kills dozens, including children. can they avert an all out ground war? the vice president gets a close-up look at the ravaged jersey shore while hundreds of homeowners are told for the first time, their homes can t stay. and for shoppers this year , the battle starts earlier than ever. and they call it turkey town. our visit to the place where turkey isn t just a meal, it s a way of life, 365 days a year. good evening. there are millions of people in israel and the gaza strip who are spending this night living in fear of rockets and missiles raining down on their homes and neighborhoods as outside parties hurriedly work behind the scenes to stop the exchange fire. huge explosions rocked gaza with one strike killing at least 11 people. israel says the targets were palestinian militants, but several of the dead included women and children. but with palestinians continuing to fire rockets into israel and tel aviv in their crosshairs, israel says it is preparing to expand its attacks. we re on the ground on both sides of this conflict starting with richard engel in gaza. reporter: good evening, lester, israel appears to have exceptionally good intelligence about hamas and today was able to target individual militants in their homes, but they re also killing anyone who happens to be around them. this was a three-story house of hamas militants. israel says it s using precision strikes against gaza. there were eight people in this house when they were attacked and they have already pulled out three bodies. there was total panic as rescue cr crews gasans feel that israel what no regard for life. israel warned gazans to stay away from all hamas locations. this man lived next to a hamas police station. now he doesn t have a home. we can expect anything from israelis. mourners for another hamas militant targeted today, witnesses showed up with the shell that killed the young militants. they say it was fired from an israeli ship. and warships fired more rounds. but that volley didn t stop the funeral. more about expressing defiance here than sadness. they re taking this man s 9-year-old niece to be buriey b. israel wants to eliminate hamas s leadership, but that s coming increasingly as a cost to civilians. reporter: this is martin fletcher in tel aviv. more than a hundred strikes from gaza today. half of israel s 3.5 million people are now within range of hamas long range rockets. tel aviv, israel s largest city was attacked for the fourth straight day. saved by the anti- missile defense system which shot down p rockets. less than three miles from the city center, debris fell right on this car. israel says it s intense air attacks on gaza are meant to gel hamas in gaza and not civilians. they re using their homes and their mosques to hide their arms. reporter: but the rockets keep coming, leading israel s prime minister to this warning today. the military, benjamin netanyahu, is prepared for significant operations. to maintain secrecy, cell phones have been taken from the soldiers, they re on full alert waiting only for the order to go. and hamas warned, we will be waiting at the entrance for you, we will shred you to pieces. so the question now is what comes first, a ground invasion of gaza with maybe many dead on both sides or a truce. to stop the war in escalating, muslim leaders as well as americans and europeans are worki working feverishly for a truce. mohammad morsi said today there s a possibility of a cease fire soon. negotiations are in high gear with israel i ming high. hamas wants israel to stop killing its leaders to end the blockade to gaza, but people are both sides of the border are living in fear. president obama made his first public comments about the crisis today while overseas on a historic three-nation tour of southeast asia, including the first-ever visit by an american president to myian mar. chuck todd is traveling with the president. reporter: the president touched down at bangkok on sunday on a three-day whirlwind trip to east asia. he used a joint press congress fence with the prime minister of thailand to strongly support israel s right to defend lisits. there s no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside it s borders. we fully support israel s right to defend itself. reporter: the president issues a plea to allies of the palestinians playing on their hope that including a palestinian state next to israel. if we see a further escalation of the strikes on gaza, then the likelihood of getting back on any kind of a peace track that leads to any kind of solution is going to be pushed off way into the future. reporter: tomorrow the president makes an historic visit to myanmar, a country that just a few years ago was isolated from the world community. president obama defended the trip as some human rights advocates say it s coming too soon. this is not an endorsement of the bermese government, this is an acknowledgement that there is a process underway inside that country. reporter: on his last trip with the outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton, president obama expects to meet with leaders again. the two reflected on it during their visit to the monastery. after myanmar, it s off to cambodia. meanwhile back here at home, much of the focus here in washington remains on controversy on what happened in gaza. reporter: on meet the press, firm denials on benghazi from a top democrat. was there a cover-up? do you believe that the president or anybody serving the president deliberately misled the true nature of this attack for political reasons? no. reporter: former cia director david petraeus left no doubt in his testimony on friday. he said all along that the attack was a terror attack. it was terror. that s the point. reporter: republicans continued their attack on u.n. ambassador susan rice and her account in the days following the attack that expressed her role in an anti-muslim video. the stories he told re-enforced a political narrative helpful to the president. she was the most politically compliant person they could find. i don t know what she told, but i know the stories she told were miss leading. it was one of the most unfair attacks i have ever seen in washington in 34 years, susan rice was using the unclassifies talking points that were provided by the intelligence community. somewhere along the line those talk points changed. what i do know that every member of the intelligence community says the references to al qaeda were removed by somebody and they don t know who. reporter: but the administration denied claims of white house interference and says they made only a minor change. there s only one thing that was changed and i checked into this, i believe it to be absolute fact and it was the word consulate was changed to mission. reporter: and today lawmakers say they want both the current secretary of state hillary clinton and the woman who may be nominated to succeed her susan rise to come before congress and explain how they knew how the attack at benghazi was handled. officials begin to amass a full accounting of what was lost during hurricane sandy. another high powered a mission from washington. mi reporter: fema estimates nearly $3 billion in aid has already been approved and sent into the pockets of storm victims whose homes were destroyed or damaged like many of those here in breezy point, a massive need for assistance in sandy s wake that is still unfolding. a first look for vice president joe biden today touring sandy ravaged seaside heights in new jersey, a visit hitting close to home. as a kid, i spent all my time at the jersey shore. reporter: the vice president assured the region, this just isn t a local responsibility but a national one. he greeted local first responders. the vice president flew over the beach side communities hit by the force of sandy s surge and wind. preliminary findings from fema now underscore the massive loss homeowners have suffered. in new jersey alone, fema estimates more than 73,000 homes and businesses sustained damage and the number is expected to rise. in region we re about to walk into now, the water was this high. fema is assessing the damage on the ground, home by home. we pretty much got a handle on the scope at this time, but as this evolves, we re going to continue to look and address anything else that comes up. in a city that hit ocean side neighbors, feel what would you do if somebody came to you and said oh, i think we re going to have to demolish your house, would you fight it? yes. now fema is trying to find people to tell them their homes are not livable. and today new york city mayor michael bloomberg extended the odd/even license gas rationing through the thanksgiving holiday. new york city building flp fors have already examined 2,000 homes and 900 are tagged with that tag that says seemingly unsafe. rescuers have found the body of a man floating in the water on friday. one of the 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schieffer: tonight, planning for a u.s. military strike against syria. as the death toll rises, the pentagon makes preparations for action, but will the president give the go-ahead? david martin that has story. the fastest-growing wildfire in the country now covers 165 square miles and it is just entered yosemite national park. theresa garcia is on the scene. something is killing dolphins along the east coast. terrell brown has the latest on the search for clues. and on the road, steve hartman catches motorists smiling in a no-smiling zone. never so happy to get a ticket in my life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. schieffer: good evening, scott s off tonight, i m bob schieffer. cbs news has learned that the pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on syrian government forces. we say initial preparations because such an attack won t happen unless and until the president gives the green light, and it was clear during an interview on cnn today he is not there yet. if the u.s. goes in and attacks another country without a u.n. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work, and those are considerations that we had to take into account. schieffer: the attack on the damascus suburbs which left hundreds dead this week is looking more and more like a poison gas was used. the united states warned syria months ago that using chemical weapons could provoke a u.s. response. two reports tonight, first david martin is at the pentagon. david? reporter: bob, president obama s national security advisor has just sent out a tweet calling what happened in syria an apparent chemical weapons attack. and the commander of u.s. forces in the mediterranean has ordered navy warships to move closer to syria to be ready for a possible cruise missile strike. launching cruise missiles from the sea would not risk any american lives. it would be a punitive strike designed not to topple syrian dictator bashar al-assad but to convince him he cannot get away the w using chemical weapons. joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey is expected to present options for a strike at a white house meeting on saturday. potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to fire chemical weapons. however, officials stress president obama, who until now has steadfastly resisted calls for military interventions, has not made a decision. u.s. intelligence detected activity at known syrian chemical weapons sites in the days before the attack. at the time, that did not appear out of the ordinary. but now it is part of the circumstantial evidence pointing toward an attack. the clearest evidence would come from a team of u.n. exports already in damascus to investigate earlier smaller-scale incidents involving suspected chemical weapons. so far, they have not been allowed into the field, but with pictures providing graphic evidence of mass casualties, even russia, long one of the assad regime s staunchest backers, is calling for a u.n. investigation. whatever an investigation finds, president obama will also have to consider what he would doll next if he ordered a strike and syria continued to use chemical weapons. schieffer: thanks, dave. new photos out of syria today make it even harder to conclude that the attacks were anything but a poison gas attack. holly williams talked to her sources there today and we warn you, the pictures in her report are difficult to watch. reporter: two days after the attack, more disturbing video has emerged of the aftermath. they are horrific scenes that show the dead and the dying. many of them children. this young boy describes struggling to breathe and then losing consciousness. when he woke up in hospital, he said, he could no longer see. it s impossible to verify how many people died, but in this crowded makeshift morgue, so many of the bodies were unidentified they were numbered. doctor ghazwan bwidany is caring for survivors of the attack at a clinic damascus. today we spoke with him over the internet. he told us his mobile medical unit treated 900 people, 70 of whom died. reporter: dr. bwidany told us some of the survivors have neurological problems such as memory loss and confusion that he believes could only be caused by a nerve agent. if this wasn t a chemical attack what could it have been? reporter: we talked with a spokesman for the syrian opposition today who told us he is angry and frustrated with the international community. he believes that if the u.s. had delivered the arms it promised the opposition two months ago this deadly attack might not have happened. schieffer: holly williams. thanks, holly. at fort hood, texas, today, a military injury convicted major nidal hasan of the massacre that left 13 soldiers dead and more than 30 others wounded. the murder verdict was unanimous which means hasan could get the death penalty. anna werner is at fort hood. reporter: major nidal hasan looked up at the jury foreman as she read out the decision. the jury voted unanimously that he was guilty on 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and also guilty of 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. over 13 days, prosecutors laid out a detailed case to convince the jury that hasan came to believe he had a jihad duty to kill soldiers and then carried out a plan to do just that. they showed evidence hasan trained for months at a shooting then hid two guns and 420 rounds of ammunition in his army fatigues then went to a medical building where members of his own unit were prepareing to deploy. witnesses told of a scene of terror and chaos as hasan opened fire on a group of 45 unarmed soldiers. they listened as a pregnant soldier private francesca velez begged for mercy saying my baby, my baby before she was shot and killed. hasan, who is representing himself, admitted i am the shooter in his opening statements. he did not testify or call any witnesses and made no chrarg. howard ray rescued soldiers at the scene that day. he wants hasan to get the death penalty. what we re talking about is assessing a punishment on someone that had total disregard for the lives of 13 men and women that day. total disregard. reporter: the judge admonished those seated in the courtroom including about a dozen victims relatives not to display emotion when the verdict was read but, bob, as we were leaving the courtroom i saw tears in the eyes of a couple of those relatives. they ve been waiting four years for this verdict. schieffer: all right, well, thank you, anna. to egypt now. a week ago today tens of thousands of supporters of the muslim brotherhood who opposed military rule filled the streets. a thousand died in the crackdown that followed. today, the muslim brotherhood called for a return to the streets but it didn t happen. our charlie d agata is in cairo. what did happen, charlie? reporter: well, today, bob, we saw just how dramatically the military has weakened the muslim brotherhood here. just after friday prayers, we saw a group gathering outside a mosque, maybe a hundred or so people and almost immediately they were outnumber bid local residents who support the military and forced them to move on. this is typical of the kind of demonstration wes saw here and elsewhere, the small protests that never really got going. there s a huge military presence here, tanks and barbed wire have choked off most of the main squares. it is clear the military has the upper hand at least for now. schieffer: all right. thank you so much, charlie. 