he says soldiers get paid. why should they get presents? a veteran here with his response. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> i'm donny somond and you're watching "fox & friends." >> welcome aboard, folks. two weeks until christmas and as you can see over there, we have the christmas tree up. >> is that true? >> >> we rolled it in? did you see it? it came in on a flatbed. >> when did we plant that? >> remember when flocked trees were all the rage. you had to decide whether you had that white tree. >> i never heard that term before. >> i heard flocked as well growing up. we had some "fox & friends" elves putting it together yesterday. it's prewired. i believe they got it at home depot and --

>> pop-up kind? >> absolutely beautiful. >> so anyway, there's our christmas tree ready for the christmas season. >> and let's get right to your headlines for "fox & friends" and a fox news alert. 34 nato trucks loaded with fuel and supplies for u.s. troops in afghanistan now burning in pakistan. they were destroyed by militants who fired rockets at a trucking terment natural. no reports of injuries. pakistan closed its borders refusing to let nato trucks through after an american air strike accidentally left 24 pakistani troops dead. students at virginia tech holding a candlelight vigil last night after a deadly shooting five years after the massacre on campus that left 33 people dead. a police officer was gunned down while making a routine traffic stop. the 39-year-old was an army veteran and a father of five. the shooter reportedly came out of nowhere and ambushed him before turning the gun on himself. his identity and motive is unknown at this time. it took just six minutes after the shooting to alert students what was happening. back in 2007, as you recall, the

response time was two hours. texas governor rick perry and minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann the latest republican presidential candidates to decline an invitation to donald trump's debate in iowa. so far, there's only two people that will take part in this debate, newt gingrich and rick santorum. debate is set for december 27th. president obama celebrating hanukkah at the white house two weeks early. he got a head start on the jewish holiday because he will be on vacation maybe in hawaii when hanukkah actually starts on december 20th. hanukkah to christmas now. here's a cool look at the making of the capitol christmas tree. >> this time lapse video shows the tree being hoisted up to workers putting up the lights, to house speaker john boehner flipping the switch. >> five, four, three, two, one!

>> the tree stands 63 feet high. it's covered with 5,000 ornaments and 10,000 l.e.d. lights. >> beautiful. >> those are your headlines. >> by the way, regarding our christmas tree here in the studio, i just looked it up, gretch, they don't refer to -- it's a martha stewart, i believe. they don't refer to it as flocked. they call it snowy. that's the term in christmas treology. for when it comes to little -- >> now brian will understand my swedish lingo. >> now i can finally understand it and it all is making sense and so is this. fox news opinion dynamics people didn't pick up my call because they were busy compiling a brand new poll. here's a first look at a very insightful poll that shows you what kind of year it's going to be as they race for the white house for re-election o -- we a question. would president obama be re-elected? for the most part, let's start here actually.

>> right. these are -- they asked republican voters, who do you like for president? and as you can see, newt gingrich has a little more than a third of the vote. mitt romney a little less than a quarter. ron paul at 12%. and rick perry at 8% as well. this is -- this depicts the surge that mr. newt has had over the last couple of weeks. >> it also shows herman cain's people have gone to ron paul and newt gingrich. >> interesting because they're two totally different candidates. idea that they wouldtin s w would romney and gingrich do against president obama? this is actually the wrong poll. who will actually win? let's stick with this one. this is staggering to me. >> why? >> look at that. this is what perspective voters, registered voters think will win the 2012 election, 44% say president obama will win. 16% say newt gingrich will win. 15% say mitt romney.

is anyone else stunned at this result right now? >> you know what i do? i add all three. i add other republicans romney and gingrich and take that number, i believe it's 37 and then -- and you could even put the unsure, ok, leave that out and then it's a lot closer. >> because democrats -- >> i was thinking about it, yeah. >> democrats know who they're going to vote for and republicans still have that whole great big menu of people and when it comes to -- and gretchen was talking about this. when you do the head to head where you take the president of the united states and you run them against romney and newt gingrich, the results are like this. let's start with mitt romney and the president are within the margin of error. it's 3%. and you can see the president is 44%. mitt romney 42%. romney has been ahead. they've done, you know, they kind of played tag over the last couple of months. >> what's amazing is gingrich is surging everywhere, even in new hampshire even though he's trailing still, but when it comes to going against president obama, it is -- it is mitt romney within the margin of

error and it's newt that's six points away. >> when it comes to independents interestingly enough, the president beats romney by one but the president beats newt gingrich by five. and about a quarter of all the independents are still undecided at this point. >> ok. so now the stage is set. does it appear that it will be newt or mitt? well, if you're mitt romney, you got to come up with a way to try to gain back the lead so now he's going to some big name targets. speaking of targets -- it's talent, yeah. jim talent, i was using the word target anyway. he was a target yesterday. jim talent. it says target in the prompter. jim talent, john sununu, a former politician, they targeted gingrich yesterday. >> the speaker is running at a reliable and trusted conservative leader. and what we're here to say with reluctance but clearly, he's not

a reliable and conservative leader because he's not a reliable or trustworthy leader. >> the off the cuff comment, for example, that gingrich throws out on occasion is a reflection of the off the cuff thinking that he goes through to deal with issues. that's not what you want in the commander and chief. >> then you've got, for instance, tom corbin who, of course, is the senator from oklahoma. he says that newt gingrich -- he's worked with newt gingrich. he said he's the last person i'd vote for as president of the united states. senator lindsay graham says newt could be historic if he has "matured as a person" and is, for lack of a better word, calmed down. that is the closest thing, peggy noonan writes in "the wall street journal" today, that you can come to a compliment from anybody who has ever worked with -- >> but all that matters is the voters and i want to point that out, brian, is that newt has said after seeing these attacks i'm going to stay positive. my strategy is to stay positive

and i just wonder how the voters -- let us know. e-mail us or tweet me this morning, how do you feel about the campaign strategies? does it work when the other candidate is negative? or does it work when the other candidate says they're going to be positive? >> well, i'll tell you what, newt gingrich, it's easy when you're up in ohio and substantially in florida and south carolina to say i'm not going to attack back. if those numbers start closing, more republicans start standing up saying i work with newt and he's not my guy and i know he's not your guy. mitt romney said one thing directly yesterday and pointed out how critical he was and how wrong he felt it was for newt gingrich to come out and call paul ryan's attempt to restructure medicare and medicaid a right wing socialist project. he went after him a little bit there. for the most part, governor christie and others are the ones doing the attacking. >> president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he said this a couple of days

ago to the republican jewish coalition in washington. he said this president appears more generous to our enemies than he is to our friends. well, obviously, that really struck a nerve with the president of the united states because yesterday at that snapy press conference he had over in the briefing room, he fired back directly at republicans but specifically at mr. romney's comments about appeasement. >> ask usama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-qaida leaders who have been taken off the field whether i engage in appeasement. or whoever is left out there, ask them about that. >> the president has a point with regard to taking out terrorists. he has adopted many of the bush policy, quite frankly. >> we don't catch them anymore. >> they kill them with drones. some argue that the president

doesn't want to bring them to gitmo because he doesn't want trials there although they're continuing there. i think what mitt romney and the other candidates are talking about is his policy for iran. his policy for israel. these types of relationships that they sense appeasement. >> it's all about the re-election. when you look, you know, the president can't really say i really fixed the economy because he really hasn't fixed the economy but he can say going forward, i've had some success there. what is he trying to do? trying to nip it in the bud. in particular, nip it in the mitt. >> the big question will be will republicans see that as vulnerable or tough on afghanistan or pakistan? he came up with his own plan to exit both of those wars on his own and he's already campaigning on it. >> but most republicans have already given the credit to the president of the united states for taking out bin laden. >> let's talk about herman cain. he disappeared for a week, it seems like a month and he appeared last night with sean hannity to explain the reasons why he really dropped out. it's all about family.

>> boiled down to two words. family first. because of the false accusations and the media continues, not everybody but some, they continue to stand and stand and stand and restand. it never went away. we also knew that because somebody was so determined that to knock me out of this race, but they're probably going to be some more down the road. >> who do you think is doing it? >> i don't know who is doing it. i think it could be coming from both sides of the aisle. >> well, they're probably -- if there are more accusations coming, it would only happen if he continues to put himself out on the national stage like if he's going to -- if somebody wants him to run one of the, you know, departments or something like that. the president chooses to do that. i don't know if anybody else is going to attack him if he doesn't continue to be on the national stage. >> i'll tell you what, if someone wrongly accused me, i'd take legal action. he discussed that last night and he'll consider all options and

hasn't made his conclusion yet. he says no endorsement yet and his wife never asked him to leave. that was his decision. >> our decision is to go ahead and produce a great show and we have two hours and 49 minutes left on this friday morning. and straight ahead, a college lecturer sparking a nationwide outrage. he says don't send soldiers presents because "don't their families send them yuletide goodies. aren't g.i.'s paid enough to buy what they need"? a veteran is here to respond to those comments. >> so many sales in afghanistan. >> brother. it's not really about money, is it? a big win in the war against big government. the president says no. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style.

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>> if you're just waking up, 16 minutes past the top of the hour. the president is voting down the choice to head up a new consumer watchdog agency. >> they actually say that he's a pretty good choice. was it a battle over big government? let's talk to stuart varney and stuart says? >> he has nothing to do with this. not him permanently or his credentials. this is all about setting up a huge, new government bureaucracy to sit on top of and punish the banks. the republicans don't want it. the democrats do. that was the disagreement. i ask you this question -- do you want one person to run a $500 million a year bureaucracy with a term of five years and that person cannot be removed by anybody but the president? in certain circumstances, you want that sitting on top of our entire financial system? a brand new czar?

