shopping site of all. how do they get it to you so fast? power struggle is getting worse in egypt. growing fight between a president once hailed as a hero and angry protesters threatening a revolution. road rage caught on camera but not in the way you might think. how folks on two wheels are turning into four wheelers who don t play nice on the road. making a difference for families who thought their most cherished memories were lost forever. good evening. by any measure this weekend has been a bonanza for retailers. we went from gray thursday to black friday and we re rounding the corner into cyber monday. one of our viewers suggested today should have been dubbed so broke sunday. say what you will about the state of the economy but americans didn t hold back this holiday weekend. a record number of shoppers were out there, 247 million in all. the amount spent per shopper last year, total spending was up, online sales was up too. that doesn t include all the online spending about to happen tomorrow. we begin with kristen dahlgen at a mall in california. kristen. reporter: good evening, kate. those door buster deals may be gone but the shoppers aren t. you can see them up here wrapping up a retail at the national retail federation is calling as impressive as we ve seen. from the moment doors opened thursday before the thanksgiving dishing were even done until they close tonight almost a quarter billion shoppers will have been online or in stores. put my sneakers on and go for it. reporter: shopping started earlier than ever. in spite of the employee protests, the early opening paid off. more than 35 million shopped on thanksgiving. six million more than last year. black friday was big too. 89 million brave the crowds in search of those hard to beat bargains up from 86 million last year. the biggest wish list is reporter: americans spent more too. the average shopper spent $423 this weekend up from 398 last year for a total of $59.1 billion. it s not just the store seeing the boom. for the first time online spending topped $1 billion on black friday well before so called cyber monday also expected to break records. great for me. don t have to get off the couch. we don t have to go anywhere. it s easier shopping. reporter: while shoppers were out in holiday force this weekend, not emp wveryone was spending freely. many shoppers say they will be cautious concerned about the economy and the gridlock of the fiscal cliff. they will pull back. they don t know what to expect for 2013. they want to remain cautious as we move into the next year. reporter: to that point, two-thirds of shoppers say they will use cash or debit cards. we re seeing consumers do a lot more research online and smartphones. kate. retail analysts predicting another first this year. for the first time ever online shopping could exceed 10% of all holiday spending. the folks who track these things tell us that amazon was the most visited retail site of all over the holiday weekend, but what happens after your click your mouse and make a purchase. we got an inside look at one of amazon s largest hubs in the u.s. reporter: from the moment you check out at amazon.com the process begins. your item is picked, sorted, packed and shipped. this is what the holidays look like here at amazon. to give you some perspective this is one of 40 across the country packed with thousands of items in time for the holiday rush. they re going to need them. last cyber monday they sold more than 200 items per second. one glance at the shelves and it seems workers can shop where ever they can find space. they don t have to worry about where they are putting thi things. where will there s space there s product? it is. it doesn t matter what is next to next. reporter: workers will physically pick up every item per order and those items could be anywhere. is this your exercise for the day. you get your cardio and toning the up your legs going up and down the stairs. reporter: veteran picker jaime may cover several miles a day, picking product, scanning them and sending them off to be shipped. she says it s starting to feel a lot like christmas. more picks. more orders are coming in. more energy. reporter: as the workload increases so does the stress. do you ever dream about work? i have, yes. i ve dreamt about picking items. reporter: sometimes items are too far apart to walk. this is amazon s biggest fulfillment center. it s the equivalent of 28 football fields which explains why some employees need tricycles to get around. with this year s holiday season expected to be the biggest one yet, amazon has brought in 50,000 additional workers. work hard and make it. reporter: an online operation that depends on the human touch to fulfill the holiday wishes. phoenix, arizona. turning oversea to the renewed crisis in egypt. the violence is getting worse and tengss are rising unless the in the new president backs down. jim is watching it for us in cairo. good evening. reporter: today six aids of president morsi resigned. the latest sign of what some are calling his power grab is giving his inner circle some serious second thoughts. day four of the crisis and it s starting to look like revolution again. now filled with dozens of tents and protesters who refuse to leave until president morsi backs down or resigns. they clash again with rioters who were caught brutally beating and dragging away several protesters. casualties are mounting on both sides as anger against morsi gr grows. translator: everything is still the same. we have replaced a corrupt regime with another brutal rejust a minute. reporter: the latest turmoil begain thursday when morsi decreed sweeping powers for himself claiming that would speed up toward a new constitution and democracy. we tried to take care of the countries that try to secure stability for this country. reporter: only his islamist supporters were buying it. we want a new president. reporter: many judges and journalists have gone on strike. this union meeting today turned chaotic when a group of journ journalists assaulted a boss. at this muslim headquarters more casualties today. one dead and dozens were wounded when angry youths attacked the officers. the uncertainty is taking a toll on egypts struggling economy. today the stock market plunged 10%. translator: the stock exchange is worse now than in the revolution. reporter: it may get worse. tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of protester will be less than a mile apart making it a perfect storm for more clashes and casualties. now to israel and gaza where the fragile peace is holding tonight though signs of mistrust we are clear today as israel displayed a new show of force. martin fletcher has our report from tel aviv. reporter: this was the new reality this weekend. israeli soldiers on one side of the gaza fence, palestinian police yards away on the other sharing the same goal to protect the cease-fire. islamic cleric in gaza went a step further declaring it a sin to violate the truce. israeli school kids in the south went back to school today, some damaged by palestinian rockets. their parents hoping the calm means no more war. i told my daughter this was the last time and the calm will remain for years. i sure hope so. reporter: london sunday times reported today that israelis spotted an iranian cargo ship loading long range rockets for islamic militant groups in gaza. it quoted a source saying if the ship is headed for gaza regardless of the cease-fire israel will destroy the arms. despite its promise to observe the cease-fire hamas is defiant. they won the war. reporter: what about beginning the real peace proc s process. with hamas forget about it. anything with israel is f forbidd forbidden. what drives them is islam. reporter: news of the first testing of the first anti-rocket missile. it was moved up due to the general sense of urgency. officials said it was successful. martin fletcher, tel aviv. firefighters are searching for victims a day after a fire tore through a garment factory in bangladesh killing 112 people. many were unable to escape because they became trapped by flames. fire officials say the building lacked emergency exits. it makes products for walmart and other businesses in the u.s. congress returned from the holidays still facing the fiscal cliff. if a deal can t be reached by january 1st americans will face half a trillion more in taxes next year coupled with a hundred billion dollars in cuts to domestic and defense spending. since the reagan era most republicans have day caretaken promising they won t raise taxes. mike viqueira says there may be flexibility on both sides of the aisles. reporter: it s a pledge almost all republicans have signed to oppose tax increases of any kind. today shit was showing cracks. the world has changed and the economic situation is different. reporter: republicans insist in return for defying part doctrine they must have changes in social security and medicare. i will sign only if they undo entitlement reform. reporter: be president has put them on the table before. during last year s failed talks on a grand bargain and more recently in his first post election press conference. we have to continue to take a serious look at how we reform our entitlements because health care costs continue to be the biggest driver of our deficits. reporter: mr. obama has insisted tax rates must rise. today a top democrat signalled openness to the republican stance. revenue could be raised by closing loopholes and limiting deductions. they have to go up either real tax rates or effective tax rates. reporter: tax begin this week amid tentative steps toward common ground. we can t go off the fiscal cliff. we have to show the world we re adults. the election is over. reporter: one ceo of honeywell said there s so much uncertainty hanging over the economy because business isn t confident that washington can go its basic job. he says people like me just aren t hiring. kate. mike viqueira at the white house. senator john mccain softened his tone after vowing to block the nomination of u.n. ambassador susan rice to be hillary clinton s successor. he argued that rice damaged her credibility when she said the attack was a spontaneous protest to an anti-muslim video not a planned terror attack. today mccain was asked if he might change his mind about ambassador rice. i give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took. i ll be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her. still ahead, sick and tired of being bullied on the road. how cyclists are taking matters into their own hands. later, mick, heath and the stones still rolling after half a century on top. 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students ment we asked is this fair or foul? james says what is going to happen when these kids grow up and meets a team who grew up without restrictions. why don t we wrap them up in bubble wrap and let them play? foul. goom. it good morning. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. it is july 23. a major victory in the georgia senate race. david perdue tops a longtime congressman. a big scare for obamacare and even liberals are concerned. the landmark ruling that could delete the president s greatest achievement. super bowl winning coach tony did you know dungee being ridiculed for saying michael sam would be a distraction to his team. what is wrong with speaking your mind these days? think about that as we roll animation because mornings are better with friends. it s fox & friends. live from studio e here in the heart of midtown manhattan on this 23rd day of july. welcome aboard, folks. heather nauert is here with headlines. a lot happening through the night. we ve got news coming out of israel affecting travelers there. moments ago secretary of state john kerry touching down in tel aviv, israel, despite the f.a.a. s new ban on u.s. airlines from flying into that airport. this after a rocket landed in a neighborhood about a mile from that airport. the 24-hour ban expires at noon today but the f.a.a. is reevaluating and will announce later this morning if it will extend that ban or not. certainly other countries have also suspended flights to israel. more on that. moments ago the downed malaysian plane s black boxes have arrived in england. experts now downloading data from the recorders following a request by authorities in the netherlands who are now leading that investigation. also earlier this morning the first plane carrying the remains of some of the 298 victims left the airport in ukraine for the nght lands. it is trd it is considered a national day of mourning in the netherlands. in the meantime the united states said it found no link of direct russian involvement. but says vladimir putin base some responsibility for the attack. they provided the training and support for the rebels who most likely shot down the plane. here at home it could be one of the most watched senate races in the entire nation. in georgia, david perdue defeating jack kingston in the republican run-off. it will be key to the republicans gaining six more seats to win control of the senate in november. more debt, higher taxes, a disaster that s called imoam, this is the agenda that michelle nun and her party support. would he can t allow that to stand. david perdue will join us live on fox & friends. the piano man is set to receive one of music s greatest honors. the library of congress is awarding billy joel the ber gershwin prize for popular song, the second major award for joel in two years. it comes on the heels of the kennedy center honors back in december. congratulations billy joel. those are your headlines. why did you chows to play uptown girl ? she is an uptown girl. hello. it s all about her. it is a tribute to christie brinkley and they aren t married anymore. a big scare for obamacare. yesterday the d.c. court of appeals, the second highest court in the land, said the subsidies are illegal in 36 states. the law as written said that credits, these subsidies can only flow through, quote, an exchange established by the state. a bunch of states didn t establish them, so the federal government came in. and in 2012 the i.r.s. pumped out a rule giving subsidies to everybody, and that s what prompted this lawsuit. simultaneously the white house felt a little lucky because the fourth circuit in virginia said they re legal. now it could be headed to the supreme court. in the meantime the white house said it is going to continue handing out billions of taxpayer dollars in the subsidies until this gets figured out and works its way up the court system. could be years. three judges decided this. it seems to be a major blow when it comes to obamacare and the money that s being handed out, in this case determined here in these three courts. they said it is illegal. a constitutional scholar said this is a bloody mess. it will be a bloody mess. the problem is the president, it was found by the d.c. circuit, to have exceeded his authority, to have violated again the separation of powers. but m this case that violation led to the commitment of hundreds of billions of dollars in the past, future years. and that is a serious problem. i don t see how the a.c.a. can survive without this system, at least in the form it was originally designed to have. does that mean it will collapse? it would collapse unless congress would be willing to make massive changes and massive subsidies to back those up. the panel found the president spent billions in taxpayer dollars he had no authority to spend, subjected millions of employers and individuals to mandates he had no authority to impose. game on at the highest level. here we go again. and all indications are they knew all along how much in jeopardy this ruling would be. it s not so much the law that passed. it s the one that kept changing. if it goes back to the original form, can anyone afford obamacare without the subsidies? that will be one of the keys. the other thing we ve got to think about too is when everyone signed up, the 5.4 million people who signed up for obamacare, did they do it the right way? was anyone verified the information they were giving. the g.a.o. wondered that and set up a sting operation. the government accountability office made up fake applications, 12 on phone or on-line, 6 in person, all completely false. nothing true: income, counterfeit documentation false. 11 out of 12 of them, of these fake applications got through. they actually got government subsidized health insurance. they got through the verification process and their bogus beneficiaries are still covered. that s the extraordinary thing. it begs the question, so this was just a controlled situation where 11 of the 12 failed and the one had a failed, the one that failed, the one they noted simply because that person did not cough up a social security number. how many people have applied for obamacare and gotten subsidies even though they completely perhaps misrepresented their income or lied about their situation? right now we don t know because right now nobody is looking into it. the president doesn t have time because he s flying back and forth raising cash for democrats. it s exhausting. exactly. but there is a critique that he is not paying enough attention to what s going on in the world, he s not doing the right thing. he s forcing his attention on fund-raising, causing the taxpayers $3 million for a recent trip alone. josh earnest at the white house, press secretary, said he can focus on a couple of things at the same time. the president, like most professionals, has the capability to deal with more than one priority at a time, particularly somebody who has the trappings of the presidency alongside him. he has his own airplane, dedicated phone lines, senior advisors who will be accompanying him every step of the way. then he brought up out of the five work days he s spending three of them on funding. he s got the phone and the pen. he was in seattle last night and they were talking about cynicism, and the president said i don t really watch much of the news because i generally already know what they re talking about. wait a minute, i don t really watch much of the news because i know what they re already talking about? how many times have we heard the president say i learned about this situation by watching the news. a lot of people are going which way is it, mr. president? you can t have it both ways. if he didn t watch the news, he probably doesn t know that tony dungee, although he s not coaching anymore, he s a spofts sportscaster got himself into controversy when he answered the question, would you have taken michael sam, the defensive player who came out and say, by the way, i am quote, he said, quote, tony dungee did, i wouldn t have taken him not because i don t think michael sam shouldn t have a chance to play. i don t want to deal with all that. he s saying when you have somebody in a locker room that s different it becomes a major story. if you want to look at an example look at tim tebow. tim tebow was bigger than the sport for awhile. is there x factor going to take away from what s going on on the field. keep in mind, tony dungee didn t say i wouldn t sign him because he s gay. he said he would be a distraction. there are many players like tim tebow who in the mind of many coaches thought this guy is going to take away from the team aspect here. listen to this. if you are in a professional sports locker room and you happen to be gay, there are people in an nfl locker room or any kind of locker room for a professional sports team, there are people who are going to have a problem with it. if somebody is sitting there in a locker room and they re minding their own business but it is just not something they agree with, they shouldn t be excoriated either. you have the right to feel what you feel so long as you re not trying to inflict any kind of harm figuratively or literally upon another human being. it s that simple. so tony dungee, whether it is from a religious perspective or whether it is just taking his quote verbatim, he happens to be right. but he is getting slammed. he s getting abused in the media. it is a fact that this story is a big deal in the media. michael sam, did he make it a big deal? who knows? did tony dungee make it a big deal? it is a big deal because the media latched on to this earlier on. the twitter verse is aflame and they re calling tony dungee every imaginable word and name, but here s the thepg. he has the right to express his opinion. in his have been a distraction? to tony dungee, yes. to other people? maybe not. but they weren t asked. on twitter they re saying he s a hypocrite. michael vick, he completely repackaged himself. tonydunjihad tony dunjihad the chance to say no. there is no right or wrong answer. we respect your opinion unlike the rest of the media. we ll put your opinion up there. hopefully you ll get on facebook and twitter and we ll read them. coming up straight ahead, a plan to fix the border crisis. instead of giving aid to the illegals home countries, cut them off. a veteran gets trapped inside a v.a. clinic. what is your emergency? hi. i want to report that i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility and the alarm has been going how in the world did that happen? 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harsh is putting an 8-year-old on top of a freight train and sending him across mexico. that s harsh. harsh is taking children to the middle of the rio grande, leaving them and calling it a high-water rescue which is what a constable told me he had seen there when i was there earlier this month. that s harsh. this is a problem that the president created, in my opinion, two years ago when the president created this special program of adjudication. that lit the fuse. the president may say that wasn t what i really said or wasn t my intention but it is how it was interpreted, how it was marketed by child traffickers on the border. they are using the deferred adjudication of childhood arrivals as a means to tell people if we can get you there, you get a free pass. that is what has created the pressure on the border. the numbers have doubled each year for the past two years. when you go down and ask people on the border when did this change? when did it become different? they will tell you november, december of last year. the administration saw this coming. they knew it was coming. in no way is this an emergency appropriation. in fact, you send more money, you re probably going to get more problem. congressman, why hasn t the president been there? who is secure with the border the way it is? no one. our men and women who work for customs patrol, the social workers who work at h.h.s., the people who work for fema who are doing all the jobs we task them for, they re working their hearts out but the fact of the matter is they re being overwhelmed. the process has to include stopping the flow. the president could do that by going to the border and making that statement. congressman burgess, thank you for joining us from the lone star state of texas this morning. thank you. coming up, it s happening all over the country. our next guest thought she had a decent deem under obamacare until she discovered no doctor would take it. this cat may only have eight lives now. how he miraculously survived the massive wildfire in washington state. strong kitty there. nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad? so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie s list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. visit angieslist.com today. quick headlines. a deadly standoff in texas ends in a shootout with police. two officers were wounded while trying to serve a warrant on a murder suspect in the rio grande valley. the 29-year-old suspect was killed in a gun fight. jury deliberations resume in a separate story in jesse ventura s defamation suit. ventura says chris kyle lied in his 2012 bestseller called american sniper about punching ventura in a bar, in 2006 remarks he made insulting navy seals. in a videotape before his death last year kyle says the story is true. he has passed away. it is a major blow to obamacare. the d.c. circuit court of appeals concluded yesterday the i.r.s. went too far in extending subsidies to those buying insurance through the federal run exchanges at healthcare.gov. you can only do them through state exchanges. the fate of obamacare may be in jeopardy but personal troubles with the exchange are still piling up across the country. our next guest says she was forced to get a policy under obamacare. but now what problems is she facing? charlene lake joins us live. good morning to you, charlene. good morning. how are you? okay. you thought you got a pretty good deal through the affordable care act, an h.m.o. that included a family doctor, not too many miles from your home. then when it was time to actually see a doctor, you started getting paper work. what happened to you? basically what happened, steve, is i found a wonderful doctor. i did go in to see him for a medical situation in may. i was thrilled. i thought this is great. this is working. and he was a mile and a half from my home. i received then a letter in early july july 3 stating that they were now removing me from that p.c.p. and will be reassigning me it a new provider. needless to say, i was very upset because i was happy with this doctor. i felt i was established with him. i went in, i filed all the paper work. you reveal a lot of personal information about yourself. i confirmed with humana. they first told me they thought it was an error. they claimed it was because of patient overload they were no longer accepting any more patients. but you weren t a new patient. no, i was not a new patient. he said confirm with your doctor. i did and immediately they knew whiefs what i was talking about. she double checked and said you ve been removed from the system. here s a quote from your cancellation letter. we sent you an i.d. card with a primary care physician. however the doctor who was assigned to you is unavailable to accept additional patients. you explained that. that s the deal. now you ve got this policy, and who s your doctor? my doctor is questionable. i called to ask who i was being reassigned to. i spoke with a series of humana agents. i was on the phone literally for hours. i called j.s.a. medical group, the medical group who basically has a monopoly in many areas of florida. they are the main provider for p.c.p. s with humana, the plan i signed up for. i didn t know when i saw this doctor by name that he was part of a corporation and i risked being dropped. they refused to reinstate me. they were very unsympathetic. the agent was actually very cold and wouldn t let me speak to anybody else. i asked can i speak to a supervisor? he said no, i m it. as far as you get. i called humana back and they called j.s.a. medical group, and she got a different agent. he went on to say i thought this was very interesting that i could keep my physician if i selected a different health care plan, a more expensive one. she said yes, it would be more expensive. if it s a patient overload, how come i can keep my doctor? i also asked my doctor can i continue to see you if i pay out of pocket? they said yes. we didn t select to lose you as a patient. but you shouldn t have to do that. that is not what you signed up for. what are you going to do? no. i have gotten my new humana card. i ve been assigned to a clinic. this clinic is basically the equivalent of a low-income free clinic, and i m sure they can offer some good service, but that s not what i signed up for. i want to keep my physician. and i wouldn t this premium is over $400 a month through a silver plan. i didn t think i would end up going to a clinic. it s heartbreaking because that s not what you signed up for. you thought you had that doctor down the street and you wound up with the free clinic which is not part of the deal. charlene, thank you very much for telling your story and we hope this all works out for you. thank you for having me. i appreciate it. too bad. 29 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, a veteran gets trapped inside a v.a. clinic. what is your emergency? hi. i want to report that i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility, and the alarm has been going off. how does that happen? you re going to hear from that vet straight ahead. then white flags replace the american flag at the brooklyn bridge in the middle of the night, and still nobody knows who did this or why. how in the world does this massive security breach happen in new york city? but first, happy birthday to guitarist flash originally from guns and roses. roses. he is 49 today. celebrate your love of crab with gthis year s largest variety!. cause it s crabfest at red lobster! dig into a succulent selection of crab entrées. like new crab lover s trio! with sweet snow crab legs, split king crab, and jumbo lump crab over savory shrimp. crab three ways! all on one plate. or try new jumbo lump crab over wood-grilled salmon. experience crabfest at red lobster today. only for a limited time. come in and sea food differently! the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we ll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours. a judge in virginia wrote an opinion today in favor, in favor of obamacare, saying getting health care from the state or federal government is the same as ordering from pizza versus dominoes. i m not sure if i agree. their websites always work. it s so true. private businesses, when they go in business to sell stuff on-line, why do they always work? the big comparison was how big even shoe sales companies like zappos went through. one thing about michael bloomberg, when he wanted to get stuff done, it actually worked a lot of times in new york city and certainly at bloomberg tv. he is actually the head of your news today because he hopped on a flight. that s right. he got on a flight to go to tel aviv to prove that it s safe to fly there despite a new f.a.a. ban. he is ignoring that f.a.a. ban, landing in tel aviv just moments ago. bloomberg flying on israel s el al airline which doesn t have to follow the ban. bloomberg says that ban simply gives hamas a victory. he urged the f.a.a. to lift the 24-hour ban that ends at noon today and that resulted in part from a rocket that landed about a mile away from that airport. new developments. in the case of a missing marine s pregnant wife in california. newly released court papers reveal that aaron corwin may have been having an affair with her neighbor when she disappeared three weeks ago and the baby might have been his. that neighbor, christopher lee, was reportedly worried that his wife would find out that he got corwin pregnant and would divorce him. the desert sun reporting cops believe corwin was shot. the two were on a hunting trip. lee was recently discharged as a marine. he was arrested on suspicion of possession of a destructive device but was released on bail on july 6. cops will not say if the case is connected to the search but say he was brought in regarding an ongoing investigation. that is a story we ll continue to watch. this next story will leave you shaking your head. listen to the 911 call made after a veteran realized that he was all alone and locked inside a v.a. clinic in florida. 911. what is your emergency? hi. i want to report that i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility, and the alarm has been going off. nice, huh? that is the voice of jeffrey dock. he said he went to his doctor for a prescription refill but ended up waiting three hours. he then figured out he was the only person inside that building. fortunately he had his phone on him. he whipped out that phone, recorded video walking around the lobby. here i am around the v.a. and everybody has gone home. can you imagine? the v.a. has since issued an apology. dock says he s not angry. he s just disappointed. keep that straight, how are they going to keep the more important things straight? it s just an indication that there s still a lot more for them to do. the v.a. says it s working to make changes. a cat proving she really does have nine lives. this feline was found in washington state badly burned by the devastating wildfires we have been telling you about. the cat is now on the road to recovery. definitely burned. all of her pads are going to must have. the eyelids were crisp. the owners can t take care of her so she is now going home with the woman who ended up rescuing her. such terrible wildfires taking place there. wildfire funding was proposed yesterday in the senate. how about the story of the guy left at the v.a.? how many times have you been waiting, you ve been waiting for a doctor and you say to yourself, i think they forgot me? they forgot about me. he s right there. we didn t forget about maria molina. she s at 48th and 6th avenue with a preview of today s weather. good morning. here in the northeast we have a risk for some severe storms, especially across parts of northeastern pennsylvania up into portions of new england, including the state of maine. pretty widespread area across our region for the possibility of damaging winds from some of these storms. they are forecast to fire up late in the day. late afternoon, evening hours. here in new york city, we don t think storms are going to be rolling through until late tonight. again, severe weather possible. temperature-wise, ahead of that storm system, 90 degrees for your high in new york city. you could reach the middle the 0 s 90 s in washington, d.c. across the plains, triple digits forecast for many areas across oklahoma and texas. factor in the humidity and it will feel even hotter not only across the plains, but take a look at new york city. what it s going to feel like when you head out the door, 93 degrees and upper the 90 s possible, maybe even 1 00 degrees in d.c. brian, over to you. thanks, maria. 21 minutes before the top of the hour. here s what s happening in sports. two lawsuits just enough for the disgraced los angeles clippers owner donald sterling. he is now filing a fraud lawsuit against the nba and his he is stranged wife. he is suing the wife over the sale of the former team to steve balmer and the nba over the antitrust laws. doc rivers says he will quit if sterling remains with the clippers. that franchise could fall apart again all because of donald sterling. the seattle seahawks top a new poll as the team to beat because they re young, good and strong. they round out the rest of the top five. the 49ers are up there, broncos remain there, the patriots are there. the new orleans saints. the raiders came in dead last. lebron james return to cleveland did not do his neighbors any favors. hundreds packed the streets around his hometown of akron and his mansion. lebron sent them all a personal apology with cupcakes. he says he s sorry for the chaos and hopes they enjoy the cherry cola flavored treats. that should make it better. cherry cola makes a cupcake? 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took down the american flags and put up the white flags you see here instead? robert moses joins us live. good morning. everyone has a lot of questions when it comes to the flag swap here. reporter: elisabeth, good morning to you. a lot of questions and a lot of security concerns as well. the it would american flags are back in their rightful positions atop the towers here on the brooklyn bridge. police say the group responsible for this stunt planned it and may have had climbing experience. new yorkers did a double take yesterday when they saw those bleached flags that had replaced the usual ones. police say they have video showing a dpriewp of people walking a group of people walking across the bridge about 3:10 yesterday morning and then ten minutes later the light illuminating the flag on the brooklyn flag went out. then the same thing happened to the flag on the manhattan tower. police say the perpetrators used aluminum pan to flash the lights. this morning police are still looking for the suspects. that is the latest live from manhattan tower. robert moses, thank you for that update. brian? 14 minutes before the top of the hour. should unionizing be a basic right? that is what one democrat is proposing in congress. keith ellison is introducing a bill making it easier for workers to sue companies who will not organize. you shouldn t be fired for expressing intent to support union activity. here to discuss what this means for the worker, republican pete snider. do you believe congressman ellison is on the right track? this is ridiculous. the world is far from tranquil. our southern border is being overrun, and the democrats in congress want to make unionizing a civil right and gut our right it work laws? it s absolutely ridiculous. it will trash our economy. it s already illegal to fire workers if they say they want to unionize. the facts tell a different story. if you look what happened in michigan when they became a right to work state, they went up 21 places in the american economics institute ranging of business friendly areas, also the highest salaries, nonunion workers. that s spot on. study after study shows right to work states like my home state of virginia have lower unemployment, more manufacturing jobs. this is something that the left really would love to do. they would love to make unionizing mandatory everywhere you go, bake it into our civil liberties instead of protecting the ones that are being trampled on by the obama administration. this all happened at net roots nation where all the progressives get together. they were talking about rand paul s effort to sue the n.s.a. and protect our privacy. they were talking about hoisting federal mandatory laws on us to unionize. you re not also saying if there is a group of people that want to unionize, they should do it and not get fired; right? you agree with that? i do. but i think our economy does better in right to work states, period. the facts so far back you up. about half the states are right to work states now. pete snider, good job. thanks. up next, isis terrorists giving christians an ultimatum. convert to islam. leave or die. father jonathan here live with a message straight from the pope. then orange is the new problem. why this hit show has one prison sherrif putting inmates back in stripes. when do we get out like everybody? i don t know. maybe tomorrow. when laquinta.com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i m sold! a selling machine! ready for you alert, only at lq.com. searching with devotion for a snack that isn t lame but this. takes my breath away could help your business didavoid hours of delaynd test caused by slow internet from the phone company? that s enough time to record a memo. idea for sales giveaway. return a call. sign a contract. pick a tie. take a break with mr. duck. practice up for the business trip. fly to florida. win an award. close a deal. hire an intern. and still have time to spare. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business. built for business. killed. the threat forcing thousands of christians to clear iraq s second largest city. the numbers are dwindling. in 2003, mosul had 60,000 christians. by june of this year, there were 35,000. now there are reportedly zero. zero christians in that city. so what happens now? here with insider perspective is the patriarch of the syrian catholic church and father jonathan morris, fox news religion correspondent. good morning to both of you. good morning. thank you for having us. this deadline over the weekend, horrendous. horrific. following this, the pope reached out to you. what did he say? he just wanted to reassure me that he is praying for us, thinking of us. he really bears our life in his heart and he do whatever he can to follow the situation and help christians in iraq, mostly in mosul you just mentioned because it s really tragic plight what we are going through. no kidding. father jonathan, over the weekend on fox & friends, you talked about this story. a lot of people hadn t heard about it, that if you re christian in iraq, you either got to pay a fine, get killed, or convert. and where is the outrage? it s incredible what s going on. they re going to the houses and putting an end, standing for nazarene, saying if you re here, you better get out because you re going to be killed. you have all of these christians, catholics and other christians who are leaving with nothing. they re ripping up the deeds of your house, they re taking any family jewels or anything you have on you, leaving you with nothing, saying you have nothing to do in a place where christians have been for 1700 years. and the international community right now, it s silent. absolutely. that s why it s such a blessing to have the him here saying he was here in iraq, in the beginning of july and saw it firsthand. yes. i was that weekend of 28, 29, 30 of june when i heard about the exodus of our christians from a town 15 miles southeast of mosul being threatened and told that they will be invaded like mosul was. so they just fled. everyone took what they could and they fled to the neighboring area. is your heart full of fear? out of fear because they thought that the army that was on the border between them and mosul would be so they will invade their city and will do those atrocities as they did in syria, neighboring syria. father jonathan, our president talks about a lot of stuff. we haven t heard him talk about this. we haven t. he s been silent. there are people who are suffering tremendously. i m going to put on my facebook and twitter people who want to help the christians fleeing with nothing and we re going to give an opportunity for them to help practically as well. if i may so, we have to pray to wake up our master, the lord jesus, who has been sleeping in the back of the boat as with the apostles who were drowning and they woke him up saying master, don t care about us? that s a nice way to start the day with that message. father, thank you very much. thank you. may god bless you. god bless you.play david purdue from georgia next feet.splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you re trying to ma, now may be time to ask about xeljanz. xeljz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. seris, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don t start xeljanz if you have any infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low bod cell counts and higher liver tes and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tts before you start and while taking xeljanz, and roinely check certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common, and if you have had tb, hepatitis b oc, or are prone to infections. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, and if you are pregnant, or plan to be. taken twice daily, xeljanz can reduce the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe ra, even without methotrexate. ask if xeljanz is right for you. we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first, we were protecting networks. then, we were protecting the transfer of data. and today it s evolved to infrastructure. .finance. and military missions. we re constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber bate, wherever it takes us. that s the value of performance. northrop grumman. good morning. today is wednesday, july 23. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. we start with a fox news alert. a major outsider victory in a georgia senate race. david purdue tops long-time republican congressman jack kingston. what this means for the balance of power in washington. purdue joins us live in just minutes. then michael bloomberg just flew there and this morning, secretary of state john kerry touched down there. i m talking about tel aviv. this after the faa had banned all flights to israel from the u.s. we have a live report from the war zone and what that ban could mean to the israeli economy in moments. and here is some advice, if you re out kayaking, try not to paddle onto the back of a whale. what were those people thinking? we re going to tell you the back story to that and so much more. we got a busy wednesday, hour two starts right now. it s time for fox & friends a big show coming your way. local politic, big primary win. we re about to talk to that candidate, as well as the latest of what s happening in the ukraine and israel. this morning we have a fox news alert. secretary of state john kerry touching down in tel aviv as the faa bans all flights to israel from the united states. john huddy is live in israel, along the gaza border with the very latest. good morning, john. reporter: good morning. along with the ban on flights, that continues. there has been a lot of rocket attacks on israel. we saw some of those rocket launches earlier today as we were driving to a location. also coming out of gaza, speaking of rockets, i found this in the open area where we are. this is the back of a rocket that was fired at israel. we found it on the ground here. this is the artillery as the firing continues. this is where all the smoke is that, is east gaza. there has been an intense, fierce fighting over the course of the last six days. really the 16 days we saw this started. but particularly since the ground offensive started. east gaza now artillery fire is being fired. there is a section of east gaza. went in that area a couple days ago. israeli officials say it s been hamas stronghold, and in particular there is a hospital there. saw that hospital. it s getting targeted now. it s been evacuated. but military officials here in israel say that it s been used as not only for rocket storage and launches, but antitank missiles have been coming out of there. fired at ground troops. by the way, overnight, two more israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting, bringing that total to 29. i want to show you something as well. if you can come back to me live here, there are troops on the ground in the distance. it looks like there is some kind of vehicle searching for tunnels at this point. that s been the primary objective throughout this ground offensive is to find hamas extensive network of tunnels. some of which have stretched well into israel in this area here. so right now troops are on the ground looking for those tunnels. let s talk about diplomatic efforts. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is on the ground in israel. he s meeting with u.n. secretary general and later netanyahu. kerry released a statement saying some progress, quote, unquote, has been made, talking about the cease fire efforts, though no details and there wasn t any elaboration about what kind of progress they re talking about. so at this point, again, that faa ban remains in effect and in the distance, the fighting in east gaza and gaza continues to rage on. back to you. john huddy live in gaza, thank you very much. it s an faa ban. it does not apply to israel s state airline el al. that is why mayor bloomberg, former of new york city, flew over there to show it s safe. fox news alert now, the runoff election for the republican senate nomination. david per do you narrowly defeating jack kingston. what does that mean for the general election because it could decide the balance of power in the senate. let s talk to him right now. he joins us live from georgia. congratulations, sir. thank you, good morning. how did you do it? well, i think our message resonated around the state that the debt, the jobs and the economy right now are the critical issues around the state. we talked about alternatives to that. my opponent served this state very well for three decades and now we re going to be shoulder to shoulder to take our policies out to the voters of georgia this fall. the question out there, too, we saw in the last presidential election mitt romney getting hammered for being a successful businessman. do we see your opponent getting ready to use those arguments against your success. how are we going to see that? we ve seen that this spring in the primary. my mom and dad were school teachers. we were raised in middle georgia and we worked on a farm. i ve been blessed in my career. but the people of georgia want to talk about the critical issues of how to get this economy going and break gridlock in washington. so far we understand your opponent on the democratic side, of course, daughter of sam nun has got $9 million in the bank. last month in a head to head x that s what we plan to do this fall. republican party needs to take the senate back and take this debate forward to get an alternative on the table to replace and repeal obamacare. we ll see how that goes. senator chambliss did not vote for it. now, when you look at michelle opponent, she ran the points of life foundation for george bush, sam nun is somebody that s been a friend to many republicans. do you feel as though you have to position yourself as if you re running against something that s almost extinct, and that s a conservative democrat? not at all. people in the state are very clear, this is 2014. we ve got a crisis on our hands. the people of georgia know that and they want something done about it. that s why i m sitting here. i was the outsider in the republican primary. now you re going to have two outside voices in michelle nun and myself. we ll be able to talk about the failed policies of this administration and talk about smaller government, lower taxes, and how to get this economy going again. that s what people of georgia want to talk about and we ll be able to do that this fall. jack kingston did call you last night, did he not? he did. yes. he was very gracious. we ve been tough competitors in this runoff. but we ve agreed to one thing. that is, look, we re going to be shoulder to shoulder to present the republican values of economic opportunity, fiscal responsibility and limited government to the voters of georgia this fall. we re very confident when they see that alternative, they ll respond positively. he beat three sitting congress people to get this nomination. a very happy man. congratulations and the hard work is straight ahead. thanks so much. thank you guys. next up, first tuesday in november. that s right. our next up is heather nauert is here with some headlines. good morning. i ve got news from overseas. he s had enough. it flips the father and daughter over in the kayak. those are your headlines. argentina. i guess a lot of people would like to swim with whales. right. i m not one of them. let me tell you what s happening in sports in real life. super bowl winning coach tony dungee is getting hammered today because he came out and answered a question. the question was by the tampa bay tribune, would you have drafted michael sam, because he s the first openly gay athlete. would you have drafted him on your team? he says no. it would have been a distraction. he says he wouldn t have picked him. so he has gotten backlash because he said this. there is an attack against him for holding that opinion. we asked you what you thought. e-mails are pouring in. facebook, twitter is on fire. this is one person saying the press should give him credit for speak the truth. each player brings assets and liabilities to the team. if the celebrity of one player, regardless of circumstances distracts from the mission, it s a liability. david tweeted out, i believe the media frenzied reaction confirms that he would have been a distraction. we re going to see how they react in the locker room. keep those opinions coming. he s entitled to his opinion, as are you. coming up, crises across the globe and here at home, so where is america s leadership and are we creating a void for our enemies to grow? captain pete hegseth reporting for duty on that. blowing the whistle on sports in america. is this woosification of america or something that s long overdue? 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gun maker baretta is moving its whole operation out of maryland thanks to the democrats new gun control laws. finally, 259. that s how many times ebt and welfare cards have been used to purchase weed in colorado. food stamps buying weed. they spent $25,000 in money that should go to needy families. instead it went to weedy families. when do we get outfits? maybe tomorrow. shut your mouth. well, all the inmates at one michigan jail are getting new outfits thanks to that show, orange is the new black. the hit show. the sheriff says pop culture made orange jump suits cool and says black and white stripes are here to explain, sheriff william. good morning to you, sheriff. good morning. okay. so what were you noticing that caused you to get rid of the orange jump suits in lieu of those black and white stripes that your prisoners now wear? well, we regularly see citizens in public wearing orange pants and orange shirts that resembles our jump suits. also noticed health care workers, professionals in the hospitals that wear scrubs in different colors and we found a few of them wearing orange as well. predominantly people in the public wearing it, coming by the courthouse, being out by our work crews and we didn t want there to be any guessing about whether it s an inmate of the saginaw county jail, so we changed the uniforms. what s been the reaction from the inmates? the reaction of the inmates, they don t like it. i had a few inmates tell me it makes them look like criminals. i said well, actually you don t want to label them. that s funny. well, i m not trying to demean them. it s to identify them to provide good safety and security for the citizens. in the big picture, do you worry that prison will begin to look kind of cool? well, sometimes i worry about that. i know that there are individuals in certain cultural crazes go on where people wear the orange as a badge of honor and as you know, life sometimes imitates art and this is an instance that i don t like it and so again, we moved in that direction from a security standpoint. it was also a cost saving standpoint. what s your message to anyone who doesn t want to wear the stripes? well, if you don t like the clothing i provide, don t come back. it s when they complain about the food or clothes, don t commit crimes and you won t have to wear black and white horizontal stripes. it s an easy thing to do. it s a choice. we re not trying to demean the prisoners, but we must identify them for our citizens. so if you don t want to wear it, don t come in. in other words, don t break the law. don t go to jail. don t break the law. exactly. simple message. all right. sheriff, thank you very much for joining us today. you re welcome. thank you. they feel it makes them look like convicts. boo hoo. all right. coming up straight ahead, one state blowing the whistle on full contact football in high school. is this the woosification of america or the right thing to do? and lights out at brooklyn bridge as american flags are white washed or bleached and authorities have no clue who did it. how in the world does this massive security breach happen? we re going to discuss that as we roll on live from new york city, the home of that bridge with the white flag. nexium®,is now available, without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. because the best moments in life aren t experienced from the sidelines. now there s nothing holding you back. this is nexium level protection™. the #1 prescribed acid-blocking brand. now without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™. hello! i m a kid. and us kids have an important message for our grown ups. three grams daily of beta-glucan. a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. and where can you find beta-glucan? in oats. and, they re yummy! i m going back to being a kid now. thank you! 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more on that. a trip to florida turns into a nightmare for one family from indiana. their eight-year-old son, aidan, was playing in the ocean when he felt something on his right knee. it turns out it was a shark. i felt it, my eyes opened and then about a second later i started screaming cause it hurt so much. i could see the teeth marks. it was pretty big. i heard him scream and i turn around and he was within arm s reach and i pulled him up out of the water. that poor little guy. aidan was rushed to the hospital. doctors say he suffered a six to seven-inch long cut on his leg. it was more than an inch deep. he will fully recover, it will take a couple months. california now limiting full contact practices at middle schools and high school youth football games. the reason? parents say they re worried about concussions. under the new rules, there will be no full contact in the offseason and teams are limited to 90 minute sessions twice a week for the rest of the year. this goes into effect january january 2015. no full contact in the kitchen. yeah. it s stormy in all places. thank you. you guys feel the tingling? what are you chris matthews? i m just saying there is a tingling on the couch on wednesday because it s trivia day. that s right. it s wednesday. hello, everybody. good morning. it s science trivia day. today s question, by the way, has to do with the urban heat island effect and it s basically the fact that pavement and concrete can keep temperatures a little bit hotter than what the thermometer reads everywhere else. roof, pavement and concrete can raise night temperatures in cities by how much? three degrees, eight degrees, 15 degrees or 22 degrees? how much warmer will the temperature be at night in a city versus somewhere else? i m thinking b. i think it s more than 15. you do? yeah. we ll go with d. you re going to go with d? i ll go with steve. i think it s around 20 degrees. i heard that once in a science lecture. steve, you are correct. it s 22 degrees. isn t that incredible? that a city can make nighttime temperatures 22 degrees warmer than elsewhere just because of the pavement and the concrete up here. you got a lot of cats on hot tin roofs on this town. it feels that way for sure. thanks, maria. thank you. that was your science trivia for the day. it was good. parents, are you sick of yelling at your kids from the driver s seat. toyota is unveiling a mega phone-like system in their new mini van. it s a reminder to our next guest on why he chose not to have children and why he[s9>(ñoo many laughs even talking about it. joining us is standup comedian and the host of fox tv s new show, [ laughter ] the hecklers toyota has a solution for the parents. what do you think about it and what would be your tip? my tip is not to have them. kids? yeah. i don t have any kids. people keep saying the same thing to us because we have dogs. so they say, oh, well you re practicing for children. to them i say you re probably a bad parent. dogs are much smarter than kids. we don t let the kids drink out of the toilets at our house. i own a home and i don t own any outlet covers. there has never been a moment when my dog was like, duh, like this never happened. exactly. and he s home right now, right? yeah, and i don t care. child services can knock down my door. you don t have the app to look at him and make sure he s okay? i m sure he s okay. tv is not even on. if you have a kid, you can brag to him and say, you should be so proud of dad, he has a new tv series and it s about laughs. yeah, but i can post that on social media. my ex-girlfriends will see anyway. making them know what they missed. exactly. i m happy. it all worked out. i love my wife and they re nowhere to be seen. it s august 2 premiere, fox stations. tell us about it. laughs is a highlight reel for standup comedy. it s the best comics in the country. we go around every week, we find the best comics and show the homeruns, the slam dunks, the best part for their act and give information on how people can see more of them. so if they re somebody you like, then you want to go see them live, we tell what you club they re playing, where you can find out more, what their twitter is, and we help people discover some of the best comics in the country. there are a lot of them in this country. tons. many in washington. you re actually looking for comedians to be on the show, right? we re looking all over the place. we re traveling to eight different cities in the first 13 weeks that we re doing it. we ve already done tapings in louisville, indianapolis, new york, and l.a. and we re looking for more. it s fantastic. do they know you re there, or are you saying hey, if you re good, i m going to put you on the show or you trio sneak in? i hope they know we re there. otherwise we ll have rating issues. yeah. they absolutely know that we re there live. and this is a thing where once we get picked up not if, once once we get picked up, then we re going to have the opportunity to introduce america to 400 new comedians a year, which is absolutely incredible. so if people enjoy comedy at all, they really have the opportunity to see it. people love laughs. good luck to you. we ll see you saturday nights? saturday nights on fox stations and then again on sundays on my net. good job. entrepreneur and very funny guy giving comedians a great chance. good luck with the dogs. it s making national headlines, a man dies while being arrested in new york city by the police. [ bleep ] a community is outraged, but are we jumping to conclusions too quickly? peter johnson, jr. weighs in on that coming up next. and things get heated up during a live tv show. what sparked this brawl? you have to see the video. you re seeing some of it. it s next. shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie s list, now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. making sure you pay the right price for a new car just got a whole lot easier. introducing the kelley blue book price advisor. the powerful tool that shows you what should pay. it gives you a fair purchase price that s based on what others recently for the same car and kelley blue book s trusted pricing expertise. it all adds up to the confidence that you ll get a great deal. that s just another way kbb.com helps you make a smart new car decision. a fox news alert. out of ukraine just moments ago, the government revealing two of its military fighter jets were shot down in the eastern part of the country. this on the heels of the reported shootdown of a malaysian passenger jet last week. the united states hasn t found proof of the wrecked russian government involvement in the attack, but senior intelligence officials blamed moscow for supplying the missiles to rebels. steve? thanks, elisabeth. two new york city police officers are on desk duty after the arrest of eric gardner who died after this altercation with police. he can be heard yelling, quote, i can t breathe, a couple of times while an officer had him in what some are calling a choke hold. the facts of the incident being figured out, although many insist the altercation was racially motivated. bill bratten shot that theory down yesterday. i personally don t think that race was a factor in the incident involving this tragic death. okay. has there been a rush to judgment and what are the very latest developments? joining us now is life long new yorker and fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. good morning, steve. this is a controversy that s consuming new york and the streets of new york at this time. f.b.i. is involved. the staten island district attorney is involved and even spike lee has gotten involved, noted film maker. he said on a tweet, the gentle giant watched the video, what he did is take a piece his movie do the right thing and confuse it with a video that was at the scene where mr. gardner was arrested and his subsequent unconsciousness and brought them together in an inflammatory way. what do we know happened for sure? that s an image from the cell phone. we know mr. gardner was allegedly selling what s called lucys, cigarettes, untaxed cigarettes at 75 cents apiece. allegedly he had broken up a fight on the street previous to that. police came on the scene. they decided to arrest him. the video apparently shows that he resisted arrest and one police officer, along with other police officers, uniformed and nonuniformed, came up behind him. i ll show you exactly what he did. we ll talk about what the controversy is. the allegation is that he performed a choke hold with his hand behind him in an attempt to bring him down. you can t have the arm right there. a choke hold is something that will crush the wind wipe and can cause you to die. the issue, is it a choke hold? the second issue, which is illegal under new york police department patrol regulations, did the choke hold cause his death? cause he did die later. he did die. an autopsy is going on now. as i said, the d.a. and staten island is looking at it, the f.b.i. has gotten involved. even al sharpton has gotten involved with the national action network, calling for robust investigations, arrests and indictment of the police officer who was involved in this incident. so it s caused a fire storm in new york city. we ve had similar incidents in the past involving the use of the choke hold which as i said is prohibited by the nypd. it s all going to come down to the medical examiner s report because they will determine did the choke hold cause the death or was there some inherent instability in mr. garner s medical history? did he have an arrhythmia? did he have a heartbeat that beat too fast? did he have asthma or some other condition? we know he had asthma. there is also an issue with regard to the conduct of the emergency medical technicians and paramedics on the scene who, according to one report, did nothing for six or seven minutes, except feel the carotid artery to see if there was a pulse and he was breathing. a lot of questions. i m sure it will go on for a long, long time in new york city and there will be a lot of controversy of the race card has already been played on this issue. it has been. although there is no proof at this point of any racial discrimination. i think your advice is good. we wait for the medical examiner, and then we ll see what happened. thank you very much. be well. coming up, a mom uses her iphone to track her teenage daughter s every move. is that normal or is that nuts? dr. keith ablow is in charge of that department. he joins us. first on this date in 1980, it s still rock n roll to me by billy joel was the number one song in america. i think before he wrote uptown girl. !hs. they re irresistabowl. completely unbelievabowl. totally delectabowl. real silky smooth or creamy broths. everything she s been waiting for. carefully crafted with real seafood, real veggies, and never any by-products or fillers. wow! being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily. here is a quick headline i want to share. tensions high in the ukraine parliament. understandably so. a fight just erupted following a vote that called up more reserves to defend the country against the increasing russian troops on the nation s border. a brawl breaking out during a tv interview after a guest threw a bottle of water at his rival before trying to attack him with a chair. how do they act in the green room? two months ago on this same show, guests started violently shoving the interview desk on the set. that s a cheap desk. until it collapsed. looks frankly familiar. one day junior said, you stole my format. that s what s happening in the who is normal and who is nuts? it s a question we ask dr. keith ablow every week and he joins us now. hey there, doctor. hey there. how are you? so we ve got some e-mails coming in. first one says, i have a divorced friend who won t go to certain restaurants he frequented with his ex in order to keep his memory tarnished. she has remarried and moved on. is that normal or nuts? sad but normal. here is the thing, complicated grief reaction, yes. but listen, he loved this woman. maybe he still loves her. he s raw. this is more of a love story than it is a story of pathology. does he need some therapy? sure, maybe he does. does he need a new girlfriend? probably. but i m not going to call him out. what if they live in a town where there is only one restaurant? suddenly your choices for takeout is limbed. i hop. that would be a problem, i agree. then there is the next town over and he s likely to meet somebody very kind. number two, whenever i witness someone being injured, either in person or on tv, i often experience a slightly painful sensation in the center of my chest or tingling up my arm. is this normal or nuts? it s better than normal. that s not nuts. normal. but super normal. it s great. what are you describing here? you re describing human empathy. this person feels for other people. instead of calling it pathological, why not call it a gift, see if you can develop it. maybe you re very connected to people. our final query of you is my sister tracks her 14-year-old daughter and her friends anywhere the teen-agers go with an iphone tracker. normal or nuts? i knew we d get one. nuts! that s crazy. what if she s worried about the safety of her kid? here is the delusion involved. you can t tell whether your daughter is safe by her location. secondly, instill trust in her. don t try to track her. that s no answer. or you could say this, hey, where were you this afternoon? i was at the supermarket. no you want. you were at the high school. exactly. then you know you can trust that person. there you go. cross-examining is a good way to raise your kid. no, i m kidding. dr. keith ablow, two in a row. if you ve got questions for dr. keith, e-mail them to us. who knows what tomorrow holds. fox news alert. moments ago, two fighter jets were shot down in ukraine. a live report from the ground straight ahead. and a veteran gets trapped inside a v.a. clinic. how in the world does this happen? 911, what s your emergency? hi, i want to report that i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility, and the alarm has been going off. big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i m sold! he s a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you ll be ready for business. the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! la quinta! here i am. rock you like a hurricane fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. 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(speaking spanish). a small texas town forced to answer 911 calls from stranded illegals in spanish. one of those sheriff s deputies joins us live today. most veterans beg to go get inside the v.a. but this one is begging to get out? 911, where is your emergency? n hi. well, i want to report that i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility, and the alarm has been going off. incredible. veteran locked in the waiting room and the staff went home. mornings are better with friends. it s time for fox & friends well, it was six days ago that the rebels shot that jet liner out of the sky and this morning we ve got a fox news alert out of ukraine. moments ago, ukraine s military revealing pro-russian rebels just shot down two of their fighter jets as fighting flared up again in the east. steve harrigan is on the ground with the breaking details from ukraine. all right, tell us the latest. reporter: these two f jets went down a few hours ago. they are soviet made fighter jets, single piloted jets from about 1970s used by the ukrainian government against the rebels. all this is happening not far from the crash site, 40 miles from where i m standing. it looks like they were shot down with advanced surface to air missiles. that s with it would take to bring down a fighter jet of this nature. so six days after this tragedy when people thought perhaps there would be a pullback, the reverse is happening, going ahead, knocking more jets out of the sky. rebels apparently using similar or the same surface to air missiles to knock down two single piloted government jets not far from this crash site where any hopes of carrying out a careful investigation in a hot war zone is very challenging. steve? all right. steve harrigan live in ukraine with the very latest. what we learned in the last one was we ve got the technology, the satellite technology to figure out where those particular surface to air missiles were shot off, if they re in rebel areas, this should be easy. doesn t look like the rebels learned their lessons. they didn t. they re in a war. we told the russians you better scale back and called for a cease fire. told them to stop doing this, stop supplying the russians. we re not supplying the ukrainians, those russian separatists who are basically russians. what do they do? shoot down two more planes. so want the threat of an embargo or the sanctions from western europe? i don t even think so. you think vladimir putin is shaking? obviously not or else that wouldn t have taken place. france yesterday not only did not offer sanction, they off the record to continue their sale of warships to the russians. european foreign ministers met yesterday and they re looking to speed up the would be sanctions on russia, whatever they determine them to be. does that sound like a scary statement? in britain were appalled that the project was continuing in terms of construction there. incredible. we were also asking yesterday, does the president s word matter when he says cease fire, when he asks potato ton make things more peaceful? is it being heard? today with this happening, it doesn t seem like it s falling on ears that are listening. you know, before they shot the jet liner out of the sky, they had already shot a couple of other military planes. we probably wouldn t even have noticed it, unfortunately, had they not killed all those people on that particular jet liner. now they re just back to the same monkey business they were at seven days ago. the new anti-airplane missiles are relatively new. they shot down three cargo planes overall. that shows the russians are giving them more technology instead of telling them to back out. instead, essentially saying we re doubling down. putin s rebels, putin s equipment. you be the judge. five minutes after the top of the hour. heather nauert has a whole bunch of other news. let s go to gaza. good morning. i ve got another story about airplanes. this morning, secretary of state john kerry touching down in tel aviv as the faa bans u.s. airliners from flying into that airport following a rocket attack in a neighborhood that was about a mile away from the airport. it is a 24-hour ban and expires at noon today. the faa is reevaluating and will announce this morning if they will extend that ban or not. several other countries have also suspended flights to israel because of the escalating violence there in the past two weeks, more than 2,000 rockets have been fired, killing nearly 700 people. could be one of the most watched senate races in the entire united states. in georgia, this david purdue defeated a long time incumbent in a runoff. he will face michelle nun in the general election. it s to replace retiring senator sax bee chambliss. he said this about his strategy early or on fox & friends. you run against harry reid and barak obama and nancy pelosi and the failed policies of the last six years. people in this state are very upset about the performance in washington right now. that s exactly what we re going to do. this candidate, michelle nun, i have a lot of respect for her, for her work and her family. but she s going to have to defend the failed policies of the last six years. republicans holding that seat will be key to getting six more seats. they need that in order to control the senate in november. a warning out before you eat breakfast. popular summer fruit is apparently contaminated with listeria. it s now being recalled as a result. merona packaging company sells fruit. they re being pulled from shelves across the country. they ve been sold at stores including costco, trader joe s and wal-mart and kroger. no reports of anyone getting sick so far. this story is unbelievable. it s really going to leave you shaking your head. listen to a 911 call made after a veteran realized that he was all alone and he was locked inside a v.a. clinic in florida. 911, where is your emergency? i apparently got left in a v.a. facility, medical facility and the alarm has been going off. jeffrey duck said he went to see his doctor for a prescription refill for his pain medication. he ended up waiting three hours. he then figured out he was the only person inside the building, so he whipped out his cell phone and recorded the video walking around the lobby. look at this. here i am inside the v.a. and everybody has gone home. can you imagine? the v.a. has since issued an apology. duck saying he s not angry. just disappointed. if they can t keep that straight, then how are they going to keep the more important things straight? it s just an indication that there is still a lot more for them to do. the v.a. says it s working to make changes and make sure this does not happen again. he walked in about 1:00 o clock. three hours later, they locked the doors. so 4:00 o clock, nobody is around. not quite sure why. that guy is going to be on our show tomorrow. we promise not to keep him waiting. we won t lock him in either. and we will not leave him alone. thank you very much. let s talk about the big fox news alert from yesterday. the dc circuit court of appeals, the number court in this land said the obamacare subsidy attention being used in 36 states through the federal exchanges are illegal because the way the law was crafted by democrats and only democrats, it said you can only get the subsidy money through an exchange established by the state. 36 states didn t sign up, so they won t on the federal exchanges, which were invented by the federal government. that court says that s illegal. however, there was another, the 4th circuit, almost simultaneously, they came out and said we don t have a problem with it. that was probably heading for the supreme court. that s exactly what the forecast is looking like, it will travel up there. the government says they re going to continue to pay out those subsidies until that final ruling comes through. of course. so here is jonathan turley on are we are right now. it will be a bloody mess. the problem is that the president was found by the dc circuit to have exceeded his authority, to have violated again the separation of powers. but in this case, their violation led to the commitment of hundreds of billions of dollars in the past and future years and that is a serious problem. i don t see how the aca can survive without this system, at least in the form it was originally designed to have. does that mean it will collapse? it would collapse unless congress would be willing to make massive changes and massive subsidies to back those up. the first ruling says the taxpayer dollars, the president had no authority to spend them. he has no authority to subject millions of employers, individuals to taxes, that he had no authority to impose. game on, supreme court. so now they re going to take these two cases and come up with an overall ruling. again, we ll have the drama at the supreme court that could have this bill live or die. when you have a constitutional lawyer say what he just said, this could be just the end of it entirely. he had eyebrows raised across the nation. sure, because he has been talk being how this administration has done all this executive overreach. in this case, the democrats in congress passed one thing, but then the administration through the irs, interpreted it another way. now at least one court says not illegal. there s a real good possibility before it gets to the supreme court the administration could actually ask for a review by the entire dc circuit, which this administration has done their best to pack with left-leaning judges. 544 million people, especially listening very closely to this talking point we re going through cause they ve signed up for obamacare. 87% of them receiving subsidies to have their insurance. so they re going to get paid for in some way, shape or form. the gao thought, i have an idea. let s just make sure this thing is on the up and up. so let s run a sting operation with 18 people. yeah. so 18 people, sole applications were created here. 12 of them applied on line and by telephone. six started looking for in person help. they had all false information, documentation was bogus. guess what? 11 out of the 12 of those false applications for subsidies went through. and their sole beneficiaries are still receiving the subsidies. people that don t exist. people that do not exist on information that was false. 11 out of 12 is what they found in the sting. so that was in the sting. how many people in real life are getting subsidies paid for by all of us through the generosity of the federal government? how many of those people simply are not entitled to them but are going to take them because is anybody really looking out for our cash? doesn t look like it. 12 minutes after the hour. here is what s straight ahead. they crossed the border illegally. now they need your help. 911, where s your emergency? yes. somebody speak spanish? speaking spanish). wow. one of the sheriff s deputies from the small texas town that s being forced to answer those type calls from people who don t belong there. and you never know what s lurking under your kayak. it could be a whale. take a look at this. bad place to park. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know words really can hurt you? 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(speaking spanish). wow. just one example of the 911 calls bombarding the brooks county police department. not only are they understaffed and lack resources, now they ve got to deal with illegal immigrants who have no business being here. martinez is the county chief deputy. chief deputy of brooks county. we appreciate you joining us, sheriff. first off, when you re hearing that call, how unique are calls like that to you? those calls are they have a crisis. we need to respond to them. those are pretty regular calls on a daily basis. so those calls, you have to respond to, even though for the most part when you get there, you realize they re not even american citizens? that s correct. but they re on u.s. soil and due process comes into play and that s the way we re taking them as. you have 129 a couple years ago. you re heading this year on average, if it continues, with another 87 who have lost their lives by the time you get to them. they re dead. so far you ve recovered 43 corpses. to date. here is another example of the 911 call that came in to your people. 