many die as long as they get the material. >> trying to get their idea across. in my mind this comes down to money. there's going to be rebels and more rebels fighting for the money coming out of that -- never going to end. >> sean: great insight. i didn't mean to call him your boyfriend. >> trust me, i wasn't his type. >> sean: i know. greta one of the 75 most powerful women in america is next. see you tomorrow night. >> greta: fox news alert. time to take this very seriously. hurricane irene is headed for the united states. urgent message for everyone along the east coast, get ready, brace yourself for the worst. right now she is category 3 and slamming the bahamas with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. expected to speed up and hit us. who is in the bull's-eye? >> north carolina and north,

you have to watch, florida, georgia, south carolina, take a look at how big the storm is. not just one point. you can't focus on that. still getting rain across hispaniola and 5 to 600 miles to the north of it. a large storm affecting a lot of people. we talk about models if they diverge or in agreement. very good agreement on these models. we feel confident that potentially north carolina getting a brush with it. all of the models still holding true that we get some impact or deck hit across new england, maybe -- direct hit across new england, maybe long island. much towards new york city, concerning for a lot of people. reliable model, by saturday around 2:00 in the afternoon, a storm around cape hatteras. potentially outer banks getting a direct hit. that could change what the outer banks look like permanently. we are talking about a serious likely category 3 storm.

sunday morning, a storm here on long island, very heavy rainfall, possibly in excess of 10 to 12 inches of rain. we had 10 inches of rain around new york city around two weeks ago. we are going to be talking about maybe that much again, big time flooding. category 3 storm saturday afternoon around the outer banks of . category 2 storm, sunday midday or so. so close to new york city. all this population, boston, new york, philadelphia, d.c., the big cities on tap for this, for the weekend. >> greta: rick, thank you. >> from the real threat of getting pulverized by the hurricane to the unemployment choke on our country. grim news just released. cbo projecting 8% or higher unemployment rate through 2014. we know what that means for you. what does it mean about the presidential race? today former former senior adviser to president bush and

author of courage and consequence, karl rove went on the record. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> greta: reports today cbo says not to expect employment to fall below 8% by 2014 which is two years behind the 2012 elect. how much attention do you think the white house and the campaign for president obama is paying attention to that report? >> it is a problematic one. because it also mimics similar analysis from the federal reserve and private sector. there seems to be a consensus among economists that the unemployment rate today at 9.1% is likely to be in the range of 8.5% by election day. part of the drop between 9.1 and 8.5 is going to be we are going to have a large number of workers who are so discouraged, they are going to dropout of the workforce and look like an improvement in the number. >> greta: what i would do if i were running on that issue,

running the president's campaign i would say, i'm running on a trend. it is a downward trend from 9.1 or 9.2, whatever starting point. and say that is the direction that the country needs to go. and the economy has been sluggish, horrible, but we are on the right path, don't change horses now. >> well, i'm sure that's what they are going to probably going to try to do. one problem is, people don't feel that we are on the right track by a huge margin approaching 6-1 they think we are on the wrong track. second of all it doesn't mesh with the retail. the "washington post" pointed out if these estimates are true, president obama is on the track to have the worst record as a president in the united states -- in the history of the united states when it comes to jobs. if we have unemployment at this rate by election time of next year, then he will be number one in one thing he

doesn't want to be, the worst record on jobs. >> greta: that's for right now. if we are talking about let's say in september of next year, not next month, but next year that the number is steadily going down, i don't know that it is. i hope unemployment is going down. i think at that point it becomes effective argument. lousy argument right now. >> look, first of all, we all hope that every american who wants to get a job can get a job. if it is 8.5% next year the difference between 9.1 and 8.5 is not going to be good. especially, if you look inside the cbo report and see they are projecting anemic economic growth through 2012 and 13. they think it might get worse in 2013 the bush tax cuts expire at the end of 2012. they see economic growth slowing further in 2013. here's the other thing, if you were barack obama and his

