>> another tuesday morning and clayton was in for steve today. good to have you back. >> nice to see you guys, thank you. >> brian is back from vacation. >> and you're surprised. >> no, i'm glad. >> i'll be playing myself again today for three hours and this is all about sparring, sparring, sparring yesterday. it was a contentious day. once we left the couch, everything went crazy. >> all the politicians crazy. >> we'll review it because i guess first ahead. >> let's do the headlines first. we have a developing story overnight while you were sleeping. a drone strike takes out a house in northwest pakistan leaving four militants dead. it happened in north wazirastan. last week, a u.s. drone strike in the same region left 21 suspected terrorists dead. it could be a volatile day on wall street. global markets off to a shaky start this morning. european stocks pushing lower right now. london down 1.4%. frankfurt and paris both down more than 2%. in asia, japan closing up .2% and hong kong closing down .2%.

south korea up 4.8%. dow futures pointing towards a drop at the opening bell. the jobs of two senate democrats on the chopping block in wisconsin today. jim holparin and robert wurch are facing recall elections after fleeing the state in budget negotiations earlier this year. four seats remain in the republican side and it ensured that republicans will keep the majority regardless of what happens today. for millions of elvis fans around the world, august 16, 1977, is the day the music died. >> ♪ well, i can't stop loving you i said i made up made up my mind ♪ ♪ of such a lonely, lonely time ♪ >> 34 years ago today, the king of rock 'n' roll passed away in his tennessee mansion in

graceland. thousands of fans flocked there overnight for a candlelight vigil and thousands more are headed there today. he's one of the top selling acts in music. last year, his estate made about $60 million. >> his estate made more posthumously than it when he was alive. >> amazing. scary how many years that passed. i know exactly where i was when i found out that news. that means i was alive. that was 34 years ago. >> that's all you'll say. >> you could have been 2. because you were advanced for your age. >> thank you, brian. >> i got to tell you, i was surprised that the president interacted so much even though this was a get to know your people bus tour yesterday. in minnesota everything went smooth. when he went to iowa and started interacting with the audience, the president is really good on his feet. he got some real questions, i think he thought he was probably back in the oval office debating with john boehner again. >> it sounded like it. he was in decora, iowa, yesterday. after the town hall wrapped up,

it was post town hall when the fireworks we want off. founder of the american tea party came up to him, his name is ryan rhodes and started throwing questions at the president. take a listen to some of them here. >> how is your vice president calling up -- >> look -- >> i would like to understand that. >> ok. i will explain it right now. he did not -- >> no. what he said was that for us to be -- to take the economy to the brink was irresponsible. and it was. now, the truth of the matter is considering what's said about me consistently -- >> it's the second person in your administration calling the right wing terrorists. >> no, that's -- >> no, that's -- >> you can hear the questions coming from ryan rhodes and the other lady there about did the vice president during the debt ceiling debates earlier this summer call tea partiers terrorists? and the president said look, we'll have a discussion about

this, we'll have a discussion after this event and our ed henry reporting he then saw them over there having a discussion after these fireworks were there a few minutes later. >> all right. so this is apparently a statement from president obama to the tea party member off camera. in fairness, since i've been called a socialist who wasn't born in this country who is destroying america and taking away its freedoms because i passed a health care bill, i'm all for lowering the rhetoric. it's interesting, what do you think about as viewers of this program? what do you think about that kind of discussion going on with the president of the united states? do you think that people should just approach the president and shake his hand and say nice to meet you and then if they have any disagreements, not actually say them to the face of the president? or do you feel that it should unfold like this because this is true discussion about some of the issues? >> the president wanted to come out and meet the people. he wanted to come out and interact to get the message out and get out of washington. that's why he didn't go on air

force one. he hopped on a bus and go on his tour. i think there's a way to approach it. i didn't really have a problem with the interaction and i don't think the president did. dana perino really had a problem with this. here's what she said with greta van susteren last night. >> i'm uncomfortable with this because i think -- well, i sense -- well, obviously there's frustration. the guy has a lot of passion and it's all built up. we have crossed a line that i'm uncomfortable with. i think had i been in the line, swallow the anger, nice to meet you, mr. president. moving on. that said, i think that president obama and his team also were the first ones to make things so political from the very beginning, even after they won, they made everything about partisanship and this is the price you pay. >> just in case you missed the verbatim going back and forth, i heard it clearly, some people didn't. i have supersonic hearing.

it's a gift and it's really worked out. >> ok. >> but what he was saying is look, did your vice president actually call tea partiers terrorists because this guy is a tea partyier and the president kind of skirted the issue. maybe he actually didn't know. when looking it up, to get the record straight, the vice president says he didn't but he didn't stop or -- or correct representative mike doyle when he said that during a meeting during the whole debt ceiling debate. >> here's why i tend to agree with what dana perino said. it's that they're already coming after the tea party in the mainstream media and elsewhere. and so when you -- when you show video like that, does that just make it easier for the tea party to be criticized? does that make it easier to compare this incident now to what we saw happening to mitt romney last week when a far left person came to one of his events and they got into that spat? and so does it make it easier to criticize this tea party movement as a result. >> right. i'm not even thinking about the tea party, i'm thinking more

about the president. should you talk to a president like that? >> yeah, look -->> it's turned the other way, that's the difference. it's going to be turned on the tea party. >> e-mail us what you think and you can weigh in on this. friends at foxnews.com. also, the president, though, in decorah, iowa, saying he will put forth a plan for the economy come september. this is interesting. a lot of members have been calling for the president to put a plan on the economy. he said it's going to pull on elements from both the republicans and independents and then, of course, also democrats. it will pull elements from all of those parties but he says, though, if congress doesn't pass this, then that's exactly what they're going to run on. this is what a lot of people have been saying, right, they'll run on this idea that it's a do nothing congress so if they don't pass this, if they don't pass the president's plan, that's what you'll hear from the white house. >> here's karl rove last night on the proposed plan. >> you think the president would have a plan together now. he's only had how long to get

the plan together after the failure of the stimulus bill. we'll see what happens with the proposal. i think the president is in deep doo-doo, as we say. >> we've heard a lot of what we want the president to do. let's talk more about free trade. they have a lot of things on their desk that they haven't passed yet. let's see if there's anything different in the plan that the president puts out until september. why are we waiting for september? i don't understand. congress is coming back in september. some people argue that congress should have been called back already. even if they were called back, why couldn't you put your plan out now? >> maybe he's still coming up with it. we heard rumors. he wants to reform patents which will help in the long term, perhaps. he wants to extend the payroll tax and extend unemployment insurance more and that's going to cost $45 billion. >> michelle bachmann says we're out of money and can't do unemployment insurance anymore. michelle bachmann seems to be a cutter. >> she's a cutter and she's making a lot of headlines. so is rick perry yesterday back and forth with mitt romney but

he had some comments in a speech that he was giving yesterday because he was in cedar rapids, iowa, some controversial remarks that hasn't been necessarily sitting so well with some of his republican colleagues. he came out and criticized the fed chairman ben bernanke saying it would be treasonness if ben bernanke printed more money. take a listen. >> if this guy prints more money between now and the elections, i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in america's history is almost treason in my opinion. >> treason which is punishable by death, by the way. treason in the united states is punishable by death. former white house spokesman george w. bush says perry's comments about bernanke are

unpresidential. >> people honed in on what he said we would do them down in texas. listen, he's been on the campaign trail for one day. news flash to governor perry, every single thing you say is going to be parsed and pundits are going to be talking about it. >> get ready. >> now at 10 minutes after the hour, president bill clinton still out there. still a factor. always has some interesting things to say. no exception. when asked at an event where he made comments, there was a meeting of the international association of firefighters, he picked up that governor perry is now in the race. listen. >> i watched governor perry announce his run for president, he's a good looking rascal. and he said i'm going to washington. to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible. while i ride on air force one, marine one helicopter, go to camp david and travel around the

world and have a good time. i mean, this is crazy. >> that camera work is not as good as it used to be. i apologize. >> were you falling asleep? >> i was checking my pockets at the same time. whoa, am i still on? >> he's a good looking rascal but doesn't agree with his idea that government should get out of the lives of americans. >> there's no saying that rick perry will say give me air force one and he might say i'll stay at the white house and that's it. >> are you pro rascal? i'm pro hov-around. >> this next story will have you talking all day long. this kid's goal should have scored him $50 if he made it. but he may not get the money now on a moral technicality. we're going to ask you to weigh in when you find out the details. >> at 30%, that's the chance of yet another recession according

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it to congress. he wants congress to pass it so we're many, many months away from any action taken to get this economy turned around. so you ask the question, what should be done? >> right. >> well, here's what should not be done. >> ok. >> if the president comes up with another plan, a big infrastructure bank. >> $45 billion. >> stimulus plan number two, that's not going to work. >> didn't you get the hint that's where he's going to be going and he's going to put the blame on congress if he doesn't pass it. >> yes, i think that's exactly where he's going. one hope for the president and his re-election in my opinion would be tax reform. real tax reform. where you get more money coming into the federal treasury because you lower tax rates and you get rid of some deductions. that would be a radical plan for the president to come up with and i don't think he'll do it. >> do you think that's something that could be implemented quickly. for example, if you have a payroll tax holiday, that's quick. >> you could do that and that's probably part of the president's plan but i'm talking about real tax reform.

lowering tax rates for individuals across the board. for corporations across the board. get rid of all kinds of deductions. that's not something you can just do like that with a magic wand. >> haven't they already been doing the payroll tax extension? they did that. that did nothing to help our economy. >> the president's plan as it now stands, extend the payroll tax cuts, the payroll tax holiday. extend unemployment benefits. keep those rolling for another, what, six months maybe. speed up the patent processing process. >> that's long term. >> what's that going to do for the economy short term and free trade with three countries? and an infrastructure bank. that's the president's plan as it now stands. >> maybe leaving it up -- >> after labor day, i don't know. >> maybe he'll leave -- >> hiring people, you know, corporations. that would be something that -- >> look, we need something dramatic and pretty soon because

we are really weakening fast. we had news this morning that europe is on the brink of a recession. that's not going to help us. moody's now thinks that we have a 1 in 3 chance in america of going straight into another recession which would worsen our debt situation so we're sliding downhill. we need action fast. >> i think he's going to leave it up to that super committee for tax reform. probably won't come from him but we'll see. stu varney, good look on your show today. >> thank you very much. >> according to our next guest, the tea party will choose the next candidate for president. which candidate will they support? that's where it gets interesting. >> what better way to say welcome home than with a big, wet kiss? that story is straight ahead. that's a great, great, great happy dane. the stronger the rapids, the more we loved it.

