door. >> i' got two guns in my hand. is it ok to shoot him in he comes in this door? >> find out what the operator said and what happened next because "fox & friends" starts right now. >> it's "fox & friends." >> hello, friends. welcome aboard. >> you know we've been talking about iowa for so long and now we are going to go to a state that we are not going to take for granted, the granite state of new hampshire. >> finally. there's going to be a couple of debates this weekend and on tuesday, we have new hampshire, of course, and straight ahead will be south carolina. it plays into the big game. this is at a record pace, by the way. >> no kidding. a blur. >> then on to florida. too bad we can't follow along the trail, right, right down to the warm, nice -- >> a little cold now. we'll join them in the spring. >> let's get right to your headlines not on the beach and a breaking story overnight. six police officers trying to serve a warrant are shot when a suspect starts spraying bullets.

it happened in utah. the officers all in the hospital at this hour where we're waiting for an update on their conditions. that single suspect also hurt remains in police custody. this all went down late last night at a home in the town of ogden north of salt lake city. details coming in. we'll update you as soon as we have more info. president obama will announce billions of dollars in cuts in defense spending today. he'll make the announcement at the defense department today. the first time a president has addressed reporters in the pentagon briefing room. it's creating a more realistic military by eliminating tens of thousands of ground troops and investing more in air and sea power. the pentagon's budget is way too bloated and the u.s. can be strong with fewer forces. the strategy amounts to $489 billion over the next 10 years. his appointment by president obama igniting controversy now in congress but today, richard cordrey's first day on the job. he will reveal his vision for the new consumer protection

bureau in a speech this morning. president took advantage of congress being out of town and appointed him to the position. this is certain to set up a legal battle. republicans tried to block his nomination saying the president's new agency does not have enough oversight. they disagree with the agency in general. a 14-year-old girl from texas missing since 2010 has been found. she is in colombia where she was deported by mistake. she reportedly ran away from home after her parents divorced. she was arrested in houston for theft. and gave police a fake name which apparently belonged to an illegal immigrant from colombia who had warrants for her arrest. immigration agents failed to reveal her identity before they deported her. she's now in a detention center waiting to come home. there's so much controversy about deporting people who need to be deported. anyway -- >> are you talking about the president's uncle? >> i don't know. >> that's a long time ago story. >> is he still here? >> yeah, he is.

>> the next big battle on the road to the white house in south carolina but first, some candidates are fighting it out in new hampshire. is that state a done deal or is new hampshire really up for grabs? peter doocy following the trail from washington. peter? >> brian, rick santorum says he raised almost a million dollars yesterday. half the money he's raised in all of his campaigning so far, just one day after he surprised a lot of people by finishing second in iowa. he's trying to establish himself as the most conservative romney alternative in the race and he explained what his campaign's philosophy is in new hampshire last night. >> the reason i am in this race, the principal reason i'm in this race is because obamacare. i think obamacare will turn every american into a dependent american. someone who will be relying upon the federal government. >> santorum's advisors say it's now just a two man race for the nomination between santorum and

the man who beat him by eight votes in iowa, mitt romney. other candidates would disagree with that including newt gingrich who last night in new hampshire said he'd have no problem vetoing republicans while also blasting president george w. bush. >> so the president is willing to use the full power of the presidency which has to include a willingness to really collide with the congress. one of bush's greatest mistakes was not vetoing the republican congress. >> so five days to go until new hampshire and here are the four candidates trying hardest for victory there. romney, the orange line will be in salem before heading down to south carolina this afternoon. santorum, the yellow line will be in manchester this morning and then concord after lunch. gingrich, the blue line crisscrossing the state to meredith. huntsman is making a line across the whole state. governor rick perry not seen here, he's taking a few days off and concentrating most of his

attention on south carolina and not seeing ron paul. he has no major events today either. back to you guys. >> thank you very much. latest polls out of new hampshire show -- it's a single poll but shows now that mitt romney has 47 points. he is 30 points above ron paul who's running number two there. and it looks like a slam dunk for mr. romney. well, not so fast. the other side would like to -- his opponents would like to stand in his way although until yesterday, mr. romney's biggest endorsement had been from chris christie. yesterday, though, john mccain, the guy that used to be the standard bearer for the republicans said you know what? that's my guy. >> and some people were surprised at that a little bit because of the fact that they were foes back in 2008. as you recall, mccain put out some attack ads against mitt romney back then because he wanted the nomination and eventually got it. one person, brian, who says it's a good endorsement for mitt

romney is sarah palin and she has an interesting take on why that might be. >> i'll tell you, john mccain, for example, went out and said even though i lost to george bush and i'm angry at him, i'm going to campaign for him. mitt romney, what was lost to john mccain, he stood there and did every interview for john mccain. i'm going to support you. yesterday was payback and here's governor sarah palin on why john mccain is vitally important to mitt romney. >> senator mccain and i, we're the only ones in america who have ever had to face that obama presidential ticket machine and all that it encompassed and what it encompassed really was, you know, this unscrupulous gimmicky scheme that it was and senator mccain evidently has chosen mitt romney as the one to be most prepared to face -- >> that machine. >> thuggery and this scheme he's going to have to face. >> interesting take because some people would think you would choose to endorse somebody based on policy, you know, that you would agree with them mostly on

their policies but that's an interesting spin because barack obama is going to have a billion bucks to come at the republicans and hadn't thought of that. very interesting point that sarah palin made. >> the thing is if john mccain could help get any votes from any of the other candidates for mitt romney it would probably be from jon huntsman. what's interesting is even though they were such critics of each other four years ago, mccain and mitt, turns out after mccain wound up with the nomination, they got together, couple of times, became good friends and in fact, john mccain considered mitt romney for his vice president. >> yeah, so john mccain will be joining us at 7:20 eastern time live to talk about that endorsement. they met, they announced it in a small gym, in a high school gym. it was an important moment for mitt romney but a lot of hostile questions. it was hardly a big pep rally. >> occupy wall street questions. china questions. but he seemed to deflect them relatively well. in the meantime, newt gingrich is still in the race and he says

now or did in an interview yesterday, a radio interview with laura ingraham, a friend of this show, he seemed to imply that maybe he's going to team up with senator rick santorum to try and take out mitt romney so would that be a good idea or are newt and rick santorum really going after the same kind of vote which would be the anti-romney vote? brit hume weighed in on this new strategy from newt gingrich. >> he could envision some kind of combination between him and rick santorum. that really doesn't make any sense. what newt gingrich needs to do is to be where rick santorum is. to hold that position in the race. to be the leader of the nonromney candidates. it doesn't -- it makes no sense for him to try to join forces with rick santorum to attack romney. so i -- it appears to me that newt gingrich at this moment's judgment about the political situation is clouded by a sort of road rage against romney. and i'm not sure that's going to

get him very far. >> unless you assume and here's my theory, that newt has come to the conclusion that he can't win or he cares less about winning now than revenge. i mean, this is ahab on the loose in new hampshire. i think he's out to get the great white mitt. >> he was firing off that print ad and he said governor romney was an independent and repudiated reagan-bush and voted for paul tsongas, the most liberal candidate since the 1992 campaign and ran to the left of ted kennedy in 1994. so the gloves are off even before newt landed. >> yeah, indeed. meanwhile, we got to tell you this amazing story out of oklahoma. just imagine you're a woman with a 3-month-old baby, right? >> your husband just passed away through lung cancer. >> right, on christmas day. there's a man at your front door with a 12-inch knife pounding on the door. there's another guy, his accomplice at the back door

pounding on that door. she calls 911 and says essentially, there are these two guys here. i have a shotgun. i have a pistol. what can i do? >> with my infant baby, can i please get someone out there, please? >> are your doors locked? >> yes, i've got two guns in my hand. is it ok to shoot him if he comes in this door? >> i can't tell him if you do this. you do what you have to do to protect your baby. >> interesting thing is that she eventually did shoot this gentleman in the torso when he came in. he died. there was another accomplice who now is facing a lot of jail time, i guess. >> yeah, he ran as soon as he heard the shots. on top of that, this woman credits the 911 operator, said she was so calm with me on the phone, it kept me calm. it went on for 21 minutes, this is truly amazing because this guy came earlier, knocked on the door and said he ended up being the assailant but before he did that, i guess he was casing the place because he knocked on the door and said i want to welcome you to the neighborhood.

really? she thought something was up then. she gave the baby a bottle, grabbed both guns and made the phone call. >> amazing. >> interesting thing is what law do you have in your state? there's a law that gives you more leniency like in this case to self-defend. that you won't be charged if in fact your life is threatened or the life of your baby is threatened or your property in some cases is threatened but other states don't have this so coming up on the show, we're going to decipher this for you. you should figure out what state you live in in case you're in this situation. >> right. because in that particular state, it's called the make my day law. if somebody breaks into your house, if they're in the house, you can defend yourself. >> by the way, if that isn't the law in your state, don't you think we should move? if someone breaks in your house and you can't shoot them, what's wrong? >> that's going to be in our 8:00 hour today. coming up on the show right now, though, this mom wanted to teach her kids a lesson so she called the cops. >> i have two teenage children who will not stop beating each

other up. they're throwing things at each other, toys, games. >> so did the mom do the right thing or go too far? one of her sons taken away in cuffs. >> president obama promised to fight for the middle class. new research shows the middle class is losing. stuart varney is a big winner and standing by to help explain the problem and the president's new problem. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes? but you've got a meat and potatoes guy? pour chunky sirloin burger soup

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>> president obama makes a difference in the battleground state of ohio promising to fight for the middle class in his bid for re-election. >> but while democrats are attempting to frame the president as a warrior for everyday americans, new data suggests that under his watch, it's the middle class that has suffered absolutely the most. >> stuart varney joins us with these unbelievable numbers. so this is very interesting what this study says because this is what the president's stump speech is going to be, right? >> that's right. look, the bottom line here is that america, middle america has clearly taken a hit. the worst news is that the biggest hit came during this so-called recovery period. if you look at our household

income from, let's see now, from june of 2009, that's when the recession ended. the recovery started june 2009. by the time you get to june of 2011, our median household income, the amount of money that we're bringing into the american household had gone from $53,000 to $49,000. the biggest slide took place during the so-called recovery period. it wasn't a recovery at all. we were getting much worse off. we were worse off during that recovery than we were actually during the recession. >> so not only were our house prices nose diving anywhere between 30% and 60% but we had less money in our pocket. >> it's a double whammy. on the one side, our income declined during the recovery. on the other side, our wealth declined during the recovery because the houses lost our value. >> look at who got hit the hardest. under the age of 25, you're down 9.5% in terms of employment. african-americans 9.4% and

families with three plus people in them, children with three plus children, 9.5%. >> that's -- it's important to point out that that is during the recovery period. when we're supposed to be recovering, getting better off. >> recovery is supposed to help those people! >> precisely. we got much worse off. >> it all depends on how you define recovery. because is recovery the gdp or what are they looking at to define that you're not in a recession anymore? it's two consecutive quarters of growth. >> that's a highly politicized statement, isn't it? what is a recovery? >> that's why i'm asking it. >> is a recovery according to president obama looks like you stopped falling. a recovery for most economists is you start growing. so there's the two sides of the fence here. what we've got to do in america, if you want to restore prosperity, you've got to start to grow again. it's that simple. >> if you're a republican running against the president, you want to break out this study. >> yes, you want to say look at the record. this is what your policies have done. stimulus, record spending and

we've got worse off. that's your record. let's do the opposite. >> the president can always say listen, i need four more years to fix things. things are a lot worse than i thought and that congress won't even let me fix things. >> darn it. >> listen to his speech yesterday in shaker heights which is a very nice place actually, his -- he was on class warfare. he's saying look, it's congress' fault. congress is doing nothing. >> wall street against middle america. >> right, he's playing against the bankers. playing against wall street ignoring his record. he's actually saying it's the republicans' fault. it's congress' fault. it's the bankers' fault. it's wall street's fault. that's why we don't have a real recovery. i want four more years to get us really in place. >> any suggestion that if he got four more years, the graph would go up rather than down? >> that's a very interesting question, steve. >> that's what people want to know! >> you know exactly what i think. i think four more years will bankrupt america. that's very harsh. but that's what i think will happen. >> leave it what that headline. >> have a nice day. >> all right. have a great show. >> thank you very much. >> at 9:20 eastern time, fox

business network, you can catch mr. varney. thanks. the senate said no to president obama's latest appointment speaking of congress but he did it anyway. and that decision isn't sitting well in the crucial swing state of ohio where he was yesterday, the state's treasurer joins us next. >> then a would be groom dumped on the jumbotron. brian, were you responsible for this? >> yes, i was. because it's sports, i'm responsible? come on, steve. >> it's either a brilliant prank or the most embarrassing engagement proposal ever. we'll report, you decide what happens then. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce and still reach your weight loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties ha sixty calories oless per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce.

