>> no one is responding. this is an incredible organization you work for. but no one in the federal government is responsible for half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money? >> latest on the solar panel problem that is coming back to possibly hurt the president. >> meanwhile, forget trying to create jobs and revive the economy. one town is making its top priority to save the birds. and businesses and their owners will be forced to pick up not the poop but the bill. >> we're running out of birds. tariq salaha can call off the police search. his wife has been found and it turns out she was not kidnapped. she went on a special trip. >> with another guy. >> or i should say journey. >> yeah. >> ♪ small town girl living in a lonely world ♪ ♪ she took the midnight train

going ♪ >> yeah. "fox & friends" starts now. >> this is cloris leachman. and you're watching "fox & friends." >> oh, god. i was hoping i could forget about that. >> she was great! she was funny! >> yeah, until she went for my ear. >> wait a second, she also -- i have news for you. fox news alert, do we have it for you, she went after bobby bowden while she was doing a sports radio interview in green room after the show, she was very aggressive with him and bobby bowden didn't know what was happening. >> that's the problem with him. if you miss a little of "fox & friends", you miss a lot. a lot of people in washington talking about this solyndra, a company out to build solar panels. they got a half a billion of our dollars and yesterday on capitol hill, it got so testy because congress was asking the administration, look at this. who said this was ok?

who thought it was a good idea? here's a little back and forth. >> who is it that decided and made the decision that this act, passed into law by the federal government was not going to be adhered to, who made that decision? >> as i said, it was reviewed by legal counsel. >> we're throwing him under the bus, too. throwing her under the bus, too. did the secretary of energy have anything to do with this decision or is he under the bus, too? >> not to my knowledge. >> so no one is responsible. this is an incredible organization you work for. no one in the federal government is responsible for half a trillion -- half a billion dollars of taxpayers money. this is phenomenal! what do you do for a living? >> the interesting thing is actually somebody is responsible. we finally figured it out this morning. >> who? >> president bush. yep, they even went back to blaming president bush for originally signing off or beginning this application process for this kind of loan for solyndra during his

administration. the only thing is that actually unanimously they voted not to move forward with that two wreaks before president obama came into office but never miss a moment of an opportunity to pass the buck. i found that to be the most outrageous thing that came to be yesterday. >> yeah, henry waxman himself put this into obama's stimulus. that's why they got half a billion dollars. so top of that, not only are they saying that we're not taking responsibility. what can i do about it? this at one point when it was released was the centerpiece of the green jobs initiative that was -- the stimulus bill that was going to be priming the pump to turn our economy around. now that it seems his company wasn't -- was -- this company was not worthy of our dollars and the office of management and budget realized that and they have these e-mails saying listen, this is not ready for primetime. actually, i think that's the exact quote. says not ready for primetime, they went ahead and passed it anyway and then when the office of management and budget was trampled, now all of a sudden,

people say i had no idea it was bad. did you see the story about mark levine and the -- >> i was going to say, one of the workers allegedly called into this radio show and he said that we threw away at least $100,000 a day in manufactured solar panels that had defects. can you imagine that sort of philosophy allegedly at a company, where we have a little mistake here, we have half a billion bucks. you go into bankruptcy when you operate that way. that's exactly what happened. >> something else we learned about this solyndra and it was the first company that got a department of energy grant from the federal government under the stimulus. apparently, the company officials leveled with the u.s. government and said you know what? we're about to go bankrupt. we know we got half a billion dollars. we needed more. extraordinarily, the federal government figured out, ok, it's cheaper to liquidate. let's not give them anymore money. they wound up with an additional

$75 billion. why would they give this company another $75 billion? could it possibly have to do with george kaiser who was one of barack obama's largest bundlers during the last campaign. and his venture capitalists group, he is the largest investor in it. he also visited the white house 16 times in the last two years. is that connected? that's what the f.b.i. is looking into. that's what this house committee is looking into. that's what treasury is looking into. this is all hands on deck. >> but i think if you're just an average american like the three of us are sitting at home today wondering how does this affect me? the bottom line is this is your money. this was taxpayer money and you've got to wonder where the other parts of the stimulus money went and most importantly as the president is asking for more stimulus money now in a jobs bill. will there be better protection of the way in which your money is spent? remember, recovery.gov, was that

the web site for joe biden last summer to make sure all your stimulus money was accounted for and you could go and look for it, i think a lot of people are very hesitant including democrats about more stimulus money. >> did you say joe biden? the vice president also had a press conference yesterday where he was really right on the money. i don't know what -- if the white house lost his number, if they don't -- if he doesn't have voice mail set up, but while the administration was trying to come up with an excuse for the money that was wasted in this solar panel project, there is vice president biden talking about how they have saved money and gotten rid of fraud and abuse in washington. here's the -- here's the vice president. >> as long as there's waste and fraud in government and serious waste and fraud, people lose confidence in the ability of their government to do the job. >> mr. good timing talking about that on the day that we're talking about what some are referring to now as obama's enron.

>> and he's part of -- he was put in charge of this committee to actually cut down on waste and fraud. it's ironic it comes on the same day as this discussion. let's talk about boeing for a minute. we've been telling you about this story for the last couple of months now. they were based in washington state but then wanted to open up this plant in south carolina where they wouldn't necessarily have to unionize their workers there and it created a huge fuss with the national relations board, the nrlb and they've been fighting this thing. there's going to be a big vote in the house today whether or not they can actually stop this plant from operating in that state? >> what the bill would do, gretch, is it would prohibit the national labour relations board from ordering any employer to shut down a plant or relocate even if a company illegally retaliates against unionized workers so they're going to pass that in the house. that's going to pass. however, harry reid will not bring it up for a vote in the senate and some u.s. senators on the republican side took this

occasion to just let the obama administration really have it because we're talking 1,000 jobs here. i have a message for the president, if you're for job creation, you can't be against the job creators. i have another message for the president. we have a bill that will help solidify 1,000 jobs in south carolina, pass it now! if you want to be in favor of jobs, pass this bill now! >> he was mocking the president on the big push. the nlrb has come forward and said look, we have proof that they pulled out of washington state because of their -- they were fatigued from all these threatened strikes that the union had against them. >> number one, that seems like a good reason to move. number two, if that is illegal, boeing said look, you've taken our statements way out of order.

we want to be able to build a new airplane in another state and move our production line to charleston so they're going to fight this legally anyway but the house -- >> but it's already before a judge in seattle and it will take years to litigate and so they're thinking let's bring this to the forefront. maybe the pressure, the political pressure, when everybody is talking about jobs and there's 1,000 hanging in the balance, maybe this will push them a little closer to figuring out what the heck to do. >> let's do some of your headlines for your thursday. could the search for missing utah mom susan cox powell finally be over? police uncovered a set of human remains in the topaz mountains, an area where susan and her family went camping before she disappeared two years ago but susan's father skeptical of the discovery. >> who it is, he mean, it could be somebody from 100 years ago or it could be someone else's loved one who, you know, now will have an answer. >> police are expected to announce as early as today if the remains are a match. susan's husband josh powell is the only person of interest in that case.

update now on the colorado cantaloupes linked to four deaths because of listeria. health officials are now pinpointing the states the rocky ford melons were shipped to. those screens are on your screen right now. missouri, nebraska, oklahoma, arizona, which ones am i missing? new jersey, new york, pennsylvania. the cantaloupes have a green and white sticker on them that says rocky ford. there are now 17 cases of listeria linked to the fruit, listeria mostly affects older adults, pregnant women and babies. the symptoms are fever, muscle aches and confusion. former marine corporal received a medal of honor today. last night he had a beer with president obama. is that the same place where he had the beer summit? >> same table. >> this is outside the oval office. meyer is being honored for saving the lives of 36 u.s. and afghan troops ambushed by

taliban insurgents. he's the first marine to receive the medal of honor for action in iraq or afghanistan. crazy story, folks. her husband reported her missing. but it turns out that mikala salaha isn't missing at all. she's on her own journey with the guitarist from the band journey. >> ♪ small town girl ♪ living in a lonely world ♪ she took the midnight train going anywhere ♪ >> we're not sure if she took a midnight train with him. we know that journey's rep is confirming that she is with the band in memphis where they performed. i'm not sure what that says. >> it might be. >> they might have a history. >> they're apparently -- they used to date and now they might be dating again even though she has that pesky old thing called marriage. >> right. >> apparently they went to see foreigner together and foreigner

will be our special act as we broadcast live from the villages coming up on monday's "fox & friends." >> the heat of the moment? >> yeah. >> wow! >> urgent, urgent, emergency! remember that movie birdman of alcatraz? he was a lonely prisoner and he had birds as friends. must be something about san francisco because the board of supervisors there is considering a bill that would protect birds as they fly through the sky over frisco. >> it has to do with a lot of money. that's the bottom line here. what do they want to happen? they want that new people who are building new buildings they have to put this special kind of glass on their skyscraperesque buildings because they don't want the birds to keep crashing into them. one person talked about a parrot she's been nursing back to health for how long, 10 years i think or she's worried that new birds might die. >> if san francisco had its

way, the dinosaurs would be able to nibble on trees. >> they have plenty of dinosaurs in california, believe me. >> if a bird is dumb enough to go into a glass, it's nature's way of not belonging here anymore. >> it doesn't see the buildings! >> why doesn't it see the buildings. >> there's a lot of see through buildings in california with glass on both sides. they think oh, i'm going to fly right -- boom. >> as jerry seinfeld made famous, he said you would think -- even if you think -- you don't know what to make of it, at least you should look out for the other bird coming directly at you. >> for the birds watching right you no, if you're flying through the frisco airspace, follow another bird. >> yes! >> let that be your -- >> first one to hit and falls to the ground. >> there you go. >> 13 minutes after the hour. president obama not exactly he helping the poll numbers of fellow democrats except for senator joe manchin. most interesting part of this story, dick morris on this story next and have you seen this video? >> look at the monkey.