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>> glad you're up. please put something on. some quick headlines now. border patrol agents near san diego snagged 11 pounds of black tar heroin hidden inside the engine of an s.u.v. checkpoint agents say the female driver was acting nervous so they inspected her car and found more than $133 worth of dope in the engine block. and at least three bart stations shut down in san francisco during a protest of alleged brutality. the protest was in response to officials cutting off cell phone -- excuse me, yes, cell phone service in some stations. they were trying to stop a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by police last month. clayton? >> excellent job, thank you. one of the key voting groups for 2012, the tea party and right now, both michelle bachmann and

rick perry are looking to capture their support. >> it is a movement that is being heard all across the country and it's made up of the glorious tea party movement. and i am one of those! >> i have heard people say, you know, you tea party types, y'all are angry. we're not angry. we're indignant. we're indignant about a government that borrows trillions of dollars. and we're indignant about a president who goes on an american apology tour and instead of talking about american exceptionalism. >> well, who do the tea partiers like and why? where do those votes go? amy kramer joins us now. nice to see you. >> good to see you. thanks for having me. >> absolutely. this is a really interesting question right now between michelle bachmann and rick perry, at least the top tier and then you have ron paul and herman cain fighting for tea party votes as well. among social conservatives,

where do these votes go? to whom do they go? >> well, i mean, i think there's a lot of work to be done. a lot of primary play to do and i'm not sure everybody is even on the field but, you know, look, tea party express, michelle bachmann has come out to our rallies and she supported our efforts. rick perry has been there. he supported our efforts. a lot of enthusiasm and support for rick perry jumping in the race but, you know, michelle bachmann has been on the front lines with the tea party movement for a long time so, you know, i think there's an excitement for both of them and we're just going to have to see who rises to the top. >> i'll ask you the same question that michelle bachmann received no short of like 10 times on the sunday talk shows this week. why would somebody vote for michelle bachmann if they're a tea party member as opposed to rick perry who has been a governor and who, as many people say, was tea party before tea party was cool? >> well, in full disclosure, we're doing a presidential debate in september so i am completely neutral and unbiased

but, you know, i think the tea party movement, the people in the tea party movement are going to be the ones who are going to choose the next republican nominee. and they're going to do so by choosing the strongest constitutional conservative who is going to support smaller government, who is going to figure out who has the ideas and solutions, you know, to create job growth again, to deal with this housing crisis, to pay down our debt and deficit. those are some of the things that the tea party members movement are looking for so we'll have to see who fits that, you know, that model and i think that that's who the movement will get behind but i still think it's too early to tell. >> and one of the other big questions, of course, is the social conservatives vs. maybe fiscal conservatives or the washington conservatives. one part of the equation, because we have this new fox news opinion dynamics poll about the tea party movement and it's been trickling down right now for the tea party. a favorable rating is not as high as they were back in april following the debt ceiling

debate. unfavorable is pretty high. some concern among republicans yes, they may grab social conservative votes but can they beat president obama in a general election? may get him through the primary. is it enough to win the election? >> well, clayton, first thing i would say is that this movement is completely focused on the fiscal issues. we don't touch the social issues at all. and you know, a poll is a snapshot in time. a poll doesn't tell the whole story and that poll may be our -- the ratings may be trickling down but i can guarantee you one thing and that is more people disapprove of congress than they do the tea party movement. >> that's true. 14% right now, you're right about that. amy kramer, nice to see you this morning. thanks so much and good luck for that debate. we'll be watching. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. coming up on the show, you've heard that nice guys finish last and now science agrees. this study can help you get a raise. you want to pay attention to this? and this tiny hockey player shoots and scores into this tiny little slit in the wall. look at that. boom!

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>> got to trim some of the fat around here. >> what do you mean by trim the fat? >> i want you to fire the fat people. >> what? >> they're lazy and they're slow and they make me sad to look at. start with large marge. >> marge is not fat, she's pregnant. i'm not going to fire her. >> fine. >> stay where you are, marge. congratulations. >> oh, my gosh. >> congratulations. that's -- >> that's from "horrible bosses" right? >> new study out this morning, that guy probably makes more money than the other guys in the office because he's rude and according to the new study out this morning from the university of notre dame and university of western ontario, rude people make more money. >> why do they need to study this? we already know this. >> we know that brian makes more money. >> right. and i didn't know that was the

key to my success. now it's reverse forensics. this stuns me. >> 18%. >> how many times in all the jobs that i've had in tv do you watch the person who is the nastiest rise to the top? i mean, that's just -- and then you sit there and you ask yourself -- >> the people who step on people's backs who are rude. it's amazing to me. look at these numbers. 18% more for men that they make $9,000 is sort of the median amount of money that they make and even angry women or rude women get more annually than their nice counterparts. >> and 9 in 10 employees have dealt with a bully boss in their career. we all understand that. a lot of times people that are rude get to the top and they don't sustain that. also, how do you characterize rude? rude might be focused. it might be determined. it might be relentless. >> exactly. that's why those qualities tend to be more admirable in a man, though in, the workplace than for a woman. so when a woman has those qualities and fights back a little or asks for a little bit more, then you're considered a different kind of a terminology

than a man is sometimes considered for having those same qualities. >> for that term, let's go to clayton. what is that? >> we saw that during the 2008 election, didn't we? somebody is rude and they're something else. this is how hollywood portrays rude men and women. take a look. >> nobody. well, sent her off about the assistant job and i was preinterviewing her. she's hopeless. >> clearly, i'm going to have to do that myself because the last two you sent me were completely inadequate. that's all. >> for lack of a better word is good. greed is right. greed works. greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. greed in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love,

knowledge, has marked upwards the surge of man kind. >> never saw "wall street 2" the sequel. >> but this comes to my point. he got to the top but ended up in jail. rude people can rise. we don't talk about sustain. >> i've watched a lot of them sustain for a long period of time. >> funny, funny. let's go to your headlines right now. an american student has died after falling from a cliff in italy. 20-year-old kelly denham, a student at the university of washington was staying with frenl friends in a coastal town when she fell from a window, down the cliff and into the mediterranean sea. her body was discovered by boaters. alcohol is believed to be involved. brian? >> all right. the offices of alaska's three congressional delegates evacuated after receiving suspicious packages with white powder spilling out of them. the powder turned out to be a concrete mixture.

>> the pentagon reportedly looking into a plan to scrap traditional military pensions saying they're unaffordable instead of being able to retire after 20 years at half their salary. service members would wait until normal retirement age to get a 401k style plan. the plan would save $250 billion over the next 20 years. >> a soldier returning home from overseas gets a hero's welcome from a very special big friend. >> i think he remembers you. >> that's emmitt, a very big great dane giving his owner a giant hug and the soldier was deployed for nine months so emmitt made sure to make up for lost time beating out human members of the family to stay hello. >> that dog is taller than he is. >> and very excited to see him. very cute. all right, brian, can you top that with your sportscast? auto no one will be licking my

face during it. if it happens organically, far be it for me to judge. last night, one of baseball's greatest hitters smashed his way into an exclusive club. he's now a twin but long time been an indian. i'm talking about in detroit where it happened, the minnesota twins lumberjack going for homer number 600. he hit two last night deep to left, it was gone, the eighth player in the history to hit 6700 homers and the tigers gave him a standing ovation. he's the oldest player and one of the most popular members of baseball. babe, hank, as well as willie and barry, don't worry, he's not going to beat your mark. staying in the diamond, the dodgers offense has struggled all season. here's the reason why. grounds to second, you'll see it. and the brewers turning it for a double play. tries to steal home, though, and prince fielder throws him out at the plate. it's a triple play. the sixth triple play in brewers history. they win 3-0.

and finally, nfl preseason action, national television, the new york jets played the houston texans. jets coach rex ryan who had his stomach tied doing the best he can to yell at everybody. there's too many men on the field. when you show the highlight of too many men on the field, you'll show you it's the preseason. he finds a wide open player in the end zone and houston goes on to win 16-13 would be the final. the jets expected to do great things, the texans had a lot of promise and hope last year. this year, we'll see. >> they already had a preseason game? i missed it! >> yes, that was tackle football. >> all right, what do you think about this? have you heard about this story? you're about to see a little boy sink a hockey shot from more than half way across the ice rink. there it is right there. what was he supposed to win for doing that shot? not just $5, $10, $20.

$50,000. but now, he may not get the money. >> nick and nate because on the little raffle ticket they bought for $10 that came down in between one of the intermission periods, 11-year-old nick smith went down to actually do the shot. it turns out it was nate that took the shot. so on the back of the raffle ticket, it said nick so they won the $50,000. they're twins. and his brother was out of the building. >> it sounds like his brother -- it sounds like that was the better hockey player in the family. >> they decided at the last second he was out of the building at the time. >> and so the brother went down because they're identical twins and took the shot for him and he won the cash. guess who turned in the kid and said this is a good moral lesson, we're not going to accept the money was the hero in my book the dad. >> i think the dad said i want to be honest, it was my other son. it was my twin son. it's up to the insurance company to fork over the money and say it was there, the shot was made, they're twins. one guy, one kid was

legitimately outside. it's not like mario lemieux showed up instead of nate. >> just because he's a twin doesn't mean we should give them anymore reason. if you and i went down there and i did the shot for you, it wouldn't count. >> twins, 11 years old. >> here's what the dad said which i think is important. we thought honesty was the best policy and we want to set a good example for our kids. you know what to that dad? this is such a tough decision but in my mind, he's a hero to me because we need more parents like that who are making these kind of decisions. in my mind. sorry about the -- sorry about the money. maybe the insurance company will still give -- >> that's the question, will the insurance company say you know what? and reward that sort of honesty and say glad we came forward. now we know that waenlt tsn't t. he was an impostor.

we'll send him a check for $50,000. we want to hear what you have to say. clearly it's a good message to the kids but obviously the insurance company put aside for $50,000 for the contest should be forking up the money in my mind. how could you let an 11-year-old run around the arena when there's an event going on in between periods? go do laps. >> go get me some beers. >> we don't know that for sure. that's clayton's speculation. >> let us know what you think about that. coming up on the show, new information that al-qaida is hard at work plotting their next attack on america. what we know about the plan for a lethal bomb. >> plus a great reason to skip your diet today. doctors say fat is the new skinny. >> right. >> got to hear that. >> the new black.

