kids and he'll talk about in the "after the show" show. looking forward to talking to you. >> dave: and this guy, too. >> clayton: is that a goat? >> clayton: on the goat rodeo. >> dave: we'll see you tomorrow on "fox and friends." we'll see you. we'll see you. ♪ captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. >> jamie: it is less than a month before the iowa caucuses and republicans taking their gloves off and hammering each other, but good. and the candidates are getting ready to make their closing argument, hoping to lock up iowa voters, and with nearly 5 on 1 with newt gingrich taking a ton of heat. good morning, everyone, so great to have you here, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm jamie colby. >> eric: i'm eric sean, good morning, newt gingrich may be the biggest target but landed a few punches of his own in the debate. and peter doocy has the analysis. hi, peter. >> reporter: hi, eric and two

notable attacks against gingrich came from two rivals, dealing with an old intergalactic idea the former speaker once had and his infidelity. >> places where we disagree, let's see... we can start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon, i'm not in favor of spending that kind of money. to do that. if you wi . >> if you cheat on your wife and cheat on your spouse, why wouldn't you cheat on your bipartisan or anybody for that matter? >> reporter: but he didn't take it lying down, when mitt romney went after him for being a career politician, newt gingrich tried to paint him as jealous. >>. >> let's be candid, the only reason you didn't become a career politician is you lost to ted kennedy in 1994. >> that was the best thing i could have done to prepare me for the job i'm seeking because it put me back in the private

sector. >> reporter: and mitt romney defended himself, saying, sure i would have been a politician if i beat kennedy in 1994 and if i could have made and nfl team i would have done that, too, and something else else he tried to do was make a bet with governor rick perry about individual mandates for health care. nationally. >> i'm just saying, you are for individual mandates, my friend. >> you know what? you've raised that before, rick and you are simply wrong. >> it was true then and true now. >> i'll tell you what... 10,000 bucks... $10,000 bet, i'm not in... >> i'm not in fwhthe betting business. >> okay. >> reporter: after the debate mitt romney's press people said perry didn't take the bet because he was wrong and said further only one republican candidate has ever supported a federal mandate, newt gingrich and, as they go after each other, congresswoman michelle bachmann is lumping them

together, coining the phrase, newt-romney for their support of mandates in the past. >> eric: thank you very much. >> jamie: a ton to chew on after that. what is next for the republicans and the g.o.p. candidates? another chance to battle it out, coming up on thursday here on fox. let's talk to charlie hurt first, political columnist with "the washington times." good morning. >> good morning, jamie. >> clayton: fiery. lots to talk about. >> jamie: let's talk about iowa and where ultra conservatives stand and have they given a sense of the candidates, being exactly what they are look for? >> other than the continued discomfort with mitt romney, as the nominee, i think it is is absolutely anybody's game, and mitt romney very well could wind up doing much better than sort of the pundits are saying. but, i think, you know, we could see somebody like rick santorum, who worked the state very hard, he appeals as a very high -- has

a high appeal to conservatives, especially social conservatives, and, you know, a guy like that could blow the doors off the place and come in, and if he came in on a second or third it would shake things up here for the next couple of months and i cannot wait until the debate on thursday. i think, that what -- the fireworks we saw last night, which is, you know, kind of a bad night for a debate, saturday night, in the middle of the christmas season, i think, that we're going -- the gloves will keep coming off more and more. and they'll really go at each other. and, it is going to be something to watch. >> jamie: and here we are sunday morning and there's a lot of things to talk about, one of which i want to ask you, did newt gingrich accomplish what he needed to, particularly with his direct response on the question of fidelity? i think so. that is a big problem and will remain a big problem for him. and he's going to have to address it. i think -- i thought he handled it very well last night and i was surprised by, you know, the

toughest questions that he got on that, actually came from the moderators. more than other candidates. the other candidates kind of, with the exception of rick perry shied away from bringing that up too much but i think it was interesting, that, you know, throughout this entire primary, we have seen newt gingrich go after the moderators in every, single debate and he didn't do that last night. last night, he really did for the first time, go after some of his fellow rivals, and, i think that he has had the perfect pitch on that. he's got a good ear for when to do that. it work last night. >> jamie: it seems the shift has been made to start to differentiate themselves from each other and that is really what the american voter probably wants to know. how they differ on important issues. your interpretation an analysis of the $10,000 bet, is too much being made of this? did it belong in a debate setting last night? what do you think mitt romney's folks, dwight what they s despi

thinking today. >> if they are smart they'll stop defending it and trying to remind people of it and i thought it was a very ugly moment and when you have a guy that is a millionaire, many times over, in these economic times, making a $10,000 bet about some line in a book, that is -- that is not good optics. >> jamie: how critical is third place in the iowa caucuses. >> i think it is absolutely crucial and i think iowa will absolutely determine at least i number of people who don't go on from there. probably won't pick the winner but will determine -- it will cut some people off, i think. >> jamie: interesting, jon huntsman focused so much on new hampshire, iowa is definitely the subject of the day. thanks, charlie hurt, great to talk to you. eric? okay. first before we get to the next story, it is less than a month

before the iowa caucuses and i wanted to tell you again the candidates will have another shot at each other, probably will take it, it will be this thursday, and the debate is set for 9:00 eastern time and you can watch it live on the fox news channel, you don't want to miss it and you have seen our debates before and it will be stellar, get the latest details from foxnews.com/debates. >> eric: and boy they are exciting, interesting and informative. coming up in the next hour, something you will not want to miss, a fox news voter fraud unit investigation. allegations that president obama may not have legally qualified for the ballot in the 2008 dranting primary in one state. voters tell us they never signed presidential primary petitions, that put his name on the ballot. >> talk to us about the petitions? >> no, i'm sorry, i don't have anything to say. >> did you forge any signatures. >> i don't have anything to say. >> eric: did you fake any petitionses at all?