91 s state your emergency. hello? (speaking spanish) sheriff, they re coming across the borrowedder and haven t had anything to drink in three days. what do you do? well, basically what you try to do when the call comes in, it s not as easy as one, two, three step procedure. all you do is kind of get an idea to where they might be at. our brush area is vast. it s thick. vegetation is good. it s difficult. we can just maybe get within 500-meters of that particular call. so sheriff, the thing is, a lot of these men and women sneaking across the border illegally coming here are going off the main paths and that s how they re being led by their so-called escorts, coyotes, because they don t want to get caught. there is also no people around to help them, which makes things twice as hard for you when you have to get there quickly. absolutely. this is why we also realize the local border patrol office that we work closely is, as a result of the border not being secure, developed on our frontan crisis step. deputy, real quick, you chronicle harrows situations where you have hundreds of these tapes. what do you want the message to be to washington and everybody else watching? they need to have a sincere dialogue. forget about the republican or democrat side. sit down and have a sincere dialogue where we can actually resolve this issue. it has to be resolved. as long as they keep stalling it, this is going to continue. it s going to continue to where our funds are going to be depleted. thank you so much. thank you. coming up straight ahead, we change gears. food stamps paid for by taxpayers going up in smoke. welfare being used for pot and it s perfectly legal? we ll examine. atheists aren t giving up the fight to get rid of the steel beam from the world trade center that were found in the shape of a cross. will the atheists win this one? where the case stands next. really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there s unlimited talk and text. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues. great terms. let s close. introducing at&t mobile share value plans. .with our best-ever pricing for business. we ve always been] at the forefrontumman, of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail. detect hiddethreats. see the whole picture. process critical information, and put it in the has of our defenders. reaching constantly evolving threatbefore they reach us. that s the value of performance. northrop grumman. we got quick headlines for you. a deadly stand-off in texas ends in a shootout with police. two officers were wounded while serving a warrant on a murder suspect in the rio grande valley of la joya. 29-year-old suspect was killed in the gun fight. new develops in the case of a marine s missing pregnant wife in california just released court papers reveal aaron corwin may have been having an affair with her married neighbor when she disappeared three weeks ago. and the baby could have been his. cops believe she was shot while the two were on a hunting trip. that s the news. it was a symbol of hope on america s darkest day. two intersecting steel beams in the shape of a cross found in the rubble of the world trade center. rescue workers use it to pray. but atheists say there is no way this cross should be allowed inside the 9-11 museum. my next guest has promised a fight the latest lawsuit. thanks for being with us this morning. american atheist group had this to say. christianity deserves no special treatment just because it demands it or because the world trade center was made from cross beams. they re looking to get that cross out of this memorial. do they have a case? not at all. as you mentioned, the cross is not in the museum as a station of worship. it s not there to honor christians. it s will as part of the story of ground zero. it s displayed in a section of the museum dealing with how rescue workers dealt with the tragedy of 9-11. it s a story of how americans turned to god, family, country, community to find hope, to find inspiration and to overcome this horrible tragedy. and just because some people were inspired by god doesn t mean we have to hang up a plaque that says atheists died here, too, which is what they re asking for from the courts. eric, i have a question here. so the american atheists are making strong allegations here that just reading newspaper articles about the display of this cross caused them stress, headaches, and indigestion. some would make the argument that that pales in comparison to all that was suffered and lost that day by 9-11 families and first responders. why in the world would they have a right to take away a symbol of hope that exists there today? that s right. the constitution is not your mother. it s not there to make sure that every boo boo you experience in the real world gets kissed better. and even your mother sometimes says okay. so you bumped into a cross, into the museum. stop crying, brush yourself off. move on to the next exhibit. this is not a constitutional crisis. and it trivializes the sacrifices that thousands of people made over this issue. should those that have already suffered and lost so much be faced with this challenge here? angst that it s causing to the families of 9-11 perhaps and those first responders would also be a case, no? that s what we are trying to tell the court, thatu:hñp4 loos case never should have been brought in the first place. the museum spent three years fighting this. not every community, not every organization that has some mention of god or some mention of religion can afford to pay for that kind of a fight. the court should be clearing these kind of cases up. this is a playground fight. we live if a pluralistic society. the court should be saying, look, learn to work this out, respect each other s differences. and really be respectful of those people who died in 9-11 and the many rescue workers and others who paid a great sacrifice in an effort to in the course of the recovery effort in 9-11. sure. many of those, if not all, say it s a symbol of their hope. the atheists filed their brief and we re waiting for the court to respond. thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. coming up, terrorists in iraq giving christians three option. convert, pay up or die. why aren t you hearing about this? 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we all know it s the symbol of surrender. they flew on top of the nearly 300-foot high tower for hours yesterday. surveillance video shows four to five people crossing the bridge about 3:00 o clock in the morning and then a short time later, the lights go out and the waving american flag disappears. aluminum pans were actually used to cover the light and then at a closer look, the flags were really american flags that were bleached white. the nypd says they believe those behind this have some training in climbing or construction. they don t believe it s terror related and don t believe it s any kind of political statement. in iraq, isis is issuing an evil ultimatum to christians in iraq. convert, pay a tax, leave or be killed. christians in mosul are now fleeing with just the clothes on their backs. it is one of the oldest christian communities in the entire world. it dates back nearly 2,000 years. now that community faces extinction. earlier today the patriarch of the syrian catholic church and father jonathan morris joined us with an insider perspective. listen to this. it s really tragic plight what we are going through. they re ripping up the deeds of your house, they re taking any family jewels or anything you have on you, leaving you with nothing. saying you have nothing to do in a place where christians have been for 1700 years. recent data showing christians face the highest rate of religious harassment in the middle east and north africa. hundreds of marijuana users are buying weed on your dime. the national review report said welfare recipients in colorado are using their ebt cards as marijuana retailers. the cards have been used more than 250 times in the past six months, total withdrawals of $25,000 in welfare benefits. some are saying it could be buying pot, it could be buying groceries. but those are your headlines. now colorado starting to restrict it. this is the moment retired army staff sergeant and his military dog were reuniteed. they are battle buddies who put their lives on the line for one another. you know what? this morning they are joining other human k-9 teams and heading to capitol hill. peter doocy is with them in our nation s capitol and joins us live. peter? reporter: we ve got four american heros right here. we ve got jason boss, army veteran who you just saw, and marine corps vet sergeant dino miller and their two dogs, both seven years old. here is sela and that is thor. you saw the video with sela. you were four years as her handlers. you came back with back problems four years ago and retired. you didn t know if you would see her again. no, i didn t. i was really surprised and thankful i was given the opportunity to get her back. i ve had a lot of help from family friends. this organization has done a really good job of helping us get our dogs back. reporter: sela is so calm here. what does she help you with? she would do active searches. pretty much just trying to keep the soldiers safe there. reporter: tell me about how it was that you got reunited. i was in contact with her previous handleer and they told me when it was time to retire her out, they would contact me and they did. reporter: can you tell me about how thor was the only dog that was listed to you in the marines. how about now? i got three dogs back home. they all listen perfectly fine. but when we went to the corps, they ran three or four dogs separately and he was one i wrote down. reporter: how were you reunited with him? as soon as i got out, i went through the senator s office and she got me in touch with all the right people and i put in adoption paperwork in 2011 and i finally found out he was available in april of this year. reporter: you said that you used facebook to get in touch with the dogs. a dog? definitely. facebook really helps out when you have people around the world, other soldiers. facebook definitely saved us. reporter: what are these dogs like at home? how are they different than when you re out on a patrol? now she gets to lay on the couch and eat all kind of goodies and be retired. reporter: what is really amazing about these dogs, the american humane association who will be on capitol hill a little bit later on today says that each dog like these two saved between 150 and 200 servicemen and women when they are deployed. it is an amazing statistic and we re so lucky to have them here with us in washington. back to you in new york. very well behaved. all right. peter doocy with four heros. thank you. thank you all for your service. dogs were behaved and so was peter, as well as the veterans. i love to see those battle buddies reunited. great story. coming up, thousands of apple geniuses staging a revolt. what? 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all right. the pentagon handing out thousands of pink slips to military officers all across the country and around the world. it s supposed to save money, but at what cost? our next guests have two sons devoting their lives to the u.s. military. as americans, they re proud to be parents, but as parents as well, they re also afraid of the direction our country is heading because of their children. greg hancock and his wife join us now from harrisburg, pennsylvania. good morning to both of you. good morning. vicky, let s start with you. the news came out that over 1,000 u.s. captains in the army are getting pink slips. the same day that news came out, what happened at your house? our son was sworn in to the united states army. that s kind of scary for you as a mother to think about his future then if people who have decided to make the military their career suddenly are looking for jobs. right. and our son is looking to do that and it s very scary, very. yeah. greg, your older son, keegan, is in the marines. he s been there for a while. what are you worried about regarding him? well, both of our boys are really looking forward to make the military their life, their career. both of them actually forewent college. we have a strong military history in our family. our younger boy, cameron, he s looking to make a career in the mp ranks and like to get into the officer ranks. when you start to see these things happening where officers with ten, 12 years getting their hispanic slips, it s disheartening for him and for me as a father. sure. and as well, greg, just the fact that your son, who is a marine proudly serving his nation, he s looking to the future, but currently, what is he, at the poverty line now or below the poverty line? well, he, like a lot of them, when you re in the lower ranks of the military, the e.-1 through e.-4 and 5, all those troops are below the poverty line. i don t think a lot of people in this country understand that. yeah. that s a sacrifice. absolutely is. so vicky, as your youngest, cameron, is thinking about the military, he s now pledged to become part of our military, are you thinking in your heart, maybe this isn t such a good idea. maybe he should think about something else? yes, i am. up until this show right now, he didn t know that. we support him 100%, but it s very scary. i mean, you have people getting pink slips that are still in combat and i saw an interview of a military wife worried about where they re going to live because they had planned on making this their career, their life. here is my son wanting to do that and is like, women. is this how we repay our military? no. we need to take care of them. and our vets, steve. one of the things that really upsets us is what s happening with the vets and the veterans administration. when you see secret lists, lies, mail being shredded and people getting bonuses, bonus pay, gift cards, incentive pay and my son who is 17 joins the united states regular army, you know what he got? he was given a t-shirt and a water bottle. some things in this country are pretty upside down right now. you wonder where our priorities are sometimes. exactly. vicky and greg and greg, a proud u.s. military vet, we thank you very much for joining us today from harrisburg. good luck to cameron, who has got a big baseball project this summer trying to raise money for the wounded warrior project. thank you both. steve, if i could, if your viewers could check out his web site, charity softball game.com. a lot of information on that regarding the wounded warrior project that my son put together. you re a good father, getting a plug in for your boy. i appreciate that. thank you. straight ahead, rent a house and refuse to leave? 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i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. thanks to our local and national leaders, we ve got more than 100 million pages of rules and regulations on the books. and it s not always a good thing. time for an example of a case out in california where a guest rented and home and now refuses to leave. they say they have the legal right as squatters. joining us is legal expert and author of the rule of nobody, philip howard. good morning to you. good morning. the rule of nobody, what does that mean? it means is we ve replaced authority with lots of millions and millions of words. so no one has authority to balance the budget. nobody has the authority to pull pull the teacher doesn t have the authority to run a classroom. how bad is it now? you talk about laws being laws and there is no end to these laws. yes. it s like a progressive disease. over the last 50 years mainly, detailed regulations and lawsuits, piling up like sediment. now people can t do anything, talk to any mayor, any governor, all these mandates prevent them from making sense of their daily chores. they re preventing people from doing their job and enticing people to take advantage of those words and pages of this law, to go after someone for a lot of money. how do we simplify the laws? we see this, doesn t seem like an easy solution. it s actually easy conceptually, but we have to change our public debate from arguing about policy to arguing about putting humans back in charge again and having a big clean-up program. where do you start? do you start up top or small towns? in counties and states? you can start at any level. school bureaucracy, for example, is a complete nightmare. you can start there. but ultimately federal law which kind of drives the train here. federal law needs to be recodified. you need to go area by area and radically simplify it so people can understand it, number one. and secondly, that it gives people flexibility to actually make sense of daily choices. law is not supposed to replace freedom. it s supposed to be a framework for freedom. let s hope congress is listening because they are responsible for a lot of laws that have gummed up the works and now they have the responsibility, you say, to change it. they do. but they don t have the idea. it s going to require movement, an outside movement. the name of the book is requesting the rule of nobody. thank you. coming up, according to a new study, kids no longer want to win when they play sports. they just want to try. is that good? 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there is a new study out of arizona state university where they say it s not eight hours. it turns out you should get seven hours is actually best. it helps with cognitive performance and 20 minutes less can impair your memory. if you got between 6 1/2 and 7 1/2 hours sleep each night, you actually lived longer. wow. okay. the media circus surrounding lebron james to cleveland did not do his neighbors any favors. thousands packed around the streets of his mansion. what did lebron do? he send them all a personal apology with cupcakes. he says he s sorry for the chaos and hope they enjoy the cherry cola treat. it s still a good story when you go home. meanwhile, according to a new study published with the journal for activity and health, they asked the question, why are 70% of kids quitting sports before the age of 13? here is what they came up with. it s not about winning or losing. it s about having fun. yep. 81 specific states, some of the reason they played, because of the positions, because they can learn from making mistakes. they can like being around friends. those are the reasons they play sports. it s not to win. so cindy lauper is saying girls just want to have fun. you re saying kids just want to have fun. i think that s good. cindy lauper is a great philosopher. turns out girls do just like to have fun. thanks very much for joining us today. see you back here tomorrow. breaking news. test test test test that is the same area where nay have been blocked and good morning. i am bill hemmer and welcome back martha. good to be back. i am martha maccallum. there is no word on
do you think they have a case. log on to the show, use the #keeptalking. fox & friends starts right now. bye. good morning. it is thursday, july 31, 2014. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. the house gets the green light to sue the president for making his own laws, but the president just laughed it off. stop being mad all the time. stop just hating all the time. and today he plans another executive action. surprise. and we now have the lois lerner e-mail she wishes got lost as well, and they reveal why she may have been targeting conservatives. because she thinks republicans are [bleep] and [bleep]. we re going to tell you what she was typing straight ahead. the video that just will make you happy. good boy. there s more to this. another happy homecoming. a soldier and his dog join us live this hour. mornings are better with friends. and squeeze and squeeze. it s richard simmons. the best exercise for your mind is fox & friends. he s our most bedazzled guest. he s pretty fit. usually fit people are pretty defined. he s helped millions of people lose a lot of weight and he s a friend of this program. thank you for joining us on this thursday. we ve got a busy day. how many times have you heard the president of the united states say these republicans are trying to stop me from doing my job. if they don t like me, sue me. good news, mr. president, you re getting your wish. the house authorized suing suing of the president. that s right. they aren t the only ones though. the president says, look, just stop being so mad about this. it s not a big deal. i m just going to sign another executive action today any way. this is him talking to a group in minnesota. think about this. they have announced that they re going to sue me for taking executive actions to help people. so, you know, they re mad because i m doing my job. everybody right now it s a political stunt but it s worse than that because every vote they re taking like that means a vote they re not taking to actually help people. we could do so much more if congress would just come on and help out a little bit. just come on [applause] come on and help out a little bit. stop being mad all the time. top just hating all the time. come on. let s get some work done together. [applause] an interesting view. if you do what the president wants you to do, you re helping people. if you don t, you re hurting the country. that s a good way to view all sides. the vote was 225-201. every democrat vote against it. all but five republicans vote for it. it is a way of calling out the president saying are you going to continue to do this because i m pretty sure it s unconstitutional. so let the courts decide. as far as charles krauthammer says, he says the president has got the idea of his job description all wrong. the president s job is not as a president to help people, in his interpretation of what he does, it is to faithfully execute the laws congress has passed. that is as clear as day. that is the definition of his job. and there s a very strong argument that he has overreached that by actually creating law, ignoring law, not enforcing law, changing laws on his own, which we re simply not supposed to do and there are many examples of it. the affordable care act, also cap and trade under scrutiny there for overreach. the overreach was decided by the supreme court. this isn t just republicans. there was a unanimous vote by the supreme court that recess appointments were unconstitutional. so charles krauthammer saying he may have his description wrong. it is not the only one who thinks that way. keep in mind while republicans say there are many things we could sue the president over, they focused it simply on one aspect of the affordable care act. remember they passed, the congress passed it. the president has been very selective in how he s implemented it. in particular, what they re doing is suing over the employer mandate. what he did essentially was the white house gave employers a one-year reprieve delayed until after the elections, plus employers who have between 50 and 99 employees didn t have to comply until 2016. the big question is whether or not the courts will say, well, congress, you ve got standing in the case. but it was as recent as in june the supreme court said when a law is unambiguous in other words, when it is clear what the law refers to the president cannot rewrite it to suit his own preferences. if a law has defects, then congress not the president has to fix it. the employer mandate is an interesting place to sue because a lot of people feel that will never go into place, including robert gibbs. says everybody knows that part of the affordable care act will never get off the ground because it is going to be too unpopular and hurt the bill. meanwhile, lois lerner, she doesn t know much about computers, not very good at math. and she had her computer crash. but we do know some of the content of the e-mails that have gotten out yesterday, and, man, if this is the stuff she didn t want out, i hate to see what she did want out. of the lost e-mails, wrote d.o.j. saying this deserves someone to spearhead this investigation criminally, which all three charges together could result in 11 years in prison for lois lerner if found guilty. she is on retirement. how can she go to prison? which we re still paying for. these e-mails here clearly indicate perhaps more than a smid john of corruption and attack on conservatives when you see what is written here. this is one. this is while targeting was going on in november of 2012. this is from unknown. you should hear what the whacko wing of the g.o.p. the u.s. is through, too many foreigners sucking the teat. time to hunker down buy ammo and food and prepare for the end. the right wing radio shows are scary to listen to. she responded with this. great. maybe we are through if there are that many a-holes. also from unknown and i m talking about the host of radio shows. the callers are rabid. from learner: we don t need to know about alien terrorists. it is our own crazies that will take us down. no wonder she didn t like tea party nonprofits, because they re run by terrorists. this is pretty damning stuff. i think the lesson here is for you people watching now, if you are going to scratch your hard drive, make sure you scratch it to the point where stuff like this is not released because it makes it look pretty bad. what did the president have to say in terms of reaction to this? remember when he sat down with bliley bill o reilly and bill asked him anything going on funny there? not even mass corruption? not even a smidgen of corruption. these e-mails seem to prove otherwise. she has an agenda and a lot of power. we need to find out how much power she had. it s time for a special prosecutor. doesn t look like it s going to happen because the d.o.j. is too busy talking about sex discrimination within the fitness test of the pennsylvania cops. that is where their focus is. that gives you a peek into the mind of a woman who is accused by republicans of using the i.r.s. as a weapon against other americans. just one other thing. some of the other e-mails showed that she was writing to an i.t. specialist at the i.r.s. and said i ve got a virus on my home computer and eventually she said it could have been because my password was too simple. you would think that somebody who was in that business would have a more complicated password than password 123, but a lot of people do. i m not say that s it. heather, what s your password? i ll tell you later. a lot going on in washington this morning and a lot elsewhere around the country. i want to bring you a story out of minnesota. a nine hour manhunt and a gunman accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a traffic stop was later shot himself. this unfolding in west saint paul, minnesota. officer scott patrick was shot in broad daylight. thatofficer leaves behind a wife and two teenage children. the search for the suspect, 39-year-old brian fitch ended in a gunfire with cops. fitch was shot. his condition not released at this hour. tragedy hitting the iewft of louisville. hitting the university of louisville. a cheerleader was found dead in her apartment, one of the top athletes on the cheerleading squad. i think when you re not only this young, but so athletic and beautiful, i think it is the last thing you expect. police are looking into whether or not drugs may have been involved in her death. now to the crisis along the border, fox news exclusively obtained a new report by the texas department of public safety and this revealed a disturbing trend of attacks against our border agents by gangs and drug traffickers, including shootings of federal agents. today in washington, the house will vote on a $659 million immigration bill and that would send resources to the border and speed up the return of illegal immigrants to their home countries. after that vote, republicans will move to vote on another bill, and that one would be to block president obama from expanding existing programs that protect illegals who have grown up in the united states. we will watch that story throughout the day. retiring yankee derek jeter is getting a presidential sendoff in texas. george w. bush honoring the captain in arlington by surprising him with a special presentation on the field. president bush giving jeter a signed photo that was taken the night that bush threw out the first pitch after the 9/11 attack. many of you probably recall what a big deal that was in our country at the time. the president recalling jeter s advice to him back then saying, quote, don t bounce it. they ll boo you. and those are your headlines. over the weekend we got a chance to see derek jeter at yankee stadium, fox fan day. a day to remember. speaking of days, today is thursday and it s #tb sp #tbt. there i was a summer camp counselor. look at that hair do. i had the bieber thing going before bieber. look at this. i kind of did this during the summer. that was through all sports radio. my most impactful job was my deep dish restaurant, my pie where i had to clear the tables and do the dishes in the same time. you worked in my pie? i worked at maitai cocktail place. a lot of those summer jobs are so bad, you don t want to remember. we would love see your best and worst summer job photos. send them our way and we ll show them. coming up on the program, breaking news about the ebola virus. one man is dead and no peace corps workers are being pulled out of africa. what s going on? can the virus spread here? is it just one airplane ride away from the united states? dr. marc siegel is with us next. imagine driving down the highway and this comes flying at you. yes, that s an ax. how it come inches from the passenger s face. for over a decade, doctors have been prescribing nexium to patients just like you. for many, prescription nexium helps heal acid-related erosions in the lining of the esophagus. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesium levels. side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. if you have persistent diarrhea, contact your doctor right away. other serious stomach conditions may exist. avoid if you take clopidogrel. nexium 40 mg is only available by prescription. talk to your doctor. for free home delivery, enroll in nexium direct today. but parallel parking isn t one you do a lof them.ings great. you re either too far from the curb. or too close to other cars. it s just a matter of time until you rip some guy s bumper off. so, here are your choices: take the bus. or get liberty mutual insurance. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise your rates due to your first accident. see car insurance in a whole new light. call liberty mutual insurance. searching with devotion for a snack that isn t lame but this. takes my breath away it is the deadliest outbreak of the ebola virus in history and it is spreading. the c.d.c. releasing guidelines for airlines to prevent it from reaching the united states. nearly 700 people contracted it and died so far in western africa and this morning we ve learned liberia, the country of liberia will close schools and quarantine some communities and peace corps workers are being bowled out of that country. one man died from it. he was set to travel home next month. could the ebola virus reach the united states? joining us medical a team s own dr. marc siegel. how concerned should we be? i think we need to watch this very closely. there have been several previous ebola outbreaks. each time health officials have squashed them. it may not end up being a problem for us, but i think the chances are that it could reach the united states. we have to be prepared for that idea. there was a headline yesterday or the day before, i want to say on drudge, it was is ebola one airplane ride away from the united states? i think it is. but that doesn t mean that it s going to take root here. you have to understand, fear is the biggest virus of all and we can t panic over this. even if a case came here and people are not going to get it by casual contact on a plane. you have to get it by direct contact with discretions, with diarrhea, with sweating. you can t get it by coughing or sneezing. that s why we ve been able to squash these outbreaks in the past. even if it came here, the chances are the c.d.c. would be able to isolate the people that had it and it wouldn t spread. most likely. the victim, the 40-year-old gentleman, he was set to fly to minnesota. if he indeed did get here and if that did indeed spread through contamination on seats or in a restroom, what symptoms are displayed with ebola. how would you know you could possibly have this and what should we be looking for? that s the problem. initially ebola is flu-like symptoms. you get muscle aches, high fever, headache. then you get the vomiting and diarrhea. but that s like any virus. the biggest problem with ebola and people need to know this part is that the immune system doesn t respond to it well so it s hard to fight it off. that is why the death rate is so high. this particular outbreak is closer to 60. in the united states it would probably be lower because we would do more supportive care. here s something else we do in the united states. we did it with hiv-aids. we put doctors in gloves and gowns and masks. that s what prevents spread. the reason physicians and health care workers are getting it over this is they re not fully protected dependence the virus. they re not protected against the virus, using the same protection control measures we are do. we need to cover this story and we need people to be informed. by the way, there s four vaccines in the pipeline, several antiviral drugs. they don t have enough money. does anyone get better when they have ebola? about 40% to 60% get better. but it s hard to get better because of the problems with the immune system. tell us about this flesh-eating virus in florida. that s much less of a concern than ebola is but that is a bacteria a lot like cholera and it s in warm sea water and oysters, roy oysters. if you re immunocompromised you can get very, very sick from this. people wading off the coast of florida, it is very hot in florida this time of year, it is only 31 cases and 10 deaths. i don t want to spread panic. the key word is if you see a bug in the news, bacteria or virus, you should be concerned for those people but shouldn t think it will happen to you. all right. it s now 20 minutes after the top of the hour. she saw a child in a hot car and called the cops. she thought she was doing the right they think until that child s mother ran her over. what s behind the story of the soldier and his dog? you ll find out. 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happy. after a nine month deployment in kuwait, this lieutenant returned to the sweetest welcome home ever courtesy of his dog izzy. they join us now. we are so thankful to have you here today. thanks for being with fox & friends. 48,000 views that this video has had. how surprised are you, lieutenant? very, very surprised. we just put it up a couple of days ago and had no idea i d be sitting in a news room talking to you guys now. it s a great experience. that certainly made at least 48,000 people and counting quite happy. i know you all have a big week. you re set to get married next week. is it august 8? is that correct? yes. next friday. what a week this is for you. will izzy have a big part in that wedding? oh yeah. she will be the flower girl walking down the aisle. we re excited for that. that is great news. lieutenant, tell us about this moment. we re seeing it here. our hearts are leaping to see the joy. describe what you were feeling. to come back from seeing rachel for the first time after nine months, to open the door and her do this, it was just humbling. it was great. i felt, it was like a family reunion type of thing. i didn t expect her to go quite as crazy as she did and now look at what it s great to feel love from a dog like that. there s big love there. i think everyone didn t realize, you hear a voice in the video saying she remembers you. izzy is quite young. she s just a little pup; right? right. when i left she was nowhere near two years old. we were worried she wouldn t remember who i was. she definitely did. you have rehearsals. keep us posted and we ll be waiting for the video of that flower girl dance down the aisle. lieutenant, we want to thank you for serving this nation and warming the hearts of every single person in this country. thanks. thank you so much. appreciate it. thank you. i love that. i look forward to that wedding. coming up a shocking resignation from a top official at the pentagon. he says it s time to focus on the 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kerr who orlando bloom was married to who justin bieber likes. do we understand the details of this? who knows. and they re in spain. they can t vacation in the hamptons. today is throwback thursday, and we are talking about summer jobs, the best and the worst. we ve asked you to send yours in and larry williams did just that. this is larry as a radio jockey doing an interview with singer brian adams back in 1982 in texas. sounds like a great job. sherri from kentucky writes my first summer job was secretary to a police captain by the name of captain cop. what are the odds of that? i was 18 years old. i guess if your neam is if your name is cop you re destined to go into that business. heather nauert s job as an aerobics instructor. there she is. heather, look at you. i think it is time, heather, for somebody who is watching now to get on your wikipedia page and put that you were a summer aerobics instructor. you ve got the olivia newton john thing going that she had with that song. with that banana yellow leotard there, i was just missing my leg warmers at that time. you re absolutely right. it is those summer jobs you want to forget. my first job was at a retail store and i was so awful on the register, they threw me in the basement. send your job peck tours as as job pictures as well. a top pentagon official in washington, d.c. calling it quits. he says he wants to spend more time with his family but there is word he may be resting up for hillary. he spent nearly six years serving the obama administration. he was number three in line excuse me. he was in line for the number-three job at the department of defense. this morning his resignation sparking speculation that he s gunning for a senior post in a potential hillary clinton administration. a good samaritan is in a wheelchair after a run-in with a crazed mother. shannon and her boyfriend noticed a young child who was left alone in a car in a parking lot in colorado. so what did they do? they called police. that s when the boy s mother showed up. the 27-year-old mother attacked the couple before she got in her car and then ran them down. domingues now has to use a wheelchair and may never be able to walk again but she says it was all worth it. it scares the heck out of me that some innocent child might die. the mother faces several charges including hit-and-run and child abuse. sad news to bring you this morning. the brother of actor richard belzer is dead. richard belzer is best known for his role on the show law and order. police say his brother jumped from a building in new york city. leonard belzer was never the same after his wife died two years ago. talk about a close encounter so frightening, a couple driving down a massachusetts highway when an ax flew out of a landscaping truck and smashed through their windshield. it stops inches from a woman s face. right at eye level with this woman. if this had penetrated through further and hit her, she would have been injured or kill. the driver of the truck said he accidentally forgot to secure that ax. he got a ticket for $200. those are your headlines. let s head outside with maria with one of our summer interns, madison. i have madison with us. she s been working hard for us all summer, been our intern. very special girl, done an amazing job. sadly your internship is coming to an end and so before you go, you have to do the weather. i m excited. it is my last day. here s the mic. today will be another day with below average temperatures in the great lakes. meanwhile hot temperatures are forecast from texas to southern california. there s a slight chance for strong to severe storms across parts of new england. and after heavy rain yesterday in the plains, more flooding is possible from texas to arkansas. flash flood watches are in effect for parts of oklahoma. and that s your weather this morning. good job. thank you so much. back to you, guys. well done, madison. the godfather of soul james brown s life was anything but ordinary. this week viewers will get a look at his life in the biopic get on up. michael tammero is here to check out this movie. he s in the fox light. this movie is fantastic. it is from screen writer director producer tate taylor. he came to the whiews correspondents dinner in came to the white house correspondents dinner in 2013. he was telling us he just got back from london where he had a meeting with mick jagger. they were starting to pull this together. mick tagger. octavius spencer said i need to be in this movie. it is so tough with a role like this, james brown, because it could go into camp. he walks this line perfectly. he did jackie robinson. we caught up with him at the apollo theater and asked him what the legacy of james brown means to them and what some of their favorite james brown songs are. do you have a favorite james brown song or performance? i love living in america and