started communicating with the student on the stairs. i had probably anywhere from four to six cops with their pistols an on me. then i had eric with his shotgun pointing at me.on me. then i had eric with his shotgun pointing at me. so i had two different sets of people pointing their guns at me. they don t know what to expect in either of us. it was pretty intense. so it was crazy. it is a very tense situation here and we just keep waiting for more news and hopefully more people to come out of that building. to stabilize your foundation and relieve lower-back, knee or foot pain from being on your feet. find your nearest kiosk at drscholls.com. also available from dr. scholl s: heavy duty support for lower back pain, lightens the impact of every step. the national guard is now out in force in los angeles. while the cameras closely followed the l.a. unrest, elsewhere other crises intensified. sidney reso headed to work and disappeared. he s the president of exxon international. in california, a gunman is holding more than 30 hostages at a high school. 6,000 california national guard troops on the streets of los angeles. their weapons will be loaded and they have orders to return fire if fired upon. by 3:00 p.m. on may 1, marines begin amassing south of the city. unless you ve been in the service, you never get that sense of power of guys in uniform and heavy machinery that comes with the army showing up. the regular army troops and marines ordered up by president bush moved to staging areas. our main weapon is our physical presence, be a visual deterrent. it s the weirdest sight to see a tank kind of roll in up over a hill and kind of drop in and descend over los angeles with the cityscape in the background. that pretty much brought order. you don t argue too much with a tank. there was an interesting mood change in some areas of los angeles neighborhoods as firefighters arrived at yet another store that had been looted and set afire. there were no rocks and throwing bottles, but lots of helping hands. a lot of those people wanted to undo the damage, do anything they could to undo the damage and were extremely helpful to the fire department, the police department, would go on television and make statements and decry the violence and say, this isn t us. i want the people to stop this and really think about what you re doing. you re hting yourself more than you re hurting anybody. as anglinos fight for their city, a life or death battle is being waged in northern california. eric houston, he may be holding 35 to 40 students hostage. he has released 11, but he has shot at least nine people as we understand, including students and a teacher. i seen a student come out of spanish class down below and he actually was shot in the leg. and me and the other student down below was pretty much like, hey, you ve got a student bleeding out on the floor. eric said, yeah, yeah, get him to the doors and get him out of the building. i opened the door and the cops grabbed me and grabbed the other student and they took us out with them and they wouldn t let us go back in. parents rushed to find out if their child had been released. it was a scene of great fear and anxiety, but also occasional scenes of great joy and relief. i remember my mom. it was good to see her. the gunman says this could be a long night. of course, it could be a very long night for the parents waiting to hear if their child is inside. authorities said soon after sidney reso disappeared the fbi recovered a ransom letter demanding millions of dollars and a cellular phone number with further instructions. eventually sidney reso s kidnappers tried to set up a ransom drop. they wanted the money put in eddie bauer bags, divided into certain currencies. this was their game plan. the fbi sets up a massive sting operation and intentionally leaves the media in the dark. we were being spoon-fed a false narrative in order to help the authorities lure the kidnappers into a false sense of security and make a mistake. and then they did make a mistake. june 18th, the night of the scheduled ransom drop. the fbi plants over 250 agents in the morris county vicinity. we had all these agents out and i was wired so the command post could hear the exact conversation. and one of the female agents who were sitting in a car, saw the guy. he had glasses and a fisherman s hat on, and she saw this individual on the phone. the agent observes the man hanging up the phone at the same time the recorded call is terminated. the fbi traces the man s license plate to a local rental company. not long after agents show up to investigate, the agents arrive at his car. the executives and all kinds of pertinent information relative to sidney reso. two people including a former exxon employee were arrested and charged with kidnapping. reso s fate, however, remains a mystery. well, the situation is still very tense as you might imagine at lindhurst high school at this hour. the s.w.a.t. team is still in place. parents are waiting to get word on their loved ones inside. houston has reportedly told negotiators that he s afraid the s.w.a.t. team will break in and kill him. he seemed real insistent that he didn t want to see any cops in black clothing because to him that meant s.w.a.t. team. he didn t want to hear a helicopter. because the media was flying overhead. some comments were made and he did get a little bit agitated. we heard a radio broadcast that he heard and it listed numbers of people injured, shot, which enraged him. so we made a request of the news media to please don t do those reports again because it s making it difficult for us to keep a peace situation in negotiations. they have asked us not to continue with any more coverage of the story. we can only make an appeal to the gunman. please, put it down. stop. there s been enough already. the negotiation process begins with houston asking for food about 6:00 p.m. he wanted pizza, so we asked him to give us a count. we took a count. when the count came back, it was 84 hostages, which is astounding. it was it was wow. captain dennis moore telling reporters they have been delivered their pizzas and their food that they requested. the activity has been rather light. the conversations have been minimal on the telephone. he sent down a couple of students, two or three, and said, go down and get the pizza. if you don t come back, i m killing your friends. do you let the kids go back up or do you keep them safe? we ultimately decided to let them back up. 33 years in law enforcement. that s the toughest decision i ve ever been involved in. tracy, sheriff s deputies do have contact with the man by telephone, right? at first he was very agitated and very upset. gunman eric houston releases 15 hostages as an act of goodwill. the students we have seen walking out of here were very badly shaken. many were weeping. they looked stunned. they looked dazed. i just remember seeing my family and just being so relieved to be able to just hug my mom. when they called the kids names as they were being released from the school, we would go over and see if our kids were there. in my heart, 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reforms that began in the los angeles police department, and i think that was a good thing. los angeles begins the long road to normalcy. it would take weeks for investigators to find sidney reso. the fbi s biggest kidnapping investigation in years has become a murder case. despite the successful capture of the kidnappers, it was too late to save the victim. reso s body was found in a shallow grave here in this heavily wooded area near the new jersey shore. law enforcement officers were taken there by irene seal along with her husband arthur is accused of kidnapping reso and attempting to extort money from exxon. they were bunglers. it was bungled from the beginning. just wanted to get rich quick. and they were stupid enough to think that a kidnapping at gunpoint is going to be easy. during the abduction, reso attempted to break free and was shot in the arm. he was bound, gagged, and placed in a wooden box. the seals testified it was not their intention to kill reso, but three days after the abduction he died from heat and exhaustion. irene seal provided information to the authorities and pled guilty to extortion and conspiracy. she was released in 2009. arthur seal pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder and is serving life without parole. ongoing telephone conversations between the hostage taker identified as eric houston and negotiators. they say he appears to be getting calmer and quieter. eight hours into the siege in california, eric houston is negotiating with the police. i think we did start to feel a little bit hopeful seeing him be more willing to let people go. you could see that he was a little bit more mellowed, a little bit more calm. there was a lot of conversation between eric houston and the negotiating team about you ve got to be the last person to come down. you re not going to come down, you know, surrounded by hostages. just moments ago, those students, some very shaken and very emotional, were loaded onto buses and taken to be debriefed and counseled. the final group of students is released. i remember seeing my mother and my sister-in-law and just kind of bearing myself. sorry. they were releasing the last bunch of kids and announcing them over the intercom and they stopped. me and my husband just kind of turned and looked at each other and put our arms around each other. when i got home, i had a yard full of kids. and we stood out in the yard for another couple of hours, holding hands and singing and just being together because they all knew too. three students and teacher robert brenz died in the siege that day. eric houston received the death penalty and awaits execution at san quinton prison. in 1992, there was no playbook for this. what we now call active shooters, which unfortunately is common language in law enforcement, that wasn t part of our vocabulary in 1992. so it s not something we had trained for. the lindhurst shooting wasn t the first of its kind or the last. the teenagers killed 12 students and a teacher at a littleton, colorado school, before committing suicide. 30 people have been killed in this rampage at virginia tech university. just minutes after the shootings at sandy hook elementary school, radio transmissions reveal the scale of the tragedy already unfolding. today a school shooting happens almost every week in the united states. in 1993, officers stacy koon and lawrence powell were convicted in federal court for their role in the rodney king beating. at least he was able to be a symbol of change and a symbol of hope for people. he was our hero, my sister s and myself. the city realized it had to make stronger connections, and the police department had to make stronger connections with the community. the fact when one of these incidents occurs there s a pretty good chance somebody is going to be taking some video of it and it will go viral, that is obviously making the question of police brutality a different one if people have the ability to do something about it. all of los angeles is under curfew tonight as violence continues in the streets. the murder and destruction in the streets of los angeles must be stopped. when some big thing happens, everything else gets shoved off the radar where it normally would be maybe the lead story. for us in akron, dahmer was the headline for the day and he was killed. dahmer was killed in prison. it happens all the time. there are lots of other really big deal stories that are occurring that are getting no attention at all. the hostage situation is over. eric houston has been arrested.
we will hear from the girl and her mom this morning at 7:20 eastern. eric holder is making new announcements. is he adding fuel to the fire? log on for his debate. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. it is tuesday, december 2. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. it was a meeting of the protesting minds. president obama holding discussions on the ferguson fallout at the white house all while launching a plan to retrain cops on the taxpayers dime. that s you. is this really the answer? we report, you decide. why is al sharpton there? meanwhile the president threatens to shut down the federal government if republicans the bad guys do not fund his amnesty action. but how much will that cost us? we re crunching the numbers straight ahead. moses an inspirational icon in nearly every major faith but hollywood actor christian bale wonders if he was more like a terrorist. and if we should send in the drones. mornings are better with friends. hi everybody. i m huey lewis. stand by for the news. it s funny. he always laughs in the same spot there. it s amazing. yesterday i had no idea it s only four blocks from our house here at 48th and 6th. but u2 without bono was down the block. how come no one said anything? you didn t try to get into the show? it was a wide open show. bruce springsteen played the role of bono. number-one fan. i heard about it earlier. you knew? in addition to that gee began particular meeting of the minds in addition to that gigantic meeting of the minds musically, at the white house the president of the united states said i m going to do something about ferguson. so he did yesterday. he had a meeting. he called in clear why he called in clergy and cops and talked about what happened in the wake. the president did not offer an opinion, however, on the grand jury decision, which many in his party do not like, but instead he came up with a plan to keep it from happening again, he hopes. it is a four-point plan we can outline here for you. 50,000 police body cameras will be instituted here. it s going to be reviewed and implemented. the white house report a police militarization executive order on military-style equipment acquisition. we have military equipment. the military says why don t we give it to some of the police forces in some of the bigger cities in case they need t. for example, there is a nonstop terror attack and terror alert in our country. you might like some of this military equipment. should some of these dirty bombs go off or should there be widespread root rioting. the president said we ve got to address the problem. i would love to see someone say something positive about law enforcement. law enforcement is being thrown in the street as if everybody is bad and they all need to be massively retrained. they get more training for their job than 99% of americans get for our jobs. is any of the money being invested really by the taxpayers, is any of that going to be pointed to abiding by the law and maybe improving relations from both ends. it seems a little one-sided at one point when you look at that outline. president obama says he s deeply invested in this problem. a solvable problem but is one that unfortunately spikes after one event, and then fades into the background until something else happens. what i try to describe to people is why this time will be different. and part of the reason this time will be different is because the president of the united states is deeply invested in making sure that this time is different. that s great that he is deeply invested in it. i think we all are. the new york post this morning on their op-ed page has this editorial. it says in part, if the president wants a solution that will save lives, tell people not to resist arrest or assault. they want 50,000 body cameras. that s a good idea. i think it is a great idea. i don t see much push-back on law enforcement either. to spend $260 million on retraining. how many police forces out there are so bad they need to be retrained? that is an interesting point. that does infer that the training they have had is not enough? that says the cops out there don t know what they re doing. of course if you listen to al sharpton over on msnbc, he pretty much sounds like that all the time. there he is extraordinarily in the eisenhower office building sitting opposite the president of the united states. it is extraordinary that this guy who does host a show offense at msnbc was invited. but the lieutenant governor of the great state of missouri, peter kinder said this regarding reverend al. i cannot imagine any previous american president of either party welcoming an inciter of mobs like reverend sharpton into the white house, into his inner councils for sober advice. you re not going to get it from him. that may true especially people in new york. the one thing is he does pack the place. he goes into a congregation on sunday. the church is mobbed and he is considered by many a leader in the african-american community. but is he considered a peacemaker? he s a race baiter. you look at his history. you look atty what look at tijuana brawlly. you look at the fact that he owes millions on his taxes. how do you get away with that? i get a letter every week to pay $72. how do you get away with saying the fight is not over when you re in the white house, on the back of the president saying we should have peace on this. this doesn t seem to make sense. you either want someone who is going to help you maintain the peace or you don t. but the person in the oval office was al sharpton. a little concern by the lieutenant governor. al sharpton said this. we live in a country where we must support law enforcement but law enforcement must support justice. reverend al the grand jury did not indict officer wilson. if you re going to support justice you ve got to support that. one of the great sports personalities out there, he speaks his mind a lot of times controversially. you tell me if you think this is controversial or right on the mark. i m talking about charles barkley yesterday. we have to be really careful with the cops man. if it wasn t for the cops we d be living in the wild, wild west in our neighborhoods. i think