political team in chicago and the we have wing, you cannot be happy with the fact -- and the west wing, you cannot be happy with the fact, not a president since 1936 who had unemployment at 7.2% or higher the one who had unemployment at that rate was ronald reagan. the problem for the obama administration is, president reagan had economic growth rates in the latter quarter of 1983 and truth 1984, well in excess, two and three times the amount of economic growth anticipated for the coming year and a half. he had a more robust growing economy which made people feel better. if we have anemic growth plus unemployment where we are today it is not going to feel better. >> greta: i think a direction going down unemployment is favorable for him. the problem i don't understand, if i were running his campaign now the last thing i would have him doing is vacation at an elite place like martha's vineyard.

if you are lucky enough to be on vacation the wisconsin -- [ unintelligible ] i think that pr problem is going to resonate far more than if the numbers are going down. i think he's in better shape over the numbers going down than the pr. >> i think the image is wrong too. it is interesting. our fox colleague dick morris literally told president clinton in '93 and '94 you can't go to martha's vineyard people don't like seeing you with the swells there. you need to go vacation in the american west. which he did for two years. i don't begrudge any president a vacation. having been inside the white house, i understand what kind of pressures they are under. they are allowed to go some place where they can relax for part of the day. i think you are right the idea of the wine-sipping elitist on

martha's vineyard doesn't comport well with what ordinary americans are facing in their lives. >> greta: i think image really matters. does he really care? does he understand? i still can't get over the fact that he said i'm going to give the jobs report after i come back. rather than slipping it into the press office and letting him fax it out to tell everybody. then he goes to an elite place. i think that's a bad image. if i were running his pr, would want him to look like he didn't have a tin ear. >> the reason that he waited -- he's going to wait until september is because he doesn't have one today if you look at the -- he's lost the head of the national economic council. recently replaced larry summers with expert lidge, bright guy. he has lost the head -- head of the council of economic advisers. briefed on-the-jobs plan by

level three guy from the white house staff during his vacation. it is not just the pr the president is way behind the power curve. that is turning out to be a problem over the last year for president obama, he's always behind events internationally or domestically. this one is going to hurt him badly. i think the impression of i'm off to my vacation and see you in september and i'll tell you then what my jobs plan is, is a problem. so will the composition of the jobs plan itself. if it is going to extend unemployment, renew the payroll tax holiday. people will have a right to say, is that supposed to grow jobs? >> greta: i have a different view of what you just said in terms of the people that have left him. i think that looks good for him. we are in a terrible mess. those people who have been advising him have not led him in the right direction. i think it is great he's cleaning house.

great summers gone. anyone who has gotten us to the point where we are still at 9.1% unemployment, clean slate. i think the president should be dramatic and say here's my new team. the last team didn't do so well. >> yeah. that may be unfair to the members of the team. we never really know what they advocated. we know christine roamer and bernstein were the two people who put their names on the document issued january 10th, 2009 that said if we pass the stimulus unemployment will top out at 8% by the end of the summer of 200 -- summer of 2009. you have seen the graph if we didn't do anything, lower line if we passed the stimulus bill. those two people got their

names on a document. the rest of people we don't know where they were you are right the president sometimes needs to make a sacrifice of his people to say to the american people, clean slate, going to start again, new team, different ideas. we'll see if that happens in september. i doubt it. when you got jay carney standing up in the white house press room and saying, extending unemployment compensation will create jobs, you have to wonder if these people get it. >> greta: not to beat a dead horse those who you say may have advised the person ineffective. the course has not been effective. -- i'm not going to beat a dead horse. >> greta you just did. >> greta: i learned that from bill o'reilly. just kidding. now i'm in real trouble. you have an article online "wall street journal" in the print edition tomorrow, in which you credit, correct me