static. everybody says it is a man s world. i tend to believe it s a woman s world. i knew the music. that s what we all knew. he became famous before i was ever born, and so it was interesting to find out what brought him to become the man behind the music. the legacy is, you know, the culture that we have today. i don t think you don t have any of the hip-hop music. a lot of it wouldn t even exist, a lot of samples, the james brown samples. i did not know a lot about james brown before i saw this movie but he was jay z before jay z. tell us why there are penguins behind you. it is a fox fan weekend. so much fun. a new movie opening up november, the fox movie. at yankee stadium they gave away a family four pack to the premiere this november. the winner is cary desalvatore. she gets to attend the premiere this november. we ll see them on the red carpet. cary, someone will be reaching out to you today. you re joining us today on tbt, throwback thursday. where are you? summer job, camp counselor, swim instructor at the waldorf in long island. on behalf of moms, we love 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your bill from small companies for services like celebrity gossip and ring tones. your phone providers collect the fees keeping a part of the revenue adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars. one bank a.t.m. fishing out a lot more than cash here. oh my goodness. never seen all my life, such a beautiful surprise. in an effort to thank customers, t.d. bank set up special machines that included money, flowers, even the chance to throw out the first pitch at a game. how about that? that is cool. thank you, elisabeth. the illegal immigration crisis on our southern border has spread beyond border states. now indiana governor mike pence is demanding answers from the president after he learned children were being sent to his state through the press. he wrote to the administration quote what we are experiencing in indiana and states across the nation as this crisis deepens is neither sensible nor humane. states should not be asked by the federal government to deal with the consequences of a failed national immigration policy. the guy who wrote that letter, indiana government mike pence joins us from our nation s capital now. good morning, governor. good morning, steve. you found out our federal government secretly placed 245 children, illegal minor children in indiana through the press? we absolutely did. it was late last week, steve, and after having our administration monitor this issue every american is obviously watching the crisis on our southern border with incredible interest and concern. we found out from press accounts that more than 200 undocumented children had been placed in private placement across the state of indiana. we were only notified by health and human services after that was in, it being publicly reported. i felt it was extremely important on behalf of the people of ip ip and my obligation as people of indiana and my obligation as governor to communicate directly to the president and say that is unacceptable. absolutely. the administration admitted it after you caught them. awhile back the press secretary for the president, josh earnest, made it very clear the reason they re not telling the governors across the country is because they ve got to keep it a secret for the kids. listen. there are privacy rights that are included in the law that this administration is committed to enforcing and following. we re going to abide by the privacy rights of particular individuals. governor, i m not going to ask you to comment on the privacy angle. that is simply ludicrous. as the number-one executive in the state of indiana, they send hundreds of kits to your state. pretty soon it s going to be time for school. i don t know about how much the state, each state, the state of indiana pays per child in your state but in my state, in my school district they re paying $25,000 per kid for high school. you add up thousands in new jersey and hundreds in your state, we re talking about some real money that is going to be liable to be paid by the taxpayers of indiana. look, the state of indiana and the people of indiana have a right to know if undocumented, vulnerable children and families are being placed into our communities. we have obligations, as you mentioned. it s about back to school time in indiana but there is also potentially health, other welfare issues that we need to be prepared to deal with. it s completely unacceptable that we read about this in the newspaper. and i expressed that to the president yesterday but also i expressed that directly to secretary burr well in our meeting yesterday as well. one of the initial responses we got was that h.h.s. would be giving states around the country a monthly update. what i asked for was a real time update for the placement of any of these individuals within our jurisdiction. let me say, indiana has a long tradition of welcoming legal immigrants to our state. and i have great compassion for these vulnerable families and children that have been caught up in this crisis on our southern border. you know, spiriting people around the country and not informing state governments and local officials about their placement or long-term placement with private individuals or with institutions is not the answer. what we ought to be doing is humanely processing these children and families and returning them to their home countries, reuniting them with their families. that s right for them and also it s, frankly, the best way we could send a signal south of our border that we intend to uphold the laws of this country. indiana government mike pence who just wants to know what the federal government is doing in his state. sir, thank you very much a judge allowing people to carry guns for the first time in decades cause the old law was unconstitutional. but just two days later, it s illegal again? what happened? we re going to talk about that coming up. and no time to click coupons? you can still save on groceries. our expert here with how to cut your food bill 50%. stick around, you re watching fox & friends. when you run a business, you can t settle for slow. that s why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn t i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. i voted for culture. .with a k. how are you? i voted for plausible deniability. i didn t kill her, david. and i voted for decisive military action. america, you cast your votes. now, go to xfinity on demand and select the people s hotlist to see this summer s top 100 shows and movies. i voted! we told you about the landmark decision or the second amendment. a federal judge ruling washington s dc ban on hand guns unconstitutional. cops were order to do immediately stop arresting people for it. but two days later, it s illegal again. what happened? fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano here. sometimes the law is a little crazy. for a couple days it was there. then people got panicky and they stayed the order. here is what happened. some retired police officers who wanted to be able to carry guns to protect themselves and others in their retirement years living in dc tried to get the permit to carry the gun. the city said no. nobody can carry guns in d.c they challenged the law. that challenge, along with other cases, was taken away from judges in dc by the chief justice and shipped to upstate new york. there was a back log in d.c a judge in upstate new york last week said the dc thou shalt not carry, no matter who you are is unconstitutional. it s been unconstitutional for 40 years and this is the first time it s been challenged. so therefore, everyone who lawfully owns a gun in dc can now carry it. the dc government said, we re not ready for this. the cops don t know the law. we haven t had a right to carry law here in dc in the past 45 years. can you stay? can you stop the effect of this until we can adapt to it and give some guidelines to the police for it? the judge said yes, i will stay it until october 1. if you don t appeal me, it becomes the law. if you do appeal me, it s in the hands of the appellate court. for another year? probably another year before they decide. this is a trend of federal judges deciding that local laws that let you have a gun in your home, but not outside the home are unconstitutional because it denies you the right to protect yourself. here is what the judge said after he gave the order. there is no longer any basis on which this court can conclude that the district of columbia s total ban on the public carrying of ready to use hand guns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. key phrase, total ban, no matter who you were, no matter what your need for the gun, no matter how well trained you are. these guys are ex cops. total ban. that s what he threw out. dc wants to come up with some middle ground, it will be challenged again. we ll see if october 1, we ll see you in the fall when you re not raking leaves. you want to come up and help rake? that would be fantastic. let me tell you what s up next. a mom let s her 7-year-old son go to the park by himself. now she faces five years behind bars. so who is going to raise her son if this happens? has the law gone too far? that mom here live. and he wrote the book on leadership. rudy guiliani is here and he says the president is showing that he s not fit to lead. he ll expand on that. i love that suit. steve does, too. that s why he touched the mayor s back. good morning. today is thursday, july 31. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. the house gets the green light to sue the president for making his own laws. but the president just laughed it off. stop being mad all the time. stop the hating all the time. today he plans yet another executive action. a man who ran for president, mayor rudy guiliani, is going to weigh in on that straight ahead. yes, and we now have the lois lerner e-mails she wishes got lost. and they reveal why she might have been targeting conservatives. because she thinks they re [ bleep ] and [ bleep ]. we re going to show you what we can reveal. i m going to wash your mouth out with soap. i apologize. also a mother is arrested after letting her 7-year-old son walk to the park by himself. okay. now that mom is facing child neglect charges. is that fair? that mother sharing her side of the story with us live this hour. thanks very much for joining us, second hour on this thursday morning because mornings are always better with you. this is former mayor rudy guiliani. you re watching fox & friends, one of my favorite shows. we got to get him on. that would be a great idea. how soon do you think we can make that happen? i think in a minute. he s about three feet off camera. he ll join us in a minute. some of the magic of television. yes, wouldn t it be great if he was here? yes, he s right there. mayor rude cree with us shortly. lots of magic if you tell everyone. hi, heather nauert. good morning to you. i ve got news from other parts of the country. let s start in minnesota. a nine-hour manhunt, the gunman skiesed of shooting and killing a police officer during a traffic stop was later shot himself. this unfolding in west st. paul, minnesota. officer scott patrick was shot in broad daylight. that 47-year-old officer leaves behind a wife and two teenage children. the search for the suspect, 39-year-old brian fitch, senior, ended in a gun fight with cops there. fitch was shot. his condition has not been released at this hour. our prayers go out to the officer s family. it was way worse than we ever thought. we just learned that 20 million gallons of water lost after that water main burst near ucla. originally they had said they thought it was 10 or 20 million. but it s more. six people cleaning up the university s flooded basketball arena were treated for exposure to carbon monoxide. they were helping pump water off that court when they got sick from inhaling generator fumes there. a dangerous health threat this morning at an immigration detention center at our nation s border. ice officials just had to put a facility on lockdown because of a highly contagious form of chicken pox. there has been a major outbreak there. fox news now has your first look inside. right now no immigrants are allowed to be transferred in or out of this facility right here. it opened about a month ago in new mexico. and you remember when president obama said this about the irs? there was some bone headed decisions out of but no mass corruption? not even mass corruption. not even a smidgen of corruption. okay. how is this for not even a smidgen of corruption? new e-mails catching lois lerner ranting about republicans. a house panel releasin e-mails that show her referring to conservatives as a-holes. excuse me, that s when it says, and crazy. house republicans say the new evidence proves her, quote, hostility toward conservatives. there are calls to appoint special counsel to look at targeting of conservatives. a lot to talk about this morning. those are your headlines. all right. thank you very much. and joining us now, former mayor of new york city, rudy guiliani. hey, if she s calling conservatives a-holes, there is a good reason she probably took the fifth. do you see a smidgen of corruption there? i see civil rights violation. think about it. explain that. you can t just go out against someone based on race, religion, political preference. and this particular case, she s indicating a bias. she shouldn t be doing that job. she doesn t like conservatives. then she targets them. i can see putting together a very strong criminal civil rights case, which the justice department has done many, many times and usually it s in the area of race or religion. right. will eric holder s department of justice do that? if it s as clear as it seems, it s going to be a asked and scf they don t. do you think they re trying to let the clock run out? there is statute of limitations? a couple of years. a republican attorney general could take this over and embarrass them. the reality is from the moment she took the fifth amendment t sent off signals. it could be she was just protecting herself. but there had to be something there she was protecting herself against. if she had a nice, simple explanation, then you get it over with. you don t create this problem. now we re starting to find out why she was so worried. who knows how many more of those comments are. maybe they re more explicit. at least it opens the door to a serious criminal civil rights investigation. logic tells you this got out, how bad are the other ones that you re willing to put up the public embarrassment? i would rather lose these e-mails then have these e-mails exposed and deal with it. i m sorry burks as a former prosecutor, investigator for more of my life as a politician, when e-mails get lost, they don t get lost. i m with you. we ll find them some day. every lost e-mail i ever found made my case and put the guy in prison. to quote donald rumsfeld, we only know what we know. we ll see what we end up knowing. you also understand politics and the law. we see the house suing the president, saying you have overstepped the executive border, specifically when it comes to the affordable care act and when it comes to suspending the employee mandate. fascinating issue. takes me back to law school. when i was on the nyu law review, i wrote with my roommate an article relating to the expulsion of adam clayton powell and whether the supreme court would use the political question doctrine to avoid the case. ancient doctrine that says even if it is illegal, it s too much between two branches of government and the court has to stay out of it. it s between the president and the executive. so they re going to have to overcome that, the political question doctrine. that s the bad side. the good side is these are blatant violations of the law. he ignores it. law says he can t do this. he does it. i don t know. it s going to depend on how the court views how far it wants to go in interfering between two co-equal branches of government. what you re saying is there is a real good possibility the courts won t take the case because the congress doesn t have standing because the framers wanted there to be tension no, no. they ll take the case and analyze the case and then they ll say, this if they do this. they ll say this is a political question that the constitution did not really want us to decide. they wanted the other two branches of government to get together and figure this out. they didn t want to interfere too much in it. now, that s if it s just one question, one issue. what i think the case they re putting together tries to show is this is multiple, multiple times that he has violated laws that he signed. that gets you a little beyond the political question. that gets you to lawlessness, that the president is acting in a lawless way. therefore, i think there is a chance that this case could get heard. obviously the president really is taking this seriously. just take, for example, what he said yesterday. they have announced they re going to sue me for taking executive actions to help people. you know, they re mad cause i m doing my job. everybody recognizes this is a political stunt, but it s worse than that because every vote they re taking like that means a vote they re not taking to actually help you. we could do so much more if congress would just come on and help out a little bit. just come on. come on and help out a little bit. stop being mad all the time. stop this hating all the time. come on. let s get some work done together. his hands are tied. he can t get anything done. charles krauthammer earlier i heard made an excellent point. but it s very, very important. his job is not to help people, primarily. his job is to follow the law and through following the law, help people. this is as if he has his own conception of how you help people. and if you can help people and involves violating the law, then i m morally okay. but if congress says you can not do this and doing it would help people, he s not allowed to do that. the constitution has not made the president of the united states the arbiter of what helps people. the constitution of the united states said the president executes the laws and in executing those laws that is set by congress, then he helps people. if he violates them, he s hurting people. this is not a government of happy hour. we re all going to help each other. we have laws. we follow those laws. each one has a function and then we assume that by doing that, that s how we have a happy society. does he not know this or is he willing to this is constitutional law president can t do this kind of analysis. this is like a man for all seasons when thomas moore s son-in-law wants him to violate the law and thomas moore says this country is planted thick with laws like treaties and if you break one of them, all the trees will come down. this is a country of laws. the president doesn t understand that, we re in it. that statement could help that lawsuit get beyond the political question and say this isn t an isolated incident here or there. this is conduct that is going on over and over again in which he s just completely violating what congress has passed and there is no other remedy for it. right. you re the perfect guy to talk about that stuff because you did run for president. you are a law scholar as well. and you were the mayor of new york city. and the new guy who is the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio, has returned from his vacation in italy to gracie mansion, which apparently has furniture from west elm, $65,000 worth upstairs. now he s blasting the cops on stop and frisk. listen to this. for much of the previous 12 years, there was a growing tension and grows disconnect between police and community all over our city. this administration came into office with a commitment to am end in the broken policy of stop and frisk. the overuse of stop and frisk, the unconstitutional use of stop and frisk. we settled the related lawsuit. we changed the practice on the ground and the numbers speak for themselves. what city was he living in for 12 years? i feel kind of left out. stop and frisk started 20 years ago with me and bill bratten, his police commissioner. didn t stop with mike and ray kelly. they carried it on. they carried it on brilliantly and carried it on. and carried on crime reduction and built on our successes and had success of their own. this thing started 20 years ago. i d like to take him back to what the city was like 20 years ago. how about 1900 murders 20 years ago? 22 years ago when the administration he worked in, they were 2200 murders. 2200 murders. last year, about 340. so 2200 murders is more than iraq. we were a city that was described as the crime capital of america. we were on the front cover of time magazine during the administration that he worked in that he seems to be emulating. we were called the rotting of the big apple. 12,000 felonies a week. is this personal to you? for him to make a speech? no. it s the ignorance of the left, the idea that if you enforce the law, you re really harming people and hurting people. what you ignore is the fact that who are the victims of these crimes? 80, 90%, they re poor people. 80, 90% they re minorities. the people you re saving, the lives you re saving, the thing that i m proudest of, the thing i believe mike is proudest of are the thousands and thousands and thousands of people, many minorities, but all people whose lives we saved because we had the courage to take tough action that the new york times routinely condemns. that was 20 years ago. those thousands of people would not be alive today if we had succumbed to political correctness. in 1984, the year we re talking about throwback thursday, summer jobs. there you are. that s a job earlier in your career, a man on a mission. that wasn t a summer job. that was when i was u.s. attorney, probably putting the families of the mafia in jail or maybe ivan boski, or maybe some of ed koch s commissioners. or vito s son-in-law. thank you very much. thanked you. we are seeing more and more of this next type of story. parents being turned into criminals because other people don t like the way that they parent. the most recent case, a florida mom arrested after she let her 7-year-old son walk to the park alone. now she s facing child neglect charges. here to share her side of the story is mom nicole campaigny and john whitehead, president of the rutherford institute and author of government of wolf. thank you for being with us. thank you. nicole, what happened that day? dominic is seven years old and as we read, you let him walk to the park. was he in danger? no. i personally don t think so. i let him go up there and play. i give him a cell phone so i can check on him regularly and he can call me if there is any emergency. we saw the photo of him. we understand what with that cell phone around his neck, you were teaching him to be safe. did he feel unsafe? when he came home, what did he say to you, because the police then, someone came up and talked to him, called the police. the police ended up bring him home. what were his words to you? when i was they had me in handcuffs and told him after they took him out of the cop car to go straight to his room. and as he was walking into the home, he was like mommy, i m sorry. i wanted to go to the park. he was absolutely upset and scared and thought this was his fault. john, i want to ask you, legally the definition of neglect seems to be include failure of the parent to provide the child with supervision. it doesn t seem as though dominic was threatened at the time. when the police came up to him, as the story goes, he was playing with friends, had his cell phone. if he wasn t in danger, how can they possibly have a case? nicole is facing five years in jail. it s a felony. five years. you got to be kidding me on this situation. no. there is no legal neglect here. i think you have overzealous policeman. but policemen are not expert at child welfare. the child welfare is the one who investigated this and they, according nicole, think the charges should be dropped. i think the big question we re facing here is who is the parent? the policeman or the welfare department or this hard working mother who is arrested like a criminal. this is the thing that really concerns me. what are the best interests of the child here, if this mother has to go to prison? what s going to happen to this child? nicole, are you a good mom or a criminal? i m a good mom. we re going to see how this case unfolds certainly as it looks like he was not in danger at the time. we d love to follow up with you. please stay in touch. nicole and john. thank you. coming up, a bizarre scene playing out in court. why in the world was this suspect taped to a wheelchair and gagged inside the courtroom? then we all want safe what if you could cut your grocery bill in half without clipping a single coupon. we ll tell you how next. wóóñt the kentucky democrat who thinks she can take mitch mccome s seat in senate needs a refresher course on i guess military stuff. during a campaign event, kentucky state senator candidate allison lundgren said this, the iron dome has been a big reason why israel has been able to withstand the terrorists that have tried to tunnel their way in. oh, really? but as you know, the iron dome actually protects israel from rockets that go in the air. that s a lot of different from protecting against the underground tunnel which is take the israelis we ve got a firsthand look inside those tunnels this morning as israel calls up 16,000 more troops. john huddy is live at the israel-gaza border where it has been very active so far this morning. john? reporter: sure has. by the way, we re hearing those 16,000 reservists that are called up will be relieving other troops on the ground. so far in the 24 days of operation protective edge, 86,000 reservists have been called up. that said, israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says with or without a cease fire, israel will continue its operation of rooting out and destroying hamas network of tunnels. we got to go inside of one of those tunnels. take a look. the israeli military says the tunnel is about a mile and a half long discovered at its midway point, a quarter mile inside israel from the border. 50 feet underground. we found it opened up more as we went deeper in. so we re going into up with of the tunnels. it is very deep underground here. obviously you can see it s really tight in here. very tight right here. it starts to open up. as we make our way deeper into the tunnel, gives a little more clearance here. the walls are really thick. very well reinforced. this was used for electricity. then let me show you this down here. was used for the transport of cargo. the smell of basically dirt and concrete. i got to say, it s a little unnerving in here. this is captain daniel. how deep are we right now? 50-meters underground now. it serves one purpose, to get inside the center of israel and towns around. come out of the tunnel with weapons and kill and kidnap as much citizens and soldiers as possible. now israeli commanders say that at this point, 32 tunnels have been discovered, including the one that we went into. now we re hearing 20 have been destroyed. that operation obviously continues today as well. back to you. all right. john huddy on the border. we thank you very much. those things took years to create. i think so. what are they used to do it? supposedly the building supplies that they were in short supply of there in the gaza. now we know what they were building. it wasn t schools. it was tunnels. right. the president is set to huddle up with leaders on foreign affairs today with regard toga. why the suspect was tape to do a wheelchair and gagged like hannibal lecter. it s a father and son project of presidential proportion. wait until you hear what bush 41 and bush 43 are up to. take a look at this. it s your shot of the morning. u.s. open is just around the corner. then we have last year s winners are coming back for more. before they get their hands on these, we have them with us on set. the official trophies engraved with winners from past tournaments. every year they have the winners names engraved on the trophies before they return them to the tennis hall of fame. the actual winners get a replica. it starts obvious 25 right here august 25 right here in new york city. look at this. right in queens next to citi field. they got relatively new facility. it s arguably one of the biggest events of the year. so when you see somebody win the u.s. open, they hold the trophy and you figure they take home. nope. these are the trophies year they used these same ones. guess who won in 1968? the men? the men s is bigger than the women. arthur ashe is correct. who won in the women s side? could it be virginia wade? very good. it could be. it is virginia wade. yes, it is. so then what they do is after they win, they get to keep them for a couple of days and then send them to tiffany s and put all of their names right here t. looks like they re running out of space. the players have to put their own name on it? yeah. you have a jackknife? i could do something right here. go ahead. you ll have nine people dive on you here in the wings. the prize is up to $3 million award for winning. it s not about the money. of course not. it s about the trophy. thank you very much. the u.s. open for letting us borrow this. and let us keep them. really a nice surprise. the victory trophy first. meanwhile, heather nauert you want to hold this? absolutely. an unbelievable story. in the olden days, you hear about people trying to get contraband into prison and bake a nail file in a cake? listen to what s happening now. police are now closing in on a person who tried to fly a drone that was filled with drugs and other contraband into a maximum security prison. the drone crashed in the bushes just outside the lee correctional institute in south carolina. it was filled with pot, cell phones and tobacco products. one suspect already arrested. the other one still at large. the suspect in the las vegas casino robbery makes a bizarre appearance in court. look at this. he is wrapped in a blanket with a mask over his head and taped to a wheelchair. all kind of like animal lecter from the movie. he was wheeled into court because he refused to cooperate with officers. the judge ordered him to appear in court by any force necessary. the f.b.i. alleges carmichael entered the bellagio casino, pulled a bb gun and order the teller to hand over about $43,000 in cash. it is a father-son project of presidential proportion. president george w. bush writing a book about his father. he s been working on this for about two years now and bush 43 says, quote, george h.w. bush is a great servant, statesman and father. i loved writing this story of his life, and i hope others enjoy reading it. the biography doesn t have a title yet. it will be released on veteran s day this year, november 11. a labor of love. talk about a whole lot of luck. an indiana guy won a million dollars jackpot three times. no, twice in three months. robert hamilton beat the one in 2.1 million odds, two different times, playing the same scratch-off game. the first million he won in april. that one he bought a house and paid debts. the winnings for the second will be used on a motorcycle. congratulations. good job. those are your headlines. he s a winner. definitely lucky. twice. there you go. thank you, heather. maria molina joins us now with a look at what s going on outside with weather. good morning. hello. i want to start out with your current temperatures because across parts of the east we ve been setting record lows during the morning hours. temperatures have been in the 50s. today it s a little bit better. but you re still waking up to temperatures in the 50s in places like cleveland, ohio and low 60s in chicago. so still a little cool, especially for the month of july across portions of the great lakes. your high temperatures are going to be warming up a little bit. low 80s in new york city. 80s in atlanta. still hot from texas to parts of arizona. 111 degrees for your high in phoenix. across portions of the northeast, we are going to see showers. they ll be isolated across the region and there are also going to be a slight chance for storms. there is a slight chance some of the storms across parts of new england could produce some severe weather. keep an eye out for that. otherwise farther west across portions of eastern texas, eastern oklahoma, western parts of arkansas, we re expecting an area of low pressure to be moving eastward. out here it will be producing areas of heavy rain. concern for flash flooding. steve, let s head over to you. all right. thank you very much. we all like to save some money without working too hard to do it. so what if you could cut your food bill, grocery bill in half and never have to clip a single coupon? that sounds pretty good. here to tell us more is personal finance expert lauren lions cole. good morning to you. good morning. that s the thing, a lot of people love the idea of saving money, but they don t want to clip coupons because there is something about coupons and it s a hassle. but it s money! it s true. it takes a lot of time to clip coupons. but you don t have to invest the time. there is other ways to save. for instance, you say pick up the weekly circular. exactly. you can pick it up as you re walking into the store. there are tons of sales without even picking up a pair of scissors that you can get while at the store. if you get it before you get to the store, you can even plan your weekly meals around the sales. because some of those, you can save up to 50%. the stuff on sale is there for a reason. exactly. when you go shopping, and i didn t realize this, pick an off time. a lot of people go certain times, particularly on the weekends. how does that save you money? if you re shopping when everyone else is shopping, you re probably going to fall back into convenience or shopping from habit, just throwing things in the cart, especially if you have the kids with you. try going at a time when the store will be less crowded. you can walk slowly, think through the sales, look at the circular ad. those times are wednesdays and thursdays, weekend evenings, or any morning, super early first thing when they open. in other words, if somebody needs something to do on a saturday night g to the grocery store and save money. that s the best time to go. try it. when you go on a saturday night, make sure you take your smart phone because there are a bunch of apps that are available that tell you what? the millenials are couponing more than any other generation with technology. there are two great apps i m going to recommend. bravado and slip. if you use these apps, you can get all sorts of coupons. they ll deliver customized what you re shopping for. okay. and the name of that once again is favado and flip. all right. that s easy. this is something we ve been doing at our family since we ve got three kids. they re all over the place. buy vast quantities. buy in bulk if you can. right. so if you re buying something like onions, they re going to last for a long time. buy the bag. don t buy them individually. keep in mind, you want to look at the unit prices when you re doing this cause every now and then, food manufacturers are smart. the big can of peanut butter every now and then might cost more than the smaller one. so look at the unit price. now my wife and i are alone because the kids are all over the country. so when we go to costco and we buy the 19 pounds of peanut butter, it might take 19 years to go through it. right. sometimes if you re going to end up wasting the food, you re not saving. make sure you re buying the amount you can eat. and buy generic. if you buy the house brand or generic brand, you can save how much? up to 25%. this is one of those tips that everybody knows they should do, but still, we don t do it consistently. so if you re not sure if the quality is quite the same, flip the box around, look at the ingredients. if they are the same, then buy generic. save 25. i m going to download that app right now. thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. good information. coming up on our program today, is your teen-ager having a tough time finding work this summer? they re not alone. reason why. cheryl casone is up with that coming up. and actor david bran has choice words for the president. grow some. really? that story is coming up next. first the trivia question of the day. born on this date in 1966, this superman star played football at princeton. he s the friend of this program. he was on about a month ago. who is he? come on. e-mail us. you ll be the big winner. got quick headlines for you. it s unusual, but celebrity speaking out with sharp words for president obama. david borianas tweeting out, quote, here we are in a cold war now with russia. sanctions aren t going to cut it. putin is nuts and a serious threat to the usa. grow some, obama. and tv host and navy vet montel williams calling out the president on the v.a. scandal, telling tmz obama has not responded to his petition. so what would williams tell obama if he had the chance? quote, sign the papers, home boy. that according to montel williams. american teens are having the worst summer ever when it comes to finding jobs. teenage employment levels are near record lows. cheryl cher is live at the molly blue oyster bar in new york to talk to some teens and business owners. what are they saying there? good morning. i got to tell you, it s a rough summer when it comes to teens getting work. we found a few teens working here. they are setting up for the day as they re about to be filled with tourists and everybody else. i got to tell you, it s a tough summer for teens. down 12% now when it comes to teens hiring. why are they not getting jobs? because older workers are getting hired. let s bring in our guest and talk about why are you got 1,000 applications? at least 1,000 applications. everybody wants a job and it s very hard to find jobs today. you were telling me earlier that a lot of older kids, even kids in their 20s, are coming in. they want to work here, so you re not hiring as many teen-agers. right. the job market is so wide open. especially teachers, small job market for them. they re looking for work. we want to get the best person to work for us. there is a lot of kids here. we love hiring kids. we love being on the beach. you guys are setting up and we want to let you know that if you look at the labor participation rate as we re getting ready to get the initial jobless claims today, it s about 34 to 40% right now. that s in the range. that is because a lot of these teen-agers decided just not to get work and decided to do other things. maybe take a little vacation. let s bring in nicole, she s 19. she s a junior. come over here. talk to me about your summer work. you knew that you needed to work this year. was it tough to get a job? i was lucky enough for this to be my second year here. i started here last summer. but i used to work at camp malibu. once i knew the restaurant opened up, i wanted to send in an application. are you going to work the entire summer? are you saving for school? yes. i m saving the money for school. i ll be here until probably august 20, right up to when school starts. and sam, you re 15 years old. you re the only high schooler that s working for the summer. i used to work in high school. but what are the rest of your friends doing this summer if not working? vacation, hanging out, i m the only one of my friends kind of working. yeah. all right. girls, i have to tell you, i want to ask you, what do you say to the rest of your friends out there on the beach right now and not working? get a job. the money is good. you can buy clothes. i have to tell you guys, again, as we re waiting for all this big data that s coming out, we re getting the jobs report for the month of july. that s going to be tomorrow. we re going to be getting more initial claims coming up in the next few moments. but i have to tell you, it really has been a rough summer for all of these teen-agers and as they try to set up and save money, it looks like the employers out there and someone told me earlier, it s getting tighter in the labor market right now because basically you are finding that obamacare, a lot of those major restaurants, those chains are not hiring anymore because they re trying to keep the amount of workers lower, kids. so they are actually, a lot of those older workers working at major chains are coming here for a second job because they need the work. this is the kind of summer that we re having right now, especially here. but really across the country. that s what we re finding out here. we re going to see how the data comes out tomorrow and see what the numbers tell us. we could have sent you anywhere. you could have went to a mall. it s amazing you chose the beach restaurant to explain to us about teen unemployment. yeah. i really have a tough time when i have to go travel for fox & friends. you send me to rotten places. but cheryl, you know about traveling because today our tbt, throwback thursday is all about summer jobs. this is a picture of you at your first job out of college when, ladies and gentlemen, cheryl casone was a flight attendant with southwest airlines. look at that. that was me. long time ago. love that. it s your idea not to assign the seats? yeah. i got to tell you, there is nothing like serving cokes and peanuts for a living when you re 21-years-old. that was me. cheryl casone, you re now free to travel across the country. thank you, cheryl. i m just getting reports now, we now have the hasselbeck summer working shot? yes. what are you doing? i m in my heap earrings in cranston, rhode island, wearing a store t-shirt. i was so excited about having my first job. you worked at bob s? yes. i liked to see if i could get overtime. that s where you get the my very first job was for jerry seinfeld s dad helping him hang signs. he actually made signs. i love that. i also worked in a restaurant, that was a great job. one of the toughest. perfect for you. makes your personality and work ethic. i imagine you did well. 16 years old, my first high school job. i was tearing it down like the best of them. i really have more waitering experience. keep sending us your throwback thursday pictures of your first jobs and summer jobs. coming up, breaking news about the ebola virus. up with man is dead as concerns grow it could find its way here to the united states. so is it just one airplane flight away from us? the details coming up next. first on this day in history in 1975,, one of these nights by the eagles was the number one song. ooo swear i m gonna find you one of these nights one of these days i voted for culture. .with a k. how are you? i voted for plausible deniability. i didn t kill her, david. and i voted for decisive military action. america, you cast your votes. now, go to xfinity on demand and select the people s hotlist to see this summer s top 100 shows and movies. i voted! the answer to the trivia question. dean cain. our winner is dean cain. he called in. bill from jensen beach, florida won. he ll get a copy of george washington s secret six. i will sign and i will lick the envelope. excellent. by the way, i asked brian to give me a refill on my ice coffee. feel that. what s different about it? not so icy. i didn t really hold the job too long. don t look for tip money. brian, you re fired. no tip for you. switching gears. new concerns this morning about the deadly ebola virus. this as two american peace corps workers are quarantined outside the u.s. after being exposed. anna kooiman has more. reporter: good morning. officials now saying this is the largest ever record outbreak of the disease. those two american peace corps workers came in contact with an individual who later died from the virus. they will likely be brought to the united states once doctors clear them. we are learning they are under close observation and are not showing symptoms yet. but the peace corps has decided to evacuate 340 of its american volunteers from three african countries out of precaution during this deadly outbreak. in liberia, schools shut down and employees have been order to do shut down. the scare reached north carolina yesterday, shutting down a section of a hospital for hours. doctors thankfully determining the patient is in fact not infected. we acted out of an abundance of caution, making sure that all precautions were in place to protect our patients as well as our health care workers. reporter: the ebola virus spreads through close contact with bodily fluids like blood or touching contaminated surfaces. symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and the risk of dying once you get it is 90%. this killed one american, patrick sawyer, who contracted it flying from liberia to lagos. the cdc says there is no significant risk here in the united states. the reason physicians and health care workers are getting it over there is they re not fully protected against the virus. they re not using the same infectious control precautions we do. i don t want any panic spreading here. the two other americans fighting for their lives, missionary workers in liberia, are slowing slight improvement. and the cdc has released new guidelines for airlines to prevent it from reaching the united states. back to you. thank you very much. coming up on this thursday, are you tired of debt collectors calling your house in the middle of supper time? there is a way to get rid of them for good. what you need to know coming up in the next hour. eat out? that s one way. president obama is facing repeated calls for his impeachment because of the immigration crisis at the border. but yesterday house speaker john boehner says in fact, republicans actually have no plans to impeach the president. which got weird when obama was like, damn. good morning. today is thursday, july 31. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. the house gets the green light to sue the president for make his own laws and the president just laughs it off. stop being mad all the time. stop this hating yqñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñll . today he is celebrating with another executive action. and what did lois lerner really think of conservatives? we now have some e-mail that she wished she would have lost, calling republicans [ bleep ] and [ bleep ] watch your mouth. that wasn t my mouth. that was my head. watch. [ bleep ]. a little slow. we re going to tell you what my read. someone better buy this fan a new bud lite because she caught the homerun ball with her budweiser. there goes nine bucks. mornings are better with friends. this is dean cain, you are watching fox & friends in the morning. so am i. happy birthday, dean cain, as we learn from our trivia question of the day. today is his birthday. i wonder if that fan actually intended to catch it with her glass or if that was an accident. i don t think so. you have a choice when the ball comes. do i drop the beer or catch the ball, or do i hold the beer and let the ball hit me? she s like, let me just you can sort of have your beer maybe she had a couple of beer before and didn t notice the ball and it s just a hole in one. look at that. later it will show the mitt blinded her, preventing her from seeing the ball come down and hit her beer. can we see that one more time? we re going to see it in the regular news a second. the mitt blinded her. blinded by the shlitz. making a splash. we got a busy one hour that starts. the judge will join us in a moment much first we got heather with the news. good morning. quite a story coming out of the midwest. a nine-hour manhunt and the gunman accused of shooting and killing a police officer during a traffic stop was later shot himself. this unfolded in west st. paul, minnesota. officer scott patrick was shot in broad daylight. that 47-year-old officer now leaves behind a wife and two teenage children. the search for the suspect, 39-year-old brian fitch, senior, ended in a gun fight with police. fitch was shot, his condition, not being released at this hour. a shopping center is now the site of a firey plane crash. i knew it was going down and then they were on the ground and in flames and a lot of black smoke. imagine all the people around. that plane clipping the top of a target store and then hitting a pole before it slammed into a parking lot at a nearby costco. the pilot now in the hospital. her passenger died. no word yet on what caused the crash. certainly lucky that a lot of people weren t injured in that. america s first homicide bomber in syria returned to the united states before he carried out his deadly attack in syria. a new report says that this 22-year-old florida native spent months in the united states after he got his terror training. he drove a truck that was packed with explosives into a restaurant in northern syria and this just released video filmed before his death, shows him ripping up his u.s. passport. he bites it, sets it on fire, and leaves a chilling message, we re coming of you. one bank s atm is dishing out a lot more than cash. oh, my goodness. never seen such a beautiful surprise. how sweet is that. look at that, presents and flowers. thanks to its customers, citibank set up a special automated banking machine yeah. in canada. gifts included money, flowers, and the chance to throw out the first pitch at a blue jay s game. how cool is that? those are your headlines. what a clever idea. that s fantastic. way to make somebody s day. thank you. we ll say thank you. flowers on the way. as we go to what s happening in washington, judge napolitano rejoins us on the couch. yesterday there was a vote in the house to go ahead and sue the president and only five republicans decided not to. everybody else was on board. all democrats were against it. so therefore, they re moving ahead with the lawsuit. if you follow up on the very, very prudent, very astute analysis that mayor giuliani gave seated right here about an hour ago, the court will have to decide is this a political question? is this an issue that the courts were intended to resolve? are judges competent and capable of telling presidents how to perform their jobs, or should they stay out? in my opinion, it s a slam dunk. it s a political case. and the court will dismiss it as soon as the president s lawyers move to because the separation of powers? yes, yes. the constitution was written to create this tension. now look, i believe that the president is either incompetent or lawless. i would cheerlead the arguments the republicans are making against him. i believe he s the most lawless president in modern times. my op ed at foxnews.com and elsewhere this morning attempts to make that case. the remedy is an unpleasant one. it s not a lawsuit because it will be thrown out. madison provided the remedy in the constitution. it s removal from office. you re talking about impeachment. yes. i know we don t want to go through the political aggravation and maybe that s the ironicallvon this i agree with the president. the lawsuit is a political stunt. here is the test: with these members of congress spend their own money on lawyers to file a lawsuit knowing it s going to be dismissed? of course not. it will be a waste of money. then they shouldn t spend ours. the supreme court decision back in june unanimously said that obama was out of line for making recess appointments. absolutely. that at all does not factor into how you believe that courts would see this at all in terms of overreach? an interesting question. the remedy for his being out of line and filing these nominations on a saturday morning when he knows the senate is not in session is to invalidate the nominations. it s not to force him to file them on another day. this lawsuit wants to force the president to do things that judges would basically say not our job. so you say impeachment is a remedy. yes. it may be imprudent because it may cost the country more than it s worth. but it s a remedy in the constitution. sure. a couple days ago i said i don t know anybody, republicans or conservatives, who are talking about impeachment. that s true. the people in myever day life our colleagues, governor palin and a few others. are you suggesting republicans do that, because it s a political loser. i m suggesting that it would be far more constitutionally appropriate now than it was in a case of bill clinton and i m suggesting that it is the only remedy under the constitution for a president who is either, either incompetent or lawless or both. that s the title of your column. here is the president yesterday, obviously he is really taking this serious. think about this, they have announced they re going to sue me for taking executive actions to help people. so, you know, they re mad cause i m doing my job. everybody recognizes it s a political stunt, but it s worse than that because every vote they re taking like that means a vote they re not taking to actually help you. we could do so much more if congress would just come on and help out a little bit. just come on. come on and help out a little bit. stop being mad all the time. stop this hating all the time. come on. let s get some work done together. this is the most serious constitutional crisis since watergate and he s making a joke out of it. let me argue, it s not the president s job to help people. read the constitution and read your oath, mr. president. it s the president s job to uphold the constitution. he s acting like he s the grandfather in chief, the uncle in chief rather than the law enforcer in chief. a law enforcer who only enforces laws he agrees with. does it hurt him that congress doesn t want to do what he wants to do, and therefore, they both have a point of view? he wants people just to do what he wants them to do. he doesn t want to compromise. his job is not to write the laws. his job is to enforce the laws that the congress writes whether he agrees with them or not. he took an oath to do that. it s all about compromise these days if you want to get anything done and it s tough. it s a toxic environment in washington, d.c. and because there are already scandals and that s lois lerner when she swore herself in and took the fifth. what s curious now is there have been some e-mails released by the house ways and means committee that show that lois lerner did not like conservative s, called them names. it looks pretty bad. we ve got an excerpt, this is from november 9, 2012, which the committee released. from an unknown person here says you should hear the whackoing of the gop, the u.s. is through too many foreigners, sucking the tea, time to hunker down, prepare for the end. right wing radio shows are scary to listen to. it went on from learner. great, maybe we are through if there are that many a-holes. a known respondent, i m talking about the host of the shows, the callers are rabid. even a-holes learner said. so we don t need to worry about alien terrorists. it s our own crazies that will take us down. that s curious. no wonder she didn t worry about taking down the nonprofits because she viewed them simply as run by terrorists. she s entitled to her political opinion like everybody else. off the clock. right. once she has a sensitive job in the irs, her job is to review applications from ostensibly political groups and decide whether or not they get a tax exemption and she has that animas against a class of those groups, she should get off the jobs. that s her work e-mail. correct. if a litigant came before me that i hated or couldn t stand or i had some interest in the outcome of the case, i have an affirmative obligation to get off the case. sure. she should have been given another job. her bosses should have been known about it. a political irs is represencible and tyrannical and the president did nothing about it. why not a special prosecutor now? will this be the moment where one is brought in? the one saving grace here is whatever she did, the statute of limitations is seven years, meaning whoever succeeds president obama will be in a position to have his or her attorney general prosecute mrs. learner and the others. judge, we also know, you also tried howard stern, right? did you excuse yourself or do you like howard stern? we became very good friends. after that. the case was assigned to me and was settled. what was the case? i can t say on air. he used some language on air that some person sued him for and we had to call 700 jurors in order to find six who have no opinion of mr. stern. he was a gentleman throughout. the case was settled. it s now history and we developed a unique friendship. okay. i just remembered. judge, thank you. thank you. coming up, he was one of the three marines killed in cold blood by one of our afghan allies. but that kid only got a slap on the wrist. that hero s dad is here and he says he s been betrayed. for years we heard liberals describe themselves as pro-choice, but planned parenthood has a plan to change that. you know what? it s just in time for the next election. it s a term as old as the issue itself. pro-choice, it means women have a choice over future. even if that means no future at all. but pro-abortion groups like planned parenthood want to rebrand the term pro choice with something a little more vague. going forward, they ll be pro-woman s health instead. pollster and fox news contributor frank luntz is here to help explain why. frank, thanks for being with us. you actually came up with the determine teth tax for the government s inheritance tax. you say call it like it is. but in this case, it seems to me and many others that abortion activists are doing quite the opposite and making it more vague. i understand why they re doing it. even the framing that you just did, which is pro-abortion, that this is an i want to set the context here. number one, it matters to people. pro-life, pro-choice, the issue of abortion, it does matter. but it is a lower priority when it comes to elections. when it comes to politics. about four out of five women will vote more on economic issues than they will on the issue of abortion. and second is that the american people think that politicians are trying to politicize something that they believe is intensely personal, intensely private, should be left up to the individual and the states to make a decision. so they don t like this back and forth between politicians. it s been a big issue in certain campaigns. colorado, for example, it s roughly one third of all the ads being run against the republican are on that issue of abortion and copttives the public says that s too much. take this issue out of politics. it is not partisan. it is not political. and let people decide for themselves what is the proper moral context. sure. according to a luntz poll here, talking to the man himself, when asked if it s more important that a politician agrees with you on economic issues or reproductive issues, 71% said i d rather agree on economic issues. so obviously that s more important here. but the focus, particularly when it comes to elections here and the women s vote and women s rights is in a way, do you believe, being misrepresented? to cloak a pro-abortion rights and funding in support for that as just women s health notions doesn t seem to be as detailed as it should be. doesn t represent a lot of women s thinking and rights in terms of where they stand on abortion. it s simply inaccurate. roughly 10% of the population, only 10% believe that abortion should be available to anyone at any time. about 90% are in in different degrees opposed to abortion. if you talk about it in terms of reproductive rights, that s misleading. if you talk about it in terms of women s health, that s misleading because that does not describe the issue. what planned parenthood is trying to do is it s trying to message it i can t blame them for doing it because as you referenced, i ve done it as well. but on this issue when it is a life and death issue, when it is a personal values issue, overwhelmingly the public in general and women in particular are saying get this out of partisan politics. get this out of this horrific divide that this country has right now and let people decide and let states decide. sure. just lumping it under women s health, no different than a tooth exam cleaning. regular old checkup. thank you. pleasure. up next, he was one of three marines killed in cold blood by one of our afghan allies. that killer only got a slap on the wrist. that hero s father is here and he says he has been betrayed. and then imagine driving down the highway and this comes flying at you. how this blade came inches from the passenger s face. oh, my. we now have some medical headlines for you on this thursday. ebola fears growing because two american peace corps workers may have been exposed to the virus. they are now in quarantine. dr. mark siegle says we shouldn t worry about it spreading here to the united states. the reason physicians and health care workers are getting it over there is they re not fully protected against the virus. they re not using the same infectious control precautions we do. i don t want any panic spreading here. good advice. now to that flesh eating bacteria being found in florida, health officials are now telling people don t eat raw oysters. the bacteria, which has already claimed one life, thrives in warm salt water and also make its way into your body if you ve got a cut or a scrape that is exposed to the water. be careful. brian, over to you. it was 2012, lance corporal greg buckley, junior, had just celebrated his 21st birthday in afghanistan. he was set to come home on a surprise visit to drink his first legal beer with his dad. but he never got that beer and he never got home. he was one of the three marines killed in cold blood by one of our afghan so-called allies. a police officer who he had recently joined for dinner. he went over there. he did what he was asked to do and the people he was training and helping over there, they turned on him. they turned on him and he told me weeks ago, dad, they re shady. i don t want to be here. wow. two years later his son s killer gets off with a slap on the wrist. he is charged as a minor. joining us right now, greg buckley, senior. unbelievable. we saw the raw emotion moments ago how you felt then. how does that compare to how you feel now, that he was tried in afghanistan as a minor and you didn t even know they told you in the aftermath. he gets 7 1/2 years! outrageous. outrageous our government would do this to my family and the other gold star families. right. you were told they were going to be handled. step back. afghan law will prosecute him. they claim to do do a bone scan, find out he s 17, so he gets 7 1/2 years. if your son shot one of those guy, he goes to leavenworth for life. exactly. so you wrote a letter to the marines and it says this you say this, you never came clean about their son s murder, was never serious about investigating the incident. you issued a calculated press statement about the verdict before notifying the families to get out in front of the story with this own self-serving account last friday afternoon to minimize the attention and prevent the family from responding publicly. they made do you this in the aftermath. you would have went over there. yes. i wanted to go over there. i was willing to pay my own way to go to afghanistan for the trial. but they never informed us when the trial was taking place until after the trial was over with. we should just know, you, your son and staff sergeant scott dickerson, corporal richard rivera were gunned down at a forward operating base while they worked out. what did this clown say after he did it? just went around screaming he just committed jihad. just committed jihad. yep. marines are known as the utter definition of loyalty and brotherhood. how do you feel they treated you and the families? disrespectful. they should have came to us. they should have told us what they were doing. my family has been after them every day asking for questions and they keep on stonewalling us every time we ask something. right. if you had a chance to be in an american courtroom and we have victim impact statements, what would be something you would have made clear at his trial had you been given the opportunity? just to be as clear that he was proud to be a marine. it s just heart wrenching that the government would treat us the way they are right now. we want him back here. we want to have him tried and have him convicted here. it s not seven years. seven years doesn t compare. you re talking two and a quarter years for each marine he murdered, executed really. and they keep on calling it murder. my son was shot five times. four in his chest and one in his neck. he had a pair of shorts on and a tank top working out in the gym. waiting to come home. he only had two days left and then he was going to be home. training that guy to protect his home so he went there to train them and his reward is to get shot and your family s reward is to not even be informed and essentially stew in your own juice. not our problem. the trial took place without us knowing anything about it and the day before he told us we ll notify you as soon as the trial starts. the trial started the following day. prosecuted him that day and that was it. they gave him seven years. he ll be out in four years cause he already served two. but i ll never have my son back again. where do you go from here? i don t know. just trying to find the right answers. just looking for help. just want somebody to help me out and help my family out. we will absolutely help you. we have your biggest military audience watching right now out there. we have a marine sitting in mexico for some reason. doesn t seem to be an urgency to get him out. trying to get him out. now we have this situation where no one cares about your son s legacy, nor his other officers who lost their lives that day. we ll keep pushing and if the marines are the people we know they are, they will step up and realize their mistake and reach out. that s what we re asking for. just to help out. thanks. steve, tell us what s next. thank you very much. meanwhile, coming up, a mother arrested for letting her 7-year-old son walk to the park by himself. she was arrested for that. now she s facing five years behind bars. is that fair? that mother sharing her side of the story coming up on fox & friends. then before he was on air, john stossel was a stutterer. he fixed it and says the method that he used can be applied to all of your problems. jñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ? all right. it is now 27 minutes before the top of the hour. john stossel is going to be with us in just a moment. he s got a topic that is going to really something you haven t thought about. sharp experimenting. meanwhile, heather nauert is going to join us now with some other headlines. we have heard so many stories about children being left in hot cars. listen to what happened to one good samaritan. this good samaritan is now in a wheelchair after a run-in with a crazed mother. she and her boyfriend noticed a young boy left alone in a hot car in a colorado parking lot, so they called police. the right thing to do, of course. but listen to this. the boy s mother showed up fuming. 27-year-old christina attacked that couple before she got in her car and then ran them down. dominguez now has to use a wheelchair and may never be able to walk again, but she says it was all worth it. it scares the heck out of me that some innocent child might die. if it means helping a child, i would do it in a heartbeat. she certainly did. the mother faces several charges, including hit and run florida faces abuse. five years in prison for letting her 7-year-old son walk to the park alone. nicole gainey says it was in broad daylight and her son did have a cell phone on him when he made the ten minute walk from his house to the park. officers say that he wasn t safe because several sex offenders live in the nearby area. the mother joined us earlier on the show and she says the police hurt more than they helped. they had me in handcuffs and they told him after they took him out of the cop car to go straight to his room. and as he was walking into the home, he was like mommy, i m sorry i wanted to go to the park. he was absolutely upset and scared and thought this was his fault. there are no laws at the state level stopping children from walking to the park alone. do you pay your cell phone bill every single month without taking a really good look at all the charges on it? a senate committee says you must look closer because you might be the victim of cramming. those are unauthorized fees that are added to your bill from small companies like services with celebrity gossip and ring tones. your phone providers collect those fees and then keep part of that revenue and it adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars each year for them. take a very good look at your bill. talk about a close encounter, couple driving down a massachusetts highway when an ax flies out of a landscaping truck and smashes into their windshield. it stopped inches from this woman s face. it was right at eye level with this woman. so if this ax had penetrated through and hit her, she would have been injured or killed. police talking about that one. the driver of the truck says he accidentally forgot to secure the tool. he got a ticket for $200. those are your headlines. it was that close. thank you very much. john stossel says he and his family have ailments just like every other family. so how do they find solutions? take a look at this. we stossels have problem, back pain, stuttering. but like many, we get help through experiment and tedious treatment. which experiments work? we just have to try things. let us experiment. tonight s show, john stossel joins us now. you say you ve got problems. everybody has problems. which experiments are worth checking out? i can t judge for somebody else, but for my back pain, which i had for lots of years, i had to try lots of things and then this weird doctor says it s all in your head cures me and howard stern and imus and greg gutfeld filled. all the same way? all the same way. your back pain was in your head? i said how come everybody got back pain when ulcers got cured? he said psychological. he talked us through it. speaking of talk, you have chosen an unusual line of work to be in considering you were once upon a time a stutterer. i am a stutterer. stutterers. finally i found one called the hounds communication reconstruction institute which helped. right. not just you. a model tried the exact same treatment and it worked. take a look. one of the potential one of the potential difficulties just a few years later, she was a regular on a tv game show where she spoke flutely. this one guy invited me on this trip. it was supposed to be so romantic. then he brings along his mother. fire went to the same clinic i went to where they reteach us how to speak. it s really boring cause they slow us down much more slow than that. it works. three weeks i was motivated to practice. it s been successful. i still practice. that made you happy. unlike the time you took some drugs to be happy? well, on the show i try another experiment, oxy toesen, supposed to be the happiness hormone. we ll see if it worked. take a look at this. three, four, five, deep breath. what s going on here? he s experimenting on me, giving me a drug that s supposed to make me happy. you re going to feel more relaxed. scientists say you get a similar effect getting a hug. we ll try an experiment. your show is all about experiments. we show the hugs and the drugs. it s worth the experimenting and all the tries. and america is an experiment. george washington said, i don t think this democracy is likely to last 20 years. too many people don t take chance. when you take chance, you find something new. you can find you 9:00 p.m. tonight. fox business. thank you. today is the day when all of our summer interns bid us adieu and we do that with brian and bret. a quick message for bret and everybody else out there, if you see elmo, it s a different elmo on 42nd street. they smell and they want ten bucks for a hug. so keep that in mind. bret klein is one of our great interns. you re going to go finish up at villanova. you had a choice between weather and sports. maria molina and myself. and you have chosen? sports. you are a very wise man. step to the mark, read sports, cue the music and start talking. vienna williams back on the court for the first time after getting sick at wimbledon. i mean, this really is just can t go on like this. at the bank of the west tournament in california, serena making a comeback in style and winning in two sets. now retiring a yankee, derek jeter getting presidential sendoff in texas. george w. bush honoring the captain in arlington by surprising him with a special presentation on the field. president bush gave jeter a signed photo taken the night bush threw out the first pitch after september 11. the president recalling jeter s advice back then, quote, don t bounce it. they ll boo you. one fan getting a beer shower after a homerun lands right in her drink. it happened at the san francisco giants game against the pittsburgh pirates. with beer prices at ballparks expensive, that s one expensive homerun. good job! finishing up on the cheer. good job. thank you very much. your goal is? journalism at villanova. try to get some partying in. i will. it s not just about school. that s true. good job. thank you very much. hop on the train. , just like that. meanwhile straight ahead, are debt collectors like this calling your house in the middle of dinner. if you refuse to answer the door, i guarantee you, i will wake up every neighbor in your neighbor [ bleep ] building. is that lois lerner? there is a good way to get rid of those bill collectors good. a vote today to block the president from giving amnesty to illegals that have grown up in the united states. but is that enough to keep our border secure? congressman mike mccaul joins us live. welcome back. in just a few hours, the house set to vote on a border bill that will rein in the president s power to give illegal immigrants amnesty. does the bill go far enough to address the border crisis? joining us is the chairman of the house homeland security committee, congressman michael mccaull. good morning. good morning. tomorrow everyone set to take recess there. do you believe that this will actually get accomplished? everyone is going to leave with something signed, sealed and delivered? the house is going to do its job. this is a crisis that demands action and leadership. we will provide that today. in several ways, one a message of deterrence. we re going to change the 2008 trafficking law which basically says that if you come into the united states from central america, you ll be treated just like we treat the mexicans with a very swift removal from the united states back to your country of origin back home in a humane way. secondly, deploying the national guard. the governor of my state has already activated the national guard. but it s the federal government s responsibility under the constitution to pick up the tab for that. so we will be deploying the national guard all throughout the southwest border as a border security measure. i think those two things the 2008 tweak is important because that will stop the flow coming into the country. once we send them back, they will stop coming in. sure. 2012, the president has this dream act, if you got brought here by your parents as a young child, you can stay. you won t be deported. 2008, trafficking was misinterpreted. now the senate has their own version. it has 2.7 billion in it. yours has 650 million in it. you re going to do your thing and amend those laws. but we re wondering here as americans, what s going to get done? what is harry reid going to do with that? well, i hope for once in washington we can be responsible and lead in a time of crisis. and solve problems. that s what we re doing as house republicans on our side. the money is appropriate go toward detention and removal and repatriation back to their countries. no new money. it all comes out of the fema disaster relief fund. you mentioned the 2012 executive action that in my judgment circumvented the congress. we re going to rein that one in as well with the vote on the floor. rein that in so that this president can no longer do that. the surge really started in 2012 when this executive action was put into place. exactly. it was about two hours ago we had the governor of the great state of indiana, mike pence on this program. he was talking about how he discovered through the news that hundreds of these illegals were being dumped in his state. the government didn t tell him. it was the news media. here he is. listen to this. we have obligations, as you mentioned. it s about back to school time in indiana, but there is also potentially health, other welfare issues that we need to be prepared to deal with. i mean, it s completely unacceptable that we read about this in the newspaper. ferrying people around the country and not informing state governments and local officials about their placement or long-term placement with private individuals or with institutions is not the answer. why is it, chairman, the federal government isn t telling state governors who are going to be on the hook for school and welfare and food and stuff like that that they re sending these kids there? i think it s totally irresponsible. i ve had this conversation with the secretary of homeland security. why aren t you telling us where you re putting these children because the governors need to know. the county officials need to know. this will impact every member s district across the nation and i think to mike pence s point, under state laws, we are required to educate the children. in these cases, the children i ve seen, quite frankly, their native dialect is an indian dialect. it s not even spanish of the they would be put into a special ed type class. you re going to need translators. this is why we need to stop the flow. that s why our bill i think is the answer to stopping this crisis and stopping the flow of these kids coming into the united states. all right. it s going to pass in the house. let s see what happens in the senate. clock is ticking. thank you very much for joining us live from dc. thank you. thanks for having me. coming up straight ahead. tired of debt collectors calling your house in the middle of dinner? i am. if you refuse to answer the door tomorrow, i guarantee you i will wake up every neighbor in your entire [ bleep ] building! oh, boy. how to get rid of them for good, coming up next. first we re going to check in with bill hemmer for what s coming up at the top of the hour. we can t get rid of him. i m still around. stop calling steve. that wasn t martha mccallum. no, she s much too sweet for that. come on. breaking news on the war in the middle east. are we closer to a cease fire today? we ll talk to an israeli ambassador about that. what did the web site for obamacare cost? this number will blow you away. stuart varney on jobs, why that number goes higher a moment ago and how conservative groups look at these newly found lois lerner e-mails. you re about to find out. see you in ten minutes. according to a new study, more than 77 million americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been turned over to collection agencies. and where there are collection agencies, there are debt collectors making phone calls to your house, sometimes actually they re never friendly usually. i have to let you know i am call to go collect a debt. any information used. if you refuse to open the door tomorrow, i guarantee you i will wake up every neighbor in your entire [ bleep ] building. so those are some of the bad ones. how far can they go when it comes to tracking you down? here is peter johnson, jr. we re going to wake up every neighbor in your building! let s go to the question. here is the first question, peter johnson, jr. can a debt collector call my residence any time of the day or night? in their world, yes. in your world, no. it s against the law. only between 8:00 a.m. and 9 p.m send them a letter right away saying i don t want to pay this debt. i am disputing this debt. they can t call you thereafter. do it quickly. the next one, can they call me at work? answer is no. they can not call you at work. they can call you once in terms of determining whether that s your actual location and get information from them. again, write them, i do not allow calls at work. my employer does not allow calls at work. do not call my work. speaking of work, can they garnish my wages? very important issue. they can only garnish your wages after a hearing, after a judgment has been entered, after you appear in court or if you don t appear in court, they will absolutely garnish your wages. they will take wages and your employer will be directed by law to take it out of your weekly or biweekly paycheck. so be careful on that issue. finally, the collectors make it sound pretty scary. can you go to jail over a debt? you can not go to jail over a debt in the united states of america. you used to be able to go to jail for a debt. i m not talking about a family law debt. i m not talking about a support debt. i m talking about a consumer debt. so when they call you up and say, you can go to jail, you can be arrested, they re violating the law. they re subject to a lawsuit. they re subject to paying you if you win such a lawsuit. before you go, how we stop them from calling? tomorrow, first of all, a letter within 30 days. repeated letters, letters to your credit bureau saying i don t want to pay this debt because i don t owe this particular debt. obviously if you owe the debt, you got to pay it or over time. tomorrow we re going to talk about ways to fight back and get out of problems with debt collectors and get out of debt in a smart, legal way. all right. great advice. peter johnson, jr., thank you very much. we got one for the road coming up when we continue rolling on live from new york city. yesterday my daughter, sally, turned 21, and my wife and i took her to cavern on the green for her first dream. she says it was her first drink. she couldn t finish it. happy birthday, sally. the good morning, everybody, the war in the middle east going to new level. israel calling up reinforcement. 16,000 more troops and vowing to keep shelling gaza until the mission is complete. that mission to shut down hamas tunnels. i m bill hemmer, welcome to america s newsroom. patti ann. welcome back to you. great to be here. i m patti ann browne in for martha maccallum. israel storming homes in gaza trying to find those tunnels. [gunfire] bill: that is fierce street-to-street fighting in gaza city. israel facing increased backlash over the rising civilian death toll. accusation it is hit a u.n. schoolnd
