i'm a music guy today. "fox & friends" starts right now. cue the music. >> it happened again. another would be bomber in new york city was thwarted before he could launch his devious plan. this guy, a loner in every sense of the word. it seems we've been looking for him. looking at him and watching him since 2009. >> that's exactly right. who is this fella they caught over the weekend? let's look at the big screen over there. who is jose pimentel? a 27-year-old from washington heights, new york. right here in the new york city area. he's a u.s. citizen of dominican descent and a convert to muslim, to islam and he wanted to change his life to usama hussein as an homage to usama bin laden and saddam hussein. and he learned how to make a

bomb from that on-line magazine "inspire." >> and that's pretty much the headline here because how many more of these type of lone wolf kind of al-qaida operatives are we creating right here in the united states from that particular magazine in that is an argument about free speech. should that "inspire" magazine be allowed to live on even though al-awaki is dead. this guy became more determined after the death of al-awaki. he was down to the last hour of putting together the last bomb and nypd had to act. >> we had to act quickly yesterday because he was, in fact, putting this bomb together. he was drilling the holes and it would have been -- it could have been not appropriate for us to let him walk out the door with that bomb. he had decided to build a bomb august of this year.

but clearly, he jacked up his speed, so to speak, after the elimination. >> he was look at police cars, he was looking at post offices and look at other sites in new york city. i would suggest one thing. for one thing, i'm in awe of our investigative ability, the fact that you can rock this guy, loser like this guy and find out what his intentions were. i'm wondering did anyone get the subscription list for "inspire" magazine and the minute that magazine arrives quickly get a telescope on their house. >> you have to figure that is being monitored. however they could possibly do that kind of stuff. the way this guy got on the new york -- can we just say the new york police department the finest police department in the world, for them to catch another one like this. they have been watching him since 2009 in upstate new york where he mouthed off about wanting to go to yemen to train to become a martyr in the name of jihad and then apparently he was married at the time but his wife left him because he was beating her and because she

would not convert to islam and he was forcing the kids to watch these crazy jihad videos. >> and you got to wonder when people on capitol hill have a problem with holding hearings about this problem that we have in the united states of america which are these -- our own american citizens converting to jihad. all right. anyway, another one, i think more than a dozen, isn't it, that new york city has thwarted in the last year alone. how many since 9/11? that's a ton. sorry. it's not voices in my head. it's actually much more intelligent producers who from time to time remind to keep me in line. >> one of these things this guy did, though, that was smart is he knows if you go to a certain place to buy something, some particular items, somebody might want wind up calling the parts. this guy got his parts from a home depot in the new york city area and a $0.99 store as well

and the gizmo he constructed was christmas lights, a clock from the store and he had to shave off the -- what was it, heads from 700 matches and that was going to be the explosive that would blow up cars and what not and he was about to test it on a mailbox. >> no doubt, this will come up during the next debate which will be the foreign policy tomorrow night. let's talk about this super committee. that's right. there it is. the date is actually today is the deadline even though wednesday is the artificial date because they would have to get legislation in front of congress to say either yea or nay. how many of you right now are so incredibly disappointed that it appears that the only way in which government can get anything done anymore as if the democrats couldn't completely control the senate and the house and the office of the presidency or if the republicans control it. there is no such thing as

bipartisanship anymore. >> look, they have not face to face since the first week in november. they seem to be talking past each other and not to each other and therefore, today, a framework is due and i'm not going to close the door on it. the leaders aren't closing a door on it but it looks bleak that they're going to come up with some type of $1.2 trillion bipartisan package but the reason why our credit rating will not be affected more than likely is because there are automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion that will be devastating to our military. >> nonetheless, the blame game is starting yesterday and there was plenty of spinning if you missed it. here's a sampling. >> nobody wants to give up hope, reality is to some extent starting to overtake hope. there were 12 good people who have invested a lot in this trying to find common ground to achieve the goal of this committee. so talks have taken place over the weekend, they'll continue to take place. >> if i had been willing to talk to any republicans who says,

look, my country is more important. it's that pile of bills that's not going to go away. the challenges that we have are not going to disappear. we need to cross that divide. i'm ready. i'm waiting. >> there's so much to discuss about this. i mean, no wonder congress' approval rating is 13% and plummeting if you can plummet from 13%. number 2, newt gingrich appeared to call this completely correct from the beginning where he called the super committee the stupidest thing he had ever heard of. number three, where has the president of the united states been in this entire discussion? you could argue that he was there in those discussions with john boehner over the summer when we faced that deficit reduction crisis then but where has he been now? he's been in asia. >> he called before he left, called and said how is it going? how is the super committee going? not good, great. i've got run. senator kerry's retort to that is the republicans wanted the president out. really? i saw the speaker of the house say where is the president on this? we need some leadership. >> meanwhile, here's a guy that

would like to be the next president of the united states. mitt romney blasting that guy behind the lectern for the lack of leadership. listen. >> what's the president's role been to try to help this super committee come to consensus? the answer is he hasn't had any role. he's done nothing. it is another example of failed leadership. he has not taken personal responsibility. i call on the president of the united states to immediately introduce legislation that restores that cut to our military. we cannot put america's safety in jeopardy by virtue of the failure of this committee and the failure of his leadership. >> look, it's been 900 days since the democratically controlled u.s. senate has passed a budget. that should tell you about the state of affairs on capitol h l hill. >> it's just a fundamental divide and i don't know if it will be bridged together again going back to my original point unless it's all republican or all democrat, it's a fundamental

divide. >> you have to have all republican and democrat with 60 votes in the senate. >> look at what happened in the senate when the president of the united states submitted his budget this year, it failed 97-0. meanwhile, if this thing does fail tonight, here's what's going to happen, they have to find $1.2 trillion worth of cuts. otherwise the trigger option goes into effect. keep in mind, the trigger option does not go into effect until the january after the presidential election. >> they're still obsessed with the bush tax cuts and democrats want them out. >> all taxes are goingp for everyone january 1st if the super committee doesn't come up with a decision. here the defense cuts $492 billion. $123 billion in entitlements there. would be no plan to extend tax cuts in jobless aid. everybody's taxes goes up january 1st. if automatic cuts are altered there's the fear of another credit downgrade. brian, you alluded to the fact there wouldn't be a credit downgrade because of the automatic triggers. not so.

john mccain and lindsay graham wants to try to avert those cuts which would be a good thing but there wouldn't be any cuts. >> perhaps they've decided to make the announcement that this thing is dead after the markets close today. however, mark zandi from moody's analytical said yesterday, wall street already knew this thing was going to fail. it's baked into the cake. >> this show is perfect for that topic. today we have senator john kyle on, senor john kerry on and grover nordquist here. >> man, this is a good show. glad we showed up. >> violence in cairo leaving 20 people dead. there's more than 700 people injured. 3,000 protesters clashing with police and around the square. they're demanding the military government transfer power to the egyptian people. they set fire to tents in that square. egypt's culture minister reportedly resigning over the government's handling of the

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>> since 1986, grover norquist has convinced lawmakers to sign his no tax hike pledge. so far 270 legislators have taken the pledge as well as most of all of the g.o.p. presidential candidates but this pledge is not taken late -- lightly and democrats say it's to blame for the likely failure that will be announced later today. grover norquist joins us from our nation's capital.

good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> good day to have you, it looks like the super committee will announce they simply could not come to an agreement. >> they could come to an agreement but the democrats want to raise taxes rather than cut spending. the problem we have in the united states is the federal government spends too much. obama took spending from a fifth of the economy up to a quarter. 20% of the gdp to 25% of gdp. the only fix there, only way to solve the problem that we're going deeper into is to spend less money. so we need to spend less money. the democrats say we don't need to spend less money, we need to get the peasants to send enough in so the king can keep spending as he's become accustomed. no to more taxes, we must have spending restraint. democrats said we'd rather blow the whole thing up if we don't get our tax dollars. >> were your ears burning yesterday morning? john kerry was talking about you on "meet the press."

here's a little soundbite. >> most significant block are doing something right now, tomorrow, is their insistence, insistence, insistence on the grover norquist pledge and extending the bush tax cuts. >> you, sir, are being blamed by a lot of democrats as the reason why we're at an impasse and this thing is not going to work out. >> well, it's a little bit like saying kleenex when you mean tissue. what they're upset about is that the modern republican party has become since ronald reagan the party that will not raise your taxes. no republican in congress has voted for an income tax increase since 1990. ok? that's a long time for the republican party to say we do many things, raising taxes is not one of them. if you want higher taxes vote for the democrat and the modern democratic party sort of hoped they could go back to what happened in 1982 and 1990 when they tricked republicans into

tax increases, promising them phony spending restraint. but as we remember painfully, in 1982, spending went up, not down. after 1990, spending went up, not down. republicans are not going to walk into that room again as we're seeing. they're not going to be fooled to raise taxes in return for promises of spending, it doesn't happen. >> sure. we're going to have john kerry on this program in a couple of hours. via the miracle of videotape, what would you like to ask him if you had the opportunity? >> well, he understands and we all understand that the two parties are heading in different directions. we, the leader of the democratic party, wants to raise taxes to spend more money. i think senator kerry was actually trying to come up with some proposal that might work but reid wouldn't let him do that and the democrats sometimes complain about the public, open,

transparent pledge that republicans take to their voters. democrats don't like the pledge that republicans have taken to the voters that they won't raise taxes. i'm kind of concerned about the secret pledges that democrats make to the special spending interests, the labor unions and the trial lawyers a the earmark crowd that they will keep raising taxes to give them money. those are pledges but they're secret and they don't tell you you about them. the republican commitment, we will not raise your taxes is very public. everybody knows about it. and you could vote for or against a congressman or senator. if you think we should have higher taxes, vote for the democrat. >> there you go. you were talking about how that should be the brand for the republicans, we won't raise your taxes and we learned last night in "60 minutes" you started as a political activist at the age of 12 working for nixon. they had a soundbite in the "60 minutes" piece last night. here's a republican congressman who says your pledge, grover, should have an expiration date on it. listen.