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>> we have quick morning headlines for you now. a series of explosions in baghdad have left more than two dozen people dead and 60 people injured. the coordinated bombings tarpthed shiite neighborhoods. no word yet on who was behind the four attacks. and the german man accused of setting 52 fires across los angeles so wobbly in court, he needed the help of deputies to stand up. his arraignment was postponed until january 24th. his bail set at $2,850,000. brian? >> steve, president obama making his first domestic spot in 2012 in the swing state of iowa. he's done it 17 times already pushing for more economic regulations. >> does anybody think that the reason we got in such a financial mess, the worst financial crisis since the great

depression, the worst economic crisis in a generation, that the reason was because of too much oversight of the financial industry? >> no! >> of course not. we shouldn't be weakening oversight, we shouldn't be weakening accountability. we should be strengthening it. >> it's the president's message and it's -- is it striking a chord with voters in ohio? he needs that state. josh mendel is the ohio state treasurer and a candidate for the u.s. senate seat there. first off, for you, josh, the president's speech at a high school yesterday, was the message something a lot of people in ohio can understand and can resonate with? >> you know, the president, brian, is starting to have a fingernails on a chalk board type effect here in ohio. the reason is the people of ohio are very independent minded. we don't like things being jammed down our throats similar to how the obamacare was stuffed down the throats of the american people and people in the state of ohio really rejected that.

they don't see it as a job creator for our state and our focus is on job creation. same thing yesterday, they see his speech the more of the same of jamming things down the throat of the people of the state of ohio and american people. it's been rejected by senior citizens on fixed incomes and being rejected by middle class folks looking for new jobs and not more regulation and it's being rejected by young people, unfortunately. we've been an exporter of young people in this state and we're trying to keep the kids and grandkids here, have jobs for them to stay here in the state of ohio. >> bring me to ohio. just to give me a sense of people of ohio. it's hard to imagine they can relate to wall street whether you think they're great or bad. it's -- to me, he seemed to have the right message that could get him the maximum amount of votes by saying hey, you middle class people, i'm out for you. should we look behind the words to find out what he's really doing? >> the people of the state of ohio are rejecting hyperpartisan rhetoric and divisive rhetoric and i think what they see coming out of president obama's mouth and also the mouth of senator

sherod brown here in ohio is hyperpartisan, very divisive rhetoric that's tearing people apart. we have a united states senator here who voted for the wall street bank bailout and people in the state are rejecting that. we also have people throughout the state of ohio, democrats, republicans and independents who are telling these politicians in washington, why don't you focus on jobs instead of focusing on more regulations that's going to push jobs out of the state of ohio. >> by the way, we asked senator brown to come on. didn't want to do it. meanwhile, let's move on and talk about one of the four regulatory agencies that are going to get a new head yesterday. and that is richard cordrey. he was trotted out. he's from ohio. he is going to be overseeing not only banks but nonbank lenders and on the surface, this seems like something the people of ohio can relate to but the republicans are going to fight this recess appointment. >> it's about the process. it's about again, washington jamming things down the throat

of the american people and people here in the state of ohio. we don't like things forced on us by politicians in washington whether it's president obama, whether it's ultraliberal senator brown or others who are jamming things down the throats of people in ohio. we don't like it. we're independent group of people and independent minded and it's really the process, hyperpartisan process that the people at the state of ohio are rejecting. we want leaders in washington and here in columbus who can rise above partisan politics to move the ball down the field economically for our state and for our country. >> he's the ohio state treasurer and wants to be the next senator from ohio. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> meanwhile, he promised a comeback and he's following through. herman cain's going to congress? we'll explain. then he's climbed eight of the world's highest peaks, covered every continent and he is just 15 years old. the teenage world record holder here next. but first, happy birthday to robert duvall. the academy award winning actor turns 81 today. we were in the 10th grade together.

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>> it was so close, they're calling it a victory for rick santorum. and his campaign celebrated, you see him last night, celebrated with a pizza party. they had pizza. here's the embarrassing part. it was delivered by herman cain. >> he was prince of pizza for a while at godfather's. herman cain was on the hannity program last night and he talked a little bit about his future and as it turns out, he's got congress in mind.

>> started a new movement, the biggest comment that i got when i ended my candidacy was, keep 9-9-9 alive. that's what this is about. and i'm going to keep it alive with what i'm calling cain's solutions revolution. here's what we're going to do. we're going to get commitments from members of congress in 2012 before election day in order to support 9-9-9 the legislation. >> good idea actually to see who would come on board. he's actually talking about tax reform. it's one of the main reasons why he shot up in the polls initially before the problems came to light for herman cain. people liked the fact that he had a plan. that they could look at and understand and most importantly that might change the way in which we tax our people in this country. so i think it's a good idea. now whether or not it will actually be productive is a different question and by the way, he said he was going to make a big announcement last night. i thought he was going to endorse somebody. instead it was that. >> he said he's going to wait

for the nomination. in the big picture, i remember in my mind the last debate he had and all the republican candidates killing him on 9-9-9 because it gets a little more complicated as you open up what exactly it would mean. >> to push the 9-9-9 agenda that he has, he's rented a bus. he's taking this bus across the country to talk about 9-9-9. >> where did he get the idea? the partridge family and that was a great idea for those kids to get behind them. you think they could afford a driver. let's talk about the news. >> all right. some headlines for you now, brand new information in the murder investigation at queen elizabeth's estate in eastern england. we're learning the female victim found dead on the estate between the ages 15 and 23. people are looking at cold cases across the country including the case of a missing 17-year-old student last seen about 10 miles from the estate back in august. police are waiting on d.n.a. tests now. >> all right. texas middle school closed today after police shot and killed the teenager there. cops believed he was armed with

a real handgun. it turns out 15-year-old jamie gonzalez jr. that is was carrying a pellet gun. police were called to cummings middle school in brownsville. when officers arrived, they say gonzalez pointed the gun at them and refused to drop it. they fired three times. gonzalez is dead. no one else hurt. >> meanwhile, an icon of american business going bankrupt? there are reports kodak could file for chapter 11 in the next few weeks. that's sad. right now, the company making last ditch efforts to sell off some of its digital imaging patents. there are no takers just yet. the news sent the company's shares to an all time low. >> a mother of five fed up with her kids fighting so she called 911. >> i have two teenage children who will not stop beating each other up. they're throwing things at each other, toys, games. >> salem, massachusetts, mom says things escalated when her 15-year-old son pushed his

16-year-old sister. cops say he'll be summoned to court to answer charges of domestic assault and battery. and now it's time to talk about other people getting beat up. it's on the sports field. >> it involves oranges and being beaten to the pulp. let's talk about it. safety cook pummelling the orange bowl mascot. it turns out, you're about to see, the mountaineers did just as much damage to their opponents. wow. clemson tigers down by 29 at the half. third quarter, gino smith, austin, fourth touchdown of the game. west virginia up 63-20. fourth quarter, a diving touchdown from willie millhouse seals the deal. west virginia wins their first orange bowl 70-33. that's most points ever scored in bcs history. great sportsmanship. speaking of breaking records, take a look at this play by the american national team goalie tim howard.

>> is that amazing? he sent the ball flying 100 yards. all the way from his goal to the other team's goal on the other side of the field. he's only the fourth goalie in premier league history which is arguably the best league in the world to pull that off. incredible. now to a guy who shoots and does not score. you're talking about seeing a courtside marriage proposal. we've seen this before. it's so cute, it makes you well up. that doesn't go -- that's not the way this one went. watch! >> if being rejected by the love of your life isn't bad enough, he was rejected on the

jumbotron right in front of the east l.a. audience and a los angeles reporter looked into it saying it was staged and he had the proposal and heartache is all real. she gets up and is actually smiling. coming up on radio in a little while, steve will be joining us, ed rollins and chris wallace between 9:00 and noon. >> we'll all be in the same chair. >> i don't know if you should do a jumbotron thing like that. more on that later. >> their next marriage. >> our next guest reached new heights as a 15-year-old but as an elite athlete. >> jordan romero is the youngest to summit the seven tallest mountains on earth plus one more. >> he joins us to share the experience. good to see you again. >> good to see you, too. >> why do the eighth? >> well, you know, it's a controversy between indonesia and australia and whether both conned continents, there's a much higher mountain in australia and indonesia so we

climbed that mountain, too, so avoid any controversy. >> at age 15, you have climbed the seven summits plus one other. >> yes. >> what's left on your bucket list? >> you know, i'm only 15 and it's a whole life ahead of me. i'm definitely hungry for more traveling and adventure and me and the team, you know, my father and my stepmom we're thinking about a possible full expedition in the future. but for now -- >> wait until summer. >> yes. but now, it's just -- it's just to kind of let things settle right now and, you know, just be skiing, you know, it's winter season right now and, you know, why not. >> your dad gets you into it at 9 years old. >> i got myself into it. >> really? you're the one who said dad, i need to climb a mountain? >> yes. pretty much. >> did he have a climbing background? >> you know, he had a very adventurous background. him and karen were professional adventure racers back then.

>> so you were only 13 when you scaled everest and you were the youngest to do so. and it's considered dangerous, obviously. people can die doing this. and especially at 13. what were the safeguards that you've done in all these climbs as a child? >> it's called just being smart and we're working together as a team, you know, i couldn't do it without my family. so that's how it was made all possible. that's how we kept safe and, you know, throughout each mountain, start to build more experience and more skill. >> you undoubtedly, jordan, have the coolest facebook photos on the planet. right? >> yes, i believe so. >> here i am on kilimajaro, here i am there. >> what do your friends say about it? >> my friends, they -- since i'm growing up with them, they kind of grew up with knowing that i'm doing this. >> used to it. >> they're kind of used to it. they don't think it's too unusual. jordan, he climbs mountains auto oochlt what are you doing there? are you tebowing?