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meantime, in traditionally conservative west virginia, democratic senator joe manchin actually have seen his approval numbers rise. according to a recent poll, senator manchin had an approval rating of 52% in january. now that's gone up to 59% this month. what does this mean for democrats arnold the country? joining me now, former advisor to bill clinton and fox news contributor dick morris. i think he's the only democrat, is he not, who has actually gone up in the polls? >> yeah, because he's the only democrat who is sort of a political transvestite. >> a what? >> a political transvestite. he's a democrat but dresses as a republican. he goes around telling people that he's against obama and wants to repeal obamacare and he got elected with an ad where he shoots at a target on a tree that's called cap and trade. and his whole campaign is based on the concept that i'm against obama and i'm a republican even though he's a democrat.

it's turning out that's the best way to survive. >> that was my next question. will that be what other democrats choose to do to survive because already with regard to this jobs bill proposal, you're starting to see a list of more conservative democrats saying i don't know if i like this stimulus spending thing. i'm thinking of mary landrow, bob casy and manchin himself. >> that's true. casey has a very tough race against a guy named tim burns who is a strong candidate in 2010. the thing here is that the defeat of the democrat, of weprin, the election of turner in that new york congresonal district is huge. it means that no democrat, no democratic incumbent is safe. it also, by the way, meanshat the jewish vote is now leaving obama. the -- even though the reform and conservative jews voted republican in that race. but you have a whole series of senate races, gretchen, like eight or 10 of them where you

have very strong republican challengers against incumbent democrats, in missouri, mandel in ohio. hasner in florida. allen in virginia. rayburg in montana. and in all of those races, the democrat is going to get killed if he's married to obama. >> very interesting, dick. >> actually, you know, there is an outside, outside, outside chance of 60 republicans in the senate. outside chance. >> all right. >> you heard it here first. dick morris is also going to stick around for this. president obama's integrity may come under fire for the first time ever. as the investigation into solyndra expands plus how bad could it actually get? dick will talk about that and the accused underwear bomber acting out in court refusing to stand up for the judge. what a surprise and wait until you hear what he had to say. he's representing himself.

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>> quick headlines for you on this thursday morning. the faa facing another partial shutdown tomorrow when the funding expires. a stop gap bill to keep about 80,000 faa employees and airport construction workers on the job is now hung up in the u.s. senate. and the border crossing between mexico and california reopened this morning after this mess. a car trapped under collapsed scaffolding forced it to shut down yesterday. 11 people were hurt in the accident. back to you and brian. >> thank you, steve, the obama administration on the hot seat now for loans that it doled out to the failed energy company called solyndra. yesterday, lawmakers questioned top energy officials asking why solyndra received the $528 million loan in the first place.

>> you tell me what you're going to tell the taxpayers. we're in the hole for so much money in this country and you're dealing with this in a very casual, cavalier way. whose fault is it? >> let me say that the 200 odd professionals working in the loan guarantee program are exceptional professionals. >> you throw them all under the bus. pretty bumpy ride. you're the driver, mr. silver. you're the driver! >> never got anywhere with the conversation but it is fascinating. >> how big is this? >> i thought you were going to say up close and personal with the clinton administration. >> i wasn't going to say that. >> i think it's -- it could be the potential of a very big skang scandal because the real

question is the relationship between obama and kaiser. he was in the white house 16 times during the obama presidency and a deal like this gets done at that level. they took this deal that the bush administration had killed and six days after coming to office, they put it on a fast track to approval and something like that is wired beforehand and a bundler like kaiser would insist on direct access to obama. he wouldn't be happy to being shunted off to the energy secretary or those folks. he would do it directly and the problem with this for obama is it casts his jobs program and his environmental program into doubt and the stimulus spending because up to now it's just been a question of it may have been ineffective. it may have been misguided, green jobs may have been unrealistic but now there's the specter that it may have been corrupt and off the air, brian asked me are there more

solyndras lurking? yeah, when you are trying to give away a trillion dollars very fast in a couple of weeks and you really don't care where the money is spent. you just want it spent because that was the goal of the program, there's bound to be a lot of corruption in that. the only reason it hasn't come out yet is we had a democratic controlled house. but now that we have a republican-controlled house and some of those committee staffs are now republican and they have subpoena power, you're going to be getting a lot of this stuff. >> let me ask you this, for the person at home watching this morning, why should they care about this? >> it's their money. this was a loan that was given by the federal government to this company. the company has spent it. went bankruptcy. got another loan from the government when it was beginning to fail and there's strong indications that -- and the guy who basically was the chief investor in the company was also one of the chief donors to obama. so the implication is that maybe

$500 million of your money was given in return for campaign contributions. >> the government was venture capitalists -- a venture capitalist all of a sudden. dick morris, author of "revolt" thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up on the show, the l latest you tube sensation. barely knows how to use the internet. >> did it capture? >> i put it on capture. >> that's a pretty good monkey. >> uh-huh. wait a minute. >> meet the adorable couple caught trying to teach themselves technology. they'll be with us. >> and president obama touting his plan to get americans back to work at a company that's shipping jobs to costa rica. what about american jobs? stuart varney has been in america a long time. >> look at that look! that look he gives is uh-oh! but first, happy birthday to tommy lee jones. he turns 65 today.

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the hilarious video is now viral. take a look! >> look at the monkey. >> did it capture it? >> take it. >> i put it on capture. >> that's a pretty good monkey. >> uh-huh. wait a minute. >> yeah. here now, do it again. >> warning, you must stop recording before trying to close cyber link. oh, gee. well, i don't know what i'm recording. shucks. >> aw, shucks. >> you get something new and don't know how it works. they didn't realize they were recording themselves. they have gone viral and they will be joining us live, the huffmans will and we'll show you more of that video as they are caught on tape. >> cute. >> all right. now we got your other headlines for this thursday. there's a financial shock at ubs this morning, police have arrested a man in london who may

be connected to a trading loss of $2 billion. oh, man, the banking giant noticed the loss in the last 24 hours and immediately started an investigation. they suffered a 10% loss in their company value in early morning trading so far today and could now be in the red for the entire third quarter. >> ok, the suspected terrorist accused of trying to blow his pants up, you remember? explosives in his underwear. he's shooting off his mouth in court. umar farouk abdulmutallab shouted usama is alive. he refused to stand up for the judge, put his feet up on the defense table and complained about having to wear prison clothes. all while acting as his own attorney. when the judge explained the charges against him to perspective jurors, he shouted allah akbar, allah is the greatest. off to a good defense start. >> engine problems on an airplane forced justice ruth bader ginsburg to slide down an emergency chute to safety.

ginsburg was on this united flight from washington, d.c. to san francisco. the pilot noticed smoke from the engine. he ordered all 179 passengers to evacuate. ginsburg was not hurt. one passenger was injured. the 78-year-old justice was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009. >> meanwhile, one minute, a california woman is $54 million richer, the next minute she's back to zero. that woman right there thought she won the mega million lottery after checking the numbers in the newspaper. after her husband died two months ago, she considered this a blessing. then came the bad news. the paper messed up. they printed numbers from last week's drawing. >> every day i get the paper, every day, i depend on what they say, what they write. >> i'm kind of upset. >> oh, man! bettencourt says she won't be playing the lottery again any time soon. all right.

just a dollar and a dream, brian! >> all right. pipe dream. one team is officially in baseball's post season, you don't have to guess too hard to see who it is. roy halliday and the phillies taking on the astros. the guy is good and pitches a long time. the complete game. they clinch a playoff spot. they've been in the post office five straight seasons. tom brady's message to patriots fans, get rowdy! yesterday, brady was asked what his message was for pats fans when they face the san diego chargers in their first home game. listen. >> yes, start drinking early! you know, get nice and rowdy! 4:15 game, a lot of times get moved up and come out here and cheer for their home team. >> look at his teeth, how white are they? they're blinding. >> a patriots spokesperson says

brady met brandy, he meant fans should sty hydrated and drink a lot of water. alcohol takes water out of your system and the play of the day comes from a goi that can do serious multitasking ding the indians-rangers game, smacked a foul ball down the right hand line. you see the guy make the catch while on his cell phone and continues the conversation. look at that! that guy is cool! and that guy has got a baseball and that must be one important phone call. yeah. that's what happens, if you want to go to the game and still work, you can do both. >> never believe it. >> a guy that can multitask. >> what about the guy that lost out on the fly ball to the guy on the cell phone? come on, get with it. >> come on. tell joe montana about that. >> he'll be joining us between 9:00 and noon today along with the former vice president of the united states, dick cheney will be live. tomorrow, mitt romney comes on. >> sounds like a great show.

let's listen. president obama on the road yesterday in south carolina where he rallied support for his jobs bill at a small company called west star precision. cue the president. >> do what a lot of companies here in the research triangle do so well, they hire smart people, they give them the best technology, they create something of lasting value. >> well, what the president didn't mention is that west star just opened a new facility in costa rica shipping jobs overseas. >> cheaper labor. joining us now, the host of "varney & company." . he doesn't come cheap and cost says us a bundle from the fox business network. i blame the staff on this. how could they march him out to north carolina and embarrass him like that? >> what kind of advice is he getting when he stumps for jobs, and visits a company that is exporting jobs, opening a new manufacturing facility in costa rica? yeah, they've got their headquarters in north carolina.

ok. but they've got jobs a lot of them in costa rica. there's a juxtaposition here. >> i heard this president is in charge of all the decisions so i don't know if i would blame it all on the advisors. when you're the leader of the free world, their first question might be how many jobs have they created in america? >> so here's another question for you -- the president goes to visit essentially a green energy company, this is west star precision, they make equipment that goes for ultimate energy companies. they're a green company. on the very day that he arrivess to visit this company, the energy department announces that the $38 billion green jobs program has only created 3,545 new permanent green jobs so far. so there's two questions. why visit a company which is exporting jobs when you plug in your jobs program. why visit a green energy company when they're just announcing that your green jobs program is a very costly, i'm not going to call it a failure but it's not a major success. >> sure. >> is it?