we can t pick out certain incidents that don t go our way and act like the cops are all bad. you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn t for the cops? there s no excuse for those people to be out there burning down people s business, burning up police cars. and stopping traffic and blocking bridges when you ve got to get to work. listen. governor christie, whether he knew everything or nothing about what s happened on the george washington bridge he was vilified for his administration. people were fired for blocking one bridge on one day. every city in this country that is a major city in this country has been somehow diverted because of so-called peaceful and not so peaceful protests. don t stop us from getting to work or getting home and say i have a cause. you can hear from charles barkley which, where s the action for citizens to maybe perhaps get in line with what the police officers are trying to do in terms of keeping things civil? where s the training and budget for that? is it in there? we re all looking for it. is it a race thing or is it a crime thing? imagine if the police protested and didn t show up? what charles barkley is saying it would be utter chaos. if you re upset the rams came out and showed how they are supporting michael brown in ferguson? are you supportive of charles barkley speaking out like he did yesterday on the radio? do you want your sports stars to speak out about the news? weigh in, we ll be hopping on-line. we can t wait to read those. the cost of amnesty. president obama saying he s willing to shut down the government if republicans won t pass funding for his immigration policy. doug luzader is live in washington in the bureau with a breakdown on how much that is going to cost us. good morning. we re talking about the cost of legalizing these folks. we know illegal immigration brings with it huge costs of its own from enforcement to health care to actual tax evasion. that s the point the white house likes to jump on, as well as immigration activists saying if you legalize these folks all of a sudden they will be working above the table and that will help with u.s. tax receipts. we see that, a total of about $350 billion of economic activity would basically be taken out of the shadows and be essentially legalized. in terms of wage increases, we re anticipating about $12 billion a year. so will it be a net gain for the economy? the folks at the migration policy institute crunched some of the stats as far as who these individuals are. half have less than had a high school diploma. half do not speak english well or at all. 35% are unemployed or not part of the labor force. the illegal population overall has on average about a tenth grade education and earnings wise are probably going to be well below average. that s why most likely just as anybody with an average tenth grade education will probably not be a high earner and will end up paying less taxes than they receive in government services and benefits. one of the issues has to do with what s called the earned-income tax credit. that s for relatively low-income individuals. many of these illegal immigrants would qualify for the earned-income tax credit which means when they file their taxes at the end of the year, instead of sending money to the government, they get money back which is obviously a net drain on the treasury. steve, brian, and elisabeth back to you guys. in many cases it can be thousands of dollars per family. ainsley earhardt with her huge salary is with us today. you have a lot to bring us. let me start with this headline. the suspected serial killer wanted for murdering four people in west virginia is dead. police found 39-year-old jody hunt in his truck in the woods. they say he turned the gun on himself after an hours-long manhunt that supporters want students in north dakota to pass a citizenship test before they graduate high school. back to you guys. as long as we don t have to take a test. i think you d do okay, steve. i hope we all would. coming up on this tuesday morning, attorney general eric holder making bold guarantees on the heels of ferguson, missouri. this will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling once and for all. but what did the death of michael brown have to do with racial profiling? we re going to talk about that. no dolls or trucks for christmas? the new idea called no gender december attacking the toys right under your tree. how dare you. when you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. wherever it is. advil stops pain right where it starts. relief doesn t get any better than this. advil. in the coming days i will announce updated justice department guidance regarding profiling by federal law enforcement. this, this will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling once and for all. that was attorney general eric holder yesterday in atlanta discussing racial profiling in the wake of the fallout in ferguson, missouri. this as the president announces a taxpayer-funded plan to retrain police officers across the country, and reverend al sharpton urges a continued fight for justice. is this really making matters better or maybe worse? joining us is milwaukee s county sherrif david clarke. good morning to you, sherrif. good morning, sir. how are you doing? doing fine. thanks very much. why the sudden push by the white house to do something about ferguson? what is the white house doing here? it s all theatrics. the white house understands the optics of this situation and so they create this flurry of activity and people mistake activity for accomplishment. i will resist any attempt by eric holder and the president of the united states, with all due respect, to try to run my office here at the local level. policing is a local issue. we do not need federal involvement. all they re trying to do is create this situation where the neighborhoods at the local level that need policing the most will get it the least because it will cause people to back off when they really should be aggressive in terms of taking care of business. i think it s a shame that the attorney general paints this broad brush of law enforcement officers all across the united states of america. the cops at the street level and i love street cops they don t have a voice e right now. i think it s time to push back. i think every chief and sherrif in the united states of america and all these organizations like the national sherrifs, major county sherrifs, major county chiefs should begin to push back at any attempt of the federal government to run local law enforcement agency. absolutely. chief, let me ask you this. so many are trying to make this about race. is this a race thing or a law enforcement, a crime thing? i don t know that it s either of those two. i don t look at it as an either-or proposition. the president held some summit at the white house yesterday and invited, he said law enforcement and other people. i wish he would have invited me because i would have looked at him and i would have pushed aside the thee i can t theatrics and say mr. president our people in milwaukee can t find meaningful work. you spent $1 trillion on a package you said would create jobs. where are the jobs? why do our kids in these urban centers have to attend failing public schools where they are shackled to a life of crime and violence? these kids will not reach their potential. we need better schools for our kids. those are the issues. the creation of the welfare state has not helped this thing. it s created a growing underclass and we saw the behaviors of the underclass on display last week. i would say why don t you issue an executive order and have it audit programs that have made it worse because they keep people addicted to handouts. that is what is wrong in these ghettos. it is not the police spoivment you got you got it right. sherrif, always a pleasure. thank you for your straight talk. more in a minute. memorabilia including scripts, props and war droap. wardrobe. ask people who moses is and they will probably say he parted the red sea. but ask actor christian bale who plays him in the movie exodus, he has a different answer when asked that. absolutely seen as a freedom fighter. hebrews but terrorist in terms of the egyptian empire. what would happen to moses if he arrived today? drones would be sent out after him. here to weigh in is fox news religion contributor father jonathan morris. interesting take. moses a terrorist? i think he said in relationship to the egyptian empire and the egyptians were holding the hebrews as slays. slaves. in today s terms? then the drone thing, it makes it sound like the big bad guys are the ones who use drones. of course that would be the u.s. and the west against terrorism. i don t like the comparison. put it that way. do you believe that is fair to what moses did? no. he certainly wasn t thinking about drones. he was a freedom fighter, no doubt. but a freedom fighter called by god to go up against an empire that was keeping the hebrew people enslaved. i guess when you hear the word terrorist now. because you re saying drones. you re looking in the past, not looking at now. it doesn t seem to people he was alluding to how they would have seen him then. he was describing modern terms. he also referred to moses as a schizophrenic. when you go back to the director, he talked about religion being the greatest source of evil. this is a few years ago. but religion being the greatest source of evil now. i don t think they re going after religion here and i think there is a lot that could be gotten out of this movie. i love the fact we re going back and doing epic biblical films. think of noah was there some good in that? yes. could it have been great? yes. was it? no. what was missing? the spirit of faith. i think there s three elements of a great religious film. one is great art. great art, great acting and then, third, a perspective of faith. the bible s not just a history book. it s not a history book. there s history in it, but it is a book of faith. when you get those three elements you re going to have an epic film. let me ask you about the film you re consulting on, a.d. does that contain those three elements? it absolutely does. otherwise i wouldn t be involved in it. the fact that they brought me in to be a part of it means they re trying to get it right from that perspective. i think a lot of organizations and directors could learn from that and say we re going to make this right. we re going to make epic films that have religious elements. give me a couple of words to describe moses, in your opinion? first of all, he was a humble man who listened to god and u the big things god was calling him to. he had a speech problem and he had to speak to the farrow. what am i supposed to tell him? i ll tell you when you get there. what kind of faith is that? dr. jonathan morris, always good to have you. thank you. this coming up, sorry? not sorry? the st. louis police say the rams apologized during this protest but the team is telling a dinner story. what is going on there? we re going to look into it. this boy scout is more than prepared. he went above and beyond to earn all 135 merit badges. he joins us live to talk about that rare feat next. good morning. first we re going to wish happy birthday to green bay packers quarterback aaron rodgers. he is 31 years old today. i m angela, and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me, they say i never thought you would quit. but chantix helped me do it. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don take chantix if you ve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i m a non-smoker, that feels amazing. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion or abnormal behavior. the most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. so don t wait. attack the flu virus at its source. ask your doctor about tamiflu. prescription for flu. the white house christmas tree arrived this weekend. it is a 19 foot tall white fir from pennsylvania and first lady michelle obama was the first person to come out and take a look. watch. this is a big one. are they sure they can get this in the door? the secret service started laughing and said this is the white house. anything can get through the door. do they just throw the tree offense the do they just throw the tree over the fence. they re thinking about bending the fence out and having gymnasts try to get over the fence. set personal records. to have people try to hop in and see if they can stop them. why not? inch by inch. got to do some dry runs. we re going to run right now over to ainsley. let me tell you what s in the headlines this morning. thank you, elisabeth. a reward for any information about missing college student shane montgomery now raised to $25,000. but this morning still no sign of him. montgomery disappeared after leaving a bar in philadelphia on thanksgiving eve. that irish pub now kicking in $10,000 for any information. bar owners say montgomery was respectful when he was asked to leave after bumping into the d.j. table adding he was not acting drunk. is it an apology or is it not? st. louis county police and st. louis rams are now at odds over whether the team officially apologized for this hands up, don t shoot gesture. st. louis county police chief claimed the rams c.o.o. kevin demoff apologized for his players but demoff denies that: the police officers association called the gesture profoundly disappointing. a new campaign wants to make sure no little boys see these toys under the christmas tree this year. g.i. joe no gender december calling for a ban on toy favorites like g.i. joe for boys and barbies for girls. the movement calls on toy companies to be more inclusive asking supporters to only buy gender neutral toys this christmas. what is gender neutral in their opinion? one of last year s bestsellers, an eazy bake oven. here s a weather report that literally goes to the dogs. hey, king, how are you? live tv. how are you buddy? it s not your turn yet. you have to wait one more segment. that could on youtube later. miami weatherman ryan phillips getting interrupted by king the bulldog. king was supposed to be the on the show later in the segment called pet of the week but clearly king could not wait to become a celebrity. those are your headlines. is that a pit bull? it looked like it. he wants to come up and we said bulldog but it looked more like a pit bull. and that didn t look like an e-z bake oven. it looked more like a radio. let s see how we do with the weather. maria molina joins us from the streets of new york city where currently outside it s 38 degrees. it s a chilly morning. hello, everyone. speaking of a chilly morning, we expect a bit of a wintry mix across portions of the northeast. look at this system moving through. we have early this morning areas of snow and a wintry mix across portions of the mid-atlantic. later today into tonight we re going to see a more widespread wintry mix and even more snow from areas of new england spreading down to virginia and portions of ohio. accumulations are going to be very light so not a huge concern but it will be an issue on the roadways. farther west in california the story is the ongoing drought, extreme drought conditions in place still but we re getting much-needed rain in places like san francisco and also los angeles. temperature-wise much colder across the northeast. look at caribou, maine action highs in the teens. 