>> yes, i'm doing the tebow right there at the base camp. last mountain we climbed. >> sorry. >> there was one summit bigger than -- bigger than the next, the one you remember and want to go back to. >> the one mountain i look forward to coming back to would, perhaps, be kilimajaro with that one being the first one, you know, africa is such a beautiful place and learning about, you know, the whole third world country scene and being able to experience at a young age it's great but i definitely want to go back there. >> what are you drinking? >> frs healthy energy. >> it matches your jacket. what a coincidence. >> the drink of tim tebow, lance armstrong and jordan romero. >> very nice. >> for those of us who never have been to the top of a summit like that, what do you gain from having that experience as a person? >> you know, you just got to know that all the hard work, you know, we're on everest for 50 days.

and for that 15 minutes up the summit, you don't -- like you don't quite get it until you're actually there. and it's all just totally worth it. the hard work pays off. all the real hard work pays off once you're back home and safe. because when you're at the summit, you're only half way there. you have to come back down the mountain. >> no time to celebrate. >> that's why there's no sports bars up there. they got to get down. >> that's why. >> i thought it was the bread delivery. >> all right. great to have you back on the curvy couch. good luck, jordan romero. >> thank you and for all my followers, go to jordanromero.com for the big announcement on what's next. >> fantastic. >> keep folks updated on what you're doing. >> for sure. >> check out my blog. >> all right. >> thanks so much. >> you're a busy young man. >> have you heard, maybe jordan has heard this song, i'm not sure. well, it's a song called "i used to be the 1%, worked all the

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>> some quick headlines now. mariah carrey confirming her husband was hospitalized for a mild kidney failure. a mild kidney failure? is that possible? the two were on vacation with their twins in aspen, colorado, when cannon got sick. she didn't provide details of the illness but it's usually related to dehydration or a bad reaction to medication like advil. he was on our couch and he's on "america's got talent." and a car thief pulls off an amazing parking job. the driver was speeding in fresno, california when he missed a turn, hit some rocks and went airborne. landed on an apartment complex and landed himself a broken leg and in jail. he was wanted on several warrants. well, you got them. steve? >> you did. thanks. >> trouble with schools, check out the lyrics to this song called "part of the 99."

i used to be one of the 1% i worked all the time never saw my family couldn't make life rhyme then the bubble burst it really hurt i lost my money lost my pride lost my home now i'm part of the 99 would you believe that third graders in virginia wrote and performed that song in their school without any help from their teachers? that's what the school district is saying but our next guest isn't buying it. kyle olson is the founder of education action group and the author of a book called "indoctrinati "indoctrination, how useful idiots are using our schools to subvert american exceptionalism" and he joins us from dallas. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what do you mean that doesn't sound like the work of third graders? come on, that's what the school says. >> you would think third graders know more about gas bubbles than housing bubbles. it's interesting because, you know, the school district and this organization, kid pan

alley, they're claiming that the kids just, you know, organically came up with this and the adults just foster it but you think about, you know, again, as you said, these are third graders and do you honestly believe that they know about bubbles and the 99% and all of those things. i just find it hard to believe. but the school district is doubling down. the organization is claiming that they're reforming but we'll have to wait and see if they actually do that. >> here's what a school board chairman out in virginia said. the students vote to decide the topic of their song. the words are those of the students and not scripted by the musicians. we are teaching our students how to write, not what to write. now, we have to inject there's also an outside group called kid pan alley involved here. they've received some grants from the state of virginia. what did they do? >> well, they're the ones that are essentially hired by the schools. they create the program where they go in and they write these songs with the students. and this, unfortunately, is not

the only political song because the organization is a 501c3 and they claim they don't do political songs and they don't do partisan songs but i found a song yesterday and i got a blog on it on townhall.com where they wrote a song about the obama election and the obama inauguration and they're saying how hip, hip, hooray, obama is going to save the day and so i think there's a pattern here that the state needs to look into and parents and taxpayers need to be aware of. >> here's a quote from kid pan alley. kid pan alley doesn't promote or condone any personal or political agenda. as a result, our programming over the years has consist he wantly received high praise and condemnation from children, parents and schools. speaking of the parents, they really stood up when they heard about this song, i'm happy to be the 99%. and the teachers -- rather, the parents got the school to admit what?

>> they got to admit that they essentially did wrong and they're taking corrective action and that's what's so critical is parents have got to bring these things to light. and that's the only reason that this came to light was because a parent said look, if this isn't right, i don't approve of this. i don't approve of this indoctrination and i'm going to do something about it. that's what parents need to do. they need to stand up when they see these things happen and they need to say, we don't approve of this and we need to get this out of our schools. >> all right and apparently, that's put an end to that right there in virginia. kyle olson, the author of "indoctrination" from dallas, thank you, sir, for joining us live. >> thank you. >> all right. what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. do you believe third graders wrote that stuff? meanwhile, have you heard this diet tip? trade in your fruit for chocolate? if you like that, we have even more easy ways to lose weight. next. then is the party over? some say the tea party's going bust. really? we're going to talk about that

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>> all right. we all know about new year's resolutions, right? if yours was to lose weight, you're not alone but too often, we make the mistake of trying fad diets and we don't keep the weight off for good. here to detox your diet is celebrity nutritionist and author of the detox solution, kimberly snyder with five or six tips that actually can work, right? >> that's right. and they're sustainable for the long term. >> that's exactly what we need. good morning, by the way. >> good morning. >> since it is the morning, let's start our day in which you recommend we start off our day which is how? >> hot water is lemon. how you start every day sets you up for a day of making good

choices and staying on track. you can have hot water with lemon, it's so easy and quick. it has a cleansing effect in the body. lot of vitamin c and enzymes that support your liver that is the fat burning organ. >> what about the hot water? what does that do? >> helps to relax everything. a lot of us want something hot in the morning. they go right to the coffee. coffee has cream, sugar and a ton of caffeine that's taxing for the liver. americans are having an average 70 gallons of coffee a year. >> a lot of coffee. >> so the liver helps us fight fat? >> that's right. our liver is our main detoxifying organ so having the hot water with lemon in the morning sets us up for a really good day. it's so easy, we can all do that. >> you're so right. when i come in here really early in the morning, i want something hot. what do i do for? i go for the next thing you're talking about, i go with coffee and cream. you're going to tell me no more, gretchen. >> it's not that you have to cut it out entirely. by having the hot water with lemon, you'll find you won't need as many coffee. >> what should i put in my

coffee instead of cream? >> almond milk, it won't make you as heavy in the morning. >> one thing you're known for is the healthy smoothies that people have for breakfast. i'm looking at this, kimberly and i'm thinking not so sure! >> this is called the glow and green smoothy and this is the signature drink that i have all my clients drink. it looks green but there's fruit in it. it tastes really good. what this is is the fuel that's going to give you a ton of energy, going to help you slim down for the long term. and it's going to make your skin look better. >> all right. now, i'm shocked because it's -- what you need to do when you drink this is close your eyes. >> it actually tastes really good but it's full of enzymes, minerals, fido newt represents, all the nutrients you need in the morning but in an easily digestible form because it's blended. in one serving you're having one cup of green, leafy vegetables which is more than people get in a whole week. >> this is artificial sweeteners, sodas, etc. >> sugar.

>> what's your take on this? >> on average, americans are having 140 pounds of sweetener a year. so when you think you're adding a packet here, a little bit of sugar here, it starts to add up and that really hurts your weight loss goals and it's really bad for your skin. >> so what i recommend instead is to have some stevia which is a zero calorie sweetener but actually natural, not made of all the chemicals which the artificial sweeteners are. you can keep it in your purse and wallet. cut back on the soda, even diet soda. we're having 53 gallons of soda a year and really, that's a lot of sugar in a body. not good. >> here's one of my downfalls and a lot of other people. crunchy snacks. stay away from the crunch and go for something like celery that is not crunchy. >> this metabolizes more sugar in the body. crunchy vegetable sticks are good for you. put almond butter on them. they have protein, minerals and you want to actually eat the veggie sticks. rice cakes, not the best. all these carby snacks will not help your weight loss goals.

>> tastes like styrofoam anyway. isn't that funny? here's the big debate, you say fruits are good for you. but you need to eat it at a certain time. >> it's very healthy for you but eat it in the morning and on an empty stomach, ok? or have it as an often snack. if you have it as dessert, it metabolizes on quickly, it will sit on top of the heavier foods you just ate and it will start to bloat you out. >> a little dark chocolate will metabolize ok and kill that sweet craving. >> thanks for the fabulous points. great to see you. >> happy new year. >> thanks, you as well. not long ago, they were accusing romney of being a flip-flopper. now he's supporting him. we'll ask him why. years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ '80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.

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>> good morning, everyone. today is thursday, january 5th. hope you're going to have a fantastic day. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time. not a moment to waste in the republican race but with different candidates come different strategies. we're going to explain what the candidates are doing today and if n.h. is still at play or is it s.c. or f.l.? >> talk about a game changer. some big name conservatives holding a secret meeting to fix the presidential ticket. >> really? >> why they want to make sure conservatives are concentrating on just one man. >> and speaking of just one man, president barack obama defying congress with not one but four recess appointments. and one lone republican standing by the president's side.

who is that shadowy senator supporting the move? we'll tell you who he is. as "fox & friends" rolls on live from new york city. >> hi, i'm congressman ron paul and you're watching "fox & friends." >> and the congressman is with us yesterday and he continues his fight to become president as well. >> i thought it was strange yesterday that he blurted out, i can't win. >> yeah. >> why would he say that to his supporters who will run through fire for him? >> what he's going to do according to his manager, they're going to concentrate on caucuses rather than primary states. when it comes time to the convention, he'll still have a presence there. >> to pressure people. >> exactly right. >> very interesting. here's some other interesting things, your headlines this morning beginning with the fox news alert. brand new reports that one of six police officers shot in ogden, utah overnight has died from his injuries. the officer agent jared fradcom,

a married father of two. he was one of several officers serving a drug-related search warrant late last night when a suspect started spraying bullets. right now, we're awaiting word on the conditions of five other officers. at last check, they were being treated at the hospital. the lone suspect also in the hospital under the watch of armed guards, though. the next big battle on the road to the white house in new hampshire, but you won't catch all of the candidates there. one specifically skipping the granite state, just only five days left until that state's primary and these four candidates are hitting the road hard. mitt romney in salem, new hampshire before heading to south carolina later on this afternoon. rick santorum riding his new iowa surge will visit manchester and concord. newt gingrich will be crisscrossing new hampshire from plymouth to meredith while jon huntsman is making a line across the whole state. governor rick perry is in texas taping a few days off and concentrating nearly all his attention on south carolina. president obama meantime will announce billions of dollars in cuts to defense spending today. he'll make the announcement at the pentagon, the first time any

president has addressed reporters in the pentagon briefing room. administration says it's creating a more realistic military by eliminating tens of thousands of ground troops and investing more in air and sea power. officials familiar with the plan say the pentagon's budget is way too bloated and the u.s. can still be strong with fewer forces. the strategy amounts to $489 billion in cuts that will take place over the next 10 years. sorry, ladies. it appears he has declared his love. >> justin timberlake now off the market. reports say he has proposed to long time girlfriend actress jessica biel while vacationing in jackson, wyomingment over the holidays. the two have been dating on and off for the past four years. and those are your headlines. >> congratulations.

ok. >> it's just sort of that hollywood thing. >> but they did wait until they were -- he's 30 and she's 29. didn't get married right out of the gate. >> i know romance, right? i mean, for -- >> middle name. >> those two kids are in love 25 years later on this couch will be talking about their anniversary celebration at the mirage in vegas. >> probably will still have this couch. >> maybe ian will wash it for a change. i ask every day. >> febreeze it a little bit. back to politics. president obama has done something that a lot of people are really mad about. he did it yesterday. he bypassed congress specifically republicans and appointed three people to the labor board and appointed that mr. cordray from ohio to head up this new, what's it called again -- >> consumer bureau. >> consumer bureau. cfps. anyway, he did it in a way that's called a recess appointment which all presidents do but in this case he set a precedent because he did it while members of congress are

still meeting and apparently that's against the law and they could go to court over this whole thing. >> it's kind of scary in that he's pressing the edges of the constitution by doing so and he's also making no doubt about it fraying the relationship between republicans in congress and the presidency. what kind of year is this going to be? a day after getting back from hawaii, he essentially declares congress null and void. i'm going to do what i want. rick santorum knows about this process and is upset about it. >> what are rules to president obama? why do -- he is such -- he's such an important man. i mean, he's the president of the united states, isn't he? and as he said today in ohio, when the minority blaming the republicans, when the minority stands in the way, i'll do whatever the american people deserve. who cares what the constitution says? who cares what the law says? who cares what the rules are? i'm the president.

