to bring america back from the brink. more spending. more taxes. but no excuses. >> we are tougher than the times we live in and we are bigger than our politics had been so let's meet the moment. let's get to work. and let's show the world once again why the united states of america remains the greatest nation on earth. thank you very much. god bless you. >> the president says he wants congre to pass this plan right away but how we pay for these $447 billion plan remains to be seen. that will have to wait. >> corporate jet owners. lights out all across the west coast. millions of people without power. that means no stores. no gas. no nothing. all because one person made one bad move. we'll mention his name. "fox & friends" starts right now.

>> good morning, everybody. thank you so much for joining us this morning. as we prepare for this very momentous weekend here. >> of course, on sunday, like most of you, your focus will be on the world trade, shanksville and the pentagon. 10 years since attacks. steve doocy has gone downtown appropriately. you have the terror threat to talk about, the speech to talk about and a look back at 10 years to focus on. >> that's right. we'll start with the headline here on "the daily news" and what everybody is talking about in new york city. a september 11th terror threat. we start with the fox news alert. the department of homeland security calls it a specific, credible but unconfirmed terror threat in new york city and washington, d.c. federal agents and police now looking for three al-qaida terrorists, perhaps believed to be planning a car or a truck bomb around the 10th anniversary

of the september 11th attacks. intel officials say the suspects, one believed to be a u.s. citizen, flew to the united states last month possibly from afghanistan. investigators say they were sent by al-qaida leader who vowed to get revenge for the death of bin laden. despite the threat, the mayor of new york city said the september 11th ceremonies will go on as planned. >> you'll probably see more bag searches than you normally do. you can rest assured that our bridges and tunnels, you'll probably see a few more uniformed personnel. hopefully it turns out that this is not anything. i can tell you our ceremonies will go on over the weekend exactly the way they were planned. >> there were concerns about several rental trucks, u hauls being reported stolen in kansas city, missouri, but those trucks have been recovered and apparently not linked to the threat. meanwhile, right now, let's bring in former senior military intelligence officer for the f.b.i.'s joint terrorism task

force, steven rogers who joins us right here at ground zero. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> specific and credible. we know what that means. they got some information. these three guys would like to blow up some car bombs or truck bombs but it's unconfirmed. what's that mean? >> credible threats, credible information is information you more than likely got from a human source. what they have to do now is get corroboration from, perhaps, other human sources or from intelligence. that's why it's unconfirmed. >> what we do understand as well is apparently these three guys may have come in in the last couple of weeks or so into the united states. they all speak arabic and english. we have a description of them but we don't know their names. >> well, they don't know their names because that's when we go down, it's a credible threat but who are these people? and i got to tell you, right now, as we speak, i'm sure that law enforcement is looking at information that was gathered by seal team 6 in pakistan and i'm sure that they are reviewing the

times square bombing attempt in 2010. and they're going to see if there's any similarity in any of that intelligence that they have. for example, how would they get into any city across the country? what are the possible targets? a lot of work involved. it's a daunting task but good thing they released the information. >> absolutely. when i drove into new york city this morning, they had extra security at the bridges and the tunnels but what if the truck bomb or the car bomb is already in new york city and it doesn't go through those points? >> you're absolutely right. this is why i believe there's been some criticism from some quarters as to why intelligence and law enforcement agencies have released this information. i'll tell you, steve, the greatest asset we now have are the people in this country. they need to make a telephone call, alert someone if their instinct is saying what i see, what i hear is not right. i got to make that call. >> thank you very much for joining us today and brian and

ali, his last point is really important. if you see something, say something. that's what the mayor of new york city and the police commissioner said last night at their 9:00 press briefing. >> it's also important, too, that local authorities are making the announcement even though federal authorities said they discovered the plot because it's truly going to be stopped, if it's going to take place amongst the nypd and their counterterrorist task force. >> you know what? i actually have seen something suspicious this summer twice and i'll talk more about it. but something -- two times this summer, something strange happened to me in a taxi where the taxi drivers did not know where i wanted to go. a very regular street in new york city and i thought something's up and now that i hear about car bombs, i'll tell you more about that. >> something suspicious. 311, something about to explode, 911. >> good. i will call those later. >> did you watch the speech last night? >> of course, yes! let's talk about what the president said last night. basically, he laid out his plan and it was very comprehensive one for how to get the country

churning out jobs again. here are some of the details. it would be a $447 billion plan but he says it's paid for. we'll explain that. he says that it extends payroll tax cuts for most workers, it gives tax credits to employers for companies that will hire unemployed people for six months or more and returning veterans and extends unemployment insurance another year for so many millions of americans who are out of work right now. homeowners with refinancing. >> i don't know how that is. are they going to cut down the principle? are they going to be giving them two or three months off from making their payments, how do people feel about that that are making their payments in the same size house? >> he didn't spell out the details of those. that was the goal. he talked about infrastructure projects dealing with bridges and tunnels and roads, transportation projects and school renovation projects that he says are ready to go. >> yeah. and on top of that, you know, talking about fridge repairs, talking about road repairs, he's talking about new construction

that's relatively general and he had one theme, steve, and it's pretty consistent. he launched this plan, i don't think he knows how it's being paid for, that's up to the super committee who has so much free time they can handle this, the super committee to come up with a payment plan. the president still even though he hasn't finished the plan wants it passed. i got that idea. let's listen. >> i'm sending this congress a plan that you should pass this plan right away, you should pass it right away. this time, you should pass it again right away. now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle class taxes which is why you should pass this bill right away. this plan is the right thing to do right now. you should pass it! >> interesting tone, right? i mean, he's not saying i hope you pass it or i implore you to pass it. he's taking a very authoritative tone with them. >> kind of almost like one of those guys on a late night infomercial, act before midnight! you should pass it right away.

in all, he said that phrase about -- pass it right away, 18 times. i heard somebody say last night on the radio. ok, so last night, he's saying you should pass it right away 18 times. but we have heard him say over and over the same thing he said last night where his focus is jobs, here's a little historical montage. watch. >> jobs must be our number one focus in 2010. that's why my administration remains focused every single day on pushing this economy forward. all these investments in innovation, education and infrastructure will make america a better place to do business and create jobs. and making sure jobs are available is the first thing i think about when i wake up in the morning and the last thing i think about when i go to bed each night. not a day goes by that i'm not focused on your jobs, your hopes and your dreams. and in the coming months, i'll continue also to fight for what

the american people care most about. new jobs, higher wages, and faster economic growth. >> by the way, it wasn't a bunch of republicans saying you got us nowhere. there was some positive comments coming out of the leadership when john boehner came forward and said this program and proposal merits consideration. eric cantor said some positive things, you'll hear from him live in our show. the republicans generally according to "the new york times" likes a number of the president's ideas. i thought an interesting quote came from texas which is true, this is what i thought. i agreed with some of it but my brain quit calculating on the number because it got so big! >> yeah. no kidding. and the other thing is while the president and the president's men had said earlier in the day, don't worry about it. it's half a trillion dollars but it's all paid for, you know, remember harry truman always said the buck stops here? the president is passing the buck when it comes to how to pay for it because he said ok, i want to spend $447 billion. but i'm going to have the super

committee figure out where those cuts are going to come from kick the can down the road. jeb henserling who is on the super committee although he doesn't wear a cape said by asking the committee to increase the target to cover the full cost of his plan, the president is essentially asking a committee designed to reduce the deficit to pay for yet another round of stimulus. this proposal would make the already arduous challenge of finding bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction nearly impossible. it's not the role of this committee to spend more money we don't have on jobs we don't get. >> and we remember how well the debt debate went when it was bipartisan effort. but let's hope that the super committee has some ideas. >> it did remind me a little bit of an infomercial, steve. keep in mind, i'm very is y susceptible, i'm the guy with three garden weasels. when they tell me to buy now, i jump to attention. >> you know that special ladder that can bend in all sorts of --

>> i haven't fallen for that one. >> i have two of them. >> you know, i did -- i did and i fell from it but quickly, i had a pocket chair to sit on and recompose myself. >> that's embarrassing. i have lots of skin and hair care products. >> no split ends. >> there you go. meanwhile, let's get to the rest of your headlines. we have more news to tell you about because millions of people were left in the dark this morning and last night with one person to blame. if you can believe. it a worker's mistake at a utility company in arizona leading to massive power outages that swept across arizona, southern california and mexico. this is something you would do, brian. san diego getting the worst of the blackout where traffic came to a complete stand still. some folks are getting their power back on right now but at least 1.4 million people could be without power into today. two nuclear reactors were also knocked off line. but officials say they posed no danger. somebody just sat on the wrong button, i think. meanwhile, president obama

declaring a state of emergency in pennsylvania. emergency flooding forcing hundreds of thousands of evacuations. delaware river likely to exceed flood levels. river cresting just before the top of the levees. major roads in and out of philadelphia are underwater all stemming from hurricane irene and made worse by tropical storm lee. now to texas where firefighters are making progress against the raging fire fighters. today a jetliner will take to the skies over bastrop county. that's the worst fire of the 180 of them that are burning around the state. flames already destroying nearly 1700 homes leaving at least four people dead. and moments ago, we have some breaking news for you because nasa's latest moon shot was delayed again. bad weather scrubbed it yesterday. tomorrow, nasa will try to fire two probes towards the moon where they will measure the moon's gravity. scientists are hoping to find

out what's beneath the moon's surface all the way to its core. >> they gave that message to neil armstrong, he could have told us and saved us some money. tell us what's coming up next. >> all right, the secret government plan to arm mexican drug cartels backfires once again. why the department of justice's fast and furious scandal had just gotten a whole lot worse. >> wow, and his presidency has been historic but not the way he'd like. stuart varney up next. i hope it's a walking shot of stuart. it is. how president obama may be remembered for breaking the wrong kind of records. he's getting close. >> there's nothing better than stu in action! [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu uss chose prego. prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ '80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.

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the white house is definitely historic but may not be for the reasons he had hoped. on his watch, several records have been broken and they aren't good. stu varney from the fox business network is here to explain. do you wanme ttell m what you thought of the jobs pla last night? >> was a stumpspee, that's f sure. anotr stimulus package. some of it will be accepted by the republicans. most will not. impact on the job market, impact on the economy not that grand in my opinion. >> let's talk about these historic things that have happened under president obama's watch. number one? >> yeah, there's a long list here and you want to start going down it? president obama's watch, it's the first time that america's debt has ever been downgraded. number 2, he's got the highest level of government spending. 25% of our economy. highest level since world war ii. that's another record. number 3, it's the highest budget deficit since world war ii. 10% of our economy is a deficit. we've got the lowest level of

employment, 58% of the adult people are in work. >> that's the thing. i'm going to stop you there. we alwaysear 9.1% is the unemployment. that makes it look much worse. only 58% of adults are working. what's the disconnect between the numbers? >> because enormous number of people. literally millions of people are dropping out of the work force. so your unemployment stays at 9 9.1%. it's called the participation rate. the percentage of adults actually working is the lowest si since 1983. that's not a good record to have. number 5, the proportion of people that are long term unemployed, nearly half of all the people unemployed have been out of a job for six months or more. that's the highest since the 1930's, the great depression. >> any one of these would be a dubious distinction for the president but a perfect storm of all of them simultaneously.

