but is he ignoring a red flag? or maybe three red flags? details straight ahead. we're going to review that play plus taking god out of the military. why the air force may be forced to change hundreds of years of history. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> attention, rick santorum, start your tivo. this is the morning you've been waiting for. three primaries and caucuses yesterday. and you won all three. congratulations, mr. santorum. >> i mean, who would have predicted this? a couple of days ago, it looks like mitt romney would have taken two or three. and you're seeing colorado which took the longest to get in. colorado was a big win for rick santorum and it's a place where

mitt romney won by 20 points over john mccain four years ago. >> had 60% last time. >> he also won minnesota last time. there's a lot to take away from what happened last night. we should mention that in missouri, newt gingrich is not on the ballot in case you're keeping all your totals at home. but the bottom line here is that there was basically no advertisement going on in these three states. so is that the theme now? is it that negative advertising which you've heard me say on this couch i'm not a fan of. you've heard steve say it works but without any ads, they're both true but without those negative ads, look what happened. and you got to wonder also if those negative ads with the sniping between gingrich and romney made santorum rise to the top. remember in those last couple of debates, he was talking about policy, folks, he wasn't talking about you did this and you did that. and i'm wondering if that has a huge effect. those two things. >> well, it was two weeks ago the debates and i thought and we all thought he was fantastic but

it was also easier being rick santorum then because no one was shooting at him. >> be ready, they'll come at him. >> he's very conserveive on all the issues. you may not agree with him. he's not going to get off the mark. i thought mitt romney's post-game interviews after the major win in florida where he admitted hes spoke might have had an effect on these three races. >> you have to wonder whether or not it was a brilliant move on mr. santorum's part many he didn't campaign that much in florida and nevada and of course, they both went to romney. he instead focused on what was happening yesterday and mission accomplished. nonetheless, at the end of the night when he said thank you to all of his supporters, he went not after newt gingrich who has said look, he should drop out. he didn't go after mitt romney so much, he went after the man at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. listen. >> there's probably another person who maybe -- maybe is

listening to your cheers here tonight, also. and that might be at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, you better start listening to the voice of the people. but then again, i wouldn't be surprised if he isn't listening. why would you think he would be listening now? has he ever listened to the voice of america before? no, he -- why? because he thinks he knows better. he thinks he's smarter than you. he thinks he's someone who is a privileged person who should be able to rule over all of you. but we have a different message for him. >> and rick santorum obviously pumped up. mitt romney gave a relatively quick speech. newt gingrich said were there elections last night? i didn't know. i'm going to ohio. this makes it even muddy. muddier than i thought. see colorado and you see the

fact that only 21 of the 33 delegates so he wins colorado, right? he only has 21 delegates, why? they're going to do it in a month or two. at which time all the candidates still in the race will circle back and try to individually win over those delegates to get them into their column. >> the other interesting thing is the burst that rick santorum needed? remember when he won iowa and nobody knew that. so he didn't get that perception burst going into new hampshire and going into south carolina. the other really important thing is you remember that national poll we showed you yesterday, who was the only candidate in that particular poll, i believe it was rasmussen that beat president obama? it was a surprising result. rick santorum. was that a precursor so to what we saw happening last night? there was a lot to be read into that poll. it was a national poll even though we were look at three states last night. >> right. by the way, we have rick santorum. he will be on this program. he -- of the major candidates who has been on this program more than any of the others, he'll be joining us just about two hours from now.

meanwhile, mitt romney as brian mentioned, he had a relatively short speech. he would like to fast forward -- fast forward undoubtedly to the next primaries. michigan where he's got favorite son status. >> maine on the 11th. >> exactly. he'll probably do well there because he's from new england. you have michigan where he's got most favored son status and arizona as well where it looks as if he could do very well. nonetheless, he says at the end of the day, folks, i really truly in my heart believe i will be the guy standing against barack obama. listen. >> i want to congratulate senator santorum and wish him the very best, we'll keep campaigning down the road. i expect to become your nominee with your help. so i want to congratulate all of my fellow republicans. particularly senator santorum and i look forward to the contest to come. but we're going to take our message of liberty and

prosperity to every corner of the country. and when this primary season is over, we're gonna stand united as a party behind our nominee to defeat barack obama and to restore the values that have made america the greatest nation in the history of the earth. >> it's the word united that's important there, i think. can mitt romney unite the conservative base with his message? that seems to be the prevailing message that comes out of these contests when he does not win. and last night, when bret baier had his show on at 11:00 p.m. and they were deciding and analyzing what this all meant, amy stoddard who is freak -- frequently on that show had this to say. >> he's laid the groundwork, the best organization of any of the candidates in colorado, an organization that he was planning to win with in november. he was set up for the general election. if he loses there tonight, it's

