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jenna: little happy birthday from the you? no? >> ♪ happy birthday to you. jenna: after we end the show. thanks for joining us, everybody. rick: see ya. shannon: fox news alert, july unemployment numbers as we learn more about who's working and who's not. welcome to "america live," i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. she is back on monday. to the july jobs report out today, companies managed to create more than 100,000 new jobs last month -- great news -- the number of long-term unemployed who have quit looking, that jumped by an even bigger number. the president earlier said the news needs to get better. >> while this marks the 17th month in a row of job growth in the private sector, nearly two and a half million new private sector jobs in the -- in all, we have to create more jobs than that each month to make up for the more than eight million jobs that the recession claimed.
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we need to create a self-sustaining cycle where people are spending and companies are hiring and our economy is growing. shannon: stu varney joining us from the fox business network. stu, i mean, the numbers could have been worse. should we be celebrating? >> reporter: now, that is a very good question. the question that everybody's asking is, are we on the brink of another recession? what is the real health and the state of america's economy? this jobs report was supposed to give us some indication. and when it came out at 8:30 eastern time this morning, there was some relief. yes, the unemployment rate went down to 9.1% and, yes, we created 117,000 new jobs in that month. but then you start the dig a little deeper into the numbers, and it emerges: 193,000 people just dropped out of the work force, no longer counted. weren't even looking for a job. that's why the unemployment rate came down. now dig even deeper, and you
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find that if you add all of these discouraged workers along with part-time workers that don't want part-time work, add them all together, and you've really got an unemployment rate of 16%. now go a little further. if you wanted to bring the unemployment rate, the real unemployment rate, down to 6% by the year, say, 2014, you need to add 13.9 million jobs. clearly, we're not going to do that. clearly, the economy is not in a robust recovery phase, it is very weak. that's where we stand, shannon. shannon: yeah. and if we talk about the labor force participation, people who are out there trying to work and be involved, i mean, down now to 63.9%, that's one of the lowest numbers in a very long time. >> reporter: yes, it is. that labor participation rate tells you a lot about the psychology of the work force. the work force is not participating in the way it used to. the numbers are falling. in fact, there are about 38,000
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fewer people with a job now than there were four weeks ago even though we created 117,000 new jobs and the rate came down. so, look, you pointed to something which is very real and very important. the labor market is very weak. this is a weak economy, and workers largely are discouraged. shannon: well, and we talked about the r word a little bit, about the possibility of a double dip recession. it's something the white house has said thus far is not going to happen, we see signs of improvement, but there's plenty of criticism from republicans, of course. but democrats now and people who have been connected to this white house, former labor secretary robert wright said today if the jobs number was below 125, and it was, he now puts the chance of double dip at 50/50. >> reporter: well, lawrence smellers, larry smell summers, he puts it in a one and three chance. that was a couple of days ago. so, yes, the left is saying,
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watch out, you may be in for a double dip recession. i think the truth of the matter is we are in for a long period of at least very, very low growth for the american economy. shannon: all right. stuart varney always explains it so we can understand it. thank you, sir. >> reporter: sure. shannon: president obama asking congress to take extra steps to help find jobs for our nation's military veterans. that group facing an 8.6% unemployment rate. tax breaks for companies that hire veterans. one group facing a rate way higher than the average american, african-americans. they face a stunning 15.9% jobless rate. in addition to a weak u.s. economy, new concerns about the financial picture in europe. leaders there scrambling to make sure italy and spain stay financially afloat. in fact, we heard about an hour ago that the italian prime minister is making his second remarks of the day this hour. greg burke is streaming live from rome with more be.
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hello, greg. >> reporter: shannon, that's right. well, you know, there's always been fear of contagion, what was happening in the smaller european countries like portugal and greece would spread to the bigger ones, and certainly it's looking more and more likely that that is getting close. the problem is debt in both spain and italy. what's going on? well, europe has had to bail out the smaller countries, portugal, ireland, greece. actually greece two times. but now there is fear of real contagion to the bigger economies. italy is the third largest economy in the e.u., spain is the fourth largest, and they could be countries that are actually just too big to bail out. italy, moreover, has virtually no growth which is certainly not promising for lenders already afraid that italy and spain are not going to be able to pay back their debts. now, in the midst of all of this one country that is growing, germany, germany is quite important in all of this, and that is essentially because somebody in europe is going to have to pay for the monetary union if they want to keep it.
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it's the germans who are wealthy. they're not anxious to do that. it's like big brother or big sister in a country that's been very frugal, work withed hard, put their money away and is suddenly asked to pay for the younger brothers and sisters who haven't been very good at spending. so this is a problem. finally, shannon, this is all happening while people are going on vacation, but you get the idea -- much of europe on vacation -- but you get the idea european leaders are not going to be spending their time reading novels on the beach. shannon? shannon: certainly not. thank you, greg. and as the dow jumps around and all these economic stories break both here and overseas, we've got thousands of resources available between foxnews.com and foxbusiness.com, streaming feeds, economic research, breaking news updates all online anytime you want to access them. just go to foxnews.com or foxbusiness.com. ♪ shannon: it is an all too familiar story unfolding today in america's third war, that
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along the border. the 13,000 residents of one mexican town no longer have a police force to protect them m. all 20 officers in that border town walked off the job together. the move prompted by the murders of three officers this week. that's just the latest deadly attack on the police force there which recently claimed the lives of their police chief and several other officers. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with details. hi, trace. >> reporter: hi, shannon. ascension is south of ciudad juarez. these 13,000 people have no police force. the mexican government says federal police are moving in there, but so far the residents don't know where to find them. the attack this week, three officers gunned down in the street, but two months ago the key attack. the police chief and two of his officers were kidnapped. their bullet-riddled bodies were found the next day in the back of a car on the side of a road. that chief had been in office
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for less than seven months, and he vowed to end kidnapping and extortion. and he made that vow because the previous police department was corrupt, in cahoots with the cartels. the new police chief hired new police officers, he put a camera in the city square so he could better keep an eye on security. they even dug a ditch around the entire city so the bad guys couldn't flee by car. and now the residents are on their own again. keep this in mind, since this mexican war on the drug cartels began back in 2006, 2,886 mexican police officers have been killed. 2,886. only 2,400 cartel members have been captured. so more police lives lost than cartel members caught. it is a stunning statistic which is why a number of police chiefs and officers have resigned in the recent years.
