anymore? for just $18 million. "fox & friends" starts just about now. >> hi, everybody. it's deborah norville. good morning. you're so smart. you're watching "fox & friends." >> that was deborah norville. i'll tell you what, kim kardashian might have destroyed the kardashian franchise. >> why? >> because she roped us in. she got us involved in this love story that made everything seem ok in these times of economic strife so only turn out it was a sham and a scam. >> i think the number one person involved in that sham was her husband. i'm not quite sure he knew it was a sham. >> i'll tell you what, not a good idea to send your wife to a costume party by yourself. he's not been around. >> every day is a costume party in that family. >> listen to this. $10 million for a wedding. you bring in $18 million. you get $15 million, you get in tv rights, you get about $2 million. >> brian, talking about them

this morning. that's all they care about! >> $15 million for the tv show and $2 million for "people" million. >> this is who my kids have to look up to. >> we are getting kris jenner in later this week. >> developing story overnight. halloween night ends in bloodshed on bourbon street in new orleans. one people died, eight others wounded. first happened after midnight outside the famed chris owens nightclub. eight people were shot there. one of them died in the hospital and two hours later and blocks away, more gunshots and another victim. police do not think the two shootings are related. no arrests yet. first lady michelle obama will be in new orleans today for a democratic national committee luncheon. a plane carrying the owner of nascar's top racing team crash lands at an airport in key west, the gulf stream 150 was carrying rick hendrick and his wife linda. the pilot radioed the control tower "we have no brakes."

the plane came to a stop along an unpaved area. that area was just built in may. if the area hadn't been added, the outcome could have become catastrophic. rick, linda, the pilot and co-pilot are ok. his racing team including dale earnhardt jr. the storm that pummelled the northeast being blamed for 21 deaths, caused by traffic accidents, falling trees and downed power lines. jet blue apologizing to more than 100 passengers who were stran stranded on that tarmac for seven hours at hartford international. they were left with no food, no power and eventually no work toilets. >> we know we let some of you down over the course of the weekend and for that we are truly sorry. >> many of those passengers spent the night on cots in the airport terminal. here's brian's favorite story of the day.

forever turned out to be just 72 days for kim kardashian and kris humphries. kardashian filing for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. i don't know how you can know that after 72 days. sources claim the 31-year-old wanted out after the nba player was chasing fame. the marriage was a profitable one. two made $17 million off their reality wedding earlier this month. is that what we've come to in this society? being famous for nothing and getting married for money? those are the ideals we want our kids to live up to? >> you're right. there are a lot of kids and a lot of folks across america are fascinated with the family. and they like these folks. so there's something like -- >> i've met them. they're nice people. >> making money, we live in that kind of a country. >> what are they doing? what have they done and obviously, they're getting married for 72 days.

>> if there was no lockout -- i blame the lockout. >> do you think they're in love? >> i'm not sure what love is. ian, can you tell me? ian behind camera one. if there was no nba lockout, if they were able to play, they would probably have been together. he would have been at training camp. >> absence makes the heart grow fonder. >> those two would still be happy in love. >> maybe they can get back together and there can be another wedding at $34 million. >> and ryan seacrest -- and ryan seacrest would executive produce it and make more money. >> i think that's the way of the world. >> let's get back to politics for a minute. herman cain, the fallout from that sexual harassment charges, two of them. two women back in the 1990's. he finally responded yesterday. he came forward. he was on fox newschannel at least twice yesterday. recently, he was on greta van susteren's show last night and gave more detail than he did earlier in day. remember, one of those women

said it was a gesture that she felt uncomfortable about, that she was angry about. here is herman cain responding to greta van susteren as to what that gesture was. >> she was in my office one day and i made a gesture saying oh -- i was standing close to her. and i made a gesture, you are the same height as my wife and brought my hand, didn't touch her, up to my chin and said, you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin. my wife of 43 years and that was put in there as something that made her uncomfortable as part of the sexual harassment charge. >> the general counsel comes in and says it's settled. did you ask what did you do? >> i did. she and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement. >> how much? >> i don't remember the number. because there was no basis for this, we ended up settling for

what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly. >> what would that be about? >> maybe three months' salary or something like that. >> the problem with this entire thing, i don't -- >> it doesn't seem as big of a deal but i think the problem was the way this whole thing has played out. in the beginning it's i don't know what you're talking about, i vaguely remember and all of a sudden, you know the person and he goes on to say he knows the name of the second woman because they came up to him 10 days ago, politico did and here we have the name of the second woman and then he recalled the second incident but he started the day with a different story that he ended the day with. >> at the beginning of the day and end of the day, he'll make it clear that he absolutely denied engaging in any sexual harassment of any person at any time during his life. and so i think that's the critical part and so what gretchen is saying, if that is, in fact, the account of what happened, that he's standing close to this woman and there's

the discussion about the height of his wife and them being basically the same height, how in the world does that rise to the level of sexual harassment. >> as a female when i'm listening to that, i'm thinking i've heard a lot worse than that in the workplace. i have. come on. that's not sexual harassment. >> true. but what does it invite? it invites someone to say that's not what happened because there might be another version of the story. on the surface, of course, that doesn't seem to bother you. plus, you brought up -- he brought up an excellent point at the end of the interview. he says i worked at coca-cola, i worked at pilsbury, i owned godfather's pizza, national restaurant association, i never had a problem. >> chief executive or any manager and especially in this case based upon what we've seen in the past with judge thomas and those allegations, should this african-american chief executive of a national restaurant association, does he need a witness in the room? does he need someone to stand there and corroborate a discussion with a woman in the

room? >> there is none. >> and there have been some people that have pointed out in the national media that maybe this is a high-tech lynching, that politico engaged in with regard to mr. cain. what is the evidence? now, are we going to hear from these folks that made the allegations? i don't know. >> they supposedly -- you know, when they signed this agreement and got five figures which is, i guess, between $10,000 and $99,000. >> you're right. >> that they were not going to tell their side of the story. that was part of the agreement. so we'll have to -- i mean, if they -- from a legal perspective, if they came out and gave an interview in silhouette and you couldn't -- you didn't know who they were, would that be violating the agreement. >> here's the first part, are they involved with putting the story out to begin with? how did this story come out to begin with? so if in fact these women were involved with going to politico and saying here's this story. i'm not going to give you my name. i don't want it on the record but here's the allegation. here's the underlying papers, here's what i signed.

goes out the window. did they keep the agreement? mr. cain says he was not aware or part of the actual settlement. he turned it over to his general counsel and the human resources folks and also said that the eeoc, the equal employment opportunity commission looked at one of these allegations and found them to be unfounded. >> i wonder if there might be a mutual silence clause. >> very often there is and there's always the issue if one of these folks is looking at it and they say, i don't agree with the way he's putting it though it seemed to me he was being very careful. he said people can perceive in words and substance something that may -- they may perceive it to be. >> the only story -- the problem is the story kept evolving throughout the day. he had 10 days to come up with a crisis management message and it

didn't seem coherent even though we understood it. charles krauthammer had a problem with the way it came out and the way it's being handled. >> unless you answer all questions right away, the story has legs. we haven't yet heard from the accusers. unless cain collects himself, thinks it through and remembers his notes and talks about it with people who remember, he's going to have trouble with what will be called the cover-up. there isn't a cover-up yet but it's inconsistencies and that's what kills you in the end even if you are innocent at the beginning. >> that's the interesting thing that we were discussing on this show yesterday as the story was just breaking which is part of herman cain's appeal is his grassroots approach to running for president. but could that also be a negative because he's working with people who don't have the political experience to handle the kind of damage control that you might need in a situation like this. >> in terms of mr. krauthammer's

views, it appears to me he was on tv all day at the national press club in the morning and then at 10:00 at night, all day. in terms of jumping into it, he seems to be pretty direct and made a full throated denial of the charges. >> he wanted to talk about the economy and the plan. he couldn't go that way. meanwhile, remember this statement, the president of the united states says i didn't become president to bail out a bunch of fat cats on wall street and remember his outrage when he talked about the bonuses and justifiably so, that those ceo's and other board members were making while we bailed out the banks back in 2008. the president, i would imagine, must feel just as outraged today as the salaries and bonuses have been released for the government-owned fannie and freddie. >> we'll have to check in to gauge but that's a good segue to lead up to this story. $12.79 million in bonuses to 10 executives at fannie and freddie. and keep in mind that bailout of fannie and freddie was $170 billion of taxpayer money.

now, apparently, why they got those bonuses, they only had to meet modest performance targets. wouldn't you think that after $170 billion bailout with taxpayer money you might increase that to more than modest performance targets to get that kind of dough? >> freddie mac's ceo is this guy named ed halderman, when he wakes up in the morning, he's guaranteed $900,000. when he went to bethe end of the year, he bought home $2.3 million in bonus pay in an organization that's buried in red ink. >> let's hear what the freddie folks had to say. they said we're providing mortgage funding and continuous liquidity to the market. together with fannie mae, we've funded a large majority of the nation's residential loans. we're insisting on responsible lending. >> that makes no sense. >> i don't know how that works. >> doesn't answer the question about the bonus. >> it does not. we know what they're doing. >> representative patrick mchenry says this, fannie and

freddie executives are being paid millions to manage losses. i should be the starting forward of the lakers, it's completely absurd. you know who else is outraged is a representative elijah cummings, this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is an american issue. it should be mutual outrage. >> it's beyond tone deaf. >> we'll continue to discuss that and much more. coming up, a mother loses custody of her 3-year-old son on a simple trip to the stopper. why a sandwich almost cost this mother her kid. >> and america is still in the middle of a full fledged housing crisis with no end in sight. but the next bubble is about to burst. stuart varney says it's student college loans and the government is to blame. is that right, stuart? join us next, please, to tell us about it. [ male announcer ] have you heard?