>> my word has been good on this tax pledge for 18 years to be bound by something based on circumstances that existed 18 years ago when the circumstances are different, i think that's a little naive. >> grover, we're short on time. your reaction to that? >> the congressman is an outliar among republicans. he got $120,000 this last year from organized labor. he's consistently voting left of center on economic issues. i'm disappointed that he feels that when he makes a promise, there's a time limit. i wonder how the pro lifers would feel i promised to be pro life for two weeks, when i promised to be good on the second amendment, that was good for three years. the commitment on the pledge is for as long as you're in congress. it's written down. he knows that. i wouldn't want to be married to him or lend him money if he takes the idea that somehow there's a time limit on promises he makes. >> there you go. i do. thank you, sir, for joining us

live from d.c.. >> you got it. >> all right. straight ahead, then warren buffet wants to raise taxes on the rich. one he's suing the irs to not raise taxes

>> all right. warren buffet may be lobbying to have taxes raised on the rich but his companies seem to be doing the opposite. >> indeed, mr. kilmeade. net jets is a company owned by berkshire hathaways which is under buffet and they are suing the irs for $63 million. stuart varney joins us for details. i thought he wanted to pay more taxes and his company is saying we don't want to pay more taxes. >> oh, irony.

net jets is the largest fractional private jet company in the world. it's owned by warren buffet. warren buffet gave his name to president obama and said yeah, people -- rich people like me should pay more in taxes and president obama goes around saying the millionaires, billionaires, fat cats and corporate jet owners you should be paying more. well, warren buffet owns the largest private jet company in the world and the irs says hey, you owe us $642.7 million. you should have been charging those fat cats ticket taxes. you didn't. there's irony here. >> who is suing here? the irs is suing buffet? >> the irs says to net jets warren buffet you owe us $642 million. net jets says wait a minute, we're going it sue you because you're falsely accusing us of not with holding taxes. >> essentially, they will go under if they pay these taxes.

>> yes, they will. if you pay that tax, you're out of business. >> let's talk about the super committee and what it's going to mean for all of us if they say we don't have a framework and wednesday, we don't have a deal. what -- you know, we saw mark zandi yesterday with chris wallace saying we're not going to be downgraded because of the sequestering automatic cuts. >> we will be downgraded if we get this complete failure of the super committee and they withdraw these automatic cuts. congress has a year to withdraw the automatic cuts before they go into effect. if that happens and there's no automatic cuts and no deals with the super committee, i think a downgrade looks very, very likely and that's why the stock market first thing this morning is going to fall out of bed. down 150 points at least at the opening bell. >> and also, what people are forgetting about the fine print is everyone's taxes go up january 1st if the super committee fails. how will that affect the market? >> that super committee failure means that you've got six weeks or thereabouts before the

payroll tax holiday ends and everybody's taxes go up as of january 1st. what's congress going to do between now and then? six weeks is all the time you've got. if you take no action, then everybody's taxes go up and the market doesn't like that. that's another negative factor for today. >> all right. >> please, isn't that a terrible way to start with your money for thanksgiving week? >> it is but it's the reality of the country we live in and i don't know about the rest of you, i'm so frustrated today. i'm so frustrated in the way in which our country has been -- >> it's turkey week! >> yeah. yeah. >> in more ways than one. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. >> we'll be watching your program. >> at 20 minutes after 9:00 today, varney & company. thank you, stuart, you seem very nice. >> police caught on camera spraying protesters in the face with pepper spray at point blank range. should they lose their job? >> becoming mr. mom leaving their women to bring home the

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>> picked up my weekly copy of "men's health". >> coming out weekly now. >> men without shirts on. have you seen the cover of that magazine with a man without a shirt on. it should be really for women but they had an interesting study out there that i think is 100% accurate. >> you do? >> i absolutely do. >> i never expected that to come out of your mouth. >> no, it's true. >> here's the headlines. 73% of all men would not mind being with a woman who makes more money than them. >> i don't think it matters at all. i think it's so overrated. >> you know, what they talk about in this particular article is once upon a time, maybe in the 50's, that was impactful for guys. look at it, 4 e -- 45% of guys

say they'd be willing to stay at home. >> 43% of men say they do more housework than your dads do. how much vacuuming did you do over the weekend? >> put it this way, the electrolux wasn't sending -- >> i agree with that part of the study. 19% are stay at home dads. 20%, 1 out of 5 dads are the stay at home dads. the part that i don't agree with 73% of men wouldn't mind being with a woman who makes more money. >> i think that number is higher than that. >> you think of 90% of men wouldn't mind if their babe, their chosen one was making more money. >> i think once upon a time, you know -- >> it's amazing that women make more money than men with those kinds of thoughts. >> i'm trying to bring it out of steve. >> listen, once upon a time, barney rubble, guys had that kind of inclination but now, because jobs are hard to come by, whoever is making the money,

if it's the woman, that's fine. >> barney rubble, no pants. >> first it was no sxhirt now it's no pants. what did he do on the weekend? >> i'm not sure. he never changed either. here's more on this very topic. >> excuse me, i couldn't help but notice that you were looking in my direction. >> oh, yes, i was. you just ordered the same exact lunch as me. >> my name is george. i'm unemployed and i live with my parents. >> is that the kickoff line for men? >> it could be. >> well, as a female, that's not going to work. here's another part of this whole story. >> kenny, where are the -- >> aisle 4, check. >> clean up in produce! >> i'm sorry.

>> i'm sorry. i didn't mean to. >> kenny, did i tell you not to push the grapefruit. >> next! >> 1/2 pound of ham. >> boiled, baked, smoked, sugar cured. >> forget it, just give me 1/2 pound of salami. >> there you go. >> classic movie "mr. mom" with michael keaton. depicting the fact that about 20% of americans are stay at home dads. >> right. and by the way, michael keaton's best movie "night shift" which we'll watch next hour. straight ahead, let's get some serious news in there. hey, the u.s. is preparing to dish out new sanctions tapping today amid a u.n. report that iran may secretly trying to build a nuclear weapon. i didn't know about this. it doesn't sound like the iran i know. it will be the petro industry that's used to refine fuel. new sanctions look to prevent foreign companies from investing in iran's oil industry.

>> all right. the two u.c. davis police officers who pepper sprayed this group of protesting students are on administrative leave now. the protesters appear to be sitting there peacefully and police claim the pepper spray was used only after the students surrounded them. the president of the entire u.c. system said he's appalled by the incident and today, protesters from occupy sacramento plan to rally with students at u.c. davis. >> meanwhile, michigan congressman denying accusations that he sexually abused a second cousin more than 50 years ago. the now 82-year-old democrat from michigan is retiring next year. and says opponents are trying to use the allegations to win his seat in congress. >> talk about a travel nightmare. passengers on a greyhound bus say they were stranded overnight at a truck stop after the driver got off the bus and never came back. it happened in missouri 100 miles from their destination which was st. louis. riders claim the driver threatened them twice.

first time, she tried locking them inside the bus. they will issue passengers a refund and plans to discipline the driver -- discipline? i can't imagine how that would be anything less than a firing. anyway -- >> maybe she's got a really good reason. >> maybe. >> meanwhile, let's take a look at the weather on this monday. it is a wet day throughout portions of the northeast. look at this incredible video along the southern california coastline. punishing rains cause a huge chunk of the street and hillside in san pedro to slide into the pacific ocean. no one was hurt and no homes were damaged. nonetheless, a very big weekend out west. meanwhile, let's go ahead and take a look and i'll show you where it's raining as you can see from the northeast to the mid atlantic to the tennessee and ohio valley, heavy stuff this hour. to the mississippi and missouri valley and a little bit of snow showing up on the doppler right now in portions of southern minnesota and northern iowa. and as you can see, the rains continue in southern california. current temperatures as you head

out the door on this awfully short work week, it's only 21 in caribou, maine. 10 right now in rapid city. it's three dozen in kansas city and if you're lucky enough to be down in tampa right now, 69. meanwhile, take a look at your television and there you have the daytime highs for this monday. >> of course, on monday as we talk about sunday football and for that, mr. kilmeade. >> and more than just football, steve, nascar and soccer. with no michael vick in the line-up, giants fans thought they might have their way with the philadelphia eagles. after all, the eagles are struggling and vince young hasn't played since the early 60's. while he played and he played very well. eagles up 10-3 in the fourth. eli manning, victor cruz, end zone. tie game. then i nodded off to only wake up to find out this! eagles on a drive, third and goal. a little over two minutes left, young to riley cooper. they get the big win, 17-10 and the giants are now tied in first with the cowboys. and the best run of the day, this is the run of the year.

taking on the entire packer defense. look at this. you're talking about the defending undefeated super bowl champs. breaks tackle after tackle, 54 yards in all. he did something similar a little later but in the end, it was the packers who remain undefeated holding off the very game bucs. thrilling finish between carl edwards and tony stewart going into the day let alone the duel in the final race. three points separating them from the sprint cup final going into this race, the drivers had to deal with a one-hour rain delay. when things got going again, it was stewart. 36 laps left, stewart takes the lead. edwards right behind. hoping for that one opportunity, it wouldn't come. stewart able to hold off edwards in those final laps and he wins the race and wins his third sprint cup title. edwards would say afterwards, i want to be the best loser nascar ever had and he was very, very nice. meanwhile, the championship game of major league soccer on primetime on espn, mls cup. david beckham, might be his last game with the l.a. galaxy

leading them against the houston dynamo. galaxy in white. that's it. robby keen to landon donovan in the box. 1-0 galaxy. would go on for a 1-0 win to ensure the mls cup in front of a capacity crowd in los angeles. beckham looks like he's going back to england and playing in the highest level at 36 years old. >> awesome. >> we're not talking about that on radio sadly but for three hours -- >> it's your show. you can talk about anything you want to. >> you're so right. we're changing gears. bret baier, ed henry and tom bevin, if you do not know soccer, don't show up. you can be my three guests from 9:00 to noon. >> you'll red shirt them. >> very good. i'll sit them out. >> still ahead, erase everything you know about black friday. we're breaking down the top five myths you don't want to miss that. that's 10 minutes away. >> and if the super committee fails today like we expect, who has to take the heat? members of congress or the president? our washington insiders here to

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>> got some quick headlines for you on this monday morning. the wall street protest turns into a bad "x factor" audition. protesters banging drums, blaring instruments near the new york city mayor's townhouse here in manhattan. they wanted to jam outside his window but the cops moved them away.

yeah. can't understand why. and the nypd busted occupy protester joshua fellows with an unregistered pistol and 32 rounds of ammo in his nearby rental truck and it looks like next year's planned opening of the september 11th museum at ground zero will likely be pushed back. the $800 million project is the latest pressure point in a series of funding disputes at the site where the redevelopment tab has reached more than $11 billion. now, let's talk a lot of money with mr. kilmeade and the super committee countdown. >> all right. it looks like the super committee is about to become a super failure. so who are the winners and losers if this debacle turns into a debacle and no last minute deal is cut. our washington insiders are joining us right now from washington, d.c., appropriately. gretchen hamel is here, executive director of public notice and the president of the committee for responsible federal budget is here. first, gretchen, for you.