40 degrees in new york city, a cool-down compared to yesterday. we were looking at temperatures into the 50 s. in texas also on the chilly side. highs there only in the 40 s and 50 s. let s head back inside. maria, thank you very much. brian, that is an e-z bake oven. meanwhile from american business to wood working, one 14-year-old in the washington, d.c. area has taken to heart the boy scott boy scout motto of be prepared as he achieved a rare feat. he earned every merit badge there is, all 135 of them. that boy scout josh mc coy joins us now. it is an honor to have you here. congratulations. thank you. what was your final patch and what was the most difficult one to get? the last merit badge that i earned was bugling merit badge. the one that was most difficult is a close tie between serving and bugling. you wouldn t happen to have a bugle there with you this morning, would you, because it is almost sunup in washington. yeah, i do. okay. let s hear something. as if we haven t already worked this out. what are you going to play? i m going to play taps. okay. [playing taps on bugle] very nice. i think he just woke up fred fare. impressive. it took you two years to learn all the songs, 15 songs to get that badge. well done. josh, why does it mean so much to you to get all these merit badges? a lot of people say it s enough just to be an eagle scout. i would say it means a lot to me to earn every single merit badge because, first of all, i hadn t chosen a career that i wanted to do before i joined scouting. second of all it was a lot of fun for me. that s great. what is the career you chose? i ve now chosen, i want to go into engineering. congratulations. that s terrific. while that will be a great business for you when you grow up and a great vocation, let me ask you this. the fact that you went after all 135 of the merit badges and i know your brother zach has 102 doesn t this have something to do with your father and the number of badges your dad got when he was your age? yes, it does. my dad got 82 merit badges. i m just an overall competitive person, so i wanted to beat him. by the time i had gotten to 83, there were just tons more merit badges that were fun left to do. and i just wanted to keep going. what did he say to you when you got your last? he said congratulations, and the deal was that if i beat him in merit badges, he would pay for me to do my scuba diving. congratulations. always cutting a deal. we know what you ll be doing next now, josh. i m going scuba diving with some of the people in my troop. is there a scuba merit badge? yes. i earned it. of course you did. all right. you have a badge for getting up early with fox & friends here, josh. congratulations. wish your brother well as well. he s right behind you. just for the record, it s an emotional badge. what is your troop number? i m from troop 1145 out of prince of peace lutheran church in springfield, virginia. thank you. well done. he s going to be a great engineer? sure is. a police chase starts with a car and ends with a skateboard. you ve got to see how this one ends. businesses supporting obamacare now being sued by the feds for complying with obamacare. how does that work? judge napolitano is here next. he says you can t make it up. i read his lips. i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don t think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. two words: it heals.e different? how? with heat. unlike creams and rubs that mask the pain, thermacare has patented heat cells that penetrate deep to increase circulation and accelerate healing. let s review: heat, plus relief, plus healing, equals thermacare. the proof that it heals is you. once there was a girl who even in her laundry room. with downy unstopables for long-lasting scent. and infusions for softness. she created her own mix, match, magic. downy, wash in the wow. with contour detect technology that flexes in 8 directions for the perfect shave at any angle. go to philips.com/new for savings on shavers and trimmers. innovation and you. philips norelco. got some quick headlines for you and then the judge. first up, a wild police chase near los angeles. a man driving a stolen bmw slams into a car stopped in traffic and then jumped out with his skateboard. he tried to make a quick get-away, rolled for about half a block, but a driver in a red pickup there s the video, there s the guy on the skateboard. police taking the suspect into custody eventually right about there. nobody was hurt. but he made our highlight reel. the most excellent airline for 2015 is somewhere near middle earth. air new zealand was named the top airline for its reputation as a trend setter and in-flight renovation. they are also responsible for bringing the cast of lord of the rings into the country for filming. that s some of the news. once big supporters of obamacare some of america s leading c.e.o. s threatening to turn against the law. corporations offering wellness workplace programs are now being sued for complying. a government agency claiming the incentives violate americans disabilities act. what legal recourse do businesses have against the affordable care act? we re going to ask fox news senior judicial analyst and author of a new book suicide pact judge andrew napolitano. thank you for being here. this is the mark of a government out of control when it writes laws that are so inconsistent with each other that in order to follow one law, you have to disobey the other. and the government enforces both, so you really are in a conundrum. what do you mean by that? if you re the owner of a corporation of 50 or more employees, you re required to encourage wellness among employees for chronic ailments like depression, hypertension, obesity. yes? but if you ask them if they are depressed, hypertension or obese, you violate the americans with disabilities act. if you follow obamacare by trying to find out if your employees need long-term assistance for chronic ailments the government will sue you for violating the americans with disabilities act. what kind of a government writes laws unless it didn t read the law before it became the law that are so inconsistent with each other and enforces them in such a manner that by obeying one you violate the other? this government and this obama administration. it puts the corporations in a position that s impossible. that s the interesting political part about this. a lot of corporate c.e.o. s went along with obamacare because they they wanted to go along to get along. a lot of insurance companies loved it. guess what? they re find out they hate it in large measure because of this particular conundrum. did the obama administration have to sue these corporations for asking their employees if they need some help with long-term health care? of course not. this was a discretionary act on the part of the obama administration. it s insane in the manner in which these laws are being enforced. how many times have we talked about selective enforcement on a myriad of issues? this government is excellent at it. let s talk about your brand-new book. it s called suicide pact. what s it about? it s not about suicide. it argues when the president takes a law into his own hands and the congress lets him, that is a suicide pact. suicide for our liberties. i didn t write this at the time president obama decided to change the immigration laws. obviously this book was written before that. but it s helping me to sell the book, because his presidency is an example of a president stealing power from congress, rewriting the laws, declaring war, doing it on his own and the congress letting him get away with it. relations with cuba could be next on deck as well as e.p.a. regulations, bypassing congress. hasn t this always been the case? haven t we always had an executive pushing against congress and vice versa? yes. in each presidency it s worse. the first half of this book is a history of presidential law breaking and lawmaking from george washington to bill clinton. the second half of this book looks at every executive order that we could get our hands on from george w. bush and barack obama post-9/11, all the things they did, both parties, both presidents exceeding their power under the constitution. but president obama has taken this to an entirely new level. in the book and this is the exit question, so you don t have to answer it in toto, just so we can help you sell a book, but who is the most lawless of our presidents? the present one. really? yes. to brian s argument, that may always be the case because they each rely on the behavior of their predecessors to justify legally and explain morally what they re trying to get away with. but within the pages of suicide packet the president present, barack obama, more than anybody else claimed he can kill americans without any due process. no president ever claimed that. check out the new book. it s called suicide pact. it s available everywhere. thank you. coming up straight ahead, is disney letting go of god? the disney website is under fire this morning for blocking a little girl s post saying she s thankful for god. i don t know if we can let that go. and it can happen any time you re out alone. an attack out of nowhere. we have one tough cop who just thwarted his own mugging with the skills mugging with the skills that could save your will that be all, sir? and often even more. it s reliable. just like kung pao fish. thank you, ping. reliably fast internet starts at $89.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. show them who is boss. here to show us how to protect yourself, former nypd detective and fox news contributor. welcome. i cannot believe a block away after you said good-bye to sean and geraldo, you ended up in trouble. it wasn t really trouble. i waited for sean to get in his car. then i start walking down the block, right here, 47th street. there was a big demonstration that night, if you remember down by times square. they were demonstrating on the shooting of st. louis, ferguson. so as i m walking down, my car was on 48th street. i had to go to 6th avenue, come around. i m walking. all of a sudden i saw these young guys milling around. i didn t think nothing of it. of course, they had hoodies on. so i still didn t think i limp because i broke my leg in my ankle. i limp a little late at night. i have a suit on. next thing is i walk in there, the one guy comes around front of me, he was tall, about 6 2. he came in my face and goes, where are you going? at that time i felt i knew what was coming down. remember, i was a decoy. i got mugged 500 times. on purpose. yeah, i had been stabbed, shot at. i felt it coming down. my initial reaction was how did i let them get so close to me and he was going to punch me. i looked in his eye and next thing was a shot in my face. moldly i put my hat under my jacket, i carry a gun legally. and i said to him, if you don t get out of my face, i m going to pop a cap. i used some vulgar language. but it was a street language where it s understood exactly what i meant. they knew i was armed. and they didn t want to do anything with it. how do we you re a tough guy, been through this before. but for many us, we have not had that happen before. you have basic hints that we could have if we re not armed. first, trust your instinct. right. if you re walk down the street, you feel like something is not right, cross the street. if you see someone standing there, be aware of your surroundings. don t be texting. that s the most important thing for people to be aware of their surroundings. also if you are confronted by someone, look right in their eye. let them know, i m not going down easy. so if you re going to rob me, you re going to have a problem. but most important thing is be aware of your surroundings. with christmas coming up with all the ferguson cash, all that, don t worry about that. worry about your surroundings. and don t walk into something if you uncomfortable, you re 100% right, it s not right. this is men and women. oh, yeah. if you have kids with you? yeah. this woman i saw on the news, she had a baby and they knocked it down and knocked her cell forelast night. the big thing is around christmas is the fact that be aware of your surroundings. when you shop and be aware of your pocketbook, your wallet sitting this, your cell phone. don t be not aware and then you won t become a victim. you got to drop geraldo and sean. they re nothing but trouble. let me tell you something, honestly, i m just glad it worked out the way it did. so are we. thank god you re okay to tell bus this story. when we come back, the latest on the ferguson protests.fer, don t go away. let it go let it go can t hold it back anymore a whole new world of censorship from the family friendly company. we re going to tell you about that as we re freezing here in new york city. freezing, frozen, get it? it s tuesday, you re watching fox & friends. this is sherry shepherd and you re watching fox & friends with my best pal, elisabeth hasselbeck. and those two other guys. that hurts our feelings. i thought she was nice. she doesn t mean it. you sure? she loves you guys. joining us to apologize, sherry shepherd, go ahead. nothing? i know she s actually watching. she watches in the morning. all right. let s talk about the news of the day. yesterday the president of the united states, so many people were saying, mr. president, you got to do something about ferguson. well, he did. he had a meeting there at the executive office building, the eisenhower building. he brought together clergy, as you can see there, police officer next to him, politician talking about the simmering tensions. what can the president do? well, you know what? he s got a four-point plan. it s $263 million in actual program push here for 50,000 police body cameras, a task force on police practices, white house report on police militarization executive order on military style equipment acquisitions. those are four prongs of the plan, which is costly for the taxpayer. 263 million. i feel like law enforcement had a very bad day yesterday because people were talking about all the changes that need to be done to their jobs to the way they go about it, the way they re even trained. the attorney general, while the president is having this meeting on how to make law enforcement better or modernized, he had the attorney general in atlanta pretty much convicting the cops of ferguson, saying that of course it was racial profiling that got this whole thing started on the wrong foot. listen to him. in the coming days, i will announce updated justice department guidance regarding profiling by federal law enforcement. this will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling once and for all. this is about racial profiling? keep in mind, that was never decide that had the case with officer wilson involved racial proceed filing, not once. it absolutely was not. just about an hour ago issues we had on this program milwaukee s sheriff, david clark. we asked him why the white house was doing this particular event and other things across the country and he was very clear. he said simply it is theatrics. they re just doing this right now to make it seem like they re doing something when, in fact, he sees what s going on in this country as an assault on police officers and sheriff clark is very clear, every police officer in the country should stand up now and be heard. here he is. policing is a local issue. we do not need federal involvement. all they re trying to do is create this situation where the neighborhoods at the local level that need policing the most will get it the least because it will cause people to back off when they really should be aggressive. it s a shame that the attorney general paints this broad brush of law enforcement officers all across the united states of america. the cops at the street level, and i love street cops, they don t have a voice right now. and i think it s time to push back. the black caucus weighed in yesterday, as well as marshal faulk, said everything has to change the think how bad everything is. on a if i m a street cop, making very little money, i know my life is on the line every day in the smallest and biggest city, i m saying, do i really need this job? if i m not going to get support from the highest level or from my police officers or from my sheriff who feels pressure from above, i don t know if it s worth the risk. think about it, with sheriff clark, he said it s theatric, that s why they re doing it now. i asked if it was a race thing or is it a crime thing, because michael brown roughed up the cop and assault and other things as well. he said it s not that simple. he said, you got to look at the bigger problem. the problems are in the black community, unemployment. you got to look at education. you got to look at opportunity as well. those are the things the president should be worried about. the trap of government handouts is something he noted. school system, which has them handcuffed to poverty. interesting to note that entire interview was excellent. it s beençó two weeks since n election, let s talk about the next one. 2016. senator rob portman says don t ask me to be president. and you have rand paul saying i m going to be a senator and probably running for president. the bigger news happened yesterday where jeb bush spoke. that s right. this is what he said about what it would take to have a republican leader step up. i m thinking about running for president and i ll make up my mind in short order. not that far out into the future. i don t know the exact timeline. it s the same decision making process that i ve always had. i don t know if i d be a good candidate or bad one. i know kind of know how republican can win, whether it s me or somebody else and it has to be much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to be practical. he s essentially laid out his blueprint, if he were to decide in short order. among his priorities, overhauling education, immigration, and the tax code. he also had some tough love for the incoming republican congress. he said stop trying to make a point. last year remember famously they are blamed for shutting down the government. he said, forge compromises. pass legislation and stop trying to repeal the affordable care act. instead come up with some alternatives when it comes to health care. that s right. let us know what you think about jeb 2016. we ll read it here. facebook, twitter. you can t argue with his resume for sure. ainsley, you have the latest news. i saw you working there. i do. let me tell you what you missed if you were sleeping. a suspected serial killer wanted for murdering four people in west virginia is dead. police found 39-year-old jody hunt in his truck in the woods. they said he turned the gun on himself after an hour s long manhunt that forced the lockdown of several schools in that area. friends identifying one of his victims as this lady. this is an ex-girlfriend of his who filed a domestic violence case against the suspect just last month. before his deadly rampage, he wrote this chilling facebook post. you will not hurt me anymore. you will not destroy my stolen heart as you tried so hard to do. a fox news alert now. the wife of the son of the isis leader being questioned in lebanon. two senior officials saying they captured them more than a week ago using fake i.d. cards. officials saying the woman believed to be one of the wives of isis leader al bagdadi. he was believed to be critically injured during an air attack back on november 8. but just days after, a new audio tape of him surfaced, calling for an increase in lone wolf attacks. there could be an immigration showdown in washington today as homeland security secretary jay johnson testifies before congress about the impact of amnesty on border security. president obama s new policies let 5 million illegal immigrants stay in our country. johnson argues removing illegals is not a priority. he calls the president s action common sense, by intense criticism from a band of republicans. even though injuries from a bike accident kept bono from performing on world aids day, he had some pretty good understudy ies. bruce springstein himself turning out for the free concert in new york city, performing with youtube. chris martin also filling in. he springstein and martin saved the event