40-year-old army sergeant robert bales will spend the rest of his life in prison. a military jury in washington state sentenced him today to life without parole for shooting 16 afghan civilians to death last year, most of them women and children. he pleaded guilty in june to avoid the death penalty. bales apologized for his actions but never tried to explain them. in san diego, the fate of mayor bob filner, accused of sexually harassing more than a dozen women, is still up in the air. ben tracy covering this one. ben? reporter: bob, the san diego city council is still in closed session right now. they re debating whether or not to approve this deal they made with mayor filner that includes his resignation. they re hoping to quickly end what has become san diego s civic nightmare. i bob filner reporter: when bob filner took office nearly nine months ago he was the first democrat elected mayor in san diego in 20 years. the 70-year-old promised to help the homeless and bring jobs to the city. it s going to be a time of change for san diego. reporter: now even some of his strongest supporters admit filner ended up giving their stay black eye. 18 different women accused him of sexual harassment, including at least one city employee. at the council meeting this afternoon people from san diego announced support and anger. we re not fooled. we know this is a circus to get a good man out of office. reporter: julie adams. i came down here to let you know how determined our voters are debt-to-get this predator out of this building. reporter: many urged the city council not to pay off filner in exchange for his resignation. we re looking for a way out to get back to the business of the city and the public. reporter: city council president todd gloria will become the acting mayor. he says negotiating filner and covering his legal costs is a necessary evil. what do you say to the citizens of san diego who say he shouldn t get anything? what i know that each day that passes that this man is mayor more bad thing happening to our city, fewer businesses are coming to san diego and our national reputation continues to be drug through the mud. reporter: we re told if this deal does go through, filner s resignation won t be immediate. apparently it was important to him during the negotiations, bob we re told he ll likely leave office next week. sheaf seif all right, thank you, ben. that huge wildfire in northern california spread into yosemite national park today. here s how it looks from space. the fire grew overnight from 99 square miles to more than 165, making it the fastest-growing of the dozens of western wildfires. the smoke has spread more than 100 miles from what s called the rim fire. teresa garcia is on the scene. reporter: the fire is threatening more than 4,500 structures. about half are in pine mountain lake. that s where we found ken cannobio. he was pumping water out of his swimming pool to spray around his house. just trying to wet it down, get it as moist as possible. that s the main thing as far as if the flames get up here to put them out. reporter: cannobio has already packed a car for a quick getaway. more than a thousand people who live around him are already gone. there s a comfort zone i have that and it s pretty much down a few hundred yards. so it s looking like we re not going to have to leave right now but things can change. reporter: so your comfort zone changes when you see what? (laughs) red! reporter: more than 2,000 firefighters are battling the fire. bruce and his team work to clear brush and put out hot spots. it s holding right now so it s looking pretty good. the wind s in our favor. it s unreal. reporter: but air drops of water and flame retardant are the only ways to outflank a fire that now ranks among the 20 worst california has ever seen. it is an incredible sight to behold as the smoke from the fire has claimed eight miles into the sky and, bob, evacuation orders have also just been issued for two more towns. schieffer: all right, thanks, teresa. steve ballmer, the c.e.o. of microsoft, announced today he ll retire some time in the next year. ballmer, who is 57, succeeded bill gates in 2000. they met 40 years ago at harvard. under ballmer microsoft has struggled to compete with apple and google. colorado gets a hailstorm in the dog days of summer. and why are dolphins dying along the east coast? when the cbs evening news continues. 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no idea. reporter: until the captain told him, elton didn t know he had such a record let alone how he got it. it s how i do it everyday. reporter: so we trailed him to figure out how he does it. first thing i noticed that he has this pitch perfect mix of authority i need you to take care of that. and diplomacy. i don t want to keep pulling you over. reporter: with none of the attitude that sometimes comes with a cop. sorry! that s okay. just be careful. i m here, i m not up here. i hate to be looked down on it. can t stand it. i won t look down on you. reporter: that s why in luf a lecture he gives most people the benefit of the doubt. it happens. reporter: they still get the ticket, just not the guilt trip. the drivers seem to appreciate that. so much so that by the end some are down right smitten. that s a smile he s got a great smile. reporter: you re giggling now you just got a ticket. he s a nice guy! i mean how can you be mad at that guy? reporter: apparently you can t. disarming. reporter: time after time, ticket after ticket. never so happy to get a ticket in my life. reporter: we saw elton simmons melt away a polar icecap of preconception. and his boss says there s a lesson in there for hard-nosed traffic cops everywhere. their excuse is i give tickets all day long, i m going to get complaints. well, that s not true. there s a way. there is a way to do it and elton simmons is the way. reporter: certainly no complaints here. steve hartman, on the road in los angeles. schieffer: and that is the news. sunday on face the nation, we ll talk about the 50th anniversary of the march on washington with former secretary of state colin powell, georgia congressman john lewis and newark mayor cory booker. scott will be back here on monday. i m bob schieffer in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
we look forward to seeing that kick off. that s going to do it for a wednesday edition of way too early. morning joe starts right now. the top democrat in the u.s. senate majority leader harry reid has now mentioned the bill nra koch brothers this year more than 140 times. er in in it to make the money. an attempt to buy our democracy. it s dishonest, deceptive, farce and unfair. it is wrong. incorrect. [ laughter ] erroneous. [ laughter ] even the keystone debate, mr. president, they re one of the main owners of all that stuff up there. that ugly tar stuff in canada. they are, if not the largest, second largest owner of that stuff up there. [ laughter ] good morning. hey will. good morning, it s wednesday, may the 14th, on set, along with me, we ve got joe here that s here. that s all. msnbc. it s a good show, right? yes. you can t always predict who is going to be here. it s exciting. it s interesting, it remains the name of the show. mike barnicle is here. former communications director for george w. bush, nicolle wallace. jon stewart went in last night. and landed another blow right here. this guy spent millions fighting online gambling. tens of millions fighting organized labor. in the 2012 presidential election he gave $90 million to republican candidates. perhaps because he thought he would help him take on quote, radical islam and unions. yeah, that s right. laugh harry reid is going to crush this guy. so don t pick on him. wait? sorry, what did you say there? don t pick on the billionaire that puts money in politics. he s not in this for money. he s in it because he has certain ideological views. [ laughter ] what the [ bleep ] difference does that make? [ laughter ] what are his ideological objections to online that the largest gambling casino has? i can t tell overt internet who is under age. i can t tell whose got financial difficulties. i can t tell who is not gaming responsibly. but if you come to my casino [ laughter ] you don t enter without answering a very detailed financial solvency questionnaire. if you lost john stevens, you lu lost everything. he didn t make a distinction between the koches and the adelsons. and also speaking of daily show skits, let s continue with news about karl rove. karl rove is dullinging down that hillary clinton should be prepared for scrutiny about her health if she decides to run in 2016. the republican strategist pushed back who claimed he openly claimed the former first lady had brain damage. he said, of course, she doesn t have brain damage. still, it s pretty clear where he s trying to aim voters attention. my point was, if hillary clinton were going to run for president, but she would not be human if this didn t enter into consideration. this will be a topic in the 2016. they will be 69. she will be 77 if she serves two terms and this ends up being an issue. clinton s spokesperson blasted rove s remarks saying hillary clinton has recovered 100% from the blood clot from 2012. a republican and the white house getting involved as well. this was not clever. this wasn t an insinuation. this was karl rove running head first into a brick wall. nothing drives people away from a decent office than this kind of attack. they say why would i put my family through this. it weakens in both parties, it weakens the fabric of both. here s what i say about cognitive capacity, that dr. rove might have been the last person on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president won re-election in the state of ohio. we ll leave it at that. go back to the newt gingrich comment it weakens the fabric. that s tough talk coming from newt. we go fresh off the thrilla in manila. we ll let you be the one around the table to defend karl rove this moraning. he didn t say brain damage he said she was wearing a kind of glasses that were associated with severe brain trauma or something like that. which i find this fascinating because she wore coke bottle glasses in college. you have ever seen those pictures of hillary in the late 60s and early 70s? what s karl thinking? i think she couldn t wear her sunglasses, she they gave her a pair of glasses. she was wearing the same style four years ago and her traumatic brain injury didn t get in the way of being the most successful secretary of state in history. let me try to explain karl. what karl let me try to explain karl. hey, i feel different. karl didn t just stumble into this line of questioning about hillary clinton s health, okay? he s one of the most prepared and deliberate speakers. and when he gave speeches at the white house, people were always doing you know, reading research. so this karl s nature, is that things are talked through. he plans these types of thing. so are you telling me that he thought through this before saying this? well, i think he thought through and is probably, you know, maybe not in front of what s his strategy? well, i think injecting questions about her health crisis from a few years ago is something that karl thinks is fair game. and i think that the fact that we re having a three-day conversation about hillary s age and health, he is in this objective. it s not about hillary s age and health. it s about whether karl rove suffered brain damage. well, to some. but some of the people that may be thinking about 2016 have definitely given some thought to she is giving it all she has. that s all i ve got. karl rove you know what can we go back to jon stewart, is there anything else? you gave us an ending. i mean listen, katrina was easy compared to this. well, when you rebecome president, you release the results of your colonoscopy. you know what karl was trying to do. if she becomes president, there will be countless discussions, over the years she will release her this comes directly from the stupid part of it you re talking about. ronald reagan got inaugurated at 69. when he starts at 69 and leads at 77, i think about ronald reagan. that s not a bad thing. there anything that they can device to try and diminish hillary clinton, they re going to use brain damage, benghazi, boko haram now. that s what this is. that s all this is. jim peters go ahead. i was going to follow up on what nicole was saying, she s exactly right, this is not accidental. hillary s health is something that democratic strategist have been whippering about for about a year now, when they talk about what can ruin her candidacy, it s always a question of her health. here s a case of the most public visible case really spilling out into the open. now, one thing i think this is not, and you ve heard some of this chatter over the last couple of days, i don t think this is sexist. i think you would have had these questions come up about biden. it s ageist. nicholl, remember i told you, they released that ad, how many houses did john mccain have? well, he can t quite remember. that was an attack against his family wealth and his age. and his age, right. these questions were going to come out, anyway. i think the question is whether or not karl rove has temporarily taken it off the table by being so crass about it. but the other thing that shouldn t get lost, it is interesting, look at how the clintons respond. their first response is pretty funny. she s 100%. but they escalated throughout the day to near hysteria through the end of the day, whoever gave the initial response should be given the job of rapid response and whoever gave the second or two should be the understudy. for people that don t sit around sets like this or don t talk to journalists, there have been questions off camera, speculation. i only say this because jerry was talking about republicans. it wasn t just republican a lot of reporters were worried about her health. of course, they had absolutely no evidence whatsoever. they were worried. they were worried with justification after that fall. with some justification, it took her a while to come back but it was speculation. and karl rove didn t help himself and he didn t help the republican party by speculating like he did. when we get the results of all of these personal data, colonoscopies and everything else, i think we ll find out she s healthy as a horse. there you have it. marco is clarifying remarks? yeah, going back to the climate change remarks. senator rubio found himself the target of unwanted headlines after he recently entered the climate change debate talking at the national press club. the potential 2016 presidential contender tried to clarify remarks he made on sunday. here are the original remarks and what he had to say about them yesterday. i don t agree with the notion that some are putting out there including scientists that somehow that are actions that have is an impact on our climate. let me get this straight, you do not think that the human activity, the production of co2 is caution changes? i do not believe that human activity is causing changes the way the scientists are portraying. i do not propose the laws they pass will do anything about it. headlines notwithstanding, of course, the climate is changing because climate is always changing, that s a measurable you can see. there is climate change. i ve never conceded that the climate is not changing. that s not the question before me as a policymaker. the question before me as a policymaker, is that if we ban all coal in the u.s., if we ban all carbon emission information the united states, will it change the dramatic changes in climate and the dramatic weather impacts that we re now reading about? and anyone that says that we will, it not being truthful. but for you to go out and say if you pass this bill that i am proposing this will somehow lead to us have less tornadoes and hurricanes, that s not an accurate statement. seems rational to me. listen, i may be out of step with my party on this. i don t know where you have to live to think that the climate isn t changing dramatically. and miami is one of those places where they haven t seen dramatic change. it s not the same thing as acknowledging that climate change is real. i guess what s interesting about this, i m not exactly sure who marco s audience is. he says he believes in climate change. i do believe, like he said, that we re not going to pass legislation they re going to stop tornados and hurricanes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and the left is but that s a defensible position. that is a more defensible position. but i m just saying all the republicans i ve talked to. and i ve been talking to a lot of them for a very long time over the past four or five years, they believe in climate change, they believe that humans are responsible for climate change. the only thing they don t believe that the federal government could combat and impose massive cut jacks because it makes extremist and trillion they res. without getting china and other parts of the world that are doing more. they re doing more, actually. right. so in a time in the world, everybody is saying, steve, we ll go to you, we re going