>> i don't have anything to say. >> eric: what does it mean if election fraud painted a presidential campaign? prosecutors are investigating and election officials say they are taking steps to try and protect the 2012 race, we'll have the surprising revelations, coming up, in the next hour. >> jamie: "fox news alert," israeli aircraft striking a house in the gaza strip in retaliation for rocket fire into southern israel. look at these pictures, palestinian officials say no one was home at the time. but, flying shrapnel hit a daughter and father they claim en a nearby house and leland vittert has the latest. >> reporter: it has been going back and forth all weekend and the israelis hit a major weapons dump, they are inside the gaza strip and the round of violence, the israelis have been hitting back pretty hard and the palestinians now in their 4th day have kept up the rocket fire, and in fact they released video of their militants inside the gaza strip sending out

rockets into southern israel, mostly this time, the past four days, those rockets have blown up a number of fields and they haven't hurt anybody but that certainly could change and it was the weekend, though, here in israel and a lot of israelis spent those two days, running two and from air raid shelters and these rockets were coming in, to southern israel, the israeli air force has been able to change the power balance here a little bit and have a system now, which is able to intercept rockets as they come in and, also, have hit a couple of would-be rocketeers before they were able to fire and it starred on thursday, when in a major intelligence coup... there was a strike and, they blew up his car inside the gaza strip and knew retaliation would come because of the strike and the militant was planning an attack and oftentimes, it was difficult to figure out which militant group actually inside of the gaza

strip is firing these rockets, and if history proves anything or repeats itself which it doesn't does here, one of two things happened, both sides decide to call it a day and go home or the palestinians increase their rocket fire, to something like 30 a day, or, the israeli launch of major airstrikes, and then it escalates very quickly. jamie, back to you. >> jamie: leland vittert. live in jerusalem, thanks. >> dave: >> eric: the iran revolutionary guard will not return the drone that went down within their borders last week and, the statements come that's obama administration suggests it may shift towards a policy of containment for iran. can the policy stop a potential iranian nuclear bomb? joining us now is former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, a fox news contributor, who is with us, every sunday about this time, good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, glad to be here. >> eric: we saw them showing it off and they will not give it back. >> well, no surprise there.

now, that they've got it they will exploit it for whatever use they can make of the stealth tech nothing and materials and the sensors and communications gear, whatever is inside the drone. and, also, it is very interesting, that the iranians in saying they would not give it back, said the very act of sending it over iran, was an act of war. which, undercuts the obama administration's assertion that we didn't go into try and destroy the drone, after it was captured, for fear of the iranians saying, exactly that. an act of war and a lot of reasons operationally why you might not want to try to destroy the drone... >> eric: what will happen now, they'll give it to the chinese and knock off... >> i think it will enhance iranian revenues, substantially, or, at least put them into a good bargaining position with russia or china for future political cover and i think it highlights, once again, why the policy of economic sanctions and

the hope of getting iran to a diplomatic table somewhere is doomed to failure, iran remains on track to get nuclear weapons, in the very near future, and, this is only going to encourage them. >> eric: how big a loss is the fact that this drone has fallen into their hands? >> it depends in part on what they are able to uncover and it is always good to have an actual physical drone like this. and i think it is important to find out at some point, whether the classified information and other intellectual property inside the drone was erased before it fell into iran's hands and the hardware itself is bad enough, but, if they still got the electrons in there, that can reveal what was programmed into the drone it would be very bad news indeed. >> eric: and potential bad news, you talked about containment and the administration fighting a senate bill that voted 100-0 to try and penalize the central

bank of iran, why won't they take the step? >> because, the obama administration has been weak, naive and indecisive on iran for the last three years. i think they are worried that a really tough sanctions bill against the central bank would be a further disincentive for iran to come to the negotiating table on the nuclear program. i think the obama administration still believes they can find some iranian leader to shake hands with, and cut a deal. i just think that that is badly misguided but i think that that is what they are still concerned about and for that reason, don't really want the kind of sanctions that might put pressure on the regime or even at some point bring it down. >> eric: here's what the "wall street journal" said in an editorial a couple of days ago. they called it gutting iran sanctions, the administration's real motive for watering down the sanctions is fear they could hurt the president's re-election chances and fear disrupting iran's oil ex-experts would increase oil prices and thus the

price of gasoline at the american pump and if you fear an oil supplies spike wait until israel bombs tehran until the u.s. claims it is not serious about stopping its nuclear plan. that is pretty tough, ambassador. >> iran concluded the obama administration is not serious about stopping that your nuclear plan and unfortunately the bush administration at the end was not all that serious, either. i think that the conclusion that iran has drawn is that it is going to continue at its own pace towards weapons, and, that we will see the consequences unfolding unless somebody, i.e. israel, takes military steps to prevent that from happening. >> eric: while they are going to the united nations, we'll see how it plays out and they have the drone, ambassador john bolton, thanks for joining us on sunday morning. >> thank you. >> jamie: a special and unique experience, this week i was invite to sit down for a rare and candid interview with army

secretary john mccue in the same week the army announced plans to cut 8700 civilian jobs, and i asked the question, how will the country maintain the fearest force without sacrificing our safety. >> jamie: there are some programs that coil pack. >> jamie: there are programs that could impact our national security if they are dissolved or diminished. >> the question is how far do we come down and ekwael importaqua are we resourced across the spectrum of needs to remain a balanced force and don't as they say hollow out and as happened in post conflict periods in the past and we'll be a small army and we'll be supremely resourced but we will not have the full range of capabilities to do everything at once or sometimes two things at once. >> jamie: very honest look at what our force will look like,

check out my interview with secretary john mchugh, with eric and me, on america's news headquarters. >> eric: looking forward to that. a possible break through in the fight against alzheimer's, how seafood could affect your risk of potentially getting the disease. we'll have that, coming up, on "sunday house call." and score one for mom and dad on the soccer field. a heart-warming early christmas gift for their daughter. not from the north pole, but, from iraq. >> jamie: love this. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't.

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>> jamie: it is so great when these are captured on film, the surprise reunion between a military dad and his daughter and it took place on the soccer field. the sergeant is with the army national guard and has been in iraq for a year, and after an injury to his ankle got a trip home to georgia where he and his wife engineered the huge surprise for their daughter, shelby. in the middle of playing soccer and it was a shock for her and they held play for a bit and had to play the game and, he's getting three days with his family, before heading to fort hood. >> very careful and a lot of sneaking around so she wouldn't know what was going on.