>> you obviously don't. >> look, if that's not big government run riots with the potential to cause havoc in the financial system, i don't know what is. >> so this all emanated from frank-dodd? >> dodd-frank. >> dodd-frank. sorry. i'm doing my alphabet backwards this morning. it's friday, stu! give me a break! >> it does. >> i used the word emanate. >> this is the consumer financial -- consumer financial safety -- what is it? >> oh! >> this is the -- >> you need a friend, don't you? >> i really do. >> ok. >> this is the consumer financial protection bureau. >> there you go. ok. >> this is the job that everybody thought that elizabeth warren was going to wind up with, but, you know, according to a book, tim geithner and others in the white house didn't want her to actually get the job because she might actually get something done. >> that's correct. she's now running for the senate against mr. brown, senator brown in massachusetts. ok. so essentially, we have delayed this big government bureaucracy.

i say that's good. some would disagree. >> maybe not. the president might do a recess appointment that would put this guy in power for one year. let's move on to jon corzine, former democratic governor and former senator from the state of new jersey. he read his statement on capitol hill yesterday and basically said i don't know where $1.2 billion is. >> that's left everybody absolutely incredulous. how could you lose $1.2 billion or not account for $1.2 billion? people have just -- just amazed at this. >> here's a little snippet of the former governor. >> i know i had no intention to ever authorize the transfer of segregated moneys. >> so the answer is you don't know whether you did or not. >> i certainly couldn't confirm based on what i have available to me today. but i know what my intentions are. >> over a billion dollars just went poof. he can't figure out where it is. and a lot of farmers across the

country who invested money in m.f. are getting screwed. >> yes. they cannot get to their money and they may have lost half their money or even more. notice the use of the word "intent" or "intention." twice. >> what does that mean? >> that means legal. steve, thanks. if he didn't intend to screw anybody, forgive my language, that's not illegal. he's not committing a crime. >> if it's just a bad bet -- >> if it's just a bad bet and poor judgment, that's a different story entirely. what jon corzine did yesterday was he got out of the trap of pleading the fifth that would look awful but he jumped into legal jeopardy by answering questions so he's very cautious. it wasn't my intention to mess around with anybody. >> i don't know if he's going to get much sympathy when people are scraping together dimes to pay their bills. >> he must be the poster child for occupy wall street but he's not gonna be but he should be. >> we'll be watching you at 9:20

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>> all right. quick headlines for you on this friday morning from the control room. u.s. officials confirm that that plane shown on iranian tv is

that drone that belongs to us that went down. iran draped it with banners that say "america cannot do any harm to us and we have trampled on america." iran now trying to reverse engineer the drone and figure out how we built it. good luck. and a federal judge has serious concerns about the gunman who tried to kill president reagan. john hinckley jr.'s doctors say he should be released from psych ward so he can take care of his mom but the judge says the decision will be his and not theirs. all right. brian? >> all right, here we go again. another college lecturer ripping members of our military and those that send care packages overseas. that could be you. this week in a letter published in the "iowa state daily" thomas walker writes this. "doesn't the u.s. army -- i want to get this right. doesn't the u.s. army give to their soldiers, don't their

families send them yuletide goodies. aren't they paid enough what they want. it it should be doled out to people that really need it. that's only part of it. walker went on to rip republicans asking why they're the ones supporting hapless veterans. it's outraged so many people including our guest, joining us now as the new media director for the american legion and u.s. army veteran. you thought this was a joke at first, right? >> yeah, i actually had to look a couple of times. i thought this guy is not just stuck on stupid, he's encased in it. >> he said you have enough money, go buy your own cookies and buy your own blankets. >> he's under the mistaken impression that there's a target and wal-mart on every afghanistan corner. that's not the case. even above and beyond that, it's want really getting the items that are in the care packages as much as it is the intent of the sender. when you receive that, you know, it makes you feel good and there's a lot of our soldiers over there who don't have the

support family network that some of them have and that's why organizations like the american legion, soldiers angels, books for soldiers and other groups are there to make sure that none of these soldiers go without packages, particularly during the christmas season. >> you were deployed before, mark, what does it mean? >> it means a lot to get -- to get packages, you know, when you're in bosnia or afghanistan like i was, there are times when you have, you know, a lot of time on your hands with noing to do. so getting packages and reading letters from young school kids or getting a little bit of food instead of an mre is a very special thing for you. >> now, two kinds of groups are contacting you, i understand, groups that send out packages and other people who are involved somehow affiliated with iowa statend are embarrassed. >> absolutely. this guy's approval rating is about the same as lebron james in cleveland. the iowa state alumni and students are just up in arms. and i really think it's a shame

that it brings discredit on the school. it's much like the suffolk law professor that did this a couple of weeks ago, the first person i heard from was a suffolk law alumni who said please don't hold this against our school. i want to be very clear, it's not the iowa state community that's the problem. it's this one, you know, knuckle head who said some very ill advised things, i would say. >> that knucklehead, his name is thomas walker. we want to get him on and see if he wants to expand this on or take you on and here's what we got in response from the iowa state president. please understand that mr. walker's opinions do not in any way represent iowa state university and as a military veteran myself, i strongly disagree with his comments. i do, however, respect every individual's right to freedom of speech which is so highly valued in our nation and we have an opportunity, too, to evaluate that freedom of speech, don't we, mark? >> yeah, we absolutely do. and demonstrably what he says is true. it still doesn't exonerate this guy from the things -- certainly

have a constitutional right to do many stupid things. it doesn't make it a well advised course of action. >> you want to know what he said? not surprisingly he did not come on. here's what he said. i do not want nor do i warrant notoriety. however, i don't want to see my viewpoint sensationalized. well, we're just bringing it out. it's up to you to respond. if you want to contact thomas walker, let's take a look you w? 206 ross hall, ames, iowa, 50011, if you want to call him. 515-294-3568. if you're driving, please pull over and twalker at iastate.edu. we have many ways to contact him. let's see if it will be sensationalized or just notarized. we'll see. thanks so much. >> thank you, sir. >> thanks for your service. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, a high

stakes rivalry foiled by the fed ex man. wait until you see how the store owner slipped and told him she was in danger. then, they're sick and tired of defending christmas and nobody gets to celebrate. trees, menorahs, you name it. all banned. does that sound fair to you? first, happy birthday to the man who said hello to us before on tape. donny osmond is 54 today and that show is still on every night. am i right? i was taking a multivitamin... but my needs changed...

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>> well, listen to this. you know, sometimes people get so -- a long island university professor is claiming kids should not see or hear "rudolph the red nosed reindeer" movie, books or songs because it promotes bullying of others. what's next, santa promotes home invasion because he goes down the chimney? what's that? >> exactly right. that was the interview we had here on this show and many of you responded to that debate. >> right. >> you know, this obviously is not -- you're not looking at city hall in boca raton, florida, why? because we have a christmas tree live in our studio e and yesterday, the mayor down there in boca raton said after two years of media attention and

threats of lawsuit from religious groups that wanted more displays than just a christmas tree in their public places, boca raton is going to ban christmas trees and menorahs from their public spaces. >> they said they're tired of playing referee and they admit it's just a select few people that complained and complained and complained and complained and complained and complained. and this is what's happening now all across the country. it's the threat of lawsuits, folks. that's what it's all about. cities can't afford it. they don't want to put up with it. and now they're just admitted it. the problem is it's affecting not just christmas, now hanukkah loses out on it, too. now they'll have nothing. if you want your kids to see any display, get them out of the car this year. >> no festivus either, no pole. >> i got a pole in my house. >> the mayor says this, we do still conduct business on a daily basis. the disruption, frankly, was too much and that's when they're trying to get things done and

people were upset about the holidays. >> keep in mind, down in boca, they have this thing that they call sandborne square, it's a free speech area and in that particular area, they will be able to put up the festivus pole and anything they want. nevertheless, indoors it's a no. what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com or you could tweet us, let us know, we'll share your comments very shortly. >> all right. let's do some headlines for your friday. new details in the case of missing mom michelle parker. police releasing a new picture of parker found on her iphone. a dive team located the phone in a lake under a bridge. the lake not far from where parker's ex-fiance and prime suspect lives. parker's mother breaking down after hearing the news. >> it just breaks my heart that my daughter's cell phone is found. that means that there's something criminal.

it's something criminal. >> parker went missing november 17th. that was the same day she appeared on an episode of "the people's court" with her ex-fiance. >> for the first time since he disappeared five years ago, we are learning what may have happened to a retired f.b.i. agent. according to the associated press, bob levinson is being held hostage right now in iran. his family has received several videos from the kidnappers over the past year. they showed levinson begging the u.s. government to rescue him. but the family and the white house kept those under wraps and didn't want to complicate efforts to bring levinson home. now the efforts have stalled because of tense relations between the united states and iran. >> great. >> meanwhile, democratic congressman rick larson firing three of his staffers. he gave them the boot an hour after learning they were bashing him on twitter and bragging about drinking on the job. some of the tweets -- my co-worker just took a shot at

jack crouching behind my desk. we have given up on all things work related. great. another one, i'm pretty sure i couldn't pass a field sobriety test right now. looking forward to a day in the office. and finally, dear taxpayers, i hope you don't mind that i'm watching you tube clips of nirvana at my government job. thanks, you're the best. i think i can. >> all right. it's like something straight out of a movie. the owner of a jewelry store flipping a secret message to a fed ex man that she was about to be robbed. a guy walked into the store hinting he was going to rob the place. an hour later, he was still there and that's when a deliveryman drove up. >> she gave me the look when i handed her the scanner. her eyes were really jetting out at me like she was trying to communicate something. >> and communicate she did. she wrote the word help on the fed ex receipt. the driver noticeed it and immediately called the comes. they arrived in minutes and arrested the suspect. good team work there. speaking of team work, we've got

brian over in the sports area with our intern who is leaving us toy. >> very sad, aaron murray -- erin murray of fordham will be finishing in may. have you enjoyed your time here? >> absolutely. it's been absolutely amazing. hands-on experience and everybody is so nice here. >> you're not saying the crew was hands on. >> no. >> you were saying you were able to see -- >> very, very helpful, yes. >> here's what's going on in the world of sports. huge day in the nba but they haven't played yet. listen to this. go ahead. >> just after signing a new collective bargaining agreement, the nba has a new controversy on its hands. the league under fire after blocking a trade that would have sent chris paul to the lakers. paul thought he'd be going to l.a. in return for paul odom. the league that owns the hornets suddenly squashed that deal. some say they were under pressure from team owners to say the lakers were getting too many

good players. paul is reportedly fuming and there's word he might sue the nba. >> outrageous! >> they made him an offer he couldn't refuse. three time mvp albert pujols signing with the angels of anaheim. his contract is $254 million over 10 years, the second largest contract in history. pujols helped the st. louis cardinals win the world series in just six weeks. >> it's pujols and those are the exact numbers i signed for a contract here where i have two years remaining on the same deal. it's so ironic so the st. louis cardinals won the world series. not only that, you have more to say, erin. >> i do. now, to the trades that could be happening. the new york knicks reportedly on the verge of signing dallas mavericks tyson chandler. word is they offered him a four year deal with $58 million. it looks like the cubs will be

signing prince fielder, his first gig with a team other than the brewers. >> good job. c.j. wilson signed with the angels as well for just about $70 million and erin, good job and you went to a legendary school, fordham. what do you want to do when you're done? >> i want to be a news writer. >> you came to the right place. >> why don't you toss to steve and gretchen? >> back to you guys. >> thank you very much. >> very nice. >> thanks for all your hard work. bright and early in the morning. appreciate it. the justice department might have misled the information to fast & furious and might get away with it, too? how can that be legal? the judge coming up next to explain. >> just in time for your office christmas party, a pill and pass to promise to cure your hangover. you're going to get one. do they really work? our medical a tea pictured not there coming up next. i love the holidays.