>> i don't think he cares. look at the guy who heads up his jobs council over at general electric, jeffrey immelt. how many jobs have they shipped to china? >> thousands. >> that's a cynical approach to the news, steve. >> just saying! >> but one of the biggest criticisms that i think lands and sticks the most with this administration is $850 billion in stimulus. how is it spent, did it save the economy or not save the economy? the problem is he went for his agenda within this emergency package. that's an agenda item. this money is for somebody -- who somebody wants to do, not save a country's economy. >> the spending of our money has been politicized. it's gone to politically correct projects, essentially. this green energy jobs, $38 billion allotted to back up loans for green nrpg companies. -- energy companies. 3,545 permanent new jobs in the green energy field after two years! >> they cost how much in stimulus money for us. >> if they create all the jobs

that they expect to create, it is a major success and they really do well with this thing, each job will cost $640,000 usd. >> stimulus money. >> that may look good politically. our green jobs have to have them but looks terrible for anybody looking at the financing of this thing and to the taxpayers. >> if you look at the solyndra jobs, there's half a billion dollars. it lasted what? >> we haven't even got to that yet. >> they were temporary jobs. >> they were. they were. >> we'll look for you today at 9:20 eastern time. >> the ubs lost $2 billion, rogue trading. >> one guy. >> apparently so. good story. >> catch up with you. thanks, stu. next on the rundown, a new study says becoming a dad makes you lose some of your manhood? >> is this true? the medical a team here with those answers. >> how many kids do you have, stuart? >> six. >> you're still a man in my book! >> thank you, gretchen. come on my show any time. >> if you think our economy and country are on the wrong track,

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>> couple of quick headlines for you now. labor talks have been extended after missing last night's deadline. they'll meet again this morning. the union has pledged not to strike. and big changes down under. australian passports, got to pay attention to this now, they'll come with three gender options.

i know you can think of two. male, female. and then there's indeterminant. the government hoping to end discrimination against transgender or people who are not entirely male or female. steve? >> that's new. thanks, gretch. now, with over $14 trillion in debt we are and unemployment over 9%, many are worried about our economy and our country as well but our next guest says it can be fixed and there is a simple solution no matter who is president of the united states. former chairman of northwest airlines and author of a brand new book called "the change maker" al checi joins us live today. what do you mean the country is broken but it's easy to fix? >> well, we all are concerned about the direction that the country is going in. i've had a lot of experience changing things. and i'm very optimistic. first of all, we've faced times much worse than this in the past. second, we have enormous

challenges -- we have enormous challenges but we have enormous resources as a society and we are a dynamic society. we're used to change. now, i think we need better leadership but we also need to change directions and change our agenda. >> now you say -- we should point out that al ran for governor in california. you made a lot of money buying businesses and stuff like that. you went to harvard business school. you say new leadership. what are you talking about? >> well, we've developed a professional cast of politicians that are very, very good at getting elected. >> a cast? >> a cast. and in fact, they are now an airistrocity. i see a change sweeping across the country. we see more people coming in with diverse skills. we saw a turnover in the congress of almost 20% of the people. and i wrote the book to talk

about leadership, talk about the process of change and most importantly i put down an agenda that i think will turn the country around. a common sense agenda, not one that tilts one way or another as far as ideology goes. >> as you travel across the country, you'll come up to people who say look, i'm so frustrated. washington doesn't get it. it sounds like my employer might lay off some people. i'm worried about my future. there's a lot of people out there right now, al, who just are worried that well, you got a great plan, right now we're on the wrong track. >> well, i've written a declaration for independence from the political airstocrity and i put together a new organization and the idea is to put the agenda in the hands of the people and let the politicians compete on the ability to deliver the agenda. >> interesting theory. new book is called the change maker. thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you very much. >> all right. straight ahead on this thursday

telecast, a new study says becoming a father makes you lose some of your fatherness, your manhood! is that true? political a team is here to weigh in. i'm speaking as low as i can. plus, he broke bread with sarah palin and now donald trump is dining with another g.o.p. heavyweight. is the donald the new go to guy for republicans with aspirations for 1600 pennsylvania avenue? who is the latest? details straight ahead.

>> hello, baby! and good-bye testosterone.

that's right. a new study suggests that a man's testosterone level may drop drastically after he becomes a dad. now, we've gathered our medical team who were playing cards right there. we were playing with their head shots there for this segment. psychiatrist and fox news contributor dr. keith ablow and hormone expert, dr. erica schwartz. first off, dr. keith. tell me about the science behind this study. >> yeah, look, this is a really interesting study because in the past, brian, they've looked at new dads and said, isn't that interesting? they seem to have lower testosterone than the general population buteople were wondering, wait a second, maybe that's because men who have slightly lower testosterone tend to want to have families. no. this looked at men before they ever decided to have families and looked at them perspectively and low and behold, dramatic decrease of testosterone after the children were born.

>> we have nine men in the studio staring at the full screen. it's dropping anywhere between 12% and 15% if you stay single. if you get hitched and have a kid 26% to 34%. do you buy these numbers? >> not really. first of all, it's all about sex. >> i've always said that. >> anyway, testosterone is always identified with sex. so this is the thing. you know, an animal that's the only monogamous animal in the mammal kingdom and they have low testosterone but they have oxytocin which is another hormone that goes up when they have babies. it makes them attach themselves to the partner so they can help the partner take care of the baby. so low testosterone level is a good thing for a while because what it does is it makes the man less interested in sex when the woman just had a baby and is not interested in sex. so that's ok. now, you need high testosterone

to get interested in sex to have babies. and also for you guys to feel macho about everything. so that's ok. >> right. >> the thing is, though, you need to know what your base testosterone level is at about 20 to 25 because you come into my office at the age of 45 with low testosterone levels wondering why your sex drive is low and you can't build muscle. but this is a good anthropological study. >> very interesting. >> so dr. keith, do you think any of our -- the things we do, for example, if we're very -- if we're very nurturing, if we start becoming a hands-on parent as a father, that could hurt your testosterone level. >> well, what's so interesting here, brian, is here is evidence that your environment affects your testosterone level. that's absolutely riveting because we should be looking at what other things in the environment affect not only testosterone but estrogen, insulin, it shows that really we're very emotional creatures

and our environments impact our physiology dramatically! >> so are you concerned that men will no longer have children? >> no! absolutely not. >> i was just wondering. i don't want to have to make a choice. >> it's going to be more involved and they're going to change the way they're changing to help women. >> ok. this has been a fascinating and enlightning study. dr. keith ablow and dr. erica schwartz, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> my pleasure. >> let me tell you what's coming up in the next hour, still ahead, it may be one of your kids' favorite drinks but there's a new warning about a deadly poison in apple juice! and many people just spit it out across their kitchen as i said that and g.o.p. presidential candidate rick perry is so inspired by his music, he's using it on the campaign trail. we're talking about the american singer clay walker and he's stopping by the curvy couch. [ shapiro ] at legalzoom, you can take care of virtually

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>> top of the morning to you. it's thursday, september 15th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for spending your time with us today. did president obama's eagerness to spend stimulus money lead to wasting half a billion dollars in taxpayer money with one company? that's what many are asking. is anyone asking that question? >> no one's responsible. this is an incredible organization you work for. that no one in the federal government is responsible for half a trillion -- half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money? >> the latest on the solar panel's problem that's coming back to potentially hurt the president. brian? >> first he grabbed a slice with sarah palin and now donald trump is breaking bread with

governor of texas rick perry. is the donald the new go to guy for republicans with aspirations of higher office? we'll examine. >> yes. plus a memorial to september 11th removed days after the 10th anniversary of the attacks. why? because instead of honoring the victims, it listed the names of local politicians. >> oh, please! >> "fox & friends" hour two for a thursday starts now. >> hi, i'm clay walker and you're watching "fox & friends." >> clay walker whose theme song is now that of rick perry who is running for president. he'll be joining us live this half-hour. >> mario lopez has this new show where celebrities get a chance to confront the fans that hate them most. has a new children's book out and according to joel, he's got

great dimples. he'll be here live. >> maybe i should be the judge of that. he's hot. bob turner will be here fresh off his big stunning election win in the new yorkineth district here in the former congressman anthony weiner's seat. >> he's going to be here live, is that true? >> he's going to be here live. >> michelle malkin is going to be here. she usually joins us and padma lakshmi you know her from the "top chef" show and from "malcolm in the middle" jane kaczmir. >> they are calling it obama's enron, we're talking about solyndra, the company in california that went belly up the last couple of weeks. f.b.i. has grabbed all the stuff. they're trying to figure out where did the money go? not only did we give them half a billion dollars worth of stimulus, first program to get that kind of cash, but then when the federal government was told by company officials we're going bankrupt, they gave them 75 more

million dollars even though the government said it would be cheaper to liquidate. >> just a week ago, every company's nightmare, the f.b.i. shows up and want all their computers. on their own, they have their own massive investigation why they went belly up with all that money. you have the treasury department investigating. this is no small scandal. >> no. >> maybe that's why the department of energy people who were grilled yesterday on capitol hill provided absolutely no answers. >> who is it that decided that made the decision that this act passed into law by the federal government was going to not be adhered to? who made that decision? >> as i said, it was reviewed by legal counsel. >> you have no response in this either. we're throwing him under the bus, too? >> i'm not a lawyer. i rely on counsel. >> did the secretary of energy have anything to do with this decision or is he under the bus, too? >> not to my knowledge. >> so no one is responsible. this is an incredible organization you work for.