>> it's the backdrop. the records that you've just outlined. courtesy of michael boskin, by the way, his economics professor at stanford. that's the backdrop to the speech presented last night by the president. it's a bad record and it's an outline of how bad the economy is now compared to the recent past and the distant past. that's the backdrop to what the president was trying to do last night. turn around all of these negative records that have been established on his watch. >> well, let's see if his plan can get anywhere. stu varney, thanks so much. >> thanks. >> great to see you. religious leaders, not invited to ground zero, as you may have heard. actor, family man and born again christian steven baldwin is in to weigh in on that decision. hi, steven. as the flames approached, these nuns did not run. they didn't pray either. they grabbed hoses. we'll show you what they did. as i get older, i'm making changes to support my metabolism.

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>> all right. fox news alert. moments ago, we issued that they issued arrest warrants for muammar qaddafi. his whereabouts have been unknown since rebels seized control of tripoli. maybe he'll come out now. and usama bin laden's compound in pakistan now strictly off-limits to foreign journalists and all of the visitors in advance of the 10th -- marking the 10th year since the 9/11 attacks. the danish ambassador to pakistan and two french journalists were detained, by the way, by police after they got too close to it. meanwhile, steve.

>> thanks, brian. as americans reel from the shock of september 11th attacks, many turned to prayer and religion but now, 10 years later, mayor michael bloomberg is excludeing our religious leaders and clergy from this sunday's memorial. like every american, actor steven baldwin was affected by 9/11. he's here live with us. >> great to be here. >> what do you think of the fact that the mayor doesn't want any clergy here? >> i think it's sad. i really do. i think that prayer and faith is something regaress of one's personal individual pursuit is something that in the memory of all this has helped a lot of people get through it. >> absolutely. and when you think back to september 11th, how many people in those buildings that stood behind us were praying just before it happened? >> absolutely. absolutely. and more importantly for me now is that we honor and remember 10 years later what happened. and what brought us together on that day. and how do we keep that in mind?

>> what's bringing you to us today is the fact that you're involved in a project called 110 stories. >> correct. >> and it's a play written by a first responder who was down on the pile and had a recorder and did what? >> well, she was down there and interviewed, sarah tufts is her name and she interviewed various people from different walks of life and now, 10 years later, there's this production that's come to pass. it's been done for a while but now it's really, really getting a lot of exposure. >> who do you play? >> i play tony esolo from local 483, the ironworkers, and it's fabulous and it's really cool because it's all going to benefit a new foundation here in new york called new york says thank you.org. that's a fund that's going to come together to be able to send first responders from new york out to other states in the ne future to help them like they

helped us on 9/11. >> speaking of 9/11, there's a september 11th songs out now called "wings of love." >> yeah, there's a song i produced with two great writers, robert harris and michael coffey. mr. coffey is a former new york city police officer. great talent named sage gillespie is the singer and we're excited. it's called "wings of love". that will be a down loadable song that you can use to make a donation to new york says thank you.org in the future and we're really excited. the play went fantastic last night. it was beautiful. and samuel l. jackson will be there tonight doing one of the roles. and it's down at nyu theater, anybody can go to new york says thank you.org to come down and be a part of it. >> that's cool. before you go, because we're down here at ground zero and because of the commemoration coming up this weekend, you told me in a commercial break a story that no one has ever known about your brother billy in the movie "backdraft" about the life and times of a firefighter. >> sure. yeah, well, you know, it's just

so funny because i said on like three or four days after 9/11, billy was down in the rubble there really on ground zero like lending a hand and looking for people and doing all kinds of stuff. and you're like, what -- how did he get in? he's an actor. he was in "backdraft" and billy has a very, close personal friend with the new york city firefighters and they were like billy, come on. it's funny, when celebrity does have its privileges, you know, and this is one of the situations where i was scared for my brother. i was in l.a. couldn't fly home. and that scared the heck out of me. and it was just -- it's -- you know, as a new yorker, it's a very, very, very poignant, deeply powerful memorial here. >> and that's why we are remembering today on fox and "fox & friends." >> amen, brother. >> always great to have you. >> thanks, steve. >> stephen baldwin. coming up, judge napolitano is dipping into his freedom file. a mom facing neglect charges for

letting her kid, can you believe this, she let her kid ride a bike to school and he got cheers from both sides of the aisle for this one. >> i want to see more products sold around the world stamped with the three proud words that made it america. >> but there's one problem -- one of the president's guests last night, a g.e. businessman known for sending jobs not to cincinnati but to china. but first, happy birthday to adam sandler. the actor and comedian turns 45 years old. you know him but tell him we said hi, would you? >> sure. ♪ [ female announcer ] erybody loves that cushiony feeling.

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>> tonight was president obama's jobs speech and the nfl season opener. which explains why biden got confused and dumped gatorade on president obama. >> it could happen. >> you know what was kind of interesting, they found out -- they actually showed joe biden

talking, joe biden talking to the speaker of the house. you know what they were talking about? >> no idea. >> the game. >> golf. they were talking about golf. >> golf game. so here the president is walking up in a joint session of congress and he's about to give a historic speech on jobs with 14 million out of work and they're like you want to golf? >> good thing you're a lip reader. all right. let's talk about one of the things that the president talked about in his speech that got rousing response from both sides of the aisle and that's making sure that america jobs stay in america, bringing jobs back home and making sure that manufacturing gets beefed up here. let's listen to what he had to say about that. >> if americans can buy kias and hyundaiis, i want to see folks in south korea driving fords and chevys and chryslers. i want to see more products sold around the world stamped with the three proud words "made in america." >> that sounds good except for there's a little problem if you take a shot of the ceo of

general electric sitting next to the first lady. is there a problem with that? >> yeah, there is -- and you can see him in the upper left-hand corner. that's jeffrey immelt, the guy that runs g.e. and also the top guy on the president's jobs council. the problem is while the president says let's build stuff in america, mr. immelt and g.e. have shipped a whole bunch of jobs off to china. >> within the last six months. >> aircraft engines, i think x-rays, stuff like that. jay carney, the president's bi o'reilly program last night and mr. o'reilly brought up live the irony in that. >> the president is not saying that every american company should not have any business overseas. the president is saying that we, as a country and as a government should be creating incentives for american businesses to hire -- >> and i'm right with you. but you know who's not with you, jeffrey immelt and he's sitting

with the first lady, doesn't look good. >> mr. immelt has done a lot of good jobs on the jobs council with other ceo's who are working hard to propose ideas to help get this economy going. >> all right. >> and he may have done a lot of the work on the jobs council but esteeming up with china to create airplanes that will directly compete with boeing. >> right. dennis kucinich declared he should resign from his position. >> how about the president saying, you know, during his speech, you know, and warren buffet, he actually pays less tax than his secretary and he wants to pay more taxes. and when -- when the president was talking about he wants to pay more taxes, mr. immelt's company, g.e. didn't pay any federal income taxes last year. that would have been embarrassing for him. >> what's been brought up is that warren buffet pays money on capital gains taxes and his secretary pays on the income taxes so it's apples and oranges. >> we can talk about that later. >> promise? >> yes.

if warren buffet wants to make more money, i think the president should let him. >> and ali, there's one other thing, i was listening to mark levine on the radio last night when i was driving around and i heard him talking about, warren buffet wants to pay more taxes while his company, berkshire hathaway over the last decade haven't paid all their federal income taxes and is in some sort of dispute with the irs and they're trying to figure out some sort of resolution. he's saying i want to pay more taxes. wait a minute, your company isn't even paying all the taxes they're supposed to. >> i see the problem with that. we'll get back to that, steve, thanks. let's get right to your headlines now because another weapon was found at a violent crimes scene that has been traced to the government's failed fast and furious program. this time an ak-47 was found in a stolen truck in arizona. the driver was arrested and charged with assault on a police officer. just last week, the justice department found at least three weapons linked to fast and furious were used in violent

crimes in the u.s. and the estranged husband of a missing missouri mom reportedly confessed to killing her. prosecutors say he told his father that he killed her. police say he lured jackie waller to his home by asking her to pick up one of their triplets. waller is being held on harassment charges. and a wildfire in washington state is no match for a group of greek orthodox nuns. they used rakes, rags and buckets of water to keep their monastery from burning down. the nuns managed to stop the flames from spreading to a cemetery that had wooden crosses. the nuns thanked god and the firefighters who helped them finish off the flames. what incredible pictures those are. and the future is now. nike launching a pair of sneakers made famous by marty mcfly. >> all right! >> those are cool.

it's been 20 years since michael j. fox wore those sneakers in "back to the future 2". now 1500 pairs of the replica are being auctioned off on ebay's fashion vault. proceeds will be donated to the michael j. fox foundation for parkinson's disease. power laces not included. you'll need those for your sports report. >> it would be a nice surprise if you get them in the grand bag for christmas. after months dealing with the lockout, the nfl season is finally under way. what a game it was. you have the saints against the packers. aaron rodgers and the super bowl champion packers got started early and did extremely well. it's like the super bowl never ended and then comes the play of the day. he's a rookie and clearly doesn't understand the nfl yet. you're supposed to get tackled and actually go down. this guy keeps running, running, running. had a sensational day and maybe single handedly brought the packers this game. the saints would have a furious comeback in the end on the road but stopped on the goal line with a chance to win. and that would be it. that rookie does not score.