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>> need some headlines? we got them for you. we now know it was human error that played a role in that deadly crash of airfrance flight 447. newly released transcripts show one of the pilots ignored an alarm that the airplane was stalling. the f.b.i. may have a break in the case of the geezer bandit. they say he dropped his dayplanner at the scene of a robbery last week. he's robbed 16 banks in southern california and now the cops have got a big clue. all right, gretch and brian, over to you and the judge. >> thank you very much. attorney general eric holder testifying on the fast & furious operation yesterday got grilled by members of congress. after holder insisted that neither he or his staff are to blame for the failed gun sting, one congressman threatened impeachment? >> the answers that you have given so far are basically saying well, gee, somebody else did it.

and, you know, there is really no responsibility within the justice department. you know, the thing is that if we don't get to the bottom of this and that requires your assistance on that, there is only one alternative that congress has. and it's called impeachment. >> so can the attorney general be impeached, judge napolitano? >> yes. >> host of "freedom watch" and the name of the book that you have out now "it's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." >> this is an example of that right here with the fast & furious calamity. yes, the attorney general can be impeached. the attorney general could be impeached for violating the law. and this attorney general is in some hot water because he acknowledged misleading the congress. he says it wasn't intentional. therefore, he says it wasn't a lie, they didn't put him under oath at the time. sometimes they know they forget to administer the oath. therefore, it isn't perjury. tell that to roger clemens. that's basically the same thing.

the justice department is prosecuting roger clemens for misleading the congress. this is more serious. he is the chief law enforcement officer of the land. this committee of congress is the committee to which he is obliged under the law to be responsive to. and his responses were inaccurate. >> but he wouldn't be impeached because the house is controlled by the republicans. but the senate is controlled by the democrats. >> unlikely that an impeachment would be successful. it's also unlikely that it would proceed. i would think the president would fire him. president does not want an impeachment in an election year. >> but the president has been clear that he stands behind eric holder. >> yes, they are long time friends. >> after you heard the testimony sterday, can he still say that? >> no, i think someone will have to, as they say, go under the bus. it might be eric holder. it might be lanny brewer. >> lanny brewer. >> it's an unusual situation, brian. it's me, i did it. >> he is one of the best trial

lawyers in washington, d.c. one of the best criminal defense lawyers in washington, d.c. a lot of us in the legal community were surprised when he took this leading role in the justice department. now it looks like he's the one that they'll have to fire even though he had nothing to do with this. >> right. i just -- i'm amazed at the level of people, how high people are and how they say they have no idea what's going on. everybody just acts oblivious, i didn't know. i didn't know. it's amazing they can get away with this and hold on to their jobs. >> if congress imposed on the justice department the same requirements that sarbane's oxley imposes on corporations, mr. holder would be gone. under the law, he would be responsible for what happened on his watch. >> isn't this endemic in the entire corporate culture that you always protect the person at the top? >> yes, so who is being protected? is it eric holder or barack obama? >> we'll leave it there. it's a thriller! it's a cliffhanger.

>> this is going to keep going on. this is going to go on until election day if some heads of the justice department doesn't roll first. >> he said some other people will fall victim to those guns. because he admits they're in mexico and they're out of control. they're with the drug cartel. >> and there are thousands of them out there. >> all right, judge, thanks so much. we'll be watching your show on the fox business network, of course. freedom watch. >> glenn beck and mike huckabee tonight. i wonder if i can get them to agree on flick. >> probably not. >> coming up on our show, eight years and 3,000 miles later, a runaway dog turns up clear across the country. this morning, we are reuniting the dog with their family for the first time live on "fox & friends." >> then just in time for the holidays, two ways to cure your hangover. but do they work? the fox medical a team is on deck. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower olesterol

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>> oh, if that feeling looks familiar, we have news for you. a hangover cure in a box. and in a patch. >> in fact, there are two now. the new bitox patch but are these products too good to be true? dr. marc siegel joins us right now. >> excuse me. >> a lot of people are going to christmas parties, holiday parties, new year's eve, they're hoping that this thing works, dr. siegel.

>> gretchen, i'm sorry but i'm going to have to burst a bubble on this one. first of all, what is a hangover? hangovers occur because you get very dehydrated. >> because you get really drunk. >> you get really drunk and people don't realize drinking liquid they're getting dried out because it's a diuretic. the first thing you have to do while you're drinking and in the morning, you have to drunk a lot of water. two fisted drinking. glass of alcohol in one hand and glass of water in the other. the products don't touch the idea of dehydration. the idea is there's inflamation in the body that comes from it. this bitox is just vitamins. it's a placebo effect. >> that could be good for you, right? >> sure. there's one study that shows taking a lot of vitamin b6 after you drink can help. this is just a placebo. not only that, you probably think i have a patch on, now i can drink. >> i'm protected. >> what about the blowfish? that is a pill you take and it's

essentially an ecedrin aspirin, a combination of caffeine and aspirin. >> you just burst the bubble on this one. listen, aspirin can actually help a hangover. you know what? alcohol irritates your stomach so you don't always want to take aspirin after you drink. and the caffeine, well, alcohol increases your heart rate. when you wake up with a hangover. you're nervous and your heart rate is up. you take the caffeine, it can go higher. you might have an underlying medical problem. you might have a heart condition and a reason you don't want to take the caffeine. i don't like caffeine-aspirin combination pills and calling them some fancy name and saying -- >> for $3. >> how -- if they don't work, according to a physician, how do they get away with marketing them, that they do? >> that's a really important question. it's really technically because the f.d.a. can go after you if it's a prescription drug. they're high on regulating prescription drugs. when it's an over-the-counter remedy, they can only go after it if it's proven dangerous.

this is not proven dangerous. it doesn't really work. it's in the middle ground. some people say the f.d.a. should have more power to go after over-the-counter remedies like this. >> it costs you, what, about $3. so people are going to take the plunge. >> i don't -- i mean, listen, i think water and some people can take aspirin. but, you know, some people can't and what i really don't like about this is it's hiding it. it doesn't say it's aspirin. it doesn't say it's caffeine. got to look on the label in the morning, can't even read the label. >> big bummer is brian is having his radio party this afternoon and i was really hoping i could take that. >> i was handing out blowfish right before and now i'm going -- >> here. >> grab bag gifts. >> put the patch over your mouth and you won't drink as much. >> i say two fisted drinking. water and alcohol. and no one can see you on the radio. they don't know what you're doing. >> that's very true. >> good to see you again. >> straight ahead, mitt romney's new ad highlighting his family values. is he taking a stab at newt gingrich who has been married three times? is that a good idea? would it work?

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>> tgif, everyone. it's friday and it's december 9th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for sharing your time with us today. let's take a look at brand new fox news polls. they show system for the republican presidential candidates and they show it's surging. how do they stack up to the commander in chief currently? we'll break it all down for you. >> accused of being soft on terror, president obama plays the card. >> ask usama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-qaida leaders who have been taken off the field whether i engage in appeasement. >> so, can he bring back the

bin laden bump before the election? >> meanwhile, their dog ran away from home eight years ago. that's right. eight years ago. but coming up right here on "fox & friends", we are going to reunite the family with their dog. their dog was just found 3,000 miles away. it is an incredible journey that dog has made and we're going to reunite the family with the dog right here on "fox & friends." hour two for friday starting right now. >> good morning, everyone. you can see over on the side we have our christmas tree up and decorated now. there's chris chulo, the one with the hand cam. >> ♪ it's beginning to look a lot like chulo ♪ >> you make it seem like we're stalking the tree, the way you're surrounding it and waltzing around it, it's one of those prelit jobs and it is

absolutely beautiful. and we can use it again next year. >> we also have a menorah and we'll tell you about a story out of florida that they can't any of that stuff anymore including the menorah. it's not just the war on christmas. war on hanukkah now, too? >> i think they lit the menorah last night at the white house, the president did. and he lit all the candles. >> all right. >> so we have to do some news headlines. we'll start with a tragic story out of virginia. a gunman opened fire at virginia tech five years after the massacre that left 33 people dead on that same campus. now police trying to figure out why. live for us on the virginia tech campus in blacksburg, virginia with more. what can you tell us, elizabeth? >> good morning, gretchen. the a.p. is reporting overnight ballistic testing shows that this same gun was used to kill both the policeman and the second person that was found dead on campus. we're also learning that dash cam video shows a manwaring clothing that seems to be the

same clothes found at a discarded backpack near the second body. but just like you said, what we don't know is the i.d. of the alleged gunman and also a motive. how and why and if he knows 39-year-old derek krause. he was a policeman found dead on campus, a retired army vet and a father of five. he joined the force just months after that deadly 2007 massacre. and what students tell us is that the initial shock waves yesterday were just as frightening. take a listen. >> as soon as i saw his face, i started crying because like i obviously knew it's not going to be good. and then when the other officers started yelling his name to try to get him to like wake up or gain consciousness, that's when it really hit me. >> last night, there was a vigil with about 150 students. there will also be a vigil tonight. final exams were supposed to begin today.