that no one in the federal government is responsible for half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money. this is phenomenal! what do you do for a living? >> man. the amazing thing is in that exchange, they tried to go back in time and blame president bush because this application from solyndra came during his time at the end of his presidency. interesting thing is two weeks before president obama took office, unanimously, it was ruled not to be a good application. it was -- gave rebirth to it once president obama came into office. >> and henry -- let me just inject. they wound up with the money thanks it henry waxman, the democrat from california and now henry waxman is saying, they lied to me. he's blaming the company for not being a solvent company. when you could argue that the federal government should not be naming companies or deciding who wins and who loses in these races. other thing that's interesting is that -- oh, man, when you interrupted me, i totally forgot. >> can we start this segment again? >> you're thinking about

testosterone. it's ok! >> i'm still going to have more children. but i don't want -- >> at least you're gonna try. >> yeah. today. >> i want to know how that's going. >> i'll tell you what, as brian thinks about that, here's something that -- >> see you later. >> one of the guys asked yesterday on the house subcommittee, should anybody for the gigantic boondoggle get canned? >> should anybody be fired? >> no. >> the people in the loan guarantee program at the department of energy, our colleagues at omb and have worked -- >> you're saying no one should be fired. >> i'm saying that we are doing the best job we know how to do. >> all right. in the meantime, as brian continues to collect his thoughts. >> i have something to add. here it is. on the bush blaming thing, it took the department of energy, republicans going to the department of energy's old memos, old e-mails to find out that the bush administration rejected it. because they said, oh, here's the letter from 2006 that it was not our idea. so they had to do their own

investigating. >> all right. very salient point. thank you so much. >> i almost thought you meant that. >> i did. i did. let's talk about what vice president joe biden was doing yesterday because in june he was given the responsibility from the president to cut waste. cut waste in medicaid and other areas so that we can, you know, continue to try to save money as we look towards this committee that's supposed to cut $1.5 trillion by thanksgiving. was that a bit ironic that vice president joe biden got together to talk about cutting waste when there's a potential scandal looming with $500 million wasted of taxpayer dollars? >> as long as there is waste and fraud in government and serious waste and fraud, people lose confidence in the ability of their government to do their job. >> so they said that on the same day, the solyndra stuff hits the fan. so why did they wind up getting all that money? i'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the largest private investor in the company was an oklahoma billionaire by

the name of george kaiser. he also is a gigantic bundler for barack obama when he was running for president of the united states. he has met with people at the white house, this fellow, mr. kaiser, 16 times over the last two years. coincidence? got to be, right? >> i'll tell you what, let's go back to what it might be the most intriguing thing happening right now in terms of a pure race and the race of the g.o.p. nominee, the guy who is in front is governor rick perry and when last time donald trump was on with us, he said rick perry had contacted him a bunch of times. met him and now they've gone back and forth a few times and then all of a sudden, just 24 hours after being with me, he goes and meets -- governor perry goes and seeks him out and they spend the night -- they don't spend the night together. >> dinner together. >> that last segment. all right, so rick perry, here's the video right here last night coming out of trump towers there. they went out, got into donald trump's car, went out to dinner. >> limo. >> but the bottom line is do you

find it fascinating that now the people who want to be the g.o.p. nominee find it most important to meet with donald trump to get his endorsement? >> why not? >> it's amazing how time changes things and makes things -- >> trump himself was a frontrunner for a little while. so anyway, here's the governor of the great state of texas talking a little bit about mr. trump before they had supper. >> we're just going to be talking about how to create jobs in america. donald trump is pretty good at creating jobs and i got to think donald's got some advice for me. >> i'm sure he did. so remember, donald took sarah palin out for pizza, it was like $10 for a high. >> talked to bachmann before. >> right. last night, apparently, the governor and mr. trump went to john george in columbus circle where an entree is more than $10. >> you know what the governor wants, he clearly wants donald trump to come out and say listen, endorse me. >> he's my guy. >> say that's it and mitt romney called a couple of weeks ago to

touch base. so he can't say mitt romney is ignoring him. i had no choice. >> the kingmaker, donald trump. >> see who he ends up endorsing. rest your headlines for a thursday. could the search for missing utah mom susan cox powell finally be over? police recovered a set of human remains, an area where susan and her family went camping before she disappeared two years ago but susan's father is still sktical of the discovery. >> we'll see who it is. i mean, it could be someone from 100 years ago or it could be someone else's loved one who, you know, now will have an answer. >> police are expected to announce as early as today if the remains are actually a match. susan's husband josh powell, the only person of interest in this case. an update now on the colorado cantaloupes linked to four deaths because of listeria. health officials are pinpointing the states that the rocky ford melons were shipped to. those states are on your screen i'm also going to list them for you. illinois, wyoming, tennessee,

utah, texas, colorado, minnesota, kansas, new mexico, north carolina, missouri, nebraska, oklahoma, arizona, new jersey, new york and pennsylvania. the cantaloupes have a green and white sticker on them that says rocky ford. there are now 17 cases of listeria linked to the fruits. listeria mostly affects older adults, pregnant women or babies. if you have any of these symptoms, fever, muscle aches and confusion and you've had cantaloupe, you might want to watch out. it's not just cantaloupes carrying a warning today, tv doctor, dr. oz warning there are dangerous levels of arsenic in some popular brands of apple juice. they include minute maid, mott's, juicy juice and gerber. arsenic is a toxin often found in rat poison. the f.d.a. admits there are trace amounts of arsenic in apple juice but they say most of it occurs naturally and does not pose any real threat. former marine corps dakota meyer receives the medal of honor at

the white house today. last night, he had a beer with the president last night at the oval office. he said the beer summit was meyer's idea. he's being honored for saving the lives of 36 troops who were ambushed by insurgents fortunate. he helped rescue troops that were surrounded. he ended up killing at least eight insurgents, the first marine to receive the medal of honor for actions in iraq or afghanistan. those are your headlines. >> what a guy. >> next up on the rundown, we've been telling you about the growing investigation into solyndra out in california, the solar company. but could the scandal cost president obama, perhaps, some political cred? maybe even re-election? juan williams, tucker carlson debate it next. >> and his music is hitting the campaign trail, yeah, in every way, shape or form. country music star clay walker is live in our studio talking about his buddy, rick perry. turn around and touch whatever you want. nothing works there anyway. >> push a button. >> go ahead. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there?

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>> welcome back. a contentious hearing over solyndra, the solar panel company we should point out that got more than half a billion dollars in stimulus money only to go bankrupt shortly after. >> this time of record debt, i question whether government is qualified to act as a venture capitalist picking winners and losers in ventures and sheing out billions of taxpayer dollars to keep them afloat. >> now, not only is the f.b.i. and congress investigating the white house's ties to solyndra but the treasury department is also getting involved. how big of a scandal is this? well, we've brought in our scandal mongers, a couple of people who can talk about this. we've got the founder of daily

caller.com, tucker carlson and columnist and fox news contributor juan williams. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> tucker, some are calling this obama's enron, solar gate, stuff like this and with this e-mail, there's not just one smoking gun, we're talking smoking guns. >> many. many. that's right. you have the e-mails from federal regulators saying whoa, whoa, slow down, we're not sure this is a good idea and political figures in the administration saying we have a press conference to give. hurry up and give the loan guarantees. you have e-mails from the company to the white house saying we're going to succeed for the greater glory of the obama administration and you have officials writing back say we're rooting for you. we're on your side. the smoking gun is there. >> yeah. juan, do you think there's a smoking gun there? >> i think there might be lots of stink and stench about this but, you know what, there's no crime. i mean, all you guys are talking about is smoking guns. at this point, there's so many

of them as tucker said, i think it's legitimate to look into it. what i would point to is the haste, the political expediency clearly on display. this is a loan program started by the bush administration to support emerging green industries in this country. >> but it was henry waxman put this in the stimulus bill. it was his idea to put it in. >> sure. no, there was a loan program established by the bush administration to start this, steve. and so what you get, though, is an effort by the u.s. government to support an industry, an emerging industry, green jobs, that is competing with foreign industries where governments in china and india support their green industries. >> right. that's one of the reasons why this company could make it, tucker, is they said china flooded the markets with solar panels so cheap, they couldn't compete. here's the other thing. it's a political calculation that apparently the largest private investor in solyndra aside from the federal government is this oklahoma billionaire by the name of george kaiser who is a big

bundler for president obama and over the last two years made 16 trips to the white house. >> that's exactly right. one of the biggest fundraisers for president obama. and let's be totally clear, the purpose of this program is not to just support an industry but to pick specific companies, that's very difficult. most venture capitalists have a poor track record of doing that actually in the past 10 years. government, an even worst track record. it's not just this industry. it's battery technology, electric vehicles. there's a lot of companies that the obama administration has been shovelling federal funds to. i think we're going to find out more. >> juan, i'll give you the final word. >> well, i think that's exactly right. but the idea was to support american companies to help them be more competitive with an international global economy. and remember, we have tax deductions. we have tax subsidies. we have tax credits, loan guarantees, these are all go to american companies. so the question is do you believe the government has any role in supporting any industry, car industry, green jobs, anything and i think that when you see politics get involved

and especially a big bundler as in this case, that's when alarms go off and that's legitimate. >> the alarms are going off in washington. more hearings and a lot of finger pointing. i'd like to thank tucker carlson and juan williams. we thank you both for joining us live today. thanks, guys. straight ahead, lots of people boiling mad over a brand new 9/11 memorial. it has names on it. not the names of victims but the names of politicians on it. wait until you see this and rick perry so inspired by his music, he's using it on the campaign trail. clay walker here live right after a break. that's not him. he's behind the curtain. never mind that man behind the curtain. come on, clay! brian, stop it. he's in. he's out. my doctor told me calcium

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>> the college board says it is the lowest ever, ouch. next, $2 million, that's the reward an unidentified tipster got for leading the f.b.i. to fugitive gangster whitey bulger and finly, 1600 miles. that's how far this cat wandered supposedly from her home in colorado. willow is the name of the cat. found in new york city. a good samaritan picked her up and the cat told the whole story and then we wrote it down and now we're reporting it. >> it was a tip. >> all right. he's a country music star whose hit songs have topped the charts but now clay walker is jumping into the political arena. well, kind of. his music is. >> walker is takiloaning one os

newest songs and hoping his song propels him to the oval office and clay joins us live this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. >> so you've been a friend of rick perry for 15 years? something like that? >> about that. >> you describe him as having a democrat heart but a republican brain. >> he's far from democrat. used to be. he's one of the greatest guys that i know personally and i'm not that politically savvy but the guy is -- knowing someone that long, you're around them in different settings and he's always the same. he's always a great guy. and i know him on a personal level. i mean, we've prayed together. we've eaten together. we've shared our families together. >> have you sung together? >> once. it was not pretty. >> now he's using your song as part of his campaign. so what -- he just called you up. i know you talk to him frequently but called you up and said can i use it? >> he did. i wrote this song a few years ago, it's on our latest c.d. and

he just said, i want to use the song, what do you think? and i said i'm flattered and honored and the song just talks about good hometown -- good home values and that's what rick is about. he's a blue collar guy, you know, i mean, he can -- >> i can hear it right now. >> can you hear it? >> i can hear it. > >> sounds pretty good. let me ask you this, you were an obama fan. >> well, i'm a fan of the way he's articulate. he had a lot of great ideas when he was elected. i was looking forward to the change. you know, i think he had good intentions. i don't think the change has happened. i think that rick perry is the guy that can, you know, fulfill those good intentions and that change. and we need that. i think all of america, during the recession, i was having lunch in texas in mckinney, texas, and i had to wait two hours -- i mean, i'm sorry, 20 minutes in line at 2:00, you know, for lunch and i'm like the recession they're talking about doesn't seem it's really hitting