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shannon? shannon: all right, trace. thank you for bringing us the details on that one. and this is a fox news alert on worries in the middle east. these are new worries today as tens of thousands of demonstrators pour into the streets across syria ignoring government orders to stay in their homes after friday prayers. this on the sixth day of the syrian government's bloody crackdown on the city of hama, the epicenter of a monthlong uprising. dominic di-natale joins us with more from jerusalem. >> reporter: hello, shannon. yes, eight people killed today bringing the total to well over 100 in the city of hama, the focal point of the uprising against the regime of assad. people not happy with political reform, the democratic reforms that he announced yesterday allowing multiparty systems. they were rejected, people after friday prayers, the first prayers, by the way, first friday prayers during the holy month of ramadan, a kind of
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pivotal point, a significant point in the muslim calendar in this region, taking to the streets as you say and continuing to protest while all around them government troops cracking down, continuing to fire particularly at the people in hama where they've been pretty much cut off for the majority of the week. the six-day siege, they cut off electricity, they cut off water, they cut off phone connections and also the internet to try to isolate them. it's hard to find out what precisely's been going on in the city because the government is beginning to clamp down there. across the middle east we are seeing dissent in all quarters, even here in israel. right now there have been protests across the country for the past three weeks of the cost of living here and the cost of housing. prime minister benjamin netanyahu brought out a bill trying to cover the issue of affordable housing, but that doesn't appear to be enough either. a wave of dissent tomorrow expecting a huge turnout of many thousands of people in the city of tel aviv who want to vent
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their anger against the government here. things slightly different there, shannon, no one want to topple the government here, they just want the government to do its job properly. back to you. shannon: dominic, thank you. with 24 hours to governor rick perry's call to prayer, the event is getting new backlash. why critics are saying the texas governor has gone too far. and casey anthony can run, but she cannot hide. in three minutes, why she may have to do the one thing her lawyer has been fighting so hard to avoid. and be an important holy relic found hidden in a closet in tennessee. coming up, we'll show you how a priceless painting depicting the face of jesus found it way to a humble trailer home. ♪ dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tting little o's
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cape canaveral, florida. we're getting word of a shooting at an office park there. this is just miles away from the kennedy space center where nasa just launched an atlas rocket. police surrounded the two-though columbia commercial complex. unclear if there's deaths or injuries, we'll keep an eye on that story and bring you more as soon as we get it. elsewhere in the sunshine state casey anthony's attorneys are back in court today arguing their client should not have to return to orlando to serve probation for check fraud in part because of concerns about her safety. photos just published by "the new york post" suggest she's living in ohio. they show her at a shopping mall hiding behind a pair of glasses and blue contacts trying to fit in wearing an ohio state hat. the photos are a first indication of where she's hiding out following her acquittal on charges she murdered her daughter. phil keating is live in orlando with the latest. >> reporter: apart from that
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possible sighting in ohio, the daily whereabouts of casey anthony since she walked a free woman having paid her debt to society has been a complete mystery. one place i can say with certainty where she was not today was right here in ore hometown -- in the her hometown of orlando, florida. all of the players returned from her big summer murder trial where she was acquitted one month ago for killing her daughter caylee. judge perry back on the stand, casey anthony's attorneys jose baez and cheney mason, they were there as well as the prosecutor, linda drane burdick and frank george. but unlike in the murder trial, this time the state agrees with casey anthony's attorneys. they do not believe casey anthony should now have to serve a year's probation. this has nothing to do with the murder trial. this all goes back to that 31-daytime period back in the summer of 2008 when casey anthony did not report to anybody that caylee was missing or, as she told investigators
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back then, that "zanny" the nanny had kidnapped her. at the time casey anthony was partying it up in hot body contests, drinking, clubbing, having fun and on a shopping spree. captured on several surveillance videotapes buying things for herself with bogus checks stolen from her best friend at the time who was out of town and letting her use her vehicle. well, for that in june of 2010 casey anthony did plead guilty of six counts of check fraud. the judge at the time, judge stan strickland, ordered her to serve 412 days in jail. she did that all while awaiting the trial. the judge also verbally said at the time after she's released, he then wants her to do one year supervised probation. but that whole year came and went while she was still awaiting the murder trial. so everybody, including the department of corrections, believe that counts for that one year of serving probation. but even now judge perry even
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seems perplexed. >> this is a legal morass that if anything could go wrong, it went wrong here? >> yes, your honor. >> and i'll be frank and honest, i don't know what i'm going to do. >> reporter: judge perry wants to do some more reading of some legal cases and rulings to see how this weighs out because the verbal intent by judge strickland seemed to indicate he wanted her to serve probation after she was released from jail, but on the actual sentencing documents that was not spelled out in black and white, so expect a ruling from judge perry perhaps next week, maybe wednesday or thursday. and if he does rule against casey anthony, then she will actually have to show up here in orlando a few blocks from where i am at the courthouse, she'll have to report to her probation officer, and the requirements
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under that supervised probation would mean no drug possession, no gun possession and, also, she'd have to get a job, and she'd have to be live anything orlando. but her attorneys really do fear for her safety because there have been numerous death threats made towards casey anthony since she was acquitted of murder. shannon? shannon: all right. we'll keep an eye on it. phil, thank you. new questions for the white house about unemployment, and the president's priorities for his schedule. >> what is the president doing? what is -- we know that he went, he went to fundraisers last night. what is he doing? >> jay, that is -- [laughter] shannon: alan colmes is next on the president's job performance when it comes to america's jobs picture. and scientists say they've found the best evidence yet that there could be life on mars. we'll tell you why this new discovery changes everything we know about the red planet. ♪ mine was earned over the south pacific in 1943.