from being canceled after his injury. those are your headlines. bruce springstein for bono does not do it for me. he s still good. it was nice to stand in. best concert, u2, if you have a chance to go. great call. thanks for all that. ten minutes after the top of the hour. we told you the white house wants more spending to retrain police in the wake of the ferguson tragedy. is that really the answer? philadelphia mayor michael nutter who was in the room with the president yesterday joins us next. and government employees getting paid hundreds of thousands of your taxpayer dollars not to work. how does that make you feel? let me throw something across the room. hearing young people feeling marginalized and distrustful even after they ve done everything right. that s not who we are. and i don t think that s who the overwhelming majority of americans want us to be. president obama meeting with civil rights leaders at the white house following last week s fallout in ferguson. the president asking for $263 million to retrain police officers and fix what he calls a mistrust between law enforcement and the public. is more money, though, really the answer? joining us now, philadelphia mayor michael nutter, who attend yesterday s meeting with the president. mr. mayor, we thank you for joining us here. good morning. we continue to hear that the community feels marginalized, that there is a mistrust when it comes to the police. but what do you have to say as the mayor, to your law enforcement officials who feel marginalized and attacked by the efforts in the past week to really retrain their thinking and what is deemed as an attack on the black population? well, first and foremost, i have an incredible level of respect and appreciation and show support for the philadelphia police officers here in our city. these men and women risk their lives each and every day to make sure the rest us are safe. crime has been going down consistently in philadelphia during the seven years almost that i ve been in office. they have a tough and dangerous job. at the same time, we all work for the citizens here and the taxpayers. so treating people with dignity and respect has to be a part of their job and awful us as public servants. so at times there can be a disconnect. in communities, in any city, including our city, between how residents feel about the service that they get, how they are treated in their own community, and if that gap in trust grows, then you have a dangerous situation. citizens need the police. they re going to quality police. but at the same time mr. mayor, you used the term disconnect. is it a misperception that you think law enforcement has a different set of rules for the african-american community or minority community as opposed to the white community or is it the reality, in your mind? i think all of us come to our station in life with things that we ve grown up with, things we have in our mind, things that we see, things that we ve experienced, things we see, no disrespect to any of you, in the broader sense of media and movies and all kind of things, are going through our heads at any particular moment. so if you feel i mean, as i said yesterday across the table from president obama, why is it that black men in particular feel afraid when they are driving their car, maybe not doing anything issues but hear sirens go off behind them? there is a constant struggle of what is going to happen next. so whether it s real or it s a perception, it s the reality for that person and awful us have to deal with that. people don t want to feel that way. they want to call 911, know they re going to get good service and they want to see an officer walking down the street, or a car next to them and not have their heart start to racing because they don t know what s going to happen next. we have to deal with that as americans and come to grips with it. acknowledge that it s a problem and then take action. problem of feeling and perception what i m hearing, mr. mayor, right? 2012, 326 white i think for some in their own communities, it is the reality. they know someone who has possibly been abused. they know someone who may have been shot. sure. and so it s not just a feeling and a perception. for some people, whether in philly or halfway across the country, it is their own reality. mr. mayor, the president laid out the four-point plan, spend all that money on retraining. one of the new york papers wrote if the president wants a solution that will save lives, tell people not to resist arrest or assault police. well, i didn t see that particular piece. that s nicely written. but doesn t that make a great point? is there something to that? it s one point. but it s also about how officers interact with citizens. everyone has a responsibility here. every police officer is not how about having citizens react with the police officers. i mean, vice-versa. so everyone has a role to play here. i was taught i had the conversation, we call it mr. mayor, we have very little time. my father, a long time ago, about how to interact with police officers. so there is a mutual responsibility. great. you see, i agree with you, mr. mayor. i want to get a question in. it seems like the four-point plan is all about the cops changing. what about the community changing? what is the president s plan for the community? is it there? well, i think that the president did talk about not only 21st century policing and i m proud commissioner ramsey is the co-chair of that effort, but also the listening sessions of that attorney general holder just started literally yesterday in atlanta. some of those conversations will take place about what is the community s responsibility? how do we better interact with police officers? what is the right way to engage? so i think the president has been balanced in this effort. all of it may not have been completely laid out in the four points. but i think those four points are the right points. having community listening sessions, training police officers, engaging from the justice department in local communities, and also reevaluating how we give out the kind of equipment that we get from the military, which i support that program. but it needs accountability. i think all those elements will be there. the work of my brother s keeper, which we re strong supporters of here in philadelphia, so there is a community component to this and a responsibility to better understand what is policing about? why do officer december officers do what they do? but a lot of them do an unbelievable job and feel disrespected today about what s been happening over the last two weeks because they do an incredible job. thank you for joining us. we don t want them to feel that way. all right. thank you. 20 after the top of the hour. is disney letting go of god? its web site blocked a little girl s post, saying she s thankful for god. that girl and her mom are here next to tell their story. they must be bored over there. let it go, let it go can t hold me back anymore let it go well it looks like disney s frozen out god. when one little girl tried to post what she was thankful for on disneychannel.com, she was blocked because her reference to the almighty. apparently disney considers god s name a profanity. joining me now, lilly here with her mom. thank you both for being here. good morning. i know it s early. good morning. good morning. julie, i m going to start with you. i know lily by the way, happy birthday. i know it was this past weekend. we re excited for you. when lily went online to post what she was thankful for, what did she type in exactly? she typed in that she was thankful for god and her family and church and her friends. when she did, when she hit submit, it came up in red letters and the message that it said was please be nice. so she came and got me to let me know that something wasn t right and we started looking at it together and kind of playing with it and change words around a little bit to see what it was that it didn t like. and we found out that when we removed the word god from the post, the web site would allow it. so until you removed god, the word god, the web site would continue to tell you to be nice? that s correct. lily, how did that make you feel, when you just said what you were thankful for, and that was really nice note you wrote. how did it make you feel? it kind of made me feel a little bit confused about why it wasn t letting me send my message. sure. and that s what you were thankful for. i think that s a sweet message. we re excited you re sharing it here with us on fox & friends. julie, did you contact disney? what happened? here is your girl, she just turned ten, writing the sweetest thing on line. did you reach out to disney? i have not heard any response from disney. i reached out to todd sternson fox news and he s the one that did the write-up and shared her story for us so that we could get some sort of answer cause i just don t want children to feel like there is something wrong or something that they should be ashamed of in sharing their faith with their peers. lily, did you feel bad that they made you feel kind of bad about posting the word god? they made me feel a little bit bad because i couldn t write it. god is the reason that we have all this stuff that we have. you got a good heart. we did get a statement from disney. so i m gog read it here. maybe it will make you feel little better. it says, quote, because so many people attempt to abuse the system and use the word god in conjunction with profanity, in abundance of caution, our system is forced to catch and prevent any use of the word on our web site. what s your response to that, julie? you know, in a way it s understandable that what they re trying to prevent. but a big red message that tells a child that it s not nice to be thankful for god might not be the best way to handle that. lily, before we go, we will not censor you and we already know that you re a nice girl. so why don t you go ahead and tell america right now exactly what you re thankful for the way you wanted to the first time. go ahead. i m thankful for god and my family and all my friends cause he is the reason that i have all this stuff. you re an exceptional young girl. julie, you re a great mom of the we thank you for sharing your story here and for voicing your thanks to america loud and proud, lily. great work. thank you. thank you. you got it. she s got a good heart. this coming up, a reporter gets a little too close to his story. we re going to start with the hardest question of all. [ bleep ] my god. yikes. he was covering a shooting and almost became a victim of one? how that all happened next. talking hollywood politics and the president, up next. brian is joining him on the way to the curvy couch. good morning. the first ever interactive white house holiday card. see that? it s really cute. the way it works is you open the card, you enter your name and your social security number, and then you ll sign up for obamacare. happy holiday, suckers. amazing indeed. joining us on the curvy couch is steve gutenberg. he s got a new book out. good morning to you. another book. what s going on? i like to write. a little scribbling. what did you think of jimmy fallon taking a shot at the president? i know you have been a vocal supporter of the president in the past. well, we have a great country and the liberty that we have to be able to do that is fantastic. there are so many countries that you can t do that. it s great. there was emphatic support largely by hollywood early on. it seems it tapered a bit. what s your opinion about that? maybe shifting to hillary for 2016? i don t really see that. i don t think it s shifted at all. i think that everybody supports our president. it s the toughest job in the world, obviously. and you got to give the guy a lot of credit. he s got a lot to go up against. sure. but he s got critics when he does stuff that people don t appreciate. well, of course. we re always going to have critics. they re everywhere and that s what society is built on. do you something and everybody has an opinion about it. but i think we all love our country. not getting into it because i m just an actor. my opinion is just a single guy. you re an american. but i do believe that we re all fighting for the same thing. we have real troubles. we do. if you look at all the situations going on, we ve got a lot to go up against. it s important to have bipartisan, but at the same time, we ve got to work together. i think the biggest problem is personal ambition in government is taking over what we really have to fight for. interesting. just to make ourselves a great country. instead of the word service. it should almost be a sacrifice. i m putting my career on hold to serve. that s what the original intent was. it s not to get out and then make money. and i think that we ve sort of forgotten about that. but also just too much fighting. it s become uncivil. yeah. we got to put it together. i find there would be less fighting with me if people would agree with me more. i find for me to disagree. i find people would be happier if they went back to the days of disco. what are the odds, you got a book called the kids from disco. yeah. wait a minute. i m a kid from disco. i ve always wanted to write a book about uncles. people write books about children. that s the man from uncle. that s right. he wasn t an uncle. and i have two nieces and two nephews that i love very, very much and i m a great uncle. i m a very good uncle. and came up with this story about an uncle who becomes a super hero and employs his two niece and nephews to fight melvis pelvis. fantastic. because not many people fight the pelvis n no. until now. what are the keys to being a great uncle? nobody ever writes about that. the key to being a great uncle is to show the kids that you love their mother or their father, your brother or sister. i think that s the most important part of being an uncle is that they see i have two sisters how much i love my sisters and how you treat your sisters. so they can grow up and be like that, too. at the same time, they come over to my apartment and they can do whatever they want. free rein. yeah. good message. i want to bring up one thing, steve. you said something which is so insightful. casual give and at the same time but it really cut to the heart of the matter. what did you tell him before? which part are we talking about? when you went up to him and said, have you hung out with brian yet? that s right. the last time you were here, you said you both were from massapequa. there is no reason why you shouldn t be friends. that was two years ago. what the heck happened? well i don t want to hear excuse. we were hot and heavy. we went fishing fishing and boa. was it disco inferno hot? hold on. we might go clubbing. it s an uncle date. we ll take pictures and send them to steve. sunday, we ll go to christians. in massapequa. thank you very much. congratulations on the book. go get it. great message. the kids from disco. you ever toss to ainsley? no. here she is with the news. here she is with the news. what a great segment. y all are having so much fun. here is what s happening in the headlines. a 13-year-old boy found behind that fake wall in his father s georgia house is speaking out. doing great. i thank god. i downloaded an app. i called my mom. what a sweet young man. gregory, all smiles now, explaining how he escaped his father s house. he was held prisoner there away from his biological mother for four years. the teen-ager now telling police that he was beaten by his father and his stepmother. they re both behind bars and their bail was denied. meanwhile, the son is living now with his biological mother once again. tv cameras capturing the terrifying moments a reporter covering a shooting almost becomes the victim of one. he was interviewing a woman outside a store in west virginia when gun fire rang out. we re going to start off the hardest question [ bleep ] was there a shooting? yes. the two quickly running for cover behind a car. when i heard the first shot, my whole body got stiff. it was when i got behind the car that i realized how close it was because you could hear that zip. one man was hit, but he is okay this morning. police are still looking for the suspect. grayco in hot water over its latest safety recall. federal regulators are investigating a possible delay in reporting a safety defect which led to the biggest recall of children s seats in the united states. the buckles can get stuck, making it very hard to remove your child from the seat. the government says grayco was aware of the complaints as early as 2009, but never informed federal regulators. grayco insists it has been cooperative. imagine getting shocked every time you do something bad for you. that s exactly what happens when you wear one of these, padlock wristband. if you re in a bad habit, if you re doing something like spending too much time on line, not enough time at the gym, it will give you an electric jolt. it is nown sale for $200. so people pay to feel that? who controls that? otherwise it s like the invisible fence that the dogs use. thank you, ainsley. thanks. 