mcdonnell and his wife. the jury is made up of four women and eight men. the senate is expected to vote on the nomination of robert mcdonald to be the next secretary of on the next secret veteran affairs. to fix the troubled agency. later, the rnc will hold their fire harry reid rally on capitol hill and aimed at getting voters to elect republicans to the senate in the upcoming mid terms. that is going to do it. a tuesday edition of way too early. morning joe starts right now. flares have turned night into borrowed daylight in the skies over the gaza strip. today was supposed to be a cease-fire it didn t work. intense fighting prevented investigators reaching the crash site of mh-17 for the second day running. much more substantial sanctions will come into place across broad sectors of the russian economy. two americans are fighting a for their lives. the spread of a dangerous illness like ebola is no longer somebody else s progress. now three-month examination by the new york times clams that governor cuomo s office deeply compromised the panel s work. if you had watched the movie to the end, the name of the movie would have been independence. you named it interference. donald sterling lost again today. go clippers! a victorious shelly sterling emerged from the courtroom and she can now move ahead with her plans to sell the los angeles clippers. stephen a. smith addressing the fire storm he triggered with his choice of words. to say what i said was accomplish is an understatement. you hit somebody, they hit you back. don t be surprised! oh, we will get to that. that is a big debate here. good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, july 29th. welcome to morning joe. with us on set senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post is sam stein, sitting next to willie. hi, willie. managing editor for the news website bobby ghosh and pulitzer prize winning editor and with the the washington post, eugene robinson. you know what i m talking about whoopi goldberg and stephen a. smith controversy. they were fighting about this yesterday because of comments made. have you been following that? i heard about it. i didn t get to see it but i look forward to it. we will lay it all out but it s definitely one of the old debates renewed in a very different way. we begin this morning in the middle east where the crisis between israeli and hamas is now in its fourth week and the hopes for a resolution appear to be dwindling. last night air strikes lit up the sky in the center of gaza city as israeli hit key hamas locations. the targets including a tv station and the home of one of the group s top leaders. the strikes came as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivered a national tv address. he warned of an extended conflict and said, quote, there is no war more just than this. israeli and hamas are trading blame for an attack that left nine palestinian children dead and dozens injured. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes hit a park as children were playing on swings. israeli, however, says militants in gaza fired the rockets which failed to reach the intended targets and that brings the death toll to more than 1,100 palestinians, according to officials there. 53 israeli soldiers have been killed, including four yesterday, as well as three civilians in israeli. joining us no from you gaza nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. reporter: last night was a marked difference in terms of where we are here in gaza city. it s a scene we have seen throughout other parts of gaza but yesterday the fighting arrived in gaza city and 35,000 people live here. late flares were dropped early in the evening 3:00 p.m. local time and paved the way for a series of intense shelling that targeted, among other things, the gaza port, the house of hamas leader here in gaza, and others. there are also this morning, disturbing news about the humanitarian situation here according to the spokesperson who is in charge of the gaza electrical power tank, two fuel tanks belonging to that tank were hit and caught on fire and still burning well into the hours of this afternoon. as a result of that now, they say the representatives at the power plant a humanitarian disaster is going to unfold here. 1.8 million who depend on all types of electricity for water, sanitation, and other subinfrastructure needs are now wa without power and no place to store the fuel burning for the last couple of hours. a sense to what the palestinians are waking up to this morning. the death toll continues to find. along the front lines, there is still fighting taking place. hamas militants were able to, yesterday, fire at israeli soldiers and infiltrate across the border into israeli with some of these tunnels, so it shows you that the situation here is still very tense to say the least. mika? ayman, it s willie. good to see you this morning. is there any changing pressure over the last four weeks inside among palestinians about what they should be doing here in terms of stepping back? as these civilian casualties mount, as they see women and children being carried into hospital and many of them dead and some of them wounded. have they thought twice now and said maybe we should step back from this or are they only emboldened by the ongoing attacks from israeli? reporter: here it s important to make the distinction between hamas and palestinian factions and ordinary palestinian people who are bearing the brunt of this. when you speak to ordinary palestinians they feel they are reaching a point of desperation. they feel the situation is very much out of their hands. the political factions and the military wings of these political factions still remain very defiant and emboldened and they say their backs up against the war and they have nothing to lose and living a life under siege the past seven years and for them this is now about fighting until the end and that end is a struggle for them and they want to continue the struggle to get the international community for once and for all live the siege and that is how they are portraying it and how a lot of the palestinian factions and representatives we are speaking to are saying that is what this struggle is about. ayman, thank you. on capitol hill, kirsten gillibrand and ted cruz came together and announced a resolution criticizing using civilians. the israeli press is pushing a cease-fire that the reports claim would be more beneficial to hamas. secretary kerry is standing by his actions. make no mistake, when the people of israeli are rushing to bomb shelters, when innocent israeli and palestinian teenagers are abducted and murdered, when hundreds of innocent civilians have lost their lives, i will, and we will make no apologies for our actions. in a column that you entitled kerry s gaza blunder. in part you write this. secretary of state john kerry has made a significant mistake how he is pursuing a gaza cease-fire and not surprising he has upset both the israelis and some moderate palestinians. kerry s error has been to put so much emphasis on achieving a quick halt to the bloodshed that he has solidified the role of hamas, the unpopular islamist group that leads gaza, along with the two hard line nations that and in the process he has undercut not only the israelis but the egyptians and the fatah movement that runs the palestinian authority all of which want to see an end to hamas rule in gaza. david ignatius, i see what you re saying and i m wondering how it s possible to blunder something that has been devolving for decades. the gaza mess is not john kerry s fault but it s a tragedy that has been going on as you say for so many years. i think the mistake kerry made in seeking a cease-fire quickly in this intractable conflict without thinking about a pathway for the future so that the situation in gaza wouldn t simply revert to the status quo which we see means another war and another round of misery two years, three years ahead. kerry s first effort was with egypt when he got to the middle east, he tried to use egyptian mediation to broker a cease-fire and that didn t work. so he then turned away from the egyptians who were right next to gaza who are angry at hamas, almost as angry as israeli itself is, and turn to the hamas friends in turkey and in qatar and try to use them as the mediamea meadmea mediators for the cease-fire. he then upset palestinians and moderate palestinians and others in the region who thought he was enfranchising the region who were obstacles to peace. if one thing i hope secretary kerry can do is get back on the track of finding a more stable and permanent transition to a future where hamas is not the only dominant force in gaza. we are bringing this back to you. but, bobby, jump in and take it to david. when you listen to leaders on all sides of this conflict, it doesn t sound like there is a lot of room for negotiation. first of all, i m not sure what you would hold off any call for a cease-fire for because they are not stopping and they are not pulling back. rhetoric especially on the side, i m sorry, of benjamin netanyahu seems to get tougher and tougher every day. having said that, what do you think is possible at this point? nothing until the shooting stops. until the shooting stops, nothing is possible. i think that explains kerry s sort of sense of urgency. it s not like this was his first attempt as david pointed out. he did try to work through the egyptians. that did not work. the egyptians no longer under general, no longer have the flun influence in gaza they used to. the position is now so small it might as well not exist. so it s unlikely that you re going to get a immediate if egypt is a mediator. i can see the sense in trying to work through them. obviously, there was something inarticulate in the way kerry presented his proposal, but the response from egypt has been beyond caustic and so counterproductive. this is a guy trying to solve a problem. there is a global uproar. president obama called netanyahu two days ago and called for immediate cease-fire, basically, the same thing kerry is saying. stop the shooting now. instead the israeli officials speaking many of them speaking off the record or speaking without attribution are mounting pile on top of john kerry who wants to just be ahead. it s difficult for americans to accept something is beyond their reach, betweut isn t it possible this is a conflict, america despite its great power cannot exert its influence without two parties who want to come to the table and speak to each other? if history proves this is not a conflict that american can just solve. my view is and this is a view that has evolved over the years it s just better to be involved than not involved. just saying you guys are crazy, call us when you re ready to talk seriously, both of you. you know, that s a tempting position but, in fact, that doesn t work. that tends to make things worse. i think we need to be involved. my question for david ignatius, turkey is a nato member, a major country. so why not work through turkey to try to resolve this, especially given, as bobby pointed out, the lack of influence that egypt has right now? of course, it used to under the muslim brotherhood but it certainly doesn t now. so why not go to a government like that of turkey to try to work something out with hamas? well, it s a reasonable question. obviously, one that secretary kerry thought. if turkey could create working with the u.s., a stable situation in gaza, if turkey could deliver negotiators among the gazan within hamas or any other faction that could negotiate the kind of cease-fire and longer term arrangements for gaza that would lead to stability, i would have no quarrel with it but there is no evidence that is possible. what is unfortunate here is that in april, secretary kerry recognized that in the agreement between fatah, the more moderate palestinian faction, and hamas, for fatah and the palestinian authority to take control in gaza, which they agreed to do, was the opportunity to negotiate something longer lasting. i think my biggest regret, gene, is secretary kerry turned away from that sensible longer term program that would actually get at what is wrong and went for the very short term 24-hour cease-fire which, as we have seen, is falling apart because there isn t a structure yet that can create stability. okay. we are going to get to the other crisis, foreign policy crisis, the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17 and russia now pushing back against sanctions and saying it will only embolden in a moment. i want to get to domestic politic as well. a follow-up to a story we talked about yesterday. new york governor andrew cuomo is pushing back hard against allegations his office interfered with a political ethics commission one he put in place and stems from a front page article last week in the new york times which alleges cuomo s office squashed certain subpoenas that would have looked into the governor s own dealings. the governor emphatically denies this and saying no proof. one to a media firm connected to new york s democratic party. now one of the firm s three co-chairs at the center of the times story fitzpatrick is claiming that the panel was, indeed independent. he says, quote, the bottom line is that nobody interfered with me or my co-chairs. governor cuomo quick to praise the press conference yesterday in a news conference in buffalo. when you look at the facts, this moreland commission performed exactly the function they were supposed to perform. we passed a law that happen brought historic reform to the state. it was an overwhelming success and the commissioners have not gotten the credit that they deserve. independent. they were talking to people from the second floor. of course, they were. of course they were and they were talking to people from the senate and the assembly and the good government groups. it s not independence is will never talk to anyone, it s that they exercised their independent judgment. but despite yesterday s denials, e-mails obtained by the times showed, quote, mr. fitzpatrick had privatelily expressed frustration with meddling by the governor s office and cuomo needs to understand this is an independent commission and needs to be treated as such. yesterday, the governor disputed the times characterization of the remarks. read it again. the second floor needs to understand this is an independent commission and needs to be treated as such. okay. so what he is saying, at some point in time, is larry is having a conversation with him and larry is advocating a point. that is true. follow the movie to the conclusion. and what does chairman fitzpatrick say? no. resoundingly, no. what does the chairman s actions show? no. resoundingly, no! because he rejected the request! the rejection is ioion is ipso statement of independence because he said no. and he could, and he did. if you had watched the movie to the end, the name of the movie would have been independence. you named it inference. all right. so, sam, i special to governor cuomo. most of it was off the record last night about this because he saw our very heated conversation here on the show. also, we were sort of having a hard time getting through the quote, his very defensive quote about the commission that he created. but he says while the times is making a conclusion, that doesn t necessarily say it s true and that they have gone too far in their conclusion. while it may look like you can make a connection, you actually can t. and even the members of the panel say that the commission was independent. anybody? i mean, the question, i guess, is how much influence can you exert without the panel actually responding to your influence and does that matter? cuomo is saying the panel was ultimately independent because they said no to the request but the request was still made and influencing meddling in its own right. why can t a request be made? it depends how you want to do you want the commission to be completely independent from the other parts of the government? and i think when you establish, most people when they establish an ethics commission, yeah, you don t want anybody meddling in their influences and you want them to investigate and not have any contact with the outside world. boom. but cuomo is saying there is a gray area and that they do need to talk to other elements of government and they need to talk to other officials to do their work. i think part of the problem is cuomo has he is a secretive governor the entire time and now he is speaking out, people have a tough time sort of reconciling i will say my own personal, i would like i would love for him to come on. it s one thing to do a press conference really far away. i understand. we talked about the different reasons why he doesn t really want to do a lot of interviews right now. but i m wondering if he should. you know? and it would help a lot because it seems incredibly defensive. sort of pushing back saying, don t you understand what this looks like? this is someone who has tried to control the narrative around him from day one. and i think doing an interview in this form sort of counterintuitive everything he has done as governor and it shows. this is someone who did interfere in the broadest sense of the world in the ethics commission and that is someone who likes to have a control of the environs around him. governor cuomo came into the office i m going to clean up albany and new york and said it over and over and over again and that was the whole impetus for his campaign. now if he can clean up albany unless it pertains to him is what the problem is. gene, you read through the new york times piece this morning. his office says to the times a patient staffed by the executive cannot investigate the executive. so then the new york times asked governor cuomo about that apparent contradiction there. he said i never said it couldn t investigate me. see, facts matter, even for the new york times. it appears his own office can t quite get the story straight. yeah. it s very confusing. and one wondering about, you know, that the question you were jug talking about, why is governor cuomo, why is his style so secretive and why is everything so behind closed doors? especially the workings of a commission that is supposed to clean up all of the corruption and problems in albany. you would think that at least he would be more forthcoming and sort of open about about how this is working, what he is trying to accomplish and how he is doing it, and i think that just generates more suspicion and makes people wonder what this is really about. you know, the secretiveness, i think, comes off what appears to be a reticence to be tv interviews because potentially he might not want to get involved in the presidential politics conversation. 2016 might be waiting or ready for hillary, depending on where he has been. you know what? i think he should do an interview on this. i told him that. i really do. i think that this is taking a life of its own. still ahead on morning joe, everything you wanted to know about richard nixon, not pertaining to watergate. historian douglas brinkley is here with thousands of hours of audio from the 37th president. a decisive ruling in donald sterling s bid to block the sale of the l.a. clippers but is it finally enough to stop the defiant owner? and espn stephen a. smith and his apology for his controversial comments on domestic violence which sent the ladies of the view especially whoopi goldberg into a very provocative and heated discussion. first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? mika, did you see the pictures from outside of boston yesterday? a tornado? oh, my gosh. yeah. we had a tornado in connecticut two days ago and then yesterday up there outside of boston. this is very rare. this was actually near the coast. only about 10 to 15 miles north of downtown boston. there was 120-mile-per-hour winds and ef-2 tornado went right through this highly populated industrial area and fortunately no injuries. can you imagine that? look at the huge trees that came down. a picturesque picture in los angeles. you can see a tornado twisting there but it stayed harmlessly over the open fields. yesterday in new england wind damage and a lot of cleanup and trees down. storm system that produced a tornado is gone. so the lower humidity has moved it. cooler temperatures. it s going to be an absolutely gorgeous day today and you can feel it outside. probably didn t need your air-conditioning last night. many areas top out to the low 70s to the 80s for a high. this picture just out from yosemite national park. a small fire formed last night and now, all of a sudden, it s starting to spread and look at that active fire in yosemite national park. we will watch that today. again, it s a small fire now. but potential there is to grow. of course, the california drought, everyone knows how dry it is. the low humidity is not just in the northeast. appreciate it this morning. little rock, memphis, all the way through atlanta, a gorgeous day and it s like early fall throughout much of the country and that includes new york city. what a gorgeous day! lunch outside! light jacket, maybe even for some heading out the door this morning in july! you re watching morning joe. we will be right back. after nine days i let the horse run free because the desert had turned to sea but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. the summer of this.mmer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. now, that s progressive. time now to take a look at the morning papers. we will start with the l.a. times. the $2 billion sale of the los angeles clippers to former microsoft ceo steve ballmer will go through after a judge ruled against team owner donald sterling yesterday. the court sided with shelly sterling saying she had negotiated a good deal for the clippers and had the authority to take away her husband s control of the family trust. doing so after doctors determined he was mentally unfit to manage his affairs. under the ruling, donald sterling can t delay the sale from going forward as he appeals the case. poor donald sterling. only gets $2 billion. it s almost over. the washington post police in washington, d.c. are scrambling to deal with a new ruling that lifted the ban on carrying legally registered handguns in the nation s capital and comes after a federal judge ruled the district ban on firearms possession in public is unconstitutional. they are wanting to appeal to let new gun carry regulations. gene robinson, how is this playing in d.c.? not well at all. you know, i haven t seen anybody walking around, you know, strapped the last day or so. but, you know, the crazy thing is that people in the district of columbia overwhelmingly want gun control and they support gun control. they don t want people, you know, owning handguns, much less carrying them around in the street, however, congress and the courts are essentially saying, no, go ahead, shoot it out. let s go to the richard times dispatch. the fourth circuit appeals court struck down virginia s ban on same sexy marria-sex marriage. as other states are in the fourth circuit. it does not have a direct impact on gay marriage in other states the attorney general in north carolina says it means the ban will eventually be struck down. a new studied finds that a third of americans delinquent in debt and on the ground $5,200. that includes credit card bills and medical bills and child support. southern states have the largest number of people who are late on their bills. that includes alabama, florida, texas, and out west in nevada. the san francisco chronicle two men are accused of squating in a palm springs california condo they found on a website. the bothers had been living in the condo for over a month and refused to leave, despite only paying for 30 days. since the brothers had been living in the condo for more than 30 days, they are protected by california s tenant laws but that is not the only problem they are having on the web. the called air b&b squatters raised $40,000 on kick-starter for a video game that appears to have been abandoned. angry owners were redirected to another game s kick-starter play looking to raise another $25,000. what does that mean? 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i just think, you know, he got his comments underscored a to be curious and have a conversation. but if it s a steadfast rule. he shouldn t have used, in my view, the word provocation was a poor choice of words. does anybody want to try to have this conversation? maybe what he was trying to say everybody stop hitting everybody else or something else. but provocation is a provocation. but to have this conversation beyond a man should not hit a woman is impossible to have without a backlash. because there is no situation in which you can say a woman has put this man in a place where he need to strike back. no such situation exists, short of maybe the woman threatening the man s life. of course. i think if that is the basis of the conversation, then there is really not much to talk about, to be honest with you. it s not just men hitting women. i got into a fair number of scraps when i was a kid. my father and teachers always said afterwards, you don t hit anybody. you walk away. men don t hit women and women don t hit men. you don t hit anybody. you leave it there. i would say it s one thing to defend yourself if a man or woman is coming at you. if you re ray rice and you can bench press 400 pounds and you can suppress the woman and you don t need to knock her out. the big problem here is the two-game suspension for ray rice which seems so lenient compared to anybody else. you suspend him for far more games than other people were suspended for their so. all right. let s go to japan on a slightly different note. an actress with a background in martial arts breaks boxes with her head before throwing out the ceremonial pitch. what is that? 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yes, he is. the thing that i wanted to look at was the anthropology of the early state. we have had iowa and hamp as the early primary states for a long time but in case of terry branstad the long time governor has been running the state on and off since the 80s it is a study of incredible exhulltation how wonderful of a person he is and people falling all over themselves how great terry branstad is. who are the worst defenders? well, everyone. everyone? it s one oof another. i spent a day with chris christie there last week in iowa and he chris christie, it was actually the day of the ground invasion of gaza. it was also the day, i think the day after the plane went down in ukraine. and mr. tell it like it is, tough talking new jersey governor, you were expecting he was going to weigh in on the subject but, no, no. he was very concerned, mostly about talking about how great terry branstad is and how much of a legend he is and also how inspired he has been by the governor of iowa. you point out, mark, christie, perry and jindal have all passed through iowa this year. is there any indication or any evidence that all this butt kissing helps? helps a would-be presidential candidate? does it work to go in a couple of years out and kind of make your way across the state? i think, obviously, you need to pay attention to iowa if you want to do well in iowa or new hampshire. i think what is interesting and new now it s starting two, three, years out. yeah. it used to be there was an off-season. it s like so much in american life now. you see christmas decorations on sale in the spring. you see people lobbying for the oscars the week after the academy awards ended the year before. there is really no off-season and that certainly has proven true in presidential politics also. gene? mark, is there any indication or did you see any that people in iowa are getting sick of all of this? do they really accept that chris christie is actually there for the cows? you mean he is not? i think they would get fed up with all of this stuff. i think on the contrary, i think they love it. i think from a strictly economic standpoint it s probably great for the state. a lot of national media comes through. it s fun for them. i don t think there is any major downside, although i think it s important we tell it like it is, which is that, look. i mean, this is not necessarily a natural, you know, recitation of the rhythm of american life, yet this is part of the excess that has taken hold in so many areas. but, i mean, it s not full-proof obviously, because mike huckabee won in 2008 and rick santorum run in 2012 and neither ended up as president, at least as far as i can tell. you re wrong, sam. oh. in iowa, there are actually pictures of mike huckabee and rick santorum as our president. it can cut both ways like anything. barack obama would not be president today if it weren t for iowa so you don t know what impact it will have. it is really bizarre. mark is right. why we have a system because we all go to iowa. you can write this state. let s have a rotation of states. you should. just do one for every state. can you do one for every single state capitol? 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depend at underwareness.com flares have turned night into broad daylight in the skies over the gaza strip. today was supposed to be a cease-fire. it didn t work. an explosion on a busy street where children were playing. israeli says it was a stray hamas rocket. hamas doesn t accept that. and used the attack on the children as a reason to go on the offensive. intense fighting prevented investigators reaching the crash site of mh-17 for the second day running. much more substantial sanctions will come into place across broad sectors of the russian economy. two americans are fighting for their lives. infected with the deadly ebola virus. the spread of a dangerous illness like ebola is no longer somebody else s progress. last july, andrew cuomo pointed a special commission to tackle public corruption. now three-month examination by the new york times claims that governor cuomo s office deeply compromised the panel s work. if you had watched the movie to the end, the name of the movie would have been independence. you named it interference. we will get to that story in a moment. welcome back to morning joe. joining us now from washington, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports andrea mitchell. senior editor at the the new republic julia yanfey. good to have you both with us. the west increasing pressure on vladimir putin. president obama and leaders of several european countries agreed to a sweeping new set of sanctions. they will target defense, energy, and financial industries in russia. moscow, however, remains defiant. the country s foreign minister downplayed the impact of the sanctions and warned they will would only make russia stronger and more independent. in another sign of stepped-up tensions, moscow is now accused of violating a 1987 nuclear missile treaty by testing cruise missiles as early as 2008. u.s. officials say president obama addressed the issue in a letter to putin, calling it a, quote, very serious matter. meanwhile, ukrainian investigators say flight 17 s black box has revealed a massive explosive decompression brought down the jet and the shrapnel destroyed the plane. u.s. forces are making their way toward the crash site after another fighting with russian rebels. kiev says they gained controlled of two towns in eastern ukraine and more battles under way. the clashes are being blamed for 50 deaths between the two sides and 800 civilians have been killed there since mid april. the newest human rights chief is calling for a full investigation who shot down flight 17, adding that it may be considered a war crime. andrea, i want to start with you here. set the scene for us, first, in terms of russia s response, at least in their words, to the sanctions. well, russia will be tough rhetorically and doesn t mean the sanctions won t hurt. i want to look at the details of these sanctions when they are finally explained to all of us later today, because up until now, they have been giving france a pass, a waiver for arm sales that were already agreed to. any time you grandfather arm sales to russia, that is a big loophole in these sanctions. in any case, it is described to me as the toughest set of sanctions yet and it s clearly getting russia s attention. the fact is that europe is pretty organized now by the president and in sync with the united states because russia has been firing live artillery across the border. there is plenty of evidence of that. plus marbling its forces along the border to move more sophisticated efforts into the milit militia. that is being more aggressive. julie, conventional wisdom the last week or so that european countries were hesitant to go along with tougher sanctions because of the impact the sanctions might have on their own economies. it looks like europe, at least for now, has moved past that? that s right. the fact of the matter is that, you know, it s a two-way street and, you know, as much as europe is dependent on russia for certain things, like energy, russia is dependent upon europe. it gets 40% of its food and medicine from europe. so it goes both ways. so if one party shuts off basically, the consensus is also the russian economy would crumble a lot faster and much more devastating fashion than the european economy would. where is this going to go? what is the strongest measure that can be taken on the part of europe to unequivocally depend what is happening. it is a big issue and i think what europe is scared of is the kind of the wildcard that is putin s behavior. he has shown time and again that he can do really unpredictable things. things that, you know, will hurt his opponent but also hurt him, but he decides it s worth the pain. so i think what europe is scared of is that russia will turn off the energy tap, which, you know, for some european countries, they get as little as 10% of their energy from russia. some eu countries get as much as 100 of their energy from russia so that would really hurt. the netherlands which is most severely affected by the tragedy of the malaysian airliner and the horrible impact on the dutch. the netherlands their pension funds are all tied up in shell and other major corporations so they are going to take a huge hit from this from whatever sanctions do take place. it s also finance. it s the banking in the uk. the brits have been tough about this but when putin was first flexing his muscles toward crimea everybody was caving in because they are integrated they are with russia economically. bobby, the other sort of level of thinking in this is a point you just brought up and that is if russia gives more sophisticated weapons to the rebels, do we do the same for the ukrainian military and start jumping in that way? if russia has gone to the point where it s shelling across the border in support of the rebels, then what how can we make sure the ukrainian military doesn t get completely pounded on this? andrea, has there been any discussion on that in d.c.? more of the risks. yeah. there is real concern about the risks because there have been principally republicans on the hill, the usual hard-line conservative arms committee folks like mccain and graham who have been saying why aren t we arming the ukrainians. oerds is the fear at the pentagon and elsewhere. once you give the sophisticated weapons to the ukraine government, you ll have the same possible tragic result that you had the separatists. they are not really ready to run these things that you re thenes situation. the best thing help with the ukrainians on the intelligence and see where the weapons are on the opposition side. the analysis is that russia has escalated so dramatically in the last couple of weeks because the kiev government was making progress against the separatists in eastern ukraine and gaining territory and that is why the fighting. the fighting was even as keir simmons was showing us yesterday, they were fighting right around the crash site. julie, there is a level of sanctions the west and the world community could do to take putin to pause and step back. up until now the sanctions have only emboldened him and allowed to say to his own people it s us against the world. i don t think it s in a certain sense, it has stopped him from doing certain things. you know, there are people in moscow who say that for a period of about four days in april, russian troops were poised to go across the border into ukraine and that it was because of sanctions that he didn t give them the order to go across the border. publicly, though, the problem with sanctions also is the more you sanction vladimir putin, the less he can actually give you what you want. because of all the image that he has portrayed in russia for the last, you know, what, 14 years he is standing up to the west. the more the west pressures him to do something, the less likely he is to do it. so unless there is kind of something happening behind the scenes where they are offering putin an off ramp where he can, you know, tout something at home as a win, as something that he was able to bring home, and to get out of it, you know, on his terms and to save face, i don t think we are going to see much movement on the russian side. julie ioffe, thank you very much. we turn to the middle east. the crisis between israeli and hamas in its fourth week. hopes for a resolution app to be dwindling. israeli hit key hamas locations overnight. the targets including hamas tv station and the home of one of the group s top leaders. the strikes came as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivered a national tv address. he warned of an extended conflict and said, quote, there is no war more just than this. israeli and hamas are trading blame for an attack that left nine palestinian children dead and dozens injured. palestinian officials say israeli air strikes hit a park as children were playing on swings. israeli, however, says militants in gaza fired the rockets which failed to reach the intended targets and that brings the death toll to more than 1,100 palestinians, according to officials there. 