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shannon: this is a fox news alert. there is now an active search underway for some robbers, a big bank robbery, we understand, in plano, texas. the men walked in with handguns and masks, they yelled, this the a bank robbery! they got away with some cash, but when they were leaving, they took off, and their getaway car broke down. so now they've run into a neighborhood. we understand that a chopper is going up in the dallas area to try to help look for these guys. again, the search is on. as it intensifies, it looks like we're getting a bit of a picture here. again, we know there were a couple of bank robbers who successfully got away with some
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cash but not successful in their getaway with the getaway car that, apparently, wasn't so reliable. broke down, and now they are running free in if a neighborhood as authorities try to keep an eye on them with the help of this chopper and a lot of other folks involved. we will keep an eye on that, and if they're spotted, if they make any progress, we will, of course, let you know. president obama under fire on jobs and the economy not just from republicans, but also from the press. take a listen as there's a routine exchange between abc's jake tapper and white house press secretary jay carney, got a little bit testy yesterday. >> what is the president doing? be what is -- we know that he went to fundraisers last night. what is he doing -- >> jake, that is -- [laughter] >> what is he doing to -- >> the president, the president has worked -- >> about all the stuff that needs to be done to help -- >> that's right. and congress has within -- [inaudible conversations] congress has -- the president is having meetings with his senior
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staff, the president has called on congress to move quickly on things that are, have bipartisan support and are in congress' lap -- >> the same thing of a couple months ago. >> congress has the power to pass legislation that the president can sign. shannon: all right. alan colmes of the alan colmes show joins us. and, you know, there are times i look at that job and think being the white house press secretary has got to be one of the toughest jobs out there, especially when things aren't going well. >> yeah. that's the liberal media for you, huh? going after barack obama. how dare he have a birthday party. shannon: mainstream media? >> they're the same thing -- shannon: i'll leave that for our viewers to decide. >> you know, come on. he shouldn't have a birthday party, she veterans shouldn't he fundraisers. by the way, he can walk and chew gum at the same time. he's doing a bunch of things to try to cut taxes too. he wants to renew the payroll tax cuts, he just came up with
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tax benefits for employers to give veterans jobs so, you know, he is actually working. shannon: yeah. and jay carney says he's meeting with a lot of folks, he's working with his advisers. he seems to have used a lot of arrows out of his quiver, not a whole lot left. it's good that the numbers today move inside a positive direction. everybody agrees they're still really tough. >> how much can a president do? in between bites of birthday cake, he is doing a few things. he would like to have a works progress administration. he'd like people to work building bridges and is roads as he has talked about many times. he's talking about payroll tax cuts, tax cuts for the middle income americans. i would think both sides would be embracing this. why aren't they embracing this? shannon: a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle say a lot of what he wants to do involve spending money -- >> you spend it to get it back. shannon: there's a lot of concern about whether that's actually going to work. >> the cbo said the stimulus did work. i have said, and i know it's
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controversial, i know a lot of people don't agree with me, but i believe a bigger stimulus would have done more. we should have pushed the money into the economy faster. it's like spending money on war when the money's gone. you spend it just like a business, you spend it to make it back. shannon: all right. others may try to sell that idea along with you, and that is your position -- >> i'm going to get a lot of hate mail on that -- shannon: to alan colmes -- >> you follow me on twitter. shannon: what do you do when you have not only the press corps, but some of the president's most ardent fans who say, hey, i'm a big fan of this guy, but now this is what chris matthews had to say. the two toughest opponents he'll have to face are romney and rick perry. the president can't say i'm going to create jobs, he's got to do it. how can he say he's for jobs, but -- >> well, you lose matthews, we've lost america. [laughter] when we talk about romney, romney create jobs or did he
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actually fire a lot of people when he went in and fixed businesses? this if he becomes the nominee, wait until we have that debate. shannon: let's go to perry, was a lot of people agree he's done a good job with the economy in texas farce job creation. >> i think on that field he'd be a formidable opponent. the areas perry might be considered too radically right and is not a mainstream moderate candidate, and usually it's moderates who get the nomination, so i'm not sure perry -- he might be a vp choice. shannon: we're going to talk about him. again, it's at alan colmes. >> thank you for being number 8,835. shannon: yeah. you've got a lot of followers. >> well, after this that'll change. shannon: all right. critics are pounding texas governor rick perry saying the prayer rally he's holding is going too far for a public official. that debate after this break. and also the brutal heat blanketing the south is
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better. the sweathe sweltering temperatures will be across the map. they will be cooking. >> 105, 110 degrees with no electric. >> supplies are very, very night. >> things are tight and it's more for people to know things are tight. >> the power outages would be about an hour or two at the time. >> we can turn on the fans and turn down the ac a bit. we'll have to conserve in certain areas if that's what they say they have to do to help them out and everybody out. shannon: the strongest heat is being felt in the nation's midsection stretching from the southwest through texas. rick perry posting a seven hour prayer and fasting gathering.
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they say it goes too far for a public official. we have a panel to debate this. welcome to you both. what do you think about this? has the governor crossed the line or is this something he can do whether he's an elected official or not. >> i think the governor is right up at the line and peering over the edge, shannon. he's decided to bring together this prayer group. these are partially people who are backing them. he could appear at a prayer meeting that he maybe didn't organize himself. rick perry has been somewhat of a governor who is really very on his sleeve about his prayer. he even had a thing about how to pray for the state back in april when they needed rain, and not much rain has come but he's having a prayer meeting tomorrow. shannon: he's hoping tomorrow will payoff i guess. let me read a little bit of what they have from this group. he says there will be no long serpl moneys, no desired to
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gather in opposition to any group or philosophy. they are facing a serious lawsuit up to the fifth circuit trying to shut the thing down before it starts tomorrow. >> look, there is always a touchy give-and-take between politics and religion, but atheists could go through the permitting process and pay the fee to rent out reliance stadium and have their nonfaith celebration. that is the purpose of the 1st amendment. people that are believers and people who are not have the same access. i don't see this much different than the president's having thinks prayer breakfast, or the ten commandments on the side of the supreme court building. the fact of the matter is we may not be a christian nation, but we are a nation of christians and that faith will be on display in the town square, and that's been the case for a couple of centuries. shannon: you mentioned this. he wears his faith on his sleeve, very evangelical. there are other tph-s this field if he gets into the presidential race who have similar thoughts
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and feelings, they are out in iowa stirring things up while he's still on the side linings at this point. any way this thing backfires him as to voters he would need if he makes a bid for the white house. >> it looks really bad if you've got an empty space and you call for a pray irmeeting, that is one. i don't think it backfires him with religious conservatives. it may backfire for him with moderate republicans seeing this as him over stepping his bounds. as long as he can fill the house tomorrow and he has people there and that i are praying, it's good for his base. if it doesn't fill up, then he's got a problem with more moderate republicans who probably want to get funding and to get funding to a candidate that they can believe in and that can win. shannon: some of the allegations about this event are it's lined
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with fridge extremist groups, people out of the mainstream. some tpwraoups us groups that to describe somebody who is against gay marriage or abortion on demand. so what do you think? is it two fringy for the average person out there? >> it may very well be. mike huckabee went this house in eye washings he had the iowa ad with the cross in the background and it got him the victory in iowa, but it didn't do much. there is this tension between the tea party independents who are split between libertarians and liberalism. nothing along these lines, along the prayer breakfast or meeting i should say tomorrow compares with this administration and the doj refusing to enforce the law on the books when it comes to doma, or at least refusing to file an am a cuss brief. the doj said we are not going to petition the court to uphold the law of the land on dom a.
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shannon: does he risk alley a allean naturing other religions? >> he's actually doing that right now. there are a lot of people protesting against him today this afternoon in houston. and there are a coalition of 30 churches in the houston area that signed on that don't want the prayer meeting to happen. he has alien natured some people. this doesn't have anything to do with doma, it has to do with a prayer meeting. to bring up doma in the midst of all this. you're mixing apples and oranges here. >> when it comes to the religious right the elephant in the living room is gay marriage, let's be honest about it. >> it is, and the elephant is being painted over, what will happen next? we'll see. shannon: thank you both. have great weekend.