pretty scary stuff. >> and the rules are that the president can make these recess appointments if congress is in recess. but the house was in pro forma session and they did it specifically so the president could not do what he just did. this is all part of his plan to go around congress. now, back in 2008, then senator barack obama promised he would not do that sort of signe thing. watch this. >> we're not going to use that as a way of doing an end run around congress. >> and yet, since he's taken office, he's done that 20 times and the latest effort is simply to wrangle republicans. you have to figure this seems very provocative and it will probably all be part of his re-election strategy. look at congress. they're not doing anything so i have to do stuff on my own. in fact, when they were out, i had to -- >> i think to a certain extent, it will be effective because congress' approval ratings are

way lower than president obama's and because he doesn't want to focus on his own record necessarily, he needs to find somebody else to talk about and why he needs four more years and what he's going to say is congress won't do anything and so i need four more years and a better congress to try to get stuff done. >> steve, you're referring to the last time he went around congress new year's eve. he autographed a 13 paragraph memorandum declaring he didn't intend to follow several sections of the defense stabilization act funded for the military in 2012. that was a signing statement but on new year's eve, we were focused on what bill hemmer and megyn kelly were doing, we weren't paying attention. find somebody to kiss. >> how dare they distract us. >> while republicans are lined up against in particular this consumer bureau, mainly because it's largely unregulated and the head of the bureau, apparently, it is under the umbrella of the federal reserve and the head doesn't even report to the at the head.

he has the support of one republican senator, whose profile is that? it's scott brown of the great state of massachusetts. interestingly enough, it is his opponent in the senate race up there, elizabeth warren who essentially invented the consumer bureau and so that's going to be a big issue up there and he doesn't want to say look, standing in the way. >> the reason he is supporting it, though, is you have to go back and look at his record and he voted for dodd-frank which was basically the law that created this idea of this consumer protection bureau. so maybe he's feeling like he needs to be consistent in the sense that he voted for that and so this is the next part of that particular lot. >> he said he was going to be an independent and vote his conscience. >> he's independent. >> you have to make progress as a nation, both parties need to work together to end the procedural gridlock and hyperpartisanship. all right, so by bypassing his position, that was a plus. let's talk about something going on in texas that we're not invited to next weekend nor are

you. >> can we crash the party? >> no, you cannot crash the party. there's a lot of money in this big security. there's a movement now amongst some conservative leaders to get together next weekend in texas, go try to find them in texas, not too bad of a state. to get together and decide on one consensus candidate. >> i think this is extremely important. what they're trying to decide on is the conservative consensus candidate. so as we've watched this whole election cycle play out or at least campaign cycle, we've seen all these different republican conservatives come to the top and fall. top and fall. bachmann, perry, gingrich, now santorum, herman cain, etc. so what they want to do at this meeting is determine which one they really want to consolidate their efforts behind. will it be rick perry? will it be newt gingrich or will it be rick santorum right now? because they, i know, are correct in saying that it's splintering the vote to still have all of these people in the race.

interesting to see who they decide to support. >> it seems they're less interested in who is the most electable rather than who is the most conservative to their particular goals. >> although gary bower says that it's not an anti-mitt summit, just a way to all get together. james dobson is founder of focus on the family and he's the one that put this together and don wildman is the one time chairman of the american family association and you know gary bower has been on here a lot. >> he has been and ran for president once. >> right. we'll see what happens next weekend in texas. >> meanwhile, is the party over? some say the grassroots group has gone bust. the tea party? really? we'll debate that coming up next. >> then how about some barbecued shrimp for breakfast? emril legassi is here to show off some of his classic cajun cooking. looking good. sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet.

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>> welcome back. is mitt romney's win by eight votes in iowa a sign that the tea party's days may be numbered? that's a question some are raising after romney, a candidate not considered a favorite of the tea party managed to pull out a victory there early yesterday morning. here to weigh in this morning are the co-hosts of "the five" juan williams and andrea tantaros. good morning to both of you.

>> good morning. >> juan, let's start with you. you say that the tea party not quite as powerful as they were a year ago and in fact, they're blending in with the establishment. >> absolutely, steve. i mean, you think about the power of the tea party and the fact that they were the dynamo that led to the republican takeover of the house in 2010 in those midterms. today, as we head towards a presidential election, you see so many of the principles of the tea party, the small government, lower taxes, even more hard line being adopted by the republican establishment. look at mitt romney. that's why he's often called a flip-flopper on everything from health care mandates to other social issues. it's because he's trying to appeal to tea party issues but the power of it to win elections is what's called into question here and i think you see the republican establishment saying we don't want another sharon angle, we don't want another christine o'donnell, candidates that were tea party favorites but could not win over

independents in a general election race. >> you were out in iowa. according to the fox news entrance polls, who got the tea party vote? rick santorum with about 30%. mitt romney had about 20 as did paul, gingrich with 15. andrea, one of the reasons we're talking about this, there's an interesting, provocative, if you will, op ed in the l.a. times yesterday asking is the tea party over and one of the things they said is regarding iowa, the three candidates who were closest to the tea party line, michelle bachmann, rick perry and newt gingrich sank straight to the bottom of the pool. >> well, that's because they split the vote. if you tally up all the votes that they got, that's a tea party vote right there. and that 3/4 of the vote repudiated someone like mitt romney that juan was pointing out may not be as conservative. but look, i don't think the tea party is out there in washington. they're not marching anymore but juan did make a good point. their principles are being adopted and their language is being adopted. i do think that they have a p.r. problem. the mainstream media and the

democrats have done a real number on them. just last night, a girl who was a democrat in new york was saying to me, i don't like those tea party extremists and i asked her if she agreed with smaller government and if she agreed with less spending, she said i don't want my money wasted on things like turtle tunnels. these are tea party principles. juan and his friend, not juan, we like juan but the mainstream media and the democrats have done a hatchet job on the tea party and accused them of being racist, extremist and they're not and you can thank the tea party actually for getting congress to actually make these cuts because the president was not going to do it. >> juan, she's got a great point. they could have a p.r. problem at this point because some regard the tea party as extremist. meanwhile, occupy wall street, come on. just a bunch of kids out there having fun. >> yeah, i think that there's a different standard there and so there is a double standard if that's the point. but i think it's key here to understand that while occupy wall street, i think, represents a larger discontent, it's still the case, you know, almost 80%

of americans think the country is going the wrong direction. there's more economic inequality and all that. the tea party movement, though, has had political power and they transform their discontent into real change here in washington. occupy wall street hasn't done that yet. they're more disorganized, i'd say. but the tea party moment and this is to pick up on what andrea was saying and what you were saying, steve, about the outcome in iowa, what you're seeing is that all the candidates -- the candidates who are going to come out of this and mitt romney especially but look at some of the other moderates, they just adopted some tea party principles and moved on and i think left the tea party behind. >> all right, andrea, give you the final word, ma'am. >> yeah, i absolutely adpree. -- agree. you look at what's happening in the house of representatives. the members that were swept in in 2010, they're driving a lot of the policies in washington. thank god they are. nobody is watching the purse strings. even though we don't see george madison marching on capitol

hill, we do see that the tea party is still there and still prominent. the members that they elected are doing their will and i think they'll be very prominent in 2010. >> you two certainly are prominent on "the five" juan and andrea, thanks for joining us live. see you later. >> take care, steve. >> straight ahead, missing for nearly two years, this teenage girl has been found safe and sound but she was never lost! she was deported by mistake. how does that happen? did we mention she's also an american? plus, no one knows what it's like to run against president obama except john mccain and he believes mitt romney is the man to do the job. why? he called him a flip-flopper four years ago and we'll ask senator john mccain about that then and now when he joins us live at 7:20. that's next on "fox & friends." [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up!

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>> 22 minutes after the top of the hour. welcome back, everyone. well, they may have been rivals in the past but now arizona senator and 2008 g.o.p. presidential nominee john mccain makes clear that he is backing mitt romney. >> i am really here for one reason and one reason only. and that is to make sure that we make mitt romney the next president of the united states of america. and new hampshire and new hampshire is a state that will catapult him on to victory in a very short period of time. that's why i'm here! >> a fired up arizona senator and there he is. senator john mccain. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. good morning, gretchen. ielths -- a little too fired up,

i guess. >> no, no, it's good to have that passion. some people were interested in your endorsement. they're remembering back to 2008 when you were kind of a foe of mitt romney. why the change of heart? >> well, it was a tough primary that we had in 2008 and these things are tough, you know, as you know, politics is a bean bag. but right after the voters decided the republican voters decided, no one worked harder than my campaign for mitt romney. we agree on 95% of the issues. i also feel very strongly that he has the best chance to defeat president obama. i'm proud to endorse him. and i believe that with a big win here in new hampshire, it can give him significant momentum but one caution flag and that is that voters of new hampshire are notorious for making up their minds rather late so i know that mitt is not taking anything for granted and

i am not either so he's working hard but i have some guarded confidence that this will be a pretty big -- pretty good win. >> all right. a lot of people said they're not surprised other than you used to be a foe. they're not surprised because they believe that you're more of a moderate republican like mitt romney might be. but sarah palin had an interesting take on this. she said that maybe your endorsement of him is a good thing because you've been through barack obama and an election cycle and the heat that a mitt romney might face if, in fact, he's the nominee. is she right? >> oh, i think maybe i can be helpful but in all candor, it's the candidate that matters. i can help. i think there's many others who will be coming out in support of mitt romney and they can all help but it's up to the candidate and i'd like to make one comment about moderate. i'll match my record as a fiscal conservative and fighting for the taxpayers of my state and

america against anybody. i'll match my record against anybody in the republican party today. so i'm always a little bit intrigued by this quote "moderate" label. that's fine with me. but i'm very proud of being a strong fiscal and social conservative and i don't think i would have won the nomination back in 2008 if that hadn't happened and i believe that mitt is also very strong in those areas. >> mitt romney was considered the conservative four years ago and now he's the moderate. the voters will have to decide how they see this whole thing play out. ing -- speaking of the voters, after new hampshire we go to south carolina. they have picked the right president in over a decade. you squeaked a win there over mike huckabee. who are you picking for south carolina? >> part of it depends on what

happens here in new hampshire just as iowa gave senator santorum some wind at his back, i think a significant win here can help mitt romney. i also know he has a good organization in place in south carolina. but again, anybody who starts taking these primaries for granted, ignores the lessons of history. voters understand how important their vote is and a lot of them aren't making up their minds so i wouldn't be predicting but i do believe a very good victory here is bound to give some momentum to the romney campaign and then florida, i think, is a place where mitt can do well, too, but anything can happen. that's why we watch it hour to hour. >> all right. putting back your senator hat on for a moment, the president, president obama has filled that seat for the new consumer bureau protection agency while congress is out of town, basically. so he did this against the

objections of almost everyone on the g.o.p. side. your reaction to that? >> arrogance of power, abuse of power, especially this nlrb. you know, the nlrb, i'm sure many of our viewers know, made a judgment that boeing could not set up a factory in south carolina because of the fact that south carolina is a right to work state. one of the most disgraceful decisions in the history, outrageous. telling corporations where they can and cannot go in the united states of america and so the president's put these far, far left people appointed them, recess appointments which is an absolute abuse of power. another reason why the president of the united states should not serve another term and by the way, he said he would never do signing statements. we had some pretty tough detainee provisions in the national defense authorization bill. he did, guess what, a signing statement. you know, talk about flip-flopping. i mean, it's remarkable and it is disgraceful.