>> it was' best for me. i don't know about her. it was the best for me. >> jamie: great for us, too and we appreciate your service, and he's not sure when he'll come home for good, it depends on whether he needs surgery on his ankle. >> eric: always wonderful. texas governor rick perry stressing his religious faith to voters in iowa. and promising a roll back of what he calls president obama's war on religion. and here's what governor perry had to say about the military's don't ask, don't tell. >> it was working and for the commander-in-chief to use our military as a political tool, while we're in come bad in two different locations around -- at least two different locations around the world, in iraq and afghanistan, i think it is just really irresponsible. >> eric: joining us now, as he does every sunday is this anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace. good morning. >> good morning, eric. >> eric: we saw it last night during the debate he's coming out aggressively. >> you know, i think he's having

something of a resurgence in iowa, spending -- not all of his money but millions of dollars on tv commercials like the faith commercial that he referenced there. and he's also about to begin a two-week, 44-city bus tour, all over the state of iowa, and i think he realizes he has to do well, win or come in a very competitive second and he was the front-runner in august and had bad debates and fell into single digits and cannot stay there, if he does i think he's in terrible trouble. >> eric: is there any sense among the professionals, potentially he could make some of that up? >> yes, there is, because, you are beginning to see a little boost in the polls, he's in double digits, 4th place but a closer 4th and he's making an appeal to evangelicals on the stump and did it last night in the debate, in these tv commercials and, in the exit polls, four years ago, 60% of

republican caucus-goers, identify themselves as evangelicals. so you win a sizable portion of them over and you will do well in the iowa caucuses. >> eric: the polls now, though, show newt gingrich ahead and do you think we'll get a surprise? will that hold? we saw what happened in '08... >> folks who are saying, well, you know, it is too late or something, there is an eternity of time, there is three-plus -- not that i'm counting, things can change dramatically. we have the big fox debate on thursday and there will be a lot of retail politicking and people will go away and think about christmas and new years and lead real lives but between now and january 3rd a lot can change. >> eric: look how much of the change, we have seen so far during the race. chris, good to see you, thanks. >> thank you. >> eric: for more of his exclusive one-on-one with governor perry, he'll be on the fox news channel, it airs at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., of

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♪ >> jamie: okay. time for "sunday house call," you definitely want your pads and pence today, right, eric? we have great topics, joining us dr. david smadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> and dr. marc siegel, of langone medical center in new york and author of "the inner pulse" unlocking the secret code of sickness and health, great to see you, as always, on sunday morning. >> jamie: can you tell i like the segment?

i feel healthier since last week and hii hope you do, too. doctor, a new study about alzheimer's claiming people who eat fish at least once a week, once a week, just once, could actually reduce their chances. >> it is true. actually, because there were many studies that linked eating fish with reducing the rate of alzheimer's but what the particular study shows is that now they are looking at the structure of the brain and seeing more gray matter, the good stuff and that is related to memory and the cognitive skills and you are absolutely right, eating 1-4 portions of michigan a week, not much, can reduce the rate of alzheimer's. so what is important is, if you broil and bake fish, you are okay. but if you actually fry the fish you kill the component of it, what is the secret in sgreent to this -- the secret ingredient? omega-3 fatty acids.

it lowers triglycerides and heart disease and reduces inflammation and with alzheimer's, the brain slows down and the plaque forms between the brain and the information from one side doesn't get to the other side and that is how -- exactly how the computer freezes and eat your fish once a week and you will be healthier. >> the fatty fishes are better, salmon and that type of fish has the most omega-3s and david is right about fried fish. other study have shown that it kills the omega-3s off and the baked fish and broiled fish, here's the thing, though, about the study. it is preliminary, for the following reasons, 250 people, they found the gray matter of the brain increases, like something out of the movie "the island", remember that where the clones actually developed brain tissue? it is amazing they had more hippocampus, frontal cortex areas, involved with memory and decision, were increased people who ate 1-4 portions of fish to week which is not the same as

saying, yet it decreases alzheimer's but is a strong step in that direction and previous studies linked ts and i agree. fish is something you want to eat. if you have fish... >> jamie: for a lot of reasons. but, even if you do that, if you eat the fish, dr. smadi aamadi, is alzheimer's, forgetting your keys, are there better tests now? >> there are specific tests to ask your doctor to order. for example we know vitamin b 12 deficiency mimics the symptoms like alzheimer's. and ask for the level of your ho homocystine, vitamin b o deficiency, can lead to alzheimer's, it is how you age, stick to exercise and make sure

you have the social interaction with other people and pick a new language or new music, and, the things that trigger your brain and that is helpful to you. >> eric: stay active, eat fish. >> and the omega-3s, improve blood flow and decrease inflammation and what helps the heart, helps the brain. >> eric: and take the omega-3 fish oil. >> we're fans of that here. >> eric: speaking of the brain, there is a new study out by migraines. do you get those? and depression? according to the research, people with painful migraines may be at a higher risk of developing clinical depression. fill us in about that. >> the holy grail, we have looked at that for a long time and nothing in the neurological literature has proven a cause. in other words, if you have a migraine, you will get depression. if you have depression, you will get a migraine, what is a migraine? it occurs, because certain nerves in the brain called the

trigeminal nerve, shut out and you get a long headache, and could be preceded by an aura is 90% of the headaches we have, are migraine and we don't know it is a good study but we don't know if it this is fact you have the migraines that makes you depressed. maybe your lifestyle changes and it is intractable, you are know bothered by the headaches or does the migraine alter the brain and make you more prone to depression, 80% more likely you will be depressed if you have a migraine and the message is if you have migraines, be on the lookout for possible depression. >> eric: or does stress, the common myth, maybe a myth, stress triggers migraines? people say you have a regular life and boom, you are whacked out on the couch with that. >> the truth is we don't know and the study is observational and is not a cause and effect. what i got out of the study is if you that have migraines and you really have to define what e it is. not every severe headache means migraine, you have to have the

aura, nausea, vomiting, sometimes the lights can trigger that. if you have that, talk to your physician, because, there could be signs and symptoms of hidden depression, in there. where they have to dig in and, as a prevention, the doctor can really, like, find the depression, and, treat it. and many medication, such as -- big names, doesn't matter but the medications cover both depression and migraine at the same time the important point. >> a great point to emphasize, you can treat both with the same pill. absolutely. >> jamie: go see your doctor, they can be so tough. when it comes to housework, it turns out women are doing more and their fair share. it didn't take a study to figure that out, in fact, there was a new study that found work moms spend ten-and-a-half more hours every week, juggling multiple tasks at home, as compared to their spouses, eric, i know you chip in? >> eric: you have to. or, you know... i mean, not always voluntary on my part. but you do your best. >> jamie: taking out the trash

and everything, docs, seriously, women have to multi-task a lot and men do, too, i suppose. >> it is a very interesting study because they have everyone wear a watch and it would beep 7 times a day and at that point, randomly would ask you to right down, what emotions were involved and... jamie, as you know, men and women are different species and we think and report different things different and whether it plays a role in influencing this, but i have to say, to be politically correct as a guy, yes, it is true, women do multi-tasking much more, 10-and-a-half hours more. what is interesting, it wasn't so much the quantity but the quality was also not great for women, they expressed too much stress and negative feelings and men report longer hours and what i get out of this and the conclusion of the study was not great. they want men to be more involved at home which i'm not sure if that is possible and certainly, after five cases a day, my only multi-task at home