if i'm wrong, speaker boehner of taking command of the legislative agenda at the expense of the president. explain your view. >> well, the piece online tonight, i was driven by the fact, rarely is the speaker of the house the political sun around which the president of the united states rotates. think back over the last year. it is the speaker boehner who set the terms of the debate and the outcomes have been more reflective of speaker boehner's priorities than the president's. it started before he became speaker. in the lame duck session last year president obama said i want to end tax cuts for wealthy americans, top two brackets. vital we use this to make wealthy americans pay their fair share. at the end of the debate boehner set the theme of, it is not the time when we got high joblessness and low economic growth to raise taxes on anybody who won the day. if you look at battles over spending, battle over the debt

ceiling vote boehner has bent the president towards his direction. even in the fall, speaker boehner said, you need to send up those trade agreements languishing on your desk. now president obama is beating up congress for not having yet passed trade agreement which he has yet to send up to congress for their consideration. piece about we are going to have returning to washington the politician who has done more than anyone else to shape the national agenda in washington this year, it is not president obama. it is speaker john boehner. >> greta: not to take away from speaker boehner. i have a slightly different -- i think it is the tea party that has shaped the national agenda. who knows what speaker boehner would have done. the tea party and the people they've elected that have held the feet to the fire of the republican party. i'm curious, would the -- would speaker boehner have done the same, but for the influence of the tea party

within his party? >> i think he would. boehner's insphinxes -- for example he's never been in favor of earmarks. he considers them corrosive, corrupting never accepted, sought or want an earmark for his district. that is being tea party before tea party was cool. i think the tea party has at times stretch ed boehner's hands and at times weakened his hand. -- a testament to his leadership that he has taken the voice of the caucus and embodied it in the policy. i was struck by a comment that boehner made nay private dinner a tended in texas last year. boehner, a couple from ft. worth and me having a steak with boehner in a restaurant on a night he was campaigning. boehner talked about how in the current house of representatives then led by speaker pelosi only four, five people mattered.

everybody else didn't matter. and he said that is not how the founders intended the house of representatives, the people's body to operate. he said it with a lot of passion. we've seen he's been attempting to make certain that the republican conference represents the will of the house. that ceded power to committee chairman to do work there. basically emboldened and encouraged other young ambitious republican leaders. and he's not reward member by giving them earmarks or threatening them with retaliation. he doesn't like the former and the second is not in his nay are. as a result these three things have caused him to be a stronger lead are. give up power and get more influence as a result. -- >> greta: growth i did some research. in the -- last five days every time the name rove comes up it comes up with a comment you

made about sarah palin. what is it about governor palin if anyone says her name, someone like you, explodes. is that the media or governor palin or karl rove? >> no that is governor palin. the head of gross roots organization on her behave in iowa said the same thing i did, which is not knowing any inside information it looks to us like this -- he is more likely to be a candidate. the things she is doing in iowa, showing up at the fair, running this ad, saying i'm looking forward to being back september 3rd, attending a big rally. all signal she is likely to be a candidate at some point. i never said she is going to declare on the they are. i said this schedule -- >> greta: why is -- [ talking over each other ] >> i'm mystified. look she is all upset about this saying i'm trying to sabotage her in some way. and how dare i speculate on her future. if she doesn't want to be

speculated about as a potential candidate. there's an easy way to end the speculation. say i'm not running. instead, every time she pops up in the publish -- in the public eye like she did on cnn at the state fair she said i have not made a decision. i'm saying the schedule leads me to believe she is going to be a candidate. i'm not privy to her thought-making process. it is a sign of enormous thin skin if we speculate about her she would be upset. >> greta: i don't know if it is governor palin or not. i was reflecting on the fact that the media, if you mention the game governor palin no matter what you say, i have no idea whether she even knows, -- i assume she knows you said something about her.