20 minutes to the top of the hour. this coming up next. a fake hero learns the hard way if you re going to impersonate a u.s. army ranger, make sure there aren t any real ones nearby. i ve worn that uniform and i ve had friends get killed in afghanistan in that uniform, stolen valor, right here. wow. the real hero will be here next. right? thanks. one fake hero learns the hard way if you re going to impersonate a u.s. army ranger, better make sure there is not a soldier nearby. you re in rangers? there it is. where is your combat patch at? i gave it to a little kid. why is your flag so low on your shoulder? should be up here. got me on that one. why don t you just admit you re a phony. you know it s illegal, right? let me tell you something, i m a phony? yeah. then i wouldn t be wearing this uniform. you wouldn t? no. cause you are a phony. i called you out on ten different things. it s illegal what you re doing because i ve worn that [ bleep ] uniform and hive had friends get killed in afghanistan in that uniform. stolen valor right here! soldier burke, u.s. army veteran that confronted that phony is with us right now. thanks for your service. thank you. set the scene for us. looks like you re in a mall, you spot something and what did you do? i spotted this guy in an army combat uniform. he went into a store. i went in for a closer look because i like talking to fellow service members. as i got closer, a noticed a couple things were off with his uniform. his flag was low, boot lace were untucked. the badges on his chest were offcenter. so i took a step back and i just watched and talked to a little boy and kind of tell him stories about being in the military and this and that. and as he came out of the store, that s kind of when i initially confronted him about his uniform not being properly worn. we re hearing it. you have it you had your iphone and taping him. if you had the right earnings you would have backed off, correct? correct. initially did he have what could have been correct answers. when he approached me, i noticed he had two stars above his badge which would indicate he served in three different wars, which is almost physically impossible for his age. why does it bother you so much? well, i served in afghanistan and i ve had several friends get seriously wounded and a couple were killed in action who wore that same uniform, who put all that on the line and sacrificed that. to see somebody try and claim that type of sacrifice or dedication that my friends did really irked me. what about with your family? don t you have a my grandfather served in world war ii. he was also in the army. and just that legacy of wearing that uniform, so many guys put their lives on the line and have lost their lives wearing that same uniform. somebody to pose as an actual soldier when they haven t sacrifice as much as those guys have, it s just wrong. you also get discounts and praise when you don t deserve it. that bothers you on top of that. what has been the online response since this has been posted out there? generally in the military community especially, it s been positive from my end. i d say fort most part, everybody supported what i did and they agree with it. there has been a couple negative responses, but overall, i think everybody was on board with me and thought i made the right choice. and what happened to him now? as of right now, the video on line has millions of views. the law enforcement officials are actually in the process of contacting him to investigate further if this guy should be prosecuted or not. it is a crime. it s been posted on facebook, says i worked with him. always called him out and he always stuck to his story. thankfully there is someone with more military knowledge than me that could pinpoint the lies. i could not. thank you. this made my day. yeah. it means a lot. like i said, i think there is more than just this guy walking around posing as a service member, claiming that they sacrificed as much as some of my friends have and i think when it s seen, it needs to be called out and these guys need to be prosecuted. you dropped out of penn state to go serve. now you re back, ready to graduate. what do you want to do next? hopefully law enforcement is my main goal here. at 26. what a life you ve already had. thanks so much for your service and thanks for doing what you did and everybody else serve notice, don t steal the valor. this is only for the select few. appreciate it. who is on your wrist? private first class anthony nunn, killed in may of 2011 and sergeant summers, also killed in july of 2011 in eastern afghanistan. wow. and you are making sure their memory stays alive. appreciate that. thanks so much. coming up, how do you turn that seasonal job into a permanent one? cheryl casone is here with that way to make that permanent next. but first on this day in history, 1938, new york s la guardia airport opened for business and immediately every plane was lifted. in 1965, turn, turn, turn by the birds was the number one song in america. and in 1976, castro in cuba [sound of crickets] brii,brii,brii [male narrator] we ve all heard how military veterans adjusting to the civilian world may have. certain. issues. 2. 30. 70. if only everyone had this issue. no matter what challenge they face, easter seals is here for america s veterans. the business of christmas shopping already in full swing. that means employers are looking for people to do the ringing up at the cash register. cheryl casone from our sister network, fox business, is here with the top five companies hiring today. i ve looked at the list, i heard of all of them. i love all the companies. they re look for workers. let s start are amazon. to be clear, they re all still hiring and look for people. yesterday with cyber monday, they were very strong for cyber monday. excellent. everybody is in the amazon and you can work for them. 80,000 holiday positions available at amazon. thousands of these jobs will turn into full-time jobs. amazon has been on a hiring tear. yesterday you did a segment about how they ve got a bunch of robots. but they still need actual people. they need people for sorting, for package, labeling, things like that. those fulfillment centers. they re opening more and more, including some here in this area. so that s the first one. next up, i love this company, nothing says a holiday like a honey baked ham. food. i love it! so this is the spiral honey baked ham. the founder actually invented the spiral, like the way that you cut the ham. i hope he made a lot of money. anyway, 10,000 jobs, production, preparing glaze in the hams, customer service agents. a lot of their managers were seasonal hires. they like to promote from within. it s good culture, i will say. absolutely. you just said that cyber monday was a very busy day. fed-ex is a place that s looking for people. yeah. 50,000 seasonal positions. all these companies are still hiring. don t think they re not. a majority of the seasonal workers will have the opportunity to go full time, continue working even if it is part-time after the holidays and fed-ex has really good benefits. if you can get full time with that company, the health care, the retirement, everything is really strong at fed-ex. they re pretty busy now. let s take a look at target. so they re this huge price war right now with wal-mart. they re really kind of going head to head. 70,000 jobs, 40% of last year s hires went full time at target. you get a discounts as well. they ll continue to hire. they re expanding. they re kind of fixing up the stores. and finally, sports authority, which is right next to target in my town. is it really? yeah. very cool. if you need some weekend work, a little part-time i m off here at 9 request in the morning. you ve got the time. yeah. all right. so 50% discount if you like sporting goods items. 3500 jobs that are open. store managers, merchandising, sales, things like that. several hundred of those workers will become permanent. i think it s an opportunity you should consider. absolutely. and once again, i m sure today on the business network you re going to be talking about how so far the sales are looking better than on black friday? we re going to be covering retail sales because a lot more and more americans are doing their online shopping. and that s where everything is going. everything is listed at cassiniex casoneexchange. you could literally, if you walk into a stocks be hired that day. every day is christmas at casone exchange. don t miss cheryl on the fox business channel. thank you. thank you. coming up on this tuesday, the white house wants more spending to retrain police officers in the wake of the ferguson tragedy. retraining the cops? is that the answer? laura ingraham s got an opinion. she s next. and quiz time. what do goats and harlem globetrotters have in common? the answer next. that s baaad. ñi good morning. it is tuesday, december 2. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. the white house wants hundreds of millions of dollars to retrain cops. what about how the community treats police? where are those points in the plan? laura ingraham weighing in on that straight ahead. and the president threatens to shut down the federal government if republicans do not fund his amnesty plan. but how much is that going to cost? we are crunching the numbers and they are big ones, straight ahead. and caught on camera, wild police chase starts with a stolen car, then ends with a skateboard. not before a reality tv star jumps in to save the day. every word in that tease was true. it sounds like i made it up. but mornings are better with friends. it s time for fox & friends . that isn t sweet georgia brown, is it? this is giving tuesday. this is the harlem glebe trotters with some goats, a alpaca and llama. in the past we have told you about an organization remember a couple years ago, he have time it was my birthday, my wife would buy me a cow that would be donated to people in another country. they ve got a similar program, in fact, we ve been keeping one of the cows here in the studio they ve got a program where you can actually donate an alpaca and goats and fresh water. it s a wonderful program. it s a great program. on this giving tuesday, it s great way to share i could see how a cow could help. how about an alpaca? for the wool. it gives it up willingly. the alpaca is now offended. i want to make sure we weren t having alpaca for lunch. no. he s going to alpaca punch you. all right. we mentioned this a moment ago. the cost of amnesty, president obama now saying he is willing to shut down the federal government if republicans won t pass funding for his immigration policy. doug luzader has a calculator in washington, d.c., figuring out how much all that is going to cost. reporter: good morning. i need my green gadget this morning. a lot of numbers have been thrown around of the economic impact of the president s plan. let s talk about a couple of them. $40 billion. that s what the conservative heritage foundation estimates will be the cost to taxpayers of the president s new immigration plan. on the other hand, we ve got this number, $350 billion. one immigration advocate says that s how much economic activity will now be done above board. these are very strong net positives for the economy, particularly on the fiscal side. continued to pay heavily on the tax side and are the lowest users of government services. but is that really the case? you really have to look at illegal immigrants in general, the migration policy institute came up with this analysis of illegal immigrants. 50%, they say, have less than a high school diploma. 31% live below the poverty line. 51% don t speak english well or at all. 65% either unemployed or not part of the labor force. just as anybody with an average tenth grade education, will probably not be a high earner and end up paying less in taxes than they receive in government services and benefits. and that leads us to the earned income tax credit. generally low income earners don t pay an income tax to the government at the end of the year. instead the government actually sends them a check and the administration has been clear about this, that these illegal immigrants will, in fact, qualify for the earned income tax credit. back to you guys. because they paid in. doug, we thank you very much. great report. laura ingraham joins us live to discuss all that s been happening in ferguson and post. tensions rising across the nation. now a meeting in the white house. good morning to you. good morning. $263 million in ferguson spending to retrain law enforcement. is that a great way to spend the taxpayers money? first of all, let s look at what that whole scene looked like in there. when i just looked at the image, the screen shot of that, it looks and reminded me of one of those like thursday night seminars in college where everyone kind of sits around the table and talk about the world s problems and in the end, they just come up with the same conclusion, basically that the system is rigged; that minorities can t get ahead and that we need to spend more money. and indeed, that s exactly what happened yesterday at this meeting. there is never anything that happens in the country that the president doesn t believe can be fixed with the spending of more money and getting america deeper into debt. indeed, when you see the $263 million that he s proposing, i guess we could find that money somewhere. i don t know. we never talk about where we re getting the money. we print it. just take it from the military. that s what we re good at. and guys, i was thinking about this. body cameras, i think that s an interesting idea and i think obviously it would have vindicated officer wilson early on in this process. but maybe, why not put a body cam on the president, because i know a lot of people would like to know this how much time does he actually spend during the day on the u.s. economy? i m talking about jobs, opportunity for people, expanding economic opportunity, and running the government, versus doing the community organizing around the table. that body cam would be fascinating. so i m all in favor of spending money on that body camera. you know when would run all that, all his video would probably be the golf channel because he does a lot of that. great idea. they need some fresh programming. about an hour ago we had michael nutter, the mayor of philadelphia on. he was in the meeting with the president yesterday. essentially what he was saying is that the police need to be retrained so they know how to deal with the community. what about the community and their dealings with the police? listen to this exchange we had with him. treating people with dignity and respect has to be a part of their job and awful us as public servants. there can be a disconnect. in communities in any city, including our city between how residents feel about the service that they get, how they are treated in their own community, and if that gap in trust grows, then you have a dangerous situation. i think the president has been balanced in this effort. all of it may not have been completely laid out in the four points, but i think those four points are the right points. what do you think? how about self-reliance versus self pity? how about conforming our behavior to the law instead of bitterness? how about actually the principles of truth versus the principles of rabble rousing and spreading distrust, which i think this administration has done? actually speaking basic truths. i know that s a crazy concept in america today, but if you punch a cop, if you try to get into his car, if you walk down the middle of the street and rob a store, it s not going to end well. you re either going to end up in jail or someone is going to get hurt. it would be nice if the president of the united states with all of his education and all of his wisdom and all of his experience actually spoke truths to people and had the community really represented there. there was one police official there, but there were no shop keepers at that meeting yesterday and again nobody from ferguson. he always goes political at these meetings. he never goes pragmatic. and the pragmatic thing is people need jobs. stop giving opportunities away to illegal immigrants. actually focus on getting the communities at work because guess what? when you have to wake up in the morning and you have a job or child to really take care of, you don t have time to be out on the streets burning down buildings. sure. charles barkley, to your point and adding on there, said why don t we get practical here and imagine what it would be like without law enforcement doing the job that they re doing? be a wild, wild west. take a listen. we have to be really careful with the cop, man, because if it wasn t fort cops, we d be living in the wild, wild west in our neighborhoods. i think we can t pick out certain incidents that don t go our way and act like the cops are all bad. do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn t for the cops? there is no excuse for those people to be out there burning down people s businesses, burning up police cars. laura? i would argue that the who has been more damaging and paid less attention to the true needs of minority communities in the country? the obama white house or state and local police? i would say state and local police has done more to help and assist minority communities than this administration has in the last five-plus years. so if you want to be mad at someone, i d be mad at the administration that hasn t spend really any time on getting real job, good-paying job noose this country. and instead is more recrimination, none of this is going to help the average minority in this country or working people. the attorney general hasn t left yet, was yesterday in atlanta and he was speaking out and he wants to end racial profiling, which i don t know how that figures into this case, but he came out and said once and for all, he wants to end it and that s the problem with policing today. do you think that was on message or off? well, i mean, this is the way they view the world. the racial prism is how the obama administration viewed the world at t very beginning of this administration and apparently it s worked so well for them, not, they re going to keep doing it until the 2016 election. again, i think people are fed up with this. i know a lot of people watching this right now are trying to figure out ways that they can actually buy christmas presents for their children this year. the people who are shutting down those stores, who are blocking the freeways, they re not