they will not begin until tomorrow. gretchen, back to you. >> elizabeth reporting for us from blacksburg, virginia, thanks very much. let's get to the other headlines. fox news alert. 34 nato trucks loaded with fuel and supplies for u.s. troops in afghanistan torched in pakistan. they were destroyed by a rocket attack at a trucking terminal. no reports of injuries. pakistan closed its borders refusing to let nato trucks three after an american air strike accidentally left 24 pakistani troops dead. texas governor rick perry and minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann, the latest republican presidential candidates to decline an invitation to donald trump's debate in iowa. so far, newt gingrich and rick santorum are the only candidates who have agreed to participate. the debate set for december 27th. social workers across the country making their thoughts known on the postal services planned cuts. >> our post office! our post office! >> this is video from the bronx where workers gathered outside the stadium post office. it's just one of 34 in the city

on the chopping blocks. the usps just announced possible cuts like eliminating half of the country's mail processing facilities. guess who's bringing that loving feeling back to the silver screen. >> ♪ you lost that loving feeling now it's gone, gone, gone ♪ ♪ whoa >> well, it seems tom cruise just couldn't fight his need for speed. the actor announcing he's working on a sequel to "top gun". you'll remember cruise starred as maverick in the 1986 blockbuster and he said he's wanted to reprise the role ever since. no word of when shooting will begin. he'll be in that role or would he be like the parent of somebody in that role now? i mean, 1986 to 1996, 2006, 25 years ago. >> do you think kelly mcgill is will still be in it? >> stay tuned. >> all right. >> really? >> what? >> nothing. >> you're having conversations -- >> i know what he said in your

ear! >> he leaned over and said something to me. but i don't really think she's going to be in it. >> let's talk politics, something more tame. the fox news elves have been calling on the polls and they asked a whole bunch of people who they like for president of the united states. let's take a look. amongst republican voters, who do you like? well, newt gingrich by over a third. mitt romney by about a quarter. paul at 12 and perry at 8 at this point. margin of error, as you can see is 3 and that's important when you look at how the top candidates on the republican side stand up against the president of the united states. >> and look at, you got the cain people who went to ron paul and newt gingrich. gingrich at 23% and now has 36%. so he doesn't budge. >> steady. >> stayed in those low 20's. yeah, very steady but has never really peeked above that. and many people argue that's because people out there in the voting world are looking for the

other candidate, the anti-mitt one. how will it all stack up if they were to go against president obama? it's very interesting because actually mitt romney then does better against president obama. this is all voters. president obama 44% and mitt romney 42%. now, how does he do against newt gingrich? president obama 46%. newt gingrich 40%. >> romney has got himself an argument. you might be better in the republican poll but i'm right now the more viable general election candidate and that's within the margin of error. >> who do people think will be the president of the united states win in 2012? well, 44% and keep in mind, this is republicans, democrats, independents, members of the bullmoose party and what not, the president of the united states comes out on top. obviously, he's going to be the democrats nominee. meanwhile, it's still a food fight on the republican side with gingrich and romney pretty much in -- exactly right. >> i was still stunned by that

number. i mean, even though you did the math for me, brian, 15%, 16%, that's still 31%, if you add them up together, i mean, maybe you need to add up all the republicans and what they would have received and then see what the number is against president obama but that's a staggering difference, surprising. >> that's perception of who will be -- >> by the way, steve, karl rove will be coming up in about a half-hour to expand on these polls. he also wrote an interesting "wall street journal" look at newt gingrich. >> just one other and there are a bunch of republicans who have worked with newt gingrich in the past and they've come out and they've bad mouthed him. it's interesting when you look at the poll of the number of congressional members who are endorsing the top candidates on the republican side, newt has got six so far who have come out and said yep, he's my man. he's got six. mitt romney has 50 so far. he's doing better in that derby. >> he is. but the interesting caveat to that, do endorsements matter and congress' approval level is below 13% right now.

does it matter the members of congress endorse somebody or the flip side, they speak negatively of them. we'll ask karl rove about that because, you know, i don't think too many people love their members of congress right now. maybe their own but not congress in general. let's talk a little bit about the president and the war on terror. and whether or not the republican candidate seems to think he has sort of an appeasement mentality when it comes to our foreign nation and our relationships. >> yeah. >> well, the president responded yesterday. >> yeah, he did. mitt romney came out and rick santorum came out and said his foreign policy makes us look weak essentially. when that president was posed to -- question was posed in his press conference, this seemed to be a line he cldn't wait to unload. listen. >> ask usama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-qaida leaders who have been taken off the field whether i engage in appeasement. or whoever is left out there, ask them about that. >> yeah, because that's been the president's approach is so far, when it comes to terrorists who

are wanted internationally, send up the drone. kill them if you can find them. been very effective. >> he's been very effective and used a lot of president bush's policies so i think that they don't really have an attack on the president with regard to the war on terror as far as getting rid of some of these high level terrorists. but in other countries they maybe have more to work with. the iran relationship. the israeli policies just to name two. >> he made -- mitt romney had made the initial comments at the republican jewish coalition and one of the lines that i think got under the president's skin aside from he's an appeaser is this president appears more generous to our enemies than he is to our friends, obviously, hit on what's going on with the palestinians and the israelis. >> yeah, from israel to britain to the canadians who are waiting to unload their pipeline, they're wondering who their friends are. >> uh-huh. >> at the top of this hour, we said we're going to tell you about a story out of florida. here it is. out of boca raton, florida.

i love this. this gets me into the christmas spirit especially on a friday. war on santa. >> guess what, it's a war on all holidays now. it's filtering over. not just christmas. now they're not going to have christmas trees or menorahs in boca raton because the city says look, we're tired of being the referee. there's a small group of people who continue to complain, complain, complain, complain and the threat of lawsuits might put us under so we're going to not have it anymore. nothing. >> here's what the mayor says. we do still conduct business on a daily basis. the disruption was frankly just too much. so what they've done is they've banned christmas trees and menorahs inside public places. they still do have something called sanborne square which is a free speech area where people can put up their trees, their mangers, their menorahs, celebrations regarding kwanzaa and everything else. we asked for e-mail and got plenty of them. gina said i'm so fed up with being p.c. why is the will of the few ruling the masses? >> shawn is in oregon and he

wrote this. if you and your children want to see christmas and hanukkah display, put one up in your own yard and living room. nobody is stopping you. >> at least not yet. wait for the town ordinance when you can't have it. the e-mail from t.c. hendricks, friends are welcome in palestine, texas, where we still say merry christmas and display christmas trees and manger scenes. i was actually thinking about that, when will it come to -- >> texas. >> the personal home situation might be around the corner. i left the lights up at my house. >> i can hear a knock at the door. excuse me, there's reports of a little drummer boy by your christmas tree. need to come with me. bring your own figurine. >> that's my son. >> doesn't matter. >> comes back to the drummer boy with you. never the three wisemen. always the drummer boy. >> i know we have a big panel. turns out there was a drummer boy. he just wasn't very good. >> oh, no! >> listen, from wisemen -- we got three wise people over there with the political panel. that's why they're giggling over there. they're going to be coming up with us straight ahead on this friday, plus a couple rushing to

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>> i wonder if he got in trouble for that. will that ad help mitt win over voters in the republican race? joining us is political reporter cheryl lee ralph. >> cheryl lee. >> cheryl lee. thanks very much. radio talk host and fox news contributor tammy bruce. good morning. >> good morning. >> editor in chief of bright part tv and blogger for big hollywood, larry o'connor. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> so in this commercial, cheryl lee, it talks about how he's been married for decades to the same woman and he's gone to the same church. is this a slam at newt gingrich who has been married three times and has been a member of three churches? >> i am absolutely amazed at the fact that a man who has been married to the same woman, raised the same kids and living a good life and this is like such a horrible, terrible thing! look at this man. come on, people, what are we talking about? the new american family values? oh, that's right. you got to be a kardashian. >> oh!

>> all right. tammy, what do you say? is it on newt? >> it is. but here's the issue. we know the divorce rate is over 50%. >> right. >> we have tried -- we've played always by the rules when it comes to the idea of a perfect candidate and look where it's gotten us. the fact is not only could it be slam at newt, when it comes to the average american, we're not looking for a perfect person in the white house, right? we're looking for somebody who can save the country. not perfect. and i think we're not really trusting this notion that look at me, i'm perfect. when in fact, that's not the -- we're not a country in trouble because newt gingrich has gotten married three times. we're a country in trouble because a man who has also been married to one woman who has a wonderful family and faithful to his wife, the first family has completely destroyed the country. >> i don't think he completely destroyed the country. >> the groundwork was laid. >> completely destroy -- >> yeah. >> tammy, this isn't -- i'm sorry, this is about politics!

you do not think that team axelrod is going to pour into all those divorce records. how do you think obama became senator in the first place? we are deciding who is the best person to run against obama and the best chances to beat obama. we have to calculate that. we don't know half of it. his baggage will have baggage after axelrod is done with him. >> new exit strategy in between marriages isn't very good when he leaned over -- >> that's a myth. >> sorry. >> that's a myth. >> that is a myth. >> what do you say? >> it didn't happen. you know better than anyone. >> ladies and gentlemen, attention! i'm still barely in control here. we've got one piece of poll data that is interesting and we're going to chew on that for a second. would you vote for a qualified presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair? 64% now say yes. 26% say no. 7% say well, it depends. sheryl lee? >> very interesting. that says a lot about us as people.

that means, you know what? if you cheat a little bit, maybe that makes you a better candidate for president. maybe we want a cheater. maybe we want a fighter. >> maybe we want honesty. >> or maybe ranging from most of our presidents, look, franklin delano roosevelt, john f. kennedy, we're willing to have some honesty now instead of men that are going to be lying to us. >> this puts me back on the herman cain train if that's the truth. you know what? actually, obama is so political that when he sees that poll, he's going to call up scarlet johansson and say honey, come on over. >> oh, my gosh! >> larry! whoa! we're going to have to take a quick time-out and i'll have to talk to the panel. they'll stick around and talk about this with chris christie on team romney, does he have a better chance at winning the nomination? will christie's popularity translate into some votes? we'll talk about that with this lively panel and after eight years and 3,000 miles, a missing dog turns up safe and sound. on the other side of the

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>> all right. some quick headlines now. the retired f.b.i. agent who vanished five years ago is being held hostage in iran. bob levinson's family released video of him pleading for the u.s. government to help secure his release. and the former chief of japan's fukushima nuclear plant stricken with cancer. doctors do not think it's related to exposure from the massive earthquake and tsunami last march. steve? >> all right. thank you very much, brian. new jersey governor chris christie out on the stump and campaigning for g.o.p. candidate mitt romney.