texas and i think that, you know, as a fellow texan, i'm proud of that, you know, and i look at what rick perry has done with our state and, you know, if you can manage, if you can manage a state like that, i believe he can manage our kun country the same way. >> i want to talk about what you did over weekend. you were asked to sing the national anthem before the texans game. texans against the colts. >> that was, you know, just before -- i'm not a -- i'm not a tearful guy. but just before walking out on to the field, i was in the hotel. and they were showing some of the footage from around the memorials and it -- watching the families just broke me -- just broke me up. i just lost it. i was like gall, you felt the loss with the families and just before i walked out, i thought lord, please, please let this be the best time i've ever sang it because this is the most important. and blessed to be standing down there with new york city fire

department and npd was such an honor as those words left my lips, you know, it was such a surreal feeling to sing it. >> and you did well. you didn't pull a cyndi lauper. >> that's ridiculous! >> someone asked me, do you think there's any excuse for forgetting the words for the national anthem? and i said it would be like forgetting the words to happy birthday. come on! >> tell us a little bit about something close to your heart. your m. s. foundation. >> well, i was diagnosed with m.s. in 1996 and coincidentally, a medicine came out that same year. i was able because of the people that came before me, i was able to stay in the mission for the last 13 years. and this is a disease that is manageable, so a lot of people don't know that, believe it or not. there's not enough publicity out there about multiple sclerosis. you hear there's a cure for m.s. there is no cure for m.s. and it

gets people excited and the media thinks it's already cured. it's not. we have a long way to go. you can manage it. i've walked to this interview. i'm living proof that you can manage this disease whenever my outlook or prognosis was really bad whenever i was first diagnosed, they said four years, wheelchair. eight years, you might not be here so i'm doing great. >> those were horrible words to hear in your 20's when you're a vibrant young man. >> yeah, but look at this. >> i'm on the political trail. >> now you're in politics whether or not you want to be there, my friend. but rick perry is using your song. congratulations. >> thank you guys, very much. good to be here. love your show. >> thank you. love your music. straight ahead, there's controversy over a 9/11 memorial. instead of honoring the victims, the memorial has listed politicians' names. >> oops. and the busiest man in showbiz, mario lopez is returning to the curvy couch to tell us what he's working on now. hi, mario. >> got a kids book.

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>> vote with an anti-obama vote. the white house spin, at least president obama created one new job. there you go. so yeah, one job he's probably not happy about. he's talking about congressman-elect until noon today bob turner here in the nineth district of new york. he will be joining us in this half-hour so got to hear what he has to say about the big win. >> he rocked politics so that's going to be exciting. >> absolutely. >> 28 minutes before the top of the hour. let me go over some headlines. stunning development this morning. a trader at ubs, the united bank of switzerland is under arrest. the banking giant believes he lost about $2 billion in unauthorized trades. ubs noticed the giant loss in the last 24 hours. that's big of them. and immediately began an investigation. their stock tumbled almost 10% in swiss trading following the announcement and this could put ubs in the red for the third quarter. today, by the way, is the third

anniversary of lehman brothers' historic collapse. >> meanwhile, the faa facing another partial shutdown tomorrow when the funding expires. the stop gap bill to keep 80,000 faa employees and those airport construction workers on the job now hung up in the u.s. senate. the main problem with the transportation bill, a provision that requires states to spend money on bike paths and walkways. republican senator tom coburn wants that part thrown out. >> well, check out this newly released video of a houdini like escape that took place in michigan over the summer. check it out as the suspect slides off his handcuffs using his mouth. >> huh? >> i'm waiting for that. the man then checks out the area before breaking free from the locked police car. he got out through the passenger side window but his freedom was short lived. police arrested the suspect a few hours later. brian? >> controversial 9/11 memorial is gone this morning. instead of honoring the victims, it listed politicians' names.

take a look at the memorial. it's at washington township in new jersey. the granite slab said it's dedicated to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. it listed no victims' names, instead the names from local politicians. while no one from that county was killed in the attacks, residents upset. the mayor says the granite marker will be put back with an overlay to cover the politicians' names. >> i don't know if that's better. >> oh, my goodness. >> it's white out for granite. officials consider the marker similar to the proclamation that politicians always sign their names. >> nice spin. all right. let's bring in our old buddy mario lopez. good morning to you. >> great to see you guys. >> you're still our young buddy. >> what are you talking about? you guys look great! >> i watched you last night on your tv show. you talk about all the very latest. how about this hacking scandal? it sounds like some people who know how to do that stuff have hacked into scarlet johansson's account? >> that's the latest thing with the -- with celebs right now.

the only problem -- well, there's many problems but the one that i see the most pressing problem is the photos that people have on their phones. and then that's some stuff you can't get back which makes me think, why are you taking those sort of photos on your phone and keeping them? >> apparently one of the photos is justin timberlake with his underwear over his head. >> oh, it happens. >> if you want to party. >> you talk to these is he celebs all the time. is this something now they're concerned about? >> i think just in general, not just is he celebs, people in general forget about the context, it's content they should delete. >> i'm thinking about not taking anymore naked pictures of myself. i'm thinking about it. not making a commitment right now. you got celebrities involved, the content of your show. you punk the hateers in the world, the hateers, the people that hate celebrities, you get the celebrities to confront their nemesis? >> exactly. we thought it was original and kind of fun and put a clever spin to it.

it makes some good awkward moments on tv, by the way. >> for you, too. >> yeah, i was a guinea pig when we sold the show. ultimately, we want a very positive message out there to not hate, don't discriminate. sort of anti-bullying tone to it. so, you know, it's a lot of fun but at the same time -->> i didn't realize that hater has sort of become this new terminology. within the younger people. i had no concept of that. >> well, now the internet has created this forum for a bunch of hateers and cowards, if you will, because they can bash anyone without any consequences until now. >> until now! >> and just like on your show, let's take a look at the clip at "hater." >> don't i watch you? don't you get paid because i watch you? you're welcome. you should be like thank you. >> being a latina requires you to have a little, you know, booty. a little, you know, extra, you know. >> some work there and -- >> hi, you guys. >> hi. >> hey. >> i saw you guys sitting here. >> can i sit?

>> oh, my gosh! >> ok. >> that initial reaction is the best. >> get totally surprised by them and then we have -- >> that's a lot of fun. >> what happens? >> do they resolve their hate? >> they spend a little time with them and they get an opportunity to win them over or sometimes the person is like you know what? i got to know you a little bit, kind of reinforced that i really don't like you. so that happens, too. >> didn't you get barry bonds to do it? >> we're talking to barry. barry's got something on his plate right now so it's a schedule thing. he's a friend of mine for a while now. we'll see. he's a great guy. charles barkley just did it, too. >> that's cool. not that list of people you just mentioned but some celebrities are divas and those reputations could be well deserved. >> by the way, some celebrities embrace it, too. they enjoy the haters out there. they're bigger fans and it takes a lot of energy. they watch everything. gretchen, i'm so glad you got the book. i don't know how we go from segue into children's book. here we go just like that! >> you are a man of many

talents. i think the last time you were on the curvy couch, you had your cookbook. >> right. i write about things that i'm passionate about, either it's food, health and fitness and family. and this book i'm so excited about. it's my second children's book called mario and baby gia and i wrote it as a gift to my daughter gia for her first birthday and in the book, i wanted both of the characters to be children. so gia is actually my cousin but it's ultimately about the importance of family and spending time together and we want families to do just that, celebrate each other, read together and it's the second in the mud tacos book and we want kids to encourage them to use their imagination and flex that creative muscle a little bit. we share our culture and excited about the way it came out. it's in stores now. really, really cool. >> you know something about being a kid. you were a kid actor. >> i was a kid actor. former kid. my little girl had her birthday this past sunday on 9/11 and she loves -- >> that's great. >> hopefully it's the first of many there. >> hope you didn't pay

attention to this study we did in our 6:00 hour that once you become a father, what happens to a certain hormone. >> testosterone drops! >> i heard that but i would like to dispute that. >> are you saying you have a healthy sex drive? >> brian! >> i beg your pardon, brian! >> dr. keith ablow is watching. >> great. i'd love to talk to him. let's put it this way, i'm looking forward to more kids. >> all right! >> actively practicing. >> in fact, we got some video, let's roll it! >> let's go to that. >> from hater to lover. >> he looks like he has a lot of testosterone, i'm not worried for mario. >> thank you, gretchen. god bless you. >> thanks, guys. >> he's a republican whose big win sent the giant message to the white house. congressman elect bob turner. he's going to join us live next. i bet we won't ask him that question. >> never know. first is the president's stimulus for green jobs just an old fashioned game of three card monte? legal analyst peter johnson jr. on the case.

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injuries as well. details are still coming in. we will keep you posted on that. and the suspected terrorist accused of trying to blow up a plane with explosives in his underwear, shooting off his mouth in court. umar farouk abdulmutallab shouted usama is alive yesterday. he refused to stand up for the judge, put his feet on the table all while acting as his own attorney. genius. gretch? >> scandal surrounding solar panel company solyndra heating up now and the obama administration is under the microscope. yesterday, the white house defended its $528 million loan to that company by blaming a familiar foe. >> solyndra submitted its initial application in 2006. in fact, by the time the obama administration took office, the career staff had established a timeline for issuing the company a conditional loan commitment in march of 2009. in march, on the exact schedule

that had been developed during the bush administration, the program issued solyndra a conditional commitment. >> will the old blame bush defense work this time for this obama white house? joini joining me now is fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr., the one thing that that particular witness forgot to mention is two weeks before the obama administration took over, there was a unanimous vote to stop the application under the bush administration. >> sure, the bush defense fails and it's a joke and it's an embarrassment that they're asserting it. the issue becomes is this program for green jobs a mirage, a fiction, a fantasy, a game of three card montes. is this a total scam on the american people? they committed $38.6 billion and a story in "the washington post" says today that they've created 3,545 jobs for $38.6 billion of which more than half has been spent. so when you go back into american history, maybe in the

annals of boss tweed dumping millions of dollars into phony courthouses and into great edifices that cost 10 to 15 times what they should have st, have we seen this level of waste? so if the program of the obama administration is to create so-called green jobs, although even the vice president or the president can't define what they are, we know that they are union heavy jobs so we can understand that connection. but the american people have got to wonder this morning what connections there are between the white house, between president obama, vice president biden, a significant contributor to bundled a tremendous amount of money. >> mr. kaiser. >> and the fact that the white house walked away from its commitment in this case. what the white house did is said we're going to renegotiate this loan. when the white house and our federal government and you and me decide to guarantee a loan of a half a billion dollars, we