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>> 45 minutes after the top of the hour. couple of quick headlines for you now. vies president joe biden heads to china hoping to reassure the nation's top lender that the u.s. is still credit worthy. he is expected to present the recent debt ceiling deal as evidence that the u.s. is committed to tackling its debt problem. listen to this, obesity might not be so unhealthy after all? the surprising new study shows obese people who are otherwise healthy live just as long as their thin counterparts. brian? >> all right. fox has learned exclusively that congress will now look at the role of the radical cleric over washington for so many years, he may have had a -- had a key role and it's been overlooked to this point in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. afterwards, we're actually questioning him about what we could do to become tighter with the muslim community. this comes as al-qaida's new chief is now calling for renewed

attacks on america in retaliation for the killing of usama bin laden. and now intelligence reports indicate that al-qaida and yemen is plotting attacks on the u.s. using the deadly poison ricin. "new york times" correspondent is the co-author of this brand new book "counterstrike, the untold story of america's campaign against al-qaida" and you're talking about this poison gas. why -- what indicates to you that they're more interested now in poison gas? >> actually a powder now, what we're talking about is one of the al-qaida affiliates in yemen that american counterterrorism officials says poses the most direct threat to the united states is looking to do small scale attacks. in this case, we've learned from counterterrorism officials that this al-qaida affiliate in yemen is looking to produce this poison called ricin and pack it with explosives and put it aboard subways, closed spaces like airports, blow it up and terrorize the american public. >> what we should about yemen is it really caught the attention of our counterterrorism experts because of the transportation of those in cartridges and what was

inside. >> exactly. the plots that we've seen both in the ink cartridge plot as well as the plot involving the so-called underpants bomber, both were orchestrated out of yemen. yemen, again, has posed the most serious threat outside of the affiliates elsewhere in dealing with al-qaida. this is showing that despite the death of bin laden, the al-qaida affiliates in places like yemen, somalia and places in north africa still pose a very serious threat. >> we all here, even today, we led our show with more drone attacks killing more suspected terrorists in the pakistan area and doing a lot in yemen, too. you talk about the secret things we're doing under the radar. should america feel good about what's going on behind the scenes and about what we're learning 10 years after 9/11? >> i think in our book, what we're pointing out is that american counterterrorism experts have learned a lot about how networks work and you can

take a piece of it out. for instance, we talk in our book about how suicide bombers need to have their attacks blessed by an amir before they carry out their attacks. american officials, military officials are killing these amirs therefore delaying many of these attacks that are about to take place. >> we watched a 12-minute address that's how out that he's cut and he's calling for america which he claims is reeling now and teetering to be attacked from every level. also, all -- all bets are off with americans overseas. anything new about this? >> he has been expected to make some kind of statement like this particularly with the 9/11 anniversary coming up next month. he is still trying to establish himself and his credentials as the new number one, trying to solidify his control over the al-qaida network particularly as it takes these kind of hits that you're talking about such as the drone strikes in pakistan. >> 9/11 gets you nervous? >> sure, of course. american defenses are going to be up. copycats will be out there. there's also concern that

al-qaida may wait until the anniversary is over, maybe a month or two afterward when they suspect defenses may come down before the attack. american counterterrorism officials and intelligence officials have their guards up. >> we should keep that in mind when budget cuts come down and say we can cut back on counterterrorism things while leaving yourself open. "new york times" is your full-time job. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> now 12 minutes before the top of the hour. solar panel business is booming thanks to the president's stimulus ban. business is so good, they're leaving america and taking their jobs to china. and want cheaper gas? you can have it. but you have to let big brother behind the wheel with you to track your every mile. can the government even do that? judge napolitano can't wait to talk about it. he's probably yelling about it in the hall.

>> welcome back, everyone. the new proposal aimed at lowering the cost of gas may come with an even bigger price. how about your loss of privacy? currently, get this, three states are considering a law that tracks the miles you drive by using an odometer, even a gps? drivers would then be charged a fee for every mile they rack up. the plan is to have this tax offset the gas tax but is it a fair tradeoff? judge andrew napolitano is a fox news senior judicial analyst and anchor of "freedom watch" on the fox business network and he's my guest. now the government is going to follow me around and you as well and figure out how many miles we

drive in our car and charge us for it? >> that's the proposal in these three states, gretchen, the government in those three states says this will allow us to lower the gasoline tax because we'll put a gps in your car, whether you want it or not and we'll actually send you a bill or get your credit card and just zap the credit card for the miles you drive. the gps, of course, will keep a record of everywhere you go and the government will have those records. question, do we want the government to have it? remember, the right to travel and the right to privacy are what lawyers call fundamental liberties. they're in the same category as freedom of speech and freedom of thought and freedom of religion. do we want to give up these freedoms for what? to make it easier for the government to tax us? it's not going to lower the tax cut. this is not going to improve the highways. this is going to intrude on our privacy and put more money in the government's coffers? >> the other way that i saw this working out is because more and more cars are being made that consume less gasoline, state governments would be

accruing less money from a gas tax because people are buying less gas, then. is that one of the reasons why they would try to get you with this? >> that's the stated purpose but everything the government does with respect to taxes has one purpose and that's to bring in more revenue. the government should be happy that people are using automobiles that burn fewer fossil fuels. that's the public policy of the country. to get us off of oil and get us into so-called green energy. now the government wants to make it more expensive to do that? so it's working at cross purposes. >> they're looking oopsy daisy, this is actually working. we have to figure out how to get more money. >> this is the camel's nose under the tent. if the government can persuade people that we should give up some of our personal freedoms to help them collect money from us, what will they persuade us to give up next? >> see, i was very interested in the fact this was being debated in texas because so much of the time we spend talking about texas not being a state like that.

>> i would be surprised if this comes to pass in the state like texas which has some very, very libertarian pro individual statutes and there's lots of things they do in other states that don't happen in texas. i would suggest that this is the proposal of some bureaucrats who are interested in an easy way to collect money from people that they think will be painless because it automatically will come off your credit card. in reality, this will begin the march or continue the march towards the government intruding on our privacy. stated differently, what business is it of the government where you drive and where you go? >> i'm with you on this one. judge, you can catch him sometimes on "the five" on the fox newschannel and also is the host of "freedom watch" is fox business network. thanks much. >> thank you. >> they have the same accent. they claim that rick perry is the second coming of george w. bush. we'll look at the facts of the top of the hour. from heavy metal to fine wine, now you can shake it all night long with a bottle of acdc?

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>> good morning, everyone. today is tuesday, august 16th. i'm gretchen carlson. i hope you're going to have a great day. president obama said he wanted to meet real americans and guess what? in iowa, they were ready to meet him, too. >> didn't realize that -- >> what we stand for -- >> balanced budget. what were you doing a balancing act? i didn't appreciate it. >> no, but -- >> straight ahead, the president's response. >> all right, democrats just revealed their plan to attack rick perry, the governor of

texas and they're resorting to an old favorite. call him the second coming of george w. bush? but what's the truth? and does it matter? >> and the solar panel business is booming thanks to the president's stimulus plan. in fact, business is so good they're leaving america and taking their jobs to china. "fox & friends" continues right now. >> yesterday in the three day bus tour where the president is going on a three day tour, go to the midwest, talk to people and then go to martha's vineyard. >> exactly. but did he expect to hear what he heard when he had this encounter with the guy who is in charge of the tea party in the state of iowa and another woman standing next to him. they were very upset about the possibility that vice president joe biden had called tea party

members terrorists or a member of congress had during the whole debt ceiling discussion. and they wanted to find out from the president. now, keep in mind, i don't know if he was in the room at the same time the discussion was happening. he was not. so they wanted to know whether or not joe biden actually did call them terrorists. listen to this confrontation. >> how is your vice president calling us terrorists? >> sir, look -- >> i would like to understand that. >> i will explain it, he did not call you guys terrorists. >> we were acting like terrorists. >> no, what he said was that for us to be taking the economy to the brink was irresponsible. and it was. now, the truth of the matter is, considering what is said about me consistently. >> the second person in your administration to call right wing people terrorists. >> no, that's -- that's -- no -- >> but that's -- the way it should be. >> realize it --

>> sir. >> by left wing. >> environmental -- >> balanced budget. that's reasonable. a balanced -- it is reasonable. i didn't appreciate that. >> no, no. but all -- all he was saying was -- >> stay strong! >> he wasn't objecting to the balanced budget amendment. he was objecting to the government defaulting. >> he can have a balanced budget. have that -- >> it doesn't sound like you're interested in listening. >> the president then said look, i'll have a conversation with y you. i'm not going to do when i'm shaking hands with other people. ed henry went off and had a private conversation. a number of people weren't terribly happy. you heard one of the women yell to the president stay strong and two people side by side said that was extraordinarily rude of ryan rhodes, the founder of the tea party in iowa to do that.