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>> the next bubble is about to burst. student loan debt has now exceeded $1 trillion. yes, the $1 trillion mark and americans owe more on education loans than on credit cards. >> interesting. but with the failing economy rising in defaulting and calls for student loan forgiveness, who is going to pay and who is going to profit from higher education? stuart varney, who? >> look, i think it's a bubble. i think there's a bubble in college costs. i think there is a bubble in the level of volume and size of student loans that have been taken out. it's reached the peak of the bubble. i think it's about to burst. look, conventional wisdom was always in america, buy a home, get a college education and you'll do well. >> the bubble -- >> bubble bursting means what? >> the cost is going to come

down and the default rate on student loans is going to go up. as you said, brian, over a trillion dollars is now extended in student loans. the default rate is rising because the cost never goes down, always goes up because the government keeps pumping in virtually free money to subsidize education. they've got no reason to lower the cost. pass it along to the students. >> if you think about the average salary is going down and the average college cost is going up and every parent is trying to send their kid to college. >> good deal. >> let's keep getting -- son, daughter, you better take out more money. >> we've always said buy a home, you'll do well. you'll make money out of it. that's no longer true. get a college education, you'll do well. that's no longer necessarily true because the cost has risen so much and so many student loans are outstanding and the default rate is so high that maybe that good opportunity no longer exists. or doesn't exist for everybody as it maybe used to and president obama's fix is really almost worthless.

it helps only current students, not those people who have already graduated or dropped out with a massive loan. doesn't help them at all. only current students. >> $8 a month. >> tops. $10 a month. if you owe $100,000 on a student loan, maybe this will help to the tune of $28 a month. that is it. that's not much help. >> all right. and one of the answers has got to be raising college costs for another time. watch you at 9:20 on varney & company. that's all we ask, just watch stuart. meanwhile, straight ahead -- >> new poll numbers have rick perry losing his own state? coming up, a guy who knows how to navigate politics in the state of texas. the former media advisor to president george bush. and it took six hours to put together this halloween get-up. you'll go bananas when you hear which celebrity is behind the mask. my name is jill strange,

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>> quick headlines now. call him the new bin laden. c.i.a. targeting al-qaida's top bomb maker in yemen. he's said to be involved in at least three new terror threats against the u.s. he was also involved in the botched christmas day underwear bombing attempt in 2009. we thought we got him last month but he's still alive and the congressional super committee in charge of cutting the federal deficit holds a public hearing today. the bipartisan committee has until november 23rd to trim $1.2 trillion. gretch? >> big job ahead of them.

thank you, brian, the herman cain campaign may be dealing with sexual harassment accusations but it's not hurting him in the polls. especially in texas. the home state of governor rick perry. according to a new poll from the university of texas, herman cain is actually leading perry in his home state by one point. 27% to 26%. so if rick perry can't even win his home state, can he recover to win the nomination? joining me now is a former media advisor for george w. bush and global advice chair, mark mckinnon. >> good morning, gretchen, how are you? >> doing just fine. you know texas politics, what do you make of that hole where herman cain is atop of rick perry in texas? >> as you recall, al gore lost tennessee when he ran for president. i think there should be a gore rule that says if you can't win your home state, you can't be president. that said, perry has had a hall of fame worst launch imaginable. he's clawed his way to the bottom. but there's physics in this process and there's going to be

an anti-romney candidate that emerges and the vote is going to be in iowa in about 50 days. and the social conservatives and a lot of folks out there who are not enchanted with romney are going to shift to either cain or perry, potentially santorum or bachmann and rick perry is sitting on $14, $15 million and there's physics to this, just as much the press likes to write the meltdown of the rick perry campaign, they like to write about the resurgence of the rick perry campaign, too. >> they're busy tearing him down right now. i want to bring you to the attention of a speech that he gave in new hampshire on friday where now the press is saying that they actually thought that maybe he was drunk or that he had taken back pain medication because he was just a little bit looser than usual. this guy can't win right now, can he? >> well, john mccain says it's always darkest before it goes completely black. i think it's gone completely black for rick perry. he's hit rock bottom now and

he'll have a chance to come back. it's better to be loose than wired too tightly like he was before. all this does shows how hard it is to run a presidential campaign. it's hard to go from 0 to 60 overnight that rick perry has tried to do. he's got time and money. he can pull it around. >> let me ask you about this. you have perspective on this. you're in texas and you know what happened to president bush. you gave interesting point of view on this topic where he lost out to john mccain in new hampshire and came back. >> well, i worked for both george bush and john mccain and i remember when george bush got hammered in new hampshire, lost by 19 points. everybody says his campaign was over. i remember when john mccain's campaign melted down in the mid summer, everybody said his campaign was over. the key is to just stay focused on the -- on the early state primaries, iowa and new hampshire, have your strategy in place. don't panic, take it day to day. and don't roll over and play dead just because the press and everybody else wants you to. >> i want you to look at two

more polls because even though governor perry seems to be losing by one point to herman cain in his own state of texas, if you put him up against president obama, he beats him. 45% to 37% compared to herman cain who also beats obama but at a lesser margin, 40% to 35%. should we pay attention to any of this right now, mark? >> well, what we should pay attention to is how vulnerable barack obama is and i said, you know, it's so bad now that i think we could nominate just about anybody including ron paul and beat obama. so -- and that's why there's -- there's such -- people were so excited on the republican side and the primaries are getting very interested because everybody knows whoever wins the nomination is likely to be the next president. >> yeah, and maybe the attacks will continue to come. always great to pick your brain. thanks for getting up bright and early with us. >> more to come, more to come. >> pregnant woman loses custody of her daughter after eating a sandwich in the store so she

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governor of arizona. >> few headlines. the justice department suing south carolina over its tough new immigration law. the feds say the provision is requiring police officers to check suspects' immigration status is unconstitutional. the lawsuit names republican governor niki haley has a defendant. haley is the daughter of immigrants from india and says the state had to pass its own law because there's no strong federal immigration law. south carolina is the third state facing a lawsuit from the feds over their own immigration law. arizona and georgia are the other two. >> testimony from an expert witness continued today in the case against dr. conrad murray. yesterday, the judge fined dr. paul white $1,000 for contempt of court. white repeatedly referenced a conversation he had with dr. murray that was ruled inadmissible. white says based on the amount of propofol in michael jackson's body, he thinks jackson actually injected himself. >> and illegal immigrant found guilty of murder in the death of

a nun. a judge says carlos montavano of bolivia was drunk in august of 2010 when he slammed his vehicle into another car carrying moser and two other nuns. those nuns both seriously injured. he had two previous drunk driving convictions but never deported. >> and you have to hear this. a pregnant mother and her husband forgot to pay for a $5 sandwich. so they were arrested and separated from their 3-year-old daughter for 18 hours. >> when they told us they would have to take her because we'd both be arrested, i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe this is happening because i forgotten to pay for the sandwich. and she's never been away from us for this long. >> any nicole was shopping at a safeway grocery store in hawaii when she felt dizzy and ate the sandwich without paying. she tried to tell security it was an honest mistake but they

called the cops. they took her daughter into child protective services and she's back with her parents, safeway says they are reviewing the matter. >> she said that if the federal government wasn't going to protect the border, then arizona would do it themselves. arizona governor jan brewer says the days leading up to the signing of the state's controversial immigration law, she describes it as if she was waterboarded. and that the president even dissed her in the oval office. >> she describes all this in her new book "scorpions for breakfast, my fight against special interests, liberal media and cynical political to secure america's borders." good morning, governor jan brewer. nice to see you. >> good morning to you all. >> this is an exciting book for you. one of the things you talk about in the book was a meeting that you had with president obama. and at the end of the meeting, you publicly said that it was a cordial meeting but you actually in this book give the details of

what went on and how he acted towards you. tell us about that meeting. >> when i came out of the white house after meeting with the president, you know, and i reflected and i told the people of america that it was a cordial meeting, there wasn't any yelling or screaming going on. however, cordial can still be a little rough. it was a pretty condescending meeting with the president, given the fact that he wanted to tell me what he felt he wanted me to do and that was to address the issue with comprehensive immigration reform and i was more there to tell him and tell him pretty clearly we could deal with any of those other things afterwards and that we certainly needed our borders secured now. >> how did he respond to the question about why the federal government refuses to enforce the laws that are already on the books. >> the bottom line is that the federal government is out of control and they continue to tell us that the borders are as secure as they have ever been. and, you know, i will grant that they have increased their

enforcement a little bit down there but it certainly isn't enough. we know it's not enough. bottom line is that we still are facing the drug cartels on a daily basis and that we know only about 1/4 of the criminals that are coming across are getting arrested. and, you know, we can talk to people like rob krentz or brian terry's family and they'll tell you that it's not secure, i'm sure. >> talk about that in a second. but real quick, what was your thoughts when governor napolitano becomes homeland security secretary napolitano, you'd think she'd understand. she was your predecessor. what's the disconnect there? why don't you see eye to eye on this? >> bottom line is that very unusual but, of course, you make your decisions. it's not where you sit, it's where you stand and she's standing in d.c. so she's in the federal limelight and doing the -- the work. >> you're disappointed in her.

>> i am disappointed. this is absolutely ridiculous because she was there, you know, calling on the federal government to enforce the laws when she was governor and then she arrives there and again have an opportunity to make it better and absolutely does not. >> for many americans, you became the strong forthright american governor, a woman who was speaking out on an issue that really drew the scorn of the white house and some of the people on the left side of the political spectrum in america. in fact, you kind of point out in your book that you were almost demonized as a result and arizona, the people of arizona were demonized as to what they were trying to do to repair what the federal government hadn't done. how does that make you feel? what does that say about going forward? >> well, it was a very unfair -- it was unfair accusations that they kept making towards me and to arizona. and i share a lot of that in the book because i don't think that it was really to be reported by the news, by the liberal media

and it's unfortunate because, of course, we were trying to protect our citizens and do what was right and to have them turn around and use the racist card. >> sue you. >> the bigot card to shut down the debate and when i -- >> but the president started that because the president said if you're going to go down the street to buy an ice cream, you can get deported. when you use that illustration, what chance do you have as governor of the state? >> absolutely. and i was so outraged. i was so outraged. it certainly was not true and then he was making a joke. he thinks it's funny. you know, and that's not acceptable. it's a serious situation that we're facing. and we want help. >> you mentioned the name brian terry, rob krentz. brian terry is the border agent gunned down with a gun from our own federal government during this whole fast & furious debacle. well, now, there are more calls for the attorney general eric holder to resign and in fact, news this morning that he has now moved up his testimony. he's going to testify again about fast & furious, i believe,

is it this week? i believe it's at the end of this week that he's going to do so. where do you see this whole fast & furious thing going since you are in arizona and this is where that crime took place? >> well, i certainly think that somebody up high needs to be held accountable. if they knew what we all believed that they did know at that particular time, when we're trying to close our borders and protect our people and all the time that they're sending guns south of the border for the cartels to go down there and now we know they had the news to kill not only brian terry up here in arizona but certainly down in mexico, accountability, whose in charge? >> in "the new york times", lenny brewer admits that he was told in april of 2007 about this operation, the same thing where they sell american guns to drawing consider tells only it was called operation wide receiver. he was briefed on that. that's the highest level of the justice department. >> well, it's just unbelievable

and it's so wrong. i mean, here we are crying out, the whole country, the whole country is crying out to get our borders secured and they keep talking about the balance and they keep telling me it's more security than ever. and all the time, we're sitting there finding -- we end up fi fighting up our own government that's sending guns south of the border. >> where does it stand right now? >> right now, we're waiting to hear from the supreme court. we hope to hear by december whether they will. >> her new book has got a lot of subtitles but if you want to know the main title, it will get you. "scorpions for breakfast." >> the truth. the truth that you haven't heard. >> jan brewer, so great of you to be on the curvy couch. >> thank you. thank you all. >> thanks, governor. >> meanwhile, coming up straight ahead on our show, much more to come in 2 1/2 hours, no less. no need to see a doctor. you can manage your own pain with your mind and whiskey.