say, we come first! when the money is set to be repaid, we come first! they renegotiated this. this obama white house renegotiated this to go second or third in terms of repayment and now the company is bankrupt. >> i think what a lot of people are also thinking about this morning is that the president has put forward his new jobs bill with another half a billion dollars in stimulus money. and will americans wake up this morning not -- >> yeah. >> half a trillion. wonder how that will be used. >> it's -- it's a wake-up call for a lot of people. what would the parameters of economic development, why were they investing in this company, why were they not investing in other companies, why wasn't there a quarter million dollars or $500,000 put into 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 american companies that had a chance of success? why in a time of great economic need do we go to a company that has the least chance of success with the most political

connections and say we're going to commit the taxpayers money to that? is that corruption? is that incompetence? is that both? americans need to know and americans are not going to put up with it. just not. >> peter johnson jr., thanks very much. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> he's the first republican to hold the seat in nearly 90 years. up next, congressman-elect bob turner joins us live with a message for washington. but first on this date in history, in 1989, the number one song, "hanging tough" by new kids on the block. [ 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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the answer is dan marino. not since the 1920's as a republican held congressional seat in the new york's ninth district but tuesday, that changed. new york businessman, one time underdog, bob turner pulled off the unthinkable defeating the state assemblyman david weprin in a special election. now new york congressman-elect bob turner joins us live. congratulations. you were on with us almost from the day after that weiner stepped aside. did you have doubts when you were on our couch, congressman elect that you could actually be here today talking about a victory? >> well, i never went in with assurances but i started this pretty confident that this was going to happen. >> i heard senator schumer say this is not much of a surprise. because that's a very conservative district. everyone knows that in new york city. what's your answer to that?

>> could have fooled me but they certainly were conservative enough on election day. but this seat has been democratic since the 1920's. so this was quite an upset. and the voters spoke loud and clear of their dissatisfaction with the course the country is on. economically, the job picture, the threat of a deficit. they're surprisingly informed and very unhappy. >> now, some would say democrats on the other side are saying listen, this is not a referendum on the president but it really is. if you look at how you ran the campaign, that's exactly who you were running against, wasn't it? >> exactly. but the -- we made this a referendum, if you are happy with the way things are, vote democratic, continue the way we're going and if you think not, i'm your guy.

>> and so far, you are the guy. so you'll have this job for another year. in the big picture, do the people of queens, new york, care that much about president obama's policy towards israel to put you into washington? >> i think that was a very big factor in it. and ed koch pointed out that strategy when he endorsed me and that was a big part of the campaign. >> the other area i think is interesting is that weprin tried to hook you to paul ryan and what he thought was paul ryan's approach to saving medicare. it didn't work. it didn't work in wisconsin on the recall and it didn't work against you. >> well, it's simply not true. they spent a million dollars on flyers and ads supporting an untruth. and i think they were called to account on election night so i'm

very pleased about that. >> good lesson for the rest of us that -- who may be running again soon. stick with the truth and it will out. >> bob, i also know, too, governor kwom owe has 76% approval rating so you can't say new yorkers hate the democratic party. they hate certain approaches but cuomo is done in, cutting taxes and freezing others, i think that's resonating. it's what you do rather than what party you belong to, do you agree with that? >> i think so. in this district with democrats and independents in the vast majority, they're willing to cross over on the right issue and they did. >> all right. bob, i don't know what's more unthinkable, you coming out of nowhere to be the next congressman from queens, new york, or finding jerry springer and making him a 20 year syndicated hit like you did when you were a cable tv titan. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. who by the way was a politician

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♪ >> good morning, everyone. hope you're going to have a fantastic thursday. the white house not feeling the warmth. now the treasury department looking into the administration's decision to give half a billion dollars in stimulus money to that company called solyndra. michelle malkin is next and she says this goes all the way to the top. >> meanwhile, donald trump

wining and dining the g.o.p. first it was with sarah palin. now he's breaking bread with presidential candidate rick perry. so is the donald the new go to guy for the g.o.p.? >> and the latest you tube sensation barely knows how to use the internet. >> did it capture? i put it on capture. >> that's a pretty good monkey. >> wait a minute. >> the adorable couple caught trying to be computer savvy and they join us live and this time, they're not skyping. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> this is simon cowell, unfortunately for you, you're watching "fox & friends" and i'm sound asleep. >> because he lives on the west coast. >> that's simon cowell? coming back with a big hit show coming up. >> he hopes it's a hit show. "the x factor" and he'll be probably joining us in the

studio in october. >> look forward to that. let's get to the headlines this morning because police in utah expected to announce as he remember as today if a set of human remains that they have found do in fact belong to missing mom susan cox powell. police uncovered remains in the topaz mountains in an area where susan and her family went camping before they disappeared. it's been two years ago but susan's father skeptical of the discovery. >> i mean, it could be someone from 100 years ago or could be someone else's loved one who now will have an answer. >> susan's husband josh powell is the only person of interest in this case. an update now on the colorado cantaloupes linked to four deaths because of listeria. health officials are pinpointing the states, the rocky ford melons were shipped to. those states are on your screen and i'll read them as well. illinois, wyoming, tennessee, utah, texas, colorado, minnesota, kansas, new mexico, north carolina, missouri,

nebraska, oklahoma, arizona, new jersey, new york, and pennsylvania. the cantaloupes have a green and white sticker on them that says rocky ford. there are now 17 cases of listeria linked to that fruit. listeria mostly affects older adults, pregnant women and babies. the symptoms tend to be fever, muscle aches and confusion. texas governor rick perry heading to the very important state of iowa today to speak at a g.o.p. fundraiser in jefferson and he's heading there with a full belly. why? because last night, he had dinner with donald trump right here in new york city. >> what he's going to be talking about, you know, how to create jobs in america. donald trump is pretty good at creating jobs and i got to think that the donald has some advice for me. >> he's looking for that endorsement, i think, so the pair dined at the very famous restaurant john george inside one of trump's skyscrapers here. her husband reported her missing but turns out michaele salahi, she's not missing at all.

she's on her own journey with the guitarist from the band, journey. >> ♪ just a small town girl living in a lonely world ♪ ♪ she took the midnight train going anywhere ♪ >> i don't know if she was lonely or not. probably. because she took off with that guy. journey's rep confirms that michaele is with neil shawn in memphis. they were spotted together at a journey concert there and according to tmz, the two of them used to date and they're dating now again but that's kind of an interesting word because usually you can't date when you're married. >> right. >> i've heard of being left in the dark but when you call a press conference and says my wife is kidnapped and she actually just left you, that's pretty bad. the obama administration busy on two fronts today promoting the president's jobs plan and fighting off a growing scandal. steve joins us right now. steve, the white house is in social media mode right now. is that correct? >> right.

they're doing it again today. you know, theresident has spoken nearly every day about his jobs plan and today his administration keeps up the drum beat on the various web sites. today, the president was on the road in raleigh durham north carolina selling his plan. today he stays in washington but the white house officials will answer questions on twitter, facebook and the white house web site. these social media q&a's is nothing new at the white house. it just shows the administration keeping up the pressure on congress to pass the jobs bill. the president is meeting with timothy geithner for his weekly update on the economy. brian? >> steve, the administration also answering questions about its relationship with that company, solyndra. what's latest there? >> right, the white house press secretary doing his best to field questions and explain the situation with our e-mails that seem to show the white house applying pressure to approve this huge loan, this half billion dollar loan to solyndra,

the solar company. jay carney telling reporters on air force one yesterday there was no political pressure, just a logistical problem with a planned appearance by the vice president. carney said "what the e-mails, i believe, made clear is there was an urgency to make a decision about a scheduling matter." on the broader question here, the program was created not by this administration but by the previous republican administration. white house officials were grilled about the solyndra on capitol hill yesterday and so this controversy doesn't look like it's going away. >> steve centanni, thanks very much, live for us in washington, d.c. and time to bring in michelle malkin live for us in colorado springs and good morning to you, michelle. >> good morning, gretchen. >> of course, the author of "culture of corruption" an apt title potentially as we talk now about the solyndra scandal. what are your thoughts about this? >> yes. well, culture of corruption was rather prophetic and i really should be doing volume three or

four by now, solyndra is the mother of all big green boondoggles and it does go straight to the white house. what you see in these e-mails and in the information that was brought to light at the house hearing yesterday was white house officials breathing down the next with their boots on the next of omb officials and they are in charge of assessing the worthiness of solyndra. they are motivated by the photo opportunities they had scheduled for solyndra to put barack obama in front as a -- some sort of a green jobs innovator and i think one of the big problems here is that this is the tip of the green iceberg and my column lays out this week that there are so many of these deals that need

the same kind of scrutiny. the $5 billion weatherization program that was part of the stimulus, for example, even some mainstream news outlets have pointed out that we're talking about six figures per job. none of these have come to fruition the way they have been predicted by the white house and there's all sorts of fraud going on when it comes clear to me that the white house is responsible and carol browner in particular whose name came up many times during the hearing for lowering the standards to make sure that taxpayers were protected. >> yeah. i read your column and it's great. there's so many little nuggets about what is going on, you got to check it out and as you said at the end, it must be a big scandal if the mainstream media is actually covering it these days. >> brian ross with abc was on with bill o'reilly it talk about it. >> the president was on his road show trying to push his american jobs act and he's been holding up that thing with the paper clip and what not, and as it

turns out, apparently, you know, kind of like copyrighting a product or work of some kind because that name, american jobs act, until yesterday belonged to barack obama. who's got it today? >> congressman louie gomer, the republican from texas is a great little maneuver yesterday on capitol hill. and more than -- more than plenty of us had a chuckle about it. but actually, there's a serious point and that is the fact that while president obama has been scheduling all of these bus tours and on the lecture circuit sermonizing to republicans that they're not doing enough and not doing it fast enough, it was his delay, it was their inability to find anyone who would actually sponsor and carry the bill that caused him to lose the name in the first place. >> so he's going to have to call it something else, right, the president? >> yeah, i don't know. >> one thing about the president and the administration anyway, they don't relish

criticism and don't have the thickest skin. we know they've had an offensive capability when it comes to those who criticize them. now we understand they have a web site, but this is kind of boomeranged on them, michelle. >> no, it's completely blown up in their faces. and this is the thung i love abo-- thing i love about the internet. back in 2008, the obama campaign had claimed this mantle as the tech savvy geniuses, and what's happened is that conservatives on twitter and on you tube, and all the social networks have been able to strike back and humor is always the best revenge. there's a couple of young guys, ezra doolis and brandon force who immediately responded to this attack watch snich brigade with one of the best you tube videos i have seen in so long. you have to watch it. i put it up on my web site. it's all over now where they

just mocked the self-seriousness, the -- >> attack watch! >> it's become the new wwhassu? it's great. there's a serious point here. by my count, this is the fourth attack brigade they've launched. they use taxpayer money to police critics of obamacare. what this is really about is some sort of intimidation campaign against their opponents and it's not working anymore! >> basically what's happened is that people are supposed to -- people are supposed to go to that web site attackwatch.com and put if they think something bad is happening to the administration or people are telling lies about them. people have done the opposite and that's getting more press! >> yeah. i'm turning you in. >> laughingstock of the internet is how "the washington post" put it. >> you have never been hesitant to criticize the administration but when you have someone like james carville coming out this morning and tells the administration "it's time to panic." you know things are a little