if it does fail like we -- like indications are, who looks bad? >> well, i think it's going to be the leaders on the hill that look bad. i do not think the president looks bad in this instance. it is those 12 members of that super committee that actually look bad and, you know, washington as a whole will look bad as well. but really, the buck stops at those 12 members. >> do you really think, maya, that the president will be exonerated from any responsibility being he is the president and he was barely in touch with this committee maybe once a week, talked to john kerry and went to asia when it came to be crunch time. >> the failure of the super committee reflects so badly on everybody who is part of all of this. i mean, it reflects badly on the folks who are involved, on leadership, on the white house because in the end, this is the terrible reinforcement of the notion that we can't govern in washington and we have a huge problem facing us and we can't get it done. and we're not supposed to be a country of kind of whiners and quiters and that's how it's feeling right now so we need to

turn this narrative around and they need to keep on working. you can't just stop when you're facing a crisis and i think the political consultants who are saying to the various parties don't worry this plays out well, let's wait until after the election have it dead wrong. this is a problem that makes everyone look bad right now if we can't come to resolution. >> maya, i'm just wondering if the president wants this because he's still getting cuts of $1.2 trillion in automatic triggers. i'm wondering, is the president happy today? >> i don't think anybody is happy right now because there's a clear leadership void and that's going to reflect badly on him. and also that $1.2 trillion in cuts from the sequester that we need to keep there for the point of pressure is the worst way to govern. we can't fix this by automatic cuts but we fix this problem by getting rid of outdated, inefficient spending so it looks better and not letting some hammer doing the work for us. >> where was leadership on this? >> well, leadership, it seems like they may have been out to lunch. they weren't at the table.

president wasn't at the table. he wasn't making the phone calls. he placed a phone call before he left for apec out in honolulu a few weeks ago and other than that, he's been -- he's cut himself out of it. he offered up a plan -- >> is that good liter leadershi? is that anything for any aspiring president to live up to, when things get tight, i leave and don't make a phone call? >> i think most people would expect him to be making phone calls daily and applying pressure. he has that ability to apply the pressure to the committee to come up with something. he did not do that here so i think it's a failure on his part. i think it's a failure on house and senate leadership and like maya said, really, it's a bad reflection on everybody. >> maya and gretchen, thanks so much. i still hold out hope there will be some framework tonight that people stare at the abyss and decide we might as well cut a deal. >> don't hold your breath. >> i promise not to because i'll end up falling and hitting my head. thanks a lot, ladies. when we come back, erase everything you know about black friday. coming up next, we'll break down

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>> black friday shopping madness, can you believe we're already here this year? it's starting earlier than ever this year. wal-mart opening its days on thanksgiving day and many other stores are opening at the stroke of midnight on friday. is all the hassle of black friday really worth it? here to debunk the myths is andrea warock. is it true that black friday prices are always sale prices? >> unfortunately, no. that is a myth. black friday prices, retailers have been known to inflate those original prices before black

friday hits so that the markdowns look like a better value. so you want to research prices before you go shopping so you don't fall for those misleading promotions and what's more, lots of those door busters that are promoted are limited in quantity. the retailers want to get you in stores so you spend on more expensive items and they're not all necessarily those doorbuster deals. they might be smaller markdowns. >> wow. black friday deals are only offered on black friday, true or false? >> false, we've seen black friday deals starting as early as this past weekend. dick's sporting goods let customers preorder black friday goods over the weekend. amazon.com starts black friday deals as early as this week. cyber monday is another day to get those same type of doorbusters on line and doors are opening on thanksgiving day. >> cyber monday is the monday after this friday. ok, is this true? black friday is the best day of the year to score deals? >> not anymore. we are a consumer that is addicted to deals and retailers know this. they're offering tons of

promotions throughout the holiday season. you can find sales, again, like i said on cyber monday. free shipping day on december 16th, offers tons of different retailers will give you free shipping with guaranteed delivery by christmas eve on top of additional discounts and then also the day before christmas has been one of the most popular days to shop with last minute days available. >> that's only men shopping on that day. >> no offense. these two guys over on this end have admitted to going shopping on christmas eve. here's another -- is it myth or true? signing up for a store credit card to get an extra discount is a no brainer. >> it sounds so great but it's actually not the best approach. store cards are promoted because they figure you're going to overspend and buy more on impulse and they want to promote that by offering you an additional discount. however, every time that you request a new line of credit, it can actually damage your credit score so it will hurt you when you're looking for a mortgage or car loan in the future. if you're looking for those added savings, you can find them

in different ways. go on line to couponsherpa.com to find in store coupons or use a mobile app to find deals. get discounts before you head to the store to save 15% off right off the bat. >> lot of information here. final one, leaf black friday ads are 100% accurate, true or false? >> not always accurate. false. unfortunately some stores promote some deals that they have to go back and change so call ahead to the stores before you head there. hoping that you're getting a black friday deal that you saw proceed noted this their circular. they may have it but they'll be limited in quantity like i mentioned before and sometimes those may have sold out on line before it already hits. >> i already got bamboozled with some of these deals last week already. i'm a sucker for a deal. i went for it. i don't know if it was smart or not. i went for it. >> take advantage when you see

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new york. home grown guy. >> the super committee today are ready to admit defeat. let the blame game begin. perino has been scrambled. >> meanwhile, nobody knows donald trump's secrets better than his wife and she suspects he's reconsidering a run for president. we've got donald trump here this hour. we will ask him and set the record straight. "fox & friends" hour two for this monday, thanks giving week starts right now. >> fox news alert for you. let's get right to your headlines for a monday morning. suspected wannabe al-qaida terrorist busted in new york city accused of plotting to blow up police cars and american soldiers returning from war. that's the suspect right there with a grin on his face, the 27-year-old jose pimentel is a

u.s. citizen born in the dominican republic. police say he was a lone wolf with no ties to any terror organizations. they say he converted to islam after being radicalized by american cleric anwar al-awlaki's on-line magazine "inspire." he wanted revenge for al-awlaki's death. >> he made even some of his like minded friends nervous by his extremism. he talked about changing his name to usama hussein to celebrate his heroes usama bin laden and saddam hussein. >> pimentel on the nypd's radar for the last two years arrested as he was about to finish making pipe bombs. he bought materials at home depot and the dollar store. here's the demonstration of what his bombs could have done. pimentel now being held without bail. here's a live look for you right now, cairo, egypt, where clashes

between protesters and government forces have left at least 20 people dead this time around. more than 1700 people have been injured. the scene not much different from what we saw last spring. 3,000 protesters clashing with police in and around that square. people throwing rocks, demanding that the military government transfer power now to the egyptian people. police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets and set fire to tents in that square. republican presidential candidate mitt romney picking up another key endorsement in new hampshire. congressman charlie bass who rode the republican wave into congress in 1994 announcing that he will back romney. romney also received the endorsement of new hampshire's senator, she's a rising star among conservative republicans. romney lost the crucial battleground state by a narrow margin in 2008. the new hampshire primary now just seven weeks away. and it's been a good life for one republic. the group performing their smash hit at the american music awards last night in los angeles.

>> ♪ it's gonna be a good life ♪ ♪ it's gonna be a good life ♪ good life ♪ oh >> but it was taylor swift who stole the show. the 21-year-old took home the american music award for artist of the year. >> oh, my gosh. thank you to the fans. please never change. >> swift won favorite female artist and for favorite country album. she better get over being shocked because she's winning everything in sight. >> no kidding! >> congratulations. >> i'm sure they're going to talk about that later today on "the five" at 5:00 composed of five people including this one right here. dana perino joins us live on the curvy couch. good morning to you. >> hi, how are you? >> you predicted the super committee would not be so super, would not come to agreement. it looks like unless there's a miracle, they will fail later on today.

>> it was set up to fail. >> why? >> because of the way they did the votes of a 6-6 split, everybody put in people that they knew on either side that wouldn't squish their compromise. it's unfortunate that we can't figure out a way to reduce $1.5 trillion in the deficit. however, if there's something that we need to make clear that the deficit is going to be reduced by that amount. that was decided in the debt ceiling deal. the question of the super committee is how is that going to be achieved? what kind of moneys are we going to reduce in order -- or spending will we reduce to get there? if they don't do something, then there's automatic cuts in defense and in social programs. so the idea was everyone has skin in the game, they'll come together and they'll do it. but it's actually a drop in the bucket at $1.5 trillion over a $40 trillion deficit. >> it's a drop in the bucket. is it just me today that feels total frustration with the way in which our country operates now? we can't even come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts. even if we taxed all the millionaires and billionaires and gave 100% of their money to

the government, it wouldn't begin to crack the ceiling of the debt that we face. why can we not find some sort of solution here? >> i think because no one is seriously willing to talk about entitlement spending, entitlement spending being social security reform, medicare and medicaid. this is the part of the budget that if it was a pie chart, it just gets bigger and bigger every year. that means everything else gets squeezed including things that we need like the defense department to be well funded in my opinion. i do think that without presidential leadership of pushing forward to get this done. see, what he needed was the debt ceiling deal. right? >> right. >> he didn't care after that. and he -- he's literally bringing it in from hawaii, or wherever, he could have sent geithner or somebody up to be a part of this. they haven't. when republicans put on the table the idea to allow for revenue increases by closing loopholes, a lot of people on the right were frustrated. they thought that went too far.