>> that's the opinion of senator john mccain this morning. on a much lighter note, we have emeril legassi coming up, i've been smelling his food during this entire interview and i know you have a pretty good hand on the barbecue. maybe sometime we should have you in here to cook for us as well. are you up for that? >> i promise you i will cook you some ribs that will be the best you've ever had in your life. >> i've heard that about you, senator. have a fantastic day. thanks for getting up early. >> thanks for having me on, gretchen. bye. >> he promised to come back and now he's coming through. next stop for the herman cain train, congress? emeril to show off some of that classic cajun cooking. it's smelling so good my stomach is a rumbling, emeril. my name is robin.

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>> according to the mayans, the world is supposed to end in 2012. are you buying that, huh? when is the last time you even ran into a mayan? they couldn't even predict their own death. don't worry about me. >> let's hope the mayans are wrong. >> hope they're lying. 28 minutes before the top of the hour, we have some great food awaiting us and a pretty good chef. >> but we'll get to the bam, but first the headlines. on this thursday morning. new information in the murder investigation at queen elizabeth's estate in eastern england. we are now learning that the female victim found dead on her estate is likely somewhere between the ages of 15 and 23. police are probing cold cases across the country including the case of a missing 17-year-old student.

pictured there. she was last seen about 10 miles from the estate back in august. hasn't been seen since. police are waiting on d.n.a. tests to see if they can figure out who the body is. >> the cain train derailed, as you know, but the former presidential candidate has a new bus to keep the 9-9-9 plan rolling. >> and i'm going to keep it alive with what i'm calling cain's solutions revolution. and the first solution we're going to promote. >> we have a bus. yes, sir, i have a bus with my picture on it. the first solution we are going to promote actively is 9-9-9, the revolution. >> no one -- >> cain is touring the country to draw up support for the plan to replace the federal tax code with a 9% corporate tax rate, 9% income tax rate and 9% national tax rate. he's hoping to get congress on board and congress is in such a cooperative mood. >> hop on! >> check out this amazing video in from australia. two dads and their 11-year-old son clinging to a cooler

floating in the waters off sydney after their boat caught fire and sank during a fishing trip. only the boats had life jackets. one of the dads sat after an emergency beacon that gave rescuers their location. they dropped them a life raft and pulled everybody on board to a rescue boat. >> what were you thinking? >> it's good. >> yeah. >> well, the boys were sleeping when that fire broke out. >> lucky they had that cooler. meanwhile, a 14-year-old girl from texas missing since 2010 has been found! she's in colombia where she was deported by mistake. she reportedly ran away from home after her parents got a divorce. she was arrested in houston for theft and gave police a fake name. which was a problem because it apparently belonged to an

illegal alien from colombia who had warrants for her arrest out. she's now in a detention center waiting to come home. don't give cops fake names. >> we showed you the video the other day of a 13-year-old australian girl showing off her unusual eyebrow dancing talents. it's getting tons of hits on you tube and now jay leno is taking notice. >> this viral video going on around the internet of this eyebrow girl. this is what people do in the office all day, i think they're working and they're watching these stupid things on you tube. have you seen this girl? take a look. cute girl. >> well, she's not the only one doing it. everybody. show, everybody. >> ♪ i'm sexy and i know it >> well, if you missed it earlier this week, we had our own challenger to the eyebrow dancer.

>> a brow off. >> make the music louder so i can keep up. >> you know what, brian, here's the thing she appears to be edited where you have the uncanny ability to do it live. >> i know. she's a professional. >> let's have a brow off. >> a brow off. >> can you make the music louder so i can keep up? >> you know what, brian, here the thing, she appears to be edited where you have the uncanny ability to do this live! >> right, i know. she is -- she's a professional. >> so who does it better? we report and you decide, now, as i said earlier, brian, i believe that you do it better because -- >> why? >> you also do the eyebrow thing when you're talking. she wasn't talking. >> that's true. >> she's singing with her eyebrows which i can't do. gretchen, i think i am better. i'm going to side with you. >> emeril, what do you think about that? >> emeril is here?

>> not sense brezhnev have america been captivated by eyebrows. >> i can't believe that. did you really do that? >> yeah. i think that girl -- >> do you do that when you cook? >> i do it when i watch people cook like emeril is here, he's the ultimate gulf chef, tv personality, wonderful person and a gifted cook but you are really concerned about the gulf coast. when the b.p. oil disaster happened, it hurt the country. it hurt the people. it hurt people like you. >> but b.p. has done an amazing job, i got to tell you this. they really have and let me tell you something -- our seafood in the gulf coast right now, florida, mississippi, alabama, i mean, it's amazing and it's so safe because we finally have f.d.a. regulations down there which we never had in the seafood industry so the seafood has been tested and retested and it is good. >> that's fantastic. >> and those pictures are long gone. it is safe. you've teamed up with the gulf coast to say hey, not only come visit. >> we got this amazing gulf

coast bash, seafood bash, tourism bash that's happening. you know what's going on in new orleans right now? sugar bowl two nights ago. saints coming on saturday, playoff game. bcs championship on monday and lots of seafood. >> let's find out what people will be eating here. >> all right. right over here, ok, why don't you do this? >> i'm the taster. >> yeah, you're the taster! >> this is some of our blue crab. this is a blue crab and jalapeno dip. try one. >> and jalapeno? >> and jalapeno dip. >> uh-oh! >> and this right here, this is -- this is shrimp. our shrimp is to beautiful right now. grab one of those. go ahead. >> i am very shy. >> and then i'm making barbecued shrimp which is one of our signature dishes at emeril's since day one, this has been on the menu, ok? and it's no secret. is that good? it's no secret. taste one of those. >> it has a bite to it. that doesn't have as much of a

bite. >> come on. >> all right. >> i don't think i'm going to eat it without a fork. >> what are you putting in there? >> that's a little bit of cream and then this year, we take the heads from the shrimp. look at those beautiful shrimp. we take the heads. >> see the heads on the shrimp. >> yes, you do. >> no, i don't. >> yes, you do! i'm changing your mind right now. so what we're going to do is we make an extraction out of that and now what we're doing is we just cook, we cook them down with lemon and i'm going to show you this. this dish has been on the menu at emeril's since day one. wait until you taste this. and we serve it with these little biscuits right here so what's your favorite? >> is there mustard in this one that i had? >> yes, there is. a classic one is different than a new orleans one, ok? i don't want to get any on your tie. >> now, you care. >> now i care about you. i want to -- i still want to know about this eyebrow thing. >> you have much better eyebrows than me. >> i wish you would. i'm telling you right now. ok. >> here we go. >> ok.

>> what about -- and also, we had the dip. >> you know what? the crab dip is amazing. the key ingredient is -- >> what you should do is come to new orleans and celebrate the gulf coast seafood bash. >> that looks delicious. >> my thing is where would we stay, guys? >> with emeril. >> do we know anybody? do we know anybody in new orleans where we could stay? >> listen, i might be able to take care of that for you. >> you might? ok, very good. >> exactly, i could do that with a lot of seafood, though. >> what do we do with the crabs? >> that's in the dip. >> listen, we eat them steamed or boiled, ok. we have them stuffed. try that shrimp. >> it's delicious. if folks would like the recipes, go to our web site at fox and friends.com and you can get it. they got a little cajun kit. >> a little bam in there for you. >> all right. >> i use your cookbook all the time. >> thank you so much, gretch. thank you. i appreciate that. >> bring some napkins because

right now we'll have to eat that. >> absolutely. >> there you go. >> wait, what was the eyebrow thing? >> you're still -- >> i'm going to do it next hour. >> can't do it. >> thank you, emeril. >> thank you, guys. >> coming up straight ahead -- >> president obama defying congress with not one but four recess appointments. he says it's what america needs but is it for the people or is it his presidential strategy? peter johnson jr. next on that. >> meanwhile, are you a bigfoot believer? that might change after you meet the real life bigfoot hunters themselves. they're here this hour on "fox & friends" the cajun edition. >> are they bringing the big foot? >> stay tuned. why settle for a one-note cereal? ♪ more, more, more... get more with honey bunches of oats 4 nutritious grains come together for more taste, more healthy satisfaction.

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>> welcome back. we got some quick headlines for you on this thursday morning. you'll have two more days to file your taxes this year. the internal revenue service extending the deadline to april 17th because the traditional deadline, april 15th falls on a sunday. the i.r.s. also closed on the 16th because of emancipation day. and a wild brawl breaks out at a chinese restaurant and it's all caught on camera. the cause of the fight, not known but it got ugly! brawlers hurling plates and bowls hitting each other with chairs. the restaurant completely

trashed but no one was arrested. all right. brian, over to you and peter. >> all right, steve. president obama bypassed congress and used recess appointments to fill three key labor positions and also named former ohio attorney general richard cordray as head of the new consumer financial protection bureau. he says it's what america needs but is it for the people or the presidency? fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. here. >> good morning, hi. >> is this allowed? >> this is for an imperial presidency in my view, this is not a recess appointment. a recess appointment means that the president is not complying with article 2, section 2 of the constitution. that gives the senate the opportunity to confirm people. >> right. >> and that can be done when the senate is not in session. the senate was in session but the president said no, that's a gimmick. i don't believe that you're really in session. so i'm going to do what i want because this needs to be done in terms of my people in the labor community and in terms of

stopping predator lending and like that. so i'm going to do it. so in my view, this is a vigilante act of an imperial presidency. >> some people watching right now say, you know, bush had a recess appointment about 170 recess appointments. clinton had a ton. what's the difference? >> the difference is it was a recess appointment. >> it was actually in recess. >> the difference is that the senate was not in session. >> like in -- >> so you can say, all right, you're playing games. you weren't really in session. i'm going to make that determination. it's just a matter of form. matter of process. but, you know, form and process are the glue which holds together our republic. if our chief executive doesn't have respect for the law, then what does that say about the respect for other executives, other branches of government in terms of abiding by the constitution? so there's a real constitutional uproar here, short term political gain for the presidency, a lot of people say hey, great, you did that. but over the long term, what does it do for the constitution? what does it do to the trust

between the branches of government? could there be a lawsuit? yeah, there could be a lawsuit here. >> i want to tell you, every time you use the word constitution, you owe judge napolitano a dollar. >> i'm happy to pay him on this one. >> absolutely right. >> what do you do legally if you're a republican in congress or anybody that's upset by these appointments and you're a sitting congressperson, what do do you? >> the issue is do they have the political will and the nerve to move forward against this? essentially the president has nullified the power of congress. has acted in a way that's in violation of the constitution. and, perhaps, with regard to the consumer finance board in violation of that law which requires congressional approval. so a double count there. but will they have the political will, will they have the political nerve to take this on in an election year or will they let the president slide on this one and say, ok, let's pick another fight. let's not go into a court of law. let's not debate whether congressperson really has standing or the ability to go into a court of law. but this is an issue that's

going to plague americans for many, many generations. and how far does a president go when he thinks he's acting in the best interest of the country against the interest of the constitution. >> it's hard to argue what trent lott said, paraphrased essentially he's poisoned the well for the final year of his first term. if he wants to get anybody nominated and passed through the normal process, republicans are going to take it personally. >> the president is a hero in the base today. what does history say about what this does to the constitutional process in this country? that's a greater issue. >> by the tone of your voice, i can tell the segment is over. >> i'm serious. good to see you. >> we'll see where this goes. meanwhile, on a different note, much different, are you a believer in bigfoot? >> yes. >> don't answer me, peter. you might be after you see what our next guests have found out. but first, this day in history, 1933, construction of the golden gate bridge begins in san francisco. it took me forever! in 1972, president nixon orders the creation of the space shuttle program, president obama would later end it and in 1980,