would be remote-control and glass of wine and watch t.v. that's all i've got. >> the key is housework. the study showed over the 10-and-a-half hours, women do more multi-tasking than men and they were involved with the child-rearing and, involved with cleaning the house and were involved with cooking dinners. and they didn't like it and got stressed out, in fact called those hours, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. or 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. the arsenic hour. and the message is, that men have to participate more, in the home stuff. yeah, we're all multi-tasking but we love the blackberry. get home and help with the housework. i bet even out there will agree with that. >> you have to cook, take care of kids, phone ringing and... >> jamie: cooking your fish... >> and every woman in the study was working too. >> jamie: we appreciate the recognition, doctor. >> eric: absolutely, doctor and before he continue for a moment with house call, we want to take a moment to say a heartfelt thank you and farewell to the man who created the weekly health segment, the man who, until recently, sat right here

next to jamie and me, every sunday morning. at this time, to let you know how incredibly important it is to take care of yourself, and make sure that we all know just how to accomplish that and of course, i am talking about your friend and mine, our very beloved dr. isadore rosenfeld. >> jamie: for more than 60 years, can you imagine, dr. rosenfeld devoted himself to keeping his patients well and did so, so successfully, that he won prize after prize, even became known as america's doctor. and found himself sought-after by the famous and the not so famous, to cure their is and also taught scores of young doctors the true meaning of the hippocratic oath, and, inspired them to make medical breakthroughs. but, we here at fox and you, the loyal viewers have couple to know dr. rosenfeld as so much more, as a brilliant, compassionate and such a funny man, a true friend, to all. and, now that he decided to spend more time on himself and his family, they are so

wonderful, his many other passions and pursuits, we can say to our friend, we are going to miss seeing you here, every sunday, and we are going to miss your wonderful wife, camilla, who has always been by your side. so, thank you, great friend, for all you are, and all you have done, doctor, we wish you the very best. and we're going to be right back. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger,

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noise around you. >> this is dramatic stuff. this is coming out of the archives of internal medicine, 7500 people studied, a lot more people are hard of hearing than we expected. 1 south out of 8 are hard of he in both ears and 1 out of 5 in one ear, 80% of people over 80 years old are hard of hearing and working around machinery and medications, like i prescribe, diuretics, can cause the problem and you have to see your physician about this, but, most importantly, i would suggest to the people out there, as you are getting older, consider having your hearing checked. you know why? because, we have incredible hearing aids now we never used to have that work and can solve the problem. >> eric: some you can't even see and you think they are big things but i guess, they are... >> and most you can't even see them. >> mechanics behind it is actually interesting. because, when the noise enters the ear canal, it hayes to go into the inner ear and that is where you have all of the hair cells, and, they have to translate the noise into certain

waves, and the body will hear it and that is called the hearing and what happens with time, as we get older the cells become desensitized and age plays a big role but the other thing that is also important is how many times hawn have you been in the elevator and the guy that's ipod and the music is so loud, that you can hear at the end of the elevator, the noise itself and the new york city noise is also, around 80 decibels. and, these are risk factors, you know, it is difficult, jamie to really screen the entire population and, on a regular basis, you keep saying, huh? it is starting to go... get tested. >> eric: and the ipods and all of that. turn it down a little bit, right? >> absolutely. >> that is the new idea and that is happening and i think will be younger and younger people who are losing hearing. >> jamie: how will you get the message across, you have kids,en realistic. >> i'll tell you how i will get it across, i think it is from the doctor to the patient, everyone in my office as they

get over 50, 60, i say get your hearing checked, not just me, seeing the whisper test where i whisper and see if they hear me, that is the screening test and beyond that i get hearing tests. >> reemphasize and teaching and educating the younger generation, the way to go. >> moderation. >> always, moderation. >> they won't. >> jamie: brand new technology will make cataract surgery faster and high schoolal-free and, doctor samadi? you were going to tell us about that. >> over 20 million people are affected by cataract disease and i also learned that cataract surgery is the highest number of surgeries in the country. i didn't know that. and also an outpatient surgery and we have come a long way. and, the name itself means waterfall and it looks like you are looking through a waterfall and everything is vague and not clear, you may have double vision. so the use of robotic surgery, as you know, i use it every day for prostate surgery, now we're using it for hysterectomies or

uterus, kidney cancer and now is playing a role in thyroid an cataract but you have to be smart. because you can do something doesn't mean that you should or it is a good idea to do it. for cataract surgery, a 15 minute operation, i see the role of robotic surgery for this particular one does not add much. for prostate cancer it is a different story, because it is really deep in the body and is a very hard location to get to it, and has sensitive nerves around it and it plays a big role in the hands of an experienced surgeon and with cataract or thyroid, because they are superficial organs, i really don't see the robotic technology, playing' role. obviously we need longer studies to find out what goes on. now, talk to your doctor, cataract surgery, firm lly -- se in the hands of those who do a large volume of them. >> when my patients start having

poor night vision and blurred vision i tell them to get cha checked, and it is a 15-million operation, i call it preventive surgery, because it prevents falls, we have to expand our locking at it. cataract surgery is preventive medicine and keeps you from falling and breaking your hip and along comes the robot and i want to say is there a problem -- because you use robotic surgery on the prostate which is fairly big and you try to fit into the eye is there a technical problem. >> the limiting factor with the robots, we don't have the special instruments for those delicate sutures we use for cataract surgeries, i use a 3 or 4, almost like the size of the hair and we don't have those instruments yet. talk to your doctor and i think the point you mentioned, is that if you can avoid surgery, that is the way to go. there are always risk with every surgery, take the right -- pick

the right surgeon. and i say behind the strong man is always, there's a woman behind them, now, i would say that behind any of these great robots, is the experienced surgeon. >> eric: get checked and ask about the cataracts. coming up, the fda, have you heard, they actually pulled and over-the-counter drug that contains a particular hormone. that is off the shelves. we'll fill you in on the serious health risks they say the hormone could pose and which medications they want you to avoid, coming up. i have copd. if you have it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that fes like copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms... ...by keepinmy airways open... ...a fl 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintence treatment that does both.