to be in competition with china for the next 100 years and china is going to outcompete us. at that time, we re supposed to usually disarm and let the chinese continue to damage the atmosphere more than us? and we re supposed to be worried about what tom steyer and other people say? i don t believe that. and even if we do what we do in that direction, without putting millions of americans out of work. i agree. first, the same people, the middle people, do want to have some kind of coordinated change to climate change. they re so effective? the reason, nicole, they are not effective, if you re a country on your way up, and you don t have all the resources and you say, wait a minute, you guys have polluted the air for 200 years, don t i get a chance to pollute the air for a while while i m economically developed. china, they don t have any clean energy. they have coal. and imported oil and really expensive natural gas and that s it. and they don t have any nuclear yet. so it s going to be very hard for them to do what they have to do, but he have to do it. and it thirdly, joe, there are policies, nonetheless, there are policies out there that we could put in place that would destroy millions of jobs that would put us on a path for a more responsive behavior. for example, we ve not increased the gas tax since 1983. the highway trust fund is going broke. we could raise the gas tax, rebate that to americans so it didn t cost jobs and get more balanced. jeremy peters on the hill, you look at polls, and i don t think climate change is at the top when it comes to intensity. i would suspect because of that we re not going to see another pass or do anything on the climate for quite some time. democrat stride in 2009. even the president was reluctant to get involved but they dragged him into that battle at the last minute. any legislation on the hill that marco rubio would have to be concerned about voting on before the election and the rest of the candidates? there was a bill that fell apart this week in the senate, an energy bill that was actually quite modest, the fact that it fell apart in a filibuster just shows how difficult it is to get even the smallest things through on climate. what well, you have your moderate democrats that like the landrieus and others who do not support this legislation? no, it fell over keystone. there was a land mass that landrieu and bagich wanted to approve. the white house has not decided what it s going to do. and if it ultimately decides it s not going after this, they are going to wait until after the legislation to do that because they don t want it to hurt senators like begich and landreau. i thought it was fascinating having the canadian ambassador here last week. he kept doing the talking points that i thought came from the koch brothers, i asked him where he got it, he said, oh, the state department study. our state department? our state department. this is one of the most widely overpoliticized decisions. a lot of very rich liberals don t want barack obama to pass this legislation. and what do they have to worry about? because they got millions and millions of dollars. it s just the 50,000 people that aren t going to have jobs because of it. i hope that makes you feel better. go to your yacht, polish it you won t polish it, you ll have somebody else polish it. that would be a really good paying job that makes you feel bad about yourself. have them buff your fingernails, too. coming up on morning joe, we re going to be talking to senators rob portman and john tester about some of the most pressing issues in washington including the keystone 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it could have been canada, luxembourg. but, no, this guy was former u.s. treasury secretary. he s out with a new book stress test: reflections on financial crisis. wait wait to read this. i m glad you finally got more people in the treasury department. let s start there. you had a couple of dogs wandering the hallways the first year. it was actually hard. that was a challenge. you could hear the echoes of footsteps. you had. but that first year, it was so shocking to us that you were going through the financial crisis of our lifetime and you couldn t get staffed. you. we had great people, we really did. i know you had great people. it took you a while, though. what was the challenge? don t say you had great people again. you didn t just win the nfl okay, the super bowl. talk about the tough start. well, the world was burning still. remember, in january 09, the country was falling off the cliff, complete was shrinking at the rate of 9%. we had already put trillions of dollars in the financial system, but things were still frozen or falling apart. right. we had to find a way how to right the ship, how to land a plane safely. yeah, we had challenges. off the top, steve ratnor. ratnorwas fabulous. obviously, this book has ignited talk about what happened. different points of view, left, right, all that stuff. looking back, i think the central concern people have is did we do too much for the banks? did we give them too much money, too cheaply, not fire enough ceos, more pain from the share 408der, more pain from the executives who got bonuses. how do you feel about that? was there stuff that could have been done differently, i know you had legal constraints but wasn t there something that could can be done differently? i think the huge damage done by the crisis and all the bad people that caused the crisis, they say, really, seriously, you couldn t bring a tougher measure of justice more quickly for people. but that was a classic panic. we were risking the great depression. and the first challenge was to land the plane safely. once we landed the plane, we moved quickly to try to clean up the system and bring a much better response. it s true, you could look back and say, was it tough enough on them? but the first obligation, the most important obligation was to protect the risk of massive unemployment, a great depression. we did that, it wasn t messy, but we did that effectively. better than any government has in the last 100 years in a financial crisis. you write about being handed talking points by a white house official it was actually my treasury colleague. i m not trying script you but suggesting messages that you had a pretty visser ral negative reaction to. i certainly have been in the position that they may have been in of wanting a cabinet secretary to echo a message. seeing it from your perspective i know you worked with some of my former colleague in the bush administration. you can talk about how political your job got and how difficult that was? i think one of the most important tests of government in a crisis is the ability to put policy above politics. it s impossible, isn t it? no, it s not. in fact, i think that was a great moment for the united states. if you look at that moment, you know, the transition between a republican and a democratic president, you know, the world at the edge of a great depression. you had two presidents with bipartisan support, mostly from democrats at that point. basically put politics aside. and do what s necessary to help pull the country back from the abyss. it was a pretty big moment. with the t.a.r.p. and all of that? with the first to break the back of the panel. then the stimulus to put money back in the hands directly of the american people. and then the range of the financial system. i got a pretty good test of government at a terrible time. and we passed that test much better than other governments who sat there, were paralyzed by their politics. or played politics with the crisis. a pretty good moment for the bank. you mentioned in january 2009, we were on the brink. that was a term we heard a lot. the country s about to go over the cliff in the fall of 2008. what does that mean explicitly and specifically? i mean, what would have happened if we hadn t taken that step back? take a look at the great depression, there s no memory of it. you know, people didn t live through it. but in the great depression, unemployment went to 25%. and gdp fell by 25%. and it took a decade to try to get back to some measure of security for people. and that s because we allow it as a country, a financial panic torsion escalate and bring the system to collapse. and why does that happen, it s like the lights going out. it s like the power not functioning. if the company can t get oxygen, people can t borrow and businesses fire people on a brutal scale and people are trying to protect themselves. that produces a certain set of conditions, panic leads to crash. that s why it s so damaging. and then, of course, they have massive innocent victims in that content. so how close were we? right at the edge. paulson wrote he thought we were three days away from the atms not working. people were talking about burying gold in their backyards. you could hear panic and fear in the voice of the leaders of the world and largest corporations at that time. mika does that. unrelated to the economy. jeremy peters is in washington, the new york times has got a question for the secretary, mr. secretary. mr. geithner, one of the prime takeaways of this book is just how complicated your relationship with larry summers is. he promoted you to various senior positions. he was your mentor. and as you know, the president was strongly considering him for chairman. federal reserve, twice, actually. do you think that president obama made a mistake by not picking him? no, i think that janet yellen is going to be excellent. i watched her make judgments at a very complicated time. and i think she s going to be an excellent chairman. i have just huge respect for larry summers, i think month more talented person in the country. henry kissinger said about larry summers, you should give him a permanent office in the oval office to vent any idea. he s a great person to work for. he s a pretty challenging, demanding guy. i used to say, what matters is the ratio between the thrill and the torture. and with larry, the thrill was higher? much greater than the torture. a couple issues before we wrap it up, one, what you had to say about elizabeth warren s hearing. she said she were made for youtube hearings, sort of show trial, explain. well, that was sort of a gentle way to put it. like they were witchhunt, talk about that? i ve got a lot of respect for her. it doesn t sound like it. i do. she did a great job in standing up with the agency and protecting from a form of abuse. she was excellent. there s a lot of oversight process. what made them show trials? well, you know, people didn t like what we were doing. it was unpopular stuff. it was essential, necessary stuff, very effective stuff but it was deeply offensive to people. it looked like we were giving money to the arsonists. the core paradox of what it takes to break a financial panic to keep the lights on. and there are going to be collateral beneficiaries of that. and that s deeply offensive. she gave a lost voice to that concern and she was very eloquent in making that case. speaking of arsonists, a handful of banks still control 50%. too big has gotten even big. you re right, you always worry about too big to fail. and this is something we should always worry about. it s like a federal war. you should be on it. the big bank s concern, still approaching 50%? well that s not the way to think about it. that risk for the country is say much lesser risk today because of reforms we put in place. i ll give you examples. we mate capital requirements the limits on risk much, much more conservative than they were before the crisis. why? we had much better tools to put banks on the line when they screw up. let s say they re not going to because they ve strengthened. let s say citi has a crisis, we re bailing them out or do we let citi fail? we re in a much better position to let them fail that doesn t do too much damage. was it a mistake not to save lehman brothers? it s not like financial security. we don t give presidents a set of tools to react. we don t do that because of other concerns. we don t want to leave the market with expectation. if you could do it all over again, would you? if we had the authority with the authority, would you save lehman brothers? you don t want to save everybody in a financial crisis. it s a mistake to do that. you have to make sure you do we didn t have this authority until after the panic. we want to make sure we can protect the rest from the failure of the rest. you want to make them fail to use a different metaphor, you want to draw a fire brig around the couordinates. should they have been saved? in retrospect, with full knowledge at that time, what we should have done, we would have escalated much more quickly to prevent the panic from spreading. of course, now, we ultimately did that, but it took a lot more work because the fire was burning too hot at that point. all right, tim geithner, thank you so much for coming in. thank you, nice to see you guys. the book is stress test: reflections on the financial crisis. you can read exempts on our website mojo/msnbc.com. first, americans are hitting the bottle harder than ever before, we ll explain why in your morning papers and morning joe sports next. de who s got twond rhooves and just got ae. claim status update from geico? this guy, that s who. sfx: bing. and i just got a.oh no, that s mom. sorry. claim status updates. just a tap away on the geico app. the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals download the expedia app text expedia to 75309 expedia, find 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gust of wind swept away one of those bouncy houses. my son loves those. oh, my gosh. this is that bouncy house that parents like myself. and me. and you. have been putting in your yards for your young kids birthday parties. three children were playing inside one of these bouncy houses when it was ripped from its stakes and sent it flying high in the air. a witness took this photo that we were showing. you one child escaped with only minor injuries. look at that. look how high those three little children are up inside that bouncy house. one escaped with no injuries. another boy has some broken bones after falling 15 to 20 feet in a parking lot. while the third has a serious is head injuries after landinging on a car. this is horrifying. terrifying. horrific. they re usually staked down when you see them in the yard. but maybe that s not strong enough when the wind picks up. from the parade of papers the san francisco chronicle, google wrote the global web of dominance got more difficult. the right to be forgotten. meaning google can be forced to erase links to content about individual people on its search engines. that includes documents. the quote, other documents, very important for mike barnicle. if there s ever going to be a senior staffer for elizabeth warren, he will not pass through the background check. that s correct. because of the quote, other documents. other documents that are in mike barnicle s computer main frame. your confirmation are going to be interesting. legal experts say this decision will only impact operations in europe and citizens of the e.u. and from the l.a. times, army sergeant kyle white is the latest recipient of the congressional medal of money for this heroism in afghanistan in 2007. white was honored for his actions for his ambush where he helped other soldiers and maintained radio contact all while injured. some were present at the ceremony. he s the seventh living recipient for a medal of honor for actions in iraq and afghanistan. sergeant white is going to be joining us in the studio on monday. can t wait to meet him. the telegraph, the united states has become the world s biggest consumer of wine, all right, passing france for the first time in history. that s something to be proud of, right. a new study said wine drinking continues to climb at a record pace, meanwhile, the popularity of wine is fading in france. u.s. consumers bought 2.9 billion liters of wine. still, the average frenchman drinks six times more wine than the american. so per capita was trailing behind. we got to get to work on that. willie, nba playoff action. a wild one between the clippers and thunder. let s go to the fourth quarter. okc had been down about 13 points with four minutes left. kevin pierce. and durant on the break lays it in. a two-point game. clippers quick inbound to chris paul. he turns it over. no foul called. the ball ends up out of bounds. this one is reviewed. and in a controversial call, the thunder get the ball back. so 11 seconds to play. another controversial call. russell westbrook of oklahoma city is fouled shooting a three. he hits all three foul shots. the thunder take a 105-104 lead. with six seconds on the clock, chris paul is stripped. he loses the ball again. the thunder come back for a 105-104 win. and a 3-2 series lead. clipsers head coach doc rivers was steaming after the game. that s our ball. we win the game, and we got robbed because of that ball. it s clear, everybody in the arena saw it everybody was shocked when they said oklahoma city. that was our ball. we got two more games to play. but that could be a series-defining call. and that s not right. wow, that s pretty strong. the series goes back to l.a. society clippers get a chance to even the series back there. the wizards blew out the pacers. they were on the brink of elimination. 