53 israeli soldiers have been killed, including four yesterday, as well as three civilians in israeli. secretary of state john kerry is facing criticism now in the israeli press for pushing a cease-fire that reports claim would be more beneficial to hamas. secretary kerry is standing by its actions. make no mistake, when the people of israeli are rushing to bomb shelters, when innocent israeli and palestinian teenagers are abducted and murdered, when hundreds of innocent civilians have lost their lives, i will, and we will make no apologies for our engagement. andrea, we had had a discussion with david ignatius who has a pretty blistering piece on john kerry. he did. yeah. there is sort of the concept that he put on the table about sort of this giving hamas kind of more of a platform. but i have to say i m not sure what anyone can do at this point. that would be productive when you hear what all three leaders on all sides of this are saying. well, what kerry was trying to do with the support and sort of alliance of ban ki-moon and the u.n. and many other people in the world is get a cease-fire to stop the killing and that was viewed in israeli as a way of, you know, tying their hands because they felt they had to deal with the tunnels, they had to deal with the long-range rockets. and so i have never frankly seen such blistering personal criticism on the left and the right in the israeli press. the israeli people, 87% according to channel 10 s polling yesterday, the prime time top station, the top channel in israeli, 87% popularity what the government is doing and pushing it now to be even tougher. so kerry is just being blistered in israeli and it will inevitably hurt his effectiveness in the short term. he was already being blamed for the long term peace negotiations for nine months that, you know, collapsed. i think that, you know, susan rice came our show yesterday and defended him and the white house is trying to rally around. reports he is still trying to resurrect some sort of cease-fire but the focus now i m told is on a short-term cease-fire, not on the long-term relationships. of course, ignatius criticism is that in some way, he has empowered hamas by going to qatar and hamas sponsors and trying to engage them. i want to bring in some washington nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. we will get to a couple of political stories with you but sam first has a question. we have gone through a list of horribles in the world basically from ukraine to the middle east. we haven t even touched on the ebola virus. when i talk to white house officials they have a calm about it they are on top of these things, but it seems pretty clear that a narrative is developing of a world that is basically out of control. from your conversations with the administration officials, how are they prioritizing these issues and grasping with the sheer number of them all? funny you say that. i had the very similar conversation it sounds like that you had and it s my understanding that president himself is trying to project more calm and some on his staff are eyes wide open saying when the global chaos going to stop and the president sort of trying to say, hey, this is about a globally connected world. we see more of the problem, more of them are at our doorsteps because there s not many and because the united states is the only super power. he is trying to project calm with his own staff to sort of keep everybody at bay. i think as for the prioritization they see it right now as two priorities and that is you see where john kerry is. there is a reason they sent kerry to the middle east. a, what is going on with russia and the decision they made. they got the europeans on board and we will find out in about a month. i think you have to realistically give the sanctions about a month and we will find out in about a month if what the u.s. has been calling for some time which is serious sanctions from europe, will it actually change putin s behavior in ukraine? chuck, on the question of israeli. obviously, now the israeli press and some members of the government there have been openly critical of john kerry, openly critical of the obama administration. what is happening privately between the united states, the white house specifically, and israeli to try to mend that fence a little bit? well, look. you already have the ambassador here who is the israeli ambassador of the united states. he is very close to netanyahu. he has been trying to ratchet the rhetoric back here look. there has been distrust between the obama administration and netanyahu s administration basically from the beginning since president obama came in and it s never really the rifts have never really healed and there is time they scab over, but the wounds never go away and it s very easy to start up. and remember who the missing player is. the last time there was a hot war between israeli and gaza, you had a member of the muslim brotherhood in charge of egypt, mohammed morsi. regardless of everybody s criticisms of morsi as a leader inside egypt and these other issues, on this particular issue he was somebody that helped broker the last major truce between gaza and israeli and right now egypt is not a legitimate player in the eyes of hamas. chuck, we want to get you in on some domestic politics here. michelle nunn s campaign brushing off the leaks of her victory plan in the state of georgia that calls for the candidate to spend 80% of her time raising money. conservative national review released a atrophy of her strategy memos giving a rare glimpse in inside a campaign. her campaign highlighted what they saw as her biggest vulnerabilities including running the points of life when irs filing show may have provided money to an organization accused of having loose ties to hamas. also a memo highlighting what the campaign saw as an opportunity in the jewish community saying, quote, michelle s position on israeli were largely determined the level support there adding that her message was tbd, nunn is locked in a tight race with david perdue. her campaign doesn t dispute the authenticity of the document writing in a statement, quote. chuck, these plans exist on every campaign. of course. is we have got one in the spotlight this morning. absolutely. look. this is why you hire political consultants and you can them in some way do due diligence on yourself. that is what this was. this sort of, you know, what are her vulnerabilities and what should be working on and focus on and how are the republicans going to attack her. in many ways exactly what you pay a political consultant to come up with is to, you know, look through her background and all of this stuff. here it is. it s the equivalent in football terms of the new england patriots getting a copy of the new york jets playbook although i guess you could argue the jets playbook they could have and it wouldn t matter because it s the jets. the point is it s seeing the other team s playbook. the republicans are pouncing saying she is all image conscience and she is trying to portray she is new to politics and another image want that beel this stuff. it s an uphill battle to run as a democrat in georgia and she is trying to be authentic. in this day and age when authenticity matters this makes it look like oh, my god, it s esche everybody s worst stereotype what politicians look like. the seen in simpsons. gene, 80% of i guess it sounds crazy, but welcome to reality. might she be the only one that does that? it s how it works these day. dialing for dollars 24/7 basically. it looks kind of crazy and artificial when it s all written down like this but i think chuck is absolutely right. this is what candidates do and what political consultants do and this is what it s like to run for office these days. especially for a senate seat. the major embarrassment might not be for michelle nunn. it s how money driven the political process is. everybody, actually. andrea mitchell, thank you. we will be watching andrea mitchell reports at noon on msnbc. chuck todd, see you after morning joe. the cuban missile crisis retold. one of the definitive moments in u.s. history. up next, the quest for 10,000 steps. how running just five minutes a day can literally save your life. dr. nancy snyderman is standing by with that. you re watching morning joe. when salesman alan ames books his room at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i m sold! he s a selling machine! put it there. and there, and there, and there. la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you ll be ready for 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fever and 104 and is 105 and have kidney fail and die. it s like a big wildfire but it s not a smart virus like hiv and doesn t now how to get to one person to another and keep itself live. we normally see these ebola outbreaks has are isolated and go kaboom. now we have seen an ebola outbreak jump a border and last week a man who had a fever got on an airplane and ended up in another country and died several days later. so, for the first time, the world health organization, the centers for disease control is speaking to foreign countries to sort of talk about border control, screening passengers before getting on airplanes. no doubt this is very little risk to the united states. however, it does mean that if you are an aide worker and traveled to western africa and you talk to your doctor, where you ve been in the world now has to be part of your basic history and physical. it can no longer be, well, i just had a sore throat and fever for a few days without saying, have you been out of the country? oh, my gosh. and also the person with the fever what came and then died. right. you were talking about screening? right. as you and i in maknow screenin to get on an airplane is minimal at best if any screening at all. health care workers saying maybe let s take your temperature. you just don t get on that plane. if a patient were to arrive in the united states and look like that, that person would be immediately isolated and hospitalized. the only way to really shut this down is treat it like a wildfire. if there are brush fires popping here and there, you have to make sure they are all out. the challenge is, especially for this person who got on the airplane and maybe came into contact with at least we know 65 people, follow that chain link fence everywhere, find out all of those people he may have been in contact with and you have to make sure you do reasonable surveillance. how does the virus spread human-to-human? it s very much direct contact. saliva, vomit, diarrhea, maybe semen, we are not sure. but because aide workers when you see them in the field are in these hazmat suits. right. what concerns us is one of the american women who is infected and now being treated, her job was just to take off the hazmat suits and help bleach down the guys getting out. she was not even in direct contact. so the death rate from ebola is as high as 90% in. in this current outbreak it s hovering around 68%. the idea is jump in early because if you can stop the kidneys from going into failure. we will get to this new study. gene has a quick question. my question was just that, nancy. first world medical treatment, do we think that death rate would be lower than the 90% or even the 60%? probably, gene. so what we are running into right now is people, particularly in guinea and sierra leone haven t seen this before because this is a new illness in these countries. at the same time, they are seeing ebola kill neighbors and friends and family, the red cross is coming in and catholic charities is coming in. some villagers are seeing western medicine come in at the same time family members are dying and stoke the fear that outsiders have brought the illness. so that need for western medicine and sort of old beliefs and i m going to say, you know, like the voodoo kind of home medicine that you see in many villages, it s all colliding. so aide workers have talked about 17-year-olds with machetes stopping their cars, cutting down trees, and putting up road blocks to keep aide workers out. so they really want aide workers to work with local elders who are respected to try to demystify this. it s horrific. and i should say in this part of the world, ritual bathing of the dead is part of the custom but if you touch someone who is dead you re going to get the virus. let s now turn to this new study from the journal of the american college of cardiology on running. fascinating study. you know, we have been told before to run to work out an hour a day and you re going to live longer. impossible for most people. right. this study looked at over 55,000 people and showed that for runners, the reduction of heart disease and stroke is 30% or so. but even for the average person, if you run five minutes a day, you can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke by almost 50%. so that use it or lose it, a little bit is better than nothing is significant. five minutes at like a dead sprint? no, just five minutes a day. sam wants to know how. how bad can i run? mika, i m not a runner. never loved it and never got that endorphin high and never figured out what is so great to it. mika love to get out there and run. i would like to wave them on. but i am very conscious of how much i walk a day. if you re not a runner, at least get in 10,000 steps. on the weekend, 25,000 steps. i would think that is doable for a lot of folks and it s really nice and probably has the same benefit. about three years ago, yes. 25,000 steps seems like a lot. on a weekend, absolutely doable. i think edition to bars. make sure you re drinking the dark alcohol because that stuff is good for your heart. all i drink. nancy, it s basically 30 to 60 minutes a week. let s say you took the low end 30 minutes a week. you could run twice a week, 15 minutes? that is doable for everybody. i do something every day. there was a study about three or four years ago looking at very fit men with no risk factors for heart disease and stroke. their jobs, however, were desk jobs. and they found that sitting at a desk was an independent risk factor for having heart attack. why you need a treadmill desk. have you seen those? al roker has one. he walks all day long. we should get them here. show it on the air. everyone else is on their treadmills watching. everyone says i watch you from my treadmill every morning. i feel jealous! trip on them. i like that. nancy, thank you so much. great to see you. ahead outrage in new york city as residents in a luckry apartment 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is not the victory of mig might, but the vindication of right. both peace and freedom. here in this hemisphere and we hope around the world, god willing, that goal will be achieved. that was october of 1962. the cuban missile crisis put the u.s. and soviet union and a military face-off. what went on behind the scenes to avoid a full-out war. with us is the new york times best selling author, steven l. carter who is out with his latest novel back channel. great to have you back on the show. thank you. congratulations on this. we will also talk about the poor door controversy here in new york city coming up which i think is fascinating. you reimagined, speaking of fascinating, the cuban missile crisis and you bring in a couple of different aspects to this. the game of chess and young woman by the name of margo jensen. here, there s two historical facts that i worked with. one is that president kennedy really did have an affair with a 19-year-old college student that did actually overlap the cuban missile crisis. second, behind the official negotiations, there was an unofficial negotiation, a secret negotiation only a few people knew about in the white house. my fictional premise supposed the affair with the college student didn t really happen but a cover for the secret negotiations. okay. take it from there. that affair did happen with kennedy, correct? i really did have an affair with a 19-year-old but my fictional 19-year-old he does not have an affair with but she is asked to pretend to have an affair with the president using his reputation as it were as the cover so that she can ferry messages between him and an official of the soviet embassy. when we look back on the history of what that time meant for the world internationally it was a big chess game and trying to figure it out and a lot of it went with the national thought leaders who could think like the luck of trying to figure out the situation. why does chess play to prominently for you in your books? you say you re an amateur at chess, which i doubt. no, i m an absolute amateur. but what chess involves is figuring out what your opponent is going to do and not letting your opponent know what you are going to do. when you look at foreign policy crises today and there are a lot of them and a lot of people criticizing the president or supporting him and a lot of the criticism i think is undeserved. foreign policy is hard. but the one piece of advice that i would give, if ever asked, wanting to learn from this crisis what kennedy did, he kept guessing. whether kennedy was willing to push the button or not. we still don t know. keeping his opponent off balance that way and keeping his cards so close to his vest and his close advisers didn t know i think was the successful completion of the crisis. discussion of the difficulties of writing and melding the two together. i think written seven or eight works of nonfiction and it is my sixth novel. you re right. to me writing novels is harder and writing historical novels is particularly difficult. it appeals to me as a scholar. i get to do the research and i try in this novel to bring washington, d.c. to 1962 to life and it all takes place in europe and so on but i try to bring the city to life as it really would have been. i have a a lot of real historical characters in the novels, not only the kennedy brothers and national security adviser but people like bobby fisher, the chess champion and others. to me half the fun of it is trying to make sure i have to the extent possible my facts right and that takes a lot of time. why not go full nonfiction and retell the story of what happened from a purely historical end? but i like to tell stories. people like to read the stories. you have a story to tell. i do. i want to bring you to real life for a second. as you have written in bloomberg view about the corridor controversy here in new york city and you write in part this. everyone is mad about the poor door. this is the name critics bestowed upon the separate entrance for the affordable housing units on the western side of manhattan. it is a little outrageous but some of it may be optical. the separate entrance for the cheaper units which is hardly heard of in manhattan real estate is part of a consequence of the very policies that new york is trying to enforce. so the title of this is the poor door concept is nothing new in u.s. cities. i don t think that makes it okay. it s not okay. it s not okay. no, it s not okay. it s a terrible thing, but new york is one of the most economically segregated cities in the united states. well studied. already in new york city, there is an enormous separation between where the with to do live and where the poor live. right but to have the poor people who live in the affordable part of that building bringing in a separate door is bringing us to a past time. i m agreeing. the way to resolve this, is number one, the economic segregation in new york we have the sections of the city that are rich and sections that are poor and tend to not overlap with each other is number one. second the way to solve the problem of affordable housing is not only to reduce some of the regulations that make it expensive to build housing but to get people with actual money they can go out and find a place to live that meets their standards rather than some standard that was designed by the city itself. stephen, in talking about this specific building on the upper west side and also to the divide in the city, a lot of people being priced out of living in manhattan directly. if i understand about the building, the residents in one section say the higher cost apartments are not going to share the same amenities and same floors. it s like two separate buildings built in one structural space so that these builders are getting the big tax exemptions and kick-backs from the city? i agree. what i would do i would stomp giving the builders those benefits. what the builders do with these benefits and not only build separate spaces and extra benefits to sell off for millions of dollars. what the city is doing for this program is subsidizing the construction from luxury housing where builders make billions of dollars. you have a lot of buildings in manhattan have the separate entrances we both object to and the only way we are going to stop that is stop giving them the subsidy which they are happy to get. why put the affordable housing units in the building? more housing can be built you may have someone else put in good to have you back on the show. a pleasure. up next, will voters hurt the democrats this november? we are going to explore in the mojo polling place. plus the nixon tapes you never heard. historian douglas brinkley will be on the set and some of these are fantastic. did you hear some of these? yes. family friendly. yeah. we will be right back. shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano 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offensive. intense fighting prevented investigators reaching the crash site of mh-17 for the second day running. much more substantial sanctions will come into place across broad sectors of the russian economy. two americans are fighting for their lives, infected with the deadly ebola virus. the spread of a dangerous illness like ebola is no longer someone else s problem. last july, governor andrew cuomo created a special commission to tackle public corruption. and now, a three-month examination by the new york times claims that governor cuomo s office deeply compromised the panel s work. if you had watched the movie to the end, the name of the movie would have been independence. you named it interference. welcome back to morning joe. sam stein, eugene robinson still with us. joining us now, columnist for bloomberg view, al hunt, in new york. i m confused. first time on the set here in new york. is it really? it s usually a d.c. thing with al. my dream has been to be with mika in new york and finally that s one way to put it. and with steve. what about me, al. don t leave sam out. former mccain campaign strategist and msnbc political analyst, steve schmidt is here as well. nice to have you on board. thank you, mika. let s start with breaking news, as the crisis between israel and hamas enters its fourth week, nbc news has confirmed moments ago that two u.n. staff members were killed in gaza today. the new barrage of strikes came as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivered a national tv address, warning of an extended conflict there. joining us now from tel aviv, nbc news correspondent, kate snowe with the latest. kate? reporter: good morning, mika. secretary of state john kerry is still pushing all the parties for an end to the bloodshed here, but i have to tell you, he faces an uphill battle in israel, because look at what the public and the press are saying about john kerry. here s the headline in this morning s paper, it says obama and kerry are playing with fire. overnight, more explosions in gaza. this morning, the main power plant took a hit, columns of smoke are still rising. israel confirmed ten soldiers died yesterday, pushing the number of military deaths over 50, the highest casualty count since a war in the north in 2006. that s only increasing israel s resolve to keep going, and it helps explain why it s been so tough for john kerry to negotiate a peace deal. i just want to say a very few words, quickly about the events in gaza. kerry s been soundly criticized in the israeli media for the way he pushed for a cease-fire. a columnist for the liberal newspaper says senior government officials in jerusalem described carri kerry s cease-fire proposal as a strategic attack. it s not just that kerry and the obama administration is taking the side of the palestinians, but in the arab world in general over israel. and the feeling is that this america led by this president won t actually be there when it matters for israel s security needs. one paper called kerry a nudnnik. somebody coming again and again and again and doesn t do much. reporter: the coffee crowd in tel aviv thinks kerry is out of his league. he thinks he can make some agreement, he can write some nice words, some nice statements. come on. get real. reporter: the obama administration spent monday bending over backwards to defend kerry. the reality is that john kerry, on behalf of the united states, has been working every step of the way with israel in support of our shared interests. reporter: so here s the situation. a lot of analysts are worried that kerry, with all this kerry bashing going on, is going to lose some of his power to even negotiate some kind of cease-fire, let alone a lasting peace over here. and meantime, while all the diplomats are talking, more than 70 palestinians were killed in that fighting overnight. sam stein? kate, i had a question for you. the israel ambassador to the united states yesterday spoke out in defense, actually, of john kerry, and tried to minimize the distance between the netanyahu government and the secretary of state. do you pick up any sense that the israeli government thinks that the talk has been overblown, or what is the imperative for them in having the ambassador come out and saying something like that? reporter: publicly, they still want to talk about their alliance with the u.s. they need america as an ally. behind the scenes, it s harder to say. the sense from here, when you talk to the people, at least, is that israelis, they re not giving up. they don t want a cease-fire. they re not going to stop this offensive, because they strongly believe that those tunnels still exist and that they haven t yet demilitaryized hamas. that s the mood on the street that benjamin netanyahu is dealing with here. and of course, he has to balance that with the diplomacy. nbc s kate snowe in tel aviv, thanks so much. al, you heard netanyahu in the past 24 hours pulling this just war. kerry, obviously, the secretary of state in the crosshairs of criticism. and you know, at what point, really, is he to blame for continued fighting, when all sides of this are so at each other s throats, literally, and show no sign of backing down. it s almost like the criticism of kerry is an excuse to keep fighting, instead of to listen and to stop. it s kind of hard to blame john kerry for for trying. for fighting in the middle east. he may have made a tactical mistake. i don t know enough about what s on the ground there. but to say that john kerry is not a friend of israel. to say that john kerry is somehow trying to help hamas is just utter and complete nonsense. it s ludicrous. and i think for the israeli those israelis who perpetuate that are going to find it self-defeating. they re not only perpetuating it, this time it s being stirred up as an excuse not to consider a cease-fire, which, i mean, at this point, we re looking at day after day after day of video of civilians and children, getting caught in these massacre. i think the key quote from yesterday was when netanyahu talked about continuing this operation until they closed all of the tunnels from gaza into israel. that could be a serious and long-term operation in terms of the war hostilities. and it suggests that israeli is in this mind-set where they want to, you know, figuratively, mow the lawn, chop down hamas s military capabilities for now, for a couple of years, and they ll have to end up coming back. and my question for everyone who talks about this is what is the long-term strategic objective of israel here? i m having trouble figuring out what they re trying to do in the long run. what replaces hamas as the military outfit of the palestinians? and does it spread to the west bank? steve? look, the reason there is fighting now, today, is 100% entirely the fault of hamas. this is a terrorist organization. the lobbing of missiles into israel, the attacks on the civilian populations in israel have precipitated this crisis. and the strategic goal of the israeli nation, of the israeli army is to demilitaryize, to disarm, to defang hamas. and they have sustained casualties, great sacrifice on the part of the israeli people. and it should be the job of the government of the united states in this situation, to communicate with absolute moral clarity that we will stand side-by-side with israel. that we will not give cover to those who draw false equivalence with the two sides. the images on television are tragic, because all war is tragic. but the israeli people don t live in the fantastical world of washington, d.c. the threats that they face are real, they are lethal, and the people that you just saw being interviewed in cafes have a visceral understanding of that in a way that our policy makers can t seem to at an intellectual level. and i don t want to start a because every conversation usually results in an emotional back and forth, and i don t want to get there. i think, in theory, that s fine. but you can t just ignore the severe humanitarian crisis that s going on in gaza, as well as the civilian casualties. we can t have a foreign policy in a vacuum. yes, it makes sense to stand with israel. yes, israel has vulnerability from hamas. but at the same time, there are clearly issues in elements of the palestinian cause that resonate with the american public, and certainly with the european public and the world public that can t just be wiped away. who is that you re negotiating with? that s the great question. when the people that you are trying to do a deal with do not recognize at any level your legitimacy nothing, exactly. the hamas chief said that s true! gene, jump in? the question, to me, steve, is, okay, who are you negotiating with? well, if you don t want to negotiate with hamas, because that s the opposite party, under any circumstances, and the only way to get at hamas is essentially through the people, the civilians who live in gaza, there s a problem there. and we can t ignore that problem, that if the only way you can get at hamas is, you know, killing thousands, potentially, before this is over, of civilians in gaza, there s a real question there, that we can t just look past. and you know, there s a question of proportionality here and i think it s, you know, i can understand, you know, i know what israelis feel, i know how under attack they feel, with good reason. but there is a question of proportionality. and in the end, can you bomb hamas into oblivion? can you totally get rid of hamas? and if so, isn t it replaced by something very much like hamas? or worse. or worse. well, look, at the end of the day, you have a densely packed civilian population. hamas operates within that civilian population. they use that civilian population to hide weapons systems, to hide rocket systems. the israeli army does everything it can conceivably do to avoid civilian casualties in its operation. this is a moral country. this is a moral fighting force. what is happening in any war, where there are civilian casualties, where there is collateral damage, it is very tragic. but now that this has begun, it must be finished. sure. and the israeli army must be supported by this country in its quest to do as much damage to disarm hamas and to demilitaryize them, to degrade them, and to weaken them as much as possible or these losses will have been in vain. and the secretary of state should not be drawing false equivalence between the two sides. i don t think he did draw he did not draw a false equivalence, steve. that s just not right. he tried to get a cease-fire. you can argue that was a mistake. but to what to end violence. but the strategic goal here should be the degrading of hamas, not the the strategic goal is not the achievement of a cease-fi cease-fire. a cease-fire achieved without a degraded hamas means we will likely see more military con fli flikt in the future. now that this has begun, there is only one way for it to end, and that is for hamas to be defanged to the largest stent as possible. we re saying, what happens? what are the ramifications of a defanged hamas? as eugene possible, i don t think any of us know this, but is it a possibility that what replaces hamas in gaza could end up being worse. it could be a series of terrorist groups or terror cells that we have no control over, that provide no social services to the people of gaza. those are the questions we re not grappling with. we have a very short-term mind-set about this conflict when we should be thinking about the long-term. it s entirely possible that it could be worse. and if it is worse, then the israeli army will need to continue into and here we are. this is why these conversations i want to get two political stories in this block, before we go to break. first this one, u.s. senate hopeful michelle nun s campaign is brushing off the leak in georgia. it calls for the candidate to spend 80% of her time raising money. the conservative national review released a trove of nunn s international campaign strategies. it highlighted her biggest vulnerabilitie vulnerabilities, including her work, an organization that may have loose ties to hamas. and there s a memo highlighting what the campaign saw as an opportunity in the jewish community. saying, quote, michelle s position on israel will largely determine the level of support, adding that her message was tbd. nunn is currently locked in a tight race with georgia businessman, david perdue. her campaign doesn t dispute the authenticity of the document. writing in a statement, quote, this was a draft of a document that was written eight months ago. like all good plans, they change. but what hasn t changed is all the more clear today, that michelle s components are going to mischaracterization, to mischaracterize her work and her positions, and part of what we ve always done is prepare for the false things that are going to be said. i m not sure if that s in response to what happened or not, but that s their response. al, are you surprised by anything in the memo when you know the inner workings of politics? no, i m really not. i m not. it hurts, but i m i can t stand that 80% of her time has to be you wish you didn t have campaigns, where you spend 80% of your time. but you do. points of light, as i recall, was a george bush foundation, a george bush initiative. look, it s embarrassing and it doesn t help. michelle nunn is a very strong accompanied. is the best single opportunity to win a republican seat. her father is still revered in the state of georgia. he s running with jimmy carter s grandson. and they ve got a shot in a red state, in a year that s not going to be you must have written tons of these memos. has anyone what stands out? i have a couple of reactions. first off, she s only spending 80% of her time raising money? only?! good god! i m serious about this. my line to candidates has always been, you re going to submit about 90% of your time raising money. in that this is a revelation to anybody is just shocking to me. look, this is what american politics is like. candidates spend more than 80% of their time, spend much more like 90% of their time raising must be. and that s how broken the system is. and then the second part of it is, and i ve been for a long time now, in a campaign. i just don t hand out paper around the table. everything gets put on the dry erase board. the notion that you re going to put this into long strategic memos and pass out 100 copies is beyond crazy. well, this one was accidentally posted online, which is even crazier. oh, come on! that s how they got it. who would post that online? the former campaign aides. look, when i was running the arnold schwarzenegger campaign, we got a call from the l.a. times one day, saying they had hours of taped conversations, we had no idea how they got them. we eventually figured out, with arnold schwarzenegger talking, you know, in, you know, you know, off the cuff. and i love him to death, but let me assure you that s good stuff. he s a colorful character. and i always thought hours of arnold schwarzenegger tapes with nothing particularly damaging in the media was the equivalent of a 747 doing an emergency landing in lower manhattan and doing no damage and hurting no one. so you can survive this thing. you can. sam in 2008, the obama campaign accidentally sent us their district by district plan from february through june. went through every district. and when i called him up and said, it s terrific, they said, you can t print that, and i said, i can, and they said, we have lots of plans, and i said, send us every one and we ll print every one. and they survived. i got a memo about how to court a high-profile donor and what it was going to entail and how they were going to talk to the guy. it was what would you expect they wanted to do to a high-profile donor, but it was hugely embarrassing to have something like that revealed in public. i don t know what happened to the donor. i assume he department donate. probably ambassador of lu luxembou luxembourg. i remember infamously the in 2008, the giuliani campaign memo about how he was going to run for president was leaked and obviously that didn t turn out well for giuliani. we re also following a story with andrew cuomo. you seen this? new york governor andrew cuomo pushing back hard against allegations that his office interfered with a political ethics commission, a commission he himself put in place. it stems from a front-page article last week in the new york times which alleges cuomo s office squashed certain subpoenas is that would have looked into the governor s own dealings. including one to a media firm connected to new york s democratic party. but now, one of the firm s three co-chairs at the center of the times story, william j. fitzpatri fitzpatrick, is claiming that the panel was, indeed independent. he says, quote, the bottom line is that no one interfered with me or my co-chairs. but disappoint yesterday s denials, e-mails obtained by the times show that fitzpatrick had expressed frustration with meddling with the governor s office. at one point, e-mailing that mr. cuomo s office needs to understand that this is an independent commission and needs to be treated as such. yesterday, the governor disputed the times characterization of the remarks. read it again. the second floor, larry, needs to understand that an independent commission needs to be treated as such. okay, so what he s saying is that at some point in time, larry is having a conversation with him and larry is advocating a point. that s what that is saying. that is true. follow the movie to the conclusion. and what does chairman fitzpatrick say? no, resoundingly, no. what does the chairman s actions show. no. resoundingly no. because he rejected the request. the rejection is ipso facto a statement of independence because he said no. and he could and he did. if you had watched the movie to the end, the name of the movie would have been independence. you named it interference. okay. so, i want to get steve s take on this. the governor is has also said i spoke to him on the phone yesterday, most of it off the record, but denying vehemently that he didn t they did not squash subpoenas. so the times is making a connection that everyone is running with. and the question is, in terms of looking at his response here and looking at the story as it was laid out, the actual facts making no connections, just the facts, is he in trouble in any way? no. and by the way, what i think is, and what he said, i find very compelling. and i think he is correct. and my advice to him would be to speak no more of this matter ever again forever. if the chairman of the commission says that i was not interfered with, and as the governor just went through, and the e-mail to me is dispositive of the fact that he asserted his independence, did not yield to political pressure in a conversation with a political aide who was trying to make a point, and there s no actual evidence, just supposition that there was a quashing of subpoenas, i don t know what the story is here. he didn t squash a subpoena? i think the answer is no, there is no evidence that subpoenas were squashed politically. so in the context of the story, you understand why he seems a little bit emotional, what his reaction is on that. but i don t know what the basis of the story and the allegation is, given the other facts that we just laid out here. i think you re i m not quite so benign on this. he may not have squashed subpoenas, i don t know. i m not familiar with this story. but what is clear, albany is a cesspool of corruption, they tried to clear it up, they tried to interfere, someone from his office, maybe they didn t succeed. i think andrew cuomo does not look good here. and here s a governor, ipso facto, he is in trouble. that s a different issue. i just wanted to get ipso facto in there. people have been trying to clean up albany since the 1920s. it s always been a sacesspool. the fact that albany is a cesspool has no bearing on this story. unless you said you came to albany to clean it up. but bring that up in the re-election. is there any evidence that the governor was involved in squashing subpoenas? there s no apparent evidence to me of that. if the chairman of the commission says that he did shut down the commission. there was no political interference. that s a problem in its own right. it s a problem, i suppose, if people want to make a political argument that he ought not to have closed down the commission. but the notion that, you know, that the story that ran, i think, is absent facts, alleging what he did. the question is what is interference, right? guys, so we have chris christie on one side of this thing and tri-state area. the tri-state governors are being looked at, and in both the cases, the optics are very bad. but to the governor s point, there are no facts right now that prove that he quashed subpoenas, right? does anybody have any? okay, we don t. but it doesn t look good. i think that s fair to say. closing down the the optics are bad. shutting down a commission that you created and it looks like there may be some timing that would indicate that it might be effective, but you ve got no proof. you created it because you were a great corruption fighter. and then you shut it down. but, again, there s no actual fact that chose that. and you could also say that the new jersey governor, you know, tried that as well, saying there are no facts that show i was connected to the lane but that did not stop the press from talking about it is and saying these could be connections that could be made. it s an interesting trifecta. all right. we ll revisit this. we ll be following this. and maybe we ll hold a news conference closer to new york city. that would be nice. because that s another optic issue. buffalo s not good enough? buffalo is hard to get to. i m like, are you kidding me, buffalo? now it seems like you re trying to make it far away tim russert is looking down on you somewhere, be careful, mika. i love buffalo, i m just saying, but if you want to address the story, come to the reporters who are covering it. eugene robinson, thank you, steve schmidt, thank you as well. al hunt, stay with us. 40 years ago after his resignation as president, we ll take a look at some new uncensored tapes from the nixon administration. they re fascinating. and later, the impact of two opposing forces on the modern family dynamic. we ll explain what those forces are with a fascinating new study ahead and the impact of women working and making money and how that potentially affects marriage. but, first, here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? morning to you, mika. a lot of activity lately. we had those tornadoes in boston yesterday, one in virginia last week. and then we had that lightning strike on the beach that killed that person in california, three rare events. what s not so rare is summertime fires in the west. and they continue to spread and we ve been having a very active period. these are coming from near yosemite national park, and we re going to watch this area closely today, because they do have the chance to spread with warm temperatures and some breezy conditions out there. in all, we now have 27 large fires burning in the west. it actually died down just a little bit. we had about 36 last week. so some rainfall has been beneficial. this picture came to us overnight. this is from yosemite national park, and you can actually see on here, how active the fire is, right through the middle of the night. a pretty eerie looking picture there. so across the country, we had that storm in new england yesterday, gone. now we re looking at beautiful conditions. no problems with the mid-atlantic, ohio valley. dry air all the way to the south. one area that s needed the rain, new mexico. and you re getting drenched. we ve seen too much, too fast, and we have some flash flood warnings. colorado and new mexico, flash flooding. your tuesday forecast, flash flood threat continues for colorado, new mexico, some afternoon storms in florida. and as we head towards the end of the week, the predominant weather story will be what happens with this tropical disturbance. it looks like it could become tropical storm bertha by the end of the week. somewhere near puerto rico by the time we get to sunday. and it could go somewhere just off the east coast it looks like, next week at this time. so that s good news with that. shouldn t be much of a problem for the lower 48. but our friends in puerto rico, we ll keep a close eye on it. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. over 20 million kids everyday in our country lack access to healthy food. for the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life span than their parents. it s a problem that we 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private taping system, and an eerie warning from his chief of staff. joining us now, professor of history at rice university, douglas brinkley, who is the father of cassidy, it s cassidy, right, sweetie? yeah, i m good. also the co-editor of a new book, the nixon tapes: richard nixon unfiltered, uncensored, and in his own words. is your dad nice? yeah. a good writer, right? and cassidy says she s best behaved in the household. i ll let you go figure that out between your brother and sister, because we re going to be talking about inappropriate behavior among pandas, apparently. so cute. so good. we ve got a lot of fascinating things to talk about pertaining to your books and these tapes. here s a conversation between president nixon and henry kissinger when they wanted to produce criticism against soviet jews, worried it could harm their secret talks with the soviet union. what do you think of this conversation? henry kissinger, being jewish, is constantly worried he s going to be taken out of being a negotiator in the middle east, anything to do with israel or foreign policy in general, but nixon told halderman, i don t want any jews regarded with foreign policy. so kissinger always trying to overcompensate and being macho. in this case, he says, i don t care about the human right s jes and soviet unions. it s none of our business. we don t ask russia to tell us about african-americans, we don t care what happens to them. at one point, he says, i don t care basically if they go in gas chambers, it s none of our business. they re in russia, it s not america. he s a realist, kissinger, and this is his real politic vision. al, have you been listening to these tapes at all? i ve listened to some. it s fascinating. i can t wait to read doug s book. everything about nixon is fascinating. the contradictions, this incredibly smart man who was so insecure, had good policies and did them in the worst possible way. but kissinger also was pandering to him. absolutely. and nobody spoke up to the boss. and you have to give kissinger to you know, he didn t know he was being tape recorded. nixon had everything voice activated. it wasn t like johnson or kennedy, where they were doing limited taping. this was everything. they even bugged camp david. so you can imagine kissinger, years later, when these come out, you have to be you get mortified. but nobody, except halderman, and maybe once or twice, really stands up to the boss. they re afraid of him. and kissinger in his defense, pandered to him rhetorically, but it didn t affect policy. often would just do the opposite or at least try to work other channels. in fact, we owe kissinger a little bit of credit in october of 1973 with the yom kippur war, nixon was drinking all the time, completely dissolving, because of the pressure of watergate, and it was kissinger and scowcroft who kept our foreign policy going. so had it been today, there could be cameras everywhere. it would be like the kardashians. one of the more humorous exchanges in the book, nixon s conversation with a washington reporter about chinese pandas heading to the national zoo. nixon was apparently amazed at how they mated. pandas are voyeurs. what in the world?! what in the world? well, nixon s sort of an odd man. yes. but, of course, his best moment in history is the 1972 breakthrough to china and the pandas coming to america were a big deal. and on one of the tapes, nixon was talking about the problem of what zoo, san diego, st. louis? and he decided on the national zoo, because he thought the climate was right for pandas. so he started reading a lot about pandas, so far that he was getting into their mating habits with a reporter. a real aficionado. so 72, you talk about, that s when the breakthrough he had with china. but when we look at his most powerful years, really is just prior to that. because watergate, you know, 73, as you say, he was drinking a little more than he should have been. but 71/ 72? yeah, he was a big deal. he won in 68, improbable as it was. 72, the biggest landslide in american history against george mcgovern. on one of the tapes, he s so victorious, he says, why isn t somebody writing a book about 1972. all that i ve accomplished. his sense of grandiosity is extreme. and of course, we know, by 73, watergate just starts ripping him down. and you get a whole new batch of tapes that a man name stanley cutler had put into a book called abuse of power, a great scholar from wisconsin, and now john deans also adding to that record. did you like putting this together? it was unbelievable, because my friend, luke nicktor, we had transcripts so high, he s been working on it for a decade. and we went through and edited it down to try to be fair. ones that are historically significant, some lighter moments, and some moments of dark nixon. before we go to break, we re going to bump out with him talking about women who swear, which we ran earlier. it is something to listen to. the book is the nixon tapes. and you can read an excerpt on our site, mojo.msnbc.com. douglas brinkley, thank you so much. thank you, cassidy! your daughter s adorable! always bring her. al hunt, thank you as well. i know you ve got to run. tomorrow on morning joe, we ll continue our look at president nixon. john dean will be our guest for his book, the nixon defense, what he knew and when he knew it. coming up this morning, the revolution at home. how men and women are learning to coexist in a new era of equality, or no coexist. morning joe will be right back. think the tree we carved our names in is still here? probably dead. how much fun is this? what? what a beautiful sunset. if you like sunsets. whether you re sweet or salty. you ll love nature valley sweet and salty bars. caman: thanks, captain obvious. wouldn t stay here tonight. captain obvious: i d get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. the dynamics of the american working family are constantly evolving. affected in large part by the economic gains and losses made by women in the family. it creates what the director of the research council, research at the council on contemporary families call the new instability in a piece for the new york times . she wrote in part this, over the past 40 years, the geography of family life has been destabilized by two powerful forces, pulling in opposite directions. and occasionally scraping against each other. much like tectonic plates. one is the striking progress toward equality between men and women. the other is the equally striking growth of socioeconomic inequality and insecurity. and here with us now to weigh in on these two trends, editor in chief of glamour, cindy levy, and chairman of myers biz.net, jet myers, the author of the upcoming book, the future of men and the age of dominant males. we ve got to talk. i don t know who s losing more in that. but let s talk about this study. so cindy and jack, and thomas, show us some of the numbers here we re talking about. because there are some real shifts taking place. there are definitely shifts. let s talk about gains for women and redefining the ideal family arrangement. the question was asked, how have these two trends impacted the notion of an ideal family relationship based on these numbers. and look at this, we have the ideal family arrangement, 1977, two-thirds believed the husband should work, and the wife should be at home. now, 2012, we ve got one third believe that the husband should work and the wife should be at home. so, obviously, there is huge gains in terms of how families are looking at who s going outside the home to work. and add one more outcome to that, looking at divorce, which is so interesting as well. so marriage 101, we look at the 1980s. if the wife was better educated, divorce was more likely. in the 1990s, if the wife is better educated, there is no e added divorce risk. let s stop there with this new instability. what s happening? cindy and then jack? what s happening is work is a reality of women s lives. and it is basically holding up the american economy. and most americans are pretty fine with that. i mean, the statistics that you just showed, showing how people s views towards women bringing home the bacon have changed are remarkable. you know, there used to be this idea that that was a men s world. and now, particularly, young men and women think, you know what, as long as there s bacon coming into the home, i m good. it doesn t matter who s brought it. it s not just a push for equality anymore, it s a necessity. i look at the next generation as girls are going to work. it s not about having it all as some sort of greedy or selfish choice. it s about, this is what the economy and everybody s family is but it is impacting the family, jack? there are clear economic and marriages. it s impacting across all society, culture, business, education, politics. but the reality is that in 2015, for the first time, women will surpass men in the workforce, in managerial and professional jobs, in 1970, men represented over 75%. today, they represent only 45% of managerial and professional jobs. and while women s income has been increasing since 1970, about 25%, men s income has been flat. so while we have more women in the workforce, there s still overall family income, even with more two-family homes is declining. and that s the real challenge. that we can t raise total income, even as more women are entering the workforce. interesting results from this, also, in terms of who does the housework. who bears the brunt of the family responsibilities. well, there was this study last year, that got a lot of attention, that hinted that couples in which men do more of the housework or at least their fair share, actually have less sex. and that turns out not to be true. i m pretty sure it was a rumor started by a guy who did not want to unload the dishwasher. it s a good one! but i think that speaks to something that jack just raised. as women gain in education, they are not actually raising their risk of divorce. that has been a long-standing fear among a lot of women. and it was based on the fact that it used to be true, up until about the 1990s. but one of the things that the times piece points out, is that for the last couple of years, couples where women have equivalent or greater education than their husband, have more stable marriages than those where women are lagging behind. and that s reassuring. and even where there s a working husband and a working wife, the working wife still does on average 25% more housework than child care. and in working homes where there s a working wife and a working husband, the husband still has 40 minutes more per day of leisure time. so women are there s definitely not a balance it s almost matching up. but in your new book and talking about the age of men and male dominance lacking, is that, and these numbers may contribute to that. the fact that when couples are getting together, men and women, they re deciding that their personal and professional lives don t need to be mutually exclusive. and they can achieve these dreams together, communicate about it, talk about it, and achieve it together. it seems like that s the big difference we re seeing in modern relationships. it is a balance. and a good man today is not defined by his conquests. he s just hard to find. that s the opening line of my book. very good! okay. very good. it is so interesting, because i think we re kind of in the middle of all of this, these challenges, watching, and reading this article, it was sort of like, i don t know where this is going. i think part of what it means is that the definition of being a great man and a great provider has changed. it doesn t necessarily mean that you are doing the providing as a man. you might also need to support your wife if she needs to go back to school to increase her earning power. move across the country to take another job. all the things that wives have traditionally done for their husbands, it s a two-way street. thank you both for being on the show. come back when your book comes out. still ahead, new earnings from wall street, including new concerns from bp over russian sanctions. business before the bell is next. welcome back, everybody. business before the bell now with cnbc s sarah eisen. bp warned about further sanctions if the eu and the u.s., as they re discussing, but economic sanctions on russia. it could have, according to bp, a material adverse affect on their operations in russia. remember, bp has about 20% stake in rosnef, which is a major russian energy giant, controlled by the state. so obviously these countries that do business there are starting to worry about more sanctions as discussed. also i want to mention some moral outrage today. okay cupid, the offline dating site, apparently has been lying to its users, doing all sorts of social experiments, taking away pictures, taking away content on professional. and get this, telling people that they were 90% matched when, really, they were only a 30% match, which, guys, they found actually worked in terms of the number of correspondences. people are pretty upset about that. but okcupid says, this is what websites do. doesn t that mean that people will just keep shopping on okcupid? or it doesn t matter. good point, sarah eisen, you re the best. up next, what, if anything, did we learn today? 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they have the legal authority. basically he formed a commission promising you can even look at me. then when he looked at him he said, lookin at me? that s it for special report fair, balanced. streaming into the united states, children. streaming out of washington, the president. senate leader harry reid and speaker john boehner and hundreds more politicians, the entire house and senate are all streaming out. nothing is going to get in the way of their vacation, even the crisis they helped create. they re illegal. they re breaking our laws. hearing complaints about some the conditions in some border patrol states. there s nothing being done at the border. what s going on is absolutely insane for this country. president obama is jetting off to martha s vineyard for two weeks and the house and senate go into recess for five weeks. this crisis, as some call it crisis, we have to view as an opportunity. stay in washington and insist that it be resolved. we can stop this crisis in one week. harry reid, take up our bill. i invite senator reid and president obama to stop playing billiards and going on vacations. come here and see for yourself. i don t think people would care he was going on vacation if he was doing his job. make a statement to the american people that you give a damn. the only way we re going to make this problem go away is whether the gop takes over the senate. there s no sense of urgency around it. president obama, where are you? our political panel, the washington post wes lowery, washington examiner chief political reporter. byron, it s vacation time. there s a reason that congress has a 13% approval, 78% disapproval rate in the latest fox poll. and the president just went to 39% in a three-day gallup. i m told by people on capitol hill that both houses are making contingency plans to do something, to stay longer if nothing happens on this border crisis. the house s next day is next thursday, the senate s last day is next friday. we should point out they re all going home to campaign as well as vacation. every single member of the house of representatives is up for reelection. that s more appalling to me. they re all going home to get their jobs back, kiss babies and get their pictures taken while they re kissing babies, meanwhile they haven t done their job, which is the immigration. the reason they have an immigration problem is because they didn t do their jobs. we re about to hit the 100-day mark out from reelection time. you can t blame them for going home i can. i can and i do. i m not convinced it would do much good to keep them around for the weekend. it would at least show the nation they give a damn, a problem they created. you ve been hearing a lot from them. they ve been talking a lot. i don t want talk. i want product. you keep them around from now till christmas and all we re going to get a is lot of talk. how long have we been talking about immigration and the border and we ve seen nothing. the senate democrats are so far away from the republicans and the house, what would they do even if they stayed? i don t care. i want them working. that s what they get paid for. why are we going to pay them to get their jobs and campaign? we pay them to work. this is a problem they created and they should do it before they take vacation. it would be good to have a real debate with time pressure, when they have a continuing resolution, the government is going to run out of money. as wes said, this is on the issue of changing this 2008 law that s at the center of this whole border controversy that makes it very difficult to quickly return children who come here illegally from central america, on the issue of changing that, that has become this enormous divide between republicans and democrats. it s a must have for republicans and it s a deal killer for democrats. it would be good to see a big open debate on that. and my thought on that is figure it out. you asked for the votes, you said could you do the job. i m so sorry you have political opposition, i m so sorry people disagree with you but that s your job. all you re doing is legislating by crisis. that s why they need to run out the clock. they said my home is speaker boehner won t leave town without doing something about this and he s leaving town. the president has made his vote, he made his ask. i thought the president was going to start doing things with his pen. and when he does that, we ll see republicans taking up votes to criticize him for doing things with his pen. some house republicans want him to do this through executive action if only that s because it s fodder for their lawsuit and criticism of him. you can t have this both ways on the right. either you want to take a vote on what the president has asked for and vote it down or you want him to do it on his own pup can t criticize him for doing things on his own and then get upset with him when he doesn t. and you see a standard washington way of doing things rising up in this. the president in his $3.7 billion requests asked for money to fight wildfires. and now democrats have attached extra funding for israel s iron dome defense. these are important issues that have nothing to do with it. the $3.7 billion, where do they come up with these numbers? they pulled it out of a hat. there s no accountability. the senate wants 2.7, the house wants 1.7 and nobody can tell us where they came one these numbers. panel, have a good weekend. you, too, greta. now to the surge of immigrant children overwhelming the border control. last night we reported on sleep deprivation, inadequate food and water. tonight the border patrol respond to those complaints. good evening, sir. good evening. how are you? i am well. i know you re overwhelmed. what s your response to the complaints? you know, greta, the border patrol facilities are not designed to hold people for more than 10 or 12 house. they ve designed to hold 250 people, we have 1,200, 1,500 people at a time. there s no beds, no hot water. we re stuck with these people. and in the interim basis, they re throwing them in our lap. we re doing the best with what we have. the food, rightfully so, it s terrible. i wouldn t eat it. the food the sleep deprivation, it s a detention center, it s an active process center. we just can t turn off the lights and go to sleep. we work there 24/7. go ahead. i take it that it would be very helpful to you because there s these conditions are tough and you have a very tough job, it would be helpful to you if congress and the president of the united states and the senate majority leader harry reid didn t go on vacation while you struggle with trying to give food to these kids you wouldn t eat yourself and problems with overcrowding. i take it you would like this solved as fast as possible? yes, ma am. we would like it to be solved quickly, the kid in custody would like it to be solved quickly. if harry reid wants to go on vacation, he should come down here and see what s going on down here. that might be a good idea. it s much better to take a look at something. they re on reading at it in the newspaper at best and i know you guys are really struggling. i guess the biggest problem is this just isn t your job to be essentially sitters. no, ma am. and unfortunately it is a humanitarian crisis but it is creating a national security crisis because so much of our manpower is being diverted away from preventing criminals from coming in, gang members, narcotics coming through the borders and everybody s caught up with the baby-sitting aspect that the real criminals are getting past us. agent cabrera, thank you very much. i know you all aren t taking extra vacation, you re working overtime, it s overwhelming and difficult and heart wrenching as well and the people who should be handling it are getting out of dodge. thank you, sir. thank you for having me. the border crisis raging right here at home. meanwhile, wars rage between israel and hamas. fox news is covering it all. we re going to take you to the fierce and dangerous war zones. first just yesterday the honduran president went on record right here today. so wendell, how did it go? reporter: after those talks, the president said he s considering allowing limited refugee status, triggered by the crisis of central american children arrive on the u.s./mexico border. their numbers are down in recent days but as we heard from agent cabrera, they re still taxing housing facilities and swamping the housing courts that a 2008 law requires for them, some communities doesn t want them an immigration hearings take more than a year to schedule, during times they re placed with family or friends and often don t show up for court. granting them refugees in their own countries would keep many from making the dangerous trips during which many are physically or, sexually abused. the central american leaders told mr. obama the u.s. bears some responsibility for the problem because the kids are fleeing crime fueled by america s appetite for illegal drugs and by the illegal sale of guns in their country. the president conceded there is a shared responsibility. meanwhile, republicans, even some democrats, are skeptical of his $3.7 billion request for funds to address the border problem, republicans aren t convinced he d spend the money the way they want and time is running out, set to take their summer recess at the end of next week. and president obama is heading out of town as well. wendell, thank you. this is a fox news alert. just moments ago israel and hamas agreeing to a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire. after rejecting john kerry as long-term peace plan. now john kerry is scrambling to figure out what to do next. greta, the good news is they have agreed to a cease-fire here in gaza. it is seen as a positive step. tomorrow morning both israel and hamas have agreed to a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire that will allow for medical supplies and food and gasoline to be brought in here to gaza to the many who are sick and in need here. more than 150,000 people have taken shelter in u.n. facilities across all of gaza. secretary of state john kerry and others were hoping there would be a wider, longer, much bigger cease-fire put in place. kerry was pushing for a seven-day temporary cease-fire. hamas never responded to the framework. israel s security cabinet rejected it outright saying it was too close to a hamas proposal, which was ironic because many thought the terms of the agreement that hamas would have rejected it outright, the big, the long-term cease-fire would have allowed israel to keep israeli troops here in gaza during a seven-day period. that seemed like it was des tend to be rejected by hamas but it was israel that rejected it. now we re trying to see if there will be a longer extension of this 12-hours. no word just yet but israel s defense minister has warned the izs military may expand the scope of operations here in gaza in the next 24, 48 hours. so there is a potential after this cease-fire, greta, that the fighting could escalate going forward. thank you. and developing now, an investigator stepping over debris, walking over that site where a missile took down a passenger jet killing more than 298 people and after more than a week, that crash site still not secured and russia escalating its military action in ukraine. steve? greta, no real signs of progress in the investigation at that crash scene site. a small number of european crash site experts have been at the scene for several days, special from the osce, where in the past to days, they have found more human remains at the scene, more body parts. but for the most part, the site is unguarded. there have been talks about bringing in perhaps some armed security, some dutch police, some australian police but eight days in really that s still just talk as far as the return of the remains of the recovered bodies go, 74 more bodies in coffins were brought from eastern ukraine to the netherlands. it s likely that the transport of recovered bodies will finish up tomorrow. still some remains at that crash site. and it s really the fighting that s kept people and experts away from a that site. in a fighting going on between ukrainian government forces and russian-backed rebels but more and more as the fight goes on and the rebels continue to lose ground, the russian military playing a more direct role in the fighting, even shelling from the russian side of the border, something that has alarmed not just ukrainian officials but u.s. state department and pentagon officials that the russian military increasingly is playing a direct role in this fight. as the rebels lose ground, their headquarters is heretsk, they promise to hold up here and fight it out to the end in what they promise could be another stalingrad. weapons, tanks, shelling systems may help them in their fight. and president obama taking heat for fund-raising. 12 fund-raisers in just three weeks? rnc chair reince priebus joins us. hey, greta. i take it you have something to say about 12 fund-raisers in the past three weeks. can he not multi-task? well, the frustration by the border, you can have a fund-raiser by the border and get the president there and he can see firsthand what s going on. i don t know what it takes to engage the president. some of this frustration you have and others have, we have at some point we have a speaker that s a republican, if you have a president that would engage, would knock heads together, i just think that this president is unfortunately, he s bizarrely aloof i think to the world around him. you have 300 people nearly that get shot out of the sky, all this conflict around the world, we have our own issues on the border. at some point i think the president has to engage and say maybe we re going to cancel the fund-raiser. maybe we re going to stay here in washington and i m going to march down the halls of congress and try to handle some of this stuff. the word we keep hearing over and over, it looks bad if he keeps going to fund-raisers. air force i is an office. president bush in 2004 but people would have been fired in bush s administration if a plane went down with almost 300 people on it and instead he went golfing. but he went to a fund-raiser in 2004 when 200 people died on a train in madrid as a result of terrorism. my point is others have done it. is this any different? i think it s different because it s a fixation on the politics, it s a fixation on constantly campaigning. this idea that people are tired of the gridlock. i get it but harry reid s got over 330 bills sitting in his office. it s not like the republicans aren t passing bills. you need somebody to actually take the reins and try to get on top of this stuff so we have a president. why doesn t harry reid put them on the floor? if he doesn t like them, let them get defeated. at least great vote. the problem with senator harry reid is he has a pocket veto. in order for anything to get to the president, it s got to be agreed to by both the house and the senate but by his inactivity, he stops everything from being considered. you can t even get it to conference. what the president is doing instead, he s doing fund-raisers for the dnc and party committees. he s not going out by mark udall in colorado. they re avoiding the president. the president s numbers are at 39% approval. all he is doing is raising money because that s all he can do. 30 seconds. it it doesn t go unnoticed that you and senator rand paul have gone into an area where we typically don t see republicans, which is the urban league today. i assume this is a new strategy in the republican party? 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greta, it s a disgrace, an outrage, it s a slap in the face at women and how much they matter. it s a sign that the nfl doesn t value women and violence against women. it s ridiculous. this woman was apparently knocked unconscious and apparently then later they made up and then they got married and then they went and saw the commissioner, but the commissioner should know better. and he needs to have a more serious consequence because unconscious. and it was terrible to see. so i thought for sure that the league would they had a chance here to really make a statement, to come out and do something positive and say that they had zero tolerance for domestic abuse and they gave two games. when you look at the history, even the recent nfl suspensions right here in philadelphia, there are two players that just got four-game suspensions for using p.e.d.s. then you have justin blackmon suspended definitely for drug abuse. this is a slap on the wrist for beating up your wife but do not hurt yourself by using drugs. it s a terrible message. john harbaugh, the coach, said that the player ray rice is a heck of a guy. he has done everything right since then. well, he has to say that. well, he doesn t have to say that. he has said that and by saying he s a heck of a guy, that s a supportive comment of him. again, it doesn t recognize the violence against the woman. look, she s married to him. at this point she doesn t want to hurt him. this is typical of a battered woman. and right now i think they have to have sense. even the law is not fair because apparently now there was an intervention and he will be able to get himself criminal record expunged from this. that is wrong. the whole culture is not valuing violence against women and putting serious consequences on those who commit it. you know, colleen, it s interesting. i looked to see what the two games were for the suspensions and the two games are against the bengals and the steelers and the steelers is the big rival for the ravens. when ben roethlisberger shows up at raven stadium, they all chant no means no because he had some problems with some alleged sexual assault. what are they going to yell when they finally get ray rice playing the steelers? i don t know. i don t know either. the whole thing here is you look at what roger goodell wrote to ray rice. he wrote a letter to him. let me read you one sentence. the league is an entity that depends on integrity and the confidence of the public and we simply cannot tolerate conduct that endangers others or reflects negativity in our game. what? two games for that? i mean, i don t know, but i would think that that s pretty negative. right? gloria and colleen, thank you. we ll be watching. we ll see what the chant is when ray rice shows up in pittsburgh. thank you both. and has president obama checked out? charles krautheimer calling the president vacant. my name is michael, i m 55 years old and i have diabetic nerve pain. the pain was terrible. my feet hurt so bad. it felt like hot pins and needles coming from the inside out of my skin. when i did go see the doctor, and he prescribed lyrica. it helped me. 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[ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. okay, charles. vacant presidency. why? look, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. you got war in ukraine, war in the middle east, you got isis on the move in the middle east. you got christians being expelled from parts of iraq and we ve got the crisis on the border. and where is the president? this isn t news. he s in the hampton, he s raising funds, he s playing golf, he s doing photo ops. he s not involved. now, some people are saying he s checked out, he s depressed, he s overwhelmed and he s withdrawing in some way. but that s not completely true because on domestic issues he s very engaged. he says i ll do stuff even without congress. this is about mostly foreign affairs. my theory, which i wrote in this column, is he thinks in the end things like aggression won t pay so the u.s. does not have to be involved. while he certainly isn t interested in chicago or the violence there or detroit falling apart. the extent the border is considered an international problem, it s bleeding over and it s now a humanitarian matter. he wants to do stuff in immigration and changes in tax laws he s got to work! he s still interested in that. you can t work with congress, part of the reason he s checked out. but the place where he is shockingly passive is ukraine, is iraq, is the border, a lot of these other things. to me what i thinkd this is an ideology that says, for instance, let s take ukraine where he s essentially done nothing. this is the first time a country since the second world war has chomped off a piece of another in europe. this is new and we now have russia firing into ukraine as if it s preparing for an invasion, which just doesn t happen the last seven years. i think he thinks this and he says this, putin is on the long side of history. he believes history punishes aggression. it can be 50 years or 100 years until it disappears. the point of a president and point of a leader is to make history react to what you want and not to wait for it to unfold. i think he s not interested in the job, he s not doing the job. things are getting terrible and people are now dumping all over him because now it s getting catastrophic. he s not picking up the phone to call senator harry reid and say let s do these things, he s not calling speaker boehner. he has no interest in the job and he is exploding all over him. you are tougher than i am and i commend you for that. i wish he would do his job. i think these are real problems. i travel the nation. these are real problems. i ve traveled the world. we need help. we need leadership. we can agree on this. we need a president. doesn t look like we have one. charles, it s always great to see you. it s a great book. now to a driver in diapers. you heard right, a 3-year-old boy jumping behind the wheel of a jeep and crashing it into a house. watching cartoons, playing games, having fun with toys, these are things 3-year-olds normally do. but in one small oregon town, a toddler going rogue. 911 emergency. yes, hi, ma am. i ve just seen a little kid in a diaper, he just rolled a jeep across the street and into a house. a kid in a diaper and a real jeep, a full-size jeep? it s a jeep sitting here in the side of the house right now. do you think i need to send an ambulance? i don t know. the little kid jumped out. he can t be more than 2 years old. the crazy story starting at 9:00 in the morning. police seen the toddler unattended in the jeep, issuing a warning to the relatives. but at 7:30 p.m., the toddler is at it again. he was going across the street pretty good. he jumped the curb and the tires are buried inside of the house. police racing to the scene, only to find the boy watching cartoons at his house. as he hit the house, he got out of the jeep and ran back across the street to home and sat on the couch like nothing happened. the little boy got away unscathed but police cited his relative for failure to supervise a child. if you want to hear more of that 911 call, go to gretawire.com. and are we giving up liberty for security? and it s not your typical march on washington. america s hero dogs taking to the capital coming up. d gives you tools and support to get the career you ll love. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh there s good more. honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i m like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points. .and there s not-so-good more. you re a big guy. oh no. get the good more with verizon smart rewards and rack up points to use towards the things you really want. now get 50% off all new smartphones. then boom. what happened? 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and john stossel joins us. good evening, john. what is the line between security and liberty? well, if somebody s going to kill us, security does become really important i don t presume to know exactly where that line is but the police have crossed it in arming themselves like they re going to war. in what way? tell me more. we used to have a s.w.a.t. raid once in a blue moon, now there are hundreds a day. they get mine resistant vehicles. just in two years we found 4,000 m-16s, 72 grenade launchers. why do local cops need that? and then when they have it, they tend to use it instead of say a ruse like, oh, we re the ups man or, congratulations, you re won a contest, come pick up your money. of course, we re also using a lot of privacy with the drones. you have one. i do. and the one you saw in the clip i couldn t operate very well. that was a few months ago when i started researching the story. it cost $1,200. this week we bought this thing. it s $60 with a camera and it would allow you to go over your neighbor s yard. i m just not very good with this. but if one would practice, you could spy on your neighbor. where s the line? we have peeping tom rules which say you can look across to your neighbor s house but you can t jump on a step ladder and look over his fence. i ll tell you where the line is for the police. i brought along my trustee copy of the fourth amendment, which says you can t get anything unless you have a warrant. nsa would nab a whole bunch of stuff and they didn t have a warrant. hillary clinton agreed that nobody looks at this stuff, the fourth amendment. is that part of your special at all? we do touch on that. i m impressed you got hillary to agree with rand. it was a little bit squishy but i think she said we need to look at our laws but she agreed that nsa went way too far, they never got a warrant, they just nabbed stuff. i don t want anyone to miss your special tomorrow night, policing america, at 10:00 p.m., fox news channel, and it going to be again sunday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern. don t miss it. dvr it if you can t make it. it s a great special. thanks, greta. straight ahead, u.s. veterans and their best friends go to washington. find out what these war heros are fighting for next. really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? 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