>> mr. president, we need a leader who will lead us to the moment. who will help define what the challenges of being in the moment means and not to be cautious and safe and sit back and wait for someone else to do the hard work but to get out of your chair and start doing the hard work yourself. >> sure. >> you're so angry, aren't you? you know what? we're used to dealing with jokers like this in new jersey all the time. >> all right. it is the state of many jokers. so is chris christie the energy that mitt romney needs to take back the g.o.p. lead? we continue the conversation with our political panel, larry you called that. >> that is battle star christie. romney's secret weapon. this is -- the turning point in this campaign will be the christie endorsement of romney. i really do believe that. he is everybody's favorite governor except actually some people in new jersey that i hear from. i love it. this is what we're yearning for. we want someone who can go out

there and speak to people. there have been a lot of discussion about how romney doesn't come across as real. he comes across as sort of a construct, if you will. there's nothing constructed about chris christie and you got to have people speak on your behalf. >> sure. isn't that really what happens? when the going gets tough, you have the surrogate get out the brass knuckles. >> well, look. this is a very different time. you know, everybody has fun with the christie bombast. at the same time, people want him to run for president. when they see him, they're reminded about who romney is not. at this point, americans want a president who doesn't need a wingman. you know, this is the time for a guy to be doing it himself. >> i come across as the romney guy here. we should switch places so i can be in the middle. >> i'm the independent. >> some of the -- here's another result from the fox news poll. if the republican nominee is -- would you be enthusiastic if the nominee is mitt romney. 28% of you say you would be enthusiastic. a little more than a third

sheryl say they would be enthusiastic if it's wt. >> they look at the two images. they look at mitt romney and they look at newt and they say to themselves, who can i say out there up against obama? who is the one that's going to take him on? >> they want a fight. >> they want a fighter out there and they want a fighter but my whole fear about this and trust me, this is y'all's fight, who is going to be electable? when i look at the two of them, no matter what the numbers look like, i say nobody is a frontrunner on that side. neither one of them is electable. >> what if mitt romney asked -- it's kind of like a print. i'm still running for president but i'll have chris christie do my debate. >> this whole thing is a problem. if you said 2008 would a young, black man who had only be a senator for a couple hundred days be electable as president, people would say no. electable in -- hell no. and who is electable is who the

american people decide who they want. there's this weird thing about electability which means are you liberal enough or who does the establishment want? those rules are being broken and i think the establishment shouldn't -- >> absolutely. >> two months ago, everybody would have said that newt is absolutely -- >> we'll be enthusiastic about the guy who says i'm running against barack obama for president. that's who we'll be enthusiastic about. doesn't matter who it is. >> this panel is enthusiastic. round of applause for the panel today. thank you very much. all right. all right. moving on on this friday, a husband and wife hurrying to get cancer treatment get hit with a speeding ticket on the way to the hospital. should the cop have shown some compassion? we're going to report and you're going to decide. a new editorial says the writing is on the wall. mitt romney is about to drop out of the race. we'll talk to karl rove about that straight ahead on this

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>> time for your shot of the morning, a little squirrel causing a big problem. take a look and a close look at the surveillance video because it only takes a picture every few seconds but you can clearly

see the squirrel making its -- making its way up the wall at the elementary school in northern florida. he gets all the way up to the top, to the fire alarm and sets it off. turns out the school was able to use this footage to avoid paying a fine for the false alarm. >> wow. >> good for them. >> so brian, you and i are toasty inside the studio. >> a little bit chilly but i know what you're saying. >> yeah, like you would complain about that. it's usually me. let's toss to where it's really chilly outside with steve. >> it's not really chilly. it's 40 so we're above freezing thank goodness but gretch, you're right. you still need some gloves today. in front of our world headquarters, we got some of the christmas trees up and the really white l.e.d. lights. they look really beautiful this season. the worker elves did a nice job and icicles, too. let's take a look at the map and see where it's raining and snowing and as you can see, along the eastern shores and ontario, great lakes, we have a

little bit of rain and lake effect snow down through the ohio valley as well. balance of the country for the most part is nice and dry. current temperatures, man, it's chilly in minneapolis, only 7 degrees there. we've got officially out at the airport, 37 degrees. here in new york city, 33 in raleigh. look at that in memphis right now. it's below freezing as in kansas city and chicago and boy, it's cold in rapid city. meanwhile, today's daytime highs look something like this. today in caribou, maine, 32 and it will be freezing there. 51 eventually in new york city. so maybe you new yorkers don't have to take your gloves to work today. almost 60 in raleigh and the northern plains very, very cold and the central plains chilly as well. down south, eastern third of the country, rather the southern third, 50's and 60's for the most part will be the rule. and that's a quick look at the fox travelcast from here in rockefeller center. a whole bunch of people, wave hello at all your people, people! all right, gretch, back into you and brian.

>> we're at 70 degrees as opposed to 41. i'll take it. new reports that a bomb has exploded inside a tax collection office in rome. police say one person was injured shortly after the package was delivered by the italian postal service. according to a local news agency, the buildings director was injured in the hand. we will bring you more information as it becomes available. >> now to the latest of the case in the missing mom, michelle parker. police releasing a new picture of parker found on her iphone. a dive team located the phone in a lake under a bridge. who gave them that lead? the lake is not far from where parker's ex-fiance and prime suspect dale smith jr. lives. parker's mother breaking down after hearing the news. >> it just breaks my heart that my daughter's cell phone was found because that means that there's something criminal. it's something criminal. >> parker went missing november 17th, the same day she appeared on an episode of "the people's court" with smith. >> next year, indycar racers

lnlt return to the las vegas track where two time indianapolis 500 winner dan wheldon lost his life recently. safety of the sport called into question after he was killed in a fiery 15 vehicle pile-up. its future at the las vegas motor speedway depends on what it learns from that investigation. it also has postponed in releasing its 2012 schedule while it figures out if the car should race on high banked ovals. >> routine traffic stop creating a lot of controversy. a man in georgia was driving his sick wife to the hospital. she has breast cancer and was having chest pains. that's when a police officer pulled the car over. he gave the couple a ticket and according to his wife, the officer told her to prove she's a cancer patient. >> i was dumfounded that anybody would ask me that. a kid who says they have something like that when they don't have it. >> it turns out the chest pains were due to blood clots in the

woman's lungs and she was hospitalized for five days afterwards. police are not budging on this one. standing by the officer saying proper procedures were followed. >> all right, meanwhile, let's bring in karl rove who joins us via the miracle of satellite technology. where are you today? >> i'm on the treasured coast of florida and as you can see, it's sunny here and we're not cold. we're not cold. >> all right. let's talk a little bit about "the wall street journal" that was a little cold when you talked about how newt gingrich while he may be surging in the polls, his organization is in disarray and in fact, you talked a little bit about a couple of states where he's -- he's not doing well, he's not going to be on the ballot. >> well, he's going to be -- he's not going to be on the ballot in missouri. now, look, my column caused some controversy which the gingrich campaign takes -- disagrees with. he failed to get on the ballot in missouri for a beauty contest, a primary in march.

and his campaign says well, we're not -- we deliberately decided not to compete there because it doesn't produce any delegates. well, the iowa caucuses don't produce any delegates either and he's participating there. if you're the frontrunner, remember rudy giuliani? i'm not going to participate until we get to florida. if you're the frontrunner, you're stuck participating everywhere and i thought it was a mistake for them not to attempt to get on the missouri ballot. i also said that they were -- that they did not get on the ohio ballot. now, they're going to eventually get on the ohio ballot. they took umbrage with this and said we filed a list of delegates and signatures. the secretary of state in ohio says two candidates fully complied with the current law and the gingrich campaign is not one of them. this again will be rendered mute because there's a new law in effect and they're going to reopen filing at that point. finally, i pointed out in new hampshire, he didn't file a full slate of delegates and alternates. the secretary of state said

file 24 delegates, 24 alternates. the gingrich campaign says look, there are only going -- their delegates are going to be cut in half. all we needed to file is 12. they haven't been cut in half yet and the secretary of state instructed them to file 24 of each. they filed 14 delegates and 13 alternates. they could have come up with eight more names for delegates and nine more names for alternates. his organization is struggling to catch up with where he is in the polls. that's the main point. >> right. so karl, the whole thing is if they put you into the campaign where a guy is nowhere and now he's everywhere. if i put you there with your experience, how long would it take you, do you think, to ramp up and get the presence in all these states? >> well, it depends on the amount of preparation. what i think is if somebody was not in charge of saying, look, what do we need to do? what are these timelines and let's get ahead of them. there's a couple more timelines where they'll have to collect in one state, it's due in two days,

i think it is, they have to collect nearly 11,000 qualified signatures which means they probably need to have 16,000, 17,000 signatures in order to qualify and we'll see if that happens. >> all right. right now, there's an op ed out there that says that for a former member of congress, actually, who says that romney maybe out in six weeks of this race. a former republican out of new york says the bottom will drop out of romney's remaining system in the granite state as newt surges there meaning new hampshire. then a few weeks later, newt wins new hampshire. the polls have newt crushing mitt in south carolina and florida will reflect the end of romney and romney's remaining support will sink like a stone. your comment? >> interesting thesis and we'll see if it's borne out. it depends on five things happening. one, that newt wins iowa which today, he leads in the polls by about 12. he's likely to win iowa which is only 25 days away but the question then will be expectations. how big is his win? is it close to what he got in the polls and if it's not,

people will start to say he's not performing as well as he said. the second thing is, is it assumes that iowa affects new hampshire. if you win iowa, you win new hampshire. that hasn't happened in an open race for the presidency in history. iowa does its thing. new hampshire does its thing. now, it also assumes that south carolina is not affected by whoever wins new hampshire and i've had experience with this. we were leading in 2000 in south carolina before the new hampshire primary and after bush was upset in new hampshire by mccain, mccain took the lead in south carolina by six points in a matter of days. a finally, it assumes that florida, that newt just wins florida. this is a big, expensive state. and one advantage that romney does have over gingrich is he's got resources. he's going to have 10, you know, probably 10 or 12 or 15 million more in his campaign war chest to spend than does gingrich. and his super pac, it's rumored to have over $30 million in its account. and as a result, they're going so have a lot of money to spend

and florida will be affected by television ads and spending. >> no kidding. big question is are people impacted by endorsements from their lawmakers. right now, when you look at that, you know, members of congress who have worked with newt gingrich, we're talking this morning about he's had some core endorsements like tom coburn saying newt gingrich is the last person i'd vote for as president of the united states. >> congressman peter king as well, does that matter? >> well, it only matters to the extent that it affects the people who follow them and that it gives, you know, credibility to an underlying concern about speaker gingrich. i think outside of the georgia delegation, speaker gingrich was from georgia, i think there's only one sitting member of congress to endorse him from outside the georgia delegation so this is a problem for him. >> mitt romney has 55 endorsements. >> karl, does it matter because look at congress' approval rating. 80% of americans disapprove of congress. only 12% approve. so are people listening right now to members of congress when

they don't really like them? >> well, you're talking about a general election environment. you got to look at this in a slightly different frame. these are republican members of congress endorsing in a republican primary and it does have some marginal advantage particularly if the member of congress puts his shoulder on the wheel and goes out and works on behalf of the candidate. if they're in an early state. would you rather have the endorsement of an iowa republican congressman or south carolina republican congressman or not? the answer is of course you'd like to have their endorsement. >> all right. very good. we've got -- we endorse you and we thank you very much for joining us once again. twice in one week. nice! >> and i got to tell you, i got to tell you, i was hoping i would get an invitation to replace kilmeade during the day he was gone and instead, i was another bump on the couch. i mean -- >> wow! >> that breakthrough. >> you needed to get down to florida to work on your tan. get out the sunscreen. >> the problem was -- >> hey, wait a minute, gretchen.