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and two more banks dialing back their fees to use debit cards. sun trust bank is eliminating a $5 monthly fee that was supposed to kick in tomorrow. regents bank of alabama also ending fees instituted just a few weeks ago. they join wells fargo and j.p. morgan chase that rolled out programs this year but ended after a backlash from customers like us. gretch? peter? >> thank you, brian. we're often told when we want to move on from our mistakes, we need to try to forget the past. well, hold on a minute. now, a new book is turning back the clock on that old advice and telling us to use history to heal us, peter. >> dear friend alan ratner is the author of the new book "self-empowerment, nine things the 19th century can teach us about living in the 21st." certainly lived well in the 20th and the 21st. >> i do and our own dick morris gave me the subtitle of the book. i have to give him credit. >> you had a problem with chronic anxiety. >> i did. >> tell us about how this

relates to the book and how you have stopped it. >> what happened is i had written two chapters about this guy and then he changed his name because he thought he wouldn't sell enough books under atkinson anymore so i was having this chronic anxiety. i asked my physician. i said find me an alternative psychiatrist. i did. she taught me a breathing technique. i looked at the web site and our old friend, william walker atkinson had actually developed this technique. i had actually written about it, kind of forgotten about it and then i used the same technique we also use it in south sudan with our woman to make these hearts who have experienced a lot of post traumatic stress and seen people killed in front of them and it works beautifully. so he says that there are six qualities that you need, right? >> right. >> so he teaches mind power, develop a positive mental atmosphere. i guess we're looking at it right here. believe in yourself, etc. and this is something that propels you to actually finish this book after 20 years. >> that's right.

it's because of concentration and fix of purpose to have a purpose. we have so many things in life that distract us. if you have a purpose, it really helps you move ahead. >> you know, you've done so many things, you're a fox news contributor, had a talk radio news service, liberal commentator, a writer, on the radio, you're all over the place helping people in south sudan, in mississippi post katrina. what is the one thing out of all these things that you've looked at that have helped you be so successful and be so motivated going forward? >> a positive mental atmosphere and really helping people and this is directly from the book get the negativity out of their life. if you can do that, get negative people, get negative things out of your life and move toward a positive atmosphere which the book teaches you how, how to do it and all these techniques were developed in the 1800's proved by current science, that will really help you move ahead. >> how do you originally become interested in what used to be -- to go back in time, i'm thinking of how forward we're moving with

all of the technology now. it's amazing to me that you would look back 2 it -- 200 years and say these things still app apply. >> i worked with a well known woman that is a medium and she helped direct me with this, she co-authored book with me. when i was working with fox during the monica lewinsky crisis, i would spend a lot of time in the library of congress. i started to read some of this old stuff. guess what? it was all there. >> if you want to know about self-empowerment and even learn about johnny appleseed, he's been a favorite of mine, you have to pick up her book. pleasure to see you. >> good luck with the book. >> coming up on the show, we told but the accusations that governor rick perry may have been drunk during this campaign appearance. that's what pundits are saying, critics are saying. coming up, let you listen to the tape and you can decide for yourself. >> and then, gretchen, her dad is a legendary nfl quarterback. now, she's carrying on the family tradition. but this is definitely not her father's football game.

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>> hi, what do you get when you mix a super bowl winning nfl quarterback and a former redskins cheerleader, gretchen? >> get this. angela rypien, the daughter of former nfl quarterback mark rypien and his wife annette, a former redskins cheerleader. just a few weeks ago, angela made her debut in the lingerie football league, leading her team to a 42-8 victory. she's the quarterback. >> right, without thigh pads. joining us right now, angela rypien. congratulations on a great debut. three touchdown passes. how did it feel?

>> it feels good. it's definitely something i've never felt before. >> which is true because you were a cheerleader, a soccer player. you played a myriad of other sports. what made you jump into this league? >> you know, i played with my dad kind of growing up. and i just loved the sport. so the nfl has given me something to take it to the next level. >> your dad won a super bowl with the redskins, was it 1992? , i think? >> yes. >> what was his first reaction to you, number one, being a quarterback. number two, dressing in lingerie while you're a quarterback. >> at first, i think he was a little surprised but, you know, he definitely loves the fact that i'm having fun at what i'm doing so i think, you know, he's very supportive that i'm doing something that i'm happy with. >> right. so angela, you guys won -- you ladies won 42-8 over the green

bay chili in the season opener at which time we understand you got in a fight. were you -- did you punch somebody or pull on to the face? >> no, i got a little caught up in the moment and there was a lot of adrenalin going. at the time, i didn't really notice what i was doing. but, you know, watching it later on, seeing the highlights, you know, definitely something that i won't be doing anymore. that's for sure. >> it's interesting because you say that you believe that the ladies out there play even a little bit harder than the nfl guys. what do you mean by that? >> i think it's just to the level of, you know, we're out there and pretty much playing less than, you know, some of the guys are playing and i think it's just to the point where, you know, we're just kind of giving it our all and we have full-time jobs on top of doing this. so i think, you know, we're out there kind of giving a little more effort than some of the guys are, i guess.

>> angela, being that you look to be -- this footage and reading in the background, a fine athlete. do you wish this game could be played with more clothes? >> i definitely do. i think, you know, all of us do and i hope that's something, you know, in the future that we look into but, you know, it's a great business scheme. and it's something that's very successful thus far, so at this point, you know, why change it now? >> i think he was joking. >> no, if it's real football, it becomes a distraction that you women are in great shape and barely clothed. >> that's why people are going to the games. >> you never know! >> and you are also interested in fashion, so maybe you can design uniforms for the team next year. >> yeah! i'm looking into it. >> ok. well, continued success. it's nice to have you on and i hope you get touchdown passes coming up in the next game. >> check out the seattle mist in the lingerie football league. thanks so much. >> thank you! >> ok. hey, coming up straight ahead, an amazing story.

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governor? kind of entertaining. say it ain't so, kim kardashian and her reality show hubby are headed for splitsville after just 72 days. but was the whole thing just a big sham and a scam? we're going to report and then you're going to decide here on "fox & friends" which begins right now. >> hello, this is yoyo ma and you're watching "fox & friends." >> he was on over the weekend, wasn't he? >> he's fantastic. greatest cellist in the world. >> peter is in for steve today. >> i'm glad steve is off today. he loves the kardashians and for him to be so fallen that these kids look so much in love have fallen out of love. >> that's why he took the day off. he didn't want to be here for that. it's too hard. >> that's a theory. >> maybe america can learn something from this debacle. we'll talk about that in a

minute. owner of nascar's top racing team crash lands in key west. gulfstream 150 was carrying rick hendrick and his wife. the pilot radioed the control tower saying "we have no brakes." and the pilot came in for a landing completely sliding off the 4800 foot runway coming to a stop along an unpaved area. now, that area just built in may. if the area had not been added, the outcome could have been catastrophic. embankment and pond on the other side. rick, linda, the pilot, co-pilot doing ok this morning. the racing team includes jimmie johnson, jeff gordon and dale earnhardt jr. the powerful snow storm that pummelled the northeast being blamed for 21 deaths now, being caused by traffic accidents, fallen trees and downed power lines. new this morning, jet blue apologizing to more than 100 passengers stranded on a tarmac for seven hours at hartford international airport. they were left with little food, little water and finally no working toilets. >> at jet blue, you count on us for a lot more and we promise a

lot more. and we know we let some of you down over the course of this weekend and for that, we are truly sorry. >> many of those passengers spent the night on cots in the airport terminal when they got off that plane. call him the new bin laden? the c.i.a. now targeting al-qaida's top bomb maker in yemen. he's said to be involved in at least three new terror threats against the united states. officials say he's even researched airport security measures on the internet so he can figure out how to get bombs on to planes. he was also involved in the botched christmas day underwear bombing attempt. and the plot to bomb cargo planes. there were reports he was killed by a drone strike last month. but that turned out to be false. here you go! forever. turned out to be just 72 days for kim kardashian and kris humphries. kardashian filing for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. >> how do you even know? >> how do you know? >> blind dates have been

longer. >> mine actually was. sources claim that -- i married the guy. sources claim the 31-year-old wanted out after the nba player started chasing fame. what has she been doing her whole life? their marriage failed, it was a profitable one. the two made about $17 million off their reality wedding special that airs earlier this month and i'll say it again, this is what our kids have to look up to, folks. yep, that's a good role model right there. >> back to spongebob, sorry, kids, you're better off there. kris jenner is going to be here in a couple of days. she has her biography out. that's the mom. we talked to her and we loved the three girls that were here. >> you're going to pose these questions to kris jenner. >> if you could jot them down. my memory is shot! my thing is about kim kardashian, if i go to that wedding, i need my gift back. whether it's a check, whether it's a toaster, or whether it's a hot plate, i need it back. because i've been had. but you've watched that several times, that wedding. >> yes, i have. i well up each time.