102-79. it s coming back to d.c. tonight, the nets fight for their lives in miami. miami can close that out, and the spurs can do the same against the blazers. what about the rangers, down 3-1. 3-1 in the series come all the way back against the mighty pens. a couple of good one in the stanley cup playoffs. blackhawks and wild in game six. and the rangers and penguins in a huge game seven. and he scores! patrick kane, one hand, and chicago is headed to the western conference final. carried back off the wing and worked on by mcdonough. swatted on the cross. score! and the rangers are going to the conference final. rangers come all the way back down, 3-1 in the series to win game seven. they ll face the winner of tonight s other game seven between the canadiens and the bruins. the blackhawks will face the winner of the ducks/kings. that series is tonight. can the bruins do it, mike? yes, they can. well, those are two evenly matched teams. it s go to be a great game. there will be fights tonight. if you can get boston and new york in the conference finals. still ahead from morning joe from the men who brought you freakonomics. and at 7:00, magic strikes back. he s heard enough from donald sterling. his reaction. he says enough is enough. we ll be right back on morning joe. 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i think often when you re talking outrage along these lines, it s often a little bit stronger when you are the person who is on the brunt of the perceived injustices. right. and in this case, i think that s what s happening with the wall street journal. i doubt that they would be crying so loudly if this were republicans and not a democrat. but, jeremy, we heard a thousand stories about those terrible republicans that won t pass democratic leases of legislation through the house. the question is can republicans fairly make and i m not leading you here, i m curious, can we not fairly make the aim argument about harry reid not allowing the amendment in the senate? because he thinks it s going to pass? absolutely. this is where republicans have clearly said that harry reid has obstructed business in the senate just as republicans have obstructed it through filibuster. now, which is worse? i m not going to make that call. but you do have to understand, i think, to get a real firm grasp on this debate, you have to understand where this is coming from. and the reason why harry reid does block amendments on these bills is that republicans routinely filibuster everything. all right, very good. willie, what s next? 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[ laughter ] jews help blacks eww unless what he s doing is workshoping new material for donald sterling literally comedy jam. jeremy peters with us. and with us from washington, nbc news correspondent and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. we re going to talk in two seconds about the sterling controversy. but, chuck todd, we had a lot of elections last night. a lot of races. a couple have stood out. what are your thoughts? well look, it s a generational change in nebraska. this is a couple of young guys taking over the nebraska republican party. pete ricketts tried to run for the senate a few years back now is a heavy favorite to be governor. and ben sass. i think what s unique about sass, a lot of groups are saying, hey, we want a race, we want a race. but the establishment is split in this race. now, sass went after mitch mcconnell a way back. he did. this is about mcconnell. but paul join was for sass. i had sass on my show yesterday. he said he d vote for mcconnell as leader. she d try to put an end to that. i think he s going to be a little moron johnson than he s going to be ted cruz. a lot of people are trying to figure out where is this guy going to fit on the senate. i d put him more on the johnson side. he s now a big favorite to win state wide, right? slightly. absolutely. and shelly is a heavy favorite in west virginia. be west virginia s first republican senator in over half a century. but she is, dare i call this person a pro-government republican. they do exist, and that s about what you have to be ideologically in place like west virginia which actually likes federal dollars coming into the state because she s going to be somebody like a murkowski, collins, the republicans that do a lot of bipartisan deals. sound goods. let s go straight now, the latest from sterling, some quotes that i can t believe. the earthquake of the sterling interview, the ripple effect continues because we re one day after donald sterling attacked magic johnson. the former laker star is fighting back. magic was dragged into when v. stevian know post evidence this image on instagram. it s a photo made public by tmz sports. and sterling told her not to bring magic johnson or any other african-americans to clippers games to that original racist rant that was made public. it was days ago that sterling went after magic again, this time for having hiv. what has he done? can you tell me? big magic johnson, what has he done? he s a business person. whose got aids. did they do any business? did he help anybody in south l.a. i think it s hiv, it didn t focus on aids. what kind of a guy that has sex with every girl and then he catches hiv. is that something that we want to respect and tell our kids about? i think he should be ashamed of himself. what does he do for the black people? he doesn t do anything. here s a man who we would think would be educated. and a man who would is smart enough to build this type of wealth. he s reaching, he s trying to find on to something that s going to save his team. am i upset? of course. but at the same time, i m a god fearing man. i m going to pray for him and hope that things work out for him. the problem is, he s living in the stone ages. he can t make those comments about african-americans and latinos. he just can t do it. gene, i don t know where to begin with the ignorant statements. let s leave hiv out of it and instead talk about the fact that for a very long time, magic johnson has focused on going into inner cities and creating economic development and bringing hope to the hopeless in a lot of african-american communities for some time. in fact, that s what i ve associated him with over the past 10, 20 years. yeah, so many ignorant statements, so long time. it just shows how out of it and how divorced from reality donald sterling is. and i think sometimes invested certainly tens of millions of dollars, i don t know if it s hundreds of millions of dollars into low-income communities across the country, created economic opportunity. he has walked the walk, in addition to talking the talk. and is the last person in the world that you would say such an ignorant and prejudice thing about. but there you go. that s donald sterling. that s the donald sterling we ve come to know. and not exactly love. mike barnicle, how can this guy remain associated in the nba? i can t see any judge thinking that there s any way that he would have any standing, to have any part of any team? well, he can take them to court, certainly, but there s no way he s going to end up with the l.a. clippers at the end of this, with whatever litigation proceeds. i choose to go back to what is soon to be ex-wife reference last week when she said she thought certainly that donald sterling was in the early stages of dementia. he s got to be. who would do that? it s possible, the racism goes back a bunch of years, guys. yeah. so it s not like this stuff wasn t buried down in there. maybe even his sensor is turned off. no doubt. there s no guard rail now, so he s going right off the cliff. it s insanity. and it s just i don t know i don t know how this guy, and we ve asked this question before, thomas, how is this guy been allowed to be an owner since 1981, the nba had to know, had to know. well, they did know that he had racist tendencies. yeah, they had the largest judgment go against him for discrimination and a payout that he and his wife had to make based on discriminatory practices. so the nba does know what s there. if they have something to leverage him out and he agreed, mike, as you point out, he knows what s in the laws of nba ownership. if they have majority of those owners saying he s got to go, he s got to go. that s something that he agreed to on the front end. and according to his work philosophy, if magic johnson made such a mistake and should fall into the background and never be heard from again, what s his problem? he s made such a horrendous mistake that he should drop off the face of the earth. obviously, he has nobody around him that can counsel him. and he s stumbling from one crisis to another. it s unbelievable. speaking of surprising, it s not quite along those lines. but karl rove is actually doubling down on the suggestion that hillary clinton should be prepared for serious scrutiny about her health should she decide to run for president in 2016. we ve got the republican strategist that is pushing back against the new york post head line. he questioned whether the former first lady may have brain damage. it s pretty clear where he s trying to aim the voters attention. my point was, that hillary clinton wants to run for president, but she would not be human if this didn t enter into consideration. and my other point is this will be an issue in the 2016 race. whether she likes it or not. she ll be 69 by the 2016 election. and she ll be 79 if he ends up erving two terms. clinton s camp blasted back saying she s recovered 100% from a blot clot in 2012. it wasn t just clinton pushing back, a well-known republican and white house jumped into it as well. this wasn t clever, ant it wasn t insinuation. this was karl rove running into a brick wall. nothing drives decent people running away from public office more than this type attack. it weakens the fabric of democracy. here s what i would say about cognitive capacity which is that dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president had won re-election, including the state of ohio, so we ll leave it at that. chuck todd, what s going on? i mean, i just don t understand why would karl rove bend over backwards to make hillary clinton look like a more sympathetic figure? i am curious. it s amazing the conspiracy those are i heard yesterday. rove did this, he s doing the old lbj here. make them deny that they have brain damage. throw it out there and then say, oh, i didn t say brain damage, brain damage, brain damage, you know, but i m trying to get it into the ether. and then i ve talked to other folks who say that rove truly was sort of shell-shocked that that got out there. that wasn t what he meant. well, he didn t exactly spin it very well yesterday. and he didn t spin is very well, no. look, the fact is she s the same age, she s going to be the same age as reagan was. if you re going to go down this road and claim she s going to have health issues, and things of that nature, then you may have to be throwing your own guy, ronald reagan under the bus a little bit. so i think this is a dangerous, tricky road to go down. and as we saw, with rove, you go down this road, and you stumble down this road, i mean, i agree, at any point, any presidential candidate has deputy release their health records. i don t care if they re 45 or 70. at the end of the day, i think it s important, the american public wants to know, they want to make their judgment about who the running mate is, things like that. so that is fair game. but to sit there and say it only really applies to her. and you go down that road, it s going to look a little sexist if you re not careful. and it s going to backfire. you obviously have known hillary for a very long time. and you re absolutely confident. while you said legitimate there are a lot of people legitimately concerned after her fall that she s doing fine. look, i think she s doing fine. you watch her during her time as secretary of state, all the travlgs all the wear and tear and meetings she did. yeah, she had a little health problem, but probably would the rest of us after what she went through. regardless of what rove was doing, it s clear what what he was doing. if somebody like joe biden decides he wants to be in the mix two or three years older than hillary, it s going to apply to him. senator marco rubio found himself the target after recently entering into a climate change debate. speak at the national press club, the potential 2016 contender looked to clarify remarks he made sunday. here are the original markings and what he said yesterday. i don t agree with the notion that some are putting out there including scientists that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on our climate. let me get this straight you do not think that human activity, production of co2 has causing change? i do not believe human activity is causing changes to our climate. i do not believe the laws that they will pass will do anything about it. headlines notwithstanding i of course, the climate is incorporate challenging because the climate is always changing, that s a measurable you can see. i ve never disputed that climate is changing. i pointed out that climate is always changing. it s never static. that s not the question before me ace policymaker. the question before me as a policymaker, if we ban all coal, all carbon emission information the united states will it change the dramatic weather impacts that we re now reading jab and anyone who says that we will is not being truthful. but for me to go out and say if you pass this bill that i m proposing this will somehow lead us to have less tornadoes or hurricanes, that s just not an accurate statement. there we have him cleaning up his language but former president gore speaking about the calculus around climate change. he s said it s not complicated and why candidates are carving out their positions now. they will face primary opponents financed by the koch brothers and others who are part of their group, if they even breathe the slightest breath of sympathy for the truth. sympathy for the truth. jeremy peters, let s talk to you about the whiplash effect that we re seeing from senator marco rubio. obviously what he had to say to jonathan karl did not go over well at the national press club and he s giving a different answer on climate change. i think this is what happens when you re thinking about running in a republican primary at the same time trying to become a viable national figure. you have to say one thing that on the one hand doesn t alienate the base. in this case, the republican base doesn t want to hear that global warming is man-made or a serious problem. but on the other hand, the majority of americans feel this is a real issue and that it needs to be dealt with at a federal level. so you ve also seen this pattern from other contenders. possible contenders for the republican nomination. remember what happened with rand paul when he came out and said that republicans need to stop talking about voter fraud. and voter i.d. he got slammed on the right, even though what he said, this is offensive, republicans need to be careful about the way they re talking about this. it s offending african-americans. yesterday, he walked those statements back, saying, well, i didn t say i didn t say that these laws are a bad idea. all i was saying is that we need to not talk about them as much. a lot of times these guys are trying to have it both ways. chuck, off of what jeremy just said, potential candidates trying to have it both ways, not offending the base. karl rove s comments about hillary clinton. the base, not only the republican, but specifically, the republican base, where does this potential field of candidates go in appeasing the base, while perhaps alienate oeg they have a demographic problem anyway in this country. can they shoot the middle here? is there a middle for them? i don t know, they have a we talk about a demographic problem. i go back to the term and color phrase of 2013, this is a period of time where it s not exactly where the democratic party was in a great place in virginia. and he used climate change, he used some of these issues. but climate change was one of them, to define his opponent as