but the democrats, i think, that they dismissed it before they even realized what they were doing. >> uh-huh. >> because they dismiss it out of hand and how it looks like who isn't willing to compromise? the president needs a do nothing congress to run against. that's his tactic. they don't want him to do anything anyway. >> for example, the last serious offer, they said was friday of $644 billion of compromised cuts, $543 billion in spending cuts. they were trying to deal. and then instead of saying, ok, that's where you are but here's what i don't like about your proposal, they go no. pat toomey deal, you don't like it? you like some elements. senator dick durbin says this is a breakthrough. instead of coming back and saying counteroffering, they just say no. that doesn't seem like a way to negotiate anything, a car, a house or any agreement. >> at some point, if this were -- if you were gone to the car dealership and trying to negotiate this, at some point as the buyer you would walk away. and that's what the republicans need to do. >> can't get a deal here. i don't know if you were

watching "60 minutes" last night but they had a piece, leadoff piece was about grover norquist part of that very powerful anti-jacking up your taxes lobby down in washington, d.c. and one of the things that they made very clear was if this fails, people should blame grover norquist because he'd gotten all these republicans in the line that they will not under any circumstances jack up taxes. >> grover norquist is an influential person. you don't have "60 minutes" do a piece about you if you aren't an influential person but he didn't like the agreement -- the compromise that the republicans have put forward in the breakthrough. he didn't like it, right? so senator patty murray's argument that the republicans are just sort of beholden to grover norquist falls flat right there. he is a person that's somewhat influential but his ideas are very influential. he went around the country and said do you know who grover norquist is? you think he's really powerful? no one is going to know. do you think the american

government should tax people more or reduce spending? they'd say reduce spending. his ideas are very powerful. >> do you agree with the fact that he should make all republicans sign off on the no pledge thing and live to it for their entire lives? >> i'm not for that. i'll tell you the other person that was very influential in this, richard trumpka, the big union boss who told the democrats no entitlement reform. >> the president is on the record as saying the entitlements are the problem. he's already said that. >> he's also said, i don't know what's going up in congress. hands off. this is leading from behind domestic stuff. >> right. here is grover norquist. steve talked to him a short time ago right on our show. >> what they're upset about is the modern republican party has become since ronald reagan, the party that will not raise your taxes. no republican in congress has voted for an income tax increase since 1990, ok? that's a long time for the republican party to say we do

many things. raising taxes is not one of them. if you want higher taxes, vote for the democrats. >> and that's one of the things he was talking about last night and again this morning on our program is it should be a brand like the republican -- if you vote for a republican, they won't raise your taxes. >> if you look at some of these individual races for congress during a special election or an off year but in particular at some of the state referendum levels, i think back to washington state which had an income tax increase on the table for millionaires and billionaires of washington state and it failed 65% said no to that. so i think that -- that his point is a good one which is that for the last 25 years, this thought of, you know, the government -- we recognize that they need to have some revenue but if they're going to waste our money, then we're not going to be willing to give them anymore. that's why on the entitlement reform thing, i think people from all walks of life, if they care about their little program, they need to band together and do something on entitlement reform because that pie chart that is just going to keep

getting squeezed and every other program -- >> nobody wants to touch that because it's all about getting re-elected and they know that they're going to offend somebody. >> when you try to do it in your second term, it's really hard if you look at what president bush tried to do with social security reform. part of his second term, it failed. >> they should put all people on the super committee who are done with their political careers. let's listen to somebody who keeps hearkening back to your former boss' political career. >> george bush and the republicans got handed in 2000 record surplus and they handed off a record national debt and we didn't just come to that by accident. the president inherited an economy that was spinning towards nearly a depression. a financial system that was frozen up. and an auto industry that was near collapse. but those are the choices, those are the values, that's the leadership and that's what will be measured by the american people. so look at the field, obviously, you drew the conclusion you said. the policies, the same. >> playing national politics as mayor of chicago. rahm emanuel is forgetting the fact that the dot-com bubble

gave us a surplus that didn't exist. by the time it took over and president bush had a recession and also a scandal on wall street that he inherited the minute he walked in. that's a totally disingenuous statement. >> i'm a big fan of rahm emanuel. when i first became press secretary in 2007, i got two phone calls. first one was from him wishing me good luck. i think as mayor of chicago, he's done an excellent job and i think he's separated himself from that former political hack lifestyle that's the reputation he had and he would probably -- not that he wants advice from me but i think his long-range future in politics could be a very good one but he should shed that because he could -->> don't like that he did that. >> i don't care. i think it's noise. i don't think it matters. he should stop it with the surplus piece because he knows it's not true and secondly, on the auto -- the auto bailout, when you go and look at politica fact point by point he knows

it's not true. he knows that. he'd be better off doing with education reform and he'll host the g-8 next spring, really big political future. i'd love to see him succeed. i think he should let that previous part of his life go. >> let it go. >> yeah, move on. >> we're not going to let you go. we'll watch it on "the five" today. >> one is done and one is well done and one is toast? after the break, jason wright ranks the republican candidates for president with our political jockey. >> and it's been months since donald said he wasn't running for president. his wife says not so fast? we'll ask trump when he joins us live. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes?

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>> let's talk presidential politics. in the past week, newt gingrich has surged to the top in the race for the republican presidential nomination. but can he hold his lead? here to rank the candidates is the editor of politicalderby.com and a "new york times" best selling author of "the wedding letters" jason wright who today joins us from phoenix, arizona. good morning to you, jason. >> good morning from phoenix. how are you? >> we're doing fine, thank you very much. and as we look at your political derby rankings, we see that once again in first place, mitt romney! >> yeah, we've got mitt back up in the top. it's really, really close with former speaker newt gingrich but we think based on money and organization, things starting to look a little better in iowa, we think mitt deserves the number

one spot. >> and he has been in the number one spot for quite a piece. but then you've got newt gingrich. he has never been this high in the national polls before. what's going on? >> yeah, this is such an interesting surge by newt. you know, everyone has had their turn. bachmann had a turn. perry had a turn. cain had a turn. it's gingrich's turn to run at the front of the pack. the question is is it real? over the weekend there was a reuters poll everybody was buzzing about showing newt up in the lead for the first time in e national poll. the problem is if you dig down into the data there, it's an on-line poll only from them and at political derby, we discount on-line polls. you know who really wins on-line polls, steve doocy? you know who wins those? spongebob. that's who wins the on-line polls so we really think at political derby, we look at polls that take into account likely voters and registered voters. >> sure. all right. as newt gingrich has gone up,

herman cain has flamed out a bit. nonetheless, he's still in third place. >> he is still in third place. you know, most of his votes have gone to newt. it's pretty interesting to see how romney has maintained such a consistent number here within four or five points for basically four years, his numbers haven't budged a whole lot and as each candidate has come and gone, it hasn't hurt mitt a whole lot. >> you mentioned who wins on-line polls and you said spongebob. actually, ron paul seems to win a lot of them and he's in the fourth position. followed by rick perry in fifth. if he's going to make a comeback, you've got to figure that rick perry is going to pull a sea biscuit, he better get on it. >> yeah, if he's going to pull a sea biscuit for a mccain biscuit, you know, from four years ago, the time is right now. if you look back at mccain 's numbers four years ago he was down at 16%, 17% and we know how that turned out for john mccain. perry doesn't have anymore time.

he has to get going. >> you've started something. it's the political derby composite poll. what is that? >> we're so excited about this. you know, other web sites and other networks have their poll averages. or composites of another network that we won't name, of course, has what they call the poll of polls. the problem is that they treat all polls equally. at political derby and our composite, we think that not all polls are the same. so for example, a poll taken a month ago in our composite, we don't weight that as heavily as a poll that was released over the weekend. our polls only take into account registered or likely voters. polls of just adults, for example, those are basically useless. an 18-year-old that just graduated from high school and works at jack-in-the-box, love the fries, their opinions aren't as valid as a 40-year-old likely registered in this case republican voter. those people need to be treated differently. >> very good. that's what you do at politicalderby.com. check out the new composite

poll. thanks for joining us very early from phoenix, arizona today. >> thanks, steve. have a great day. >> have a nice holiday week. >> they're deadlocked and ready to admit defeat. was the super committee a super failure? donald trump will not mince words as he joins us. this beauty queen is battling more than a crown. mrs. america 2011 is here today with the real reason she's a superstar. here she comes! mrs. america. what makes scottrade your smartphone's

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>> quick headlines now. the u.s. postal service ex tending its contract talks with the letter carriers and mail handlers union. they missed the midnight deadline and pushed it back until december 7th. postal service is on the verge of losing $10e billion this year alone and the new movie "twilight" taking a huge bite out of the box office this weekend. the latest installment of the vampire saga made $140 million here in the u.s. and $284 million worldwide. gretch? >> all right. thank you, brian. from ordinary mom to beauty queen. > >> mrs. america. mrs. florida! >> but 2011 mrs. america wasn't competing in the pageant for vanity. she wanted to help her family see literally. april, her sisters, and her two children all suffer from an incurable eye disease that

eventually leads to blindness. and mrs. america joins me now right here and i can see that you are a gorgeous person on the inside. >> oh, you are, too. thank you. >> good to see you. this was never a goal of yours to be mrs. america, right? >> no, it surely wasn't. but when my kids were diagnosed in 2010, i was actually advocating for many years for the foundation fighting blindness. and when my kids were diagnosed i needed to do something more. i just felt really passionate about what do i do to bring awareness? because all the years advocating before, sometimes i just felt it was just a rat on the wheel, not getting anywhere. >> when you become a pageant title holder, you get an extra voice where people pay attention to you. >> right. >> tell me about your two children, son who is 12 and daughter that is 8. this is a disease that runs in your family. >> it does. my sister was diagnosed at the age of 21 and right now, she's 44 and she has many challenges with retinitis pigmentosa.

i never thought in a million years we would be diagnosed ourselves. we were told we had a recesssive gene so all this time, it took three doctor visits for me to come to the conclusion and accept that we were diagnosed with r.p. >> that was in 2010? >> 2010. you just found out yourself that you also have it. >> right. at the age of 40. >> and your children have it. >> yes, absolutely. and it was right after we were diagnosed and feeling so desperate and wondering what can i do to really shine the light on r.p. and the foundation fighting blindness? because i rely on them to find a cure and they're just paving the way for all the clinical trials that are taking place so i decided to go back into pageantry and i competed in pageants many years ago and it's something i knew that would work because like you said, it shines a spotlight on what your platform or what the woman has to say. and i'm here on your show nationally speaking about r.p. and the foundation. >> where do we stand with research?

you were telling me about this amazing clinical trial just a few years ago, what happened? >> yes, in 2009, there's another form of r.p. called lca which people are born or infants are born totally blind. so they have 40 participants and out of the 40, they brought vision back to some degree to all the participants. one boy in particular was 9 years old. and he had the most significant breakthrough. he was able to put his white cane down, he was able to play baseball. he's in school and doing the simple thing in life that we take advantage of on a daily basis. that actually paves the way for all the clinical trials that are now taking place and if they started with lca and they brought vision back to those participants, i know they're going to make a way to r.p. and that's what gives me so much hope as a mom. >> well, when people think that people who hold pageant titles have no purpose, you certainly have one. >> exactly. >> for this year. >> and to change that stereotype, just -- it's awesome being mrs. america and showing that we're more than just a mom