the modern day rosa parks. most of them are very selfish and most of them don t really care about michael brown. they care about anarchy, chaos, and doing the whole anti-capitalist thing. that s what they care about. the president should have spoken about the dangers of what some of these people are doing on the streets and he didn t. yeah. maybe that s the message today, don t hold your breath. laura, thank you very much. have a great radio show. starts in about 50 minutes all across the country. thank you. we turn now to ainsley earhart, a lot to bring you this morning. what s going on this morning? thank you. the wife of the leader of isis now being questioned in lebanon. two senior officials saying they captured her and her nine-year-old son more than a week ago using fake i.d. cards crossing the border from syria. officials saying the woman is believed to be one of the wives of isis leader al bagdadi. he was thought to be critically injured during an air attack on november 8. but a few days after that, a new audio tape of him surfaced, calling for an increase in lone wolf attacks. a suspected serial killer wanted for murdering four people in west virginia is dead. police found 39-year-old jody hunt in his truck in the woods. they say that he turned the gun on himself after an hour long manhunt that forced the lockdown of several schools in the area. friends identifying one of his victims as an ex-girlfriend who filed a domestic violence case against the suspect just last month. before his deadly rampage, he wrote this chilling facebook post: you will not hurt me anymore. you will not destroy my soul and heart as you tried so hard to do. a reality tv star saves the day after a wild police chase near l.a it began when a suspect driving that stolen bmw slam noose a car stopped in traffic, then jumps out with his skateboard, as you can see. he skated away for about half a block with cops on his tail. it all came to an end when operation rico star in the red pick up truck cuts him off. police then took him into custody. see exactly what happened, see the guy running with his skateboard and running from the cops. they re right on him. there is six or seven cops. and he got on the skateboard and started moving and it s just instinct. blocked the guy off and slowed him down a little bit. apparently the star lost 150 pounds in the past year, so no one even recognized him. those are your headlines. back to you. you recognized hip. we all did. thanks. this coming up, the rioters in ferguson are running wild. but one group of armed volunteers patrolling the town from roof tops is being threatened with arrest. is that fair? one of those volunteers joins us next. and this wasn t on the radar. a weatherman caught by surprise when a playful pup takes over his weather report. good boy. oath keepers. who are you guys and gals? oath keepers are individuals that come from first responder backgrounds, military, law enforcement, firefighters, paramedics. they re the individuals that put themselves in harm s way to keep others safe. so when we hear this, this is a statement i want to read to you. it s from the st. louis county police department saying that you re not obeying the laws. quote, individuals from the group did not adhere to the st. louis county ordinance regulating security officers, couriers and guard. that ordinance prohibits anyone from providing security without first obtaining a license. what is your response to that? well, the rest of that has to do with being paid to be there. that wasn t the case with any of us. we re all volunteers. sure you are. and i know that there are a number of business owners forget about what the officials say. people who own some of those businesses and buildings were thankful that you guys showed up because you showed up when a lot of people wouldn t. that s true. there was a lot of hugs and tears. they couldn t believe that perfect strangers would come and do that for them. why did you do it? that s what we do. while others run from danger, we run into it. it s part of who we are. that s how we re wired. if indeed you are stopped from doing what you are meant to do, what you re wire to do do to help others, what will be the result, john? we won t stop. why? because no one else is there to stand in the gap. no one is there to do the job. that s why we had to roll out and do what we did, because everybody else was standing by. those that were in roles that were supposed to protect the town, they did not. i read a statistic that every building that you guys protected is still standing today. so that s a salute to the fact that the oath keepers were op the roofs keeping an eye on things. thank you for joining us. thank you. you bet. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, while illegal immigrants make themselves at home in the united states, american students now have to pass a citizenship test to graduate. does that make sense to you? would you pass? and a football player suing his high school, saying it didn t protect him from concussions. could the case be the end of high school football? arthur and ablow walk not guilty to take on the legal insanity next. a kid. i m just overall a competitive person, so i wanted to beat him. by the time i had gotten to 83, there were just tons more merit badges that were fun left to do and i just wanted to keep going. he did, but he ran through all of them. he says the bugling badge was the hardest to earn. but he got it last. brian, over to you and the guys. all right. former high school football player now suing the illinois high school association, claiming it did not do enough to protect him from concussions. standards, the ihsa has implemented are still fairly below the standards that we think are now the norm in the industry given the state of knowledge that we possess. wow. suing. could this spell the end of high school football? here to react, fox news legal analyst arthur aidala and dr. keith ablow. you like this suit, arthur? i like the purpose of it. i like what they re trying to do, they re trying prevent injuries on young people. from a very practical point of view, this is a class action lawsuit. that attorney you just showed, he could get multi generational wealth for him and his family if all of these high school players start popping up from generations past saying hey, i was hit in the head, i had a concussion, now i get headaches every day. by the way, how do you prove if someone really has a headache every day? i m not sure. if they know they re going to get a check? the attorney is a attacking joe, who has his heart in the right place. this class action suit, i know him. i talked to him. i did my homework. i know him everybody knows, everybody knows that hitting your head in football and the fact that you get blurry eyed and concussions, this was a risk. so the fact is, if you knew that and you were the people putting on this game, if you re the organizers of the game, that s called negligence. it s like i have to take the lawyer to school. the protocols in 2003, didn t play past high school. were they in place like they are now in the nfl? they re not. but the way the doctor opined, that everybody knew what the dangers are of a concussion, they re going to have to prove that everybody knew that there was a risk and that the risk was this suit is not just about money. here you impugne the reputation of a great attorney. i m not impugning it. i can tell you one thing don t misquote me. the nacc case as well, in that case, he was very focused on achieveing change. there are 8 million high school athletes, football players. 140,000 will get concussions on an average basis. so eight high school students did die playing this game. so it s a risk that you have going in. if these schools have to pay out this money, you have thoroughly destroyed the sport. i don t think you have. and guess what? i don t know if it s such a terrible thing if you do medical checks after somebody has a terrible head trauma on the field and you sideline the kid for the game. what s so bad about that? here is what the lawyer is saying. everything doesn t have to be accomplished through a lawsuit. you could accomplish this same goal through a series of meetings lawslaws are made this way. it doesn t have to be all the time. how can you get that pocket square? the suit has to be a very expensive suit. i will say this. everyone s heart is in the right place. everything doesn t have to be a lawsuit. the biggest take away is there is a target on football at every level. let s make it safe. absolutely. arthur, thanks so much. you guys are a handful. unbelievable. i can t watch him and argue with him and everything else. they actually like each other, believe it or not. coming up in the next 35 minutes, ray rice free o play in the nfl and now he is speaking out. if i never play football again, i ll be honest with you, i would sacrifice more so she could have a better future. more from his newest interview out this morning. and quiz time, what do goats and globetrotters have in common? elisabeth has the answer and she also has a coat. bought 17 books. including the laughing monsters, being mortal and heart of darkness. or as the cashier put it, are you okay? chicken soup for the presidential saul? you want to get that? that is quite a book reading list. did you hear what he said about chuck todd s book about him? he said sad. a sad picture of the president on the cover. is that what he meant? not that it s sad he wrote a book? maybe not. from sad to happy a great smile is just around the corner right there with ainsley earhart ready to bring us the headlines. you re so sweet. thank you so much. here is what you missed while you were sleeping. the reward for information about missing college student shane montgomery now raised to $25,000. but this morning still no sign of him. he disappeared after leaving a bar in philly on thanksgiving eve. that irish pub now kicking in $10,000 for information as well. bar owners say he was respectful when he was asked to leave after bumping into the d.j. table, adding he wasn t acting drunk. ray rice now free to play in the nfl with video surfacing of him punching his fiance. now what he thinks it will take for an nfl team to give him a second chance. one thing i think that they will have to be willing to, you know, look deeper into who i am and realize that me and my wife have one bad night and i took full responsibility for it and one thing about my punishment and everything going along with it, anything that happens is that i have accepted it. i went fully toward it. i never complained or i never did anything like that. four teams expressed some interest and rice is now a free agent. is it an apology or not? st. louis county police and the st. louis rams are at odds over whether a team officially apologized for this hands up, don t shoot gesture. st. louis county police chief john bellmar claims the rams coo apologized for his players. but the coo denies this, saying he expressed regret the players he actions were seen as offensive burks never officially apologized. the police officers association called that gesture profoundly disappointing. and here is a weather report that literally goes to the dogs. when i have it to reopen it hey, king. how are you? live tv. how are you, buddy? it s not your turn yet. you have to wait one more segment. is this going to be on youtube? miami weatherman getting interrupted by king, that one-year-old american bulldog mix. king was scheduled to be on the show a little later as the pet of the week. but couldn t wait to become a star. those are some of your headlines. maria has weather here. have you ever had a dog interrupt your weather? no, but bring it on. bring the dogs overt we have had dogs on the set and i have done a weather forecast with a dog next to me who did not interrupt me. let s look at the radar. we have areas of rain and even a little wintery mix across portions of the mid-atlantic early today. as we head into later this afternoon and this evening, we re going to be looking at more widespread areas of snow and also wintery mix developing across parts of new england all the way down to the mid-atlantic. 2003 have a number of winter weather advisories and freezing rain advisories out there across parts of pennsylvania and ohio. so be careful on the roadways. it will get slick out there. across california, much needed rain coming in to areas like san francisco and los angeles. temperature wise, you re much colder today across areas in the northeast. texas, also chilly. highs in the 40s and 50s. and across places like minneapolis, high temperatures there, only in the 20s. now let s head over to elisabeth and brian who are about 20 pete pete feet to my right. today is giving tuesday and to celebrate the harlem globetrotters have teamed up with christian organization world vision promoting the importance of giving back this holiday season. here with us now are two members of the globetrotters, alex and herb, along with a few friends. nice to see you. i thought it was reverse. i thought you could outjump him, but i m wrong. actually he can at this point in my career. but not in this weather. you are freezing. he was still able to teach a couple of tricks to us. talk about why you have furry friends with you today. we partnered up with world vision, so why not team up with somebody like them. we want to encourage our fans to give to underprivileged communities and a way to do that is going to the world vision catalog and you can find out more about the catalog at worldvisiongifts.org. you can find life-changing gifts such as llamas, cows, alpacas. you can get two soccer balls for 16 bucks. whatever you have more of in your wallet. whatever you can give, you give a lot of joy and you also keep people smiling throughout the year with some tricks. can you teach us one before you go? oh, yeah. you want to try something? sure. here we go. all right. i want you to go around your back, underneath your leg, off the knee. okay. around my back, underneath my leg. that s pretty good. you seem less than impressed. all right. for you you want to go around the body. okay? like that, back and forth. i think duke it. i saw you working on it. i ll try. there you go. like that? that was very good. let me trio get the ball from you guys. see if you can trio do that. i need a llama to help me. you need a llama? thank you for coming down. world vision, a great cause. always providing a smile with great talent. giving back to the community. jog it in. steve, take it away. thank you, brian. coming up, how are we dealing with the new isis threat against our military? by telling them to scrub their social media? really? is there freedom of speech, the latest victim in the war on terror. peter johnson, jr. weighs in on that next. and no dolls or g.i. joes for christmas. the new idea called no gender december attack the toys under your tree already. say good-bye to g.i. joe, barbie. god is the reason that we have all this stuff that we have. i just don t want children to feel like there is something wrong or something that they should be ashamed of in sharing their faith with their peers. disney s response says it was because of censoring software that catches people who abuse the system by adding god to profanity. that was their answer. steve? the f.b.i. has issued the strongest warning to date about possible isis attacks against members of the u.s. military. in a memo from the department of homeland security, the f.b.i., service members are told to scrub their social media accounts. quote, for any information that might serve to attract the attention of isil and its supporters. is free speech now the latest victim in the war on terror? peter johnson, jr. joins us live. it may be, but it may be necessary. this is first reported on fox back in october. let s talk about the joint bulletin. what it does is strongly urges service members to scrub their social media accounts, like twitter and facebook. removing anything that might bring unwanted attention or help extremists learn their identities or their families identities or locations because officials fear copy cat attacks like the attacks that we saw in can did and frankly, what we ve seen at fort hood in the past. radical extremists acting against service members here in the united states. sure. and it was in october that an air force guy and his son were targeted by social media. they said hey, go after these guys. absolutely. the issue becomes is this the first amendment going by the boards because of isil, because of al-qaeda, because of terrorism generally? do our service members and their family have to limit what has become really the face of the first amendment in the 21st century, their participation in social media? obviously it has a point. obviously locations, sensitive locations shouldn t be given away. obviously family members and military shouldn t say i m here, i m over there and then become subject first to internet attacks and then potentially slaughtered by terrorists, which is the fear of the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security. we ve had this in the past in our culture, in our history. look at world war ii. there were posters of the government put out, loose lips sink ships. meaning if you spoke about troop movements, if you spoke about where people were, then we might lose ships in the war against the axis powers. then also invoking the stetson hat, keep it under your stetson hat. keep that information under your stetson hat. but at the same time, though we understand that this is a great, great infringement on who we are as a people, that somehow a military officer, a veteran, someone who is a blue star or gold star or a silver star member or family should somehow disguise their service or be ashamed of it for fear that they or their family will be struck by terrorism. that s the balance that we re