out of the mainstream. you won t believe what he said about this in suburban in a suburban part of the state. this is there is a sort of a suburban wing that used to exist of the republican party that s sort of pro-business. the old eisenhower, rockefeller republicans. the children of them are starting to vote democrat. not because they re enthusiastist perhaps about the democratic party but they re just they ve gone all brian sullivan to reference that. but they go, wait a minute, what s going on over here? and they feel as if you can t have rational discussions about certain policy issues. and so that s the voter that they ve also turned off in suburban america. and 2016, the clintons are very good at wooing suburban america. and climate change that can turn off potential with right-leaning republicans. gene robinson, a fascinating story in the front page of the washington post, your newspaper. you read the article, he has conservative challenge from the right in his district. there was this weekend, where cantor was booed by republican act that visits. quite a turn of events for a guy who was seen as the conservative alternative to john boehner just a year ago. what s going on? well he s in trouble. and it s hard to figure why or how. because he s gone so far out of his way to try to define himself as the more tea party-friendly member of the leadership. of the leadership duo. and the one who will, unlike john boehner was really with the tea party. now, he faces this challenge that seems to be getting serious. i mean, i don t know that i don t know that you can call him in grave peril at this point. you know, look, the majority leader in the house in a safe district, isn t supposed to be in trouble at all. at this point of the cycle. and i think it shows something that s happening in general about the republican party through these primaries. even though the so-called establishment candidates are winning a lot of races. they didn t win last night in nebraska, particularly. but they re winning a lot of races. but the tea party is bringing the staekt farther to the right in some cases. cantore will probably be brought yet further to the right. this, i think, could present problems for the republican party in the general election. we shall see. all right. thank you so much, chuck todd, thanks. we re going to be watching the daily rundown at 9:00 a.m. eastern. you guys go after it, right? the irrational middle, that s what america needs. angry middle. the angry middle. they saw it yesterday. gene, stay with us if you can. former yankee second baseman willie randolph is here to explain why the yankee way it s the way it is. and senator jon tester is here later this hour. up next, his energy bill was derailed by the controversial keystone pipeline. we re going to get senator rob portman s thoughts on that and much more. you re watching morning joe. be right back. 0 second his room is ready. you know what he brings? any questions? can i get an a, steve? yes! three a s! he brings his a-game! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! you always get the lowest price book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less we ll match it and give you fifty dollars back that s the expedia guarantee unfortunately, many americans live on the outskirts of hope. some because of their poverty. and some because of their color. and all too many because of both. our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. and this administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in america. that s lyndon johnson 50 years ago, declaring a war on poverty. now with the republican senator from ohio, rob portman who has revealed his ideas for a conservative plan to take on poverty. thank you so much, rob, for being with us. you you bet. we thought it was an either/or. you have to be republican or you have to fight against poverty. what are your plans? paul ryan s been talking about a focus on poverty, too? what are we willing to do to help in this area? well, first, just the opposite you know, from either/or. lyndon johnson just talked about opportunity, rather than despair. i mean, lieu technical economy today, joe, we re clearly at a point of despair, in the sense that poverty is up the rate of poverty is up. 47 million below the poverty line. we also have a weak economy coming out of a recession. the recovery is not adding hope and opportunity to the middle class, as well as people on the poverty line. so the question is, what do we do about it? i think there s two major things. one is, we need to grow an agenda. and you and i have talked about that, that includes transforming all of the economy, from the health care system to tax code regulations and so on. that s what jfk talked years before this. a rising tide lifts all votes. and second, even with a rising tide, people are going to fall through the cracks and end up on the shoals. we talked about prevention and treatment and recovery. some of the models there, two decades ago, you and i worked on this issue of drug abuse from a republican perspective, but also a bipartisan perspective. i ve done this with regard to prison re-entry with second chance. my point is there are ways to get at this with constructive conservatism because we know it would. if we re talking about this, i m just pressing you a little bit here, if you came out and said i ve got a plan to take on poverty and tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera, a lot of people are going to roll their eyes and say, well, that s the republican party we ve been hearing about for 50 years. there has to be a spending component to it if you re going to get people s attention. are you and other republicans willing to invest in some of these programs to make a difference? yeah. i think we do. we invest in what works. i talked about yesterday, joe, of the fact that we should use federal funds to leverage local and nonprofit private funds. this has happened with regard to the drug issue. the example i used was this legislation that was passed two decades ago that i offered that talks about how to get community coalition, started. it turns out there s like 5,000 coalitions that have been sparring for the act. it has to be funded at the local level. it involves the whole community coming together. the idea is it s not going to be solved from washington. also evidence-based approaches, i talked about the second chance and the fact that it requires that we use the best practices and the federal government has a big role to play there because some of the best research is done at the federal level. you can bring together best practices. you can go online and see the website it s called what works. gene robinson with the washington post. senator portman, good to talk with you. thank you. does the republican party have any plans to address poor people? to try to communicate with poor people on these issues and to try to sell a program that, frankly, does sound like what republicans have been say for a long time. and what a lot of team think has not worked. yeah, look, i don t think republicans have talked about this for a long time, john kennedy s admonition that a rising tide lifts boats. in a growing economy, some people will be left behind. i think we saw that in 1980, for instance. we saw that in the economy. and yet, ronald reagan actually talked about how do you deal with people who have drug addiction problems and therefore there are broken families and therefore there are problems. we need to get back to that. i specifically talked yesterday that you re not able to deal with some of the broken communities until you deal with drug addiction and the impacts, particularly, the impact that s disproportionate on communities with the current war on drug which is i don t think is working. and secondly, the record number of people in prison and not dealing with them when they get out. 95% of them are going to get out. that s a conservative approach otherwise taxpayers are picking up the tab for two-thirds of those people getting back in the system. there are ways to deal with those things. i don t want to cut you off. we ve got a lost people that want to get at you, rob. here s steve rattner. you had a couple references to kennedy s quote a rising tide lifts all boats. but it was a lot more than nap it was after his famous visit in 1960 when he in fact launched the war on poverty. launched what became head start. and your party was in the process of trying to cut all of those things. you of course voted against raising the minimum wage. i know you think costs jobs but would raise 4 million or 5 million people out of poverty simply by getting them to $10.10 an hour. so what is wrong with those programs? steve, first of all, regarding the minimum wage, since you talked about that i strongly support programs that create jobs. i don t support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour because it s going to create fewer jobs. the issue with regard to poverty isn t the minimum wage, with all due respect as much as it is about jobs. as you look at it, as you know fewer there been 0.3 of 1% of people are under minimum wage and under the poverty line. why? because most people under the poverty line need a job. it s not about the minimum wage, it s about a job. the problem about raising the minimum wage too fast and too high, you re going to eliminate jobs. the budget office has joined and said if you do what the president is proposing it will result in jobs being lost not gained. why not do things like making the earned income tax credit work better. things that could affect work. i do support that in ohio. that would. i think states should be able to do that. i think we re getting off track on some of these political discussions. i know it s very popular, the minimum wage issue. again, ohio s got a higher minimum wage index. mike barnicle. senator, these are admiral goals but how do you attack poverty in this country when many members of your party have voted to cut food stamps. they ve voted to repeal health care, you talk about a rising tide lifts all boats. how do you talk about a rising tide that lifts boats still filled with the hungry and rising ill-health? i do believe that the rising tide theory is important. in fact, i think it s necessary. you got to have a stronger economy. you ve got to have growth. there are five or six things that we should do immediately to get the economy moving again. dealing with health care costs. and the competitive global economy. we ve got to do a much better job really reforming all of our institutions of our country as other countries have done when we have not. my point is that s not enough. it s not sufficient. the question is how do you come up with ways that are practical, i call it constructive, to actually look at what s worked. and deal with the issues. i don t believe it s going to happen from washington alone. by the way, lyndon johnson said that later in that same speech which is this is not going to happen in washington, it s going to happen in the field. it s going to happen in private homes in public lawsuits from the courthouse on up. he even acknowledged this is not something that s going to happen in washington. but washington has an important role to ply. that s what i tried to lay out in my speech yesterday. rob, thank you for being with us. senator rob portman. tomorrow morning on the show, glenn greenwald is going to join us on his new memoir on braying the edward snowden story. coming up this hour, the bouncy house that went from a good time to a really scary scene. what led to these photos. oh, my god. and what happened to the kids inside. we ll be right back. here at fidelity, we give you the most free research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed one-second trades. and at the center of it all is a surprisingly low price just $7.95. in fact, fidelity gives you lower trade commissions than schwab, td ameritrade, and e-trade. i m monica santiago of fidelity investments, and low fees and commissions are another reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. call or click to open your fidelity account today. peoi go to angie s listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie s list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you ll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we re expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie s list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i ve found on angie s list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on angie s list. angie s list reviews you can trust. so i tri ed depend so i and it made the difference between hearing about my daughter s gym meet, and being there. yeah! nailed it! unlike the bargain brand, depend gives you new fit-flex®, our best protection. it s a smooth and comfortable fit with more lycra strands. hi sweetie! get your free sample at depend.com. that, my friends, is everything. and with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase. not just everything at the hardware store. not everything, until you hit your cash back limit. quicksilver can earn you unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you could possibly imagine. say it with me everything. one more time, everything! and with that in mind. what s in your wallet? all right, gang, so two children in upstate new york are recovering from serious injuries after a gust of wind swept away a bouncy house. you can see the image there. three kids were actually playing inside. hey, you can guys take down the lower third. and go back to that other shot. i want to put a perspective how high this thing went. yeah, go back to the next shot. just right there. wow. look how oh, my god. how high three little children are inside that bouncy house that we ve all had, if we have kids. nicolle, you can t even look at it. my 3-year-old loves that. three little kids. we ve all had these at birthday parties, right our kids have all done them at birthday parties. and apparently, it was staked down. it had been staked down, joe, you re right. this gust of wind came along and blew it up 50 feet in the air. this gives perspective of where the ground is and cars parked nearby. one child escaped with only minor injuries but another boy has broken bones after falling 15 to 20 feet in the parking lot nearby. while the third has a serious head injury after landing on a car. heartbreaking for the parents. it s just a simple toy that a lot of parents book for birthday parties for their kids. my kids aren t going in one of those. yeah. if parents that don t want them anymore, there s there s a good reason. i m done with the tent. unless the stakes go down 40 feet to to aquifer. oh, my gosh, that s horrible. thomas, what s coming up in the 8:00 hour? 