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>> jamie: welcome back, everybody, there are serious new warnings for folks who take over-the-counter diet products, especially if it contains hcg hormone, the fda is taking steps to take them off the shelves, and saying the pills may pose serious health risks. doctors, how about that? >> it is a serious issue, because we always look for a quick fix in america, and we want something magical about this. and, hcg is a hormone known for pregnancy, and what they are doing is combining the hormone with a very lo-calorie diet which is 500 calories a day and normally we take 1500 to 2000

and you will lose the wlait with that kind of calories and it is -- weight with that kind of calories and you also need to be on the loca-calorie diet and yo need it under the sups vision of doctors and you can be malnourished and, you can die from it, and, with placebo tests it doesn't work and, it is only used for infertility and that what is the fda approved it for, nothing else. be careful. >> it is a double whammy, the hgc, interacts with the hype though thalamus in the brain and, studies have shown it doesn't cause to you lose weight and they are sticking it together with a gimmick which as david says this is 500 calorie diet which, itself causes -- >> jamie: scary. >> causes arrhythmias, blood clots and problems with blood sugar and is a starvation diet, plus a medication that does not work and based for you. very bad idea.

>> jamie: thank you for the warning. >> eric: this is interesting, our presidents age in office, and have more gy hair and look older. guess what? a study finds a majority of u.s. presidents actually out live men their age, some by 10 or 20 years. doctor, if i had the white house physician running after me every day i'd be okay, too. >> a couple points, we heard from a doctor from the university of illinois the author of the study and he says the primary thing is that presidents get treated so well, they come from a privileged class and they are wealthy and they are educated and the first 8 presidents, even though there was no good medical care lived to 79 years old on average when, duringhe time, people were living to 40 years old and i asked him, what about since then, now that modern medicine has come in? has it helped? and he says only giving them an an extra two years and we have to wonder, are the doctors treating the presidents after they leave office, doing the the right thing? there was a problem with nixon and his last two years, and i personally talked to dr. craig

smith who operated on clinton, and he did an amazing job on president clinton, and other people couldn't have gotten the care and he said, all of this is coronary arteries were totally blocked from eating all the junk food, in the white house, and they live as long, but how are they doing. >> i loved this see the study. i have premature gray hair and it tells me we are still young in heart. look, it is a great study that shows having access to health care, being educated and perhaps wealth will make you live a little longer and the issue with the presidents, in that oval office is they don't have many friends, to balance back the stress and that is part of the lack of sleep and bags under the eyes and as harry truman used to say, if you want to find a friend in washington... get a dog. serving and president clinton said the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system is oval office. >> and president bush was a role

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each this week how women can reduce the risk of breast cancer also other cancers? >> yes, over the last decade, unfortunately, we are losing the battle against chronic disease such as obesity and diabetes this is going to take over 75% cost in this country. some of the tips to stay healthy is watch your weight. make sure you eat healthy food which is low-fat, high fiber. we talked about this a lot. we have made progress with smoking. we are getting closer to new year's watch how much alcohol you are consuming. add 20 minutes of exercise, three times a week and my advice, spend quality time with family. that's helpful. >> new study says that 40% of cancers are related to lifestyle. for women, definitely losing weight is key. obesity has been linked to breast cancer. for men, occupational exposures 1 out of 25 cancers, asbestos, chemicals in the workplace.

for everyone, improve your fruit and vegetable intake. exercise more. walk everywhere even with when you are not exercising. watch your diet. smoking still the number one cause of cancer in the world. >> thanks doctors. see you next week. counting down to the january 3rd, iowa caucus. the first contest in the 2012 presidential election. the gloves are off. candidates going after each other with new and stark intensity pointed attacks as they try to contrast differences for voters. they will have a chance to do it again right here in four days. we begin a new hour of american news headquarters. good morning. >> great to be with you. busy hour ahead. thanks for being with us. on the receiving end of many of those barbs, newt gingrich

he held his own and fired back at the others. steve brown is live in des moines, if the goal was to bring newt gingrich back to the pack, did they get it done? >> reporter: good morning. the answer would be no. i've read a slew of reviews, all positive for gingrich. facing those verbal jabs last night he deflected most at times, jabbed back. >> we have differences of viewpoint on some issues. but the real difference i believe is our backgrounds. i spent my life in the private sector. i understand how the economy works. i believe for americans to say good-bye to president obama answer electric a republican they need confidence the person they are electing, knows how to make this economy work again and create jobs for the american middle class. >> let's be candy the own reason you didn't become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994.

>> reporter: the laughter in the studio and in the filing center were clearly audible. gingrich was easily at ease in this environment. it was an opportunity for the others to make up ground. i don't necessarily think they got there. >> i can't wait for thursday's debate. i want to ask about the local reaction about mitt romney's $10,000 -- not something we can do is the media playing that as they in iowa? >> reporter: it is playing badly everywhere. a political columnist for the des moines register tweeted after that that a $10,000 wager is not something a likely caucusgoer would do even on a sure thing. democrats have pounced all over it. saying romney's wager shows him out of touch with the middle class and the middle class is what both sides are courting. those are the voters that

swing most often and this is not a good thing for mitt romney. you are correct, that debate next thursday that is the last gasp for a lot of these folks to make up ground. to be able to show off on a national platform with three weeks to go to the caucus voting. it will be critical. it should be entertaining for everyone. and it is right here on fox is exciting. thanks steve, good to see you. >> candidates will have another chance to make their case thursday, the next scheduled gop debate, 9 p.m. eastern time only here on the fox news channel. you can get the latest election news check in at foxnews.com. the battle over expending a payroll tax -- extending a payroll cut is healed heating up. president obama is promising to delay year end vacations

for himself and lawmakers if the deal isn't reached first. steve centanni with the latest. what is going on? >> reporter: taxes, ecomy and next year's election tied together here in this last minute cliff-hanger on capitol hill. the question, how to extend the payroll tax cut before it expires? nobody seems to dispute the need to keep the tax cut on the books, for now. >> i believe we should extent the payroll tax holiday another year. avoid a tax increase on working people for another year. i also agree with senator reid that we ought not to do it again next year. >> reporter: the problem is how that plan will be enacted? president obama and his allies want to pay for pit by taxing the rich. republicans want to extend a freeze on federal workers a pay. republicans want to tie in a plan to speed up the keystone pipeline which the president is threatening a veto if that happens.

all sets the stage for a major showdown overtax, deficit, the economy in the upcoming election year. >> this is a make or break moment for the middle class. to this point, the republicans have consistently said they will refuse to increase the taxes on the wealthiest people in america, one penny, if that's what it takes to make sure working families get a payroll tax cut. a clear defining moment, contrast between the parties that the president has made clear. >> reporter: when we could see a house vote early this week extending unemployment benefits:the table. the two sides have different ways of -- going about doing that >> complicated and confusing. let's give some examples. there are key differences between the payroll tax plans put forth by both parties including what it could mean for. under the democratic plan folks earning $50,000 a year would get a $1500 tax cut.