another woman said that was over the top aggressive. >> that's what dana perino had brought up. look, i used to be press secretary with the president. i don't care if you agree or not, i don't think you should be talking to the president like that. it shows a lack of decorum. i thought it was civil. i didn't hear any yelling besides the music in the background. i commend the president for going back and forth with it. he could say excuse me, let's get rid of him and walk away. or walk away. >> i agree with that. my concern is how this is going to be portrayed throughout the rest of the day and the week through the mainstream media. this will be another reason to do the lead story on the tea party and how they act out of control and look at how they attack the president and so that's concerning to me and also, because it's the independent voter that both parties are trying to get as we move towards the 2012 election and when independent voters see that, how will they feel about it? that's my concern. is that it will be -- it will be determined that this looks a little bit too far out there as

opposed to middle of the road. >> you're talking macro about it. >> i am. i'm talking about the idea when it comes down to the election and people take their viewpoint. >> let's go a little micro here on that specific question. on that specific question, it wasn't joe biden who said they were terrorists. it was the democratic congressman sitting next to him or near him during that debt ceiling debate. mike doyle and vice president biden said later, he did not stop him from calling them terrorists but he didn't expand on it. he didn't say a word about it. so it was not vice president biden's comments. >> just to finish up the conversation, we understand this happened off camera. here's a quote, president obama to the tea party member. in fairness since i've been called a socialist and wasn't born in this country, he's been called both things in the past who is destroying america and taking away freedoms because i passed a health care bill, i'm all for lowering the rhetoric. so he was for that but he had a very political speech also. any time the president goes to a town mall, no matter how controlled the atmosphere is, there's always a tea party

member or a velma hart that's going to stand up and speak and say things that are off script so the president handled it there and he knew when he was going on this bus tour it might be an issue. bringing up the bus tour, it seemed to me like a campaign stop. i had to keep reminding myself that this was not a campaign. the president hopped on a bus, paid for by secret service, huge cost because he needs the protection which is going to stay in the government. >> $1.3 million. >> and he is going on a three state tour. he says this is about being president. it's not about running for president. do you buy that? >> i think it's the bus that makes a lot of people think that this is a campaign stop in these three states instead of a jobs and talking to the people as president of the united states because think of all the bus tours that we've been talking to you about in the last couple of months from all the people who want to be president of the united states. it's called campaigning. >> does it pass -- >> that's why it's a little confusing here. >> in iowa. >> it's iowa at the same time the other candidates are coming

out. >> coincidence? >> does it pass the smell test? the places, of course, where he's going, iowa the epicenter of the presidential politics right now. illinois, minnesota, some -- and of course, some states that he won the last time around so these -- >> he needs minnesota and it's teetering. he needs iowa and it's teetering and he has a pretty good approval rating in his hometown of illinois. so that is not about campaigning. it's about being president. and jay carney was asked about that. and he essentially says this is just a -- this is a -- this is a stop on a tour. he said that -- suggests any time the president leaves washington it's a political trip and the president would never leave unless they're physically campaigning on their own behalf and he's not. >> there's a way to spin this however you want to spin it. let's face it, last week he went to michigan and you could argue that was a jobs tour because in michigan, unemployment is way above what the national average is. but in these places where he is going on this trip for the most part unemployment in these towns

lower than the national average. so when you really start looking into it, you know, is it really a jobs tour or is it campaigning for -- >> that's a great point. bottom line is he's the president and the presidents always have home field advantage, right, when you're running against an incumbent president, that's one of the advantages. >> that's true, it's the advantage but who is paying for the advantage? to me, the president has earned so much money with his fundraising, he's going to make a billion dollars this year. why doesn't he write the check and eliminate the controversy and go to martha's vineyard? >> because the p.r. perception of going out and campaigning right now hasn't been taken well by the american public. that's the other reason why. they don't -- they don't want to appear as if they're campaigning during this whole debt crisis. >> other thing would be don't. don't go. i mean, that would be another thing if you're worried about appearances. >> all right. let's do a couple of headlines and see what you think about this because we have a fox news exclusive. the house homeland security committee is investigating whether radical muslim cleric

was overlooked as a key player in the september 11th attacks. in a letter obtained by fox news, congressman peter king of new york tells attorney general eric holder investigators think it's more than coincidence the american born cleric had contact with three of the five hijackers who flew a plane into the pentagon on september 11th. it could be a volatile day on wall street yet again. global markets off to a shaky start this morning. european stocks pushing lower right now. london down .8% with frankfurt down 2%. paris down 1% in asia, japan closing up and hong kong closing down .2%. south korea up. dow futures pointing towards a drop at the opening bell right now. jobs of two senate democrats on the chopping block in wisconsin today, state senators are facing recall elections. remember, after they fleed the state after the budget negotiations earlier this year, last week, democrats tried

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show. >> it was in the after the show, show. >> bethany frankel, she has her own margarita mix. >> skinny girl. >> she sold it for billions. that was a good business move. let's talk about this. some of those jobs that we've been talking about recently going over to china, did that make you irate, now this may even get under your skin. the producers are telling me the name of the company which i can't hear while i'm talking. evergreen. ok. here's what might make you more angry about this whole thing is that stimulus money backed this company in massachusetts originally and now, 800 people are going to lose their jobs and that company is hightailing it over to china. >> yeah, 800 workers will be laid off as a result of this and because this partnership, this joint venture between the company and china, they say they can make these solar panels over there, they're more affordable and don't have to worry about the regulation, the state of massachusetts received about $43 e million in stimulus money. some of that money went to this company a few years ago and look, that's the bottom line here. we've seen a number of these stories and the number of

companies that have received stimulus money in this economy and it still wasn't enough to stave off unemployment. >> by the way, the world trade organization is looking into this because china, donald trump, are you listening now, donald trump may have violated the trade organization agreement by putting the artificially low prices to attract these companies. if you want to unearth what's wrong with our economy, i think you've got to look in detail at these relationships. where's the american loyalty there? >> that's right. nothing will happen when china does this. by the way, there's another state dinner with china coming up next week, i believe. >> fantastic. >> coming up on the show, high school football coach cut down in this his prime. shot and killed by one of his students. today, his widow and sons will come face to face with killer's parents here on "fox & friends." >> and democrats just revealed their plan to attack rick perry. call him a clone of george w. bush. sure, they have the same annicc. do they have the same politics?

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>> liberals already revealing their plan to attack the republican presidential candidate rick perry and they're resorting to an old favorite saying he's george w. bush all over again. but perry says don't let the accent fool you. >> you know, they're not all carbon copies in texas and, you know, i tell people, i said one of the quick ways you can tell the difference is, you know, he's a yale graduate and i'm a texas a&m graduate but the fact is it doesn't matter where you're from. the next president of the united states which state you're from doesn't matter. it matters what's in their hearts and what's in their mind and what's in my mind is what's in my heart is we'll get america working again. >> is it fair for democrats to paint perry and george w. bush

with the same brush because they have the same job? joining us now to discuss that is the democratic strategist and pollster and republican strategist dede benke is that an effective strategy? >> i don't think it is but the reality is there's important differences between these two fellas, the truth is he was a -- made himself. he was born poor and george bush's father was a multimillion dollar president. they have different backgrounds. on the other hand, george bush tried to reach out the to latino community, rick perry has alienated the latino community and rick perry is more extreme than george bush. george bush wanted to cut medicare and rick perry says those programs are completely unconstitutional so there's a lot of differences and a lot of other ways to go at rick perry. >> george bush wanted to give them the option of investing a portion of it into private accounts. is that a fair comparison? >> hey, you know, president

bush is looking pretty good about right now. obama has 39% approval rating, all time low and for the democrats to try for 2 1/2 years to blame everything on president bush isn't working. and actually, it would be very smart for a republican to embrace president bush. he's a gracious, well known, very good friend to the republican party and it's not just one bush. it's three bushes. you've got president bush 41, 43 and governor bush. get the bush network when you're trying to run away, any candidates that do that are going to lose. >> both camps aren't too tight. the former bush people who are still in the fray in many cases and the current perry people, there's a little tension between them and a lot of them back senator kay bailey hutchinson to be the next governor from texas. >> that's right. there's some conflict. it's hard for republicans to dis george bush and do it successfully. that's what governor perry just

did the other day trying to point out the differences. this campaign is not going to be about george bush. it's going to be about rick perry or michelle bachmann. >> i agee with mark on that. >> i hope so. i want to bring you into this. big story in "the new york times" today, governor perry, yeah, his stats look good and the state looks strong but he's lucky. lucky military spending and lucky to have a big tech sector and lucky to have oil. is that right? >> texas, you know, is a great state. successful under president bush and successful under governor perry and, you know, he's smart to say that texas is great, it is. however, you know, to say that texas, you know, like me because i'm a texan and like me because i'm the biggest and best state. i think he needs to be a little more broader in america. i want to get back to the fact that, you know, talking about texas and talking about president bush, you know, being proud of texas, being proud of president bush is part of that as well. any republican candidates to be friends with the bush network. >> gets a lot of applause at

ranger games. great debate. thanks. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. all right, we showed you the iowa town hall that got heated when a tea partyier questioned the president. what happened at the town hall in minnesota? a woman who voted for president obama in 2008 was there and she'll be here next. is she ready to vote for him again? does this firefighter look disabled to you? he can get a disability check while performing in body building competitions. should we blame the courts or the whole system? and look at those biceps, mind you.

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>> 23 minutes after the top of the hour. let's do a little math right now. news by the numbers. first, the number six. that's how many days this mentally ill man has been living on this 300 foot tower. he isn't demanding a thing. police hoping to lure him down with promises of food. next, $150 million. chicago mayor rahm emanuel wants to raise school property taxes by that amount despite having a huge education surplus. that surplus almost $900 million. finally, $1.1 million. that's how much president obama's new bus ride costs. he's using it on his u.s. tour. it was brought by the secret service and has tinted windows all around. they claim it's going to be used for other dignitaries in the future. clayton? >> president obama traveling to the midwest on that bus on a three state swing. he made his first stop yesterday in cannon falls, minnesota where he blamed partisan politics for the country's economic woes. listen. >> there is nothing wrong with america that can't be fixed. what's broken is our politics.