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shannon: sir paul mccartney is going to the police claiming he's the victim in a phone-hacking scandal rock england. greg palkot has more. >> reporter: the phone hacking scandal taking a new turn. we are seeing new faces and new newspapers in the spot live. it started earlier this week when paul mccartney's ex help the tere mills spoke to the bbc. she said an editor had talked to her back in 2001 and at that time he quoted to her verbatim voice mails between mccartney and milss and allegedly has admitted hacking her phone. mccarthy, who is divorced from mills says he didn't know of the hacking, but he said when he got back to the u.k. he would discuss it with police, he called it a violation of privacy. the person many here are calling
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to return to the u.k. and talk to the police is current cnn anchor and former mirror editor piers morgan. they say he has questions to answered e. was quoted in an article in 2006 admitting that he had listened to a voice mail tape of heather mills. he says he never authorized it. the papers are saying they never broke the law. the another lawyer is saying that the mirror as targeted other individuals using phone hacking. all this of course comes in the wake of the scandal surrounding fox news parent news corp. and the news of the world newspaper. the chairman rupert murdoch and others appeared before a parliamentary committee here last month, and there is an ongoing police investigation into charges surrounding that newspaper. there was no word, shannon, now on whether that police proep could be expanded to include other newspapers. a lot of people are calling for that as well. there was yet another report
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this week that an editor for the guardian, which has been a crusader regarding the allegations against news corp., against news of the world, that he had admitted a few years ago that he in fact had used phone hacking as well in a story that he was involved in. his defense of that was that it was in the public interest. this is not over yet. back to you. shannon: thank you very much. live from london. a new survey revealing one group is skipping sunday services on a regular basis. you may be surprised to find out who is not sitting in the pew next to you. something you don't want to see as a passenger on a public bus, a group of men approaching with assault rifles. we will show you how this played out and what happened. and is there water on mars? s incredible new images that have scientists excited about possible life on the red planet. ♪ hands across the water.
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shannon: apparently the rent really is too high. >> i represent the rent is too dam high party. people working eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and some a third job. weufpl can't afford to take care of their children, feed their children, breakfast lunch and dinner. my main job is to provide a roof over your head, food on the table and money in your pocket. shannon: he is facing eviction from his rent controlled manhattan apartment. he pace $900 a month in a place that would cost two to three times that month. mcmillan says it is his hofs
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office. he says he's running for president and has a brand-new campaign. >> the weather is too dam hot. say that. the weather is too dam hot. the weather is too dog gone hot. shannon: we could probably agree on that. no word on mcmillan's plans for actually beating the heat. a new discover row on mars offering the strongest evidence yet there could be life on the red planet. high resolution photos showed dark channels down the side of craters, scientists believe that could be signs of water flowing. liquid like this is more likely to sustain life than marshal life. let's talk it with dr. michael myers, the chief scientist for mars exploration program. thank you for joining us. >> it's my pless tour talk about mars. shannon: give us a little context in the world of space exploration and discovery how big would it be if we're talking about liquid water on mars?
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>> the manslaughte mantra has always been where there is water and life. there is liquid water that organisms can use. this is the first time that we've seen pretty strong evidence is that there is liquid water near the surface of mars. shannon: if there is water there what kind of life forms are we talking about, cellular, multicellular little things? what could be sustain simply by having water there? >> considering how little water there is now you would expect maybe it would be micro-organisms. you might be able to see nts if they get owl together, you might consider fairly primitive life to take advantage of liquid water. shannon: what does it mean for us on earth if we do find life there on mars in some form? >> there has always been a reasonable belief that maybe at one point in time mars had life,
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but whether or not it's there today is a very difficult thing. certainly, the biggest problem was where do you look on mars today to find life that is hraouf living now? this is the first place we can actually look. shannon: what are the future explorations, going forward with nassa and mars, what are the plans for the red planet? >> we have a fair amount of plans. the next rover that we're sending to mars will launch november 25th, the mars science laboratory. it is equipped among other things to be measure organics, so if there is life on mars or if there was life on mars we would hope that some remnant would be left, and the mars-science laboratory might be able to measure it. i should mention that it's not going to where these flows we're seeing it's going to gayle crater which is very interesting in its own right and high school a good chance of finding a place that could have preserved
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organics. shannon: when we want something here to go there, how long does it take to get there? >> it depends on o orbital dynamics, how far earth is from mars. at the best it takes nine months. when it launches in november it will arrive at mars on august 5th, or 6th depending where you are on the planet next year. shannon: we'll have you back, thanks so much. >> i appreciate it very much. thank you. shannon: bad news in the mail. the post office today reporting some huge losses. just ahead the multibillion-dollar headache that will affect everyone out there who gets mail and sends it. some people find jesus in church, some in nature, and some in a trailer in tennessee. ♪ i find jesus in the darkest nights. i find jesus in the morning
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shannon: the next story seems ripped from a hollywood thriller. how does a priceless holy relic blessed by a pope a century and a half ago end up in a tennessee trailer park? trace is here to tell us how that happened. hi, trace. >> reporter: hi, shannon. i'm not sure if the hollywood thriller would be smoky and the bandit meets the da vinci code. this man's name is frosty. he lives in a mobile home in tennessee, he got it as a gift 20 years ago, put it in his bedroom for a while and then put it in a bag in his closet. his house got burgled. this was among the items stolen. the thief tried to pawn the
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thing off at a nearby church. the church immediately realized it might be significant. boy, was the church right. the painting has been missing now for 150 years. it's based on the veil of veronica said to be a cloth used by one of jesus' followers to wipe the sweat from his stpaeus before thhis face from prior to the crucifixion. here is the priest who first saw it, listen. >> obviously it was a big surprise for us that something like this might even, you know, be in east tennessee. no way you'd expect to find something like this in a museum, or in rome in the vatican. >> reporter: but not in a tennessee trailer park, right? the painting was blessed by pope leo the xiii back in 1878. one would assume the vat kin, well, you know they might want this thing. the question is, would frosty
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give it up? listen. >> i know they really wanted it bad, but i said, nah, i don't think i'll be parting witness. >> reporter: he won't part witness. by the way the reason he was cropped from the neck down is because he did not want to be identified which is why he only gave his name frosty. i'm guessing if the vatican paid some money for this priceless painting, that maybe frosty would be willing to part with it. he had it in his closet for 20 years. maybe it's about money? shannon: might be eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin. >> reporter: that's a southern girl at heart talking right there, right. shannon: thank you, trace. a bitter battle over funding the faa coming to a close today, and now there are new questions about why american taxpayers are paying millions to subsidize barely used airports. and president obama speaking at fundraisers and hitting the road next week for some are calling his re-election campaign.