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>> hey, time for news by the numbers. get ready. first 2160, that's how many workers will lose their jobs if boeing's wichita, kansas, plant. the company announcing it will shut down the facility by the end of 2013. next, 14,000. that's how many stores dunkin donuts, no g, plans to have in the u.s. in the next 20 years taking on starbucks. right now, there are 7,000 dunkin donuts compared to 12,000 starbucks and they're all in my neighborhood. last, 12 million. that's how much tiger woods' ex-wife's new palm beach mansion costs before she knocked it

down. wow. elan gets $100 million in the divorce settlement and she has a twin sister. >> for centuries, people have searched for bigfoot. >> i don't know. >> finding bigfoot. now a team of researchers continue their search in the brand new second season of animal planet's hit series "finding bigfoot." and joining us right now is one of the members of the team, we are talking about cliff barackman joining us in the studio. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> i know you work with a biologist by the name of renee holland and it's interesting, she not a big believer in bigfoot. as many people don't. but you do! you're positive he or she is out there somewhere. >> they are out there. >> they are out there. >> the species of undocumented primates is what we're dealing with. a great ape that happens to live

in north america that happens to be nocturnal, very, very intelligent and very, very elusive. >> we were talking a moment ago, cliff, you think in north america, there could be, if they do exist, 9,000 of them? >> quite possibly. we're talking united states and canada. now, think about how big canada is. >> it's big. >> it's huge! huge! >> and, you know, one of the problems when people hear bigfoot, they lump it in with u.f.o. sightings and roswell and elvis missing and stuff like that. you feel it's either an ape or a ferrell human. what's a farel human? >> it means not cultured or sizz civilized or anything. if you happened to be covered in hair, very, very large and never cultured. >> actually i am covered in hair. >> interestingly enough. >> not very large. >> interestingly enough, human beings have about the same number of hair follicles as the great apes but the great apes have much longer hair. and we are a member of the great

ape family. >> yes. and see, i love the fact that you are positive that they're out there. but there are so many people, cliff, who think, you know, i saw that image and i heard that it was a hoax! so they figured, you know, that's just one of those things people say. >> well, right, right. you're talking about the 1967 paterson ginland film. we investigated that on our california episode a few months ago, actually. a lot of people say that's fake but it's not actually. i know the only surviving person that was there that day. the worst thing you can say to that guy is he's a liar and the most recent person, there's been about eight or nine people that say they were the guy in the suit but the most recent person who had the highest profile hoax claim can't tell you where the film site was. he can't produce the suit. he can't produce the walk. he doesn't know what he's talking about. >> now, your goal is not only to prove that there is sasquatch out there but to do what? capture one? >> oddly enough, my goal is not to prove that sasquatches are out there. they're there.

it doesn't matter if i believe in them or not. they're already there. >> i hate to break your heart, i don't believe they're there. >> that's ok. that's ok. i respect that. but the fact is there's a tremendous amount of actually scientific data out there that does suggest that sasquatches are in fact real animals. >> but if there's 9,000 of them in north america, that's a good reason to run for the hills. wait a minute -- >> that's where they are. you don't want to go there if you're afraid of them. luckily, there's nothing to be afraid of. >> you got to check out this show. it is called "finding bigfoot" sundaying at 10:00 on animal planet. >> that's correct. >> thank you very much. >> thank you etch. -- very much. >> i believe i've seen the footage. >> let's head for the hills. >> let's do that. and let's get out of north america while we still can. we told you earlier at this hour, some big name conservatives are holding a secret meeting. >> uh-huh, they want to fix the presidential ticket. michelle malkin reacts at the top of the hour. then -- >> then we have your legal survival guide. >> for the new year from foreclosures to credit, real estate guru bob massi here -- >> with everything you need to

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is thursday, january 5. i hope you're going to have a great day no matter what you face. i'm gretchen carlson. who is the real conservative? it may have not matter. some big name conservatives hold ago secret meet to go pick the chosen one. why wouldn't they just leave it up to the voters? there is a reason and we'll try to explain it. >> steve: meanwhile, president obama defying congress with not one, but two, not three, but four recess appointments. but democrats blasted president bush for doing the same thing. can they have it both ways? michelle malkin weighs in on that. >> brian: all right. a mom who wanted to teach her kids a lesson may have taken it too far. she called the cops. >> i have two teenage children who will not stop beating each other up. >> brian: now one of her sons has a date in court. thanks, mommy. "fox & friends" streets now.

"fox & friends" starts right now. >> this is john o'hurley and you're watching "fox & friends." >> steve: it does seem extreme for a mom to call the cops on her own kids. >> brian: except if you're a single parent and your kids are pounding each other examine they -- and they do the free weight stuff. >> steve: and then they have a record. >> brian: and then they can't get into colleges or get a good job. >> gretchen: let's get to your headlines beginning with a fox news alert. one police officer dead, five shot and injured in ogden, utah, this happened overnight. officer who was killed, agent jared, was a married father of two. he was one of several officers serving a drug-related search warrant late last night when a suspect started spraying bullets. we're awaiting word on the other five officers' conditions. at last check, they were still being treated at the hospital. the lone suspect also in the hospital under watch of armed guard. president obama will announce billions of dollars in cuts to defense spending and make the announcement at the

pentagon. the first time any president has addressed reporters in the briefing room. the administration says it's creating a more realistic military and investing more in air and sea power and eliminating ground troops. they say his budget is bloated and the u.s. can still be strong with fewer forces. it amounts to $489 billion in cuts overt next ten years. the german man accused of setting 52 fires across l.a., so wobbly in court, he needed the help of deputies to stand up. his arraignment postponed until january 24, his bail set at $2 million. it's believed within on an arson rampage because his mother was about to be deported. he's also suspected of torching his family's home in germany before he came to the united states. here is that story we were talking about, a mother of five so fed up with her kids fighting that she called 911. >> i have two teenage children who will not stop beating each

other up. they're throwing things at each other, toys, games. >> gretchen: the massachusetts mom says things escalated when her 15-year-old son pushed his 16-year-old sister. he'll be summoned to court to answer charges of domestic assault and battery. >> steve: the next big thing on the battle road to the white house is south carolina. but first some candidates are fighting it out in new hampshire 'cause that comes up next tuesday. so is that state a done deal or is new hampshire really up for grabs? molly line following the trail from salem. good morning to you, molly. >> hi, good morning. you are absolutely right. this is a state to watch here in new hampshire. this is where all the candidates are. they're spend ago lot of time here. we're one of a multitude of town halls. this is a mitt romney town hall. earlier i -- it's getting ready to start any second now. this is where he'll be given the

chance to really chat with the voters one on one. this is a new hampshire tradition and all the candidates are doing it. we have a map that shows just how far and wide they'll be traveling in the course of the next couple of days. mitt romney actually also taking a quick trip down to south carolina. you mentioned the importance of that state. he got a big endorsement from senator john mccain yesterday and he'll be taking mccain with him to south carolina to try to can continue to woo the voters and show he has pretty big support in the party. also, out here, newt gingrich. he took a pretty good slam at romney yesterday, saying mitt romney as governor of massachusetts failed to change boston. so can he really change washington? gingrich also weigh noting in ad taking a stab at president obama. take a listen. >> for a president who is willing to use the full power of the presidency, which has to -- has to show a willing tons collide with congress. one of bush's greatest mistakes was not vetoing the congress.

>> jon huntsman has been on the ground, skipping iowa, doing the same thing the others are doing, trying to connect one on one, couple town halls today and he has a business lunch. rick santorum holding a faith, family and freedom town hall today. two of them. he announced yesterday that he raised over a million dollars since his iowa finish, huge fundraising numbers for santorum. he says that this is an exceptional amount and it gives him a chance at this race and he explained why he's actually in the race when he spoke yesterday. take a listen. >> the reason i am in this race, the principle reason i'm in this race is because of obamacare, because i think obamacare will turn every american into a dependent american, someone who will be relying upon the federal government. >> there are two candidates that are still in this race, michelle bachmann dropped out yesterday. but rick perry and ron paul, who is are not in the state today.

but both will be here for the debate this weekend. rick perry actually took some time to reassess his campaign and announced yesterday that he is heading for south carolina after the debates this weekend and in the words his campaign, it's a full court press. that brings you guys up to date on what's happening in new hampshire and on to south carolina. >> steve: game on. thank you very much for the live report from the town hall. >> gretchen: now it's time to bring in michelle malkin, who i believe is in colorado this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: let's talk about this report that has come out that says a group of gop elites are going to plan to meet in texas either this week or next and what they're meeting about is to try and seek a consensus conservative candidate, in other words, who should they go behind, i guess between gingrich, santorum or perry. what do you think? >> i think you have to consider the source of some of these stories. first of all, i question the use of the term, elites. many of those people who will be

meeting are grassroots conservative movement conservative leaders over the last several decades, many who have operated outside of the beltway and i think is key, that it's not just members of the beltway g with some of the front runners. but people across the country who have seen the gop primary season as something of a pageant of the imperfect, or a parade of the flawed botches and gaffes, i think the question is whether it's way too late in the game to do something like this. but there has been so much uncertainty and so many unprecedented things a have happened in this season, who knows? >> steve: yeah. who knows? >> i can tell think isn't the only meeting that's happening like this. i've been invited to meetings like this to try and ponder these kind of things. the point, i think, especially with the iowa caucus results is

politics is not softball and it requires a massive amount of organizational competence that unfortunately some of these candidates have not been able to demonstrate. >> steve: unless something crazy happens in new hampshire, mitt romney is going to win that. that would mean he would have won the first two contests in this. nobody has ever done that on the republican side. so if mitt romney is the guy, are these people having these secret meetings not going to support him? >> well, i think in the end, those of us who have opposed the age of obama, the reign of obama are going to go with the most viable conservative alternative and the question that many of these grassroots leaders are asking is whether there is somebody, even late in the game, who could withstand the scrutiny and the vetting that these other candidates have not been able to do. i'm not writing any alternatives

off at this point and i certainly disagree even with the amount of success that mitt romney has that he's an net inevitablity. >> brian: if we were to believe that, then we would believe newt gingrich who said he would get the nomination a week ago. >> he's learning. >> brian: i know you're not a big john mccain fan. anyone who follows you knows that. but yesterday where he's a rock star in 2000 and -- when he was running against president bush, he won new hampshire. when he was running against everybody else to get the nomination, he won new hampshire. yesterday he made it official. his ex-enemy is now his friend. listen. >> look, i'll match my record as a fiscal conservative and fighting for the taxpayers of my state and america against anybody. i will match my record by the people who make these judgments against anybody in the republican party today.

so i'm always a little intrigued by this quote, moderate label. it's fine with me. but i'm very proud of being a strong, fiscal, and social conservative. >> gretchen: that was what john mccain had said to me when i said that he is supporting the other moderate in this race. many people believe mitt romney being a moderate. he's saying no, look, i'm conservative. look at my record. what do you think? >> yeah, well, i would even disagree with the label, moderate, because he's shown himself to be a liberal republican on so many issues. i think the problem with the last election and brian and i have talked about this over the years since he lost, since mccain lost, that his problem was he didn't pose a stark enough contrast to obama, big government policies and i have a longer memory than a lot of people. it was mccain who proposed a much larger and more massive mortgage entitlement program during the campaign season, $300 billion, i believe it was,

along with many other government interventions. so i think it's painful to watch him make an argument that he's a fiscal conservative who is able to assess the electability of mitt romney as the american spectator put it yesterday on twitter, and there was a lot of head desking going on as we were watching this joint appearance, it's sort of funny for this guy who lost the last election to be trying to persuade us that mitt romney is electable. >> steve: the woman who was at john mccain's side was the very conservative sarah palin. here she is -- i don't know if you saw her last night on hannity -- telling folks why john mccain of mitt romney is important. >> senator mccain and i, we're the only ones in america who have ever had to face that obama presidential ticket machine and all that it incom passed and what it encompassed was

unscrupulous, gimmicky scheme that it was and senator mccain evidently has chosen mitt romney as the one to be the most prepared to face this thuggery, this scheme he's gog have to face. >> steve: what do you think? >> brian: she does have the experience examine so does he. >> mccain was steam rolled by that machine and we have to remember it was sarah palin, the stronger person on that ticket, who was the one that really confronted directly that machine and i think sarah palin's endorsement would matter a lot more these days than john mccain's and i think it's telling, of course, that she hasn't weighed in one way or the other on a specific candidate. >> gretchen: that's interesting, 'cause she examine mccain may be -- and mccain may be at odds on who they would sports we'll see you next week, thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasure attention take care. >> steve: happy new year. >> brian: next, your legal

survival guide for 2012, from foreclosures to borrowing money, real estate guru bob massi will help make sense of it all. >> gretchen: this american teen has been found safe and sound, but she was never lost. she was deported by mistake? >> brian: it happens, come on, please.