but the packers win as super bowl champs, let's talk tennis. lot less physical. after two days of rain, the u.s. open finally got back into action. on the women's side, serena williams keeps rolling. serena seems good, am i right? going past the russian opponent in straight sets. she'll face top seeded caroline wozonoki in the semifinals. roger federer easily takes down tsonga in straight sets and faces the top seed in the semifinal. president george bush is kicking off the nfl season this sunday with fox. he just filmed a two minute introduction alongside members of the nypd, fdny and new york and new jersey port authority police. it's in recognition of the 10th anniversary marking the 10 years since the 9/11 attacks. president will be at ground zero on sunday and i think they're giving them a poem to read. i don't know if he's going to read it. they have all these great leaders there and they're just

reading poems. we'll talk about that later, too. we have a big agenda. >> really after the show. there's a lot of buzz, as you may know over this new movie "contagion" that hits theaters today. courtney friel has a sneak peek and interviewed the cast. this movie looks scary. >> let me tell you what it's about, first, and then i can give you my review for whatever that is worth. >> worth a lot. >> it is a pandemic thriller that follows a deadly airborne virus as it spreads around the world and creates massive panic. this international team of doctors races against the clock to develop a vaccine and control the chaos. steven sodenberg directs the star studded film including gwyneth paltrow, lawrence fishburne and jude law and i interviewed several of them and had to ask them if they became more germophobic since shooting. >> i'm a little funny now by making sure people take their shoes off when they come into the house when i never was like that at all before. >> having kids, you don't want

them to get sick but at the same time, it's important that they build their little immune systems and that's what germs do. >> i just added a few items to my list of what do i have to clean when i get to the hotel room? like the remote control. >> the actors said there was more hand sanitizer on this set than you could imagine. this movie will definitely make you think twice before digging into the community peanut or jelly bean bowl, guys. and compared to other disease films like 1995's "outbreak" contagion explores what role the internet would play in a pandemic, spreading fear. how does the cast think about mankind, would they be able to handle the panic like in this movie, would everyone go crazy so the deadly outbreak occurs and what's the overall message? >> 100% we would panic. i mean, we know the world we live in and then with the internet and how fast information spreads, whether it's true or not. >> a lot would be up to the media, you know. the media is good at ginning up

fear to sell stuff. >> there's things you can do when you're sick, like stay home and not get on an airplane or not send your kid to school when you're sick and that's how we take care of each other. >> now, my review. i definitely would give it an a for spreading fear about germs. >> good. >> that's what i'm looking for in entertainment. >> there was decent acting and moves at a pretty fast pace but overall, i got to give it a b. since there were so many characters, at the end of the movie, you're like, wait, what happened to that story line and that story line? i talked to one of the cast members and they said the original version was three hours long so obviously they had to cut some stuff out and then not sure what happened to it. >> outbreak that never ended. >> great cast of characters. thanks so much. >> and i'm thinking money ball this weekend. instead of contagion. the president says his jobs bill has something for everyone, democrats and republicans. can he really convince both sides to make those big

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>> we're dipping into the free only files this morning. first on the docket, the students at missouri's college greeted at the start of the new school year with a mandatory drug test for all students. >> fox news senior judicial analyst and host of "freedom watch" judge andrew napolitano is here. >> good morning, guys. >> great to see you. so drug testing for students, what's the problem? >> the problem is the school is owned by the state of missouri and the state of missouri is regulated by the constitution. and the constitution says that government can't search and seize without evidence of a crime or permission from a judge. and they have none of this here. >> so if it were a private college, it would be different. >> if it were a private college, there wouldn't be as much of a

constitutional problem here because you would say like in the nfl when they enter into an agreement to test them for certain drugs, i have chosen to come here knowing what you're going to do. but with the government, the government cannot persuade you to give up your rights. >> right. let's talk about this. a mom is dealing with neglect charges for letting her child bike to school in tennessee. that kid is? >> 10 years old. >> 10 years old. what do the police know -- how do the police know more about the kids' bike riding ability than the mother does? the argument here was a safety argument, not that the kid was in danger of someone attacking the kid and the mother should have accompanied him but the kid didn't know how to ride a bike. that is a choice for the mother to make and not for the police. and it is certainly not a basis to prosecute the mother for child neglect. >> i find that fascinating. what if the mom went to the movies and left a 10-year-old at home. isn't that child neglect? >> by the same argument, yes and do we really want the

government monitoring the relationship between parent and child to that degree? answer, no. >> let's talk about the tsa. there is an agent, the tsa who is suing because apparently, the tsa doesn't let you -- no, no. yes, the tsa doesn't let you blog about your experience if you've been too invasive or whatever your -- >> if my cousin janet was seated right here, janet napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, i would remind her that the first amendment applies and you have every right to criticize the government. because you don't like the government's policies but you don't like the way the government touched you and government officials are criticized and cannot sue you for it. i heard the president last night. he does not understand economics 101. can he sue me for saying that? of course not. if a tsa agent touches you where you ought not to be touched, can he sue you when you criticize him? absolutely not. >> i am not saying that the

president will sue you. i would retain an attorney. i was thinking janet from three's company. >> would you come to my defense? >> i absolutely would. >> then you're in trouble, judge. good luck to you. >> just put it on prompter. >> thanks so much. >> those are fun subjects to talk about. coming up next, the president wants his jobs bill passed without delay, he said, but will republicans do that? chairman of the rnc, reince priebus here live to talk about it after the break. >> he always looks so happy in those pictures and taxpayers gave them $535 million to build solar panels. then they went under. the judge is on "freedom watch". watch him there. >> thank you, brian. the "mystery spot".

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>> all right. president obama making it clear he wants congress to act now on the $450 billion jobs plan. >> i am sending this congress a plan that you should pass right away. it's called the american jobs act. there should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. everything in here is the kind of proposal that's been supported by both democrats and republicans. including many who sit here tonight. and everything in this bill will be paid for. everything. >> right. they were supported by democrats and republicans, just not the same issue at the same time. so did he convince republicans this plan will work? john boehner has come out and said it merits consideration. what about rnc chairman reince priebus. does it merit consideration in your mind? >> well, i think you have to do the right thing and listen to what exactly is going to be in

this bill. i don't think we'll find out very soon what it is. we've learned that this president loves to talk but we haven't seen a whole lot of details so we'll see. but, you know, my view of his speech was that it was an absolute fraud and it was a fraud because he told the american people that everything was paid for in this bill. so what he's proposing is spending yet even more money in a stimulus that, remember, didn't work the first time. it's put us in the ditch. he wants to spend more money but now he wants the super committee, this other group that's supposed to find all these other cuts in spending to add on to those cuts that they need to find, the $400 billion that he wants to find. he was whining about trade agreements that weren't taken care of. guess what, brian, they're sitting on the president's desk. they've been sitting there for over three years. >> and part of the problem is unions don't want to see those trade agreements passed and a lot of republicans do and democrats don't. we'll talk about that in a second. i got to get your reaction to rick perry at the debate talking

about social security and see what it means for his candidacy. let's listen. >> it is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. >> they went at it. in the end, he never said he wanted to save social security or fix it. it looks like he wants to get rid of it. and mitt romney, fellow republican jumped all over him for it. reince, is it a mistake because most republicans, when polled, like social security. >> well, i think that, you know, my -- my take is and i'm not -- obviously, i'm not speaking for the campaign is there's a lot of frustration over how we're paying for these programs. i think that we need to save all of our programs, but we need to do it by attacking the funding mechanism which i think we all agree, whether you're watching this show and you're a democrat or a republican, the problem is that we have programs in this country, we have promises that are made to people that we all know that the government on the current path can't keep. so what are we going to do about

it? and that's the debate that we're trying to have here, i think, in the republican party and i think democrats are starting to realize that if we don't tackle these entitlements, we're going to lose them. i mean, so we have to tackle the funding mechanism. >> i imagine as rnc chair, you're pretty pleased with the amount of passion and intelligence on that panel. certainly it was highly rated. would you also recommend that governor perry walk back the -- and clarify his stance on social security? >> well, first of all, it's a lot more exciting to see some ideas on the table and people talking truth in the republican debate than politics 101 from this president last night so i'll let the candidates speak for themselves, brian. i hate to be a downer but i'm not going to get in the middle of refereeing a republican primary which i think the american people are excited to see. >> reince priebus, always excited to see you on the show. have a great weekend. >> go, packers, buddy. >> we want -- a good game and i think the packers got very lucky

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tied to al-qaida planning a strike in the coming days in new york and/or washington. >> and last night, the president's big plan to bring america back from the brink. he says it's simple math. >> should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires? or should we put teachers back to work so our kids can graduate ready for college and good jobs? >> plus a $447 billion plan has to come from somewhere. is this really as easy as it sounds in a speech? we report this morning, you decide. >> all right, we're told the president's plan is paid for. but you'll have to take him at his word, perhaps, because republicans are crunching the numbers and so far, they are not sold. i'll tell you this for certain, "fox & friends" starts right now.

>> good morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us, as you know, we're approaching this big 10-year mark this weekend which is why steve doocy is down there at ground zero to tell us the plans for the weekend. >> right. steve, what do you see when you went down there as you looked around? what astounded you the most? >> you know what, brian? you can see in the distance the two memorial pools in the footprints of the north and south tower and right over my shoulder, actually, when we pulled up in the 3:00 hour this morning, the freedom tower which is now at -- i think at about 85 stories so far. it was festooned in red, white and blue lights and from where i normally drive through manhattan, you can just see kind of white lights but the closer you got, the more you realized it was red, white and blue. and they're getting ready. in fact, right behind me is where they're -- where they're building tower 5 and it's right

down there. and in fact, those guys have been working since 5:00 this morning. >> yeah, and of course, you got the museum memorial down there and it's going to be a huge place for tourists to go. reshaping the new york skyline 10 years later but steve, the news came across last night and confirmed at 9:45 p.m. yesterday, mayor bloomberg walks out and says -- credible terror threat. although we don't know everything about it. >> yeah. apparently what we have learned in the last couple of days, the intel community, you know, when we got bin laden, we found all sorts of hard drives and thumb drives and stuff like that. that he wanted to hit some place on 9/11. although it wasn't very specific. but now they've got specific, credible but unconfirmed that apparently three guys who all can speak english and arabic, perhaps, arrived in the united states in the last week or two or at least in the last month and they -- one of them may be an american citizen and apparently, what they'd like to do is to pull off a car bomb

attack in new york city or washington, d.c. >> yeah, obviously this, sends a shiver down the spine of millions of people but mostly people in washington, d.c. or new york city because one of the things they say though they haven't been able to confirm this attack, i don't know how they confirm it, but that it seems much more than aspirational. we have heard of other attacks that are in the aspirational phase, they're planning it and hoping to do something but this is beyond that. and, you know, as i was saying in the last hour, i had these two sort of eerie experiences a couple of weeks ago getting into a taxi with people who didn't know how to get to a very well known street in new york and they didn't have their nametag, their i.d. up and i said, excuse me, how long have you been here? and he said about a week. and i said where are you from? he said pakistan. and i started interviewing them because it just raised -- because you're supposed to say something if you see something, it sort of raised enough flags so the car bomb plot is one that sort of makes sense to authorities. >> i'll tell you what, according to the model that this mayor and