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>> welcome back, everyone. there have been a number of federal programs, as you know, to come out of the white house aimed to fix the housing crisis but none seem to stop the rise in foreclosures. with the numbers set to hit record rates, are there really any practical solutions to help homeowners? well, let's ask fox news legal analyst bob massi who joins me as he always does from las vegas. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. you have some suggestions because you specialize in this and your first suggestion for these folks is to put a moratorium on counting mortgage payments. what do you mean by that? >> well, here's what has to happen. because the whole american spirit has been affected, one of my suggestions is look, if you are current on all of your consumer debts, your car payments, your credit cards but you're behind on your mortgage because you've lost your job or bad loans, put a moratorium on people's credit because the impact, gretchen, that people feel that their whole life they've made the payments and they're current on everything else but can't get from under the water, why not credit agencies and credit people there. put a moratorium, freeze it.

so that people's fico scores are not ruined for years as a result of that. so i think number one that would be at least a good suggestion with certain protocols put in place. >> number two is to create a credit amnesty program. what does that mean? >> absolutely. i think at some point, because of how many millions of people have been affected, why not come up with an amnesty program saying look, if you lost your primary residence, gretchen, as a result of a foreclosure or short sale, and all of your other debts were current and you did everything you possibly could and again, there has to be some good, reasonable protocols put in place. put in an amnesty program that says listen, we're going to basically take that part of history and say it was a bad time in america, forgive and cure and make people's fico scores better to give them the opportunity to borrow again, grepen and feel a sense of sense

of self-worth. the credit issue is affecting people emotionally and that's another direction i would like to see them go. >> your number 3 point is helping struggling homeowners. let's say their home goes into foreclosures. you're suggesting to allow them to stay in their home and be a renter. >> there are people in las vegas that have been living in their home without making a payment for one or two years. why not come up with a plan that when a home owner's house is foreclosed on, let them stay in the home and maintain it and rent it for 10 to 24 months. let them build their credit back up and then resell it, again with certain reasonable protocols and guidelines to that home owner that doesn't want to leave their home. they're maintaining the home, gretchen, for the lender. they have a sense of self-worth. their kids still love the home. let them stay in the home under reasonable protocols and reasonable rent for a period of

time with the right to possibly buy the home back. >> thank you so much. great to see you. well, she was one of the military pilots told to take down hijacked planes on september 11th. two problems, she had no weapons on her jet and her dad could be one of the pilots on one of those hijacked planes? the story is unbelievable! and also coming up, they're not tech savvy. but they're still a hit on the internet. >> look at the monkey. >> did it capture? >> it didn't take it. >> i put it on capture. >> that's a pretty good monkey. >> here live with us next. @?ñ

>> when they sat down to learn the ins and outs of their new laptop, bruce and esther huffman didn't have a clue what they

were doing. they also had no idea that they were inadvertently recording themselves. >> look at the monkey. >> did it capture? take it. i put it on capture. >> that's a pretty good monkey. >> the couple's humorous hijinx are now a viral sensation after their granddaughter, mindy, posted the fumbling footage on you tube. it's only fitting that the huffmans join us today via skype. good morning. >> good morning, steve, brian and gretchen! >> it's great to have you. so what were you trying -- we know you wound up recording yourself as a movie. what were you trying to do with the new computer. >> she was trying to show me how to make a film, weren't you? >> yeah, i was trying to show you how the video works, yeah, and i wasn't doing very well with it. >> so actually -- >> we -->> ended up taping this whole episode and your

granddaughter decided to make it viral. my favorite part is that the two of you seem to be so much still in love, i mean, i got to tell you, bruce, i heard what you said to your wife about her dress. >> oh, no! well, you know, we're married so whatever i said, i think it sounds all right to me. i hope you approve. >> yeah, of course. >> so how -- >> thank you. >> how are you handling this celebrity? mindy posts it. now you have 1.3 million hits, how are you handling this fame? has it changed you? >> oh, it's unbelievable! i don't know. it's just unreal. it's exciting kind of fun in a way. >> what is a million six mean? >> a million -- >> does that mean? >> like 1,600,000 people have down loaded to watch you and your bride with the hijinx. >> why have they done this? >> because it's funny! you're funny, bruce!

>> oh, wow! >> ok. >> see me smiling? >> one of the things we love is when you were singing to your wife, what were you singing? >> i was singing "you are my sunshine". >> no, you were making it up. >> i don't know. no, i sang it in the bathroom this morning, i can't remember what it was. >> you sang, hello my baby. >> ♪ hello my baby good-bye my ragtime gal ♪ or something like that. and then ♪ da da da da that's it. >> i love that. >> come back any time. >> come back. i love the fact that you're still so in love after all these years and you know how to use a computer now and the camera. >> yeah. not all these years. it's only 92 months. it will be 92 months on the 24th. and we're doing great. >> to some that's a lot of years. >> we had over 100 years of married life with our first two marriages. >> and you were trying to be serious and really teach bruce how to use the computer and he just kept doing the monkey.

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it's unbelievable that no matter how much money the white house wants to throw at the economy, it's not creating the jobs. >> sure and there was extraordinarily -- there was a front page in "the new york times" story a couple of days ago about how all these ceo's are going, yeah, the president's job plan, great idea. kind of. we're not going to use anything in that to create a job. there's nothing -- there's no reason for us to hire people. >> there's too many outstanding things, overhangs, the obamacare, what's the tax structure going to look like and the boeing situation? if i want to create a job in south carolina where i can pay a worker that i want to pay a worker, create a billion dollars in economic activity building a plant with workers and i get that far down the road and then a five panel, three democrat, two republican panel pulls the rug out from under me, of course, they're not going to create jobs. businesses are going to do what they have to do. i've created business -- i've run five separate businesses in my life. you don't want a one year

outlook, thr year outlook, you want to see what's going on five, 10 years down the road with clarity before you make your big business decision. >> i'll tell you with that $428,000 number if you're a strategist right now, how you can spin that in a positive direction for his jobs bill because now he can go out on the stump. i don't know if he wants to broadcast it that much but he could say look, look why we need to pass my bill and spend more money because our jobs numbers are so bad. >> they can spin it all they want but the reality is they spend $862 billion and didn't create -- in fact, the economy lost jobs during that time. unemployment went from 7 1/2% to 9.1% over the course of $850 billion. more of that, do that again, we'll be at 10 1/2% to 11% unemployment. >> the democrats around for it, a senator says she's not for what she's doing with the oil companies. senator casey is very -- he's very skeptical on some of the major pieces of legislation, and then you've got a lot of the

democrats who are nameless who are going to fight him on the payroll tax cuts, says we've had enough tax cuts. heath shuler, a congressman from south carolina also not for this. he's got to tighten up his own team. >> lots of democrats are saying there's things in it that i don't like. remember when axelrod the other day came out and said this isn't a smorgasbord or buffet, it's all or nothing, i don't think it's going to be that way. i think the house republicans will say we'll take this, this, this and we'll pass it. send it to the senate. this nlrb connection, the house votes today. probably pass the house and then very importantly it will go to the senate and then when the senate votes, hopefully reid brings it to the senate floor to vote, we'll see who is in favor of creating jobs and who is in favor of protecting unions and stifling jobs. >> i bet they'll bring it up for a vote. >> he doesn't want to bring up the jobs bill for a vote. what is he going to do? >> clearly, the administration is not job creating. no matter what they throw at it, these policies aren't working.

eventually, you stop digging the hole because you're getting too dip. stop digging. hand the shovel over. try something new. try the repatriation if that's the purpose, to redistribute wealth, this really ridiculous progressive socialist agenda that we're perpetuating, if that's the plan, then do what you're doing. if you want to create a job, try something different. >> speaking of jobs, what are you doing on your regular show later today? >> we're going to do the jobs numbers and a whole bunch of other economic numbers coming out today and then, you know, we put that show together at 10:00 in the morning and it's a great show. we have a lot of fun. >> called "the five" and you can check it out here 5:00 p.m. eastern time on the fox newschannel. see you again. >> have a six pack during "the five". >> me, too. me, too. >> you have to change time zones if you're going to have a six. you have a trader at ubs, the banking giant believes the 31-year-old lost about $2

billion in unauthorized trades. ubs noticed the giant loss in the last 24 hours. and immediately began an investigation. their stock tumbled almost 10% in swiss trading following the announcement and this could put ubs in the red for the third quarter. now, today, by the way, is the third anniversary of lehman brothers' historic collapse. >> suspected terrorist accused of trying to blow up the plane with explosives hidden in his underwear shooting off his mouth in court. umar farouk abdulmutallab shouted usama's alive referring to usama bin laden. he refused to stand up for the judge, put his feet up on the defense table and complained about having to wear prison clothes all while acting as his own attorney and the judge explained the charges against him to perspective jurors, he shouted out allah is the greatest. >> meanwhile, an untold and unbelievable story as the september 11th terrorist attacks of a father and daughter. f-16 pilot heather penne is a

member of the national guard. she was scrambled to take down one of the hijacked jets, perhaps. she had no guns on her plane. essentially, she would have been on a suicide mission. another problem, we just learned, she could have brought down an airliner that her own father was flying on. he was the captain for united airlines at the time and could have been behind the controls of flight 93. she had no way of knowing at the time. what a story. >> and the video of the day -- the video of the day comes from a guy who can do some serious multitasking. let's go to the indians-rangers game yesterday. kinsler at the plate. a man on the phone makes the catch, continues the call. watch this! my goodness. pulls it in. >> just caught the ball. >> thank you to the producers for using my line from the 6:00 a.m. that he's good at multitasking. it was a joke but they put it right in. great multitasker.