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19-year-old playing video games an hour before they found him unconscious in their dorm. a former high school coach remembered the promising star. >> he was a parents' dream. a coach's dream with not only his ability but his passion for the game and the way he treated other people and his teammates. >> well, we still don't know the cause of death. but investigators say there are no suspicious circumstances. >> meanwhile, two university of california davis police officers who pepper sprayed this group of protesting students are now on administrative leave while an investigation takes place. the protesters appear to be sitting there peacefully but police claim the pepper spray was used only after the students surrounded them. 11 students were hit by the spray. two were treated at the hospital. the president of the entire u.c. system says he's appalled by the incident. today, occupiers from occupy sacramento plan to rally with

students there at davis. >> a traditional thanksgiving with all the trimmings served a few days early to the u.s. troops at camp victory in baghdad, iraq. the camp's canteen will soon be taken down. and packed up. because 33,000 troops are being pulled out of iraq. by the end of the year. i'm sure you've heard that. >> no kidding. meanwhile, let's take a look at this monday foxcast on this shortened work week. and as you can see, we have a whole bunch of rain from the northeast to the mid atlantic to the central mississippi and missouri valley at this hour. goes up to the states. the plains nice and dry. nice and cold, too. 13 in rapid city. it's two dozen in minneapolis, it's three dozen in kansas city and then in front of that front, you get temperatures in the 60's and 70's. 69 in tampa and it is 70 in new orleans. later on today on this monday, new orleans should top out at 82. 73 in memphis, tennessee, mid

70's as well in the mid atlantic. 50 to 52 at laguardia but it should remain below freezing in caribou, maine. that's your foxcast. >> time to bring in our guest who always joins us on mondays. donald trump. good morning to you. >> good morning! >> i thought that you might be interested in this latest study that came out. you might know a thing or two about making some dough and i didn't know if you would think this is true or not. that 73% of all men wouldn't mind being with a woman who makes more money now and 45% would be very willing to stay at home if that were the case. what do you make it was? >> i say wow! i mean, the world is changing. certainly our country is changing a lot and rapidly. i think it's great. i think it's wonderful if you can do it. i'm not sure that i could handle it. i'm not really sure. >> to tell you the truth, i talked to melania, she made more than you last year and you were able to handle it fine. and you seem to have done well. >> well, that i could certainly handle. no, i think it's a very interesting thing. the world is changing.

our country is changing in many ways for the worse, unfortunately. but, you know, could i handle it? i'm not so sure i could handle it. >> that's what i said, donald. i don't believe that. i don't believe 73% of men wouldn't have a problem with it. >> yeah, i think they maybe say they don't have a problem but maybe they do. or maybe they don't have much ability and they figure there's nothing they can do. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> speaking of your wife, she says you might still run for president. how much truth is in that? >> my wife has a lot of confidence in me, i guess. this came up and i don't know, somehow it's all over the place. look, if the republicans and i've said to you guys a number of times, if they choose the wrong person and the economy will continue to be bad because we have people that absolutely have no idea what they're doing leading the country, if those two things happen, i think it is a possibility. >> and one of those people, ron paul? >> if ron paul -- >> i don't want to say anything bad about ron paul. he's an interesting guy and has some very, very good views and

interesting views. i'm just saying if they choose the wrong candidate and by that, i mean a wrong candidate and also a candidate that can't beat obama because you have to get obama out of the presidency. he is destroying this country. >> donald, when you say if they choose the wrong candidate, are you talking about at the convention? or are you talking about in new hampshire or -- >> no. i'm talking as an independent because by that time, you know, as you know, i can't do anything until may. because of, you know, the ridiculous laws that talk about equal time meaning i have this big television show so i'm not allowed to do anything. would i like to do something sooner? perhaps i would. the law has precluded me from doing anything until may. >> it would be as a third party. >> it would be as a third party, unfortunately and i say that unfortunately, it would be as a third party. >> usually when that happens, it makes the incumbent win so it might guarantee obama a second term. >> so i would be very seriously nsidering not doing it.

>> it gave bill clinton the win. >> that's true. let's talk about the super committee thing. this is just driving me bonkers this morning, donald i mean it looks like they're going to fail on this thing. i know you talk tough. i mean, what should happen? what should happen? >> gretchen, even if it didn't fail, even if they came up with the solution it's a failure because they should have never been a super committee. we have a leader. he's the president of the united states. he should have gotten people in a room and made a deal. there was no reason for a super committee. so even if they came up with something and if you remember a couple of months ago, i said it was horrible. i didn't know that they wouldn't come up with something. who would think they can't sit in a room and strike a deal? but even if they struck a deal, it's a failure because this shouldn't -- this isn't the way our country supposed to be run. we have to have a leader in the room and get a deal. >> senator kerry said that the republicans asked the president not to take part and he made it -- he planned on his nine trips -- nine day trip to asia. and in that time, he's called

back once or twice. is that effective leadership? >> that's leadership, calling back. hey, how you guys doing? everything good. i'm in asia. i'm talking to the chinese who are ripping us off and i'm having a good time. and they're laughing at me because i'm a dummy. i mean, this is what's happening with our leadership and this is what's happening with our country. he's in asia and these -- and he's calling in and people are saying, isn't it wonderful that he's calling in? our country needs a leader. we don't need a super committee and the super committee looks like it failed. >> yeah. and he did, by the way, say that he was in asia even though he was in hawaii at the time. >> the place of his birth. >> yes, exactly. >> you would know something about that. >> yeah. yeah. >> were you watching over the weekend, frank luntz hosted a family leader forum out in iowa. and there were a number of times where some of the republican candidates got choked up. rick santorum, herman cain, newt gingrich who got a little montage of some of that and we'll get your reaction after this.

>> i will never forget before my wife and i were about to get in the car, i said, i can do this. she said, we. >> amen. >> i decided that the best thing i could do was to treat her differently and not love her. like i did. because it wouldn't hurt as much. if i lost her. i would like some bureaucracy. >> we saw rick santorum talking about his daughter as well. what do you think of the candidates showing emotion in a public way like that? >> well, i'm not in love with it. you know, we're talking about our leaders. we're talking about people that have to negotiate against dictators and tyrants and people

that are just smarter than our leaders and i'm not in love with it. but i actually in watching, i think i'll try it sometime. >> you're going to try it? >> i think so. >> i'm going to try crying in the break. i got to get to something real quick. minute i heard the president talking to tough against china, i think he took a page from you. >> it was almost my language. i could sue him! i could sue him for plagiarism! >> are you glad that he's saying it? >> absolutely i'm happy. he can plagiarize all he wants. i'm very happy about, it's about time. he's about five years late. look, what's happening to this country is largely based on what other countries are doing to us. it's about time he spoke up. i'm very proud to that. a lot of people have said that, it's almost like from my playbook and i'm very honored by that, believe me. i don't want to take credit for it. let him do it. it's good for the country. >> we're honored you would join us each and every monday. we'll see you back here, same time, same channel, mr. trump. >> thank you. >> happy thanksgiving. >> go out and get donald trump's

book. it's now available. >> coming up on the show, this murder suspect is hours away from freedom because the district attorney forgot to file charges? apparently, yep. the victim's family joins us coming up. >> and the must have pet this christmas, not a cat or a dog. a goat. >> oh, no! >> oh, my gosh. ellen ratner. >> wait, he's getting tangled. >> going to explain how you can buy a goat and change some lives straight ahead. >> that's how we'll get john kerry on the show. we'll have to drag him like that. >> first, the trivia question of the day -- so humpty dumpty had a... great fall. ugh, it's my sinus congestion, and it's all your fault.

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>> we're having a little goat problem right here. you normally see ellen ratner fired up over politics but a new documentary called "force of nature" highlights her other passion involving goats. >> we are starting a campaign to raise goats for southern sudan and our goal is to raise 10,000 goats for your state. that's my goal. i don't know if i'm going to get there. >> just one of these goats can feed an entire village in the war-torn country of sudan and that's why you're taking action. >> it's actually a family. i mean, one goat per family. a lot of our people eat every other day in south sudan that some people call the hungriest place on earth. >> you are creator of the goats for the old goat. >> i'm the old goat. >> we're not offending you by saying that. >> not at all. i'm the old goat. >> sow came up with this concept as a result of turning 60. >> that's right. and there are -- we're not the only organization that gives animals. we're the only organization that actually gives a photo of

somebody with their goat. sometimes that takes us a while because we -- i go every 12 weeks to south sudan and $60 buys a goat. you can buy a partial goat. we also sell these lovely crosses that we're actually -- i mean, lovely hearts, we also sell crosses, made by our polio people and this was designed by one of the friends of a make-up artist here at fox. >> ellen, what's the reaction been when they understand in sudan what you're trying to do? >> well, we deal with people who -- there was a 22-year war in sudan and people came down from -- there's nomore slavery anymore. they took people as slaves. we're trying to get these people to return. we give them this, you can purchase it on our web site and this has a mosquito net and a water jug and all that. and then we give them a goat and that allows them -- the goat's milk does not need to be homogenized. it allows them to survive.

one female goat will allow them to survive. >> why the goat, though? i mean, what -- despite the milk aspect? >> they're very easy to raise. they're not expensive and they provide a liter of milk and unlike cows, the milk doesn't need to be homogenized. somebody can make cheese and etc. these goats are actually from acorn hill. they're -- >> on your paper. >> these are not our goats from africa. they were loaned to us by a farm. >> they're prop goats. you know, for a number of years, my wife has given a cow in my name to some tribes over in africa as well. and it's perfect for the person who's got everything for christmas or holidays. and so why not give some goats in their name? >> we give people a certificate and then over the course of the year, they'll get a picture of a sign with their name and their goat. >> how do we find out more about this? >> goats for the old goat.com or dot-org, it's the same place and you can see all the shopping, hearts, crosses, the whole deal. >> i'll still call you ellen. >> you have them for the whole day. i hope you have something

planned for them. >> kissed one, you see. >> thanks, ellen. >> thank you. >> today, this murder suspect is going to walk free because the district attorney forgot to file the paperwork? the victim's family will be here next. >> first, on this day in 1957, jailhouse rock by elvis presley was the number one song. boy, he's a very good dancer. >> he is. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes? but you've got a meat and potatoes guy? pour chunky sirloin burger soup over those mashed potatoes and dinner is served. four minutes, around four bucks. campbell's chunky -- it's amazing what soup can do.