>> how did the president's message fare with the good people of minnesota who were at that event? joining us for a fair and balanced discussion on this, done shrier is a nurse practitioner and president obama supporter. she attended yesterday's town hall and diane, a small business owner and tea party member who attended a counter rally but overheard and was discussing what the president said there. nice to see you both this morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> dawn, let me start with you, you were quoted in the newspaper piece out of minnesota this week prior to the president's arrival saying that you wanted to hear what he would talk about facing rural issues and you wanted to hear if the president hit the right notes. did the president resonate with you this time and do you think you'll vote for him again? >> yes, i think he had some important things to say about improving what he's doing to help with education and to create jobs and his most important message that he sent yesterday was that for us, the people to send a clear message

to washington to stop the game playing and start to put the country first. and i think that was probably the most important thing that he said. and yes, i do plan to vote sfor him in the next election. >> diane, you were at a counter rally and one of the criticisms of the president right now is that we don't hear any nuts and bolts and don't see anything being put on the table and in fact, one of the republicans in minnesota criticized the president at a different rally saying all we hear is talk. is what the president said yesterday resonating with you this morning? >> well, it is, and i agree with his statement that it's broken. but i think he has failed to catch the message that we sent some people to washington in the last election because it was broken and we sent them there to fix it. i believe he has yet to live in the real world with us. >> what do you mean by that? in the real world? >> well, i used to be in health

care, too, and teach and there's a lot of good things that can come out of a world in washington, in academics but on the streets of a town such as cannon falls, we have made hard, hard cuts in our town. we've sacrificed and we're all working hard and i think he fails to understand that we are trying to tell him, we expect the same from him. >> dawn, what about that point? the president has had three years to get things going here and we talked about that solar panel company in massachusetts that receives stimulus money and is closing its doors and heading to china. three years, criticism is he's had mreplenty of time to get it done. >> criticism is he's been blocked up every step of the way by people that don't want to see him succeed. >> we appreciate you joining us this morning and sharing your thoughts because it's people like you that matter. it's the voters who are out there at these town hall meetings and at these events who are listening to the president and republicans as they campaign. thank you so much for joining us

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>> brian asks why does clayton get to read this next story? because i'm a comic book nerd. >> he said that to me today. >> time for your shot in the morning. chaos in cleveland although it looks like new york city. take a look. don't worry, cleveland, not under attack. city was transformed -- the city was transformed into a movie set for the brand new avengeers flick set to be released next year. it's supposed to look like 42nd street in new york city. you can see the finished product when the movie comes out next summer, of course, they have the thor movie in the can. captain america and now they all team up in the avengeers movie. >> i'm optimistic, we're going to watch that and it's going to be fun.

i'm optimistic that this super committee is actually going to get something done. >> like the avengeers? >> i know newt gingrich is not up for it and a lot of people on both sides have panned it but i think they're going to get something done but i know there's a lot of influence that is going to be pushing for their influence on this panel. >> remember when they first announced that the super committee had to make all the decisions before september 23rd to cut $1.5 trillion or the trigger effects go into effect, automatic cuts to medicare or the pentagon so it's a very important job and many times, we were talking before we knew who was on the committee, maybe they should put people on there who are not going to be running for office in the coming year. maybe they would make the best decisions or what about the people who receive a lot of money from lobbyists and other types of groups? now, it turns out that everyone on this committee, maybe every politician does, is getting a whole lot of dough from professional interest groups. will that create a problem? >> $65 million. once they got announced, money just started flowing in like

crazy. and now they want transparency on all of this to find out where this money is coming from because they know the people who are on the super committee will be making huge decisions so look at that. >> john kerry, $15 million but it's republicans and democrats. to newt gingrich's point earlier this week, they say they're playing politics but we tried it with individuals. the deficit commission, and everyone ignored that commission. >> i know! that doesn't mean it wasn't good. >> no, it was good. >> that means people chose to ignore it including the president. >> i guess the answer is you got to get money flowing in for people to pay attention to it. >> unfortunately, we want people to make right decisions but maybe the person who gives the most money will have the most influence. that's the fear. only one on that panel that isn't running again is max baukus. >> and the gang of six were not all running again and that's why people thought they would make the tough decisions because they don't owe something to anybody else anymore. let's do a couple of headlines.

>> let's do that. get to the headlines now. people looking for five people of a terrifying home invasion. they held the family at gunpoint for five hours while they raided the house for cash and jewelry. family was not hurt in the end but an eerie reminder of another home invasion in connecticut four years ago where a mom was strangled and her daughters were killed when the house was set on fire. >> 13 public schools in philadelphia being investigated for possible cheating on standardized test results. the schools had huge jumps in test scores and a large number of tests had erase marks. earlier this summer, 178 educators in atlanta accusing of 38 principals were accused of fixing test scores there. a day of summer fun taking a dangerous turn at a water park in california. a raging waters park had to be evacuated after a chlorine leak was making people sick. nine people were taken to the hospital complaining of breathing problems and burning

eyes and throats. a glitch in the chemical release system is to blame. people in boston are calling it a dumbbell decision. a former fire inspector who flexed his muscles in a body building contest after going on disability leave claiming he had a bad back was found not guilty of fraud. he testified he didn't realize he was filing for a $65,000 per year pension. prosecutors call that a weak excuse but the jury acquitted him. well, now, a very difficult story that we want to bring to your attention. ed thomas was a man of faith, a community leader and a beloved iowa high school football coach for more than 35 years. but in june 2009, everything ed was was taken away from him when he was shot and killed by one of his former players, mark becker. becker who had not played for thomas in several years shot the beloved coach in front of 20 witnesses and just hours after being released from the psychiatric ward, thomas' death resonated with the nation not only for the impact he had on the football field but for the

type of man he was off the field. well, now, ed's family is sharing his story in a brand new book called "sacred acre." and we welcome jan thomas and their two sons, aaron and todd. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> so courageous for you to be here and to talk about your wonderful husband and your father and we're so sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> i know that the pain is still with you on a daily basis. >> yes. >> but you have put together this book now to remember your husband and father, the sacred acre. i'd love for you to get the opportunity to tell us about ed. >> ed was just a black and white kind of guy, he had a real zeal and a passion for what he did. he loved working with young people, football was his second love. of course, his faith was his first love and apparently, his impact was much more widespread than we ever imagined while he was living but it was after he died that we really realized how many people he touched. >> uh-huh. he was nfl high school coach of

the year in 2006 and he had two state titles. i know that the two of your sons were following in his footsteps, correct? >> yeah. you know, i went -- i knew at third grade i wanted to go into education. i didn't know why. i saw the impact that my dad made. you didn't understand what the impact was but you saw the respect and i accepted the job after my dad was killed, aplington-parkersburg offered me his position. i was doing that and coaching basketball at a district about an hour away so, yeah, you know, always, i guess one to do what dad did and follow in his footsteps. >> todd, one of the amazing things that people may not know is that -- and it's the reason for the title of the book, "the sacred acre" there was a devastating tornado that came through your community in iowa in may of 2008 and your father became an inspirational figure as far as -- there he is right there, helping in the cleanup. but inspirational figure in bringing people back together and playing football again, right?

>> right. you know, his biggest vision he had after the tornado was in 100 days, he wanted that first home game to actually be back on the field and, you know, he made a statement and said that we will play our first game on our home field. so that just kind of was a rally cry for the community to get back to some sort of sense of normalcy. so, you know, he had a vision for it and, you know, him and the town, the players, they were able to accomplish what they said they would. >> isn't it amazing how one coach can have such an impact on the community feeling like they're all pulled together. and the same thing must have happened when he was killed. tell me about that day. >> very much so. the outpouring and the -- just the overwhelming people that came and offered support to both of our families, ours and the beckers that day, i don't know if we could have survived the whole ordeal without that. but there were thousands of people that came and paid their

respects, offered words of comfort, helped us in any way they could and yeah, it was so -- >> on that day, 13 months after the tornado and after your first vacation to hawaii with your husband in 25 years. >> yeah. >> you have those wonderful memories to hold on to. and you come home and he comes into the weight training room. >> correct. >> and the former student and former football player, mark becker shoots him. >> yes. >> why? >> i think that's a mystery we'll never understand. i really don't know the answer to that. i have no idea. but i guess we just have to leave that in god's hands and try to move on and carry on what ed stood for and so that's what we're trying to do and that's what we're trying to rally our community to do as well. because in that, ed will live on. >> so why put this book together about your husband? >> well, we realized after he died even probably more than we were living in the moment what an impact he did have on so many

people. and when you start to reflect on why that is, it's in the way ed lived and how he did things and so, therefore, it's a lesson in the book, i think, as the power of one person and how they can impact so many people just by doing what's right, standing behind your principles, having a passion, having time for people. >> and also, a big part of this story is the lesson of forgiveness. >> yes. >> and coming up, mark becker's parents are here in the studio with us. when we come back, they're going to come in and join this family. and if you need help finding work, don't change the channel right now. we're going to run down the top five companies as we do every week for you. these are going to be the top five companies hiring this week. [ male announcer ] get ready for the left lane.

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bomb in australia arrested in kentucky. paul douglas peters is accused of breaking into a sydney home and strapping a fake bomb around the neck of an 18-year-old and the mayor of kansas city, by the way, missouri, looking to implement a 9:00 p.m. curfew for teens. a similar curfew went into effect in philadelphia. both cities trying to stop a recent string of attacks like this when a teen mom punched, and robbed a group of innocent people. >> before the break, we were telling you the story of ed thomas, the iowa football coach who was gunned down by one of his former players, mark becker in 2009. becker is serving a life sentence. he was struggling with mental health issues and was released from a psychiatric ward hours before he killed coach thomas. joining me now are mark's parents, joan and dave along with this thomas family, jan, aaron and todd. so good of you to all be together here on the couch with me. and to the beckers, i want to

also say how brave it is for you to be here and to talk about what your son did. i just can't imagine being in this small community. you have known the thomas family for more than 30 years. right, dave? >> that's correct, yeah. >> and so you were as stunned as anyone that your son would do this. right? >> we were absolutely shocked. we never felt that this gentle, young man could ever do something like that. that was never in the realm. even though we had dealt with a lot of difficult situations with his mental illness. never anticipated this action to be taken. >> he was diagnosed and has been as a paranoid schizophrenic but he has been -- now he's going to serve a life sentence, the insanity defense did not play out in the courts, correct? >> correct. >> ok. >> the big question that everyone wants to know is why? why did he kill ed thomas? >> that is a question that will never be answered.