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shannon: fox news alert. reaction from the white house on the brand-new unemployment reports. i'm shannon bream. megyn kelly is back on monday. president obama speaking live just a short time after the labor department released jobless numbers for july. unemployment dropping to 9.1% and the economy adding 117,000 jobs last month, but that numbers needs to be between 1
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and 150,000 a month for a healthy economy. what is more troubling, 193,000 people dropped out of the workforce in july, including retirees and people who stopped looking for work all together. that means we lost 65% more jobs than we added. >> to an officer down distress call -- >> quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. shannon: let's go to the white house live. how is the white house reacting to the latest numbers,ed. >> reporter: they are still beneath the top line number of some jobs being created, over a hundred thousand and the fact that the unemployment rate dropped from the .2% to 9.1%. you've got a lot of people simply who have given up looking for a job, which is discouraging. that accounts for some of the unemployment dropping a little bit. 6.2million people in this country are long-term unemployed, many, many weeks. that is bad. when you put this in the big
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picture the fact of the matter is after a torrent of bad statistics from bad consumer spending, slow economic growth in recent days, the stock market gyrating this was good news for this president that jobs are being created, and the president's aides are suggesting that this also means we are unlikely to have a double-dip recession. what we heard from the president a short time ago is that he's going to be all over this jobs issue. take a listen. >> my concern right now, my singular focus is the american people getting the unemployed back on the job, lifting their wages, we building that sense of security the middle class has felt slipping away for years, and helping them recover fully. >> reporter: the problem for the president, of course, is that we've heard that singular focus on jobs, again, and again, and again over two and a half years or so, and yet the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly
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high. a glimmer of good news in this one report, but in the big picture this is still a big danger for the president's re-election, no doubt about it, shannon. shannon: a lot of pressure on the house. what is the plan now going forward? >> reporter: well, look, he's trying to put this in congress' court and saying when they come back from their long august recess in september there is a whole lunch of small initiatives, if you will, like extending the payroll tax cut, path and reform that might help some companies innovate, as well as some trade deals pending there up a longtime. if they were to pass that it would help create some jobs. maybe so. maybe it will create a small number of jobs. but, again, the problem for this president is no one of those initiatives will create the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs that are needed to keep pace with job losses elsewhere and show that this is really a healthy economy. shannon: we know there is at least one construction job going on behind me. >> reporter: right behind me shovel ready. shannon:ed henry, thank you so much.
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>> reporter: good to see you. shannon: more americans relying on food stamps than ever before. nearly 46 million people getting benefits from the supplement alnutrition assistance program in may. more than 21,000 of those going to family households -- excuse me 21 million. the number spiked up more than a million people between april to may. and it's up close to 20 million from 2008. the latest survey puts the u.s. population at about 311 million people, that means 15% of u.s. residents are now having to use food stamps. disturbing new evidence the main engine for u.s. job growth has stalled. small businesses provide the bulk of employment in this country but recent surveys reveal an alarming trend, fewer and fewer small business owners plan to hire. and they say it's because of a major disconnect between washington's policies and main street's needs. adam housley live in marina del rey, california, to tell us more. hi, adam. >> reporter: hey, shannon, you're right, a couple surveys have come out the last couple of
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weeks and shown that small business owners in america are pessimistic about where things are going. the national federation of independent business came out with this one this week that shows 14% of small business owners in america last month actually laid off employees, only 12% added. we talked with the director of that and here is what he said. >> we hear from small businesses they are over taxed, over regulated and overwhelmed by a government that keeps getting in the way of their ability to grow. >> reporter: shannon, one of those businesses that agrees with that survey is here at patti's pizza in marina del rey, california. they have 25 workers that provide pizza dough for hotels and restaurants in 30 states. they say they are okay right now. because of the uncertainty there are really no plans to expand. >> i love what i do, i love my employees, i have people who have been here for over 20 years
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working for me, and i don't want to do anything else, but it's frightening out there, and my bottom line hasn't changed in two years but my cost of business has changed significantly. >> reporter: so while small business job growth seems to be a bit flat a lot of the business owners we talked to and a lot of the surveys say they are holding back some of their money, shannon, money they might use to advance their business, to expand their business, to hire more people because they are worried in the coming months if the economy dips again they might need that money to make sure their business stays a float. shannon. shannon: adam housley. live in california. thank you. foxnews.com is your other news source for the very latest developments in the u.s. and global economies, how it affects you and your family's bottom line. check it out, foxnews.com. in america's third war new bombshell allegations that u.s. agents cut a deal in 2004
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allowing a huge mexican drug cartel to move tons of narcotics into to america. this emerging in the drug trafficking trial of a top ooh tenant of the sinaloa drug cartel. the massive operations stretch from the southern border down the pacific coast controlling nearly all of mexico's marijuana and poppy growing. we don't know the exact number of members, it's believed to be the largest cartel in mexico, controlling possibly up to 45% of the drugs trafficked in that country. it continues to be the most cohesive of all the mexican cartels. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more. hello, william. >> reporter: shannon you know over the last few years we've seen the arrest of many mexican drawing bosses, but not from the sinaloa cartel, and this may explain why. according to court documents the u.s. government allegedly cut a deal with the drug gang to let them bring cocaine and other drugs north in exchange for
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information on rival cartels. this allegation is made in a defense motion by a high ranking member of the cartel. he and the cartel's lawyer claimed to have acted as dea informants, telling the feds where to arrest and interdict the drug loads in exchange nor allowing some of their drugs into this country and withholding information on there whereabouts from mexican police, including two of the most wanted men in mexico. both of them remain fugitives. our relationship with this cartel appeared to begin when the u.s. justice department dropped drug charges against the cartel's lawyer that was 2008. after that the cartel lawyers bow began feeding information to the dea. well, it even met, they met with the men in mexico city in march
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of 09 to formalize their relationship. the dea and the u.s. attorney's office will not comment. in records they don't deny that he was an informant, only that he did not act with the u.s. consent. a former dea director claims she had no knowledge of this agreement. others tell us that what is described here is not unprecedented. sometimes you get in bed with the bad guy to get the guy who is worse. the danger of course is that if dea's relationship with the sinaloa cartel is made public it is likely to be embarrassing to us and angering many in mexico. back to you. shannon: very dangerous. thank you for keeping us updated. this is fox news alert in new orleans a jury has just convicted five current and former police officers in shootings that took place right after hurricane katrina you'll remember this. the charges stem from an apparent cover up fro of the shooting. they say they shoot at six unarmed people trying to cross a
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bridge. two of those people died. kris gutierrez is live with us. >> reporter: they were responding to an officer down distress call on a bridge in new orleans on september 4th 2005 days after curbing katrina when witnesses say they did not fully assess the situation but just started shooting at innocent people walking along that bridge. today four officers were found guilty of firing their guns, two of whom were found guilty of firing fatal shots. all five officers were found guilty of covering up the crime by flying tphrauls report false reports and planting a gun. >> the vast majority of the men and women in blue out there who sacrifice every day do precisely that. they put the safety of the citizens ahead of everybody else. these men did not. >> reporter: two officers, this one here, officer bowen and another officer falcon were found guilty of firing the two
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fatal shots, but the jury found that their actions did not constitute murder. while all five defendants face lengthy sentences, shannon, no one faces life in prison in this case. back to you in new york. shannon: thank you very much, kris. he's the senior senator from the state of massachusetts once a footstep away from being president. and it's no secret that democrat kerry is not a fan of the tea party. up next why his latest comments may have crossed a line. she was one of the most famous faces of the 1990s. today super model linda evangelista is at the center of a celebrity love triangle. wait until you hear she ways demanding of the husband of a hollywood superstar. plus a woman seen smacking her child on a city bus, another rider gave that woman a piece of her mind about parenting. but find out why that turned out to be a very bad idea. >> at least five of the bullets came right through the back door, several of them then came through the side. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein!