i look for greta in the audience. >> i don't know if we can believe any part of any of this anymore. >> what do you mean? >> it's just so ridiculous. but i wonder, the reports are that he is very upset about this. so was he in on this whole little game from the very beginning? >> what if they're very much in love. >> that they were? >> and it just turned out to be so wrong. >> right. >> and by the way to persevere for 72 days must not have been easy. talk about turbulent times. unbelievable. >> oh, my goodness. >> hit the snooze button one more time and i'm leaving you. >> is there a show on it? >> let's talk about something else. herman cain because he was doing damage control all day yesterday after details of the sexual harassment charges came out from the 1990's. two women apparently when he worked at the national restaurant association had filed claims and they were given some sort of a payout but he was describing it yesterday. you know, not that it was some, you know, half million dollar settlement, it was somewhere between $10,000 and $99,000 to

these two women and maybe it was more of just a, you know, here's a few months pay to get out of the situation so that it didn't become public because as he describes it, he says it was no big deal. here's herman cain. >> she was in my office one day and i made a gesture saying oh -- and i was standing close to her. and i made a gesture, you are the same height as my wife. and brought my hand, didn't touch her, up to my chin and said you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin. my wife of 42 years. and that was put in there as something that made her uncomfortable. as par of the -- part of the sexual harassment charge. >> he comes in and says it's settled. did you ask what did you do? >> i did. she and her daughter were demanding a huge financial settlement. >> how much? >> i don't remember the number. because there was no basis for

this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly. >> what would be that about? >> maybe three months' salary or something like that. >> he went on to say, the second woman, he did know her name. when politico told him about the story a few days ago, he remembered their names. he didn't remember her name and didn't know there was a formal charge against him. she worked in the governor affairs department over the national restaurant association. and the incident might have happened on the road. but we'll see. she's saying he wasn't aware of any substantial payout but the big story, i think the big problem is, even if there's no there there, there doesn't seem to be is how the story evolved throughout the day. bloomberg, pbs, greta and happening now, the story evolved throughout the day and don't you think that's the problem if you're part of a crisis management team. >> in a presidential campaign, it's going to evolve and there's going to be more information and we'll hear about the second

person and the specifics with regard to that allegation and how much was paid with regard to that allegation. but part of the success has been his forthrightness and his directness with the american people. so he's going to successfully overcome this issue, then he's going to have to speak in a forthright, straight way and maybe even a second day today to lay it out. he's denied the charges yesterday all the way through the day. it evolved in terms of the details that were coming forward. but the point is he denied the charges of sexual harassment. >> his spokesperson says in iowa it could help him in iowa. maybe people would be upset this kind of story is coming out. to me, what's really important is will it ever come out who placed this story? will it come out, was it a rival republican who planted this story? was it a democrat who planted this story? will that ever come out? if it does, i think that person will face more scrutiny than herman cain. >> and the bigger problem would

be for herman cain, if the two women come out and if he violated the confidentiality by going into a little bit of detail. that means his story will live on. >> all likelihood, you'll hear from these women. if they made the allegations, then they certainly felt that they had some ability to bring those allegations. now, it depends upon whether they're emotional about it, whether they rethought it and said listen, maybe he didn't do what i thought he did but he's certain he didn't do anything wrong. >> charles krauthammer just said it appears he's winging it and this is his first shot in a major crisis and i don't think his team is helping him or his advisors are doing him right. he seems to be alone. >> let's move on to governor rick perry because now there are accusations against the governor and when he gave a speech in new hampshire on friday, that because he was so loose and he was joking around, that quite possibly, critics are saying that he was drunk? or that he had taken back pain medication or something like that?

listen to governor rick perry and see what you think. >> this is such a cool state. i mean, come on. live free or die? i mean, they print anymore money over there in washington, the goal is going to be good. force the granite state to expand your tax footprint. you know what i mean. be like 9% expansion. pretty easy math, subtract it. send it in. it's awesome. that! >> all right. so apparently got a standing ovation after he gave this speech. >> that looks like a great speech. he's not slurring his words. he's taking a shot at herman cain's tax plan and he seems to like the new hampshire tax system which is a lot like texas. i think he was just loose. >> obviously, he's going to have to explain the looseness. it's becoming a bigger, and bigger story and so in the same way that mr. cain is being called into account as to conduct more than a decade ago,

if this is in fact -- and i happened to watch this. >> i haven't watched enough of it. >> apologizing every hour. >> i watched some of the governor's tapes that don't seem consistent with prior conduct. >> maybe he's had these advisors telling him he needs to loosen up because in the debates he was too scripted and too reserved. >> he seemed extremely loose. >> people just wonder, too, why is it that he could show great personality and show a looseness on the stage and everyone says oh, he must be drunk or he's on some type of medication. >> that's the bigger story here. why would the media jump to that conclusion and actually print it? well, did they do the same when howard dean had his scream fest. watch this. >> north dakota and new mexico, we're going to california and texas and new york and we're going to south dakota and oregon and washington and michigan. and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house! ahhhh! >> there he goes and with that,

he left the stage and all chances of becoming president out the window. nobody said let's do a breathalyzer. >> obviously there's a double standard in that. don't want to jump to that conclusion at all. >> and he's never screamed like that before that we know of. so therefore, that's one time behavior. >> publicly. >> that's indescribable. >> coming up on the show, a story we've been following closely. accusations catholic university discriminates against muslim students because at a catholic university, there are actually crosses on campus. coming up, we have an update on this story. >> and then president obama side stepping congress and using executive orders to pass change after change in america. why can't he get stuff done with majority support? rnc chairman reince priebus is here next. my doctor told me calcium

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>> president obama decides to go it alone again. another day, another executive order. listen. >> it is the belief of this administration as well as folks like bonnie and jay that we can't wait for action on the hill. we've got to go ahead and move forward so as a consequence, i'm going to be signing an executive order today that directs the f.d.a. to step up, work to reduce the drug shortages and protect consumers. >> well, was the president's plan to side step congress constitutional? he did it all last week and now he's doing it this week. joining us is the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus. welcome back. appreciate it. >> hey, brian. >> your reaction to the president's plethora of executive orders? >> well, what he's -- brian, here's what he's doing. he's checking off boxes and

talking points so that he can get everything laid out for his re-election campaign. here's the deal. i mean, and some of this stuff isn't all that bad but it's just like small ball. i mean, it's so little, so late. even on the student loan issue, not a bad idea but it saves students about $10 a month. ok? so the problem that this president has isn't, you know, he wants to talk about republicans, perry, reid and the democrats want nothing to do with his policies. they're the ones holding it in senate. there aren't any democrats standing on these bills and proposals that the president is laying out so his problem is his own party doesn't support him. most americans aren't supporting him anymore so now what he's doing is he's checking off boxes. he's writing up these proposals, he's doing a press conference so that he can write the speech so he can get on his taxpayer paid bus and go campaign for re-election. that's what's going on, brian. >> all right. it's going to be interesting to see if it resonates and see what the polls reveal. if it does go positive, he's

going to continue to do it. one year to the day we're going to have an election and we'll have a new president or renewed president. you have a new political ad. >> we do. we've got a new ad and i'm going to tell you and i think most viewers would agree whatever side of the aisle you're on is when you can use a person's own words and say this is what the president said about jobs, this is what he said about the economy. he said that if you were not better off, three or four years from now, then don't re-elect me again as president of the united states. well, guess what, nobody's better off today than they were three or four years ago. and so what we did is, you know, the president is out there talking about we can't wait, whatever that means. but he's out there talking about we can't wait. well, we can't wait for make barack obama a one term president and if you text 91919, the word one year, we will send you one of these bumper stickers to help us make barack obama a

one term president. save this country from a president who has not followed through on his promises, brian. >> all right, reince, just so you know, we did invite your counterpart debbie wasserman schultz on, she was unable to make it today but that is your perspective on where the republican party is one year until they have a candidate to go against president obama. maybe they'll get one before that. >> you bet. thank you. >> thank you, brian. >> 19 minutes after the hour. plane she was on literally exploded sending her free falling 10,000 feet. she should be dead. she is not. she is here next to tell the incredible story of how she survived. then the first lady's campaign schedule suddenly in flux. why she's delaying a fundraiser at the home of a hedge fund billionaire in texas. is she caving in to union pressure? the employee of the month is...

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gretchen? >> thank you, peter. take a look at this picture. it's what was left of the flight after it went down 40 years ago. it's impossible to believe anyone survived. but one person did. julianne kupkay was catapulted out of the plane when it exploded in mid air and she plummeted 10,000 feet to the ground strapped to her seat. she was injured but somehow alive. here with the incredible story, julianne, the author of the new book "when i fell from the sky" an apt title. good morning to you. you were on this plane with your mother, you were 17 years old and you were going to peru. you went through a thunderstorm. you knew that you were in difficulty because you describe in the book that your mom was trying not to be very nervous but you knew something was going on. >> yes. it was a terrible situation, and we entered very suddenly for one moment to the other, the sky was becoming completely dark, cloudy

and dark and we entered in very, very heavy turbulence and we saw lightning around us and then suddenly, i saw very bright light, lightning struck on the outer right engine. my mother said in that moment very clearly that's the end. and i realized if it has been a film for me because it happened so quickly all. i remember the roaring engines of the falling plane, the plane made a nose dive and then we fell down and it was incredibly loud, the desperate crying people and the roaring engines and then suddenly, the noise finished. i was outside the plane. the plane broke in several pieces and i was thrown out from the second to last row and i

remember very clearly that moment, i realized what happened. i fell down and free fall from two miles of height and i saw the green canopy below me spinning around and i was still fastened with my belt to the seat bench and i clearly saw that i was falling down from this height. >> it's an amazing account because you believe now you probably went in and out of consciousness. you land in the jungle. the rain forest. you had severe injuries, concussion, collarbone was broken. but amazingly, you were alive and you credit the fact that you knew how to manage the rain forest as to why you survived. why? >> that's essentially important, yes. i survived only, i think, because i had been before 1 1/2 years on the small biological research station. my parents were zooologists