when you are dealing with an illness such as this, there are no answers for what that does to their brain and we have no idea. we've visited with our son. he had no idea until he was preparing for the trial what the details were. he had completely blocked that out. and he realizing now how ridiculous and he said, i don't know how i could ever think the way i thought that day. he doesn't know why. he really does not know why. >> jan, does that do anything for you in losing your husband, the fact that you don't know why? does that matter to you? >> well, it doesn't bring him back anyway. and it's just one of those things you have to let go. there are certain things that we will never understand and that's one of those things. so you just have to let that go. >> as far as your relationship with the beckers, i mean,

they've lived in this small town with you. you go to the same church. what was the reaction between the two sets of parents here or the one remaining parent? >> i know i can speak from a child's standpoint, my mom definitely kind of set the tone for us. todd, unfortunately, was in jamaica when all of this unfolded with my dad being the nfl coach of the year, whatever and just going through the tornado and for this to happen, mom and i were there and the national news was instantly there so we had to have a press conference and mom and i discussed what we wanted said. and we were able to watch my dad for 13 months deal with a very -- a lot of adversity with the tornado which killed eight people in our community and things like that and so to try to give a statement that he would have gave, you know, obviously dave and joan, we felt for them as i've known dave and his respect and joan's respect for my dad all along, know the last thing they would want is go for something like that. when we asked for prayers for the becker, that's when my dad

would have expected of us. if his own family couldn't follow his lead, why would somebody else in the community do that? >> to the beckers, what did that mean to you to have the thomases' forgiveness? >> to me, it was a huge relief. you are just so numb and didn't know exactly how the community would respond to something like this as who would, you know? and then to watch aaron so bravely stand up there along with his mom and say, yeah, please pray for the becker family also. they're hurting. >> and when i heard aaron speak, i just immediately thought this is exactly the way his dad would have wanted this family to respond. and it gave us such a comfort, it allowed us to have a sense of peace and we just knew that, you know, god just gave us all just a calmness and a peace to just take a day at a time. >> well, it's a testament to the way in which ed thomas lived his life and jan, to you, the way in

which you raised your two sons who are now following in his footsteps. if you're interested in the book, it's the sacred acre about the christian values and the life that ed thomas led in his small town in iowa. to all of you, thank you so much for your bravery today and for sharing your story. >> thank you. >> next on the rundown, the top five companies that want to hire you right now. we do that for you every week. get out your pen and pencil and your paper. we'll tell you those companies. first in this day in history, in 1985, the number one song was "shout" by tears for fears. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com.

>> welcome back. with unemployment still above 9% are you feeling low about looking for work? each and every week, "fox & friends" is giving you an inside look of five companies that are requiring right now. >> cheryl joins us from the fox business network with the scoop. were you able to come up with five? >> usually i can come up with 10. lowes is number one today. >> what are they looking for? >> they're looking for sales associates, looking for managers and people that can work in the back room. they have 20,000, probably 69 categories. number two biggest home improvement retailer throughout the world. and they're currently ranked 49th on the forbes 500 so the company is strong. salary range $55,000 to $87,000. so it depends on what the job is. >> that's an important number there that $55,000 to $87,000 on your screen, doing the salary ranges for each. next on your list. hewlett-packard. >> big blue. big blue. remember, this is the silicon valley company but they are all over the world. they operate in 170 countries.

300,000 people worldwide including, you know this, they are going after apple. they've come up with a new tablet and just discounted it. they want to bill themselves as the one to compete with apple and they're trying to do that right now. >> they want consultants and rough salary range between $45,000 and $125,000. >> depends on your level of experience. if you have i.t. skills, hewlett-packard is the place to be. they encourage you to try different jobs. the culture is you're here to learn. learn the company and learn the business. >> at&t, number three on your list. they're hiring and the salary range is pretty decent as well. >> it is. look, at&t is about to be the number one wireless carrier in the united states. they're acquiring t-mobile u.s.a., $39 billion deal by the way, folks. the fourth largest company by market count. they're everywhere. and most of the positions right now, texas, new york and california. again, they're really trying to build out their coverage. not just land lines but the iphone was one of the big boosts

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>> gretchen: top of the morning to you. it's tuesday, august 16. i'm gretchen carlson. i hope you're having a great day. president obama said he wanted to meet the real americans on his bus tour and guess what? he did. >> he didn't realize that 90% --

>> where were you? >> gretchen: the president responded? we will show you straight ahead. >> clayton: new details in a stage collapse. turns out they may not be able to call it an accident after all. how the stage was never inspected. >> brian: it's the shot of a lifetime worth $50,000. that kid scored the goal, but he may not score the prize just because he kind of lied. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> this is snooki from "jersey shore." you're watching "fox & friends." >> there is a lot of controversy about this hockey kid. you keep weighing in on it. >> gretchen: brian is a little steamed about it. anyway, we'll bring you that story in just a minute. now we have to bring your headlines. breaking political news, florida congressman allen west road the

tea party wave into washington and last night he said he's not closing the door on a possible run for u.s. senate now. west confirms he's talked to people about running for senate, but still intent intends to run for a second term in the house. he responded to a muslim group in florida that asked him to cut ties with people he consider anti-islamic. he sent them a one word reply. nuts. new details about the deadly stage collapse at the indiana state fair. both state and fair officials add mutt the stage was never inspected and say temporary structures just aren't subject to the same kind of safety laws that buildings and homes are subject to. but i bet that will be a cause for more study and investigation. the jobs of two state senate democrats on the chopping block in wisconsin today. the two are facing recall elections after fleeing the state. remember that, during those

budget negatives? last week democrats tried to recall six republican senators. that effort failed because four of those republicans retained their seats. it also insured that republicans will keep their majority regardless of what happens today. for millions of elvis fans around the world, august 16, 1977 is the day the music died. ♪ well i can't stop loving you ♪ ♪ i said i made up, made up my mind ♪ >> gretchen: 34 years ago today, the king of rock'n'roll passed away in his tennessee mansion known has graceland. thousands of fans flocked there for a candlelight vigil. thousands more headed there today. elvis is still one of the top selling acts in music. last year his estate made just $60 million. those are your headlines. >> brian: all right. the president of the united states, we were telling you about the three-state bus tour he was on. there would be follow-up by his

vacation in martha's vineyard. he said i'm not going to take air force one. i'm going to go through the bus 'cause i'm going through the midwest. i just want to meet the people and get out of wash washington and it went well. >> clayton: the end of a town hall meeting, what you're about to see took place after the meeting when the founder of the iowa tea party there, ryan rhodes, approached him and had a pretty specific question about something vice president biden was alleged to have said about the tea party. take a listen. >> how was your vice president calling us terrorists? i don't understand that. >> i will explain right now. he did not call you guys terrorists. what he said was that

>> clayton: to be fair and to be accurate here, the vice president never actually did say that. it was another democratic congressman who was sitting next to him at the debt ceiling debate. but nevertheless, he was fired

up and the president's response was that, hey, he's got a lot of rhetoric thrown at him and he said, quote, now in fairness, since i've been called a socialist who wasn't born in this country, who is destroying america and taking away its freedoms because i passed a healthcare bill, i'm all for lowering the rhetoric. >> gretchen: so a lot of debate about whether or not it's appropriate to approach the sitting president of the united states in that way, or is this what being an american citizen is all about, that you can approach the president and tell him what you feel, what's on your mind. >> brian: lincoln used to sit by his front door and people would talk to him about what was going on then. those days have passed. >> gretchen: that was the 1800s. >> brian: those were the good old days. before cable. >> gretchen: we better be in favor of cable. okay. former spokesperson for president george w. bush, dana perino, this is the way she analyzed that event right there.

>> i'm uncomfortable with this because i think -- well, obviously there is frustration. the guy has a lot of passion and it's all built up. we have crossed a line that i'm uncomfortable with. i think had i been in the line, swallowed the anger, nice to meet you, mr. president, moving on. that said, i think that president obama and his team also were the first ones to make things so political from the very beginning, even after they won, they made everything about partisanship. and this is the price you pay. >> gretchen: dana perino is saying that members of the tea party or anyone else should not say what's on their mind. i think what she's saying is that in that particular moment in time that maybe there should be respect for the office of the presidency. i think that's what she's saying about that. not that people shouldn't speak up. >> clayton: henry reporting on this story said two women spoke to fox news and said they

thought it was extraordinarily rude of this gentleman to talk that way. another woman told ed henry that this was over the top aggressive. talking to the president. >> brian: it seemed like an honest give and the take and the president went back shows he wasn't taken aback. >> clayton: yeah, 'cause he said i'll talk to you later. let us know what you think. was he out of line? >> gretchen: also at the same time, what most people want to know is whether or not the president will have is a plan for getting people back to work. so during these town halls yesterday, he did reveal that he is going to release his plan to congress in september and then if congress doesn't like it, he'll campaign against them. so a lot of people were saying, why did he need to wait until september to release your plan? people have been asking for this plan for quite some time. >> brian: i have an idea. present your plan and then work with people to put a plan together as opposed to pass it

or i'll talk about you behind your back. >> clayton: karl rove weighed on it. this morning, the "washington post" said now is the time to get jobs. rove disagrees. >> you think the president would have a plan available now. he's only had how long to get a plan together after the failure of the stimulus bill? but we'll see what happens with this proposal, but i think the president is in deep, deep doodoo. >> gretchen: according to steven varney, he believes the plan will be things we've already heard, like continuing to not have the payroll tax for americans, continuing unemployment benefits, talks about patents and that sort of thing, things that we've heard before. so maybe members of congress won't be so much in favor of that because we've heard this all before. i think people in congress and maybe the american public looking for new ideas. >> brian: he has pressure on himself to produce something that's significant. hopefully for the country it will be good news.

i was taken aback when we heard debbie weighserman -- wasserman schultz say this is a recession the president inherited. i thought maybe that's her ad libbing. turns out robert gibbs on "good morning america" continues to build on that narrative. listen. >> there are things, quite frankly, matt, that the president talked about on a number of occasions that we just can't seem to get the republican house of representatives to deal with. at some point you get to ask yourself, are they not dealing with these things because quite frankly, they just don't want to see this economy get better because they want to see an election that might turn out better for them? i think what the american people want is for people to put aside their party labels and instead, work together for the united states. >> clayton: we'll see what's resonating now on the campaign trail because now after the big ames, iowa straw poll, now we seem to have a republican field that's starting to take shape.