police commissioner talk about, someone like you should call 311. not 911 and say hey, you want to look into this and maybe get the car number. >> i'm doing that today at 9:01. >> we should point out that what they're doing, what they're doing here in new york city is they have beefed up security at tunnels and the bridges and other soft targets and when i drove across the george washington bridge, i hadn't seen this for a couple of years, they had police cruisers right there looking at everybody across the bridge as you went into manhattan. we had a security expert a little while ago, i asked him what if the bomb is already in manhattan? he said, that would be a problem. >> right. well, we'll talk a lot about this throughout the show. meanwhile at 5 minutes after the hour, let's talk about jobs. other big story this morning, the president laid out in 45 minutes $447 billion in a jobs plan that he hopes will get americans back to work. >> president obama's national economic council gene sperling

joins us live from the white house briefing room. good morning, gene. >> good morning. >> the president said last night, now i know that it's a big price tag, but it's all paid for. but it sounds like he's having the super committee figure out where -- how it's going to get paid for. is that wrong? >> that is wrong. the president is asking everyone to step up their game and what he made very clear last night is that what our economy needs right now is it needs bold action to get jobs going, get growth going in the short term. but that we have to do that in the context of a long term plan. >> right. >> every penny of the jobs plan and you bring the deficit and bring that down. he also said very specifically that he was going to put out his own specific deficit reduction plan on september 19th in which he would lay out the exact details that would show people how we're going to get our debt down, stablized and paid for the jobs app that is so critical right now and is being projected

by many independent observers to create nearly two million jobs next year. something this economy and our people, our veterans, our small people. >> that's true. >> desperately need. >> here's the common ground that will be easy to pass. you stop me if i'm wrong. i think republicans will be on board with the small business tax cuts at $65 billion. i think they'll be on board with the payroll tax decreases that you discussed that will cost social security $240 billion. you'll have some trouble, as i think you know, with the $50 billion for roads, transit and rail and some of these so-called shovel ready projects. how do you expect to turn republicans around? >> first of all, i think it's very important that they recognize that no is not an option. doing nothing is not an option. so, of course, we're going to welcome the parts of the plan where they do support what the president is calling for. and i think things like transportation, let's remember, have been bipartisan. in fact, we have a republican

congressman as our secretary of transportation. and i actually think that infrastructure investment has been one of the bipartisan things in this town. let's remember recently, head of the afl-cio and tom donahue, head of the chamber of commerce, you and i both know they don't agree on a lot. they agreed that we need major infrastructure spending so i do think that there is, you know, real hope that type of job creating infrastructure, investment in our future, helping productivity of our businesses can be part of the package. >> let's talk about taxes and what the president's plan is for raising them. he talked about how it's not fair that, you know, millionaires and billionaires are, perhaps, not paying their fair share but he also said previously that he wouldn't raise taxes in a recession. let's just remind viewers of that moment. >> scott ferguson, he's upset about taxes. he said explain how raising taxes on anyone during a deep recession is going to help with the economy. >> first of all, he's right. you don't raise taxes in

recession which is why we haven't. and why we've instead cut taxes. so i guess what i'd say to scott is his economics are right. you don't raise taxes in a recession. we haven't raised taxes in the recession. >> and mr. sperling, some think we are seeing a double dip recession. so what's the thinking? >> oh, no, the thinking is that we are not going to have any revenues go up this year or next even on high income americans. so what the president was saying was that we need to take bold action now to get our growth going, again, we've seen people estimating growth to be 2% higher, difference between a weak recovery and a strong recovery, two million jobs. this just came out today from mark zanby, a former advisor to the mccain campaign said this could create 1.9 million jobs. we are not -- even though we believe taxes on people like warren buffet, the most fortunate, have to be part of us getting our long term deficit down, even there, we're not calling for any revenue

increases this year and next. we want to do everything we can to get this recovery to take hold. >> so how -- so you tell me, gene, you're the great numbers guy. tell the american people how this is going to be paid for. everybody wants a great new bridge and great new road but is it at the cost of our deficit? is this another stimulus? >> this -- as we said, this is going to be paid for every single penny and, you know, we -- those of us who work on the president's economic team have worked at the same time and are working on the details right now of how exactly we will pay for this and still have the additional deficit reduction to hit the commitment of congress, the congressional bipartisan agreement and most importantly to get our debt stablized, our debt coming down with the percentage of gdp and the president will put out every detail and it will include additional entitlement cuts. >> gene -- >> even medicaid, savings will have to be on the table but it

will include asking the most fortunate to pay more of their fair share. not out of class warfare but just to make sure we have shared sacrifice, that we have a balanced deficit reduction plan. and that will benefit everyone in our country. if we have that confidence in the long term and the effort to get short term growth, short term job creation. >> gene, you say it's not class warfare and you say millionaires and billionaires are going to have to, you know, pay their fair share. but there are, what is it, 47% of americans pay zero federal income tax. so what's fair about that? >> well, that's not the case. you know, for example, every american who works pays payroll taxes. >> i said federal income tax. >> well, these are federal taxes. they pay their -- >> i'm talking federal income tax. >> you know what? i guess one place we disagree, you know, president bush, former republican president, former republican candidates thought it was a positive thing when you could have tax reform that

helped reduce the taxes or even make some hard working americans, police officers, firemen, others, teachers, be in a situation where they don't have to pay additional federal income taxes every year because they're paying state taxes, payroll taxes. you know, i don't think these americans you talk about think they're being taxed too little and that they would not benefit from a payroll tax cut, put another $1,000 or $1500 in their pockets. the rich and the most successful are doing an awful lot and they've been vilified an awful lot over the last 2 1/2 years when they're the ones who open up the businesses and hiring the people and also getting criticized for not opening up more businesses and hiring more people. >> first of all, what the president was doing was putting on the table things that would make it easier for small businesses to cut their costs. as you said, hire new people. more customers, by having a strong payroll tax cut, as i think you all said at the beginning of the show, these are the type of things republicans

have supported in the past. and could be very much part of a plan. we hope that they'll also see the benefit in modernizing our schools, making sure all schools have good science labs, getting jobs in the short term but also investing long term in our kids' future but we agree, it has to be paid for. we're not planning on having any revenue increase in the next -- this year and next. and you'll see the details of the president's deficit reduction plan in the next two weeks. >> ok. we'll look forward to that. thanks so much for taking your time to talk to us. >> thanks for having me. >> ok. meanwhile, these boys grew up together. you're about to see them. they played army together. now they're going to war together. the twin brothers heading to afghanistan on september 11th. they'll be here live. >> taxpayers gave them $535 million to build solar panels but they went under. so what happened to all of that taxpayer money? the f.b.i. is actually now on the case.

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>> in case they didn't hear him the first time, president obama hammered his message home to congress last night. >> i am sending this congress a plan that you should pass right away. you should pass this jobs plan right away. pass this jobs bill. pass this jobs bill. pass this jobs bill. you should pass it right away. >> you should pass it right away. pass this jobs bill. pass this bill. pass this jobs bill. pass this bill. pass this jobs bill. you should pass it again right away. pass this jobs bill. you should pass this bill right away! you should pass it. and i intend to take that message to every corner of this country. >> i think he wants them to pass the bill. he said it 17 times. we counted and our panel is here to grade the president on style

and substance, of course, louisiana congressman bill cassidy, pollster chris, author of "27 houpowers of persuasion"d democratic strategist christopher hahn. let me start with you, what you heard the president say about jobs, what grade do you give him? >> he gets an incomplete. he started out really channelling the american people's angst and he gave up some things, you know, infrastructure, we all wanted. he said it's paid for. but did you hear any details? and we heard his speech that sounded remarkably like other speeches but that did not accomplish the goals that he says this one will do so. >> he says he will release the details on september 19th that he didn't want to do that in front of this 33 minute or whatever it was, speech last night. what did you think, chris, about the substance of what he said? >> that's part of the reason for the incomplete but yoeovera i'd give him a d. you got a bait and switch. >> i like the white boards. d on substance. why is that? he talked about things that the

republicans have been calling for in terms of payroll, tax cuts, infrastructure spending, why a d? >> in small business, tax decreases and tax credits and on one hand, he says he wants to help small businesses and in the next sentence, he says he's going to pay for this plan by increasing taxes on the job creators in america. so you have a bait and switch because in one sense, he says he wants to lower taxes and in another, he says he wants to raise them. >> christopher, hold up your -- >> you watched a different speech. i give him a b. there was nothing in this speech that these guys shouldn't like. there was tax reforms, not tax increases. republicans have been calling to flatten the tax code for a generation now. it's time for them to stand up and do it. the president calling for jobs, for infrastructure improvement, for fixing schools, for hiring cops and teachers and firefighters. these are things republicans have stood for for generations. i am surprised and shocked that anyone in the republican party would oppose that. now, i give him a b because i would have like to have seen the complete details of what he's

going to do. i would have made it larger and i would have done a bigger plan and spent more money on infrastructure and i don't think stimulus is a dirty word. i know some of these guys might say stimulus is a dirty word. >> they don't use it to be sustainable. >> the fact is when all you're doing is borrowing money from other countrys to do all these things, it's not sustainable. >> who is going to pay for it? >> we see it with this stimulus. >> congressman, if he says he's going to pay for and he shows he can pay for it, would you support it? >> if you see the details. >> the details are going to be there in a week. details are there, he said he's going to pay for it. >> he's going to pay for it through a tax increase he's never going to get through congress. >> not right now as you heard gene sperling said. i want to ask you what you thought about in terms of style. people said it was his most impassioned or direct sounding speech. write down what grade you gave to the president in terms of delivery. what did you think? >> in terms of delivery, he gets a c because clearly, the guy speaks well.

he raises his voice. he pauses. he inflects. on the other hand, the whole time he's speaking, you're thinking to yourself, i've heard this before. he never got us to transcend the fact that we had heard it so many times before. >> chris and chris, hold up yours simultaneously. b and an a. not bad. you liked his style. >> i gave him a little b because he is the style over substance president and you got to give him credit. he does give a good speech. in fact, 64% -->> i see your a. >> the tv a. you got to be forceful. he was forceful. he was strong. we want to see more about that. no more no drama obama. >> go get them! >> we'll be back in two minutes. oh, there's a prize, al. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ i'm more active, i eat right, i'm making changes to support my metabolism. and i switched to one a day women's active metabolism,