both, had found it in the primary rain forest in central peru and there, i learned how to move in that environment that is so described as a green hell. that's not true. for me, it wasn't a green hell. i knew the animals weren't so dangerous but i knew what animals were dangerous. >> it's an amazing account of what you went through. you finally found a canoe and got to water and 11 days later, you were rescued. your mother died in this crash along with everyone else. but you actually believe that some people also survived the initial crash but died in the rain forest. why do you believe that? >> it must have been so because when the dead bodies were found, some of them were very well conserved. normally, in that rain forest when there is a dead body, a

portion, then it disappears immediately because wild animals feed on it. and so also my mother had survived the crash itself. >> you believe. >> but had been so heavily injured, it wasn't possible for them to move. >> you were the only one that survived 40 years ago. it's an amazing story. the book is called "when i fell from the sky." thanks for your time today. coming up on our show, it's a story we've been following closely. accusations catholic university discriminates against muslim students because at a catholic university, there are crosses on the campus. coming up, we have an update on this story. and every week we tell you about the top five companies that are hiring right now. it's paying off. coming up next, meet a man who got a job thanks to "fox & friends." then herman cain giving them something to talk about. what had him breaking into song? stick around for that. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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but those are two beautiful children. >> they are. >> and they really -- >> listen to me, unlike my son who really doesn't want to listen to me. >> teenager. >> well, i'm not going to comment on whether or not my kids listen to me. i'm going to show them to you. there's kaya and christian. christian was sonic from the mario brothers wii game which he would be an addict on if i let him. and my daughter was a darlena. i love this picture. that's the pose. that scarecrow we made. >> wow. >> i love your pictures but more beautiful. look at that. >> that was the two seconds that my son wore the hat apparatus. it was after that time that my husband actually put it on briefly and then he said i've had it with the hat. >> most of your neighborhood without power. so you had these two kids alone walking in the dark up and down your block. >> it was actually really dangerous. i adorned them with many flashlights because there were no street lights at all. no house lights. some people have generators so there's a little bit of light

inside. >> i had no photos. young veronica was a tiger shark. she was a shark on the top and a tiger below and uncle chris took her to -- not the wall street, occupy wall street, halloween parade. >> close. >> and blanche was writing a paper and i think she was buzz lightyear. wonderful children. they're beautiful. god bless them. >> thank you. it was a lot of fun. >> goes quickly. >> speaking of occupy wall street there was somebody who decided to go down and take on the protesters who are still down there even through the snowstorm over the weekend. his name is peter schiff and we captured him asking an occupier how much he thinks that he should have to pay. watch this. >> how much do you think i should pay? what would be fair for me? >> i don't know what you make -- i can't tell you that. >> about the same as everybody else. >> what should i pay? all right. i'll pay -- >> all right. that would be a huge tax cut for me. i pay much more than 35% of my

income in tax. >> what do you think -- >> less than me and i employed her. i am giving the government half of what i earn. you think they should take more? >> i think we should get rid of the bush tax cuts. >> that means i would be paying more than half of what i earn. >> so they didn't really answer the question which is interesting. >> he is a very successful businessman and he's over in connecticut and he employs about 150 people. he went down there with a microphone to say what am i not doing that's upsetting you? how much should i pay? what is your problem? >> he's part of the self-proclaimed 11%. this interaction with this guy, watch this the other day. this was very interesting. i don't know. you know, god bless him for going down there. >> hear what he said, how much money has he given you? >> i'm writing paychecks every week. >> i haven't given you anything? >> everybody in this park has contributed to your fat bank account. >> how do you figure? >> in one way, shape or form. >> how do you figure that? >> what the man is claiming to him that everyone in that -- in

that park has given to his blank account so i guess they've all made contributions to mr. schiff somehow. he's not aware of that. i don't know. >> that's the money -- by the way, he was on the show sunday. but that's the mindset of the people down there and the more you question, the more you unfold, i think their message is so muddled and the more you talk to them, i think the more they'll revealed to be almost impossible to support. >> it was telling when they couldn't answer the question about when he said i pay 50% taxes, should i pay more and they didn't really answer that. anyway, he was on "fox & friends" sunday. let's hear what he had to say for himself. >> the impression that somehow the u.s. economy is in trouble because wealthy people aren't paying enough taxes and, of course, that's not the reason. one of the people in that crowd, if you heard him, he said i thought i should pay the same taxes as him. i'm already paying a lot more taxes. not only am i paying a higher rate but in absolute terms, i'm paying a lot more in taxes.

i'm paying more in taxes than all those people in that park combined. i'm creating a lot of jobs. the people around me weren't creating any. >> so there you have it. >> bill gates said essentially the same thing, too. you cannot get ourselves out of financial trouble by continuing to tax people but let's go over the headlines now. and see if you remember them. >> ok. he became the poster child for corruption when residents of bell, california, found out about a scheme to bilk the city out of millions. he paid himself and other city officials exorbitant salaries while the city went broke. now the disgraced city manager suing the city for his $1 1/2 million salary. he claims he's still owed his wages with interest because he hasn't been convicted of a felony and hasn't resigned his post. he pled guilty of fraud and misappropriation of public funds. >> first lady michelle obama apparently caving into union pressure postponing a controversial campaign fundraiser. she was scheduled to host in houston today. the fundraiser was supposed to be at the home of former enron

executive and billionaire john arnold. the houston teachers union was planning to protest the event. not because of arnold's ties to enron but because he's reportedly backing a plan that would cut into public workers pensions. the white house says that it has nothing to do with the first lady pulling out at all. they say she simply had what's called a scheduling conflict. >> all right, catholic university saying muslims are most definitely welcome at their school. this after george washington university professor filed a complaint against the neighboring schools saying they discriminate against muslims by not allowing them to form prayer groups on campus. catholic u president john garvey is firing back writing in part, the fact is that no muslim student at catholic university has registered a complaint with the university. since 2007 our muslim enrollment has more than doubled from 56 to 122. >> talk about amazing grace under pressure, republican presidential candidate herman cain bursting into song when

asked if he would sing at a press conference in washington. >> ♪ amazing grace will always be my song of praise for it was grace that brought me liberty ♪ >> mr. cain says he won't make singing a regular part of his campaign but he did yesterday when asked. >> he has a nice voice. >> right. >> we've been bringing you the top five companies hiring and we do it because we want you to get back in the job market. we're happy to report that it is indeed working. you want proof? >> michael link is a recent college grad and a "fox & friends" viewer. he saw a job that we highlighted on our show and he got hired and he now works at enterprise. good morning, michael. >> good morning. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much.

>> i remember that day that we talked about enterprise. they had a managerial positions, right? >> yes, ma'am. >> is that the position that you got? >> yes, i'm a management trainee. >> when you got out of college, how tough was it to get a job? >> it was very difficult. at first, you know, i applied at different companies. i had different -- a couple of interviews. and i thought i was going to get, you know, job of my dreams. but i didn't. but i got hired at enterprise. >> what will you be doing once you finish the training program and what's your ambition at enterprise? >> basically, i'm going to build my way up on the enterprise leadership and hopefully be a future leader for enterprise. >> that's wonderful. >> did you have to move locations for this job? >> no, i live in philadelphia. and i work in northeast part of philadelphia. >> all right. what do they have you doing? >> management trainee, i help customers. i help rent cars to dealership customers, insurance customers, body shop customers and regular rental customers. >> how can i get an upgrade? what's the best way when i go to get an upgrade? we all want to know.

can you let me in? should i just be really nice to you and can i -- what should i be doing as a customer? >> basically if you come to my branch, i can definitely help you out. >> right. thank you. >> as long as your check clears. >> michael, inld that you watch our show pretty religiously but that morning, you had happened to miss that segment that your aunt saw the enterprise segment and passed along the information to you. >> yes. >> what can you tell other young people? what would be your advice about trying to get a job? >> my advice would be to stay focused, stay motive ated and definitely stay confident. you might not get the first job you apply to and definitely might not get the first job that you interview for, as long as you stay confident in yourself, you should definitely get the job that's best for you. >> we want to check back with you and see how you're doing in the future. we know the work we're doing here is paying off. >> yes, ma'am. >> michael is an example of that. >> you might want to stick around in case any of your fellow graduates are looking for a job because in about 10 minutes, we'll tell you five more companies that are looking to hire people right away. cheryl casone is here. >> thanks for coming in.

>> thanks for having me. >> ok. >> the key to winning the latino vote, our next guest said republicans need to stop talking about illegal immigration. >> and we spent billions to bail them out. they're taking it to the bank. fannie mae and freddie mac executives are getting huge bonuses. but first, the pfizer trivia question of the day -- welcome idaho,

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immigration is one topic that none of them can win on. >> joining us now from denver to explain is former labor secretary nominee and fox news contributor linda chavez. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you wrote this op ed and basically said the republicans who want to become nominee for president should stop talking about illegal immigration because quite frankly, the country doesn't think it's that big of a deal. what do you mean by that? >> first of all, all of the public opinion polls that have been taken in the last year in which people are asked what are the most important voting issues for you? illegal immigration ranks at the very bottom. 2% to 4% of american voters think that it's the single most important issue. the other thing is, gretchen, is that republicans ought to be patting themselves on the back and saying hey, we have had a real impact on slowing illegal immigration. illegal immigration now is at the same level as it was in 1972. it's a 40-year low. we deported more people last year who were illegal aliens than at any time in our history.

so i think we ought to be taking credit for having made huge improvements in border enforcements and we ought to be moving on and talking about other, more important issues like jobs, like the economy, like too much government spending and too high taxes. >> right. so you just think that they should back off that topic and in terms of governor perry going after mitt romney about his lawn care company, in terms of herman cain saying electrify the fence even if he's not getting around, you say there's no winning there. >> there is no winning there. you have the largest growing demographic group in the country in hispanics. it's growing at a much faster rate than any other group in the country and republicans in the past have shown they can win upwards of 40% of hispanic votes. george w. bush did it. ronald reagan did it. richard nixon almost exceeded that number back in the 1970's. >> but you know -- you know, miss chavez, that some people watching the show right now are going to say to themselves, wow,

this doesn't sound like a republican point of view because are you actually saying that we should just disregard the illegal immigration problem we have in our country? >> absolutely not, no. absolutely not. we absolutely must have a secure border but we also have to acknowledge that we're spending twice as much as we used to on border enforcement and it's working. there are million fewer illegal aliens in the country today than there were in 2007. let's take some credit. >> maybe they should take a bow tonight. we'll see. especially those who governor our border states but a lot of republicans say if you want the hispanic vote, go get the republican superstar over in florida, senator marco rubio and your reaction? >> well, i'm a huge fan of marco rubio's but i will tell you, hispanics, like most americans, don't vote on the basis of ethnicity or race. they vote on issues and so i don't think that's going to actually be the winning ticket. >> so probably not to be the vice president which he says he doesn't want. >> all right. we'll see if the republican candidates listen to your advice.