facing in this society now. and so i hope that our honoring of service, that our public acknowledgment of service in this country doesn t go by the boards, that there are ways that people can fly the blue star flag of service and that we can honor our patriots in this country without fear of being attacked by terrorists. i think we should spend as much time ensuring that they are safe as warning them about engaging in social media. obviously they need to be smart as we all do. but we don t need to succumb in a total way to their terrorization. otherwise the terrorists win. and they can t win and they won t win. all right. well said. thank you very much. 12 minutes before the top of the hour on this tuesday. still ahead, attorney general eric holder said he s going to end racial profiling once and for all. one sheriff says racial profiling not the problem at all. his message to the attorney general and your comments pouring in next. first let s check in with hem who are has got the show in 12 minute. how you doing? good morning to you. homeland security secretary testifies in the president s move on immigration. there is a big republican meeting this morning at the same time. what is the best way forward for the new majority? we re all over both stories. and a ordained drops out of the race for 2016. so who is in today? is iran helping the u.s. bomb isis? there is evidence apparently. we ll show it to you. martha and i will see you at the top of the hour on america s newsroom . welcome back. we ve been talking this morning about how the president of the united states has been told you got to do something about ferguson and yesterday he convened a meeting at the white house of religious leaders, civic leaders, and police officers. that s right. one individual who should have possibly been there ho had something to say to the president about leadership, law enforcement and communities and how things could actually get better is sheriff david clark out of milwaukee, the county sheriff there. this is what he had to say about his message and what it would have been to the president. policing is a local issue. we do not need federal involvement. all they re trying to do is create this situation where the neighborhoods at the local level that need policing the most will get it the least because it will cause people to back off when they really should be aggressive. it s a shame that the attorney general paints this broad brush of law enforcement officers all across the united states of america. the cops at the street level, and i love street cops they don t have a voice right now. i think it s time to push back. law enforcement did not have a voice yesterday. not in washington, not in the meeting that they had and not in atlanta with the attorney general where he came back and said, hey, we have once and for all got to stop racial profiling. instead of saying good detective work or we understand what you re up against, there was none of that. there was a lot of protest. he supported the protest that he had to walk through and deal with in his speech, said, i m not even mad at you. it has been decided that this case in ferguson, the death of michael brown that led to the nonindictment of officer wilson there involved racial profiling. nothing has been decided as it relates to that. in the new york post today on the editorial page, they said that last week the president said we need to accept the decision that where he said the grand jury was was the grand jury meant to take. it was their decision. if that s the case, they say that the attorney general should probably stop trying to make this a federal case. eric holder, who is out there saying that he s going to stop racial profiling once and for all. and come up with you have the president meeting with some leaders on coming up with a four-point plan, plus that s going to be on the backs of the taxpayer, $263 million, putting cameras on police officers moving forward. but then when you hear from those real boots on the ground, sowf the sheriff, the local feds going in there in terms of police work, their voice were not heard. but yours are on facebook. one stays, the less you have the feds involved, the better it is for the states, counties and our cities in the nation. the locals know what is best for the citizens of that particular state. the mayor of philadelphia was in support of the meeting which he was invited to. on facebook, one says, i m tired of all the criticism of law enforcement. unless you have put a uniform on, put yourself in harm s way, you have no idea what it is like. joanne is on facebook and she wrote this: bravo, at last a brave soul that is willing to tell it like it is. why wasn t he invited to the white house? the sheriff also said that what the white house is doing complete theatrics. that s it. one more post, at this point, i agree, they are making it more difficult for the police to protect themselves. thus protect our citizens in the long run. thanks for sending those in. keep them coming. also something that was curious is if you re going to have a meeting at the white house, talking about the problems with ferguson so they don t go forward in the future, you would have thought they would have invited somebody from ferguson. and invited some of the protesters, but none of the people in authority of ferguson, which seemed like they left somebody off the list. one of the individuals there said that the protests should have happened even before the verdict. that people should have opinion out there they said riots. they should have been lots of riots before the verdict. strong language. yeah. we ll see what happens in the aftermath of this and what are the president s four-point plan gets implemented. we ll see. more fox & friends in just a moment.
feel your party, the democratic party does not pay attention to them any more you are more concerned with what bathroom people go into, to how they earn a living? what is the message. very fair question. one, you give me credit. it s about 1:10. it s not a bad rate for me. look, if we were going back in history to the 30s and 40s, and you asked the average working person, which party is the party of the working class in america? overwhelmingly, people would have said it was the democratic party. today people do not say that. and for good reason. no. when we talk about the greed on wall street, it wean the the republicans alone who did it, they did it with democrats. it was a democratic administration, not a republican administration, that brought forth nafta, i think the democrats have got to make a fundamental choice, chris, that is which side are they on? you cannot be on the side of wall street, of the drug companies and the insurance companies and the big money and go to working people and say, hey, i m on your side, they re smart enough, they re not going to believe you. what we have got to do is come up with an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people, that is creating millions of decent paying jobs, making public colleges and universities tuition free. raising minimum wage to $15 an hour. creating jobs by addressing the crisis of climate change. dealing with the need for immigration reform, et cetera, et cetera. i think the american people understand that there s something profoundly wrong in this country when you have a small number of billionaires that have so much power. and i believe they want to see a government which represents all of us, that s what the democratic party has goat to stand for. we get to the issues, was it a serious discussion about serious things? our thanks to vermont senator, bernie sanders. happy new year to you. for everyone who made this town hall possible, and it s more than you may just be thinking about what you see up here on the stage. this is just the beginning of a special week at cnn. tomorrow, we have president obama s farewell address, wednesday, you have president-elect donald trump, holding his first full scale news conference in months. and later on wednesday night, van jones is going to host another edition of his town hall series, the messy truth. thursday, you have my colleague here at the george washington university with the republican speaker of the house, representative paul ryan. our thanks to our host, to george washington university, and to all of you in the audience tonight at home and watching. don lemon picks up our coverage right now. thank you very much. very nice job, my friend. you and the senator both. you just saw our town hall with bernie sanders. and he his senate colleagues begin confirmation hearings tomorrow for donald trump s cabinet picks. thanks for joining us. one president getting ready to move into the white house, the other getting ready to say good-bye. president barack obama hard at work tonight on his farewell address set for tomorrow in chicago. as president-elect trump prepares to take the oath of office, his daughter and son in law have become d.c. s newest power couple. jared kushner named a senior exec. the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. we have so much to get to tonight. i want to begin with jim acosta. emily jane fox, also here, richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush joins us. and jon meacham historian. quite a fascinating hour, jon meacham. i want to get your reaction to bernie sanders town hall. trum assembly his administration. they re regrouping to try to figure out what happens with the democratic party. you should be worried about the issues at hand instead of what happened. every action produces a reaction. if trump is an answer to the obama years, there s going to be given the speed of the american pulse. there s going to be a moment where the democrats are going to be rethinking. it s striking to me still that senator sanders, given his age, elites, but who are the elites when you have so many billionaires in power. this is a pivotal moment for the campaign. they re making it official his son in law is going to be an adviser. what are you hearing. people have been comparing this to hillary clinton running health care reform under bill clinton, i think jared kushner coulding more powerful than hillary clinton was in that white house. he was probably donald trump s most trusted adviser throughout the entirety of the 2016 campaign. and what they re envisioning for jared kushner is sort of the senior adviser who overseas everything. he was down at the capitol today meeting with paul ryan to go over tax reform. he s been meeting with donald trump and other foreign leaders. they looked at this, the legalities of all of this on a conference call one of jared asked questions of lawyers who represent various people who are up for positions in the administration, and i ve given my honest opinion on that. it s debatable. whether it applies to an appointment by the president in the white house it certainly applies to the president making an appointment outside the white house. one point i ve emphasized with all the lawyers representing anybody appointed in this add men stras, it s critical to comply with a financial disclosure law and also the financial conflict of interest statutes. these are criminal statutes that prohibit a government official from engaging in any official action that has a direct predictable effect on their financial holdings. this means for mr. kushner, he s going to have to sell quite a lot of holdings, and if he holds on to some real estate, some bank loans, he may have to recuse from some important issues, such as the regulation of the financial services industry. it s going to be very important that he follow the rules like everybody else. i hope he will persuade his father-in-law to divest conflict creating assets, to disclose his tax returns and follow the same rules that everybody else does. richard we have a lot of billionaires in this administration, they are not they don t necessarily understand the needs of working americans, but at least they can zoo their jobs free of conflicts of interest. you were reading everyone s mind on this panel, probably every viewer at home is saying, if jared kushner has to do this, what makes a president-elect so different? why doesn t he have to do it if he s going to hold the top office in the land? well, technically, the feenl conflict of interest statute does not apply to the president, there are other provisions that do. such as the constitution will prohibit any foreign money coming into trust with the united states government. that applies to kushner and the president. they have to make sure there s no foreign government money coming into these businesses that are still owned by president trump or by jared kushner or anybody else in the united states government. we need to look at wilbur ross, who s a billionaire going over to the congress department. betsy devos going over to the education department. a lot of billionaires here, they need to file their financial disclosure reports and let the american people know what s going on. those who expect senate confirmation, need to file those with the senate before they ask for hearings. i want to get jon meacham back in, the meacham team believes these anti-nepotism laws. should they be able to get around this? right. you know, the law was passed in 67. it was a rider to a bill that president johnson cheerfully signed, to say that president johnson and senator kennedy, the former attorney general were not close is something of an understatement. and so this was seen as pay back for years of rivalry between lbj and rfk. it began to some extent when bobby went down to sound johnson out in 59 about whether or not he was going to run for president. and johnson gave bobby a particularly harsh rifle that knocked him down. you know, son, have you to learn how to shoot a gun like a man. that was the beginning of that romance. when kennedy became attorney general, he was harsh toward johnson. when the tragedy of dallas happened, that tension rose. so there are technicalities here that seems to me the courts, that there probably is a way, obviously for kushner to do this, i think one of the questions, if i were mr. trump, which is quite a sub junktive. how do you what if you don t like the advice you re getting? can you fire your son in law? can you move him out? it does raise an interesting question on both sides, both outside the ethical questions and on the inside, which in terms of the family dynamic. that will be interesting to watch, if it doesn t quite work out, what happens, speaking of that family dynamic, i think what s important, and a lot of people aren t talking about, ivanka, who has a very robust business. is she planning to divest, and what s going to happen with her business? she s planning to she announced today that she s planning to take a step back from her role at the trump organization and her own brand of fashion, line accessories. jewelry. she s moving to washington, she s moving her whole family, she s going to settle her whole family there. she s taking a step back. it s not to say she s not going to get paid by the trump organization. she won t be paid if her brothers decide to make a deal, she won t necessarily get a cut of that specific deal, but she ll get a share of the overall trump organization revenue. she is going to be involved in that new d.c. hotel built in the old post office pavilion, down the street from the white house. and according to transition officials who are on this call today, if a matter comes before the white house, that is involving that hotel, jared kushner is going to have to recuse himself, there are going to be some cases here and there. he s not divesting himself of all of his holdings and all of his investments neither is she. jared kushner is going to have to step back. how do we know. we don t even know. jared has said that he s going to comply with federal laws about what he has to disclose about his financial statements. we don t know what kind of holdings he has. we have no idea what kind of holdings she has, the president has, all of these things are steps in the right direction, but it s still just so opaque. i don t know if it s a step it sounds good. how do we know that jared kushner is recusing himself or ivanka trump is not getting a cut on some deal. how would the american people know that? queer not going to know for sure. but we re going to get a financial statement from him, he s going to be a senior white house employee, and he s going to be subject to a criminal conflict of interest statute, which is a lot better than we are with carl icahn who they claim is not a government employee. though he will be. at least we have the final disclosure forms, and the criminal conflict of interest statute that apply. the department of justice will enforce the criminal conflict of interest statute, they have in the past, they have good prosecutors there, i expect him to comply. that hotel, they have to get rid of that hotel, they have foreign governments coming in there, foreign government money coming into that hotel. no person holding a position of trust with the united states government can be receiving profits from dealing with foreign governments. we have lobbyists who stay in that hotel. including the ncaa coaches, athletic directors want to go in there and lobby the president while staying in his hotel. that hotel is going to be an ethics nightmare for the next four years. if they don t get rid of that hotel, change the name, they have one place on pennsylvania avenue they ought to be focused on, and that s the white house. john, you ll get the first word on the other side of the break. please bear with me. i m a little snifflely, you may hear some of that during the show tonight. i apologize in advance. if you re gonna make an entrance. 