>> brian: i can't believe that if you don't agree with the proposal that the president puts forward, and it's great to talk about it now because he hasn't put it forward, if you don't agree it, then you're fighting against the country. maybe they don't agree that his principles and economic teams' track record is strong enough for them to back. >> gretchen: keep in mind that debbie wasserman schultz said that the democrats owned the economy now, that this president owned this economy. >> brian: no one recorded that. >> gretchen: i think we played it before. let's talk about governor rick perry of texas because he's been criticized now, one day on the campaign trail as presidential candidate, he's been criticized for comments he made about the fed reserve chair, ben bernanke. he used the word, treasonous in his comments and he also said what might happen to bernanke if he came down to texas. listen to this. >> if this guy prints more money between now and the election, i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa, but we would

treat him pretty ugly in texas. printing more money to play politics at this particular time in america's history is almost treasonous, in my opinion. >> clayton: of course, he's being criticized for those remarks. republicans coming out against some of those remarks. former white house spokesman, tony fratto saying the comments are inappropriate and unpresidential. you know what happens when you commit treason. it's punishable by death. >> brian: he's trying to say in texas, they're very direct and they wouldn't do that. and we wouldn't have that. we would debate it and it would be done. bill clinton was speaking yesterday, at the international association of firefighters in new york city, at which time he decides to talk about big news over the weekend that governor perry is in the race. and governor perry now in the race with something significant because as clinton told us off camera, you find him to be very

attractive man. >> clayton: a good looking rascal. >> brian: that's an interesting word. >> gretchen: that's so interesting you come up with the word because that's exactly what president clinton said. >> clayton: same wave length this morning. >> what i think about governor perry running for president? he's a good looking rascal. he said i'm going to washington to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible. well, go to camp david and travel around the world and have a good time. i mean, that's just crazy. >> gretchen: first of all, we don't know if governor perry would even want to fly on air force one. i think -- maybe he would ride his horrid. >> brian: 13 minutes after the hour. next, who needs a super committee of 12? our next guest says he could fix the economy in four steps. >> clayton: a good reason to

stop being so nice to your boss. >> if you could go ahead and get it as far back against that wall as possible, that would be great. >> no, no. >> that way we'll have room. >> clayton: i was told that it turns out nice guys really do finish last. nice guys really do finish last. we'll tell you why. we will. i was told i could listen to my stereo we used to bet who could get closest to the edge.

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>> brian: debt ceiling deal created a 12 super committee charged with savings over a decade. but how and will they ever be able to agree? there they are. the director of entitlement and budget policy of the institute for policy innovation and the author of this book "america's ticking bankruptcy bomb" has four simple steps to fix the budget and peter, you're kind enough to share it with us. the first thing is go back to the deficit commission and what they came up with the tax

system. >> corporate and individual tax reform. close loopholes and reduce the rates, get the economy booming again. proposes both by simpson bowles and ryan budget, ryan plan has a corporate tax rate reduced. individual income tax lowered. between closing the loophole, economic dividend from the reforms, there is more than enough money to achieve the goals of the super committee commission and adopt that essential reform and get the economy booming. >> brian: you say go back to 1996 for your second priority and it's go back to the welfare reform put in place in washington. >> enormous successful reform with that. the old afdc season, we sent it back to the states with a fixed grant saying they're allowed to spend a certain amount and no more. if the state spends more, they have to pay for it. the state spends less, they keep the savings. they got two-thirds of the people off that welfare program.

those families earned higher incomes as a result. the taxpayers saved 50%. the book discusses another 184 federal means tested welfare programs, including medicaid, food stamps, federal housing programs, these same reforms could apply to all of those, slated to cost $10 trillion over the next ten years. >> brian: this is a template for the success. the third one is replace obamacare. but with what? >> repealing it with a health care safety net focused on the truly needy who can't afford health insurance. give them assistance to help them buy the private insurance they need. that would cost a tiny fraction of the cost of obamacare. >> brian: personal accounts for social security. that did not go over big. >> well, the big explains why george bush did not do well with that, but that's the one social security reform that has always scored well in the polls. big majorities supporting it in the past, because with those savings investment insurance accounts, seniors would earn higher benefits in the future rather than less. >> brian: you're hired.

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>> brian: they've taken italy and the city of florence. by storm for their fourth season now. tv viewers can't seem to get enough of the cast of "jersey

shore." just watch. >> hold on a second. hold on a second. what is this? >> i'm tired. >> is this the vatican? >> yeah, i think so. >> nice. >> gretchen: oh, my goodness. we're joined by vinny. >> clayton: welcome. >> thank you. >> brian: we know you thrive in jersey. how did you do in italy? >> we were able to function. i'm from an italian background, so i used some of my skills that i already had and took it to italy. >> clayton: did you feel like a fish out of water, 'cause in the clip it looks like you don't know what you were doing? >> we did, but that was the fun of it. >> gretchen: you were the only one who spoke any italian. >> my mother was born in sicily. >> gretchen: she was? all right. so you spoke it at home? >> yeah. i speak it at home a little bit. it's a dialect.

it's different. >> brian: i didn't go clubbing when i went, sadly. you lived in the clubs. what's the big difference between american clubs and italian clubs? italy, a lot of the american girls come from america that go to italy and let a lot looser 'cause they're far away from home. >> brian: so finding an american lady loose in italy. >> clayton: would you try find american girls ority at that timian girls who have their guards up? >> a little both. >> gretchen: "jersey shore" pretty much let's it loose back here. so are you telling us for this season, you're letting it loose more in italy? >> we are. it's kind of crazy in italy. you'll see. >> gretchen: all right. >> clayton: i'm sorry. are you surprised by the success of the show? the other night your show got 8.8 million viewers, it broke all kinds of records. >> it is amazing. i'm doing things i never thought i would do before. i have a partnership with philips norelco now to work on some styling and grooming tips. it's amazing how many

opportunities it leads to. i have a new opportunity every day. >> brian: the other thing that i kept reading about, because i was researching italy enroute to my trip, is that you were not embraced by the italian people. is that true? >> they embraced us. everywhere you go, you get some haters that don't like you, but that's the same thing here. >> clayton: what day think it is about the "jersey shore" that has a lot of americans so compelled about it? >> i think that we weren't looking for fame. they just kind of found us and then we were thrown into it and i think america recognizes the organic side of that and they like that. we're real people. we always -- we didn't have time to change by fame. >> gretchen: now, i know that we've been talking about how brian went to italy and you were there filming the show. so he just got back. we wanted to play a little game to see which of you actually paid more attention when you were on your trip. >> i can handle it. >> gretchen: we're going to show a picture. how are we going to work this? >> brian: i'm at an advantage

'cause i took the picture. but i'm more rome, you're more florence. let's look at this picture and see if it looks familiar to you. >> clayton: can you name that picture? you've got 12 seconds. >> trevy top. >> brian: is that correct? yes! one more. let's take a look. start the clock. >> spanish steps. >> brian: judges, is that correct? yes. >> clayton: you're the judge! >> i went to college. a lot of people don't know that. >> clayton: these grooming tips, you don't want to look like -- >> brian: you're pro-grooming? >> i get a hair cut every five days. i have to give myself a shapeup every day. >> clayton: that's a secret so you don't get a fade. >> now i'm sport ago mohawk. it's not like two lines.

>> brian: does the quality of the hair style affect the amount of women you can pick up? >> 100%. >> brian: you've done the math? >> it's my outfit. i can't go out without a fresh hair cut. i'll stay home. >> brian: this is amazing! >> clayton: i wish we could set up our floor crew. >> gretchen: i like how all of you have found your special feature. your hair, the situation's abs. right? >> yeah. paulie's big blowout and snooki's poof. >> clayton: unbelievable. congratulations on -- >> brian: you shot another season, so you're coming back again. >> it's already embargoed, ready, signed, sealed and delivered. >> clayton: congratulations. >> brian: we'll watch it at 10 can eastern, 9:00 o'clock central on mtv. >> clayton: brian will be watching. >> clayton: coming up, don't want to do your chores? call the cops. that's exactly what one kid did. we'll share that with you. >> clayton: the fight among the front runners, rick perry, mitt

romney, putting each other through the wringer on creating jobs yesterday. they report, you decide. >> brian: he made $50,000 on one shot. but this kid may have to surrender the money because his dad's too honest. >> clayton: we'll show you the hockey shot that almost won 50 grand coming up. first, more hair.

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>> brian: time for your shot of the morning. take a look at this incredible shot made by 12-year-old nate smith of minnesota. he won $50,000 for making it. but he may not see a dime. his dad confessed that he used the wrong kid. they're twins who shot the puck. his twin brother had won the ravel to shoot, but they let nate take the shot because the son who won was around the outside of the building. so they pulled the switch. the insurance company is deciding whether or not to award him the cash. we asked you to weigh in. >> gretchen: all right. so rob in massachusetts writes this: the kid made the shot. the company should put 25 k in each in escrow for them to be used for college tuition. >> clayton: a little complicated. and john writes that the boy received from his father was far more valuable -- what the boy received was far more valuable than the $50,000 and will last

much longer. the moral lesson of calling and admitting that they did the old switch. >> gretchen: i mean, from personal experience, one time i won bingo on a family trip when i was a kid about that age, i won 20 bucks. may dad made me buy ice cream for everybody. i hated it at the time, but i remember it. >> clayton: you still hate it. >> brian: you're pro-ice cream. >> gretchen: no, i remember it. there is something to be said for honesty and good old-fashioned american values. >> brian: i would not know. >> clayton: on the campaign trail -- >> brian: between mitt romney and rick perry? >> clayton: a little firey right now, if you're dual -- at dueling events where they were both speaking at a different place and reporters were showing up saying, hey, did you hear what mitt said about you and rick was saying -- they were firing back and forth about who has more economic experience to create jobs. romney says he does. rick perry says my record speaks for itself. you listen and you decide. take a listen. >> i think understanding how the

economy works by having worked in the real economy is finally essential in the white house and i respect the other people in this race, but i think the only other person that has that extensive private sector experience besides me is herman cain. >> look at the record of massachusetts while he was the governor there and look at the record of texas while i've been the governor there. we created more jobs than any other state in the nation. i mean, it's easy to get up and talk accolades and i'm going to do this or that. but we've done it in the state of texas. >> brian: compared the record of mitt romney of massachusetts to rick perry's texas. and he said, you lost jobs there, and then he also went on to say, well, mitt romney says, i'm in the real economy. rick perry comes back and says, i think texas is the real economy. >> gretchen: two points i get from this. the next debate will be romney versus perry going at it just like that for those differences. and it appears that the perry