>> that's -- >> our next guest speaking of multitasking, she can do it all and then some. she's the author, founder of two creative companies, a mom and a tv host. now padma lakshmi is getting ready for the emmys as well. >> her reality show "top chef" has been nominated once again after just they finished taping their ninth season and padma joins us live on the curvy couch from the kitchen to the curvy couch. >> the curvy couch. i love this curvy couch. it's very cozy. >> thank you. >> you're going to texas, right? >> yeah, we've been to texas and we just finished filming and soon, we'll be able to share -- you know, the thing about "top chef" is we're always so secretive. >> top secret chef. >> before we get on air but we'll be on in the fall, we just finished filming. >> is it texas food? >> some of it is texas. every season, the place that we film does, you know, influence the show and influence the challenges, not only the local chef who come on as judges but

also, of course, the local cuisine, the ingredients that you find and this country has such great regional cuisine so it's really nice to explore another part of the country. we go through four cities -- three cities in texas, we move four times. it's very exciting. >> you also have emiril and another -- >> yes, we have emiril on the show, gayle and tom return, of course, i think it's going to be a great, great season. >> i hope you win at the emmys, this sunday. >> yes, this sunday. i know everybody will be having emmy parties and watching, you know, the festivities on tv and one of the things that i'm doing is partnering with sterling wines and sterling wines -- >> i'll drink to that! >> yeah, sterling vineyards is having this great contest and this fall, we'll be launching a series of challenges to find the ultimate host. >> tv show host? >> no, i mean, entertaining and with dinner parties, with romantic parties, with emmy

parties or super bowl, so what we're doing is issuing a bunch of challenges to find the ultimate host and each of those winners will be flown to new york city at the end of the holiday season in december to compete against each other for the grand prize which is a trip for four. >> host off. >> pretty much, to napa valley as well as a cash prize of $40,000 and they'll pretty much be the spokesperson for the facebook page. >> will you answer this question directly? is it possible to host a party and enjoy that party? >> yes, it is. >> no. impossible! >> how dare you lie to me! >> i'm not lying, i'll tell you how, make most of the food before your guests get there. shower. relax. have a glass of sterling wine. when people come over, you're relaxed. all you're doing is putting the final touches and for that -- >> yeah, but you're always looking over the -- >> you're always looking over the shoulders thinking wait a minute, i got to fix that.

stand by. >> for example, padma, if i invited you over. >> yes. is that an invitation? >> i'm inviting you over. >> is that like -- >> i'm asking you out. and finally, this is what we'll do. stop that. thank you very much. >> now i know why. >> so when i -->> got to bring the beer. >> to turn you on or to go by your -- or to go -- >> it's a morning show. >> what's the matter with you? >> edit this out. what i would do to you, say padma, welcome to my matter, can you vacuum the living room? that's what you want. you want guests to help. >> huh? >> i would be putting the parsley on the top of your lasagna as it came out of the oven. >> oh, but clean the house. >> while ayou're taking care of your young child at the same time. that's why you're a multitasker when you juggle it on. >> that's the key to making a good party. make most of the food beforehand so you're not frazzled and the best way to have a good time at a party is to be there with your friends and know that the food is secondary.

and when you're having wine, please drink responsibly so no one gets out of line at the party or after. >> absolutely. that would never happen at the kilmeade place. >> go to the sterling facebook page if you want to be in the contest or even if you don't want to be in the contest but want some chips. >> if you want to go to the kilmeade party, go to the massapequa facebook page. >> i'm predicting victory for you on sunday. >> i hope. second time is a charm. we won last year. let's see. >> meanwhile, coming up on the show, keeping an eye on our regulation nation. truckers forced to cut down on hours and salary. is this a safety issue or big government butting in? >> mom from "malcolm in the middle" has a new gig and it comes with a new film. you're coming up, all right? we got wine in here. >> and padma.

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but now it would be 34 hours with a mandatory two day consecutive rest period that includes midnight to 6:00 a.m. bottom line, according to the american trucking association, a billion dollar charge to the economy and problems for drivers. here's what he told us. >> you basically say you must spend from midnight to 6:00 a.m. two nights in a row in bed before you can get on the road again. it basically means about the time the capital beltway is crowded at 7:00 every morning, trucks are going to start dispatching out because that's when drivers are available to go back to work. >> so those new regulations expected to be enacted at the end of october, bottom line, a billion dollar charge to the economy. you and i will pay more for goods at the store and drivers will be driving during the day more often. more traffic. back to you. >> adam, i would imagine that the administration would say well, you know, we're making him sleep more for safety reasons. >> they are saying it's about safety. it all stems from an issue over

fatigue and a lawsuit which was settled in 2003. this is a continuation of that lawsuit. both sides, by the way, those who sued the administration or the government to enact new regulation as well as the trucking industry are promising to sue again when the new regulations come down in october. >> all right. adam shapiro reporting live from i-95 on the 95 turnpike as you drive by his live shot, just honk today. thank you very much. >> all right. still ahead, for years, she played the mom on "malcolm in the middle." now, she's got a new tv family. actress jane kaczmarek is joining us live. in just moments. right now, right this minute, let's check in with bill hemmer with a preview of what happens -- >> how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i'm doing just fine. see the numbers behind me that match my salmon tie? breaking news on the jobs front. that's on the board and senator rand paul has an idea to get america moving again. he's live this morning. how will rick perry's faith play

a role in his campaign, rather, there were developments on this last night. and this investigation of the solar energy company, where does it all lead? a congressional committee starts asking its own questions starting this morning. we'll cover that for you. martha and i will see you in 11 minutes here on "america's newsroom." [ male announcer ] butter. love the taste, but want to cut back on f?

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>> quick headlines now. could your child be drinking poison? a new study shows dangerously high levels of arsenic in several popular apple juice brands like minute maid, motts, juicy juice and gerber. the f.d.a. admits there are trace amounts of the toxin in apple juice but they say most of it occurs naturally and it isn't harmful. big changes down under. australian passports come with three gender options.

you got male. you got female and you have indeterminant. great. just color that box in. the government hoping to end discrimination against people who are transgender or not entirely male and not entirely female. that's a bit of a gray area. >> it is. and i assume it's a small population part of australian citizenship but not sure. >> right. >> anyway, actress jane kaczmarek has a lot of experience playing the role of mom on tv. she's best known, of course, for her role as a frazzled mom on the hit show "malcolm in the middle." >> jane is back on tv and has a brand new role in a sitcom called "whitney" on nbc. take a look. >> oh! all the single ladies. >> is your father here? >> wow. 30 seconds. that's a new record. >> not to show up for your college graduation. >> you told him the wrong time. >> well, it's not his fault, he's so selfish that he doesn't show up and support you the way i do. he's not a bad guy. >> uh-huh.

>> he's just a horrible person. owes me a check! >> jane kaczmarek joins us right here. >> i haven't seen that yet. >> another fox news exclusive. >> yes, it is. >> thanks for having me. >> you play this -- is it a multidivorced character or one time she's trying to get over it? >> i think she's been multidivorced. i came into this show -->> i wonder why! >> all right. no, no, i'm talking about the character. >> nothing to do with you. >> this girl whitney is a delight and i've only filmed one episode with them so far. we'll be doing a couple more but playing her mother, i'll be recurring on the show. >> we loved you on "malcolm in the middle." >> thank you. that was a great show. >> you're here today to talk about something and when you came to the studio, i was watching because i knew that you had double hip replacement. >> you were watching? >> i was watching you come on. >> did i look like i did? >> absolutely not. because hip replacements saved my life. i can't tell you. it was one of the years i was doing malcolm and the day we ended the season, i went and had

my first hip replaced. i had been pregnant and noticed this terrible pain, sleeping, it hurt, terrible groin pain and i was taking so many advil but when you're pregnant, you can't and when i went over the advil during that pregnancy realized i was in bad shape and finished nursing her and finished that season of malcolm and the next day went for my hip and it changed my life. two years later, my other one started to go and i didn't wait as long because i'd waited way too long. >> what cause? >> i have shallow hip sockets. i gained 70 pounds with each of my three pregnancies. >> like many other women. >> and i think i was putting a lot of weight on a bad joint. but you know, i was so bad off. i would walk into a room and i would look to see where's the doorknob? where's a countertop and kind of navigate how i could make it through the room leaning from something to something and bring everything i needed down for the day so i wouldn't have to go

back upstairs until the end of the day. i would drive to the mall, go and get what i needed, get back in the car and drive to the next store at the mall. i could not walk to the mall. >> so these replacements changed your life. osteoarthritis also was a factor and you are advertising something called depew orthopedist. >> it is the company that made both of my hips and i was very happy when they asked me to join this campaign because as i said, changing these hips gave me a new life as a mother, as an actress, just as a relatively young woman and i was, i could walk through malls now. >> is it true now you're considering going for the olympics? with new hips and giving up acting all together? >> she could! >> can i tell you how many times i've been asked to do star st -- dancing with the stars. >> can you stick around with more in a couple of minutes?

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>> jane kaczmarek is going to stick around for the after the show, show. if you'd like to join us, log on to foxnews.com. >> have you seen who is on the show tomorrow? >> geraldo rivera. >> i can read it. >> i love these things. teleprompter. >> chris wallace and andrew dice clay. >> they're together now in a brand new tv series. >> and they have the same -- passport from australia. >> absolutely. >> very good. i can tell you you were a stand-up comic one time in your life before. we'll talk more about that. if you log on to fox and friends.com. have a great day. >> bill: all right, let's start with a fox news alert, breaking news on the economy and the effort to boost hiring hits a whole new brick wall, labor department reporting claims for jobless benefits for the week were higher by 11,000, up to 428,000 americans at the highest level in three