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i don t think there s a double standard. there s a difference in ambition here. jared and ivanka are 35. they re half donald s age and twice as ambitious. they want to have a long career in washington, or at least in power. they re taking steps that look good and appear to comply with ethics standards and rules. donald is 70 years old, do you think he s going to have a political future down the road. this is important to people who have been incredibly ambitious. why do you think it s tough for him ivanka and the two sons who are running the business. as it is already, why is it tough to have him untangleal of his en257k elments. we were supposed to have a press conference about all of this in december. will that come wednesday. nine days before the inning august ouration, is how we re going to find out how trump is going to do all of this. he descended into the lobby of trump tower today and took a few questions from reporters, and dodged a few. one of the questions he took was about this conflict of interest. he said, this is simple, i can do this, it s not going to be that tough. it sounds like a donald trump answer to a complex question. as mr. painter was saying earlier, there are no conflicts of interest when you re president of the united states. those conflict of interest restrictions don t apply to you. the clause does apply to you. he is going to have to demonstrate how he s going to disentangle himself from all of these hotels, properties, all over the world that have russian interests and chinese interests. and countries that are not friends of the united states. he s going to have to make it crystal clear to the american people, this is not a problem. yes, he gets the economy going again, he does more of these car company announcements, people are going to be jumping on the bandwagon, there s still the question of the constitution, and if questions of violating the constitution are raised, they re going to be pursued, no matter how popular he is in that oval office. if there are ethics conflicts, who s going to hold the president accountable? you talked about who would hold the advisers and jared kushner and ivanka trump accountable. who would hold the president accountable? it depends on the type of conflict, if he holds on to these businesses, we re going to have the mix that people are mixing trump business with the united states government business. and conversations that look like a quid pro quo. there could be an investigation by the department of justice under the gratuity statutes. with respect to the monuments clause, which simply prohibits foreign government payoffs for united states government officials through profit earring or anything else, that is something that the house of representatives might very well look at, and if somebody refuses, to stop taking illegal payments from foreign governments, they would have to resort to impeachment. we re not there yet. i hope this can be resolved. and the vast majority wanted a president who represents the interest of the american people. if you can make $15 million an hour, and call it the art of the deal. he s already coming at this from a different perspective. there s only so much of this in charge that voters are going to put up with. i think this is going to sink in quite quickly. i have to run, do you think that donald trump thought about this, about all of this disentanglement and xi vesting before he ran for president? 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he s telling the truth, he can t deny. it doesn t give me any great joy to say it, in a few days, he s going to be the president of me, of you, of my children, but he has a pattern of saying things that are not true. and then and then he won t apologize or retract very easily or very often and that is a bad thing. we should not adopt to absurd identity and pretend that blue is green and green is plaid. it s a true statement. not that i m putting democrats first, but go ahead. i think probably what s almost as bad or worse, is the gaslighting component of it which is not telling the truth, and telling us that we imagined he didn t tell the truth. for example, that he wasn t imitating that reporter, the disabled reporter, just telling us the things we re looking at are not happening, that is the sort of crazy making aspect to it. that he doesn t ever people make mistakes and say things that aren t true. but they come back and say, i misspoke. that s not what he said. i m sorry about that, i didn t mean to mock you. he just says it didn t happen. you next. i think it was a nostalgic tour down the golden oldies of birney sanders. efrg was corporate greed, 1%. he opened up saying this election is about sexism and racism and xeno phobe yo, and other tried and failed campaign rhetor rhetoric. to me, one of the bright moments, i have worked with bernien sadders on legislation before. when he said he would work with donald trump on repealing or reforming nafta, he meant that. i worked with him on a drug reimportation issue. he will work with somebody if he believes them. it was rhetoric pulled out one more time. there was a retread quality to what we saw in the town hall. but i think if i look at this clinically, what he said about donald trump is a collarian call for what the progressives want to see they don t want to normalize trump in anyway they wan the to goo directly, actually, in a personal way, at you know, his veracity. have you ever seen it this personal? yeah, the 2016 race has desensitized a lot of us so much of our outrage, those of us who have worked in politics for a long time, we look at the race, and so much of it is a departure from the past p.m. this is the personalization of so many attacks right now, it could potentially be the new normal. it s interesting van. there are four things that i think progressives are concerned about, his personality is one of them. there s a concern that he s not just a bad role model but a dangerous, air addict person to have on the trigger. there s the personality, then there are the appointments, the personnel. he s putting people in place that progressives have a very hard time with, especially when you re talking about putting people in charge of the epa, who don t believe in global warming. that s and then third, there s a question of the policies, the sort of rolling back obama care without any real help for 20 million people. the most important thing to me is not the personality, not the personnel, not the policies, it s the principles and the values that we should be one country, we shun the be picking on people because of how they dress or their faith or whether they re disabled or not. the principles and values i feel, that s what s under threat for progressives, progressives are there for wanting to fight harder than ever, to defend our principles and values. you said, all of those things were said on the campaign trail. now the two years that we re from this moment where we are now, and none of it seemed to make a difference. one thing is different. one thing is different, there was a hope. and i think a false hope, one that even i had, maybe the man you saw on stage during the primaries was just an act and he was going to change for the general election. then there was the hope at the general election. once he is elected and he is the man, that then he s going to become presidential. now there s a fading, dwindling hope that he puts his hand on the bible. i think this is it. this is a populous, this is what they do, they rub the feathers the wrong way of the establishment. bernie sanders was a populace as well. and there were other people who were popula ulists and they did handle themselves this way on the campaign trail. i think the idea of going to twitter is great, he goes straight to the american people. donald trump jumped on it today. to me, he spoke to the heart of somebody who s simple minded like me, i understood what he was saying. here s this woman that s extremely wealthy and wineny donald trump goes straight to the heart of the american people. he goes to the heart of. you were saying donald trump, you thought he would change. when someone shows you who they are. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice. we ll talk, we ll be right back, don t go anywhere. so i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle - without starting any conversations- -or paying any upcharges. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. with sleep number, there s an adjustment for that. just a swipe to realign your spine. does your bed do that? come into a sleep number store where the c2 mattress is now $699.99. it s a no brainer. kevin, jack kingston said he s simple minded. that s what i heard. he was did you say you were i didn t want to put words in your mouth. he didn t like the merrill speech last night. he didn t ask give himself enough credit. there s not a lot of people in the country that liked the speech. i think. go ahead. i danced in small circles. a lot of people on my side of the political prism did not like the speech. i think it was a cliche right now for someone in hollywood to stand up and criticize somebody who s a republican. i do think there was there definitely were some heartfelt moments in the speech. it resonated with that particular audience. there were things that seemed out of touch with middle america, saying that without them, all we would have is football or mma. this is something that i think continues to sort of dwemonstrae the red state blue state divide we have. i would agree with you. except that he is the apprentice, and he is hollywood person son phied. you were criticizing her for being a rich celebrity. season the that what donald trump is. well, he it s a yes or no question. i don t think that s right. i think she was what s interesting about what kevin said, i didn t see it as a conservative versus a liberal. i think anyone could have given that speech. anyone who s concerned about what she is talking about, someone who is in the position of the president of the united states, who s beating up on people and humiliating people? i saw, the first part of it, yeah. i agree the mma stuff was a bridge too far, i didn t see her as being a victim. i saw her as standing up for victims. and using her strength to come to the rescue of people who feel vulnerable. i do think this idea of the hollywood elite would sit down and be quiet, the republicans would be happy. they want to feel victimized by the hollywood elite. this whole elite thing. what are we talking about elites. donald trump is a self-proclaimed multibillionaire. it s probably they re richer than he lives in manhattan. why are we using this term elites to apply to a certain group of people, aren t elite people just people who have privilege? that could apply to a lot of people? as a football fan, she s talking about my people. i thought that was tongue in cheek. i m a football fan. and an mma fan, i didn t take offense to that. if hollywood doesn t stop wining, epa is going to have to declare it a wetland. they need to move on and please, could you tell the friends out there that you have. i know you re well connected. no more videos instructing us how we should behave. just with the cowboys and the westerns. the people who are in the middle of the country watch movies. consume music and they consume a lot of the arts. you may say these people are disconnected from the arts someone s buying that music, someone s going to the movieses. i think that s right. i don t want do interrupt. i ll get to you real quick, i think that s right, i think what they don t like is the idea of being preached to. they re not cultured enough to make up their own mind. to address the issue of elites, i don t think it s about wealth or how much wealth you ve accumulated. it has more to do with a mind-set, when a lot of these folks feel like they believe, they know better than others i think that is where there s a backlash toward that type of it s a level of hypocrisy on this point is almost laughable, in that everybody on this here tonight. we spend our lives trying to influence public opinion. for some reason when hollywood people do it, well known celebrities and artists do it. those people are terrible because they re telling us what to do. we re all telling people what to do, and what to think. it s how they do it. how they do it. this whole idea, remember the idea of american exceptionalism? what happened to that? i thought that conservatives were the folks who wanted american exceptionalism the most out of everyone. any time someone fights to be the built what is wrong with that, i stwaen wasn t that cull touche ali aware maybe some people are just not in certain places. what is wrong with admitting that what s wrong with aspiring to that. when someone does aspire to that, why do you call them an elite. i want to know. remember, donald trump likes the arts, he wrote a book about it, it s called the art of the deal. let me say this. he lives in a culture capital of the world. to somebody who has been in policy making, i find it frequently offensive when some hollywood actor comes in and rungs their mouth. they have a huge bully pulpit. they often engarj in debates they have no idea what they re talking about. i had this i have to go, the producers are telling me to go. i had this conversation with a friend just last night. she had this bully pulpit, and he wasn t there to defend himself. donald trump could hold a press conference and knocked the golden globes off the air for as long as he wanted to. i digress, i ll get off my soap box know. the elite capital of the world next to hollywood and washington, d.c.. and chicago maybe. thank you, everyone. i appreciate that. don t miss the messy truth with mr. van jones, carly fiorina and jennifer grand holme. make sure you tune in. senator versus senator. one of the witnesses against jeff sessions is his senate colleague. and a face. this is nice. and does it come in a california king? 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it s absolutely what you need right now. absolutely scottsdale. drama ahead for donald trump s pick for attorney general. cory booker and john lewis are each scheduled to appear as witnesses against him. meanwhile, senator sessions is deep into his preparation for the hearing. dana bash has more. don, i m told jeff sessions spent the weekend with his team in his senate office doing final prep for tomorrow s confirmation hearing. for years, sessions has been a member of the judiciary hearing that will decide his fate. it s the same committee who was blocked from being a federal judge three decades ago 37. jeff sessions was the first u.s. senator to endorse him. this is a moment. look at what s happening. the kbam bam republican gave the new york reality tv star credibility with the gop base. because jefferson beauragard sessions the third is from the heart of alabama. 30 years ago, when ronald reagan nominated sessions to be a federal judge, democrats blocked him. something sessions rarely talked about, but did with us in 2009. it was not a pleasant event, i have to tell you. it was so heart breaking. he was accused of racial insensitivity, calling a black lawyer boy. i am not a racist, i am not insensitive to blacks. sessions was pounded by democrats, including then senator joe biden. they may have taken positions that i consider to be adverse to the security interests of the united states. does that make them unamerican? no, sir, it does not. that was not fair, that was not accurate, those were false charges and distortions of anything that i did. # i never had those kind of views. now, the son of civil rights activists, who sessions prosecuted for voter fraud is coming to his defense. i don t think he s a racist. he s worked extensively with sessions, who was elected senator 20 years ago. when i talked to senator sessions about historical black colleges and trying to get historical black colleges assistance and funding, he list listened. i can go on and on about the particular irish yous that jeff sessions and i have discussed. susan collins was elected the same year. you don t agree with him on a lot of issues? we don t agree on a host of issues. she plans to introduce sessions at his confirmation hearing for attorney general. i don t know what happened more than 30 years ago, i do know the jeff sessions i have worked with in the past 20 years, i want a person of integrity and experience. and jeff sessions has all of those characteristics and qualities. sessions spent two decades in the senate fighting for conservative causes. did team up on a bill with this high ranking democrat. dick durbin was trying to reduce the penalty for crack cocaine, which was 100 times higher than powder cocaine, he saw sessions in the senate gym. we re putting our clothes on, getting ready to leave. jeff, give me a number. if you can t do one to one, i won t go for 100 to 1. what is it? it was 18. we agreed. durbin says he disagrees with sessions on most legal issues, which makes it hard to support him for attorney general. other democrat s sessions got t know in the gym agree. if he made you trade head of the trade representative, we d be working together very well. you keep these positions on immigration, you keep these positions on civil rights and voting rights, it s going to be hard for me to support you. from democrats about bonding with sessions in the senate gym, he s part of the senate club, however, you could also hear from those democrats who know and like sessions, they are unlikely to vote for him, since they disagree so staunchly with him on issues that he would oversee as attorney general. thank you dana, we ll be watching, we ll be right back. if you re told you have cancer, explore your treatment options with specialists who treat only cancer. every stage. every day.. at cancer treatment centers of america. learn more at cancercenter.com/experts isjust wanna see ifa again? 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