strategy, at least up until the first day that he's been a candidate, is to ignore michelle bachman, to go right after mitt romney and ignore michelle bachman because i'm not sure why, but that appears to be the strategy. >> clayton: and to go right after president obama. that was what his game plan was even during his presidential announcement was not to pay any lip service to the other candidates. but you bring up a great point is because of those social conservatives. where will that's tea party votes go? between michelle bachman and rick perry. he hasn't paying lip service to her. does he assume he'll get them? >> gretchen: that remains to be seen. maybe some of those candidates are rude from time to time. maybe not with people they want to vote for them. but does being rude pay off in society at your job? turns out that the folks at notre dame did a study and they figured out that people who are rude end up making more cash. >> clayton: this isn't some fly by night study. they looked for 20 years, they looked at 10,000 different workers and studied these folks

for 20 years. they found that men make on average 18% more money, equates to 9 grand annually, if they're rude or they're not agreeable. women it also works for, they make another 1800 a year if they're rude. >> gretchen: i guess women have to be extra rude to get up to the men dollars. >> brian: i would love to see that -- is that ever portrayed in the movies where we could look at that, illustrate further what we discussed? >> clayton: if only there was a movie like "devil wears prada". >> i wasn't preinterviewing her. she's hopeless. >> clearly, i'm gog have to do that myself because the last two you sent were completely inadequate. that's all. >> last month you made me worked so work, i missed saying good-bye to my gamgam. >> i'm sorry. what? >> my grandmother, i told you i need to do see her 'cause she was very, very sick and you told me if i left early, she'd get

fired and she died before i got there. >> i'm sorry. >> thank you. >> i had no idea that you called your grandmother gamgam. >> gretchen: mike in south carolina said this, rude bosses are also unlikely to make friends with everyone in office. try to lay off, fire or discipline your good friends. >> brian: don't get too close, he'll be mean. in south carolina, companies want mean bosses because they are more concerned about meeting deadlines and not concerned about the employees. >> gretchen: i think this study was about employees. not necessarily bosses. it was about employees who -- what it said was employees who are less agreeable, ie rude, get more money because they ask for more. >> clayton: it comes down to salary discussions and it seems those are less willing to duke it out during salary discussions if they're going to ask for a raise after being at a place or n. let us know what you think about this. you can find us on twitter.

>> brian: let me tell you what else is happening in the world. the offices of alaska's three congressional delegates have been evacuated after receiving three suspicious packages with white powder. they were sent to congressman. the powder turned out to be a concrete mixture, all okay. >> gretchen: the family of robin gardner praising judge's decision to keep gary giordano behind bars. he reported her missing in aruba two weeks ago, hid his face under a towel while leaving court. she has not been seen since. by the way, he's now staying in the prison where joran van der sloot was held during the natalie localway investigation. >> clayton: looking into a plan to scrap military pensions, saying they're unaffordable, instead of being able to retire after 20 years at half their salary, service members who wait until normal retirement age and would get a 401(k)-style plan with government contributions to that plan. the plan would save $250 billion

over the next 20 years. >> gretchen: when it comes to doing chore, the kid from germany is a homer simpson in the making. an 11-year-old boy was tired of doing chores, he called the cops on his mom. he says helping his mother clean the house is, quote, forced labor, and leaves him with no free time. the police had no sympathy and his mom was not charged. >> clayton: no sympathy for that. >> brian: 21 minutes 'til we have to call it quits. here is what's straight ahead, a great reason to skip your diet today. doctors say fat is the new skinny. >> clayton: good news for me. the president hitting the road in iowa today. peter johnson, jr. says he'd be better off having a sleepover instead. he's here to explain that.

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and stay in washington all together. >> the president this week is in three states on a bus tour campaigning. then he's going to be going on a vacation to martha's vineyard for ten days. a lot of democrats in martha's vineyard. i don't know why. but i wish the president were in washington calling back congress and dealing with the challenges we have. i don't know that he has a strategy now or whether he basically has thrown up his hands and is just hoping things will get better. >> clayton: so is president obama's bus tour a good idea or a road block? joining us, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. nice to see you. >> hi. >> clayton: so what do you say to mitt romney's comments there, should the president have stayed home? >> i think we need a plan. there is no plan. i think we agreed, there is no plan. the president announces in september he'll have a plan. we have a history in this country of people and presidents campaigning, go back to herbert hoover in 1928 on the whistle stop tour, you look at harry

truman in 1948 going on a 31,000-mile tour. now a president and $2 million worth of buses, air force one following around the heartland. a carbon footprint bigger than bigfoot, and i don't know what the heck he's doing there and a lot of americans don't know what he's doing. i mean, it's wonderful to be in cannon falls and accosta and alpha and atkinson and all these beautiful places across america with a great look at americans and panoramic view, but where are the jobs and the plan? >> clayton: he says he'll have a plan in september. but he has to do something to get his approval ratings. look at the latest poll, 39% right now. he's got to get out there. how is it different than president bush retro fitting a bus and heading through ohio and talking to the people? >> i think we've become demented in a fashion and maybe the media

is helping encourage that. this notion about the president needs to increase his job approval rating. the president needs to improve his job creation ratings. so when he gets off a bus and he takes a shot out at romney and at the republican candidates, and then he gets into an argument with some tea party folks, i'm not saying who is right in that, but when he puts himself in the situation that he encourages a discussion with americans from that state and they confront him and then it ends kind of badly, what are we really doing? forget about the million dollars of dollars that it cost. forget about whether it's a campaign event or not. i'd be happy with a campaign event if it was, in fact, about creating jobs and about pushing a plan, even if i didn't agree with that plan. i think the time is best spent, go to the home of unemployed americans, spend a night there.

go to the home of small business owner, try to make it, spend the night there. or sit down with your top advisors and professors and people that know in washington and figure out a plan. don't be riding around in a bus. waste of time. >> clayton: peter johnson, jr., thank you very much. coming up on the show, would you ever want to work for paulie shore? he's hiring. niece our hallway -- he's in our hallway. lock everything up. get security. he's here next. first let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on at the top of the hour. >> hide the silverware. check his pockets. hold on because stuart varney says we're in for another ride on wall street today. his state ranks as one of the best in employment and that's saying something. virginia governor bob mcdonald tells us what he thinks the white house should say about jobs. karl rove size and comparing rick perry and president bush, and more on this tea party confrontation last night, two leading members of that group will react. we got a packed show and martha

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>> clayton: you remember paulie shore for his catch phrases and unique comedy and strange sounds and it's still coming through. >> it still resonates. that sound has resonated across the world. africa, australia. i got off the plane in africa, they said, paulie shore. insane. vinny was here, he just got his hair. >> gretchen: he got his hair.

>> clayton: he's got to work on a clicking noise. >> it's like clicking people to come in the room. >> brian: you're an amazing story in that you grew up in the comedy business, you saw the funniest people in the world hone their acts and you grew and you became this overnight superstar. what happened to force you to make the comeback that you're in right now? >> well, john travolta once said to me f robin williams stopped getting movies, do you think he would stop being robin williams? and my answer was no. so just because hollywood took movies away from me didn't mean that i stopped being me. i was still touring and still doing my own thing, just the big camera wasn't in front of my face anymore. so i still too what i do. >> clayton: this big special -- >> me and john travolta were naked, by the way. >> gretchen: that spices up the story! why didn't you start with that? >> brian: by the way, we have that video and take a look. roll it. >> gretchen: actually, the new show you're doing in vegas, we can't show some of the video because it's a little bit -- >> it's show time. >> gretchen: it's a little bit

adult. so tell us about -- what's the title? >> "show time and myself, we want to do a throw back to the old '70s variety shows. everyone is in tuxes and gowns and we've got an insane cast. it's got comedy, music, girls. it's playing all month on showtime. >> clayton: you're not doing standup in it? >> i'm like the host. it's kind of like a little larry davidesque, kind of the old gary shandling show, a show behind the show. and it all takes place at the palm in las vegas. >> brian: it features you trying to wrangle stars like andy dick and tom green, you meet personalities. >> right. andy dick was interesting. me and andy dick did a film a while ago called "in the army now." i loved the chemistry that i had with him in that film and i wanted to kind of bring that back in this. >> clayton: is a wild card putting it nicely?

how do you wrangle a guy like him? >> it was really difficult. it was one of those things that he was this close to not coming, but i told him, do it for me, come on. i promised showtime. >> gretchen: you have a new contest going on. if anyone out there, lots of people looking for jobs. you're hiring a new assistant and there is a special way they have to do this. how? >> it's kind of like the mtv version. remember "i want to work for diddy"? that's the on-line version of that. if you want to work for paulie shore, go to the web site, will work for paulie shore, because these days it's hard to find a personal assistant. you have one, right? >> clayton: i have two. >> wasn't it hard to find them? >> clayton: very difficult. >> so you should do a web site, will work for clayton.com. >> brian: how is it going? >> it's going great. we get hundreds of videos every day. people want to work with me. >> clayton: you don't pay a lot.

>> brian: and you're not nice. >> clayton: if i'm going to do this web site, i need advice. i noticed on the web site, only pretty women. >> this is fox by the way. there is a lot of beautiful women. some of the news anchors -- anyone can apply from all over the world. >> brian: a lot of anchors will leave their jobs at fox news, that's my fear. >> gretchen: we'll take a quick break, if you'll stick around, because we would love to know what your father's connection is to elvis, on the anniversary of elvis' death. don't say it yet. we're going to share it when we come back. >> clayton: more "fox & friends" in two minutes. [ male announcer imagine all of your missed opportunities

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>> gretchen: 34 years ago today, elvis presley died and it turns out that paulie shore's father had a connection to him. what was it? >> my dad opened for elvis presley. he was touring back in the 50s and '60s. i actually sat on elvis' knee and i used to give him cake. you know what's crazy? me and lisa marie presley are born on the exact same day, same age, same everything. we're both 43, february 1. i used to play with her when we were little kids in the play pen back in the hilton. so my dad had been touring with him for years. >> clayton: 15 seconds left. the web site, willworkforpaulie.com. if you want to work for paully, submit a video. >> you learn everything about the business. >> clayton: if you see a video from me come in later today, don't be surprised. >> brian: low pay, hard to work for. this morning with some fireworks at president obama's town hall meeting, a