those earning over $200,000 would get $6,000 cut. republicans are proposing $1,000 cut for those earning $50,000 a year with $4,000 going to those over $200,000. we heard from all the gop candidates about how they feel about issues, how about president obama? a little sense about how he feels about the economy. he's saying it will take more than one president to steer the u.s. economy out of the troubled waters we are in. in an interview on tonight's "60 minutes." he didn't underestimate and he didn't overpromise voters. some polls showing a majority of americans disapproval proving of the way he's handling things are his words falling on deaf ears? gretchen hamill is here with jehmu greene.

ladies, welcome. >> good morning. >> jehmu, this interview makes interesting statements we haven't heard before. the president says it can't be fixed in the next couple of years in fact it might take more than one president to do that explain the strategy? >> strategy is clear, truth-telling. i think it is great to hear a politician, elected officials, actually tell the truth. that is exactly what president obama said. because, it took decades to get us here. unrigging the system that has basically put the middle class in a position where they are unable to, through their hard work, achieve the american dream that didn't happen overnight and it didn't happen just under george bush's watch. it has been happening for decades. it is going to make more than president obama. it is going to take more than a congress that refuses to act on whether it is payroll tax

cuts or many of the other issues they've refused to act on. it is going to take a recommitment to understanding that the system is broken and has been rigged against hardworking americans and it is time forever those at the top to understand that it is not sustainable. they have to contribute in some way to a fair system, where hard work actually pays off. >> gretchen let's say the people elect the people they think can get things done. if this is a do-nothing congress with low approval ratings. a poll just taken on president obama's approval and disapproval ratings. and the disapproval number has gone up. so the question is, he may not pay that much attention to polls. maybe he would say that he doesn't. if admitting he can't get the job done in this term, will voters have the confidence that he can get the job done in the next one? what will happen to all those

members of congress? >> that is right. you have to give the american public a reason to vote for you. like she said, he is telling the truth, maybe. but why did he just now find this truth? he set high markers for himself in february of 2009 when he signed in a 100 billion dollars stimulus he said employment would not get above 8% that it would create millions of jobs when some say it created two million jobs. he's added four trillion to the debt. 1st down grid in our nation's history. -- the first downgrade in our nation's history. right now you have to give the american public a reason to vet for you, especially when over 86% believe this when is not going in the right direction nearly 3/4 disapprove of the way this president is handling the economy. >> jehmu, the president says

he's optimistic that unemployment will come down. if he can't get congress to act and be the leader that we nqáár'g anpinion, everyone seems to vote there's a do-nothing congress. how will the unemployment rate go down? how will we stimulate the economy? are you hearing things from him that convince you he will get it done? >> absolutely. not only hearing things from him. the executive orders that he put in place when the congress refused to act on the american jobs act. again, long before the recession hit, hard work stopped paying off. you are on your own economics didn't work. it is what has gotten us here. i'm confused when i hear gretchen say he built on policies that didn't work. all of those folks on the stage last night debate who want too return us to those policies that didn't work. he has steadily been digging us out of it.

he started with 800,000 jobs being lost every month. we've come far. >> washington puts in place policies that allow jobs to grow. when we have a temporary tax system we are debating every december. 15 trillion in debt and continue to have unnecessary regulations and not govern, but govern by executive order we are not putting in place policies that can allow this economy to grow and produce jobs. >> great to have you, thank you. >> thank you. now the fox news voter fraud you any. surprising question this morning. did president obama legally qualify for the indiana primary ballot in 2008? it turns out some charge, he may not have. our fox news investigation has found residents who tell us their fame -- their names and signatures on petitions that put candidate obama on the ballot were faked. there's now a criminal investigation that touches on the race for the highest

office in the land. in indiana, campaign collecting signatures to put candidates on the 2012 primary ballot, as authorities investigate alleged fraud in the 2008 democratic primary petitions for then candidates barack obama and hillary clinton. is that your signature on this? >> that is not. >> did you sign in petition for barack obama? >> no. >> charity was stunned to see her name on an obama petition. robert hunter was too. >> i did not sign for barack obama. >> someone forged this? >> correct that is not my signature. did not sign for barack obama. >> alleged fakes raised the question whether the obama campaign filed the fess number of signatures, 500 from the county to we on the state's primary ballot. 534 certified signatures were never challenged. the chairman of the state republican party. >> do you think he legally qualified to be a candidate here? >> i do not.

i think the investigation, once we learn that the actual number of proven formed signatures, they speculate it could be between 100 and 200 signatures. if there's more than 40, he doesn't qualify. >> editor of howie politics indiana broke the story. >> somebody tried to pull a fast one. and i think that is where we are at now. to determine who were these low level functionaries that decided to tamber with the process or something ordered -- to tamper with the process or something ordered from a higher level. >> democratic chairman resigned. his lawyer says he did nothing wrong. >> there were many of us who advised agains resignation, knowing full well that butch morgan would never condone, authorize, director

participate in anything illegal. >> the investigation centers on democratic petitions that sailed through the st. joseph county board in south bend. the handwriting of deputy and democratic volunteer reportedly matches writing on some of the suspect obama petitions. according to a handwriting analyst hired by the tribune and howey politics indiana. did you forge any signatures? >> i don't have anything to say. >> did you fake any he s? >> i don't have anything to say >> he says he did nothing wrong. >> handwriting is not the same as dna. handwriting is not the same as fingerprints. >> we are trying to do the job to make hurt this never happens so voters don't have to worry. >> indiana secretary of state republican charles white says petitions should be put online for everyone to see >> main thing is to make sure we maintain choices for all voters, republicans and democrats in the primary.

and that we make sure that voters continue to trust the system and their vote still counts. >> white faces his own voter fraud charges for allegedly registering to vote from his ex-wife's house. he denies wrong doing. democratic chairman says petitioning will be closely watched. >> maybe we need to institute changes in state law where we require those who are gathering the signatures to at least sign some sort of attest that they at least will -- attest that they at least will vouch for the fact they believe the signatures are true and accurate. >> voters like charity feel violated. >> it is scary. a lot of people have lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics. so that solidifies all of our worries, our concerns. >> the state democratic party has called what happened isolated.

its chairman was not available for an interview. authorities are said to be moving forward with their investigation. it is now in the hands of st. joseph county prosecutor who would not comment for our story. we will keep you posted. of course, if you suspect voter or election problems where you live, we want to know about it. voterfraud@foxnews.com. it is the holidays, prime season for you to have your identity stolen. we'll tell you about some unlikely places you may never have thought of where your personal information could be available now for the taking. up next, in our take charge segment.