>> i do assume when sarah pac issues a statement i assume she authorized the statement. >> greta: i didn't even know about >> that's where her comment came from a comment put out by sarahpac. she is potentially a big factor if she were to get in she would be a contender as they would say. there are people who want her in and people who would be deeply concerned, because she would be eaten into their ranks. she is a player. end the speculation by saying i'm not going to be a candidate. until then i would recommend she might get a slightly thicker skin. if she has this thin a skin now when people are saying i think she might be a candidate how is she going to react if she does get into the campaign and gets the scrutiny that every candidate does get?

that is not a pretty sight if she is as thin skinned in the fray as she is on the edges of it. >> greta: fox news alert. apple's sew steve jobs is stepping down. -- crowe steve jobs stepping down. in 2004 jobs was diagnosed with a fair form of pancreatic cancer in 2009 he underwent a liver transplant this past january he took a medical leave. who will fill his giant shoes? chief operating officer tim cook. jobs will still be active as chairman of the board. >> straight ahead, chaos is seizing libya, four journalists kidnapped. their driver executed. >> who has control of libya's stockpile of mustard gas, sarin gas and where is gadhafi? we take you there live, next.

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gadhafi's head has a price tag on it. 1.7 million dollars for his capture. rebel council reports if somebody from gadhafi entourage takes the deal that person will get amnesty. with his regime on the brink of collapse gadhafi is missing and the hunt is on. steve harrigan joins us live from tripoli. what is the latest? bring us up-to-date on whether the journalists have been found and where are these so-called weapons of mass destruction? >> reporter: even at 4:30 here behind me i can still hear celebratory gunfire into the night young men fighting the gadhafi re for the past six months have been firing into the air rifles and heavy anti-aircraft guns. family sometimes with young children came out to watch. as far as the fighting goes in the capital, there are still pockets of resistance by gadhafi loyalists.

still fighting going on in the city and the gadhafi flag still flies above his hometown. in a recent radio address he vowed to continue to fight what he called the rats, rebels who have taken control over the city. and the bounty on gadhafi's head or alive continues to rise. businessmen are -- who sue who support the rebels, it is now over 1.6 million dollars. as far as security here that will be the chief challenge for this new government. yesterday, four italian journalallies, print journalists were kidnap -- were kidnapped. their local driver was executed on the spot. gadhafi forces have given the order to kidnap. no word on their location. >> greta: some discussion here in the united states about the stockpile possible mustard or sarin gas, some congressman

made mention of it. do you know anything about the security of their weapons stockpile? >> reporter: we don't know how secure that is. we know it is top priority for the u.s.. there are some special forces on the ground that is probably one of their key missions to locate and secure that stash of weapons. >> greta: now about the safety of the journalists who were held captive, i don't know how you want to describe it in a hotel. they've now been released. can you walk the streets? if you have your helmet, jacket, vest on? >> reporter: a few dangers in walking the streets. first, thousands and thousands of rounds fired up into the air today. there is that danger of bullets coming down. a few pockets of real resistance and gunfire we've seen some people wounded and kill in the fighting. i think the bigger danger and

it will become more dangerous in the long term is right now there's no real security force in charge. in charge of policing with some real control. there are thousands of young men, gunmen who have won this war at this point with help from nato. right now the mood is one of euphoria and celebration with no organized force to police things, that certainly could change in a heartbeat. it hasn't changed yet. we haven't seen looting. we have not seen retaliatory killing. that threat is there when you have so many guns in young hands in a volatile, emotional situation. >> greta: steve, thank you. >> coming up, stunning news about texas governor perry in his race for the white house. what is the news? we'll tell you, next. >> first democrat, now independent. why is senator lieberman helping republican governor sarah palin? this does seem strange. we asked senator lieberman about that.

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she will be going back-to-school. she is planning to take places online. she will not be allowed to drink in excess. she cannot brach any laws and must have per m before leaving florida where she is -- must have permission before leaving florida where she is serving probation. >> governor perry wasting no time, according to a new poll he's the new gop front-runner. he may have joined the race late but he is leapfrogging romney by double digits. what happened? how did governor perry jump ahead? >> it is amazing. the guy got in 10 days ago. he was known according to soft polling by half the republican electorate last month. that shot up. all of a sudden he's de facto front-runner ahead by 12 points over romney. all year romney in one way or