>> answer to the question of the day, troy aikman. winner, ron from texas. congratulations. well, today, accused murderer richard mendoza is going to be able to walk out of jail even though he's accused of fatally

shooting his hunting partner and friend. so why isn't he staying behind bars? all because the district attorney forgot to file some paperwork? joining me now is christopher's mom, tracy gregory and his aunt, samantha tally. good morning to you ladies. >> good morning. >> i'm so sorry for the loss of your son. i know that this -- he went missing nine years ago and you've been holding out hope that he might come home some day alive but recently, they were able to find his remains in a field and then they were immediately focusing on richard mendoza, correct? >> yes. >> and what happened? he was arrested and then the district attorney had 90 days to officially file the charges? >> waiting on the d.n.a. to come back and when it came back, it was the end of october. she should have filed her paperwork and got the indictment. but for some reason, and her excuse to us was i forgot.

she did not file the proper paperwork and now he's being released today. to go and walk out just like -- and live just like anyone else out there for now. he gets to have his holidays with his family. chris don't. what about christopher's rights? how could they not take a murder charge so seriously just blew it off? >> so here's what the district attorney john healy had to say in a stage. it's a mistake that shouldn't have been made but it's a long road between now and time the defendant is going to be in front of 12 citizens of fort bend county and we're going to need that family and need us to work together as a team. it's not even close to being over. i guess samantha is the aunt of the young man murdered in this case. he's eventually going to face trial for this murder but for right now, he's going to be a free man. >> right. he had a $250,000 bond that he could not make. and he would have sat in jail. but now, no, he gets to go home.

>> samantha, can you help me understand how this all went down? what happened nine years ago? >> what we understood was there was a little bit of jealousy going on between the two. ricky had seen christopher with one of his girlfriends, and ricky acted like everything was great and fine. and then took him off and murdered him. >> uh-huh. tracy, i know that you were -- >> so those are the accusations. >> i know you were in court on friday and you came face to face with the alleged killer of your son. what reaction -- >> yes, i did. >> what reaction did he have that he's going to walk free? >> it was very hard. he had a smile on his face. and that just upset me so bad so think, you know, he's thinking he's going to get away with it after -- like he did for nine years already. there's just no way that he should be out. you know, i'm scared he's going to hurt somebody again even though eyewitnesses that were there.

that he had been terrified for nine years to come forward. >> did the two of you fear for your own family's safety now? >> absolutely. definitely. family members threatening in the courtroom. >> i can see you're holding a picture of christopher there. how old was he when he went missing? >> 17. >> well, we're very sorry for the loss of your son and i know this will be undoubtedly even more difficult as we're coming into a holiday weekend right now. we certainly hope that you receive justice. tracy gregory and samantha tally, thanks for sharing your story today. >> thank you. >> coming up on the show, the debt super committee headed for super disaster now? senators from both sides, democrat john kerry and republican john kyle will join us next hour to tell us what the heck is going on. and the marine who invited mila kounas to the ball sees his

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. we start off monday, november 21, 2011, with a fox news alert. i'm gretchen carlson. this is what he wanted to do to american citizens. al-qaeda sympathizer busted in a plot to kill police officers and members of the u.s. military. how this american citizen got caught and why he decided to go rogue. >> steve: meanwhile, it's no secret, the debt super committee is headed for super disaster later today. so what has both sides -- so far from a solution? what has caused that? senators from both sides, democrat john kerry and republican jon kile here live this hour. >> brian: and one of our nation's bravest sees his dream come true. he invited mila kunis to the ball and she came through.

this morning the sergeant is here and he brought the pictures. "fox & friends" starts right now >> gretchen: fox news alert because there has been another arrest. the new york police department once again has done the job and taken out sob who wanted to blow up cars and injure people at post offices and injure people returning home from serving our country in the military. here is the guy right here, jose pimental, a 27-year-old u.s. citizen. here we go again. he lived al-awlaki, the guy who was recently taken out with a drone who has that inspire magazine and that's where he learned all this stuff. >> brian: on the 25th of november, we will find out what a grand jury thinks about the mountain of evidence against him and see if they should go forward with a trial.

he's already upset with his representation, says i don't want you to represent me, but a guy talked for him, declared he was innocent. he was evidently caught on his mom's couch in the final throws of making a bomb, the schematics of which were found in a terror magazine. >> steve: that's right. we talk about this before, the web site where he got the recipe was called make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. he bought -- >> brian: he was in the living room. >> steve: exactly right. he bought stuff at home depot and at the 99-cent store. he was, he told police, one hour away from being completed with this particular explosive and that's why the police came in. here is the commissioner last night here in new york in the 7:00 o'clock hour. >> we had to act quickly yesterday because he was, in fact, putting this bomb together. he was drilling the holes and it would have been not appropriate for us to let him walk out the

door with that bomb. he had decided to build the bomb august of this year, but clearly he jacked up his beef, so to speak, after the elimination of al-awlaki. >> gretchen: that was one of the big concerns when alacky was killed, was great news, but will it inspired, no pun intended, to inspire more to become more radical. it appear it is spurred on the intentions of this particular alleged terror suspect. >> steve: he did convert to islam about two years ago and he confessed to the cops and he said, quote, islamic law obligated all true muslims to wage war against the united states. what he wanted to do was he wanted to kill american service personnel returning from iraq and also afghanistan. he wanted to apparently bomb a

police station over on the new jersey side as well. death and destruction, that's what he wanted ultimately at the end of the day. >> brian: and the post office. let's talk about what's going on on capitol hill. today is really the deadline where you got to have a framework together if you want wednesday's submission of the super committee recommendation for over $1 trillion in cuts over the next ten years. they've had plenty of time to get this together, but when it's all said and done, the ten week quest looks like it's about to fail. the republicans and democrats haven't even met in the same room since the first week in november. >> gretchen: now he know why people maybe didn't want to be nominated to this committee. remember paul ryan said, the republican, i don't want to be on that committee. maybe he was the smartest person in the room. listen to this. that's the president's role. nobody wants to give up hope. reality is to some extent, starting to overtake hope. but there were 12 good people who invested a lot in this trying to find common ground to

achieve the goal of this committee. so talks have taken place over the weekend. they'll continue to take place. >> we've been willing to talk to any republican who says, look, the apologies that we have is not going to disappear. we need to cross that divide. i'm ready, i'm waiting. >> steve: but ultimately it sounds like at the end of this day, it's not going to happen. when we say this day, even though the deadline is wednesday at midnight, you got to have things, as we look at what happened if they fail, got to have things done by tonight so the congressional budget office can score it. $1.2 trillion worth of cuts would go into effect after the presidential election in 2013. >> gretchen: those were those defense cuts. there were $492 billion. that's what so many law lawmakers were not in favor of. this was supposed to be the impetus for them to come to a deal.

no one wanted to see these cuts and for the most part, democrats did not want to see cuts to entitlement, which are also going to happen when they fail. there's a fundamental divide in this country. anyone who thinks that way over here and way over here was going to come together, i guess i had hope. i'm so frustrated, i had hoped there would be something that somebody would get done for this country. it's not good news. >> brian: one thing is clear, the president was totally hands off on this. he was in touch with -- john kerry made it seem like he was in touch. he said, i talked to the white house once a week. that is not in touch. also the president called jeb hensarling before he left on his asian jaunt. that struck mitt romney e. thought the president should have been in there. >> what's the president's role been to try and help this super committee come to consensus? the answer is he hasn't had any role. he's done nothing. it is another example of failed leadership. he has not taken personal responsibility. i call on the president of the united states to immediately

introduce legislation that restores that cut to our military. we can not put america's safety in jeopardy by virtue of the failure of this committee and the failure of his leadership. >> steve: so what's going to happen? effectively this will kick the can down the road to figure out these giant problems facing our country with the next election. republicans will say, look, we've got a spending problem in washington, d.c we don't need to jack up taxes. the democrat also say, there is a fairness issue. such a small part of the country makes so much of the money, you'll have to jack up the taxes. >> brian: i think there is a truth problem. when you see senator kile and senator kerry sitting shoulder to shoulder and one called the other one essentially making up facts or essentially saying a liar, the other one said something else happened, these are people in their 60s acting like children. somebody has to be telling the truth. either senator kile says the republicans gave a bunch of offers and senator kerry said you got to be kidding. and we offered 4 trillion in

cuts. >> gretchen: why did anyone agree to be on this committee? they know they have this fundamental divide. so why would you agree to be on this committee? i just don't get it and i'm so frustrated and now you know why congress has a 13% approval. trust me, it's plummeting! it doesn't have that far to go. it's plummeting after today. >> steve: patty murray, the senator from washington state, she's involved in getting people reelected to the u.s. (by putting somebody so political on something that should be nonpartisan, that tells you something from the get go, doesn't it? >> gretchen: let's get to the rest of the headlines. hundreds of people in orlando, florida, lighting candles and saying prayers for a missing mother of three. michelle parker. the 33-year-old vanished hours after she was featured on a episode of "the people's court"" she was last seen dropping off their twins at his home on thursday. police found her abandoned truck a day later. smith is not considered currently a person of interest.

a stunning story. a major league baseball player has been murdered. his own brother under arrest at this hour. dutch police say greg hallman was stabbed to death in his native netherlands. police were called to a home and found him bleeding. officers were unable to save him. he played outfield for the seattle mariners. no details about why his younger brother is being held. another developing story for you, there are reports more than a dozen spies working for the c.i.a. in iran and lebanon has been caught and the u.s. government fears they will be executed. this according to four officials with connections to the intelligence community. they were paid informants recruited by the c.i.a. for two espionage rings targeting iran and hezbollah organization. while you were sleeping, jennifer lopez heated things up at the american music awards. ♪

♪ >> gretchen: but the big stunner was taylor swift, less than two weeks after scoring the top prize at the cma'ss; tee home the american music award for artist of the year. >> oh, my gosh! thank you to the fans. please never change. i can't believe this is happening to me. this is so crazy! >> gretchen: swift won favorite female artist and favorite country album. she's going to have to get a whole new mantle for all the trophies. >> brian: is she really that surprised? >> gretchen: come on. >> brian: when you see her sales. >> steve: that's taylor swift! >> brian: that's like her third straight major award. why is she shocked? if i won, that would be shocking. >> gretchen: yes, it would. >> brian: i'd be that surprised.