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shannon: new information on a deadly polar bear mauling in norway, the same country reeling from a gunman's massacre last month leaving 80 people dead. the polar bear attacked the tents of 13 people that were on a nature expedition to an island inside the arctic circle. a british teenager was killed and four others seriously injured. the wounded were airlifted to a hospital on the norwegian mainland. new reaction to eye raising comments made by one influential lawmaker today. massachusetts democratic senator john kerry this morning claiming the media, saying reporters were, quote, irresponsible for 0 giving, quote, equal time to tea party views. >> the media in america has a bigger responsibility than its exercising today. the media has got to begin to not give equal time, or equal
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balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual, it doesn't deserve the same credit as a legit nat idea about what you do. and the problem is everything is put into this at this time or tat equal battle, and america is losing any sense of what is real, of who is accountable, of who is not accountable, of who is real who isn't. shannon: the latest comments coming as a number of democrats are complaining that the tea party acted bike terrorists and hostage takers during the debt ceiling negotiations. a former press secretary under george w bush is here. he said you shouldn't be giving any kind of coverage to something that everybody knows is not factual. there are a lot of folks out there, for them it is factual. >> yeah, i mean that is the equivalent of a senatorial hisee fit. he of course doesn't want to
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hear it because he wants to keep on spending and borrowing and eventually drive the nation into bankruptcy. the real lesson here of course is that in massachusetts in january of 2010 the tea party elected scott brown to take ted kennedy's seat. senator kerry doesn't want to hear the message that many of the voters are sending. it's a welcome message. shannon: i have to think that the folks behind the big sweep in the midterm tph-s 2010, a lot of that credited to the tea party, dozens of members of congress elected, a lot of them it would only fire them up more to hear someone like senator kerry trying to completely sideline them as if they are not legitimate at all. he called hem absurd. >> what is so fascinating about the tea party movement is the hysteria, the way people have turned against the tea party and see them as a threat. you have a lot of people for economic reasons coming out of the woodwork that weren't previously involved in politics, and all of a sudden already,
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people can make a blue state like massachusetts go red. that's another reason like people like senator kerry that are so much the part of the status quo in washington are so fearful when we hear the message, we mean it, washington needs to change, the spending has got to stop. that is a threat to him and i think that's why you see him lash out and others lash out. shannon: along with him calling hem absurd we've heard them called terrorists, hostage takers, vampires, cannibl serbgs. southern white supremacists. do you think they will be successful in their effort, it appears to be discrediting this particular movement. >> i think what it does is it spurs on the good people that care about the country and want to do something about the economic house not being in order. what i do find fascinating is the mainstream media's double standard where if people had talked like that and used that type of rhetoric, if the vice president of the united states had called moveon.org under george bush terrorist the mainstream media would have had
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a field day with that and urged him to apologize. you see no similar treatment on the other side because i think there is a lot of mainstream media that look at the tea party eskance. keep under estimating the tea party because think they will be a power to rec con with in the 2012 elections. i've not made the case that these type of foolish statements lead to violence or danger. the democrats like to say that about sarah palin and the republicans and i rejected that tooth. eyes foolhardy. this is a noisy democracy and you have people who are disenfranchised and came out of the wod woodwork. people are fed up and want to go in a different direction.
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that's been the trend of politics in recent years. i think the trend is accelerating, frankly. shannon: the 1st amendment is a very strong principle especially when you look at supreme court if they are going to protect people who protest at military funerals. the 1st amend -pment is good for anyone. arreu fletcher thank you very much. shannon: a new arrest in a disappearance that grabbed national headlines. it's been five months since anyone has seen this woman, holly bobo. up next we'll show you the fugitive sex offender that the police took into custody. local communities are on the front line, see why critics think that this plan might fall a bit short. a new survey raising questions about the future of the american church. next, what some say may happen if women stop being spiritual leaders in their family homes.
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shannon: a brand-new arrest in the disappearance of a tennessee nursing student. 20-year-old holly bobo was abducted back in april and now local station -rs reporting a fugitive sex offender, victor george wahl has been arrested at his girlfriend's house in minnesota. her brother says he saw her go into the woods with a man dressed in camouflage. blood was found in the family's carport. so farrow figureses have not reported any connection between bobo and wahl. she is the cousin of country music star whitney duncan. a look at one of the key issues
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over funding the federal aviation administration. 200million of your tax dollars subsidizing airports every year. they wanted to cutback on taxpayer bail outs. an airport in maryland got $1.2 million from the feds last year but only saw 6500 passengers all on one regional airline. so that works out to about $184 in subsidies per passenger. doug mcelway is live in hai hagerstown. this is one of 150 ruraller ports that are receiving eas subsidies, essential air service. it lies 73 miles from d.c., 75 miles from baltimore. it receives $1.2 million in those subjec subsidies for one
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little airline, cape air, it has five daily flights to baltimore and back. about $59 per person for those flights. if you factor in the subjec subsidy that works out to about $184 per passenger. it receives $1.2 million like so many other airports across the country. critics say that this particular airport and so many others like it should not be receiving those kinds of subsidies. here is what one critic has to say about it. >> we feel like it's time for congress to stop picking winners and losers. the eas was created intended to be a temporary bam to ease the transition after airline deregulation. here we are more than 30 years later, and this program is squandering more taxpayer dollars than everything. >> reporter: others say that reexamination of eas is very much warranted in the present climate of budget cutting but that the service does provide
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valuable services to other communities, especially in places like alaska. >> there are some communities that need an essential air service program because they are cut off and have traffic to support it. but many of the places are a p appendages. ely, nevada, there is one passenger a day harry reid is supporting that, it's one day. it's a tpopb tomorrow constituency. >> reporter: i spoke a little while ago to the airport manager here who is a huge proponent of this kind of subsidy. he says there are secondary effects to this kind of subsidy. they are able to sell it to, for example, the chamber of commerce as they would a good school system or safe streets or a good police department. he says there will be profound secondary economic affects if that subsidy is removed. shannon: thank you very much. you can find out just exactly how much it's costing you in particular. log onto foxnews.com, check out
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our taxpayer calculator, plug in your tax information and you can find out how much those little airports cost you the taxpayer. foxnews.com, check it out. president obama wants four more years in the white house but what do american voters want from him? what platform should the president run on? up next the power panel plays political adviser. take a look at this. first came the spanking, and then came a shooting. there is a chilling link between those two events on a city bus. just wait until you hear how they are connected. plus her baby's daddy is a billionaire, and she is a big bucks model with millions in the bank herself. should the daddy be paying more than 12 grand a week in child support? we debate it, you decide it, next. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement
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shannon: new reaction to july's grim unemployment rate and it comes from the people who want president obama's job. the unemployment rate dipping slightly to 9.1% from 9.2% in june. any drop of course is welcome, but it's still a really tough number, nonetheless. republican presidential candidates had plenty to say about it from the campaign trail. carl cameron is always tracking them all. he joins us live in washington