linda chavez, always great to see you. >> thank you. >> all right, 11 minutes before the hour is through. just heard from a man who got a job thanks to our weekly segment. now it's your chance to land a job. cheryl casone is here next with who's hiring today. >> first on this day in history in 1982, "who can it be now" by men at work was the number one song. sing it, brian. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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lovett. big cheers. fantastic. ok, earlier in the show, we talked to michael link, smart, young man who got a job from watching our weekly segment here on "fox & friends." now, it's your turn. joining us now with the top five companies hiring this week, america's job woman, cheryl casone. and a great anchor on fbn. isn't michael link wonderful? >> what a sweet kid. and i have to say, i was talking to him outside, he's one of the lucky ones. he only looked for two months. i have to tell you, a lot of folks are looking for six months, a year. good for him. >> let's beat the record today. who is up first today? >> we'll go to marriott first. i had the head of global hr on last week, they have 60,000 jobs. 30,000 are here in the united states. these are entry level but they like to hire from within. this is david rodriguez, here's what he told me that they need. >> a lot of them are entry-level jobs which is great so you, you know, there are no barriers to entry.

we pride ourselves of people coming in in the hourly ranks and 40% of our managers actually start in the hourly ranks and many of our senior executives started in the hourly ranks. >> the number 3 executive at marriott started at the bottom. he is now the number three worldwide for marriott. they really do practice what they preach. >> they absolutely do. let's talk about this one, kind of an interesting company. >> very different. they have franchise opportunities. it's managing sports programs. think tennis, think tee ball, think football but they're looking for people that can actually run the programs. you can make anywhere from $22,000 to $44,000 per year. they're looking for 500 people in the first quarter of 2012. you can do part time here or full time and you can start a franchise. if you want to be a franchise owner, that will cost you about $45,000 but they will help you with the financing. you have to get the loan for this type but it can happen. >> let's go to our third opportunity. comfort keepers which is the home care company. >> i'll tell you what, look, there was a recent survey out

that 9 in 10 americans want to age at home. the in-care home business is growing. the second largest in-home care company in the world, 20,000 caregivers right now, they've got 900 jobs. it varies what you do. a caregiver can make anywhere from $8 to $12 an hour. you can do marketing. you can be a nurse. that's 15 to 20. nurses make a little bit more. but they're also looking for people that are willing to basically jump into this growing business. >> it is growing and the growing is growing, it's a huge wal-mart. what's going on at wal-mart? are there jobs? >> this is wal-mart express. you know wal-mart. they are testing and they're going to be now opening more of these wal-mart express companies -- stores, excuse me. these are only 10,000 to 15,000 square feet. these are 1/10th the size of a regular wal-mart. they're doing a lot of different things. >> terminex wants to end the pest of unemployment with their jobs. >> look, if you want to go out

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone everyone. hope you had a great halloween. that's november 1. i'm gretchen carlson. herman cain says he has been the victim of a witch hunt. >> i was standing close to her and i made a gesture, the same as i did my wife. >> gretchen: the rest of the story and the bigger problems he could soon face. >> peter: and when you think fannie mae and freddie mac, do the words excellence, does that come to mind? someone does. they got huge bonuses. you got to hear this one. >> brian: it seemed like the perfect proposal, but this wasn't exactly the answer he expected. so did she ever actually say yes? "fox & friends," soaker and ready to deliver the news to you

and tell you that story. >> this is frank from american pickers and you're watching "fox & friends." >> gretchen: all right. hope you've got all fed up with a bunch of chocolate last night and ready to go for november. >> brian: we're going to go over what the latest with fannie mae and freddie mac and herman cain is. let's do the news. >> gretchen: because a plane carrying the owner of nascar's top racing team crash lands at an airport in key west. the 1250 was carrying rick hendrick and his wife, linda. the pilot radios the control tower saying they have no brakes and then the pilot comes in for a landing, completely sliding off the 4800-foot runway and coming to a stop along an unpaved area. that area just built in may. if it hadn't been there, the outcome would have been very different. there is an eminkment and pond on the other side. all are doing okay this morning.

hendricks racing team includes jimmie johnson and others. his son rickey is also a nascar driver was killed in 2004. the snow storm that pummeled the northeast being blamed for 21 deaths. they were caused by traffic accidents, falling trees and downed power lines. also new, jetblue apologizing to more than 100 passengers stranded on the tarmac for seven hours, left with little food, little water and no working toilets. >> at jetblue, you count on us for a lot more and we promise a lot more. we know we let some of you down over the course of this weekend and for that, we are truly sorry. >> gretchen: jetblue is being investigated by the department of transportation. they could be fined over $27,000 per passenger if they violated the new tarmac rule. call him the new bin laden. c.i.a. targeting the top bomb

maker, said to be involved in two new temperature throats against the united states. he's even researched airport security measures on the internet to figure out how to get bombs onto airplanes. he was also involved in the botched christmas day underwear bombing attempt and the plot to bomb cargo planes. there were reports that he had been killed by a drone strike last month, but unfortunately, that turned out to be false. it may be one of the shortest honeymoon periods ever, even by hollywood standards. kim kardashian filing for divorce now from kris humphries after just 72 days of marriage. kardashian citing irreconcilable differences. she wanted out after he, quote, started chasing fame. their failed marriage was a profitable one. they made $17 million off of their reality wedding special that aired earlier this month. i have to say that i'm glad i missed watching that because if you were a viewer of that after 72 days, would you ask for your money back and the time invested

for watching that reality debauchle? >> brian: e wrote the check for $17 million. the question is, if you went to that wedding, would you ask for your gift back? even if it's a family member. >> peter: who gets the glossies? >> gretchen: maybe they didn't care. >> peter: is fame a person? he was chasing fame. >> brian: she evidently didn't like the way she was paying for everything, even though he's in the nba. but he's in the middle of a lockout. >> gretchen: you know what? welcome to marriage. welcome to a relationship. from time to time, you have a bit of a disagreement and that's called working through it. if this was a sham from the beginning, the american public should be really upset. but maybe they just figured out after 72 days they weren't for each other. >> peter: there was some report he had to be in the same room and the same place with the person who had made a previous

tape with her? i mean, there was some report of that. >> brian: there was a text tape and the guy that was on the sex tape with kim kardashian ended up being on the same plane with her new husband. >> peter: that was not good. >> gretchen: i guess i'm not surprised two guys know about that part of the story. peter is in for steve today. always good to have a lawyer on the panel. >> brian: on capitol hill in a few hours, the super committee will hold a rare public hearing. until now, the members who have to cut 1 trillion plus from the budget only met behind closed doors. joining us now from washington, d.c., senior white house and foreign affairs correspondent, wendell goler. >> with less than a month to go before their deadline, the 12 member super committee is stuck over the same issue that kept the president and house speaker john boehner from reaching a deal, whether to balance the deficit reduction between higher

taxes and spending cuts or carve the entire amount out of entitlement programs. democrats want a $3 trillion proposal with about $1.3 trillion in tax hikes. eric cantor doesn't like it. >> we'd say stop throwing good money after bad. stop saying raise taxes and raise taxes 'cause it will fix the problem. it won't. those are really the two differences in a broadway. it's lack of will to do the entitlement fix, and the desire just to say raise tax, it will fix your problems. it won't. but i do believe there is a middle ground, but we should be able to set aside differences and find places we can work together. >> republicans have offered a $2.2 trillion proposal that cuts corporate and individual tax rates which they say would expand the economy and generate new revenue. democrats call that plan a joke.

white house press secretary jay carney says it's not what the american people want. >> the simple fact is you can achieve significant lasting, impactful deficit and debt reduction of the scale that the president has put forward in his proposal, an additional $3 trillion in deficit and debt reduction without making seniors or vulnerable americans shoulder the burden. it's not fair to do that and it's not supported by the american people. >> the 12-member super committee will meet today with former republican senator allen simpson and former democratic white house chief of staff, erskine bowles. they were the chairs of the president's deficit reduction commission. they recommended a plan which mr. obama failed to endorse. brian? >> brian: all right. thanks a lot. it's getting exciting. we have one year -- almost to the exact day until another election. thanks. meanwhile, the guy who is leading in all the poll, herman cain, had his first crisis.

how did he handle it yesterday? >> gretchen: of course, two women had apparently accused him of sexual ha hasment 12 years ago in the 1990s when he was a ceo of the national restaurant association. he was on fox news channel yesterday morning and then on greta van susteren's show last night and gave more details last night where he explains what that gesture was to at least one of the women who apparently got angry and upset about that and he answers, what kind of payout was also given? maybe it was more of a searchance kind of -- severance package. >> she was in my office one day and i made a gesture saying, oh, and i was standing close to her. i made a gesture. the same hi to my wife and brought my hand -- didn't touch her -- up to my chin and said, you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin and that was put in there as something that made her

uncomfortable, as part of the sexual harassment charge. >> but it says it's settled? >> yes. >> did you ask, like, what did you do? >> i did. she and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement. >> how much? >> i don't remember the number. because there was no basis for this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly. >> what would that be about? >> maybe three months salary or something like that. >> gretchen: it's interesting because they kept publicizing it yesterday as five figure settlement. but when you take a step back and think about that, that could be as little as $10,000 or it could be as much as $99,000, peter. you're a lawyer. that would be a small settlement. >> peter: in that world, it's a small settlement. but the interesting thing to me is who put this story out? if, in fact.