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their beloved dog petunia. despite searching for weeks, there was no sign of her and thought she was gone for good. just last week after an unexpected phone call, they are getting an early christmas gift and joining me right now is john, kristin and elaine. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> tell me the story of petunia. >> we had her, she was 3 1/2 when she disappeared off of our farm. and she sleeps inside with the other two dogs and that morning, i let them all out for breakfast and to do their morning stroll and she never showed up for breakfast. and so we started searching and then days turned into weeks and then the acceptance starts kicking in that she's not coming back. >> i can still see the emotion in your -- she's tearing up. so were you hopeful for all this time that somebody would eventually call you and say we have your dog? >> after a while, you lose hope

but then it springs back up especially right here before the christmas holidays, this little girl here is excited. >> you were just a baby, right? you have no memories of petunia. >> no. >> did you ever see pictures? >> we never took pictures of her. >> oh! i bet you're going to take pictures now! >> yeah. >> so you get a phone call. what did the person on the other end of the line say? >> it was our local vet clinic and she said she had been contacted by the manufacturer of the microchips and said that petunia had been located. she had been scanned at an animal shelter and i asked where. and she said you're not going to believe this, but sacramento, california. and -- >> did you believe her? >> well, i believed her because it's my local vet clinic so i believe the source. but the whole concept of believing that she's alive when we have learned to accept that she was probably not alive, it's

-- it's mind boggling. everything stops. >> john, how do you make sense of the fact that eight years have gone by and your dog is found 3,000 miles away? >> i don't know. i think it's -- maybe we're just lucky to have the dog back. gosh, how do you make sense of it? i don't know. the microchips, the kind people in california that took the extra effort to locate us. that's the only way i can make sense of it. >> so there is a woman in california who saw petunia, the dog came up to her and she had the kind spirit to realize no collar and she figured out maybe this dog is missing. you're about to meet that woman. >> oh, lord. >> and you're about to see petunia for the first time in eight years. >> oh, boy. >> the big moment right when we come back. the dog is outside of our

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>> the answer to the question of the day, kirk douglas. he's 95 today, i think. winner is bob in delaware. well, we're back now with the pruitt family. it's been eight years since they've seen their dog petunia and in just moments, the family will finally reunite with her and the woman who found her. so you're waiting now, you're so emotional and i know after eight

years, people love, love their pets, right? >> uh-huh. >> so it's the time that we've been waiting for. meg eddy is the woman who found petunia way in california, 3,000 miles away from her home in virginia. eight years later, and thanks to the microchip, they were able to locate and here she comes. >> come on up. >> good morning to you. >> go! >> oh! >> hi, petunia. come on. come on. >> here we go. >> baby girl. >> you remember us? >> hi, sweetie. >> she's wagging her tail. >> hey, baby girl! >> hey. >> she's on california time right now. >> yes. yes. >> meg, how did you find petunia? what happened? >> well, i was just out training my dogs and i'm from

oregon and i was out in california. and she happened upon me. >> and she had no tags on her. >> no tags. no collar. a little hungry. a little thirsty. and she just -- she found me, i didn't find her. >> now miraculously or good thing she had a chip in her. >> yes, she had a microchip, thank goodness. >> do you think, all of you, that she was cared for during this eight years? >> my guess is that she probably was. she's a very gregarious dog and she likes people and gets along with people. even strangers. she -- so i suspect she was. >> kristin, your reaction? >> i just -- i can't believe after all these years she's alive. when you believe somebody is dead and they come back, what can you say? >> early christmas in your family. >> she really is. >> this is the first time that you're able to meet the dog.

you were just a baby. do you think she's going to be a great part of your home again? >> yes. >> she's going to fit right in with all the other pets? and alpacas for that matter. >> she snores, yes, she snores louder than me. >> yes. >> baby doll. >> what are you doing? >> i think she's -- she's just a very well behaved, very sweet natured dog. she really is an ambassador to the breed. she is a doll. >> now, as a dog trainer and somebody who knows animals very well, do you think that she will just go right back to her environment? >> absolutely. >> she will acclimate so easy. she adjusts well. she deals with -- goodness, she had a big plane ride, elevators, the sky rises, she's seen it all already and she's -- she just handled it very well. >> she's going home with the pruitt family and we couldn't ask for a better christmas

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so i can breathe. happily ever after. another story? from him! [ mucus ] advil congestion relief. the right relief for the real problem. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is friday, tgif. it's december 9. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing your time with us today. a fox news alert. explosion in the holy city of rome being treated as an act of terrorism. we have a live update seconds away. >> steve: meanwhile, a college lecture's comments sparks a nationwide outrage. he said, soldiers get paid, so why should they get christmas care packages? ba humbug. geraldo rivera weighs in on this in a couple of minutes. >> brian: talk about sibling rivalry. you're about to meet these three rockettes. they're sisters and reportedly all limber. "fox & friends" starts right now

>> it's "fox & friends." >> gretchen: welcome. you know what else the rockettes have to be? tall. >> brian: they do. >> gretchen: 5' 6 1/2 to 5' 10 1/2, i believe. >> steve: according to you, limber. the triple threat will be joining us in this hour of "fox & friends". >> brian: you know what the rockette december on christmas? the christmas show. >> steve: they're busy through january. >> brian: finally rockettes that look alike. >> steve: we got one hour to go and start with a news alert. >> gretchen: bombing in rome. one person, the company's director, was injured when he opened the letter packed with explosives, his injuries are minor. just small burns to his hands andyes. investigators aren't sure if this bomb was connected to another parcel bomb sent to the ceo of deutsche bank earlier

this week in germane. group claims it sent three bombs out, an announcement that had u.s. banks on high alert. in 2003, they claimed responsibility for a letter bomb sent to the european central bank in frankfort. another fox news alert. 4 nato trucks loaded with fuel and supplies for u.s. troops in afghanistan torched in pakistan. they were destroyed by a rocket attack at a nato trucking terminal. there are no reports of injuries. students at virginia tech holding a candlelight vigil after another deadly shooting five years after the massacre on campus that left 33 people dead. police officer derek cruise was gunned down while making a routine traffic stop. he was an army vet and the father of five. the shooter reportedly ambushed cruz before turning the gun on himself. his identity and motive unknown at this time. it took just six minutes after the shooting to alert students what was happening. remember back in 2007 the response time was two hours.

texas governor rick perry and now minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann, the latest republican presidential candidates to decline an invitation to donald trump's debate. it's set for december 27. >> brian: i have no idea why she wouldn't do that? why wouldn't she too that? i can understand governor perry. >> steve: last chance before the iowa caucuses to break out of the pack. >> gretchen: she was on the show the other day and she was skeptical of trump running as an independent and worried that would be a conflict of interest. >> brian: right. okay. president obama says getting the american people back to work is his top priority, not campaigning. his actions might be speaking louder than words. >> steve: peter doocy has more. >> president obama raised $150 million for his reelection campaign and the dnc. it was on wednesday that he attended a 35,000, $800 per plate dinner here in washington.

one day after that dinner yesterday, he told a visiting affiliate reporter in town from indiana that campaigning is not on the top of his to do list. he said, quote, my priority is right now putting people back to work. there is going to be plenty of time for campaigning. i don't know who the republican candidate is going to be, so we'll make a whole bunch of political decisions well into next year, much closer to the election. you might not know who their presidential nominee will be, but it does look like president obama has repubcan leaders from congress on his radar, blasting them yesterday just before the senate blocked two bills that would have each extended the payroll tax cut. >> so when i hear the speaker or the senate republican leader wanting to dicker, wanting to see what can they extract from us in order to get this done, my response to them is, just do the

right thing. focus on the american people. focus on the economy right now. >> since the senate failed, the house is expected to come out with their own version of a payroll tax cut extension at some point today that would include some support for building the keystone oil pipeline sooner rather than later and that is something that's expected to sweeten the deal for many republicans in the house. >> the keystone pipeline project will create tens of thousands of jobs immediately. it has bipartisan support in the house and senate. pretty clear that the president decided to push this decision off for a year conveniently until after his next election. >> the president has no public events on his schedule today, but we are expect to go hear from jay carney at 1:30 at the briefing room across the lawn. back to you guys. >> steve: thanks for the live report from the north lawn of the white house. >> brian: five minutes after the top of the hour.

it's my privilege to bring in geraldo rivera. >> you must be so proud. you never hardly reference it and i just look at the two of you together and i feel proud for you. >> steve: i'm before. he's after. >> brian: you missed the big story. >> i did. his shirt is brooks brothers. >> brian: look at that. >> gretchen: i'm interested in your reaction to the classification by this administration about the fort hood shooting and the idea that they're now going to explain this as work-place violence as opposed to what most americans think it was, which was an act of terror. >> it was clearly an act of terror. 13 dead. at first i resisted the classification as islamic terrorism because although the guy was a muslim, there were no known connections to the

radicals abroad. but then we came up with the communications between hasan, the shooter and al-awlaki, the american killed by our drone strikes in yemen. so it was clearly an act of islamic terrorism. it's funny, i said they can't be classifying this as workplace violence, which is like steve and i rough housing or having a fistfight. but i went to the original report by the department of defense that was referenced by susan collins at the senate hearings and from january 2010 and you get to the point on poor security and here is the quote. our commanders must be attune to behavioral indicators that signal when individuals may commit violent acts or become radicalized. there is no mention -- not one word of islam, islamic, you know, muslim -- >> steve: you think it was scrubbed clean? >> from this, you don't know what the -- >> gretchen: who wrote that?