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no, i don t think he should. if you look at all the things that are positive from the v.a., there s a lot from the positive standpoint. i think they ve done a remarkable job, when you consider all the folks coming back from iraq and the injuries to the vets are pretty intense, especially the ones we can t see. i think the v.a. is doing a pretty good darn job. that being said, if one veteran dies because somebody screwed up on a wait-list, that s far too many. first of all, i ve got to say, there are a lot of veterans that would take exception to you saying, quote, the v.a. is doing a pretty good job. if you think the v.a. s doing a pretty good job. i think you may be one of people in washington, d.c. that think that v.a. is doing a good job, but maybe one of the few people in america who believe that. i couldn t disi agree with you more. i ve been around the state of montana. i ve talked to veterans for the last eight years. and i m not a veteran. i ve talked to veterans. and i can tell you almost truly without exception they truly appreciate the v.a. is it perfect? absolutely not. does it need to be improved? absolutely. we need to work on it, especially when it comes to mental health issues. but overall, i will tell you that the v.a., and i d know it s in vogue right now to politicize everything that s going on with the v.a. but the bottom line is, we need to get to the bottom of this, we need to find out if there s wrog doing and hold people responsible. it s not in vogue with all due respect, senator, there s been a waiting list that s been extraordinarily long. an you ve got parts of the v.a. that are actually cooking the books. and possibly killing veterans. we need to get to the bottom of that. but i will tell you, the waiting list, we knew was coming. it was coming. and i can tell you that this secretary has reduced it by 45%. that being said, it s being increased by 45%, too. because we re having veterans come home from iraq and afghanistan as we wind these wars down. and i think it s good we re winding these wars down but we ve got to be realistic. the fact is, the waiting list is too long. secretary shinseki has made it a priority. and he s worked hard at it. and he needs success. in the meantime, what has congress done? well, we ve had sequestration and shutdowns and anything but certainty to the v.a. so when we see politicians badmouthing the v.a., they re pointing a finger at the v.a. and three back at themselves. that s bad mouthing the v.a. paul reichoff is bad mouthing the v.a. he s not a politics. and there are are millions of other veterans for some reason don t share your rosy scenario of the v.a. let me tell you, the v.a. has plenty of room to improve. but they do plenty of things right, too. i think if we want to focus on the negative and we don t want to focus on ways to improve the v.a., then we ll be right where we are right now. asking for resignations when we don t have all the facts. we need to get all the facts and then we need to act appropriately. well senator, instead of focusing on the negative, you come from a big state. let s talk about accessibility from ptsd treatment. you get in the car and drive for hours some veterans before they get properly treated. what can you do about that? what should the v.a. be doing about it now? well, what we need to do, we need to get both in the v.a. and the private sector more mental health care professionals throughout. this could be the biggest issue fatesing this country over the next 20 or 30 years. what the v.a. is doing about it, they re trying to hire as many folks as they can to serve areas both urban and rural. they re working on telehealth which is critically important. with success, by the way, even better than eye-to-eye work that they ve done with the folks that have ptsd and tbi. look, it is a business issue. i don t know that we ve got one psychologist east of montana. and there s a big area east of billings. there needs to be work done there, no doubt about it. all hands on deck to get it fixed. senator jon tester, thank you for being with us. greatly appreciate it. thank you. i don t get it. i don t it s an outrage. well, you talk about i don t get that, i talk to veterans all the time. we have them on the show. i talk to veterans all the time that wonder why shinseki should still be there. they are killing vets in phoenix. they are cooking the books. i don t know if he if he s lobbying for another facility. in his state. i don t understand that. well, and you talked about i m sorry, that is that s political in itself. that is one of most remarkable disconnects, political disconnects from a guy i ve always respected. i don t get that. he s a good guy. he s heart s in the right place. but the reality is the v.a. is an incredible mess. at outrage more senators going the house of representatives, the american flag, we have to take care of our veterans. and even came on saying shinseki who he has covered a long time and he doesn t get it, he doesn t get it, giant should be gone. i m shocked that you ve got a united states senator saying this is about politician? 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[ alert rings ] suffered brain damage. karl rove better be careful of what he s talking about because karl rove saying somebody else has brain damage, yeah, take a look at this and then we ll talk about it. tell me you never saw this man move, doing the dance, the karl rove dance sickening, isn t it? welcome back to morning joe. mike barnicle is with us, steve rattner, mark halpern and joy reid. thinking on the whole brain damage thing. we picked through that a couple of years ago. he didn t say brain damage but said was wearing glasses that suggested he had a traumatic brain injury when of course these are the same type of glasses that you wore in college. those milk bottle glasses. from the yale days. you remember that. i think this will go down in history as a miscalibration by carl because of of the way he let it come out. i m not 100% certain he wanted this in the blood stream. this was a private event. people can say, as nicole did yesterday, people had no know this was going to come up. he had to know this was going to come up. but the clean-up was not handled well either. what she said in private obviously is in private. obviously she didn t have brain damage. i just disagree with her on issue. the republican party is in crisis right now. doesn t look like jeb bush wants to run, people are worried about chris christie, there s another other establish candidate. the big gun, the big brains at the presidential level is what can we do to intimidate hillary clinton from running or try to make the conversation about her about the past and negative. i think that s part of the package that carl s part of now but i don t think he planned this. well, joy, this sure isn t a way to intimidate her. if i had my opponent throwing a wild charge like that at me or let s say a member of my family i d go, okay, well, so they re going to just hand me this election then, aren t they? it was a stupid thing to say and it was stupid to not back down from it. yeah, i mean, the source of it obviously he s now backing off saying he didn t really say that but it comes across, if true, as a schoolyard taunt, needlessly petty and small, a stupid insult. as somebody who grew up wearing glasses, it comes across like a schoolyard, foolish taunt. it doesn t in any way get to hillary clinton as secretary of state. like what you re supposed to go after if you re being serious about running against her is the actual content of the work she s done as a public figure, the content of what she did as secretary of state. this petty stuff and speculating about her having brain damage, it isn t even serious politics. and talking about her being old, when karl rove says she ll be 69 if she wins, 77 when she gets out, you know what i think? think of ronald reagan, who was 69 when he was inaugurated, 77 when he was out. i would take eight more years of ronald reagan. i know a lot of people would. but republicans, who are listening to karl rove, i don t even think republicans get it. can t you just see hillary clinton saying to rand paul i m not going to use the youth and inexperience of my opponent against him? exactly. you re reminding people she has a lot of experience in public life. people who know her and know politics understand she s a serious person. the republican party is in existential crisis right now. their kind of republicans now are trying to disqualify her. it s the strategy president obama used to disqualify mitt romney. they re saying our only hope of winning now until we have a candidate that can match up with her until we have a candidate in the electoral college, is to disqualify her. that s where the energy is now. is karl rove more wary of hillary clinton or more leery of the existing republican field? he would like a horse to get on. until they have a horse, there s a one-word job description for the party right now, who can beat her? they don t have anybody gung-ho who can beat her, to try to start enough noise who can beat or damage her. the tea party got a much-needed primary victory last night, some are saying. the nebraska former bush official, ben sasse captured more than half of the votes. he s scored endorsements from sarah palin and ted cruz and outside groups including club for growth. they spent millions on sasse. when he called out senator minority leader mitch mcconnell to show some, quote, actual leadership on obamacare but yesterday he down played that rift and told chuck todd he would absolutely support mitch mcconnell as leader. and pete rickets, businessman who won the primary in nebraska had the backing of ted cruz, who campaigned out there for him. so ricketts has to be the favorite for that state. a lot of tea party got behind him and establishment got behind him as well. he was a unifying candidate, wasn t he? but he is an outsider. mcconnell is someone who will come to washington like senator johnson of wisconsin or mike lee from utah, he s not going to come and play nice. i don t think he ll be as far outside the mainstream of the party in terms of attitude as ted cruz. he ll be a senator and peter ricketts will be senator most likely. and magic johnson was first dragged into this controversy after sterling confronted his then mistress over a photograph. stiviano posted the image of magic johnson on it instagram. sterling told her not to bring magic or any other african-american to clippers game during that original racist rant and then sterling went after magic johnson again, this time, believe it or not, for having hiv. what has he done? can you tell me, big magic johnson. what has he done? well, he s a business person, he he s got aids. did he do any business? did he help anybody in south l.a. i think he has hiv, he doesn t actually have full-blown aids. what kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl and then he catches hiv. is that somebody we want to respect and tell our kids about? i think he should be ashamed of himself, he should go into the background. but what does he do for the black people? he doesn t do anything. here s a man who we would think would be educated and a man who would is smart enough to build this type of wealth and own a team, to have an incredible platform to change the world but he s doing it in a negative way. he s reaching. he s reaching. he s trying to find something he can grab on to to help him save his team and it s not going to happen. am i upset? of course. but at the same time i m a god fearing man, i m going to pray for him and hope that things work out for him. the problem is he s living in the stone ages. he can t make those comments about african-americans or latinos. he just can t do it. joy reid, why don t you tell us what donald sterling is thinking when he goes on tv and says that? the only thing i can think of between that and what he said to v. stiviano on the phone, here s a man who has a desenep sense o inadequacy, just his girl friend being a picture in magic johnson what kind of fool would say that? he has to know, does he not? we all know what magic johnson has done in communities and cities over the past 20 years. the investment, the financial investments, the risk he has taken to help the disadvantaged, he s done so much. forget the ignorance about aids or hiv, the more ignorant statement has to do with the fact that magic has been doing exactly what he said blacks should do. it s insanity. he s a deeply ignorant man who obviously knows very little about magic johnson other than the way he makes him feel. this is magic johnson in the 1980s the idea of hiv/aids terrified people. magic johnson probably more than any other single person has humanized the issue of hiv, has made people understand it in the real sense. it is considered heroic in the african-americ african-american community both for the way he has contributed to the community and why doesn t magic johnson age? magic looks like he did 25 years ago. he s magic. that s right. he s magic for a reason. you have lebron coming out and saying he will not play basketball next year if this creep is still running the clippers or has anything to do with the clippers. i m not that familiar with the nba board of governor rules and apparently if the majority of owners is against sterling returner so he will be done. the larger issue, joy alluded to it, do you remember the day the news broke that magic johnson and hiv? of course i do. at that stage of the hiv crisis, he provided it s impossible for people too young to remember but there was such a panic. i remember americans going to restaurants and feverishly wiping down their silverware when they got to restaurants because they were afraid they were going to get, posed to the hiv virus. magic put a loving face on the epidemic. we all thought, oh, my god, in two, three years magic is going to be dead? that s right. no, that was a turning point in that battle that we owe an awful lot to magic for as you were saying, joy. arthur ashe and magic johnson are the two people who did more to end the panic for hiv/aids than anyone else. the federal government refused to use the word aids, people fighting for basic drug care. people thought he would die almost immediately. his survival in and of itself but also his really just incredibly dignified champion of just living with hiv, besides the fact that he was just an ignorant fool who should be out of the nba, that is stupid. magic of 91, that s the on thing people would be thinking about now. now that s way down on the list. people don t even think about it. talking about living with hiv and making a big difference in american society, the guy did it. joy, thank you for being with us. do you know what your show is going snto be? we re going to be talking about this and we re going to be talking about the nigerian girls. this is a very personal issue to me and we re going to stay on that story until we see a resolution. that s great. can t wait to watch that. are you following my advice? my staff can hear this, by the way. i told her to stay at home, relax. i ve done it a couple of times. pixar has swimming pools and volleyball courts. you got to be in the right mindset. do not come in here for your meeting. i m talking to the staff. don t watch this, just this part. it s not about you, it s about joy. coming up, our reaction to the interview of time geithner with larry kudlow. and calm down brian sullivan, boy, he s fired up. coming up next, speaking of freaks, the authors behind freakonomics are coming up. they want to teach you how to think like a freak. bill karins, what do you have for us? you can t say freak and lead into the weathercast, joe. we re into some freaky weather. it was only 66 degrees in san antonio, it was 92 in washington, d.c. and out west, an incredible heat wave on top of this historic drought. let s add in the santa ana winds and it s one of those days of firefighters are going to be gearing up and be ready. it s a very dangerous day. winds could gust in the mountains up to 80 miles per hour. 80 miles per hour and 100 degrees. that s like having a hair dryer blower. record heat expect, 100 on thursday. they don t cool off in southern california until friday and especially the weekend. heavy rain and possibility of a few severe storms, maybe isolated tornado or two, it goes through pittsburgh, columbus, louisville, tupelo. if you have any problems at the airport, it will most likely be with the thunderstorms. how about los angeles, 101 today. early in the season for that. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. and you re younger than you realize really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? 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yes. kids don t know anything about the world and they have a lot of solutions. a lot of answers people come up with people think you re nuts but and also learn to say i don t know. and as adults we tend to present a theory or possibility as a certain tear. put away your moral compass. we don t mean to say people shouldn t be moral. nobody wants to live in a world where people don t have a strong moral compass. but if you re trying to solve a problem and you walk in thinking you know what s the right thing to do and what s wrong, you will exclude a whole set of possibilities. put your moralali itit itit iti aside and you can come back to it later. also in the book i still think you can be an astronaut. i d like to if we still had nasa. you re limiting yourself. he already looks like an astronaut. thank you very much. could have been. you talk about don t be afraid to quit. a lot of people, once we get on a certain path, we don t want to trigger any type of failure in our lives because we get comfortable with being on a path. why do you try to get people to not think of that as a bad thing. quitting and failure are two different things. the worst failure is looking back at our life and doing the same thing and wondering why you do that. the people who quit are happier than the ones who don t. from freak to frank. you tell great stories. tell bus the hot dog eating contest and what lessons he teaches ees us. i love this story and this guy. kobiachi, he wanted to solve the problem and he approached it totally differently. instead of doing what everybody else did, fasting, starving themselves, instead of thinking how can i eat more hot dogs, he thought how can i eat one faster? he broke the process down and the first time out doubled the world record. from like 25 to 50? it would be like usain bolt running the world record in like 4.5 seconds, somewhere between a taxi and a cheetah. we ve heard about creative destruction, that does lie at the heart of it. like you said, you don t drive the car off the cliff. sometimes well, all of this is about getting out of your comfort zone and not doing what everybody expects you to do. absolutely. it s about thinking. it s about not just sleep walking through life but thinking about what you want to do and taking control and doing it. so who is your favorite freak that you studied that put the big light bulb over your head? barry marshall was an australian medical young doctor who figured out what causes ulcers, okay? it doesn t sound like a big game he also figured out what causes stomach cancer. at the time ulcers were thought to be from stress and stomach issues. he went and found out it was about bacteria and solved stomach cancer by looking at a problem, asking questions, hey, what are those bacteria being here, was ostracized by the medical community and finally was recognized and won the nobel peace prize. i know hough to eat a hot dog faster now. and you can go out for thai food to celebrate. let your freak flag fly high. you can read an excerpt on moj mojoe.com. coming up, your favorite internet stock is most likely collapsing. i told up not to invest in pets.com, you didn t listen to me. we re going to dig into it when we come back. 