>> the women who made it did not put the story out, then it is a horrible thing to do, to them, and then if the allegations are not true, to mr. cain. he's denied them in a full throated way yesterday. he said he did not engage in sexual harassment or discrimination against women of the national restaurant association and came forward. >> brian: you know the problem is that he came out earlier and said he doesn't know anything about a payout. six hours later on greta, he's saying he remembers a payout. then he vaguely remembers the incident and six hours later on greta he remembers in detail the incident. >> peter: these things always evolve. even news networks sometimes evolve the stories that they're reporting. but the issue becomes -- this is going to be a gotcha. he talked about and other people have talked about the notion or at least one blogger is talking about the notion of a high-tech lynching. how long will this go on? there has been an allegation.

moneys were paid. he's denied the allegation. so what else does he have to do at this point other than deny the allegation? >> gretchen: if the women come out and tell a different story, then it's going to keep the story alive. >> peter: you're absolute right. >> gretchen: supposedly they signed an agreement that they would never disclose anything about it. what would happen if they do that? >> peter: i think there is not going to be any penalties because i don't think the national restaurant association is going to seek to enforce any penalties at this point. but it's been pointed out, what if other folks decide to pay a lot more money in this tell-all world and then does the story change? do we have to see all these documents? what's more important in the end? is 9-9-9 more important or is it more important that we get a blow by blow for the next ten days of these allegations? >> brian: i want to see how a candidate handles the crisis and so far he did not have is a

strong day yesterday, in my estimation. number two, john edwards had a kid and affair and this is the second time he's running for president. we didn't find out until the "national enquirer" brought it forward. it's amazing the aggression -- >> gretchen: it also goes back to the point we made last hour which is who put this story out. and if that comes to light -- >> peter: who is hurting whom? >> gretchen: that could be a bigger story. coming up, wisconsin was bitterly divided over its budget, but lawmakers eventually got things done. but what could president obama learn from that. governor scott walker. >> peter: you know the song and the story. a snapshot of america. ronnie dunn here with a real life story behind "cost of living." ♪ i work sun up to sun down ♪ ♪ ain't too proud to sweep the floors ♪ ♪ [ male annouer ] juice drink too watery?

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these days, politicians on the left and right are coming together to focus on the biggest challenges facing the state and much of the country. unemployment. governor scott walker joins us now. he's lead ago charge calling lawmakers back for a special job session this week ask he's looking to pass a blizzard of bills. welcome back. >> good to be with you. >> brian: how have you got the democrats and republicans together to support some bills that are going to make the unemployment problem better? >> part of it was looking at the number one issue, which is jobs and creating certainty for employers here. so we went through and found any bill we could that had a positive impact on job creators in our state. about a third of those bills were authored by republicans. a third authored by democrats and a third were what we brought new to the table and bringing those up, it's pretty hard for anybody, no matter how partisan they are, to vote against something that makes it easier to create jobs. that's what we've seen, bipartisan votes. because again, it's not a republican or democrat job, it's a wisconsin job in our case and

we need more of them. >> brian: amazing, considering how far this state has come since you were divided. 26 bills in all. you think you'll get passed? >> i think at least the vast majority will be. again, those are things we want to create more certainty. early on in this year, literally january 3 when i took office, we called a special session on jobs. at that time had a broad bipartisan support for those measures. in reaction, the first six months of the year we had nearly 40,000 new jobs created in the state. my hope is we'll have the same kind of positive reaction from job creators. >> brian: governor, you're under a tremendous pressure last year as you took on the unions and took over state and local politicians and tried to get your budget in line. now that your budget is enacted, how is it playing out fiscally? >> it is amazing. we talk about how our reforms have not only created a better business environment for jobs in our state, they saved hundreds of millions of dollars for our schools, our local governments. we've had many of our schools save so much money, they've gone out and hired more teachers, lowered the classroom size, many of our schools and local governments are setting money

aside from merit pay. in the end, it's not only about balancing our state and local budget, it's ultimately about changing the way government works, making it better, which means the best and brightest can be in our classrooms and government jobs. >> brian: your approval ratings with coming back. 38% strongly approve. positive reviews from 49% of the state. negative grades from 49% of the state. that's a lot higher considering the controversial policies that you put in play in wisconsin. so maybe people are seeing some of the stats and liking it. i got to bring it to ohio, something similar that governor kasich signed as you, but it's up for referendum next week. how much is on the line for you and other states? >> well, a week from now, my hope is that voters in ohio will look at wisconsin. in ohio's case, the unfortunate thing for john kasich and others who supported it is that the law hasn't gone into effect. in wisconsin, our law has gone

into effect. we made our schools and local government better. that ultimately will make our children's future better. in ohio, my hope is they'll look at that not just at the attack assists and everything else. that's what we experienced earlier this year. in the end, people saw the truth and that's what kept our senate majority and will keep us intact in wisconsin. >> brian: i'm surprised governor kasich hasn't reached out to you because sb 5, the future looks bleak. 56% oppose. 36% support. >> it's one of those when -- we saw in wisconsin in terms of our recall election, they literally spent $44 million on those senate recalls. i spent $13 million in total running for governor. that just shows you how out of proportion it is. in our case, thankfully, because the reforms were in effect, they worked. people could see it despite the ads. they haven't seen that in ohio yet. that's unfortunate 'cause they will work there as well. >> brian: thanks so much. we'll see you soon. >> good to be with you.

>> brian: this guy thought it seemed like the perfect proposal. then this happened. ♪ up next, the song that millions of americans can relate to. but did you know the real story behind ronnie dunn's "cost of living"? you're about to find out.

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♪ i got a strong back ♪ steel toes ♪ handy with a wrench ♪ there is nothing i can't drive ♪ ♪ i work sun up to sundown >> gretchen: country music star ronnie dunn's newest single tells the story of an unemployed

man searching for a job. while the topic is heart breaking, it has offered inspiration to many who truly are feeling the cost of living and telling them they're not alone. ♪ scary, think about your kids ♪ >> brian: ronnie dunn joinses from nashville to talk about this song. did you expect this type of reaction? >> no. i barely expected to get it on the record when we first started. it was written by -- started out to be written by a friend, philip coleman in 2006. he shopped it all over town and i talked to him yesterday. i said, reiterate kind of the process of what you went through before the song got to me. and he said, i played it for everyone. obviously but me. people kept putting it on hold and he said they would drop it. so by the time i got it, the verses were extremely

compelling. i went in and asked him for the first time in the process of song writing i've ever done, if i could take and stare at it for a while and see if i couldn't come up with a title that made it just a hair morell haven't. so i came up with -- at the time it was $2 in change at the pump, cost of living is high and going up. now it's 3. >> peter: you talk about relevancy. you have a line about the bank started call and the wolves are at the door ask there is 14 million people out of work and there is a lot of people losing their homes. are people telling you that you're touch ago cord literally, with this song in terms of their lives? >> yeah. and i've seen it firsthand. i'm out touring. did 44 shows, just finished up. and this is a song we weren't even going to put on the record. i was going to be allowed by the record label to put ten on and we ended up putting this on at the last minute.

and it was because of the reaction of people that we would play it to was so over the top, we decided to put it on the record. radio guys went crazy over it. >> gretchen: you know what's interesting, is that i actually think the song is beautiful, but it's so much more compelling when you watch the video with it because these are the real -- these are people in the video who actually have also lost their jobs? >> yeah. these are people from a tire factory in union, tennessee, that actually lost their job during the process of us doing the video, yeah. we're doing our own videos. i say we, myself and director that works with me. we take off and kind of call it guerrilla videos and we found these people on site. >> gretchen: one of the women you feature in the beginning of the video was actually experiencing her last day on the job after being at that plant

for 13 years. >> it was. it was. i was on the road when the plant closed. i remember getting an e-mail asking me if i could, come down and play for the picnic. unfortunately we were booked somewhere in wyoming and couldn't do it. >> gretchen: it's touching a cord, as peter said. ronnie dunn, formerly of brooks & dunn with his new song "cost of living." thanks so much for sharing it with us. >> gretchen: thanks. >> brian: meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, on our rundown, a story we've been telling you all about. a catholic university -- no, the catholic university being accused of discrimination against muslim students because of crosses on its campus. coming up, we have an update on that story. >> peter: should a parent lose custody because their child is too fat? more and more judges are saying yes. a fair and balanced and very vigorous debate up ahead. ♪ handy with a wrench ♪ there is nothing i can't

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>> gretchen: time for your shot of the morning. check out this one of a kind combination, ice cream and beer. >> brian: i'd love to get my hands on that. >> gretchen: you can. it's called christmas ale, ginger snap ice cream and comes out today. it's made by great lakes brewing company and mitchell's home made

ice cream is the partner in it all. the crew has been sampling this. >> peter: they like it, i hear. ginger snap in it? >> brian: chris prefers wrangled. >> peter: this is better than taps. >> gretchen: holiday ale brewed with honey and cinnamon, ginger snaps. fresh organic ginger. >> brian: i think this is going to be more popular than vanilla. it's fantastic. i don't know why it took so long for scientists to get together on this. >> peter: it's kind of like being under the mistletoe. >> gretchen: huh? >> brian: i'm a little uncomfortable. >> peter: stay away from me. >> peter: it's a christmas ice cream. that's the point. >> gretchen: it is. only available for a limited time. so get it now.