>> steve: the clarinet music awards. >> brian: if i won, i would be just as shocked. >> gretchen: congratulations, taylor. coming up, bus driver so fed up with her 200 passenger, you know what she did? she pulled over and walked right off the bus. you have to hear the rest of this story. >> steve: you don't have to tip her at the end. marine sergeant's dream comes true. he invited mila cue news to the ball and she came through. he's here to share his pictures. you're going to want to see them, right here on "fox & friends." ♪ [ male announcer ] how are we going to make this season better than the last?

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republican senator jon kyl. is there anything encouraging that developed this morning? i know you mentioned you did talk to senator kerry today. could we be optimistic? >> i wouldn't be optimistic. i don't want to create any false hope here. my point is that we are still talking and i think that's what people expect us to do and we'll do that until late this afternoon. there will be an announcement by the two co-chairs toward the end of the day as to what the result was either way. >> brian: i don't know if you read the "new york times" today, i'm not sure you do every day. but they say the democrats say senator kile is the main obstacle to getting an agreement, as if he's the angry father who comes home and realizes his kids are having a party. your reaction? >> i don't know where they get that. we've talked throughout this process and a lot of different ideas have come up. i hope that there is some sense that all of the members of the committee have worked very, very hard and i think that's a characterization that would be unfair for any of the members of

the committee. >> brian: here is what senator kerry said to you on "meet the press." you had just spoken and this is his first statement out of the box. >> john just said is patently not true. we just cut $917 billion without one dime of new revenue. he knows it. we just did it. we cut $550 billion in the health care act from medicare. >> brian: the democrats didn't make any offers. for example, they said no to senator toomey in a friday offer. he just said basically, called you a liar, senator kyl, and you're sitting right next to him. >> what i had said and what he was responding to is probably difficult for the democrats to react to, namely we said if we can't get anything done in terms of tax reform or entitlement reform, let's at least salvage this process and agree on the things that we have essentially agreed upon. there are other areas where you can achieve savings in the

budget. you can, for example, freeze federal work force pay, including members of congress. we can surplus federal land. there is $640 billion there that we offered up to the democrats and they said no without raising taxes. that's a true statement. what he was referring then to was back in august when we did the first part of this deal, we cut discretionary spending by $917 billion. that's a true statement. but democrats like to keep going back and counting that in the committee's work. that was done by the congress last august. the committee was charged with finding another 1.2 or $1.5 trillion and that they're not willing to do unless republicans are willing to raise taxes. you'll also note he started to refer to the social security example and then dropped it. i said, we cut social security by $500 billion. that's right. they did cut social security -- excuse me. medicare by $500 billion, something republicans had complained about at the time. and it wasn't without raising

taxes. there were significant new taxes raised in the so-called obamacare legislation. >> brian: he wants the bush tax rates to evaporate. this is the same argument we've been having for 2 1/2 years. while the president says this is not the time to raise tax, senator kerry seemed focused on getting republicans to go back to rates prior to the bush administration. why? >> well, this has been one of their mantras. you have to raise taxes. the problem with doing that, as the president himself said, is you don't raise taxes in a recession. why? because you're trying to get the he want entwhistle, especially the small -- entrepreneurs, especially those who create most of the jobs, to be able to hire somebody new or market a new product or whatever it takes for them to grow their business so the economy can recover. you don't do that by taking more money from them. so i think everybody acknowledges that. so one reason we've been so much against raising taxes in this process is because we do not want the economy to suffer. in fact, the pro growth tax reform that republicans put on

the table would have been a different way to approach the problem and would have lane the ground work for the economy to recover and create jobs. >> brian: do you believe that grover norquist pledge destroyed the process before it started, like democrats contend? >> no. that's silly. grover didn't like what we did. he objected to it. he wrote about it. said this is crazy. we can't do this. that's really the big news out of this entire process. republicans put the only new idea on the table here. it was a breakthrough, as dick durbin, my democratic colleague said earlier. we put the breakthrough proposal on the table, for tax reform. and we got nothing but rejection. >> brian: you're retiring. we thought we were going to have a legitimate negotiation for the last ten creeks, it never seemed to happen. you haven't met face-to-face with democrats since the first week in november. you were talking at each other, not to each other. is this the biggest disappointment of your career? >> it certainly is one of the biggest.

however, let me correct you. we have talked face-to-face right up until a couple of days ago. and we'll talk face-to-face again today, not as a group of 12, but as groups within that. part of the problem is the democrats have never been unified around a particular plan, as representative cliburn said a week ago sunday. so we've had to talk to different groups of democrats. but not all in the same room at the same time. >> brian: you talked to john kerry this morning. we'll talk to john kerry in 20 minutes. thank you for joining us, senator kyl. i hope you have a last minute breakthrough. >> thank you. >> brian: straight ahead, police officers caught on camera spraying protesters in the face with pepper spray. point-blank. should they lose their jobs? and marine asked mila kunis to the ball and this weekend she made history -- his dream come true. he's here to share the pictures and the story. he's a happy guy.

>> gretchen: we all need this kind of a pick me up story today. this particular one, brian, started with this youtube invitation. you remember this, from a in rein? >> hey, mila. i want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the marine corps ball in north carolina with yours truly. so take a second, think about it. get back to me. >> brian: just a sergeant hang how long in iraq. she said yes and this past friday she joined him at the annual marine corps ball and scott moore is here with all the details and the photos. sergeant, gutsy move and she said yes. how happy were you and how happy are you? >> i was ecstatic when i first found out. it was good news to hear from afghanistan, obviously. and the day went very well. i'm a happy guy. >> gretchen: there was no way that you thought that this was

actually going to happen, did you? >> i thought there was an outside chance. i mean, i'm a confident person. i thought i had a chance. >> gretchen: i love the fact that you did this. you realize you started something here? >> i do. i did not mean to turn youtube into a dating site. i guess i did to a small degree. >> brian: justin timberlake ended up getting invited because it was brought up to him, and she's there. how did this all unfold? did you pick her up and bring her to the ball? >> i actually met her at the convention center that we had the ball and got to spend some time with her, got to know each other. >> brian: without cameras? >> without cameras. then walked her out to the ballroom and started explaining everything that w going on and the ceremony happened. we had the cake cutting ceremony, watched the commandant's message and had fun. >> gretchen: what did you do for most of the five hours you spent with her? did you do a lot of talking or dances? what happened? >> a fair amount of everything, honestly. a lot of talking, though. i introduced her to my fellow

marines and sailors and did my best to explain everything that was going on. there is a lot of history and traditions that go on at a marine corps ball. >> brian: did you explain to the other marines that she's yours, hands off? 'cause you don't walk around with her, you know. >> i like to think it kind of went unsaid. >> gretchen: you got some of your friends over here. how upset were you that you didn't think of that idea? yeah, right. sergeant, brilliant. >> brian: you know what i loved about it? i don't know how many takes it took you, but the walking shot -- >> gretchen: it was hot. >> brian: it looked so natural. how many takes before the one that was posted? >> believe it or not, it was the second take. another sergeant and i, it was a quick five minute decision and we went out and he directed it and i just -- >> brian: were you wearing clone? >> no. >> brian: you looked as suave as you can be in afghanistan. >> i like to think i have a little swag. >> gretchen: you do. i love this guy. he's only 23 years old and i

want to know what's the future with mila? >> we'll stay in contact, i'm sure. we'll talk. >> brian: did you encourage her to do a sequel to "black swan"? >> i did not. we honestly did not talk a lot about her career. it was mostly about what was going on at the ball. >> gretchen: i would agree, no sequel for "black swan." before you go, did you happen to see what justin timberlake tweeted after he went to the ball? it was so heartfelt and i thought it was so big of him to do that. he said how much he respected the military and -- >> brian: here it is, actually. >> gretchen: i knew i would have an evening that i wouldn't forget, something i could tell my friends about. what i didn't know was how moved i would be by the whole experience. do you think that mila kunis walked away with the whole emotion? >> i honestly can't speak for her. i hope so. i hope she got a glimpse of what we do, our everyday life and the sacrifices that a lot of guys made. we lost seven guys out there and a lot of guys lost limbs. a lot of guys made a lot of sacrifices out there.

so i hope she was touched by it, but i honestly can't speak for her. >> brian: good luck to you, sergeant. you're going to get out and go to college soon, right? >> yes, sir. using the g.i. bill. >> gretchen: thanks for your service and thanks for sharing your story. >> brian: now go party in new york. >> gretchen: all right. would you call america the greatest nation on earth? this year for the first time ever, most americans said no, brian? >> brian: very sad. >> gretchen: comedian brad stein says he can explain. he's coming up. >> brian: then more men than ever becoming mr. mom. they would rather see women bring home the bread. what do you think? we'll share your e-mails and tweets welcome idaho,

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>> excuse me. i couldn't help but notice that you were looking in my direction. >> oh, yes, i was. you ordered the same exact lunch as me. >> my name is george. i'm unemployed and i live with my parents. [ laughter ] >> steve: once again, george costanzo absolutely a pioneer.