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your identity would be stolen at your pharmacist, doctor's office or mortgage broker. all these places where we go that service our needs are places that also have our personal identifying information on file. >> jamie: what is that information? what should we be cautious about giving out? >> your social security number is the key to the kingdom. any entity that has that makes it vulnerable. any time you give up that information, even credit card information, it puts your identity at risk. >> then adds your date -- your birth date can be a rest buy for disasters. sometimes office don't shred documents. you warn about e-cards what are those? >> when you receive a card in the mail, via e-mail los like a holiday card from hallmark or somebody else.

what you have to you do is click the link, open it up, you might have to download a player once do it could infect your machine. now you get a virus. beyond that they might ask to you click on certain throeufrps identify personal information and that could compromise your identity. >> you think when you give your credit card in a store someone might write the number down. -- we appreciate the information. what steps should we take now to protect our identitys, special this time of year? >> first, i recommend investing in anti-virus protection pc, anti-spyware, anti-firring to make sure your -- anti-phishing to make sure your -- identity theft protection and a credit freeze that s down your identity so no one can open up new

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the secretary of the army john mchugh wants to reassure our troops and their families that the burden of budget cuts will not rest on their shoulders. that is his reassurance. it is still a difficult time with more than 8,000 civilian jobs in the military slashed this week. there are more cuts looming. secretary mchugh spoke candidly on these issues and more that are facing the army in my fox news exclusive. this is a critical time for the army especially facing defense cuts that you are some programs that about considered sang row sang are now going to be cut -- sacrosanct are now going to be cut. what are your biggest concerns? >> we cut too far and the wrong ones. you are putting everything on the table. the decoratives i've given is we careful -- directives i've give is we are careful.

if we can do our job in a way that sustains those initiatives over the last 10 years, that it help keep those army families together we'll come out on the other side in good shape. >> there are some programs that could impact our national security if they are dissolved or diminished. can you be specific about which ones? >> the question is how far do we come down? equally important, are we resourced across the spectrum of need so we remain a balanced force that we don't as they say, hollow out, as happened in post conflict periods of the past. we'll be a smaller army, extremely -- supremely resourced but we won't have the full range of capabilities to do two things at once. >> rising suicide, tremendous unemployment with veterans, families in need. how do you take care of the needs of the military now and

incentivize recruits to sign up down the road? >> best things we can do is provide for soldiers of today to make sure their families are taken care of. that sends a message to the young men and women of today who are thinking about joining up. they want to come for the right reasons for a cause. i think the u.s. army since its inception in self team 75 has stood for -- in 1775 has food forthright things. they want -- we want to make sure we provide a package of support and benefits that make live in the military worth living. >> civilians will also lose their jobs. some vets saying they think those jobs should be replaced with vets. if that money came back on stream, could they be first in line? >> we have always hired good

people you can't hire anybody better than an army veteran. what we are trying to do now is to right size this force between the civilian and uniform sectors to make sure we have sufficient people onboard to support the service side. that means we are going to have to come down and get a bit smaller in support of that budget. i think we can do that in an efficient, effective way. we are working hard to minimize lay-offs or risks, as we call them, reduction in forces using our recruiting and retention abilities. these are going to be tough times. >> you are talking about billions that will be cut from the budget that you have to work with to get our men and women ready. isn't readiness going to change in terms of technology and the ability maybe to fight a war remotely rather than boots on the ground? do we know what we need? >> secretary gates says we have a perfect record predicting the future. we've been wrong every time.

i happen to belief, maybe i'm a little prejudice, if you look at past and recent history, boots on the ground are always important. you can fight a battle from a distance, at the end of the day if you are going to control land, if you are going to bring peace and stability to any region, you are going to need people on the ground doing the hard work fighting for freedom. >> are we keeping pace where we need to be in terms of new innovation and protection and integrity of intelligence? how do we keep up and know what we are developing today will not be obsolete tomorrow? >> that has been the problem. anybody who buys a cell phone and sees the next generation a couple months later has been frustrated by that rapid pace of development. what we are trying to do is develop our networking systems, develop our computer systems in a way so we can plug and play and bring in new technology as it evolves. one of the critical challenges is security.

cyber security i think is one of the things that we are most vulnerable to. and one of the things we are working most hard ton to try to ensure that a situation such as wikileakses in the future is far less likely to happen -- of course a security lapse there something that we needed to deal with and we have. lessons learned. >> always. army strong sir. >> great to be with you james >> our thanks to secretary mchugh and his taff for that sit-down. any cut -- any cut made by the secretary in charge of the budget comes only after one-on-one meetings he has with those serving and their families. no centers are on the budget cut chopping block, good news for them. >> so important. great interview. now to politics. newt gingrich surging to the stop of the -- to the top of the gop field because of strong tea party support. overwhelming following of tea

party voters. could that support backfire if there gingrich ends up facing president obama in the general election? here now republican congressman tim murphy of pennsylvania, the pittsburgh area he joins us from a state where the latest quinnipiac college poll shows mr. gingrich running almost 20 point as head of mitt romney. welcome, thanks for coming what do you make of these results? he's out in starting block, 20 points in your state head of romney? >> what has helped newt for a long time he has talked issues. that has stood out. so many of the other republican candidates have talked issues but spent time sniping at each other where they have a lot of commonality with the white house all attacking republicans. what they ought to be doing is showing the difference between the republican and democrat white house. what newt does is generate a lot of ideas. i worked with him on health care policy. he's a thoughtful person who does generate a lot of ideas.