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with what they've got to say. >> reporter: unsurprisingly the gop is decidedly unimpressed by the dip in the unemployment. tim pawlenty accuses the president of driving the country back into recession. he says this lack of leadership is inexcusable and driving our economy toward decline. mitt romney who cast himself as the most experience in private and public sector job creation ignores it. he prefers tackling obama head-to-head. he says when you see what this president has done to the economy in just three years you know why america doesn't want to financed out what he can do in eight. john huntsman calls romney's record of job creation as the governor of massachusetts one of the worst in the country. today huntsman was dissing president obama for 117 million jobs created last month, economicis say a robust recovery
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would take twice that. he says the president has had two and a half years to turn the american economy around and it's clear he has failed. americans have witnessed a considerable drop in the stock market and yet another jobs report showing an unthan employment rate above 9%. michelle bachman laid the blame squarely on the president for out of control spending and debt. her statement said, you can't fool the markets mr. president. the only way to dig us out of this whole that your administration has got even us into is to just stop digging. they are all making the case because the economy is not showing the types of recovery signs that so many had hoped that all the guarantees that the coming election is going to be all the nastier as both sides rather than promise st. louises try to drag down the other side's tkhoeuses choices and directions. shannon: it's red meat out there. carl come ran, thank you for summing it up for us. the recent disappointing
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economic numbers are promoting many to ask what positive message will the president run on in his re-election campaign. one late night host thinks he knows what the president's secret to success will be. watch this. >> they need to get those numbers up and it looks like they've come up with a pretty fool-proof plan to do it. >> on may 2nd, on the president's demand, navy seals shot osama bin laden and buried his body at sea. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al-qaida. >> now obama is back, watch as he flies to the middle east, gets in a one man submergible vehicle, voyages to the bottom of the ocean and shoots him again. obama shoots osama 2, this time it's submersible. [applause] shannon: all right. that might not be a bad strategy. let's bring in our power panel to talk about it.
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a former prosecutor, and a social commentator. and a personal finance columnist for daily finance.com. getting owe s osama was great for his presidency. what else does he have to bring to the table. >> hope is not a strategy. in a risk adverse environment he shouldn't use the word. i think he'll have to plant the opponent as risky, in other words say take that chance, you know, at your own reus skwraobg it's risk. shannon: it's a gamble. greg: you're going to go with a guy you know versus -- the economy can get worse. shannon: there are several groups that were his good friends in 2008 who have expressed a lot of dissatisfaction. you have still some calls from the gay community that he's not doing enough for them, the hispanic community saying he's not doing enough with immigration reform. the unions saying they are not bff's any more. what does he do?
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>> that's okay. they don't have to be. he said on his election night that it would take more than one day and even more than one time to fix something that took eight years to destroy. you cannot fix something that got damaged within an eight-year period within two and a half years. on that note if you look at the department of labor numbers we've actually been out of the red since october 2010. yes we've gone up and down but we've actually been adding jobs since october 2010. before that we were in the red. i'm not saying that he should not be more positive on the brand messaging when it comes to jobs but i am saying that we have to be a little bit more realistic. maybe that is his message. let's focus, get these jobs going and let's be realistic. shannon: with more than two years almost for all those months straight for almost 30 months straight we've had unemployment approve 9% except for a couple of months here and there. do you think the jobs message will work for him, saying i've invested, stick with my strategy, it's going to payoff? >> no i don't think so. i think what the public saeurs about most is the economy and jobs. let's take a look at the jobs numbers over the past few
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months, you have 54,000 jobs being create ned may, 18,000 in june, you have 117,000 this past month. that's just not good enough. i agree that the message of hope and change is not going to be enough. i think you'll see a campaign spin it kind of like you just said by saying, yes it's bad but it could be a lot worse if you go with the other guys and you're going to see them try and take the focus away as you also mentioned from the economy to the republican candidates, a great strategy would be to play up on the public's fear of medicare and medicaid, that's what happened a couple months ago in a largely congressional district in new york when a democrat won using those stat particulars. >> this is not a dictator ship. the congress has to work together and not pull that kind of stuff that they did with the debt deal. shannon: a team effort. there is an article out there saying if women had negotiated the debt deal instead of all these guys it might have turned out definitely, we have less testosterone in showingo, and we
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look for win, win solutions. do you think it would have been any different if there were all women at the table? >> come on, look at us. we can do anything. i am so hurt by the fact that the democrats and republicans fought so much that i'm so peevish now about even pitching a tent with the skwrepbder wars. i don't want any males versus females, democrats versus republicans. i tell you i was so anxious for days during that debt ceiling drama. i'm like, oh my god, what is going to happen. shannon: do you think it would be different if it was all females calling the shots. >> it's an easy thing to say that it would be he'ser. necessity say women don't freak out even if investing. secretly people want the high returns and i think the people want somebody to gun for it and go for it. i don't know, i'd like to say that we could have done a better job. by the way don't sign me up for
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that job. shannon: that is a very difficult job. linda evangelista, gorgeous, fabulous super model has got an adorable four-year-old little son. the father of that child also happens to be the husband of salma hayek also super gorgeous and her beautiful little girl. the kids are born 11 months apart. he is married to salma hayek but has a child with linda evangelista, the billionaire dad. now linda evangelista who makes millions of dollars in her own right says she needs $46,000 a month in child support and round-the-clock cheauffers and bodyguard for her little guy. what do you think, legit or not. >> definitely not legit. she should get some support. this is the woman that says i don't get out of bed for lens $10,000. despite all that i think what is going on, it's kind of unfair, i don't think the legal system should come n. he's spending a lot more money on the child that he has with salma hayek, and she just wants to take some of his 1 1 1/2 billion, is that how much
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he's worth and that is what is going on. >> nothing pisses off a divorced mother -- she's having a visceral reaction to the other child having trust funds and things that her husband doesn't. she was perfectly fine for for years. annoyed. shannon: it's something that crosses all kinds of parties and classes, and everything also. this new survey shows women on their church attendance is declining, fewer of them going or being sunday school teachers or bible teachers, whatever your faith has to be. they are not showing up in this church, why not? >> despite my language today i'm definitely an every sunday girl. i was really disappointed. and i think it's sort of interesting. they say the way that the woman goes is the way the church goes. the truth is if you personalize it rarely is your spouse and
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kids clambering to get in the car on sunday. shannon: it's like the mom saying get up. >> i think it's bad to see that, the local church is really important. hopefully they will turn around. shannon: why are they leaving. >> it was my dad, actually, okay, go to church. i think the church is an institution just like any other. what happens is that institutions domesticate children, and now there are other institutions where they can display their talents and skills and perhaps they are just shifting it over to those institutions and they are realizing that there are other ideas and concepts and theories that they can mull around with. >> i think i'm little bit of a hypocrite, i don't go to church, i wish more people did. in my neighborhood i was telling you guys you walk by all these gorgeous churches going out of business. they need money, no one is attending, it's very sad. shannon: i'll never for got my dad out in the front with the car revved up, numerous rev inks, we are going to church now, let's go. gate to see you.