the other was the front-runner. all of a sudden perry comes in. the field has been fluid all year. we've seen numbers go up, trump hit a nerve a few months ago. bachmann flavor of the month for a little while. what is interesting about these numbers that came out today, it is the first perp of any of the names to almost hit 30%. if you go back, many elects back over the last decades in the republican field, you had a front-runner by new that was well over 30%. and that person in almost all cases went on to become the nominee this is a different environment. >> greta: is this a honeymoon? there's a new glow and no one has thrown any dirt at him? >> i think it is a little of that. i was in iowa, it was fascinating, last saturday, he walked through the crowd and an inordinate number of people were not only thrilled to see the guy but knew who he was,

which i thought was surprising. he has a way of interacting with people that is very natural. i think he will be strong on the stump in that way, perhaps more than anyone else. there's a long way to go and people have a lot to learn about him and his record. some of it may not sit well with everyone. >> greta: the numbers from august and july, governor romney is down six. congresswoman bachmann down three, governor perry up 11. i'm curious if the conventional wisdom is governor perry is stealing voters from governor romney for representative bachmann? >> romney's hope when he looked at bachmann and pawlenty, battle it out in their space, particularly in iowa and in the debates in the end bachmann destroyed pawlenty and pawlenty is now out. i think the romney camp is hoping to see that battle take place between perry and bachmann. if you look at the numbers it

is clear at least right now it is romney voters that are breaking away and going to perry's side. romney is showing all of a sudden a certain kind of flexibility or softness, i should say in his numbers that can't be pleasing. >> greta: because he's a front-runner he has been talking about president obama being his opponent. is governor romney going to have to take some swipes at governor perry or challenge him on certain policy? >> this came up today. his whole thing is steady eddie, i'm not going to change strategy. i'm going to talk about the economy, the president's record. for months he has been running a general election campaign in the debates he was that way the unflappable one. above his own party's battles that are going on. he's going to take it to the president. i don't think he can continue that for much longer. one thing about rick perry, he's won 10 elections in a row he has never loss, he runs

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arizona's history in late may. 32 hopes destroyed. investigators say the two left the campfire unattended. suspects face heavy fines and several months in prison, if convicted. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to greta. >> greta: did you know senator lieberman, former democratic candidate for vice president, gave governor palin advice when she was the republican candidate for vice president? it happened in 2008 when the senator jumped the political aisle and threw his support behind presidential contender senator mccain and his running mate governor palin. what happened? it is one of the many personal and political stories he reports in his new book. earlier today we asked senator lieberman about it. nice to see you, sir. >> good to be with you. how are you? >> greta: well. i thought your book was absolutely delightful.

and struck -- and instructive. >> that makes me feel wonderful, thank you. different than what i've done before. it is from inside. to have that kind of reaction means a lot to me. >> greta: i don't know if i could be as disciplined as you are and as many are. i realize this cross many faiths the idea of honoring the saab -- sabbath. i can appreciate putting the brakes on for 24 hours, stepping back and having traditions with the family and getting out of rat race putting things on hold for 24 hours. >> boy did you get the purpose of the book. i write about the sabbath from the point of view of the traditional view wish practice which i've experienced as a gift. the gift of rest. but i'm hoping that people of any religion or no religion understand and appreciate from the book the importance of

stopping and putting the electronics away. and spending time on matters of spirit and family and just being with yourself. >> greta: i know my husband if he's watching going to yell at me later always telling me to get rid of the blackberry you are on the cell phone, computer all the time. so i hope he's not watching. i read the book, how you and your family as part of the -- part of honoring the sabbath you have family traditions you plan for it. it is not some sort of fly by night 24 hours this has taken years and has been enriching to your family. >> it has. these are traditions that go back thousands of years to the commandments that god gave moses on mount sinai. over the years the rabbies have -- the rabbis have filled in spaces to remember the sabbath and keep it holy and