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? 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what would have happened if we hadn t taken that step back? think of the great depression. there s no memory of it. people didn t live through it but in the great depression, unemployment went to 25 and gdp fell by 25% and it took a decade to get back to some measure of security for people. that s because we allowed as a country a financial panic to escalate and bring the system to collapse. and why does that happen? it s because the light s going out. it s like the power grid not functioning. if the economy can t get oxygen, just to mix some more metaphors, companies can borrow, then businesses fire people on a brutal scale and that produces those set of conditions. panic leads to crash. that s why those things are so damaging. and they have massive innocent victims in that context. how close were we? we were right at the edge. paulsen wrote he thought we were three days away from the atms not working. people were talking about burying gold in their back ya s yards. they cut out the part where they explain that s exactly what mika is still doing, burying gold in her back yard, west chester, south of france, all over the place. that of course was tim geithner earlier. mike barnicle did not have a lot of nice things to say about elizabeth warren. i don t think he likes elizabeth warren. i don t know that he doesn t like her. but i think he clearly felt abused by her in the settle of setting her up for questioning, youtube moments rather than oh, i think he doesn t like her. okay. we re going to talk about that and much more. we re going to ask why too big to fail has got i don t know even bigger. brian sullivan is trying to recover from yesterday. larry kudlow, miles neddal, a cast of thousands will be with us when we return on morning joe. are those made with all-beef, karen? 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the republicans have lost five out of six of the last popular elections? we ve last five out of six elections. larry kudlow, people are doing some really, really stupid things. harry reid should be going to boxing matches in nevada in his pajama and flip-flops. he should have been beaten. keep your eyes open. he s on the ropes. i think this is a year where the big tent philosophy is going to work pretty nicely. it worked last night in nebraska. tea party support. the republicans are going to have the upper hand on economic growth and obamacare. tease are very important issues. with all respect to brian, i am not in favor of legalizing pot, i never will be in favor, i don t think the republican party should be in favor of legalizing pot, but if a state wants to do it, let the state do, it don t get in the way. i would say the same thing regarding certain key social issues. if certain states want gay marriage, that s up to the state. but the national party, let s focus on getting america back to work, right? and you re going to see that, is going to be the big theme. this is the worst economic recovery since world war ii, the job situation still remains very difficult and, frankly, obamacare is not only bad for the economy, it s going to be bad for health care and health care costs. my advice to the gop, big tent is number one and, two, keep your eye on the balls that really matter. steve rattner, every time on the house floor we started getting to social issues, the republican party would split, work, jobs, taxes, regulation, getting people back to work, we d be united. this economy, a lot of unrest in the economy. unemployment numbers are going down. last quarter that we flatlined, maybe because of weather. but you have a great chart here talking about how we ve got two americas. we ve got the america on wall street that s setting records every day and we ve got the america on main street that s been losing real wages since 1973. it s true. the stock market has been hitting new highs pretty much every day. it s up 32% last year, 3% this year. is there a bubble? is there a bubble? i m sure people on this panel have an opinion about it. looking at the price-to-earnings ratio, how expensive is the stock market in this goes back to 1910 and uses a measure developed by robert shiller, an economist. and it s not as high as it was in 1929 and it s not as high as it was in 2000 and not quite as high as it was in 2007 but other than that, it is higher than it s been. does it mean the stock market can keep going up some more because of these irrational bits of exuberance? sure, it can. but your chart doesn t end we re in a bubble now? it suggests stocks are on the expensive end but not in the bubble we ve had before. explain what happened to internet stocks. look what s happened. twitter down 47%, groupon down 46%. some of that are questions that have questionable business models. i don t think many think groupon is the greatest business in the world, twitter when it went public, the valuation was crazy. the whole market is sort of rotating at the moment away from internet stocks. can i make one point? steve is right as far as this chart goes. this is a ten-year average of price-to-earnings multiples. now, bob shiller is a smart guy. i m not here to put him down, this is not necessarily the best way to measure it. look at last year or this year or a year ahead,or really around 15 times earnings and that s not bad. my advice, sometimes kudlow is right, sometimes kudlow is wrong, i wouldn t jump out of the market right now. housing and consumer spending. housing is stable temperature it stable. larry said trade at about 16 times earnings currently. and on that basis the s&p 500 could be 1950, 1975 next year. s&p earnings are supposed to be 117 this year, gross 6%. if you believe what lee cooperman says, which is stocks are the best house in a good neighborhood currently, they re fair live priced. they re not cheap in relation to what they ve been historically and they re not over live expensive. so why is main street still suffering and why is wall street doing so well? when you look at the unemployment rate that has declin declined, it s mostly because people have left the workforce. there s only about 150,000 job being created monthly. the answer is simple. why has main street suffered and wall street done so well? because wages have not increased, and what hasn t gone into wages has gone into corporate profits. workers are simply not sharing in this prosperity. the wage point is exactly right. it s exactly right. and i think that s because of the slow growth in the economy and i think that s because of poor economic policies. but i want to make a point, wall street versus main street. no, won t buy it. 50% of the households in this country own stocks. when you talk about main street, union people, cops, fire, teachers are all in pension funds and the pension funds are doing very well because the stock market has done very well. in queens your cop is making $120,000 a year, your school teach ser making $120,000 a year, they re putting some money into pension funds and that money is being matched and then some. those pension funds have gone up a lot since the bottom in 2009. teachers make $120,000 a year? how much? did you say they make $120,000 a year? in this city? absolutely. look at the recent de blasio settlement, it s going to be more than that. how much is the market in unrest in ukraine and overseas? they don t seem worried at all. the bond yield has gone down. but to steven s point, the stock market continues to go up. perhaps we are the cleanest dirty shirt in a bag of laundry. do i want to push back a little on what steven said, incomes have not gone up, that is well founded, well known, accurate. but let s not forget corporations have paid out this huge gain in money to health care over the last 20 years. any corporation will say we have given our employees a raise, it just hasn t been in their paycheck, it s been in benefits. if the president s health care plan works and does as advertised, if we can bend that down, corporations will then transfer some of those savings to workers actual paychecks. that s a fair point. but the balance of the evidence is workers have not had much pay increase. to larry s point, sure. has some direct interest in the stock but the vast preponderance of the gains in this stock rally have gone to the famous 1%. i just don t think the evidence supports that. i m not making this stuff up. half of the households in this country either directly or indirectly through pension funds or 401(k)s and what have you own shares. the most important issue is about job creation. if the republican party focusses on that single issue about job creation throughout the entire economy, especially in small business, that is the critical issue. way to stimulate the economy and benefit main street is through job creation. and that s the gop message inside the big tent. if they stick to their knitting on that, they re going to do very well. all they need is a policy now. we ll find it. at least we have focus. that s what we need. thinking like a child, thinking like a freak. larry kudlow, good to have you all here. and harry reid on the koch brothers when we come back. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. 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possibly the partisan equivalent of a terror attack. getting the other side so shook off it moves off its game plan. did rove do that, get the clintons ton a fight a year ahead of schedule? did that get bill and hillary out in the streets clamoring, out there looking like the veteran roe partners they intend to be, but way, way ahead of their 2016 schedule? did rove succeed in setting up the health matter just before her book tour to get every tv, radio and reporter to drop the health question wherever the book tour takes her. and finally, did karl rove southerly encourage jeb bush to get into the race by show how ready operatives like him are to do the job on hillary, just like they did the job on michael dukakis back in 1988. and after all the blowback, could it be that karl rove doesn t mind at all being hated all the more by the left for running alongside the clinton campaign bus lobbing stink bombs in the window as long as it makes him more highly prized on the right, especially by the big money people. david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones and is an msnbc political analyst. and the special correspondent the daily beast. all opinions are relevant because i have been trying to project where this takes us. it s been the week of the attack on hillary s health, whatever that is. has it worked, or even hurt her? what s it all about? rove is going to be around and she s going to be around and bill clinton is going to be around. this talking point is not going anywhere. i don t know if this was strategically intended for this particular week, but week by week he s been doing this for a while. week by week, the clintons are more and more in the news, particularly hillary, as we get up to the big book release, happening next month. so you see more and more folks on the right as you get closer to 2016 trying to take shots at hillary. now, i think what rove wants to do here, he doesn t want to win the case. you know, he actually made a mistake by talking about brain damage and going too far and having to qua zi apologize. he said brain injury, would that have been smarter? i think it would have. he wants to create background noise so this question linger, hovers. people have to ask her. we ve seen this so many times. they did it to dukakis with the psychiatrist. it s not at all unexpected. and it s going to continue to come up. and actually, though, in one way or the other, she will have to address this the way that john mccain and ronald reagan did. they did it more with rumor, but this is an issue. let s go where we were six months ago. hillary clinton comes off a pretty sterling performance as secretary of state. worked hard, went millions of miles. became first name basis with these world leaders. she s up here as an icon, not a politician. is she still an icon? it drags her back down into the political they re dragging me back in again. every time i get out. a little bit like that. but that s inevitable. if she runs she s going to become a political figure again. it s may 2014. she s expected to announce in 2015? early 2015, maybe. we ve got to talk about it. it s going to standard happening and it has happened. when rove walks into a crowd, not like this little crowd, but somebody on the pretty far right money people, is he well received now. is he seen as a guy who, okay a little dirty? but he gets the job done. the group that he started, american crossroads had a big problem. they didn t win the races they were in last time. i know from talking to people on the right that his group did not do the internal autopsy that convinced people that they knew what to do next time. but that said, all karl rove needs is one or two texas billionaires, that s always been his go-to gang, to fund whatever he wants to do snex next. so they re still out there. he ll rope them in and they will appreciate this attack. who else is a riding, roping cowboy like this guy. this is lee atwater stuff. $103 million lost on every single race. is there a fee in this? he places these ads. does he get 7%? of course he does. but he lost every single race. the husband of outed cia officer valley plame has his own history with rove. wilson took rove to task for engaging in his old dirty tricks. in the long run, wilson says they will backfire. african-americans, gays, women have long since fled the republican party as poll after poll have shown. but rove is still practicing his old treks by attacking hillary clinton, he seems to do short term damage, but what about the long-term damage he s done and is doing to his own party? by 2016, rove will have succeeded in alienating millions of more through his revolting tactics. my question to you, the question of mike is this i thought that hillary had almost reached the point of untouchability and that wasn t going to last. but this guy is now is he going to pay the price? and who cares. are the republicans going to pay the price for his behavior? the republicans are going to pay the price. i don t think this resonates outside of the echo chamber. the echo chamber is a,rah, rah, rah. but with others it s going to produce a little sympathy for hillary clinton, if anything. but still, the republicans may not learn their lesson this time around. and hillary clinton is a great candidate in a lot of ways but also a candidate with problems and she is beatable by the right republican. she point out for the nirs time, i think it was her piece that we now know the rollout plan for the clin tons, the book tour. get a lot of positive ink about her role as secretary of state. really focusing on those four years. then apparently she s going to play a major role in the fall like dmix son did in 56. pick out the clinton favorites. peck out those ones, they win, she gets the record as well as bill with being in the winners. she did this in 1998 and 2000. schumer in new york. and others. she had a great record. a great won/loss record in 1998 and that helped her be a much more impressive senatorial candidate in 2000. i dependent know until this thing happened. you know why this is important, she hasn t campaigned in a long time. micks is always evolving, it s always different. the role she is played as secretary of state is it giving nice speeches where everybody cheers? or letting people ask you questions. it it s both. it s having a message and a