>> peter: in ohio. >> gretchen: let's do some headlines. you go look at the mistletoe. >> peter: no, this is terrific. >> gretchen: ten executives at fannie mae and freddie freddie, guess what? they have received millions of dollars in bonuses. politico reports the federal housing finance agency approved almost $13 million in total bonus pay. they oversee the two government sponsored corporations. this comes just two years after the mortgage giants got $170 billion in bailout cash from taxpayers. >> peter: illegal immigrants found guilty of murder in the death of a nun, a judge said he was driving drunk on august 1, 2010. he slammed his vehicle into another car carrying that nun and two others. he had two previous drunk driving convictions and await ago deportation hearing at the time of the accident for almost two years. >> brian: a story we've been following closely.

catholic university accused of discriminating against muslims students at the catholic campus. this morning, there is an update. the president of the university, john garvey, sent a letter to the campus community pointing out that muslims at his school are happy muslims. in fact, the fact is that no muslim student at catholic university has registered a complaint with the university about the exercise of their religion on campus since 2007. muslim enrollment is at 122 and was 56. the person who filed the complaint, professor john banzak, he says catholic u is discriminating against muslims by not allowing them to form a group devote to do muslim worship. catholic university has a policy of not allowing officials status of noncatholic worship groups. >> peter: it was a proposal so overwhelming, brittany hillard was swept off her feet, literally.

the 20-year-old from london, kentucky was so stunned when her boyfriend, cameron, popped the question, she actually fainted. he let her recover, getting down on one knee 15 minutes later. so what was brittany's answer to the question? an obvious yes. wonderful. >> gretchen: wow. i hope it lasts longer than the kardashian one. >> brian: the only requirement is that she wear has helmet now when they speak to each other. >> peter: they're in love. >> gretchen: the fight against premature childbirth continues in this country. even though the u.s. improved to an overall grade of a c in preventing preterm births, there is still a lot of work to do. joining me is the medical director of the march of dimes foundation, dr. allen fleischmann. good to see you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> gretchen: we've been doing these gradings with you for the last couple of years. we've improved to come up to a c. what have we done right? >> the good news is that two-thirds of the states are

approving. we've given the u.s. a c. i think mostly we see that we're increasing access to care for women. smoking is decreasing across the country and most states are creating smoking kressation programs. i think most importantly, we're decreasing those unnecessary elective caesarian deliveries and early inductions. >> gretchen: the interesting thing is, people want to know how their state faired and only one state got an a. let's show the map. vermont gets an a. 16 states get a b. 19 states get a c. 11 states and washington, d.c. get a d. and three states get an f along with puerto rico. why do those three states there, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and puerto rico get f's? >> i think they can learn from the states that are doing better. we need universal access to health insurance and good quality health care for all women of child bearing age.

women need to start with healthy women before they get pregnant. so we need preconception health and we need prenatal care for every woman. in those states that do poorly, we see a large amount of obesity, a large amount of smoking, some drinking, and things that states can do something about. >> gretchen: the interesting thing is that one of every eight babies born in the united states is born prematurely and in this industrialized technological environment that we live in, you would think that we would be able to combat this problem and yet, 50% of all the preterm births we don't know why. right? >> i think that's right. but we do know a lot of good things. i mean, if you've had a premature baby, there is now treatment to prevent recurrence. if a woman is found to have a short cervix, the opening to the uterus being too short, there is now treatment to help those women. and, of course, there is the whole story of making sure that

every pregnancy goes to 39 weeks unless there is a medical indication to end it early. >> gretchen: from my work with the march of dimes, i learned how important it is to try and go to full term. there are so many women in this country who believe 36, 37 weeks is just fine and there is still a lot of development for that baby beyond that. i want to get to one last thing, which is that the march of dimes has a $2 million grant in conjunction now withstandford university. what are you going to try to do at stanford? >> we know that premature is an extremely complex disorder and in order to truly understand all of the causes, we need what we call transdisciplinary research. we need to bring engineers and expert and social scientists together with the geneticists and moleculear scientists. we have a ten-year commitment to develop ago transdisciplinary research center to prevent prematurity, to understand prematurity and it's our goal at the march of dimes to create more of these centers around the

country to make a real difference. >> gretchen: all right. the continued success of the march of dimes. i'm proud to be associated with your organization. dr. fleischmann, good to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, keep them slim or don't keep them at all? why your kids' waistline could cause you custody. and from the killing of leaders, is president obama better at imcomplementing bush's foreign policy than president bush actually was? we'll ask his former chief of staff, karl rove, soon. what's better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride.

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>> brian: first lady michelle

obama -- she was scheduled to host a fund-raiser in houston at the home of the former enron executive, john arnold. the houston teachers union was planning to protest the event because arnold is reportedly back ago plan to cut public workers' pensions. the first lady says she canceled due to a scheduling conflict. and jimmy kimmel is going to be cracking jokes for and at the president. he picked to host the white house correspondent dinner. peter? >> peter: thanks. it's the latest debate at the negotiating table for couples getting a divorce. why is our child overweight? that's right. childhood obesity is being used as a pawn in custody disputes. but can a parent really lose their child over this issue? here for a fair and balanced debate, fox news legal analyst and attorney, joey jackson, and

art caplan, who is the director of the center for bioethics at university of pennsylvania. mr. caplan, mr. jackson, good morning. mr. caplan, is this out of control? i always thought that food was love. is food abuse and should children be removed if the kids are eating too much? >> absolutely not. if you look at the situation with respect to obesity in kids, it's a risk factor for sure for your health, but the biggest factor, i think, in why we're getting fatter and fatter is advertising, is the promotion of junk food all over the place. if you want to really get into a custody fight, i would say does the parent own a tv and is the tv aimed at the kid would be a much better factor to look at than trying to get the kid on the scale and pointing a finger at the parent. >> peter: joey, art caplan in philadelphia says that blame the tv. don't blame the parent as to the eating habits of the child. is this relevant or is this the

nanny state gone crazy? >> it's highly relevant. first of all, i'm glad we're talking about this the day after halloween with this candy running amuck around the household. let's talk about the facts. here is what the facts are. number one, you look at heart disease. number two, hypertension. number three, diabetes. you look at low self-esteem, isolation amongst children. this is a very relevant and important issue. now, in custody cases, what is considered? the best interest of the child. in my view, a healthy child, a child who will live longer, who will have good relationship, that's imperative. am i saying this is the overriding concern? i am not. there are others that are very important. but looking at a child's health, peter, is very substantial and needs to be weighed by a court. >> peter: art, let's look at the ethics of the situation. say you have a 300-pound child who is seven or eight years old. what does a lawyer or court do if, in fact, the mother or father who has control of the child is feeding that child too much?

doesn't is there have to be a remedy for that? the child will die if it keeps up. >> i don't mind having some effort made to teach parents better nutrition. i don't mind trying to institute programs whether you're going to get divorced or just parenting to try and find strategies to have kids lose weight. let's take joey's argument seriously. in custody fights, if you smoke, if you own a horse and let your kid near it, if you're in a situation where you let your kid play contact sports, if you're in a situation where you have a swimming pool, every one of these is a risk to the kid's health. are we going to say the only people who will win a custody fight are people who stay at home saturday night, drink herbal tea -- >> we're not saying that. but what we have to do is factor it into the mix. this is an epidemic. we're talking about one in six children, 12.5 million, who are obese. that doesn't even include those who are tinkering on the margins of obesity. there are a number of issues to factor into custody disputes. this has to be one of them. >> i would agree, but let's point the blame where it

belongs, not just at that parent. >> it's not about pointing -- >> peter: we got to let it go there. i want to hear from our fans here at "fox & friends." let us know whether you agree with art or joey. let us know. thanks for a great debate. he's killed terror leaders and toppled dictators. so is president obama better at carrying out president bush's foreign policy than president bush was? or just bearing the fruits of president bush's labor? karl rove to tell us about that next. but first, let's check in with martha. good morning. let's see what's on at the top of the hour. >> thanks very much. coming up, larry sabato has a look at the early states. how is herman cain now fairing against mitt romney in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, florida? new revealing numbers for you this morning and the occupiers have blamed wall street for their economic woes. what about fannie mae and freddie mac? we'll talk about that. bill and i are here at the top

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>> brian: from the targeted killing of terror leaders, president obama's successes bolstered his credibility on national security. >> gretchen: but is president obama just better at implementing his predecessor's policies and less adept at enforcing his own? karl rove is a fox news contributor and the former senior advisor and deputy keefe of staff to president bush and joins us live from austin, texas this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so many people thought at the beginning of the obama administration, they started to see a sneak peek that maybe he was going to keep a lot of president bush's war on terror policies in place. and now three years into it, it looks that that's exactly what he's done.

an article written about it says that he actually did a better job than president bush did in implementing his policies. where do you come down on that? >> i think you got to differentiate between policy and the personal execution of the policy. i thought tom freedman's piece had a colonel of truth in it. in fact, there is a follow-up piece that's even better by peter fever, professor at duke, who is a member of the bush national security council staff and previously the clinton national security staff. and i think he has the right analysis. where president obama has embraced the bush world view, things have gone well. where president obama has not embraced the bush world view, it has not gone as well. as peter makes the point, where he's embracing tom freedman's view, for example, on how to solve the israeli-palestinian conflict or elevating climate to the same importance as weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, that it hasn't gone well. so i think there is a colonel of truth in it, but we got to be careful. peter also makes a couple of points that the bigger the

change from the bush policy, the bigger the failure. for example, let's go talk to iran. well, that hasn't worked out too well. the longer obama has queued to his campaign promise the less well it's gone. let's hang in there as long as we possibly can on iran and the less well it's gone. >> brian: the fact is, while he has some headlines with the libya situation, gadhafi dead, and with of course, bin laden dead, that is a positive. if you look at the draw down in afghanistan and iraq, both times he bucked his own military's advice, that's not something bush did. >> no. and in fact, iraq is a very interesting one 'cause here is my principle critique of president obama, his execution has been poor. for example, he initially said i want all the troops out of iraq within a very quick period of time. that didn't happen. he adopted the bush policy and said, i'll fulfill the agreement, the status enforces agreement that bush negotiated

with the iraqis. but what he did is he then said, i want to try and extend it, which bush had also indicated he wanted to do. but he failed to make it happen. why did he fail to make it happen? it's because he was personally uninvolved. i was shocked when the newspapers ran a report showing president obama had not spoken to prime minister al-awlaki between february and october. i can't imagine president bush going that long without talking to the leader of iraq or the leader of afghanistan where we have a similar problem of lack of personal engagement by the president. >> gretchen: as someone who works to closely with president bush, you have to see this as ironic, with president obama who campaigned against those policies. you have to wonder what he would have done if those policies would not been in place. i want to move to the president's own policies. the budget crisis and health care and some of these things did pass, but some of these things did not. is he better adept at using bush policy, is he better using those than trying to get his own things passed?

>> well, he did get a bunch of stuff done on the domestic front. but the interesting thing is how unpopular they are. the two biggest accomplishment, stimulus bill and the affordable care act are widely unpopular. where his pursuit of the bush foreign policy, for example, staying on the offense against the terrorists and targeting terrorist leaders are popular. so the president has been given a boost, if you will, by adopting bush foreign policies, whereas his domestic policies that are wholly his own have made him unpopular. look at his ratings on foreign policy versus health care or the economy. relatively high on foreign policy. very low on the economy, deficits and health care. >> brian: karl rove, maybe we'll catch up with you later in the week. see you soon. >> thank you, sir. >> brian: coming up straight ahead, parents, we want to give you $10,000 towards your child's college education. stay right here for the details.

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