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>> quick look at the headlines

right now. president obama is declaring a state of emergency in pennsylvania. heavy flooding there forcing more than 100,000 evacuations, the delaware river likely to exceed flood levels and the river cresting at 38 feet. major roads in and out of philly are underwater. and there will be no high school football at one texas school this week thanks to a drug cartel. stoney point high in round rock was supposed to play a team from mexico but reports say a cartel demanded $30,000 for the monterey tech game for safe passage across the border. are you kidding me? >> meanwhile, for a military family, deployment is always difficult news but imagine learning that you had not one but two deployments in your family and both on the same day. that is the case for the risets, twin brothers who are both leaving for afghanistan this sunday, september 11th. sergeant joshua and specialist jacob, twins, join us live from

columbus, ohio. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> you guys weren't supposed to deploy on the same day. what happened? >> well, there's a guy that was supposed to actually be in my spot, there's only two x-ray tech spots to go overseas. and he actually fell out of the group and they picked me up and so we're both going together now. >> what are you guys going to be doing over there? >> we both are x-ray teches. we'll take x-rays of wounded soldiers. >> very, very good. now, it is ironic that you will be deployed together on september 11th because joshua, september 11th, when you were 13 years old, changed your life, didn't it? >> of course it did. of course. i will remember that day for the rest of my life. and i just hope that when my son gets older, he doesn't have to worry about terrorism and if that's the case, then i've done my job by going overseas. >> sure. we're looking at some of the pictures of your family -- from

your family photo. album of you boys and there you are playing army together. jacob, how's your mom taking this? >> i mean, she doesn't necessarily want us to go overseas but she finds comfort that we both have done everything together so i mean, she doesn't want us to go but if we have to, then might as well go together. look out for each other. >> joshua, a little tougher for you because you've got a new face at your house just about, what, 3, 4 weeks old? >> 5 weeks old, going on 6 weeks, yes, sir, gabrielle alan reissig, i love him to death. rough day when i have to leave him. >> absolutely. have you always done everything together? you played army together, we saw you do all sorts of things together when you were little fellas and then you joined the national guard together. you're deployed together and you're serving together. that's got to feel pretty good, doesn't it? >> yes, sir. it sure does.

that's the good part of being a twin, always somebody around. >> somebody's always got your back. >> yes, sir. >> that's correct. >> all right. >> listen, september 11th is going to be a big day in new york city and a big day for your family and we thank you all for your service, fellas. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thanks for the support, sir. >> all right. thank you. great guys. sergeant joshua and specialist jacob reissig being deployed on september 11th. all right. straight ahead, some public schools could be forced to silence this -- >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. >> yep, that's the pledge of allegiance. there's talk of banning the pledge because there's no educational value to it. huh? and he's long been a critic of the president's policies so what does newt gingrich think of the president's jobs plan we heard

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>> welcome back, everybody. let's get right to your headlines. news to tell you about. more than 1.4 million people are without power in the southwest. >> there's a reason. you got a massive blackout leaving much of san diego and other areas flat out in the dark. adam housley has got a flashlight in los angeles with the details. adam, what's behind this? >> the good news is here, where we're located we had the lights on so we could watch the speech and the football game. good news is for people here in southern california that parts of san diego, southern arizona, northern mexico the lights are coming on gradually. bad news, parts of southern arizona, southern california, the lights are still out. 1.4 million. that was just in the san diego county area. there are more than six million people in the area where the lights went out. there's all kinds of varying numbers and estimates of how many people are actually -- were actually out at some point. but there's really no way to ever know exactly but by some

estimates, more than three million depending on who you talk to, the outage was triggered yesterday afternoon, 4:00 when an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest arizona. that's what caused all this. basically just an accident, human error. officials at the power company say two reactors at both of california's nuclear power plants went off line after losing electricity but they're safe. they had the back up power systems that kept those cool and kept it cool for the workers and people nearby so there's no threat there. if you talk to the power authority, they say it's not a deliberate act and hope to get everybody back on soon. take a listen. >> this is an event that's never occurred in san diego before with a complete blackout of the system and unfortunately, caused by an event in another state but we're going to work through it. we thank you for your patience. and look forward to getting you back to service as soon as possible. >> again, that's from the san

diego area. the area most affected. traffic lights were out causing all sorts of minor accidents through the southland. san diego county was affected the worst by this and the airport at one point was shut down in san diego as well. again, power is gradually coming back on and the good news, this wasn't any kind of terror act. it was simply an accident. >> the fact that one person could do so much damage to so many is incredible and the other good news is surfers don't need electricity and they take their shirts off and they jump in the water. they're able to surf today? >> we don't have time to surf here in southern california. we're working out here, brian. it's you guys in new york, you can come surf. >> i'm talking in general. >> brian is always looking for the silver lining of the story. >> surfers are safe. surfers are safe and the hollywood sign was still on so everything is good in southern california this morning, brian. >> that's incredible that one person can cause that kind of damage. let's get to other stories. firefighters are making progress against those raging wildfires

in texas. today, a dc-10 jetliner capable of dropping 10,000 gallons of fire retardant will take to the skies over bastrop county. the worst fire of the 180 burning around the state. flames leaving at least four people dead. >> and a wildfire in washington state no match for a group of greek orthodox nuns. they use rakes, they use rags and buckets of water to keep their monastery from burning down. the nuns managed to stop the flames from spreading to a cemetery that has wooden crosses. the nuns thanked god and the firefighters who helped them finish off the flames. >> that's dramatic pictures. f.b.i. agents raiding a solar company that suddenly closed down last week after getting more than $500 million in stimulus money. agents want to know whether the executives knowingly misled the government into securing that stimulus cash. solyndra investor and obama campaign donor reportedly held four white house meetings before

the company got the money. >> coincidence i'm sure. no police action group in brookline, massachusetts, wants to ban this from the classroom. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. >> the group slams the pledge of allegiance says it has no educational value and reminiscent of horrific totalitarian regimes. the kids disagree. >> i think its a good way of kids symbolizing their country. i don't get why they would ban it. kind of seems odd to me. >> brookline officials will take up the resolution in november. we'll give you the results. >> we want to bring in now someone that has strong opinions about the pledge of allegiance as well as the president's jobs speech. former speaker of the house newt gingrich live in manchester, new hampshire. newt, great to see you this morning. what do you think about brookline, massachusetts and the pledge of allegiance may be going away?

>> i think it's ironic as we approach 9/11 that there are people that don't think patriotism matters. they don't think teaching young children to say the pledge of allegiance matters. i think they're totally wrong and i would hope that any tax paying school will say the pledge of allegiance and i wonder why the taxpayers should subsidize it if it's not going to teach people to be patriotism and pro american. >> i want you to take in an excerpt from the president's speech last night and get your opinion on this. here's the president. >> the people of this country work hard to meet their responsibilities. the question tonight is whether we'll meet ours. the question is whether in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy. >> can you put politics aside? do you agree with the president? we should do that and just work on the millions without jobs.

>> i don't think we've had a more misleading president in my lifetime. there is no bill. i think he said 13 or 17 times last night, pass the bill quickly. and so i checked with speaker boehner's office. they haven't gotten the bill. he promised us he would tell us how he's going to pay for the bill but in fact, he then went on to say he's actually not going to tell us. he's going to give us a bunch of ideas in about 10 days that might or might not be part of the bill. this is like having one of your teenage kids wreck your car, show up and tell you you owe them a new car. but promising you if you buy the car for them now, when they're 55 years old, they'll pay it back. this is nonsense. this whole speech was like watching groundhog day. this was some of the speech that he promised $800 billion in stimulus is now smaller like most movie sequels, it's less interesting. it's less useful and history is just terrible. what he said last night about abraham lincoln is just totally factually misleading.

the federal government did subsidize railroads. but there was no federal department of railroads. the federal government did encourage land grab policies but there was no federal department of college of education at that time. federal government did encourage the research that led to the internet but by the way, it was ibm, intel, xerox, dell, apple, microsoft. >> sure,>> all these are private companies that actually developed it so i think the degree to which this president has banned history backing up bad philosophy is really very sobering. >> mr. speaker, you today are in new hampshire. what are you running for president or something? >> oh, yeah, that's right. you are. of course, we saw you the other night at the ronald reagan library at the big debate over on that leftie newschannel. you got in some great shots. for folks who missed it, here's newt gingrich zinging the media. >> not interested in your effort to get republicans fighting each other. i for one and i hope all of my

friends up here are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get republicans to fight each other to protect barack obama who deserves to be defeated and all of us are committed as a team, whoever the nominee is, we're all for defeating barack obama. >> mr. speaker, were you taking exception to that particular question? or when you look at the debate in total and you look at some of the stuff that john harris from that leftie web site politico asked and also brian williams, it seems like they had an agenda. au well, they did have an agenda and it's disingenuous for them to deny it. i have lots of friends that are reporters. and i think the news media plays an essential role in this country but the elite media is so biased, it doesn't even know it's biased. it assumes that what it's doing is just normal. but the fact is if you go back and review that debate, there was a continuous effort to build up very small points into big disagreements and to pay no

attention to president obama's record. how could you have a debate just a few days after zero new jobs were created and not spend a good part of the debate is why is the obama program failing? the same thing with last night. here's a president who comes in with a bad program and yet, i don't think the media to this day is holding him accountable. >> and yet, i want to get back to this speech for one second. he did talk about lower tax -- a corporate tax break. he did talk about infrastructures. he talk about payroll tax. i think the republicans have been talking about as well. was any of that there? >> it depends, with president obama, you have to look at the fine print. he wants lower tax rates after he eliminates lots of loopholes well, you know, the fact is that the company whose president was sitting there happened to pay almost no taxes last year for a good reason. they used every one of president obama's green tax credits. now, he can't have it both ways. and if he wants to incentivize

companies to use up tax credits, guess what? that means they don't pay taxes. which does he want? >> and then he cut two deals with china. "u.s. news & world report" says this will be a big month for you. you're off to an extremely strong start. he's accused of killing four people to feed a drug habit and will spend the rest of his life behind bars but his accomplice, a woman won't. judge jeanine pirro explains why she could walk the streets. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are switching from tylenol to advil. here's one story. [ george ] my name is george. i switched to advil six months ago. i love golf. but i have knee pain, hip pain, back pain and pain in my hands. advil is definitely my pain reliever of choice. it covers all, and i'm a walking testament. you may not know it to look at me, but i can dance too!