us toms like the idea of bringing your wife -- customs like the idea of bringing your wife flowers for the afternoon and blessing your children. the heart of it is really to stop work. it is hard to do that these days. my toughest part preparing for the sabbath is friday afternoon when i have to turn off the blackberry and cell phone. but once i do, i really feel liberated. i hope people who read the book will decide to follow some of the recommendations i make for beginning to do parts of what your religion, anybody's religion and my common sense recommendations tell you, you might do to put a little more rest in your life. >> greta: it is not always workable. a couple of interesting incidents where you had to break -- not to take away from the many sabbaths you have kept -- that you haven't

broken. but, january 20th, 2001 inauguration day. you had to walk from your home in georgetown to the capitol, you couldn't be a bad sport and not show up, because you had been on the losing ticket, so the court said. >> greta: yeah. that was a day when i felt that if -- as a senator i would be on inauguration day january 20th, was a saturday and my wife and i decided we have to go out of respect for the new president the new vice president. we didn't want to drive. that would have been a violation of the rules of the sabbath. we walked the 4 1/2 miles. and i was glad that we did. there are other occasions when my public responsibilities, either for national security or even budget matters have required me to do some things that i normally wouldn't do on

the sabbath. my religion and the tradition tells me when i have the ability to protect life or improve life, which after all the sabbath is supposed to be about honoring life, then life has to take precedence over the specific religious law. i try not to let that happen often. when it does, i feel okay in doing the sabbath a little differently than i normally would. >> greta: you have given advice in 2008 to governor palin. that you write about in the story. >> that was a really interesting moment. as you know, i supported my amigo john mccann for president that year. and the campaign -- asked me to come up with governor palin was practicing for her debate, which was about a week away i had met her before. i had seen her at the convention. i was impressed by the speech she gave.

she was just down that guy. the mccain campaign was upset about it. they took a break. john's campaign manager, said you have something in common with sarah palin that we don't. i said what's that? he said you are both religious. why don't you talk to her. i thought what a great american judeo-christian moment. it is true, we are both religious. i said how are you doing? she said honestly it was a tough day many she didn't feel right. we started to talk about the opportunity that she had been given and -- and how she had a responsibility to make the most of it. we talked about the story of queen esther from the bible about moments of destiny. i was a great conversation. i don't take credit for the fact i think she performed well in the debate. i tell that story, because it is taking some of the central

ideas of the sabbath, which is about fulfilling our personal destinies and putting them into that particular moment in a way that i hope was helpful to her. >> greta: the book is a good read. like i said, i don't think i'm as disciplined as you are. but i see the value of what you have done all these years. senator, nice to see you as always. >> greta, thank you. as i say in the book we can all make our own sabbaths. try to do a little of it. >> greta: actually, i the part about the flowers. i thought i would remind -- i was go -- i was going to help my husband with that one. there's good advice for my husband in here. >> i will send a copy to your husband with a paper clip on that page. >> greta: thank you sir. >> chaos in greece, riots, fires and destruction. what sparked this violence? that is next.

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yankee star nick swisher is taking time off from his busy schedule. he and his wife are finally going on their honeymoon to afghanistan. yes, afghanistan. the couple visit troops there in november. marking their first trip since they married last december. why did they choose afghanistan? the outfielder says military officers cape to the yankee locker room one day and asked if anyone would like to visit the troops? swisher quickly raised his hand. >> need a little r & r? how about vacation in space? a russian company has plans to launch a seven room luxury hotel into orbit within five years. the site is 220 miles from earth. what is the price tag? five days will cost you just under one million dollars, it does include up to three months of specialized training, three nights in the one of the hotels zero gravity cabins and a sightseeing flight around the mean. >> greece looking more like a war zone.

soccer fans are to blame. 3,000 attacked the office of the governing:lvw6@rty, setting garbage cans on fire, throwing stones, clashing with police. violence broke out after two teams were thrown out of the soccer league. no reports of arrests or injuries. there you have the best of the rest. >> coming up, your last call. one more quick ron before we turn down the lights -- quick ron before we turn down the lie lights sarah palin. starring in the show survivor? it sounds like it. that's next.

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