>> steve: well, it's a new year and many are hoping that along with the new year we see some relief in the real estate market. but are those unrealistic expectations, we wond. >> rick: what should you be looking forward to in the coming year? let's talk to fox news legal analyst, bob massi, who joins us from las vegas. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: all right. so looking ahead, last year you covered so much stuff. we're going to give folks a preview of what we're looking ahead to in 2012. you're going to look at the lending industry because that's one of the major problems right now, is people need help and the lending industry has got money, but it's hard to get the money out of their hands. >> very much so. what we're going to talk about this year, there are some new things that lenders are coming up with that maybe will open the flood gates a little bit to help people who have been through tough times to have access to new money to be able to buy

homes. so there are some changes that are coming in the next year, which we're going to be talking about. every time i hear new things that come up with fha and any other type of conventional lending, i'm going to bring it to our viewers' attention. at least they'll have a sense of understanding of what direction the lenders are going to go in. >> steve: one of the great things you've done is explained road modifications and short sales and foreclosures and stuff like that because people hear it on the news and think, i don't know what that means. in the coming year, what sort of topics are you going to take on? >> you know what, steve? i'm excited about what's happening in the short sale industry because what's happening is lenders have finally realized the expense of maintaining homes that have been foreclosed on. so what's happening is short sales are becoming a bigger wave now. but the lenders are actually giving incentives, money for people to do short sales. so we're going to talk about, in the next few weeks, some of the

programs that are out there for people who have not lost their home yet. loan modification sales, but short sale is the answer. so i want to bring some of these programs to our viewers' attention. >> steve: that's great. also you'll be talk being what's going on in the credit world? >> yeah. the credit world is really the big thing. we talked a little bit about it last year. the asset protection part we're going to talk a lot about and a lot more about this year and expand that to some estate planning issues and trusts and wills and different things like that. the credit issue and what's happening and some of the discussions that are out there now with credit experts on how they feel it's going to change to try to help the homeowner, it seems like, steve, and it may be because it's an election year and you and i know, man, everything is calculated with politicians, that they're going to try to -- >> steve: no. >> not even a little bit, right? they're going to try to open the doors to make it look better than what it is. but you know what? i'm an optimist and i think some of these programs coming up will help our viewers and some of

these homeowners that have gone through very tough times. >> steve: a lot of them have. and i know a lot of them have questions and if you're out there in tv land and have a question for bob massi, you can e-mail them to us. log on now. bob, happy new year. you're the first one in las vegas. >> thank you. >> steve: you bet. coming up, break news on the jobless front. brand-new unemployment numbers are going to be out in 11 minutes. we will have them for you live. and remember the tiger mom? she came under fire for her strict rules like no tv, no sleepovers. now her daughter is headed for college. so how will she control the college co-ed? hear her plan when she joins us live next in new york

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>> brian: quick headlines. series of explosions hit iraq today, the first four rocked baghdad, killing more than two dozen people. another bomb hit the southern part of the country, at least 30 dead. more than 100 people were hurt in all the bombings. they believe it's sunnies. icon of american business going bankrupt. there are reports that kodak could file for chapter 11 in the next few weeks. right now the company making last ditch efforts to sell off some of its digital imaging patents. i still hope they keep the little houses. >> gretchen: thanks, brian. she grew up with strict chinese parents who followed tiger parenting rules, like school work comes first. a minus is a bad grade. the only activities children should do are those which they

can win a medal and it should be gold. now her daughter is in college and this controversial tiger mom says her job is done. has she lost her touch? joining me is author of "battle hymn of the tiger mother," now available in paperback, amy chua. is that a fair statement where we say that you've lost your pounce as a tiger? >> i don't think so. it's true that we are among the most hands off parents in college that we know. but that's because i feel like my job is done. tiger parenting is really -- the whole goal is to raise strong, independent, courageous kids a really good work ethic who can take care of themselves and with a sense of humility and responsibility and take on the world. it's part of the package. >> gretchen: i like what you say, is that your big-time work was between the ages of five and 12. >> absolutely. >> gretchen: now you're daughter went off to harvard and you're the most hands off parent? >> not only that, actually even high school was better for me.

i think that if you are a tiger parent early on, you don't need to be a helicopter parent in high school because once you instill these skills in your kid, the ability to focus, to sit down for an hour and get the job done, then when it comes to college application time, people don't have to get so anxious and write your kids' essays for them and they don't have to stay up all night. it's really about very early child rearing. >> gretchen: so here were some of your rules that came from your book, which i mentioned is now in paperback. some of the other parents said wow, that sounds so unreasonable. no sleepover, no play dates, no grades less than an a, must play piano or violin. i know you had a tremendous amount of feedback when the book came out. you even had death threats? >> early on. but i think about that list, it's supposed to be kind of funny. my kids had some fun. you can't just play the violent and piano. it's sort of making fun of these

immigrant parents. having said that, i am a proud strict mom and i will say what we're calling tiger parenting, if you think about it, it's not that different from just the traditional parenting of america's founders and pioneers, or the americans that pulled themselves out of the great depression. do you think their main concern was arranging sleepovers? i don't think so. >> gretchen: or being a friend of their kid, which seems to be the fad. >> it's instill ago sense of responsibility. >> gretchen: the interesting thing is that part of the reason -- i remember interviewing you when it came out -- you said i wrote the book it talk about some of the snakes i made as well. and you have eased up on some of these tiger rules. for example, your younger daughter. she played the violin, but really wanted to play tennis. so you let her quit the violin. >> absolutely. it's interesting, the book is a journey. up with of the things i learned is you have to pay attention to the individual personalities of your kids. my second daughter, she's just really social. she's a firey personality and she loves tennis now. i'm so glad i made that choice.

it was her choice. >> gretchen: and you get along better with her? >> so much better. but i don't compromise on compromise. >> gretchen: but you have compromised socially with her? >> right. we're just always talking. like i still don't think that i want to be just her friend. i think a lot of parents today, they're terrified that their kids won't like them or that if they say something, their kids will feel bad. but honestly, if your kids do something wrong, they should feel bad. >> gretchen: it's so hard to hear your child say to you, either they hate you -- >> i've been there. >> gretchen: i know. and i've already faced that, too. i have to say to myself, well, that won't be the last time i'm going to hear that. >> think as a parent, at a certain point i realized i was making a mistake. i wasn't listening enough. so then you have to change. but if it's just i hate you because i want to play more, you're the parent. you have a responsibility. >> gretchen: i want to look at a quote from an op ed that your older daughter who is at harvard wrote about you. having you as a mother was no tea party, but now that i'm 18

and about to leave the tiger den, i'm glad you and daddy raised me the way you did. i think your strict parenting forced me to be more independent. if i had actually tried my best at something, you would never throw it back at my face. wow. is that an endorsement of you, mom? >> she's a great kid. she's great kid. i'm really lucky. she's actually having so much fun in college now. i know she's going to make a lot of mistakes. i sure did in college. but part of the idea of tiger parenting is i'm so glad that she's going to make those mistakes at age 19 instead of 13. >> gretchen: if you want to pick up the book, it's "battle hymn of the tiger mother" and it's in paperback. always great to have a discussion with you. >> thank you so much. >> gretchen: coming up, a fox news alert right after this break. we're expecting new unemployment numbers at the bottom of the hour. then it's been almost two years since this american teen vanished without a trace. not only is she alive, she might actually want an apology. the government deported her by mistake? how the heck does that happen

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372,000 first-time unemployment claims were filed in the past week. they were estimating 3,000 more than that at 375,000. fewer than expected. also adp, the paycheck maker, december payroll numbers are also in and the private sector added 350,000 jobs last month. that is well above the estimate of 175,000 and that's why eric bolling is here smiling this morning. >> very good numbers. adp usually comes out the day before the unemployment numbers. so we're going to get the big unemployment number tomorrow. we'll keep an eye on that. but the 350,000 private sector

jobs, that's a fantastic number. the estimate was for 175,000 jobs created last month. 350,000 on the private level. i think that's going to bode well for tomorrow. you'll probably see another 150, 175,000 jobs created. but tomorrow you still may see that unemployment rate bump up from 8.6%. >> steve: how does that work? >> because the reason why it dropped so much last month, 9.1% down to 8.6% was because there was 450,000 people who left the work force 'cause they said things are so bad, i'm not gog look. so they're not counted in the number. if they come back, it sounds like things are coming back, may not get it right away. that means more people in the bottom number. so then the unemployment could bump up even though you create a few jobs. this number today, the 375,000 initial jobless claims, it's not an estimate, it's not a phone survey like the other two.

it's actual number of people who went into unemployment and said, i need help for the first time. 375, still an elevated number. you still want to see it town below 350. but in the right direction. we have been months and months at 400,000. >> gretchen: why do you surmise people are hiring? >> it's a matter of time, gretchen. we've been in this rut for four years. recessions last 24, maybe 30 months on average. we've literally -- we may not be the technical definition of a recession, which people say two quarters of negative growth. we might be growing, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. we've had elevated unemployment. we have prices going up. last year gasoline prices went up again. so even though it doesn't technically define itself as a recession, we've been recessed for four years. so things are going to start to turn around. >> brian: the president goes to ohio and makes a big announcement and says something else that didn't get as much publicity. i'm going to be naming three people to the labor relations board. why should we care? >> this is huge.

the problem is, the senate isn't in recess. you talk to -- it's not a recess president obama usurping -- i brought my constitution. >> steve: what page? >> it's not on any page in here, where he says i can go around and start appointing people while the senate is in pro forma. if the senate is out for throw days in a row, they're technically in recess. what the senate republicans have done is said every third day, so we don't technically fall under the definition of recess, we're going to send someone to the floor. they did what they're supposed to do. they abided by the constitution and the law. obama says attention, you know what? i'm not going to. why is it important? i'll get to it. three people appointed. two of them are already pro labor lawyers. that's what they are. both democrats. >> steve: there is a republican in there. >> terrence flynn is a republican, but sharon block and richard griffin, very, very pro-labor. what is the nlrb? it's supposed to take business and labor and make sure that they're playing fair.

this isn't fair. this is a labor relations board that is skewed to labor, completely skewed to labor. i don't see any business people on the board at all. i see three people being appointed. three lawyers, no one from the business background. >> gretchen: this is why they would not have passed had it gone through the procedural way with members of congress. >> in fact, that's why they the senate did the pro forma because they didn't want recess appointments like this. the last time this happened, craig becker, very, very pro-labor, was appointed recess also and look what happened with nlrb versus bow not guilty south carolina. big problems. >> steve: let's go to the way back machine for a moment. in 2008, then senator barak obama said that whole signing thing, he wasn't going to do it if elected. watch. >> i've taught the constitution for ten years. i believe in the constitution and i will obey the constitution of the united states. we were not going to use signing statements as a way of doing a run around congress. all right? >> brian: he did it op new year's eve.