a strong statement about anti-romney sentiment that's left in the party and the possibility that santorum truly can consolidate all of these anti-romney votes and become a more serious threat than newt gingrich has been to romney thus far. >> chris? >> the one thing that romney is going to start doing, they say, is one thing he does is learn from his unsuccessful outings and this was unsuccessful no matter how you look at it. first he said i'm going to continue to compete in primaries that matter. essentially diminishing because the delegates haven't been assigned for the most part and then he might have to change his events. right now, he shows up. he gives a speech. and he leaves. what does rick santorum do? rick santorum shows up, gives a speech and then answers questions to the point where it actually annoys the media. >> sure. >> but he just goes into length on everything. >> i think the message is what upsets the conservative base, that romney will say oh, these states don't matter. see, i think that upsets the people that not only live in those states but people who feel the same way in other states. and you have to wonder now if

you're in the romney camp, can you only win when you flood the market with negative ads? >> or -- >> or ads in particular. >> ads in particular. that's got to be a question this morning. >> if i don't advertise, will anyone buy my stuff? he's got money. that's part of it and he just said, you know, considering all the states we have coming up, i'm want going to focus on this but he was expects up until three days ago to win two of those three states. i think he was prepared to lose one. i don't think he was prepared to lose all three. >> as bad a night that mitt romney had, you figure newt gingrich. let's get to the debates and there will be one debate before super tuesday. it will be february 22nd. a chance for newt once again to shine on the stage. of course, you'll see it and we'll dissect it right afterwards. >> all right. lots to talk about today. in the meantime, we have to bring you some headlines. begin with the chilling 911 call made moments before josh powell set fire to his home with his two young sons inside. the caller, a social worker who had just dropped those boys off

for a visit. she begged police to come quick only to be told it wasn't a priority? >> i'd like to pull out of the driveway because i smell gasoline and he won't let me in. how long will it be? >> i don't know, we have to respond to emergency, life threatening situations first. >> this could be life threatening. he went to court on wednesday and he didn't get his kids back. and this is really -- i'm afraid for their lives. >> that call made at least seven minutes before the house went up in flames. and that wasn't the only warning sign. both powell's sister and lawyer called police earlier in the day saying they'd received strange e-mail and voice messages from josh powell hinting he might do something drastic. police trying to figure out why he withdrew $5,000 from his bank account before he killed himself and his two boys. lot of questions on that one. new day and brand new violence

shattering syria at this hour. the city of hammes coming under attack for the fifth day in a row now. today is the heaviest so far leaving at least 40 people dead. according to reports, the pentagon has started an internal review of military capabilities in case president obama calls for action. top officials say they are working on nonmilitary options first. qantas airways now grounding one of its super jumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings back in january. the plane has been flown 20 to 30 times since they first found their cracks. the cracks are linked to some type of manufacturing issue. the plane should be back in the air within a week. the last known world war i veteran has died. florence green passed away saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday. she was a member of britain's royal air force serving officers meals and tea. she joined when she was just 17. her service was only first

recognized in 2010 of a researcher found her records in britain's national archives. what took so long? she served under her maiden name. and those are your headlines. >> world war i? oh, my goodness. let's talk about the air force for a second because they're changing something that's really going to aggravate you today. >> listen, the air force has got an office called the rapid capabilities office, the rco where they expedite weapons systems. it's been around since, i think, 2002, 2003, something like that. on their logo, they've got the motto, "doing god's work with other people's money." well, the god part really infuriated a prominent atheist group and they complained and so now the air force is caving and changing from doing god's work to doing miracles with other people's money. >> aren't miracles a religious word as well. >> it's the god word that bugs them. >> ok. >> most refer to the 1980 hockey team. >> i guess. i use the word miracle as a

religious thing. anyway, here's what representative randy forbes, republican says that it sets a bad precedent. it is most egregious. i am concerned that the rco capitulated to pressure from an outside group that consistently seeks to remove references to god and faith in our military. the rco's action sets a dangerous precedence that all references to god must be removed from the military. i find it fascinating they take away god and put in miracles. i think that will also stir up the same kind of people to be upset with it. >> not many atheists in the cockpit, i understand, after talking to a lot of people. 12 minutes after the top of the hour. dick morris is next and he says santorum's sweep is a game changer. he'll expand. >> that's right. and one state is getting people to take a chevy volt off the lot. and guess what, they're using your money to do it. details on the latest green energy rebates. >> plus, there's a whole lot of "fox & friends" still ahead including taylor armstrong from the housewives out in california. dave ramsey, rick santorum, paul

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>> wow, is rick santorum's three states sweep a game changer in the race for the g.o.p. nomination? or is mitt romney somebody who didn't want to compete in a state where delegates aren't going to be issued right away? let's ask former advisor to president clinton and fox news contributor dick morris, how big is this in this race? >> big deal. huge. i think it has two key implications. mitt romney has not closed the sale with the voters. he thought he was in a zero sum

game with gingrich. if he destroyed gingrich, which i think he did, he would coast to the nomination and he didn't think about rick santorum. the second thing is that it shows that there is a real -- that santorum is now on the verge of winning the anti-romney primary. because what's significant here is not only that he won these three states, but that he finished so far ahead of gingrich in the two in which gingrich was on the ballot and when gingrich wasn't on the ballot, all of the votes he would have gotten seemed to have gone to santorum in missouri. so i think that this is huge. there is a real possibility now that it becomes a two-way race of santorum and romney and in a two-way race, romney has never gotten a majority of those votes. so if he really has to start closing the deal with republicans. he relied too much on negative advertising. >> all right. that was a mistake clearly and great analysis, as usual, but i got to bring you to something else. is there something mitt did the day after florida where it seemed as though the huge win