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thank you so much. the white house has a new plan for combating homegrown terror. it's about making kids the first line of defense. up next why critics say, maybe not such a great idea. plus, we all knew the u.s. postal service was in bad shape hemorrhaging money. if you can believe it things are actually worse than you thought.
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looking for ways to cut costs. it says it would save $200 million a year by closing more than 3600 post offices. saving that much money would equal 3.5% of what they lost this year and only 2.5% of what was lost the year before. changing the game plan for combating homegrown terror president obama is spearheading a new effort to make you the first line of defense against extremists right here in the u.s. after two years of high level meetings it all came down to a somewhat vague 8-point brief very short on details. michael sawyer former counter tercounter terrorism expert join us. it's talking about being supportive of the local community, making connections and keeping their eyes and ears open, those sorts of things. >> if we had encountered any
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muslim excrime *eut extremists in the united states -- the president as mr. bush as both parties refuse to acknowledge that american muslims, like muslims around the world are radicalized not by the way americans live and think at home but by what the united states government does, what washington does in the muslim world. whether it's support for the saudi police state, unquestioning support for the israelis, whatever it is, that's what radical liesess muslims. at the end of the day state and local governments can do nothing to help because they have no control over foreign policy. shannon: do you think that the white house got this right, a very measured, very calm approach to moving forward? >> that's a great question. you've got to remember that this is just one tool in the counterterrorism tool kit. we have to fight al-qaida both
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at home and abroad and obviously here at home we have the f.b.i. who is doing a stellar job, but we also have to reach out to folks in the local communities, and who better would know what is going on in the local communities than local and state law enforcement. and also the folks in the muslim-american communities. shannon: michael, i mean if not building relationships with them there are those who say we would have missed some plots, tip-offs. do you think investing in those relationships is really not where we should be setting our first priority? >> certainly not a top priority. it's something you probably should do as a compliment to whatever your policy is, but the point -- i think the crux of the matter is that mr. obama, having been educated at harvard has very little contact with reality. and while he is bombing libya, while he has increased drone strikes by 600%. while he ace allowing the israelis to do whatever they want to do the growth of million tans see at home will increase, and the war that kwaoe have be
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we have been fighting overseas will come to our shores in the not too distant future. to pin any hopes on this social science ae approach to protect being the united states, that is just as silly as counting on a third-world dictator to capture osama bin laden. shannon: do you think we run a risk in alienating certain groups if we don't work on building these relationships as a top priority? >> you have to remember that this document did not show up all by itself. we had the national strategy for counter tere rust eupl that came out in june 2011, this is one component. what we forget is that the f.b.i. is doing a fantastic job of cracking down on a lot of bad guys in the states. however, you really have to reach out to folks who really understand what is going on in their own communities, whether it's an l.a., whether it's in michigan, or new york city. the only way you can do that is
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to interact with local law enforcement. shannon: thank you very much for weighing in on the new policy. we he ao watch iwe'll watch it and see how it plays out. terrifying moments for passengers on a city bus. take a look at this. first there was a spanking and then there came this. gunfire. the chilling link between those two events. wait until you hear how they are connected. >> she doesn't actually realize what is going on, so she is sort of left standing in the middle of the bus as everybody has sort of separated all the way to the front or all the way as far as they could go to the back. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories. constated? phillips' caplet use gnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally wityour colon than stimulant xatives, for fective reli of constipation without cramps.
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prosecutors said she wanted revenge. claudia gomez of our fox affiliate has the story. >> 20-year-old penny chapman has her hands full. you can see her on the bus heading north on -pth street. her son is running up and down the child. finally she grabs the squirming child and spanks him. the man sitting behind her doesn't like what he sees, he threatens to turn her in for child abuse. she makes a phone call prosecutors say to set up minutes later what is about to happen. the boy's uncle angel lacourt helps them off the bus and holds the door for these two guys. two brothers start firing into the bus a with large assault rifle and a handgun. watch the shear terror on board that bus. a mother grabbed her 4-year-old son and ran for cover. a man sitting right by the back door is frozen and can only slump back in his seat. and this 80-year-old woman,le 0 years old she doesn't know what to do.
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>> you see her very clearly, because she doesn't actually realize what is going on. she is sort of left standing in the middle of the bus as everyone has sort of separated all the way to the front or all the way as far as they could go to the back. >> reporter: the elderly woman finally drops and covers her head a moment before a bullet flies over her and shatters a woman. >> at least five of the bullets came right through the back door. several of them came through the side. >> reporter: many of the other passengers ran toward the front of the bus and piled on top of each other desperate to get off. the man who criticized penny chapman's parenting, he drove right on top of that 4-year-old boy. the bus driver then gunned it and got out of there. shannon: claude today gomez reporting. have they lost their bananas over a missing toy stuffed monkey? some may think so but not them. one couple now offering a big reward nor a stuffed animal they say they've raised as their own
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shannon: give us the money or the monkey gets it. ransom demands being made nor a $5 beanie baby lost in the big apple. a manhattan couple made a public plea to have the toy returned safely. apparently they didn't have kids but raised the stuffed ape as if it was their child. we are not making this up. they are getting calls on voice mail some funny, to vulgar and threatening. the couple said they showed up conditional love for the doll and this is like losing a child. she has been out four long months. now 70 hours and counting until the return of the megyn kelly. she will be back first thing monday morning, the mother of two and wait until you see her new look, it is amazing. monday "america live" with megyn kelly. we'll see you then. thanks for watching. i'm stan kwropb pwraoepb, studio b with trace in for shepard smith starts right now.
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