you can't get new voters until you get new ideas. that has been part of his drew. >> other members of congress say that i worked -- say they worked with him too and didn't have a great experience. >> every up with of these candidates bring something to the table, experience, credibility, ideas. newt does a lot of that. now, in any situation, they have to really focus on what they are going to bring back here and lead our nation. we have a president who campaigned on hope and change. now we see it is more blame and blame is what happens. that's not going to capture people's hearts. if newt is able to continue on with getting people's imagination and faith and entrepreneurialship and jobs that is going to carry credible. >> the poll, look at these numbers, astounding in terms of tea party support. gingrich, 64% to 22%, he has three times more among the tea

party members in term of the economy, which you would think would be mr. romney's strength, 50%, 33-22% for gingrich. foreign policy, a slaughter 60% believe that gingrich would be a better president on foreign policy over 9% for mr. romney. then knowledge and experience to be president. look at this, like almost six times more believe mr. gingrich would be. what has resonated suddenly over the past few weeks after herman cain dropped out, that has caused this explosive number of support for newt? >> i think it has to do with a number of things that he has been pushing for. when you watch his debates, he has the time complimenting other candidates not just criticizing. if this deteriorates into arguments about perfection and personality, he will be brought down too and will join the likes of cain and others who have had their surge and

fall. what is important for all these candidates, i wouldn't count a number of them out we have our primary in pennsylvania in april. if they focus on getting jobs back to america, bringing back american respect around the world, bringing back the strength of our defense, cutting the size of government that is what americans, not just tea party, broad base republicans also the broad base of voters. >> you haven't endorsed anybody yet? >> i have not yet. >> congressman tim murphy, thanks for joining us. could unemployment drop to 8% by next november? we take a look at president's bold prediction, he said it and what it would take to get there. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story

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in an upcoming interview president obama says it is possible to bring unemployment down to 8% before election day. it hasn't been that low since

before mr. obama took office. how can we make that happen? let's put that question to brenda buttner. what do you think? >> well, right now, just to keep up with population, increases it would take about 120,000 more jobs each month. that's just keeping up with increases. that's what we had last month when everybody was celebrating. we would have to add a million more jobs between now and next november beyond that 120,000 jobs a month to get that rate down to 8% it seems slightly unrealistic if we were celebrating the 120,000 jobs increase to add that. >> we are not seeing that. why do you think the president would say it? you think he has some plan we don't know about?

>> maybe if gdp, if somehow it were able to grow, exporting an such a huge part of our growth rate, europe seems to be imploding in many ways, it would be hard to get it to that point. i don't know. it seems the payroll holiday at this point is a big part of his plan and that's in limbo. i'm not sure. >> if that did go through, can you explain to those of us who are civilians, when it comes to the markets, what it could mean for companies and their ability to hire? >> i'm not sure it is a great hiring stimulus. at this point, we have a a holiday basically companies and people don't have to pay social security taxes. in the same -- certain percentage of those social security taxes for a temporary amount of time but in time they will have to pay it again it is for another year

everybody is fighting about that in washington right now but i'm not sure that it makes that much difference in terms of hiring there's a great debate about that right now. that's what it all comes down to. >> when we look at the markets tomorrow at least the domestic market could a statement like that that airs in an interview tonight make a difference in optimism or consumer confidence? >> consumer confidence is a big part of markets. markets want to see what we're feeling. much more interested in how we are spending. right now there's a lull, people have seen the discounts, they saw black friday, cyber monday. there's a lull right now. if companies are willing to dig into their margins and bring prices down and there is evidence that they may be willing to do that, maybe consumers will go to their credit cards and spend money they don't have, maybe we'll see the markets go up.

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in this struggling economy there are lots of shoppers hunting for bargains that has created a business boom where you might not expect it, pawnshops. rick leventhal, this is interesting, not just the economy that is driving this pawnshop surge, right? >> right, reality tv, go figure. shows like pawn stars and storage wars sparking interest in finding value in old stuff. gold pushing people to cash in. when you need money pawnshops can be a viable option that means more products on the shelves and more deals for holiday shoppers. pawn store owners say they might be america's best kept secret great way to get discount shopping with legitimate bargains sometimes half off on video games, jewelry and electronics.

this one store in brooklyn reporting 10 to 12% more buy there's month over last year and 25% more sellers. >> what about the numbers nationwide? it is not just a local phenomenon. >> right. store owners always see an uptick this time of year this time more significant, michigan, missouri, maryland up 25, 40% even 50% over last year, selling, pawning, buying, sometimes all three. visitors might pawn their grandmother's wedding ring, use the cash to buy gifts for the family and come back next spring with their tax refinanced and buy that ring back. >> people are now realizing that pawn brokers sell merchandise, they buy merchandise and they make you a nice sizeable loan on the merchandise giving you the option to come back and retrieve the item for a very small interest rate. >> one of the best selling items t diamond engagement rings, they are cleaned up like new, put in fresh boxes

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newt gingrich may be gaining in the polls but losing support from conservative pundits. criticizing the former house speaker, many of the salvos not just coming from the democratic talking heads. liz trotta joins us every sunday at this time. newt is the new target from some unexpected quarters? >> it is avalanche from the conservatives. they couldn't hop to it fast enough to write scorching pieces about him. the first comes from one of the senior editors of national review. he writes, he would be the first president with multiple ex-wives. and the first president with any ex-wives who speak negatively about him on the record. he would bring with him the first, first lady who could be labeled a home wrecker. president obama would not have to say a about any of this for the press to make it an issue. interestingly enough, that's

one example. of course that's the conservative outlet in this country, i think it has been for years. rush limbaugh, talk show host that everybody knows made some interesting comments. he said this looks like a coordinated attack. that is interesting do they all call one another up and say what are you writing today? could be. let's take a look at what david brooks in "the new york times" is supposedly conservative writer says. he says, self-righteousness, self-indulgence, intemperate, newt gingrich is a product of the 60s he's such a narcissist. erick erickson red state blog ask the question, are conservatives ready to forgive newt gingrich's sins? george will, the great columnist from the "washington post," he is the least conservative candidate,

he would have made a great marcist. he said he would have -- marxist. charles krauthammer talks about newt's deed for a grand display. a bad bet this is nut, because he will embarrass the gop by the force of his character. i think she means the lack of his character. it is interesting, those who know him are ready to say very negative things about him. it is those who really don't know him that closely that are giving him a break. >> do you think this will continue? >> oh yes. it is very interesting all week, everybody is trying to figure out who the conservative is. it is unbelievable. you hear a person called conservative one day and the next day he's called a mider of the roader or liberal. they are redefineing conservatism as well as trying to define gingrich.

>> and this morning, maureen dowd, not a conservative, called him a drama queen, it is a drama queen vs. no drama obama. this stuff is unbelievable. >> gingrich, whichever way you slice it is great copy. reporters know this. my goodness if he continues and goes all the way they will have stuff to write about for four years. >> another debate in four days. you know it is going to continue. >> right. the spotlight once more will be on gingrich. he will probably once more indicate how cool he can be under pressure. that's what the debates are about, revealing those sometimes hidden facets of human character that seem to emerge during a debate. >> just fascinating, it all continues. liz good to see you. >> that does it for us on this sunday morning. >> great to have you with us today. lots more news ahead.