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>> you may remember this horrific crime, david laffer and his wife melinda brady pled guilty to murdering four people in a pharmacy robbery on long island, new york, back in june. it was a shooting massacre, all for some pills that they were addicted to. >> judge jeanine pirro is the

host of "justice" on fox news. they both pled guilty but the outrage is happening coming up in the sentences. >> yeah, what you have here, a sunny morning, father's day on long island. this drug addicted guy goes in, he shoots four people, the pharmacist, a 17-year-old girl who is working there. high school student and two customers. it is clearly cold blooded murder. execution style. and after he shoots the pharmacist and steals 10,000 pills, he then goes back and shoots him a couple more times. the video is very clear this is cold blooded. here's the problem, he's getting four consecutive life sentences, the wife who not only planned it, scouted the area with him the day before, drove him there, was the lookout, was the getaway is getting 21 years for robbery. that's just hog wash. i'll tell you why. >> she was outside and she claimed that she didn't know he was going to go on a shooting spree. they were going to go in and grab some pills.

does that nullify her case at all? >> not at all! not only was she involved in the planning, it's her husband. she knew he had a gun. and the d.a. comes out and the d.a. says, well, she helped us locate those drugs and she helped us, you know, bring evidence against her husband. hog wash! here's the thing. there's a video surveillance, his fingerprints are at the scene. and you've got a ballistics match. here's -- in new york, there's something called felony murder. if you were involved in the commission of a felony and a murder resulted as a result of that felony, you are guilty of felony murder. she deserves four consecutive life sentences as well. >> how about something behind the scenes to not put the families through a long tliel and give her this plea if she convinced the husband and everybody to plead guilty. do you think something happened like that? >> you know what? here's a guy that wouldn't cooperate and you know what? it's not about money when you have four dead people. but what they've got is solid evidence. the families and the defendants, the shooter comes out and says i want to give them closure. you're full of it!

you went in there and killed those people for no reason, cold blooded murder. you deserve the same mercy that they got. she should not be allowed to walk on a felony. >> jeanine pirro, we'll watch you this weekend. you are fired up at 9:00 and we're going to keep repeating it until something changes. >> thanks, jeanine. >> great to see you. >> all right, when we come back, the question everybody wants answersed, will the president's plan work? we're asking one small business owner what he thinks of this plan. >> the number one song was -- >> i think so. >> enrique igleasias played it. those are two l's right there? >> i didn't know that. [ male announcer ] heard this one? listen to this. three out of four americans don't get enough vegetables. so here's five bucks to help you buy v8 juice. five bucks. that's a lot of green. go to v8juice.com for coupons. you can count on us.

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>> stimulating small businesses is a major focus of president obama's $450 billion jobs plan. >> everyone here knows that small businesses are where most new jobs begin. small businesses will get a tax cut if they hire new workers or if they raise workers' wages. pass this jobs bill and all small business owners will also see their payroll taxes cut in half next year. >> wow, what do actual business owners think of this plan? let's ask one. berg dolman is the president and founder of dolman capital research institute and the author of this book "financial apocalypse." what did you find encouraging about that speech? >> well, we didn't really hear details so therefore, we really don't know what's in it. all we know is that it has to be passed right now. right now, right now. and after it's passed, then we'll find out what's in it. it reminds us very much of the health care bill.

>> republicans say i see merit in elements of these plans so maybe they could have some type of deal. do you see anything there from the money for roads, the money for bridges, the tax credit for small businesses if they hire someone, do you see anything there that could goose the economy? >> you know, we were told that small businesses now will have their payroll taxes cut in half but most small businesses already did that on their own in the last two years by cutting their employees in half. so this is how the free market spon responds but it's encouraging finally after all this time, the white house is understanding that it takes small business to get the economy going, only small business can create jobs. government cannot do it and infrastructure programs never create jobs. we have long history and in the great depression, roosevelt didn't create any jobs with all these artificial programs. in japan over the last 20 years, they've tried that.

building bridges and highways to nowhere. and nothing happened to the economy. they've been in a 20-year recession, basically, in japan. the stock market in japan is still down 77% from the 1990 peak. this is what we're going into. this is our road map. and nobody seems to recognize it. i wrote a book in 2007 called "cradle to meltdown" and predicted the 2008 crisis and wall street didn't see it coming. >> right. now we have a situation where he had a deficit commission come together and both sides, the bipartisan committee came together and said one thing we can agree on, corporate taxes are too high. they should be cut in half almost. that was not mentioned last night. that would directly affect you, right? >> yes. corporate taxes are much too high. canada just cut their corporate tax to 15%, 1-5. we have the highest corporate taxs in the world. our whole tax system has to be overhauled but unfortunately, every time that they overhaul

it, we get another 4,000 pages and it gets much more complicated. so the flat tax that steve forbes has proposed for a long time is really the way to go. you take a look at the eastern european countries, you take a look at russia, they have a flat tax which makes it so simple to comply. and that is what stimulates business. >> all right. they keep running out of milk. better dohman, author of "financial apocalypse." thanks for your instant analysis for last night's speech. great to be with you. house majority leader eric cantor actually likes some of the president's proposals. what about that take it or leave it mandate? leader cantor will be here live. now a new terror threat to attack america on 9/11. are we safer as a country right now? are we smarter than so years ago? geraldo rivera, top of the hour.

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>> good morning. today is friday, september 9th. i'm steve doocy from lower manhattan. that's ground zero right behind me. and we begin with the fox news alert. the terrorists may strike again. the feds sounding the alarm on brand new al-qaida plot, blowing up cars or trucks on september 11th in new york and/or washington, d.c. >> the jobs that the president plans to bring america back from the brink. more spending, more taxes but no excuses. >> we are tougher than the times we live in and we are bigger than our politics have been so let's meet the moment. let's get to work. and let's show the world once again why the united states of america remains the greatest nation on earth. thank you very much. >> the question this morning -- how will we pay for it? >> and the nfl set to honor the victims of 9/11 on sunday but personal tributes by the players, well, they are off-limits. now, one linebacker in hot water for wearing the stars and

stripes anyway. if you can believe that. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve has been downtown at -- actually at ground zero, steve. but you're seeing a lot of this for the first time and as is america because if you've gone to ground zero, they've had huge walls around there. it's a construction site and it's dangerous. >> the construction site is right behind me for tower 5. they haven't started much -- they're still down at the bedrock but the big tower behind us is the freedom tower and that is -- i would say that's up about 80 stories already. it's taking shape. that's tower one. tower two, still down maybe two stories high.

three looks like it's about 40 stories and tower -- tower four will go right over there where o'hara's pub is. it's still in the way. they haven't progress on that. >> you and gretchen will be in on sunday, such an important day to commemorate the victims, obviously, and just to look back at what happened 10 years ago. so meanwhile, let's get to today and your headlines. we have some breaking news right now because the department of homeland security calls it a specific, credible, yet unconfirmed terror threat no new york city and washington, d.c. federal agents and police are now looking for three al-qaida terrorists believed to be planning a car or truck bomb attack around the 10th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. intelligence officials say the suspect, one believed to be a u.s. citizen flew to the u.s. last month possibly from afghanistan. investigators say they were sent by al-qaida leader who vowed to get revenge for the death of

usama bin laden. despite the threat, the mayor of new york just took the subway to work and moments ago, he said the 9/11 ceremonies will go on as planned. >> i'm going to do what i do every day. >> to realize that -- terrorists did not beat us. >> all right. they need better audio in the subway first of all. >> what about the balance of the mayor? he's not even holding on to a strap. >> he takes it every day. he takes the subway every day. >> like a -- >> we should go on with our regular routines. there were concerns about several rental trucks reported stolen in kansas city, missouri, but those trucks have been recovered and apparently are not linked to the threat. more on the threat coming up with geraldo in a couple of minutes and millions are without power this morning after a worker's mistake at a utility company in arizona led to a massive power outage across the

west. parts of arizona, california and mexico hit badly. san diego getting the worst of it. traffic came to a complete stand still. i'll re-enact it for you shortly. there we go. airports were grounded, some folks getting their power back on right now. but it could be a while until all the power is restored. two nuclear reactors, by the way, were also knocked off line but officials say they pose no danger. and fire crews are making some progress battling those massive wildfires in texas, the fires have burned thousands of acres and have destroyed at least 1700 homes statewide today in hard hit bastrop county. a dc-10 jetliner capable of dropping 10,000 gallons of fire retardant will take to the skies. it is the worst of the state's 180 or so fires that are burning right now. take a look at this incredible video of a house crashing into a bridge in pennsylvania. this is from the river in lancaster county and you can

only see the roof of the home as it smashes into that bridge. no one appeared to be hurt. this comess on president obama declaring a state of emergency in pennsylvania. more than 100,000 families are evacuated there. the delaware river is likely to exceed flood levels and another river cresting at 38 feet. major roads in and out of philadelphia are underwater. >> all right. now, out to the nation's capital because president obama will be hitting the road himself to sell his jobs plan after a speech to congress last night. molly henneberg live in the white house briefing room. we know eventually, he's going to end up in ohio, right? >> right. good morning, brian and alisyn, he'll go to richmond, virginia, today and then ohio on tuesday to try to win popular support and build enthusiasm for his $447 billion american jobs act that the president introduced last night. he insisted several times that it will be paid for and not add a dime to the deficit. and while the president said part of the money to fund his new economic strategy will come

from revisions to the tax code and other belt tightening measures and savings that he's asked congress to identify by christmas, the president says he will detail specific proposals to pay for his ideas later this month. >> a week from monday, i'll be releasing a more ambitious deficit plan, a plan that will not only cover the cost of this jobs bill but stablize our debt in the long run. >> republican congressal leaders say there were some things in the president's plan. tax breaks for small businesses. reining in government regulations that they can get behind. it can't be paid for already if the president is asking congress to find savings in part to pay for it in the budget. they are concerned about hundreds of billions of dollars more in federal spending. >> i've not seen the details but some of the spending language that he used sounded a lot like the kind of language that we heard in the stimulus pitch

several years ago and we all know how successful that was. house g.o.p. speaker john boehner says they will consider the president's ideas. alisyn and brian, back to you. >> molly, thanks so much. let's bring in geraldo rivera now. good morning, great to see you. >> as well as steve doocy is still with us. and he's actually downtown. >> steve doocy. >> can't do the segment without you two talking to each other. steve, you have the first question. >> lay it on him. >> all right, geraldo -- >> hi, steve. >> how are you doing? >> did you see the extra cops on the george washington bridge this morning? >> it was crawling with cops which is exactly -- >> and the choppers in the air? >> you know, ray kelly said last night that new york police department and the port authority was prepared for this terror threat and they absolutely are this morning it seems. >> we're far safer now than we were 10 years ago, steve, as you know, the bin laden raid made that so clear.

that was a c.i.a. run operation. we have much more coordination than we ever did, intelligence, military, law enforcement. new york is a very tough nut to crack. >> does it make you a little nervous being in new york and hearing there's a specific and credible threat. >> there have been 13 thwarted in 10 years. >> again, i believe that what happened with one is the clear example. they got the intelligence from pakistan. he came to denver and the subway attack. they nabbed him with the intelligence because this interface now, i tell you what i think plus now with this see something, say something and the speech they made yesterday that scared the bejesus out of everybody, that press conference last night with the police commissioner and the mayor of the city of new york, nationally publicized. i think that they're going to have eight million people, you know, junior g men looking for bags left some place.