>> he's done 20. >> executive order. >> gretchen: i guess it's a little different when you are president. >> a bunch of things are different now that you're president. remember what he said about the debt, it was unpatriotic to raise the debt ceiling in 2008? well, he's raising the debt. >> gretchen: let me ask you this, some people are saying this could be fought legally. do you suspect these appointments, whatever they're called, recess appointments, you expect that to go to court? >> i think they will. they actually -- it will go to court and whatever the outcome is, maybe even they win. obama wins, any way you look at it, it stinks. >> brian: and the personalities now, they're not going to do anything because republicans have their nose out of joint because of it. who can blame them? herman cain was here yesterday with sean hannity in studio and he was talking about what he's going to be doing from here on in. not a surprise. look what he's going to be trumpeting. >> i started a new movement, the biggest comment that i got when i ended my candidacy was, keep

9-9-9 alive. that's what this is about. and i'm going to keep it alive with what i'm calling cain's solutions revolution. we are going to get commitments from members of congress in 2012 before election day in order to support 9-9-9, the legislation. >> steve: he's gone, but not forgotten. he bought a bus, he's going to take this across the country. >> herman cain, great guy, love it. i'm actually in his book talking about the repatriation part of bringing money back from overseas at 0% tax. make a long story short, 9-9-9, i like the idea, but it's too complicated. there is something out there called fair tax. it's a fantastic idea that brings more people -- brings the tax base in. it's not a vat tax, but a consumer added tax, it's the way to really kind of revolutionize tax --

>> gretchen: but will this at least spur the discussion about it? >> fair tax has been floating around for years and years and years. herman cain actually was on board with the fair tax before he came up with the 9-9-9. he complicated things withth 9-9-9. how about one fair tax rate and eliminate, by the way -- it eliminates federal income tax. you get rid of federal income tax and you pay value added tax on to just about everything you buy. prostitute, hookers and pimps, give their fair share of taxes as well. >> brian: it's about time. i remember in "night shift" if henry winkler had his way. >> steve: we'll see you tonight on "the five" with the five guys. >> actually there is a girl. >> brian: i'm coming on tonight. >> that's right. last night we had three ladies. now we have brian, yeah. >> you better be funny. >> gretchen: i have to do headlines. new information in the murder investigation at queen elizabeth's estate. we're learning the female victim

found dead on the estate is likely somewhere between the ages 15 and 23. police are probing cold cases across the country, including the case of a missing 17-year-old student. she was last seen about ten miles from the estate back in august. police waiting now on dna tests. >> steve: a 14-year-old girl from texas missing since last year has been found. she's in the country of colombia where she was deported by mistake. miss turner reportedly ran away from home after her parents divorced. she was arrested in houston for theft and gave police a fake name. that was a problem because the fake name apparently belong to do an illegal alien from colombia wanted for arrest. immigration agents failed to confirm the girl's identity before deporting her, shipped her off. now she's in a detention center waiting to come home. great. >> brian: good news, you'll have two extra days to file your tax returns this year. the irs extending the deadline to april 17 because it's my

wife's birthday and i didn't think it should have factored in. april 15 falls on a sunday. the irs closed on the 16th because of emancipation day. if you plan to take an extension, your deadline will now be october 15. but don't put it off. >> gretchen: all right. a car thief pulls off an amazing parking job. the driver was speeding in fresno, california when he missed a turn, hit some rocks, went airborne. he landed on an apartment complex and landed himself a broken leg, even jail time. he was wanted on several warrants. no one else was hurt. those are your headline this is morning. >> steve: meanwhile, this is the most incredible story of the day. a mother home alone with her baby in her arms and two intruders pounding at the door. >> i've got two guns in my hand. is it okay to shoot if he comes in the door? >> steve: wow. what a choice. should the mom be charged if she pulls the trigger and hurts one of the guys? one has a knife. we'll report and you're going to decide. >> gretchen: then you saw them in the movies.

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>> brian: young mom and her baby trapped inside their home on new year's eve as two intruders try to break in. one in front and one in the back. the mom, 18-year-old sarah mckinley, with a baby, immediately she calls 911. >> i live by myself with my infant baby. can i get a detective out here. >> are your doors locked? >> yes, i've got two guns in my hand. is it okay to shoot if he comes in? >> i can't tell you that you can do that, but you do what you have to do to protect your baby. >> brian: wow. police say she was justified thanks to the castle law. what if you did the same thing and did not live in a castle doctrine state, like oklahoma where this happened? here to help us answer that question, defense attorney nicole dabord. first off, she was well within her right. she ended up killing one, the other ran away and got arrested. she was well within the right to shoot. correct? >> absolutely, because she was in her own home and she was under attack. >> brian: right. so that happens in oklahoma, it's okay. in the other 49 states, are we

okay to protect ourselves and our family? >> we really are inside our own home. the idea that a man's home is his castle or her castle is where this castle doctrine comes from. if you are under deadly attack in your home, you have the right to fight back and to shoot to kill. >> brian: you also told me about a retreat, some states require that you retreat at first, avoid the confrontation? >> right. if you're not inside your own home, the question is a little more unclear and then you have in certain states, the idea that if you can completely safely retreat from the circumstance, then you're required to do that first. but as a general rule, if you're in your own home and under attack, which we can assume that she was certainly in this case because of the knife and because he was breaking into her home, you're allowed to use deadly force to protect yourself and your family. >> brian: she credits the 911 operator and says she was able to mirror the emotion. this guy came in, knocked on the

door, said he was going to say hello, welcome to the neighborhood. then he would come back later on new year's eve. sadly, her husband had just died christmas eve. looking at the big picture, she ends up doing the right thing and the trauma and the catastrophe avoided. but in the big picture, a lot of people watching around the country say, well, i'm not sure if i have a castle law. you also talk about the strength of the castle law from state to state. where is it weak? >> absolutely. certain states, there are -- the question has to be asked whether or not a earn opinion could have treat to do complete safety. generally, as a general rule, your home is an exception to that, but your prosecutor also have the discretion to make the decision in states where the capital doctrine is weaker. for example, in virginia, the question could be did you have the opportunity to retreat safely? and if the person, for example, had broken into the home, looked like they were about to attack you but then appeared to be running out the back door, then there is a big question as to

whether or not you have the right to act with deadly force in the states with the weaker castle doctrine. in states with a stronger castle doctrine, the question is answered as soon as the person breaks into the home, we can assume they're under deadly attack. >> brian: wow. so when people watching this right now, how could they find out how strong their castle law is, because they might have a license for a gun, but don't want to end up losing everything to a lawsuit? >> sure. the big question really should be in their minds, is their safety at risk? if their safety is at risk, they have to do everything they can without regard for a lawsuit, to protect themselves and their family. if they have to act with deadly force to protect themselves, then they have to. then those other legal questions can be sorted out later. the general rule is the law will be on your side, especially if you're in your home. >> brian: i think you should be able to shoot the guy if he broke in. i guess it depends.

in oklahoma, that might fly, maybe not virginia. thank you for joining us. >> exactly. >> brian: we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: meanwhile, at 11 minutes before we're through, when we come back, treasures from the titanic recovered from the bottom of the sea by steve ducey a snorkel. first let's check in with martha mccallum. >> that's amazing. i had no idea. >> brian: without even a tank. he just went under. >> thank you very much. so big questions this morning as we look ahead to new hampshire. can rick santorum change the dynamic there? he's working hard to do that. he wants to keep himself in the game in the northeast. would a south carolina twist for newt gingrich or rick perry shake up this race? we'll talk to senators john thune, kelly ayotte, about the onslaught ahead. all of that coming up. karl rove as well. bill and i join you at the top of the hour or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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>> gretchen: welcome back. you have you might remember this little blue diamond from the hit film "titanic". >> they called it -- the heart of the ocean. >> gretchen: believe it or not, it's been almost 100 years since the real tragedy on the ship of dreams and now real long lost treasures from the titanic are helping the memory live on. >> steve: joining us are the president of the auction house and brian, of premiere exhibition with a special announcement about these art facts recovered from the ocean's floor. good morning. what's the special announcement? >> in april, 100 years from the day of the sailing of this ship, the entire body of material, more than 5,000 artifacts that have been recovered over the last quarter century from the debris field surrounding the titanic will be sold at auction in one of the most monumental

events known to the world of auctions. >> gretchen: why? >> the current owners, a public company, have carefully shepherded this material for 25 years. the conservation techniques have been -- are extraordinary to protect these items. now it's time that a new owner take over for the future. >> brian: brian, tell us what we can buy, because we both have a lot of cash on us, come april. >> so that we're clear, no one can buy any artifact by itself. >> steve: you can't say, i want a salt and pepper shaker? >> no, no. this will be sold as one entire collection. >> steve: you're kidding? >> brian: i thought you could do piece by piece. >> we're more interested in the commitment to the preservation of the ship, the legacy of the ship, the history of the ship, good stewardship, and therefore, we have decided, along with the united states government and others, to sell it all together. these are just examples of the 5,000 pieces.

>> brian: binoculars. >> those lost at the crow's nest. >> brian: obviously not used. >> steve: had they ohm been. >> that's the theory, that's correct. >> gretchen: what about that bracelet. >> we don't know who this comes from. this is an amy bracelet. this is one of countless examples of personal effects, personal jewelry that the company has recovered in the eight expeditions that it has engaged in since 1987. >> steve: then we've got some of the dishware. none of this stuff is from inside the ship. it's from the debris field outside it? >> that's correct. the debris field spans miles and this company made a decision, 25 years ago, not to go into the ship and recover artifacts and it hasn't. everything you see came out in the debris field as the ship dropped 12,000 feet. >> gretchen: what would it cost somebody to get these 5,000 things? >> without precedent, because understand, nothing that was actually on board the ship has ever been sold, it's almost impossible to answer that question. but a very serious appraisal was

done a few years ago. court order appraisal, where it was determined that these artifact, along with some of the intellectual property rights were judged to be worth $189 million. >> steve: it's not going to be probably one guy sitting at home thinking i'm going to dependent the little saucer. probably would be a museum or somebody with a lot of dough. >> brian: or a big garage. >> we're looking for someone who not just has a lot of dough, but has the willingness and the capacity -- >> brian: and care. >> to take over not just this collection, but in theory, the full stewardship of the wreck side. >> brian: this vest, how did it possibly stay together all these years? >> you're going to have to ask people who are a little more expert than i am. but it was in a leather satchel and what's key is this company has invested millions and millions of dollars in conserving all of the items, including the most fragile textiles. it underwent years and years of

conservation. >> gretchen: we warned brian not to put on the vest. >> i think you would look good in it. >> gretchen: let's not try it. >> steve: brian and arlen, we thank you for joining us. stick around. >> will do. >> steve: more "fox & friends" live from the deck of the "fox & friends" program [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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