>> the department of defense. it's signed the independent review related. it's addressed to the secretary of defense, dr. bob gates. >> brian: how could they do that and not be embarrassed? >> gretchen likes to talk of political correctness. i tend to resist that characterization. but it seems that in this case, what is it if it's not that? i don't understand how they avoid reality by talking around it and i think shame on them. they should be specific. >> brian: you could say war is workplace violence because the soldiers are doing their job and getting shot at by the enemy. it's workplace violence. >> i only point one of the worst records of violence was the american sergeant who killed five of his colleagues in camp victory back in iraq. that could perhaps have been called workplace violence. but clearly here you had a motivation and incentive and the catalyst was an affiliation and

association and identification with muslim radicals. >> brian: didn't he say allah akbar? >> he did. but this is a great big report and the word islamic or, you know, not mentioned. >> brian: it's an embarrassment. >> gretchen: something else is this holiday package and i don't know how it can be gaining steam because we first heard of a professor on the east coast. now this is a different one. a trend that they're against sending holiday packages, christmas packages, hanukkah packages to our troops because don't they get a salary anyway? so they don't need our dough. >> steve: here is what walker said. doesn't the united states army, don't their families send you'll tide goody as soon as aren't they paid enough to buy what they need and want? necessities should be doled out to people who really need them. the has since been a fire storm. >> yeah. when walker said that, the lecturer at ohio state, he

intended perhaps to make his displeasure known about misplaced national priority. that was his goal. but his execution, the way he said that is an attack on g.i.s and an attack on the compassion of the american people who are recognizing the fact that these young people are separated from their families, they're half a world away and he's really grinch-like if not downright unpatriotic. i think it's one thing to make a point about displaced national priorities if that's what you believe. but in this case, what he's doing is really attacking something that goes to the core of american general rossity and compassion at the holiday season. >> gretchen: it has nothing to do with money. to say that, don't they get a salary? that's not the point here, geraldo. it's the.that they receive a heartfelt card that cost nothing from a child in first grade whose class decides to send a care package. >> yes, we have a superbly

equipped armed force. but they are lonesome young people. i'm telling you, i've seen them so often open these packages and they take out and it's wipes to clean their hands that they don't have much of, or cookies or a little note from the fifth grade in some class in iowa or someplace else and it really has a disproportionately positive effect. >> steve: it's like they opened up and found a cookie. >> brian: we could not get this guy to come on with us, but we do have a suggestion, if you are motivated by this story and want to have your -- vent your feelings, write to thomas walker. 206 ross hall, aims, iowa, 50011. you can also call him. his information is on the screen >> gretchen: this will be on the blogs all day.

i called geraldo. >> steve: thank you very much. have a fantastic weekend. >> i'll be back. >> steve: he's at large. straight ahead, the justice department may have misled the investigation into fast and furious. so can eric holder be charged with perjury? legal analyst peter johnson, jr. says no. >> gretchen: these three siblings are getting ready for their big debut. meet the three rockettes who are also sisters! straight ahead. geraldo, you're not going anywhere. drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8.

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>> brian: thousands of guns are missing and a border agent is done, yet no answers to who approved the fast and furious operation and why lawmakers were misled. >> nobody in the justice

department has lied. >> why was the letter withdrawn? >> because the information in there that was inaccurate. the justice department letter of february -- >> tell me what's the difference between lying and misleading congress in this context. >> well, you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the wreckless intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie. >> brian: so can eric holder be charged with perjury? what kind of state of mind was he in? let's ask peter johnson, jr. what was he talking about? >> what he's saying is if there is proof or evidence that he was making an inaccurate statement intentionally, that he was going out of his way to say something that he knew to be false in order to mislead, then, of course, he could be charged with lying to congress and/or perjury. so what he's saying, the difference is i was given inaccurate information and now the information has been

corrected. i may have misled congress, but i misled congress in an unintentional way. by my negligence or the negligent of my staff in not giving me the appropriate information. what they've done is dump on the u.s. attorney, who they kicked out of office, he's become the fall guy. others have become the fall guy. the questions are, will other people fall in the united states department of justice as a result of the testimony that attorney general has gotten so much heat on and been accused by some in the congress of lying. >> brian: yesterday you -- you've seen a lot of hearings, so how did he do? >> he kind of -- he's not offensive in a lot of ways and he kind of ambles through it and sometimes mumbles through it. the thing that i found to be kind of disturbing is the fact that he says he has not -- has not and he testified yesterday -- discussed this with the president. so now we have an atf agent dead. he admits yesterday that there

will be crimes going on for years, and consequently, deaths and injuries as a result of these guns that were brought across the border and back into the united states. i find it incredible, in fact, he has not discussed this with the president. so on one hand he says, no, i wasn't oblivious to this. i'm a hands on leader. i'm ultimately responsible. but at the same time, he says oh, all these other folks got it wrong and the letters we sent and my testimony that i gave was not a lie. i just happened to be wrong. >> brian: it just looks bad for the administration and still be involved in this. >> it's rank imcompetence. what do we do going forward? what do we do with the guns? what is the plan? we need to know now. >> brian: peter johnson, jr., thanks. have a great weekend. >> great to see you. >> brian: fast and furious, we'll be talk being it again. >> unfortunately in bad ways. >> brian: right. meanwhile, 11 minutes before the bottom of the hour. aigh stakes robbery foiled by the fed-ex man. wait until you hear what happened.

it's like something out of a movie. then is it three's company or the more the merrier? we're about to ask these three rockettes in a hard hitting interview. one of those people are not like the other

>> steve: some "fox & friends" headlines. u.s. officials confirm thathat plane shown on the iranian television is an american drone that went down. iran draped it with banners that said, we have trampled on america. iran is now trying to reverse engineer the drone to figure out how it ticks. good luck. a federal judge has serious concerns about the gunman who tried to kill president ronald

reagan. doctors for john hinckley, junior say he should be released from a psych ward so he can take care of his mom. the judge says the decision will be his and not theirs. gretch? >> gretchen: looking forward to this. in order to qualify to be a world famous radio city rockette, ladies must be between 5' 6 and 5' 10. my hopes have been dashed, ladies. they have to be proficient in jazz, tap and ballet and be able to kick their legs sky high. another reason why i would never be one. what are the chances of three sisters actually making the show? our next guests defied the odd, the three sisters are here. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: two of are you twins and the way they have it described for me is the order will be kristen, lisa, allison, but i believe it's not that order s? >> i'm kristen. >> gretchen: it is kristen. because you might not be able to tell with the two of you together. all right. so kristen, you were the first one in the family to say, i want to be a rockette. why? >> well, i had grown up dancing. we had all taken dancing

seriously throughout our years growing up and when i found out about the rockettes -- we're from canada. we don't see the rockettes perform that often except on tv. but when i found out that i would have the opportunity to audition, it was just like a dream come true. i wasn't the most prepared for the audition, but it ended up working out. >> gretchen: it's so wonderful because the show i unbelievable. if you're traveling to new york, you should definitely see this around the christmas season. and when i saw it thanksgiving day, i was wondering, how many times they come back. you've been doing it how many years? >> seventh season. >> gretchen: the other two decided you would follow in her foot steps. how did it happen? >> as soon as i saw kristen performing with the rockettes her first season, i knew that was something that i wanted to do and it took me a couple of tries. i auditioned three times before i was cast. and finally it worked out for me last season and this is my second year and i've enjoyed every second of it.

>> gretchen: allison, you are the younger sister from the twins. what did your dad say when you said, hey, me, too? >> he thought oh, boy. no, when he found out that all of us had been cast in the show, he was extremely excited and same with our mom, very proud of us. >> gretchen: what is the regiment? so many people are enamored with how you do the leg kicks and you seem to be in such great shape. when you audition, do you have to do those kicks? what happens? >> audition process is very tedious. we come in and -- well, first of all, there are hundreds of ladies lined up around radio city to get into the audition and the first thing is you get measured and you learn several different tap and jazz combinations and at the very end of the audition day -- at the end of the call back actually is when they teach you the kick combination, so you're really exhausted and that's when they ask you to perform the high kicks. >> gretchen: how many shows per day do you do? >> we can perform up to five shows a day.

>> gretchen: wow. five shows a day. but there are actually two different teams of rockettes, right? >> yes. >> gretchen: how is it that work? >> there is two casts of rockettes. we call them the blue and gold cast. and kristen and i are in the followed cast and i'm in the blue cast. so we split the shows because each week there is about 32 shows at radio city. so we split the shows. >> gretchen: does it ever get monotonous? >> i love every minute of it. i don't think that you can walk on to that stage and strike up your first pose and not enjoy the feeling of being there. >> gretchen: a lot of other women and probably men are thinking issues wow. do they ever have to do any other workouts because they're up there getting all that exercise. do you work out op the side? >> not during the christmas season so much. we like to take dance class and work out, do pilates, yoga. but during the christmas spectacular -- in the show we have eight costume changes.

it's very, very strenuous and that's our top priority is making sure we have enough energy to get through the show. >> gretchen: it's an amazing show and it's so nice to have a family affair over at the rockettes today. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up on the show, a former f.b.i. agent missing for more than five years now we're finding out, you know where he is? being held hostage in iran. the brand-new details coming up next. then, have you seen this ad? it paints mitt romney as a family man. but it is also a back handed attack on newt gingrich who has been married three times. is it, in your mind, that? chris wallace weighs in from washington i take an omega for my heart.

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so i brought a stuffed animal. >> steve: were you using the teleprompter? >> brian: yeah. >> gretchen: very presidential. >> brian: i feel like i could rule the country. caesar milan was there and david wick was there, and he adopted another dog there on the spot. >> steve: no kidding? >> gretchen: did he whisper to you. >> brian: he didn't need to whisper. but there was one funny moment when he was on stage and david was on stage and the dog was acting up. caesar milan from his seat jumps on stage and g i got it. touches the dog's leash and the dog just settles down. it's like he's magical. >> steve: from the dog whisperer, i'm talking about chris wallace. >> gretchen: are we on the golf course? >> i was going to say t sounded like we were on the 18th green. you look ridiculous there. you couldn't just read the speech, brian? you had to read it from the paddles like that, the teleprompter? >> brian: in the industry that i chose to make a living, at certain times when you are asked

to emcee, they want things read specific. so they had the teleprompter there. i didn't know there was going to be such an issue being that you covered so many white houses before and have covered president obama before. >> well, anyway, listen, gretchen, have you gotten your money from our bet last week from brian, 'cause i have not yet? >> gretchen: i knew you were going there, but i don't know if you can be my friend because i kind of got brian off the hook. >> no, no. i don't want to hear this story of the picture. the game was lost, they lost. that's all that counts. listen, if gretchen doesn't want her ten dollars, send it to me as well. >> brian: i'm going ogive you gretchen's ten if that's what you want to do. but i predicted the giants. heavy underdogs would beat the green bay packers and when the game was tied with 58 seconds left, i quickly wrote chris wallace and essentially bragged and guaranteed victory. little did i know 58 seconds later, the giants would lose. but later we would find out that the tight end of the giants

catch was inbounds, which would have forced overtime and therefore the giants would have definitely won. >> gretchen: it sounds like a political matchup this which is going on between mitt romney and newt gingrich, the gloves -- kind of coming off, at least from the romney point of view. what do you make of it? >> well, he's behind, that's what candidates do when they're behind and they're running for president of the united states. i don't think there is anything wrong with it. the only question, is it going to work or not? but you're right. he has this ad that i know you've been talk being in which romney talks about -- doesn't mention ne, but talks about the fact that he's been married to the same woman for 42 years and he makes commitments and if people want to contrast that to newt gingrich, obviously that's fully intended by the romney campaign. he's also had his surrogates go after gingrich hard and again, it's fair game. they're running for president. >> brian: how long, chris, can newt gingrich stick by the mantra of, i will not attack, i will not attack my opponents?