vision. it s going elsewhere and it s doing it you know what, i ll book it doing it not just once a week, it s doing it every day over and over again. so she needs to get back up. that s always been my concern about any politician that leaves the field for eight years. you re not into the zeitgeist. every time you try a speech in the old days, nice try. that s why she goes out this fall. the conservative attack on hillary clinton, charles krauthammer insisted that hillary clinton s popularity is vastly overstated. let s watch charles. i think the democrats gross ly jor estimate how popular hillary is. she may be popular with them, but they assume she hasn t been out in the field. she hasn t been challenged in debate. she s a non she s not an officer holder right now. so she s not subject to slips. you go back over her record and you have somebody asking very simple correct and tough questions, number one, name a single achievement in your four years as secretary of state. if you need more clues, the right sees hillary as a threat, look at reince pribus twitter account. tweeted about hillary no fewer than five times in the last 24 hours. her failures at the state department are evident. also the hard choices led to bad decisions and bad outcomes. plus, here s another tweet. where hillary clinton goes, the donor scandals will follow. and the state department says hillary clinton could have acted on boka haram sooner. should she be trusted with hard choices? that s the title of her upcoming memoir. charles krauthammer what is he up to? he s taking the benghazi cool aid. 66% ceiling. i have never seen a ceiling this is the point you made earlier. as secretary of state in that cabinet of rivals, team of rivals, her popularity just really went very high. now the question is, as she gets back into partisan politics, which a lot of americans tend not like, is she going to come down a bit? she will. the question is, how far? by the way, you re not answering the right question. you re a smart guy, but you re not answering it. charles didn t say she ll end up being unpopular. he says she s unpopular now and that s not true. look at the number, charles, look at the polls. she s ahead of everybody 10, 12, 14 points. that s been done to no effect when she ran for president. legislatuors don t usually do something. this morning, hillary clinton showed up on the view to bid farewell to barbara walters. the former secretary of state had advice for the entirery news i don t think we say newswoman, but it s on script here. how about correspondent. here we go. first of all, take some time off. i mean, really you re in no position to tell me. that s what i ve been doing. take some time. you have a wealth of friends who adore you. spend time for them. take a real vacation. i go out with my dogs. my husband and i take long walks. just let down and enjoy. for a week at least. as long as you re here, let me ask you a question. the question i want to ask is are you going to run, but well, i am running around the park. that appearance did not hurt the former first lady. no. that s what she s got to do more of. politicians don t usually get to do that before they run. they usually do that if they lose. do we have time? quick. it makes me think about something. democrats always win women, but republicans win white women. watch that if she s the candidate. you may not be the last person to say that. white women will vote for hillary. coming up, i don t think they ale get together on it. you would think the tea partiers would have a good shot of winning the sflat and pushing it to the right, but it turns out they have a problem with the likely concerted republican winners. to too liberal by their standar standards. also, do you remember this by the republican gubernatorial debate, not just the establishment candidates, but the fringier ones as well. hey diddle diddle right up the middle. that s my style. you have your choice, folks. a cowboy, a curmudgeon, a biker or a normal guy. take your pick, thank you very much. normal wasn t good in that case. that was harley, harley brown. and how could we help but invite him on to hardball. he s going to join us later in person. plus, speaking of people on the fringe, right wing so-called patriot groups promise 10 million to 30 million of them would deaccepted scend on the w right. about ten people more or less did show up. finally what we can expect now that the starter s gun has gone off way ahead of schedule in the presidential race. this is hardball. nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad? 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what s your fear? i m actually more optimistic about it. i think we re defining the agenda. you re seeing even someone like thom tilus, he s come in our direction. he s run on that issue. we ve reset the table. i think you have. you made that point, too. what was once called well, there s no more jake javitz. that wing of the party. no more arlen specters around. those republicans you called rinos are gone. there. a difference in temperament, style and strategy. not ideology. i think you guys, i think the reason there is a tea party is a very legitimate concern that the government is wasting money. they re spending money on things people can t it doesn t make sense to regular working people. regular working people have to balance their books. why can t the dan government do it. i get that. there s also this sort of maybe ethnic, maybe just nationalistic attitude about illegal immigration. i think they will go crazy if speaker boehner cuts a deal that basically offers some route to legal status legally. doesn t that bother you? i think it would be a huge mistake to pass dick durbin s bill and that s the mistake marco rubio made. i think the problem is we can t work with harry reid, we can t work with barack obama. frankly we don t trus them. don t trust them to enforce the law after they get them? no, i don t trust them to negotiate an honest bill. what do you suspect that they would do to undermine the effect of this immigration reform? everybody knows what it s about, especially in the southwestern part of the united states. everybody knows what it s about. too many immigrants, too fast, whatever. ethnic differences are obviously part of it. but here s the question, what are you afraid of? what deal are you afraid of? i m afraid they won t fix the problem. the problem has to be, if you want people that want to come here honestly and work and follow the rules, you should fix prospectively the opportunity to do that. the senate bill doesn t do that. it focuses on who controls politically the people who came here illegally. the problem is if the house wrote the best immigration bill, one that i could support, it goes to conference, harry reid rolls them and we get a really bad bill. that s something we just can t do. how does that square with your reporting? it s real. they do the internal whip counts, the numbers aren t there. the numbers aren t even really there for a piecemeal bill that eric cantor wants to do. is there any chance that speaker boehner here objective reporting here, will boehner try something in june with this little window we hear about? or will he try something in a lame duck? much more likely in a lame duck. he knows he has to get the base energized in the midterms. would he pass a bill after the election is over? that s never been his style. i m not going to rule it out as a surprise. are you worried about that? fast numbers like november 15. i think john boehner is a short-timer. i think he s looking at what he s going to do next in his life. you think that time down in florida meant something? that s the biggest rumor. boehner is maybe on his way out. but a lot of what boehner says when he says he s keeping it as an option, he s signalling to the wiz community in the republican party he s not ruling it out. you don t trust these guys, do you? well, why would you? they made a lot of promises and they haven t been willing to keep them. the tension between the grassroots and the gop establishment goes back to 1976 when ronald reagan took on a sitting president. how do you move away from same-sex marriage? you could have a religious difference with it, many religions do. not all. mine does. but people are gay. they re supposed to get married to other people of the opposite sex. what would that accomplish? you say your family values. what is a gay person supposed to do? marry someone in a fake marriage that doesn t involve physicality or that kind of love? what are you advertising? what do you want to happen here? i m a libertarian, i don t understand why government, particularly the federal government is involved you don t mind states approving same-sex marriage. i don t want the government out of it. no, states. how do you do it without licenses. marriage is is a social institution. so you re saying you don t need a state license to get married? i don t think so. some people like rand paul are advocating that right now. get rid of marriage licenses? no, more of a libertarian slant within the party when it comes to i agree with that. but prayer in school. that s not libertarian. how do you support that? all kinds of religions there and you re going to read the king james version of the bible. i would love parents to decide how kids are educate popped. in public schools? why don t you give patients a choice? who decides which religion you are. if the parents don t like what s being taught in a public school, should they get a choice to send their kid to a parochial school, yes. now it s top down. so you re for school choice? fabsolutely. they talked about school prayer yesterday. you just slipped off, whether they should. reading christian bible readings. i do not want politics determining school curriculums. i want parents to. you don t want prayers in public school? i don t want government in school. you re having a libertarian argument. no, it s a political argument. up next, what happens when right wingers throw a party for 30 million people in washington and about 10, just 10 people show up. 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recently, yeah, but my deal is up in a little under a year. 18 months, isn t it? technically that would be more accurate, but, you know i ll tell you what. if you have other offers, you have my permission to pursue them. but don t come to me again without talking to bernie first. i don t like it. it s cheap. okay? are we done? graham, i don t think you i would love it if you weren t here. joining me now, in a race to regain the pennsylvania district in the house she once representative. marjorie, thanks for joining us. you know, when i sthau movie, it struck me that this probably has a lot different feelings coming out from men or women. the idea of a woman asking for a pay raise, but accidentally walking with the publisher into the men s room and finding herself in that strange situation where she s outnumbered in the wrong gender role as she s sitting in there, it just struck me, that much really get to women who are professionals. damn it, they must have an attitude about this. and what does this say about pay equity? i agree with you. and this is the pay equity, we re still about we re going up at 70 cents on the dollar for white for the average. but african-americans are at 77% and latinas, or the hispanic community, the women are at 56 cents to the dollar. but more than that, women really they don t ask for raises. typically, it s true. women kind of feel, well, we re doing a good job, we should be recognized, thank you very much. women don t ask typically for raises. the other thing is we grow up still with stereotypical images. you know, these are the kinds of jobs that we ll be safe to go to, or that you should get although that s definitely changing. but once we get there, we find in the news business, many, many more women are on television. but still, the numbers in the executive offices, it doesn t it doesn t reflect the numbers that should be there. i ve got to tell you, nbc is doing very good at that department. we have our top people all over the news area, all over the news business, generally find all the women in the top positions and all around us, with lots of vice presidents. but beth, i m not here to flap for nbc. it doesn t need it. it has pay equity has something to do with her being sack popped. all of us who are professional women, i think this story has the legs that it does. it s something we all contend with scene a huge frustration for us. but on the other hand, let s keep our eyes on the prize, jill abramson, those of us in television news, we have a good job with good salaries. the real problem is for women who are in the lower classes, working women, working class people, they, too, are discriminated against in terms of salary. and it really brings down their family income, their household income. it hurts the economy. they have less money to spend. it s so engrained in the way that we do business in this country that nobody thinks abc the overall repercussions that it has on a family and the economy. i wonder how much this conversation is going to encourage more women, not that they weren t already there to vote for hillary when the time comes. today, hillary clinton addressed pay inequity. let s listen in. you respond to this marjorie. mothers are now the primary or soul breadwinners in nearly 40% of all families. this single mom lives in our vast metro sprawl, traveling long distances every day to work a low wage job she s lucky to have. many other young people in her neighborhood are still looking. she works hard but she knows that her male co-workers tend to make more than she does. it s demeaning and demoralizing and it shortchanges her whole family. her whole family. marjorie, your reaction to that? and it s shortsighted. if we are going to make the next steps, what we have to do is we ve got to grow our way out of this economic situation. when did we last do it? we did it in 93, frankly. when 24 million new jobs grew in the 90s after the clinton budget passed. that s where we have to that s where we strong and we have to figure out what it means to grow the economy with women. we ve got to make sure there s transportation, job training, that there s day care. and we know that when we do that, the middle class grows. and when the middle class grow, more money is spent. i like my wife making more money. why wouldn t anyone want their space to make more money? there s always a little rivalry theoretically, but when it comes to the paycheck, it all adds to the family income. you know, it would seem, why aren t men joining in this fight to help women get more money? there s no transparency around what people make. nobody knows what anybody sitting next to them is making. businesses make sure that those kinds of discussions don t happen. so we don t really know how to we don t know how to negotiate because we don t know what anybody sitting around us is making. did you ever know what your dad was making? i never knew what my dad i can t imagine that coming up in the house. i would ask and they would not tell me. it was off the record. good luck right there. i would be up there voting for you, of course. if i was up there now. you would have such a good time, chris. northeast, i mean, you would be you would such a good time. we re in there. marjorie, i ran for that seat 30 years ago. wow. thank you very much. good luck to you. beth, thank you very much for coming on from our network. the wild gubernatorial debate in idaho. one of the candidates said the race is between a cowboy, a curmudgeon, a biker and a normal guy, the moral guy being the odd man out. this is hardball a place for politics. i don t like political correctness. can i say this? it sucks. it s bondage. and i m about as politically correct as your proverbial turd in a punch bowl. and i m proud of it. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? 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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? 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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 family but we re hearing something quite different this morning. those details next. imagine driving down the highway and this comes flying at you. yes, that is an ax. how it came inches from the passenger s face, we ll tell you. first, happy birthday to zach brown. he s 36 years old today. vo: this is the summer. 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. you make a great team. it s been that way sincthe day you met. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment s right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if 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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