there is a survey out where as brian pointed out, the guys never wear shirts. they did it with spike television and came up with this figure. 73% of guys wouldn't mind being with a woman who makes more money than they do. >> brian: and 45% would be very willing to stay at home and let her work. 43% say they would do more housework than their dads did. >> gretchen: i believe that part. 19% already are stay at home dads. that's fascinating. one in five dads are stay at home right now in 2011. that's higher than i expected. but i don't believe that first number for a minute. >> brian: do you know more men than women have lost jobs in this so-called recession. what do you think about this? dave in denver says, my wife has always made twice what i make. she may soon take a job that pays three times my salary. we share all the responsibilities at home. >> gretchen: sounds like it's working. this tweet, yeah, that's what

they say. that's truly textbook. could never live with for the long haul. >> brian: donald trump said no way could he handle that. >> steve: he would have problems with it and here is a tweet that says, ask my hubby. we've been doing that for 20 years. it's not all in the pot for the family, not his and mine. it's ours. thank you very much. >> brian: if you have an argument and go hey, i make the money around here, i'm cutting you off! that's the key. in good times, it's everybody's. in bad times, it's i made most of that, i'll eat the most. >> steve: no beer for you! >> gretchen: you do the ironing! >> steve: let's go to some headlines on this monday morning. university of california, davis, police officers who pepper sprayed this group of protesting students are now on administrative leave because of this youtube video. protesters appeared to be sitting there peacefully, but police say the pepper spray was used only after the students

surrounded them. 11 students were hit by the spray. two were treated at a local hospital. today protesters from occupy sacramento plan to rally with the students over at davis. >> gretchen: take a live look now. this is tahrir square in egypt why clashes continue. right now the deaths stand at 35. more than 1700 people have also been injured. thousands are in this square once again demanding an end to the military rule. they're throwing rocks, demanding the military government transfer power to the egyptian people. police have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. >> brian: u.s. prepares to dish out new sanctions against iran amid a report that iran may be secretly making a nuclear weapon. officials say the targets will be iran's nuclear sector, as well as their petrochemical industry, which is used for refining the fuel. the new sanctions also look to prevent foreign companies from investing in iran's oil industry. >> gretchen: rubber bullets, i

said rubble because i had barney rubble. yes. after you talked about the flintstones. >> brian: without pants. >> gretchen: talk about a travel nightmare, 200 people on board a greyhound bus were stranded at a truck stop after their driver stormed off the bus and never came back. it happened in charleston, missouri, about 100 miles from their destination, st. louis. riders claim the driver tried to kick off an unruly passenger when the passenger wouldn't listen, the driver left in protest. the driver then tried locking the passengers inside the bus. so it took greyhound eight hours to find a replacement driver. the company says it will issue passengers a refund and plans to discipline the driver. i'd say so at the very least. >> brian: hey, 24 minutes after the hour. steve is at the weather map, but he's not alone. >> steve: no, indeed. i'm over here with snoopy, a cartoon character. so i will have to communicate with him the only way you can with a cartoon character and that is with thought balloons.

here we go. >> steve: it's easy. you can tell me about the weather. just stand there and nod. all right let's look at what's going on. widely -- snoopy is pointing now, suddenly he's a pointer. widely scattered showers, as you can see, through portions of the northeast, through the mid atlantic and back through the ozarks area at this hour. a little bit of snow in the northern plains. it's only 10 in rapid city. that's right. look at that. he is chilly 73 right now in san antonio. so once again, check out snoopy

on happiness is a warm blanket, charlie brown, at 8:30. thank you very much. difference in the wet blanket show. over to you. >> brian: for those people on radio, there is a whole conversation going on. >> gretchen: very cute. >> brian: out of all the guests, i've never seen him bond with this guest. by the way, as we change gears, do you think that america is the greatest nation on earth? this year the majority of americans actually said no. comedian brad stein says it's our own fault. he's up next. >> gretchen: then john kerry, senator, blamed republicans for the super committee's failure saying they refused to raise taxes. the senators on the other side say that's not the case. democrat john kerry here live next. [ child ] it's so cool!

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>> we are not going to do everything right. but at least we will always have the satisfaction of knowing at least we're not france. >> gretchen: brad stein, the comedian, says we could soon be just like france. so in a new poll backs it up. a new pugh poll says 49% of americans say we're superior to other countries. that's compared to 55% in 2007 and 60% a few years ago in 2002. so have we gone soft? >> steve: and why? stand up comedian brad stein joins us live from nashville. good morning to you, brad. what is at work here with the american people? >> well, first of all, the polls are a little skewed. 87% of americans polled believe that polls are inaccurate. so you might want to keep that in mind. but the biggest thing my new american pilgrims is this: i don't have to sit here and prove

that united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. you know why? because the other nations did it for us. you know how you know if a nation is great? do people want in or out? you know what? i'm not hearing about people jamming themselves into box cars trying to sneak into north korea? anybody hearing about that? all the poor oppressed women trying to make it into the middle east so they can find freedom? no. they stay here to complain because this is the greatest nation on earth. it's only the young americans that are now believing we're not as great as we all know we are. >> brian: brad, the problem is, we were born into the first place team. we have no idea what it's like to be on a loser? should you force -- be forced to go to other countries and see how bad it is? >> i think so. we actually believe god gave us this opportunity to do something amazing and we've done it. okay. everything we used to invent, everybody else wanted it. we invented baseball, the world plays now. we invented football and

basketball, the world plays now. they invented soccer, we're like no. we don't care. we don't want their stuff! we believe in our stuff. every year more immigrants come to the united states of america than any other nation on earth. why would people leave their own nations to come to ours? why? 'cause ours is better than theirs! i know this truth is difficult for the politically correct to grasp, but the truth can set you free. >> gretchen: why is it that our younger generation is feeling the way that they do, not like we feel, the three of us on the couch, and you? >> well, listen, here is what's happened. it's indoctrination. that's the key. 'cause i don't care what you believe, i care why. 'cause if i can change why, it's what -- i can change what. it's these fascist university professors that hate this country and want this marxist idea of making everybody level. it makes you level so they can control you by letting the state be the supreme god.

we have to go back and give a civics course to our kids and say, you know what? you should care about america. it's given more altruism and more to every nation on earth. you need to know what the founding fathers believe. you need to know where this manifest destiny was created. cultures come here and we embrace all cultures and then you become us. that's how it works. we didn't get here by being multi cultural. we got here by being americans. >> gretchen: and teach the kids it's okay to be great and everyone is not a winner. everyone doesn't get a trophy. >> for crying out loud! i saw the barney show and they raced and at the end, they said who won, and barney said, we're all winners. what about the last place winners, the fat kid that is eating cake that hasn't started yet. listen, if we're all first place, we tied. if we tie, nobody won. if nobody won, we're all losers! that's what political correctness teaches you. we'd rather have everybody be losers than somebody is better

than somebody else. you want to believe in america? you see what we've accomplished, you continue to be the entrepreneurs like conservatives are and those who believe in the constitution. you go forth and not rewrite history. you make history. that's what americans used to do. forget this politically correctness. when it happens, know it's anti-first amendment. know it's anti-america and shove it back to hell. that's where it came from. hey, we got to stand up for the greatest nation the world has ever known. >> steve: that's exactly right. brad stein, who does not need another cup of coffee this morning, thank you very much for joining us from nashville. absolutely right. >> listen, have a great thanksgiving and thank god, that's what the original people did. >> gretchen: happy thanksgiving to you as well. maybe he should be on the super committee. somebody who is senator john kerry says republicans republico blame for the failure because they won't raise taxes. but senators on the other side say he's wrong. he's here next. >> brian: first let's check in with bill hemmer and find out what's on top of his show.

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>> gretchen: we've been telling you about the super committee debt panel on the verge of admitting failure. they can't get it together. are they just pointing fingers at each other? >> steve: joining us right now is a member of the super committee, senator john kerry

from massachusetts. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. >> steve: a lot of people had high hopes and it looks like it's going to fail. why? >> well, i'm not willing to accept that yet. i still have high hopes. i began this with high hopes that we could have a reasonable compromise. we put a $4 trillion plan on the table. remember, simpson bowles proposed $2 trillion of revenue. another one proposed 2 trillion of revenue. the gang of six, which includes republican senators proposed 2 trillion of revenue. we proposed 1.3 trillion of revenue. 1.3 of cuts, and that was refused. we then went down to a trillion of revenue. that was refused. 650 of refuse new. refused. 300 plus, refused. i mean, it's been a constant process of saying you have to lock in the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. so facts are facts. this is not finger pointing. this is simply saying that we

are stuck because we do not believe that the wealthiest people in america ought to get a huge tax cut when we're supposed to be doing deficit reduction. >> gretchen: speaking of facts, a lot of americans believe, quite frankly, that america spends too much dough. from 2008 -- >> we do. i agree with that. >> gretchen: then we should have a deal because from 2008 to 2011, government spending increased from 2.98 trillion to 3 trillion under president obama. is it not the fact that we have a spending problem in this country? >> we have both. we have a spending problem and we have not enough revenue. revenues are at a 60-year low. they're at 14 or 15% of all of our gdp, traditionally they're at 18%. 19. and when we have balanced the budget, which we did. remember, we democrats succeeded in balancing the budget in the 1990s where incidentally we created 23 million new jobs in every income sector of america

went up. but when we did that, we had 20 to 21% revenue to gdp. so what we're saying is simply this is not the moment to be cutting the revenue that we have coming in. now, on the spending side, yes, we have to change that and rein it in. we just cut $917 billion of spending. only spending. we just cut $550 billion out of medicare during the health care reform act. now we're willing to cut an additional 1.3 trillion as part of an agreement. but i tell you what, you guys know what fair and balanced is supposed to be. fair and balanced is not giving the wealthiest people in america tax cuts while you ask people on medicare and medicaid to anthony up more. >> steve: the republicans did put real tax reform on the table and we had read that pat toomey put at least 250, $300 billion in revenue increases on the

table. but the democrats at the same time did not respond with an equal concession. you never put any sort of entitlements, like social security or medicaid on the table. >> we offered all of those things for the larger deal. we told people we should be doing $4 trillion. we said that as you go to less money in the deficit reduction, it's harder to do some of those things. they knew that. but still, let me say this to you, right now, we will take senator toomey's $350 billion. we will accept that amount of money. we will do it slightly differently, but through deductions, we'll accept his methodology of deductions, and then we will do a combination of cuts in the other sectors that will put together $1.2 trillion providing they stop insisting on the continuation of the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. >> gretchen: are you offering this to senator toomey right now on "fox & friends"?

>> we have talked with the republicans about being willing to accept the 350 billion for a $1.2 trillion avoidance of sequester, providing they stop insisting on continuing the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. >> gretchen: can i just ask you about the taxes? because -- >> i hope you heard what i said. the only thing blocking us is the insistence on the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. >> gretchen: a question is, even if all millionaires and billionaires were taxed at 100%, if they just handed over their whole income to the government, it wouldn't even begin to put -- my point is not stupid. my point is that it wouldn't even begin to put a dent in the amount of spending that we have. >> you're absolutely -- well, on the contrary. it would begin, but you're right, we have to reduce the other spending. most of the spending is in entitlement side of the ledger. but what we put into place to the american healthcare act has been judged by the congressional

budget office to be on track to reduce medicare spending by 25%. people say that if we do these new pilot projects that are in the health care act, for instance, coordinated payment systems, coordinated discharge and care, more effective payment for value, start to move away from the fee for service, all of this is stuff we've offered to do and we could do and that will reduce the health care costs in a responsible way. >> steve: all right. let's see if the republicans respond to the offer that you have offered here on "fox & friends." senator john kerry from massachusetts. thank you very much. we know you got an awfully busy day today. >> thank you. >> gretchen: they got just today. are they going to do it? more "fox & friends" two minutes away. nationwide insurance, talk to me.

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