>> i don't think he's got it in him and i'm not sure it's necessarily the right thing. i understand there is a history in iowa. i think it was in 2004, dean and gephardt went after each other very hard. kerry sort of stayed above the fray and he ended up winning. so it can end up being a mistake to go after each other, particularly in iowa where they don't like rough politics. for example, when we had the fox debate, clearly some on the stage for the last time before iowa will want to go after gingrich at least and it will be interesting to see whether he says, that's fine, let them say what they want. i don't think so. >> steve: if somebody wants to make a final blaze of glory, they got to do it then or forever hold their peace. chris, regarding the family man ad called leader where he talks about how mitt romney is so steady, fox news asked this question: would you vote for a qualified presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair?

64% said yes. about a quarter said no. 7% said depends. what does that say regarding -- and there have been some surrogates out who have said, you know, newt gingrich has been married three times and that says a lot about his character. >> well, some people will read that and say america doesn't care. i look at the 26% and say that that's -- what you really want to look at t doesn't mean that therefore they're going to vote for newt gingrich. but the 26% means they won't if they're going to follow up on what they said in the polls. so those are just votes not available. i don't think that's particularly good news for newt gingrich 'cause it means that slice of the pie is not available. >> brian: on the 18th, you're going to sit down with mitt romney, his first national fox morning network show interview. that will be great. but this weekend will be big, too. >> this weekend it will be big. next weekend, i think this is partially a response to the fact that gingrich soared past him in the polls. romney is going to do his first

sunday talk show in almost two years. this sunday we're going to have rick perry and what a strange, wild adventure it's been for him. the fact is when he got in the race in august, he was up in the polls. he was the front runner. obviously did poorly in the debates and has dropped down into single digits. but he is making, as they say in texas, hold em, he is all in in iowa. he's spending millions of dollars in tv commercials there, especially emphasizing his faith, reaching out to the evangelicals when make up more than half of the republican voters there. >> gretchen: in a big way. reached out to them. remember, he raised $15 million in like a split second when he first came into the race and he was at the top of the heap. so he has a lot of that dough to spend and he's pretty much going o maybe spend most of it there because it might be his last fighting chance. >> brian: it's like from you that soup book. >> steve: that was his wife's book. >> gretchen: which by the way, i use on a weekly basis, chris.

>> listen, and let me also tell you, ignoring the preceding, we're going to have mitch mcconnell on and he's one of the key players in whether or not the payroll tax cut is going to be extended and unemployment benefit noose the new year. we'll see if they'll arrive at a compromise and will it involve the keystone pipeline. >> steve: it's going to be a really big show. we'll be tube side this sunday for fox news sunday. thank you very much. have a fantastic weekend. don't make any more bets. >> brian: right. i will mail you your check. >> i'm winning. i'm playing with brian's money. >> steve: you sounded like charlie sheen. winning. >> that is if he ever pays up. >> gretchen: i'll get it from him, chris and then get it to you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> gretchen: let's get a look at some of your headlines for friday. the latest in the case of the missing florida mom, michelle parker. police are release ago new picture of parker found on her iphone, a dive team located the phone in a lake under a bridge. the lake not far from where parker's ex fiance and prime suspect dale smith, junior lives. parker's mother breaking down after hearing that news.

>> it breaks my heart that my daughter's cell phone was found because that means there is something criminal. it's something criminal. >> gretchen: parker went missing november 17. that was the same day she appeared on an episode of "the people's court" wh her ex fiance, dale smith, junior. >> steve: for the first time since he disappeared five long years ago, we are now learning what may have happened to a retired f.b.i. agent. according to the ap, associated press, bob pleasantson is being held hostage in iran. his family received several videos from the kidnappers over the past year. they showed levinson begging the u.s. government to help rescue him. the family and the white house kept those under wraps. they didn't want to complicate the efforts to bring him home. but now those efforts are stalled because of the tense relations between the united states and iran. >> brian: it's like something straight out of a movie. the owner of a jewelry store is slip ago secret message to the fed-ex man that she was about to be robbed.

a man walked into the store acting strange, hinting he was going to rob the place. a half hour later, he was still there and that's when a delivery man drove up. >> she dave me a kind of look when i handed her the scanner, like her eyes were really jetting out. like she was trying to communicate something to me. >> brian: and she did communicate. she wrote the word, help, on the fed-ex receipt. the driver noticed it when he got back to the truck. he immediately called the cops. they arrived in minutes and arrested the suspect. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, let's look at the day ahead on this friday and you can see we got a little lingering snow and rainstorm moving through portions of indiana, ohio and illinois moving to the northeast. the rest of the country pretty nice and crime meanwhile, it's cold outside. it's only 7 right now in minneapolis. it's 28 in kansas city. 20s and 30s across much of the central plains, through the lower mississippi valley right now in memphis, tennessee, 29.

meanwhile, temperatures in the 30s all the way from big northeastern corridor cities right through new orleans. right now in the big easy, 37. temperatures close to 60 in portions of florida. but that will climb up into the 70s later on today. daytime high in memphis, eventually 51 there in that city along the mississippi river. that's. >> gretchen: there is a lot of noise in the studio. >> brian: there really is. we have to soundproof this place. it's coming from the outside. >> gretchen: we're going to see the noise people in just a moment. coming up after this tease a democratic congressman says it's not the protesters. it's the police causing trouble in occupy events. now he wants the feds to investigate. is that just a political move? we will report and you can decide. >> steve: don't forget your best friend this christmas. perfect pet gifts for your other loved ones coming up. >> gretchen: here are the noisy

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investigate allegations of police misconduct in the treatment of occupy wall street protesters. in particular what happened right there. new york democrat jerry claims recordings and videotape at the scene of the rallies warrants a probe into accusations that the new york police department used excessive force against the demonstrators. is that possible? let's talk to judge jeanine, the host of ""justice." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: you buy that? >> well, i certainly tonight think it's something to make a federal case out of. what you've got is organized chaos at zuccotti park. there's a court order. the mayor makes a decision after two months that he's going to move these guys out, and now they're saying hey, look, you violated our civil rights and our first amendment right to peaceably assemble and to voice our frustration. >> steve: is it true? >> no! it's not true at all! so this is what happens. they tell them you have to leave. they ask them to leave and then

they require them to leave. they're breaking through some of the police barricades. they don't want to leave and one of the complaints that he makes has to do with the brooklyn bridge. what the mayor said in response is, look, you can walk across the brooklyn bridge like everybody else. thousands of new yorkers do it every day, but you can't block traffic. just because you want to protest doesn't mean that you can block traffic. we've got kids going to school. we've got women who are naked. people defacating on the street, on cop cars. businesses trying to survive and these people are convinced that the nypd is trying to violate their first amendment rights. that's hogwash. and by the way, i was in washington yesterday. i sat behind eric holder in the fast and furious hearings. the last thing this guy needs is another investigation. he still can't figure out how 2,000 guns got across the border. >> steve: one of the other allegations from nadler was some sort of illegal surveillance of these people. people were in a public park

essentially breaking the law. so if the cops are watching them, big deal. i don't think that's an infringement. >> of course it's not an infringement and the bottom line is the police also have to protect themselves from -- we've got these protesters who are spitting at them, throwing bottles at them and by the way, they allege that nypd closed the air space so they couldn't send up helicopters and tape what was going on. that's hogwash, again, the faa closes the air space and nypd didn't and can't. >> steve: the police department did respond, spokesperson says this about the allegations. police officers showed professionalism and restraint in response to protesters. many of whom fought and resisted arrest and some who threw batteries and glass, who spit in police officers' faces and who threw liquids in their eyes. so did they get what they had coming to them? >> i don't think they really got that much. i think new york city has been very hospitable. remember, we are in a bad economy right now. we're spend ago fortune trying to sustain the peaceableness of their so-called protest. and at the end of the day, you

got a problem with the nypd lawsuit, get yourself a civil lawyer and sue them. >> steve: at the end of the day and the weekends, we always tune to you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> steve: meanwhile, straight he ahead, don't forget your furry friend this christmas. right now, let's check in with bill hemmer for a preview of the next hour. >> we all need something, don't we, steve? >> steve: we do. >> merry christmas to you. >> steve: thank you. >> new pox polling on where we are in the white house. fascinating numbers. not so fast and furious, the calls for impeachment. senator rand paul wants everyone to know who the tea party should support in 2012. he's here live to make his case. a woolly story out of science, bringing back the woolly mammoth. martha and i will see you in about ten minutes on a friday morning. with no vegetable nutrition? ♪

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>> brian: you probably got a few gifts for your kids, maybe your wife and what about your other family members? maybe you're taking care of that. but have you forgotten about your pets? joining us now with some gift ideas, pet expert, charlotte regis with us. welcome back. >> happy holidays. >> brian: i noticed one thing, it's a little cold outside and you have a recommendation of a quilted coat for your critter. >> i love these puffer coats. they're by american dick and what's great about them is not only are they american made, they're also warm and toasty and the best thing is the bright colors, you can always see your dog in the rape and the snow. >> brian: see, i never thought dogs got cold. i was always told they have enough hair for the season. >> dogs are small, close to the ground, like your darksons, they get cold. they think if it's a husky, they have a full plush coat. but if you have a little dog or

senior poodle, we want to tell people to take it easy, pay attention to the weather. >> brian: you want them to get exercise. you brought hurdles. finally here. >> what i love about these hurdles is what's so nice about them is you can use them indoors and outdoors. >> brian: all levels. low and high. >> so you can have -- he can come over the hurdles. she's eating the newest treat. >> brian: he's been through enough hurdles in life. >> then what's also great about this -- >> brian: it's bribery. >> i'm showing you. >> brian: do you think eventually they'll love to do the hurdles? >> she does love them. it's just a different environment. >> brian: that looks like the mamba. >> they not only can go up and over, they can also go under. >> brian: how much are those? >> they're 7-point the 9. all natural. it has this great roller ball.

like natural oozy goo. >> brian: keeps you dry all day? >> keeps them dry all day. >> brian: here is another scenario. my dog likes a squeaky toy. so this is something that could get on my nerve. >> here doggy toys, ultrasonic toys. the golden retriever -- >> brian: come on, professional golden retriever. >> sit. good girl! she loves these toys. we can't hear them, but they can. >> brian: try the red one. it's much better. i was sucking on this before. go ahead. try it. it's all right. let's see if he can do the hurdles. ready? come on, you can do it. look at that. come on, up. this is a hurdle dog. why don't we try the squeaky toy with one of the puff coats? nice. how much is that? >> 7.99. the best part, one calorie per ten licks and 500 licks in a

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