i would hate to be a middle eastern man trying to move his family in a ryder truck. >> let's use some logic. there's been a capture for the first time in a long time and not a kill whose focus was on u.s. targets. next thing you know, a week later, we find out about guys that were located in that area from afghani dissent that are involved in a plot. >> i don't know where it came from. we have our listening devices in virtually every congregation area with muslim-americans and foreigners and we are checking every one of their visas and their passports. we are -- >> we have people in mosques. >> top to bottom. you know, the one thing we cannot prevent is not these vast plots but it's the lone wolf who like major hussein gets it in his head to get a gun and shoot people. that's the danger going forward. i think we will continue successfully to prevent these massive terror attacks. >> a couple of things about this particular thing. they say that they've got a

description of the three guys but they don't have any names. and the other thing and brian touched on this, they all three speak arabic and english as well. but apparently, one of them, they think, is an american citizen. >> well, you know, we have a vast data base that we never had before. we've taken, you know, the the diametric measurement of tens of thousands of people in the afghan national territory and in the border region, we're much, much better prepared now to find out exactly who they are. you know, i could have had a dream at 3:00 in the morning and said they have mid eastern and they speak arabic. this is kind of a no brainer, i think. i do not believe that this specific credible threat is much more than aspirational and a lot of it comes back to the intelligence received in that compound in pakistan when we got bin laden, we got that treasure

trove and in it, he says guess what? i'd love to have one of you guys do something nasty on the anniversary of 9/11 to show that we're still relevant. having said that and you get a couple of phone intercepts and huge reaction, their victory is the huge reaction itself. that's what costs us money. how much is all this police overtime? how much -- you know, we got choppers in the air and -- >> that's why they call it terrorism. >> presidents coming to the location where you are right now, steve, on sunday. so, this is going to be the most hardened, soft target that ever existed. >> all right. well, let's hope that you're right, that it is just aspirational but geraldo rivera, great to see you. >> special this weekend at 10:00. >> it's 9/11, the counterattack. everyone is concentrating as they should on rememberance. i'm concentrating on what we did to get the people who got us. >> gotcha. we'll be watching. geraldo, great to see you. see you on radio. >> house majority leader eric cantor says he actually likes some of the president's job

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>> moments ago, vice president biden saying the president's new $447 billion jobs plan will start working very quickly after it gets passed. >> from three to six months, this money would be out and you can start rehiring teachers and law enforcement officers immediately. what would happen is your payroll tax would be cut in half, if you're a small businessman and you have 10

employees, you would save $15,000 a year immediately if you went out and hired a veteran. >> here for reaction from the other side of the aisle is house majority leader eric cantor. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> you heard the vice president there. three to six months, if the congress could pass the plan outlined last month, in three to six months, the economy would start churning again with jobs. >> ali, what i would ask of the white house is to work with us and to let us focus on the areas that we can agree in the president's proposal. set aside the kinds of things that we said we can't support. more stimulus spending is not something that we believe is effective in terms of job creation. i think the nation has seen that. but there are some ideas in the president's speech last night that are geared towards small business people creating incentives for people to invest money and to hire folks. those are the kinds of things that i believe we ought to work on right now and get moving. >> i understand that you reached out along with speaker boehner to talk to the president prior to the speech.

that did not work out. is there a follow-up leadership meeting that's going to take place. >> well, you know, again, the speaker and i had out -- you know, reached out and said we want to meet. we want to sit down to see where we can build consensus, reach commonality and produce a result for the people that are hurting out across this country. we were not -- we were not taken up on that offer. the president came last night to give his speech. and again, the one thing that i believe we need to ask the president is to ask him to go along with us in -- in working on the things that we can agree on now and not waiting for resolution on the differences because as he says, we've got to act now. >> congressman, i think some of the things that it sounds like you may agree on that he outlined, infrastructure, spending, beefing up, you know, bridges and roads. lower corporate tax rates, doing away with red tape. talked about getting rid of 500 regulations that are currently in existence. and the payroll tax cut that you

talked about. did you hear enough that you can pass this bill? >> well, again, i don't think it should be an all or nothing proposal here. that's the one thing i think has not sat well with a lot of my colleagues because the president continued to say umpteen times pass the bill. well, again, that doesn't work in this town or frankly anywhere. not when you have good people that can disagree. and there are pieces of this proposal that i think we can work on and move quickly so we can see people get back to work. but again, i think that there are plenty of things that we can work on, republicans, we've already set forth an agenda that each and every week we're rolling out a proposal to get rid of a regulation that may harm job creation. that should be consistent with where the president is. i asked him to work with us on that as well. >> right. and did you -- you know, a lot of people are saying that

republican and democratic leaders went home over the rest of the summer and you heard it from constituents, they were upset about the debt ceiling debate. now, the president is going to your home district roughly and going to the university of virginia to talk more about this. what have you heard from your people? and why do you think the president picked your place? >> brian, he's going right in the heart of my district to the university of richmond today. and, you know, we welcome the president. look, let's talk about job creation. i'll be there later this afternoon as well to meet with the folks that i represent. we're going to be at a small business -- a cement plant that is facing tremendous, tremendous burdens by proposed regulation from the obama administration. it's going to cost real jobs, tens of millions of dollars for compliance. this is not what we need right now. we have to grow the economy. so again, i welcome the president. i hope he hears the same message that i hear every time i go home. it's time for washington to get out of the way and to let small businesses in the private sector

get back into the game so we can grow this economy. >> house majority leader eric cantor, thanks so much for taking your time to join us this morning. >> thank you. >> all right. 19 minutes after the hour. we are following a fox news alert here because we got a new terror threat that's beefing up security in places like penn station where you are looking live at this moment. but are the terrorists really scaring americans? peter johnson jr. up next. >> and the nfl told him no personal tribute to september 11th. to heck with the rules, he's going to wear red, white and blue anyway. ( grunting )

>> 23 minutes past the hour. time for quick headlines.

interpol has issued arrest warrants for muammar qaddafi, his son and the former intelligence chief. they're wanted for crimes against humanity. qaddafi's whereabouts has been unknown since rebels seized control of tripoli last month and usama bin laden's compound in pakistan now strictly off-limits to foreign journalists and all other visitors in advance of the 10th anniversary of the september 11th attacks, the danish ambassador to pakistan and two french journalists were detained by police after they got too close to it. over to steve. >> as we have been reporting all morning, there's a potential terror threat against new york city and washington, d.c. and joining us right now from ground zero, peter johnson jr. who was a senior advisor to former new york city mayor david dinkins. good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you? >> fine. thank you very much. look at the cover of "the daily news" today. 9/11 terror threat, here we go again. >> doesn't impress me, you know, fear strikes out in new york city this weekend. >> how? >> this makes new yorkers, even

washington, d.c. people in shanksville, people across the country stronger. not weaker. we become resolute, not fearful. we become angry, not cowerring and so i'm confident based upon hearing mayor bloomberg last night, commissioner ray kelly who have done a tremendous job keeping new york city safe for many years that they're doing all the things that are necessary. the f.b.i. was there. they're on this, they're keeping our city safe. we will go forward in a solemn way and observe the death of our friends and family and the sacrifice of the people who attempted to avenge their deaths and continue to bring justice in the world. >> sure. now, ok, so the news out last night was that there might be the three guys, they speak arabic, they speak english, one could be an american citizen although our department of justice sources say that they got no information about the three guys being here, that that

could be, in fact, incorrect. >> next to the c.i.a. and the department of homeland security and other federal agencies, the new york city has got the best counterterrorism agency in the world. they've amassed their own people, 1,000 people strong. we've got police on overtime. we've got fire officers on overtime. >> in fact, as you talk about fire officers, that red brick building right over your shoulder is the infamous fire station right here at ground zero. >> and withstood ground zero and it was built up and we'll look behind this and new york city is being built up. more people are living here than before that terrible, terrible day. but when i think about terry hatton and michael judge and michael boylr and jonathan ayelpe and the firefighters that i knew that died and police officers that died and the port authority police department, they give us more than grief and solemnity on this day, they give us sustenance and they give all americans sustenance, we say they were strong.

they went up 80 floors, they went up 90 floors to save us. we're going to be strong in their memory and we're going to be strong going forward. so we understand the threat. the threat continues. it will continue for our lifetime. but at the same time, our solemn vow, to be strong. to be great americans, to move forward in their memory and in honor of their sacrifice and their deaths, that's the message of 9/11. and so we're not afraid. we can't be afraid. we have to be happy at their lives and happy at our great american prospects in the next century. and the evidence is behind us. out of fear and desperation, success and ultimately victory. >> well put. >> absolutely. >> and as the mayor said last night, effectively he said we're all in this together because if you see anything, say something. >> say something. and he gave me great confidence and he gave all new yorkers and americans great confidence. he and ray kelly. >> indeed. all right. peter johnson jr., thank you

very much. >> good to see you. >> all right. up next on our friday telecast, bernie goldberg says he can prove there was media bias in this week's republican debate. you will hear from him shortly and then religious leaders banned from sunday's ground zero memorial here. what does the archbishop of new york think about that? archbishop timothy dolan here live as well and acclaimed irish singer ronan tinen here to honor the heroes and lives last 10 years ago with a very special tribute. sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition.

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>> republicans actually decided not to give a rebuttal to president obama's jobs speech tonight. i guess there's already a rebuttal to his jobs speech. no jobs. >> that's very simple. all right. steve doocy down at -- over the world financial center, steve, behind you we've been seeing all morning long some of the construction, you've been there every year for the past 10 years, are you surprised about the amount of progress in one year? >> with the freedom tower, tower one over my shoulder, they've really made a lot of

progress on that. on the others like tower five which they really haven't started and all the other stuff, you're thinking what's taking so long? but the important thing is the memorial pools, the waterfalls are over my shoulder, they are hard to see right now, they're up and running and will be a stirring tribute this sunld. -- sunday. >> could you just look up and tell me who that is. look up to the sky. >> you mean brady bunch? >> yeah, you're -- i'm looking up the nose of chris wallace, by the way. >> hi, chris. >> i was going to say a more revolting sight, i can't imagine. >> so chris, tell us what the reaction has been inside the beltway to the president's jobs speech last night. >> well, i don't think a tremendous amount of surprise, you know. if a fan of stimulus, this is stimulus 2 so you think it was pretty good and probably even a little bigger than you'd been led to believe.

if you think that the government is not the answer and that, you know, the stimulus, whatever it accomplished over the last couple of years, it certainly didn't perform as advertised in keeping unemployment under 8%. you're thinking why are we going down this road again? so i'm not sure it changed a lot of minds. one of the interesting things, though, is that the republicans and i suspect it's because of the polls and the general revulsion with the performance of all of washington and the debt ceiling crisis, both the white house and the republicans aren't immediately rejecting each other. the president was at pains to say, look, this is a lot of republican ideas in here. i'm trying to meet you half way. and the republicans are not dismissing it out of hand and i think it's possible that some of this stuff like tax breaks for small business. cutting regulation, long term job training like they have in georgia, i think some of that might get passed. >> i want you to hear gene sperling who was on with us a short time ago. we asked him, who's paying for

this? see if you can pick up who is paying for this. >> as we said, this is going to be paid for, every single penny and, you know, we -- those of us who work on the president's economic team have worked at the same time and are working on the details right now of how exactly we will pay for this and still have the additional deficit reduction to hit the commitment of congress, the congressional bipartisan agreement and most importantly, to get our debts stablized. >> frankly, chris, we couldn't understand that explanation of who and how it will be paid for. did the president say that last night? is it the super committee? >> well, no. i mean, that was clear as mud from gene sperling. and look, from what i understand and, you know, i'll give the president and gene sperling their due. they want to separate this because they want people to focus on the jobs part and they say a week from monday, they're going to come out with how it's going to get paid for. but i think there's another reason that they are not telling it because i think a lot of it

is going to be the same old stuff which is closing tax loopholes on things like corporate jets, raising tax rates on the wealthy. it didn't fly before. it probably won't fly this time. and that's probably the weakest part of what he had to say last night. i loved the idea of him saying let's have the little short term stimulus for long term budget cuts and if those were spending cuts, i think a lot of people might buy on to the idea but if it's just going to be more of raising taxes on the wealthy, i don't know why it would succeed in september when it utterly failed in august. >> sure. now, chris, you know a thing or two about presidential debates and you've been at -- you were at fox when a couple of weeks ago, i'm sure you were watching, a couple of nights ago over on msnbc when they hosted the republican candidates and i don't know if you picked up a left wing bias in some of the questions but bernie goldberg talked to bill o'reilly about some bias that he saw. watch this.

>> your state has executed 234 death row inmates more than any other governor in modern times. have you -- have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? >> let's say a conservative journalist was questioning a panel of liberal democrats running for president of the united states. and the conservative journalist said, all of you at one time or another have voted for abortion rights legislation. do you struggle to sleep at night knowing that abortion which you voted for ends the process that otherwise would result in a human being? a baby. now, that question is clearly loaded. and any conservative journalist that would ask such a question would rightly, rightly get whacked by anybody who is fair minded.

well, brian williams did ask that question about a different controversial subject. personally, i don't care if he's for the death -- if he's against the death penalty. in his private life, but not as a moderator of a presidential debate. >> well, chris, what do you think? >> i think that bernie goldberg was 100% right. and it wasn't only that question, there was a bunch of questions that i thought -- that there was a left wing bias, it's the only -- a liberal bias, that's the only way you can describe it, that they came -- and the interesting thing is i think if you were to say to brian williams, isn't that a loaded question or you presented the alternative that bernie goldberg did there? would you ask a liberal politician about sleeping at night when you favor abortion? or, you know, choice? he wouldn't even understand it. it is so built into the drinking water, if you will, in some of these liberal outlets that they

don't even understand it happens and if you watch that debate, it's just a different set of questions than they would have asked democratic candidates and not just because of the fact that these are conservatives and it's conservative issues but i just think that there is a bias against conservatives in the mainstream media. i absolutely agree with bernie goldberg on that. >> only thing that's on my mind right now is find out what guests you have on sunday. >> well, we're going to h obvio day. we're going to do three hours of "fox news sunday" and you can see some of the people that will be there and a lot more. donald rumsfeld, john mccain, joe lieberman, mike rogers, rudy giuliani and dianne feinstein, on and on and on, we're going to cover all of the events in -- at ground zero in new york, to the pentagon in shanksville with those brave passengers on flight united 93 crashed the plane so it wouldn't be used as a weapon in washington. we're going to look back at what happened on that day. we're going to look over the last 10 years and look forward on the key issues of homeland

security and the war on terror. it is very special coverage of a very special day in this nation's history. >> and i know you do a great job. chris, we'll be watching "fox news sunday" all three hours. welcome to the three hour club at least for one weekend. >> yeah, let me just say, i have to do something about this workload. i don't want to end up looking like you guys do. >> thanks so much, chris. as you've heard, religion might not be allowed at ground zero but take a look inside our green room right now. that's archbishop you're about to see timothy dolan and irish tenor ronan tynan here to talk about that. >> we are all getting along. first, whats coming up on the weekend on "fox & friends"? let's find out. >> we want chris wallace to try four hours like we do. >> that's right. >> in light of the president's big jobs plan, it's government over regulation, is it ruining the economy? we'll hear from a panel of business experts on that. also, g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain will join us to weigh in on the president's plan. >> and i know alisyn is a huge fan of the former new jersey

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>> all right. quick headlines now. former president george w. bush could be kicking off the football season this sunday on fox. he filmed a two minute pregame introduction alongside members of the nypd, fdny, new york and new jersey port authority police ahead of sunday's memorial services for 9/11 and chicago bears linebacker lance briggs wants to honor the victims of 9/11. he says he will wear red, white and blue shoes and gloves for sunday's game. the problem, the nfl will likely fine him for wearing the

nonsanctioned uniform. briggs tweeted in response, by far, the best fine i will ever, ever pay. alisyn? >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg is under fire for not allowing any religious leaders at sunday's 9/11 memorial service. new york archbishop timothy dolan joins us to talk about it. >> thanks for having me back. >> our pleasure. i know you've met many times with mayor bloomberg. what is he thinking about keeping religious leaders out of this commemoration? >> i don't know if i'm privy to that, alisyn. i have the privilege of meeting with the mayor a lot. in fact, yesterday, for the memorial service for the police officers who were -- i did a prayer as did the cardinal and rabbi and i know about a month ago, i chatted with him because i was trying to figure out my own schedule for 9/11 and i said, your honor, i'm not jockeying for an invite. i'm trying to line up my day. am i going to be at the ground zero? would you like me there? and he said sure, i'd like you there but we're under a lot of restraints as far as security, as people and time so i don't

think that the religious community will be included. and i didn't take offense at all because i know the mayor very well and i know he's very sensitive to religion and he's constantly showing up at prayer services. he's going to be in the cathedral twice this weekend. >> we all understand time constraints, obviously, but having said that, 10 years ago when this happened, everyone, it doesn't matter what religion you are, prayed. people prayed. that's what happened. >> that's for sure. in fact, i'm trying to bring that out a lot. when i get a lot of calls from europe like the other day, vatican radio wanted to interview me and they're startled when i say this has really turned into a high holy day for americans. and at that dreadful day, one of two things could have happened. we could have turned away from god and turned to revenge and violence and paranoia and be paralyzed by fear or we could have turned to god in prayer and outreach to those in need and we did the latter and it's to the eternal credit of new yorkers and the united states of america

that we turned to faith and helping other people. >> are you disappointed that you won't be included in the official ceremony? the mayor has said, well, you can hold your own ceremony. is that what you'll do instead? >> we are, at 9:00. >> with all religious leaders coming together, muslim, jews, christians. >> this has been. there's one the other night. there was an interreligion service so no, there's an abundance of it going on throughout the city. there's so many invit invitatio i regret the wider cebrations here in new york. >>atichear. so it will have a role even though -- >> i sure hope so because earlier, the earlier hint of what you said, alisyn, is right on target. that was an amazing day where people turned to faith. they were telling me at st. patrick's cathedral when the cardinal came back, he was ministering to the victims all day. when he got back, he said, well, i haven't said mass yet. let's take the 5:30 mass in the cathedral thinking it would be a normal mass. standing room only. people standing out on the street.

>> i think we'll see that again on sunday. >> god willing. >> stick around, you can hear ronan tynan coming up. when we come back, the tribute to the victims of the september 11th attacks. first, let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on top of the hour. hey, bill. >> good morning to all of you. there's a lot we don't know about the terror threat. tom ridge, america's first homeland security secretary is here live to talk about that. on jobs, does his proposal stand a chance? is it the right idea for america? democrats react to congress and republicans react the morning after and a view of ground zero you have not yet seen. martha and i will see you all in about 12 minutes on "america's newsroom."

>> welcome back, everybody. after the 9/11 attacks, his rendition of "god bless america" helped heal new york and the nation and reminded us all what it means to be an american. we're joined right now by an irishman, not just any. one of the best in the business. he's irish tenor ronan tynan. privileged to have you back here today. you've been here 14 years. but the big story is, i guess, one of the big stories is what archbishop dolan talked over there with ali, after 9/11, you were in the middle it was and came back and volunteered. on this ceremony, the mayor has elected to have not any religion represented. does that surprise you? >> i think it definitely does surprise me. at the end of the day, when such a huge tragedy occurred, a lot of people turned to their faith irrespective of what they believed in but they turned to it. and whether they were protestant, catholic, methodist or muslim or whatever, they turned to their faith looking for help and that made a huge difference to people.

so i suppose in respect, i think it's an unusual idea but i mean, everybody has their own opinion about that. >> so bring us back to 9/11 10 years ago, you wanted to do something. what happened? >> the night before, i was singing in washington, d.c. and i was singing for the president at union station and the next day i was supposed to be in the pentagon. for some reason, i never got there. i came back to new york the following day and i ran into the assistant fire commissioner at the time. i said what can i do? she said i'll take you down. and prior to that, i had been at sane vicinity sent's and said can i help medically? they had plenty of medics frpt not a problem. i went down and i was on the table and next minute, a couple of cops came in and one guy said to me, he said will you sing for us? i said what do you want me to

sing? he said "god bless america". a couple of firemen said can you sing "danny boy"? so i sang danny boy. you don't think about the environment, dust or anything. you think about wanting to give solace to people who deserve it. >> i think about you singing "god bless america" for the world right now. is that possible? >> it's my honor. >> thanks very much. take it away. >> ♪ while a storm cloud gathers far across the sea ♪ ♪ let us wear allegiance ♪ to our land that's free

♪ let us all be grateful ♪ for our land ♪ as we raise our voices ♪ god bless america ♪ land that i love ♪ stand beside her ♪ and guide her through the night ♪ ♪ with the light from above ♪ from the mountains ♪ to the prairie ♪ to the ocean ♪ white with foam

♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweet home ♪ god bless america ♪ ♪ my home sweet home ♪ >> wow. ♪

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>> so steve, we'll be joining you on sunday right there at ground zero. >> that's right. our special coverage starts at 6:00 in the morning. it will run through