would propel him to the nomination? when he made that comment about i don't care about the very poor, we know what he meant but that's not the way it came across. did that resonate? >> no. no. i don't think so at all. i think every single person who heard the one comment knows the other which is the full context in which he said it. so i don't think that that's a -- that's a factor. what i think is the factor here, brian, is everybody is fed up with negative ads. they've had up to here with them. they've watched the republicans destroying one another and they're worried about obama coming in. so the one guy who hasn't thrown negatives, the one guy who hasn't been part of this food fight between gingrich and romney, he benefits. and i think the -- i think if romney just doubles up and does negatives on santorum figuring he'll take a second guy down, that's not going to be effective. i think that romney has got to go back to the positive message and close this deal with the voters. >> right. he's never been the frontrunner

before. therefore, he's never been attacked by two sides. mitt romney and newt gingrich have. we'll see how he withstands the pressure and he'll be joining us in about an hour. >> i also just want to note that on my web site dickmorris.com i have a petition which i hope people sign to all four of these campaigns to cut out the negative advertising. they won't do it on their own. but we can get them to do it and i think the voters of minnesota and colorado and missouri took a long step toward doing that last night. >> right. got two primaries coming up on the 28th and maine caucus in between and a lot of time to listen to the candidates in a debate to make the decision. dick morris is sticking around. amongst his topics, he has a prediction about what the president will do about the situation between israel and iran. can you say lip service? and attorney general eric holder sued. brand new details about the heat he's facing. it's not over fast & furious this time. thanks for waking up. please wake up everybody in your house and use my name.

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>> if you're just waking up, a couple of headlines for you now. it's not 1600 pennsylvania avenue but for now, it's close enough to the white house for donald trump. he's spending $200 million to turn washington's historic old post office at 1100 pennsylvania avenue into a luxury hotel. and casey anthony reportedly surfacing in another video diary. the two minute clip not being made public at this time. we're told anthony talks about how happy she is and even makes reference to a new boyfriend. similar videos of anthony surfaced last month. no mention of her daughter

caylee in any of those clips. if they didn't want the videos to come out, why does she shoot them? i don't really get that. >> meanwhile, israel wants to make sure the united states has their back if they decide to attack the country of iran. but president obama wants to make sure military action last resort. >> my goal is to try to resolve this diplomatically mainly because the only way over the long term we can assure that iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon is by getting them to understand it's not in their interest. >> the former advisor to president clinton and fox news contributor dick morris. what do you make of this? because there was that report last week that leon panetta, secretary of defense talked about that israel says maybe april is the month they will do an attack and i know you have other information. >> well, i received an e-mail from a guy who was benjamin netanyahu's chief of staff when i worked with him a few years ago and bennett sent me this

plaintiff e-mail. it's reproduced on my web site, dickmorris.com and i sent sayin i'm going to s what b.b. can't say and i believe it probably came from b.b., just he can't admit that and he said the united states should either help us stop iranians' nuclear weapons program or get out of the way so we can do it ourselves. and this -- i remember the first time i met with netanyahu. first thing he said to me was it's 1938, meaning we have only a year or two to avert the holocaust. and i really think that he feels that. i think that panetta when he says the most the strike will accomplish is delay the weapons program by one or two years, that's huge! obama finally kicking and screaming and imposed the sanction we needed to impose on the iranian central bank that senator kirk who is ill now has been pushing. we finally did that a few weeks

ago, if we can buy another year or two of time to let that sanction grind the iranian economy into the dust, there's not going to be a regime to deal with. obama's wrong. the best way to stop iran from getting a bomb is to change the regime. >> right. and their reaction to an israeli attack is the most intriguing thing. they could ignore it like syria and not even acknowledge they had a program or they could ignite hezbollah to start shooting rockets into israel. >> it will be the latter. it will be the latter. if israel attacks iran, it will be a general mideast war against israel. but i think in a way netanyahu understands that he'll win that. i think he believes that he would have -- that israel would have won the last two wars decisively if he had been in charge. and if he is in charge, he'll go for a victory. he won't go for some stalemate. >> well, we'll -- >> let's talk for a minute more about just last night and santorum. >> real quickly. >> i think santorum is going to have plenty of time to raise

money now because it's a slow calendar. he doesn't have a primary for three more weeks in michigan and arizona and another week to go to super tuesday. this win coming four weeks before super tuesday gives him all the time he needs to develop the financing to be able to really compete with romney and maybe win. >> certainly having a good morning today. dick morris, always a pleasure. thanks very much for joining us there in boynton beach, florida. thank you, sir. >> president obama once called the flood of super pack -- pac money a threat to our democracy. why not refuse to use it? >> would i love to take some of the big money out of politics? i would. >> guess what? he's not going to. why? he'll say it's not fair. >> he has his own pretty big super pac and a dog stranded on an icy lake. how did he get out there in the first place? a high speed chase, of course. we'll explain. >> first, happy birthday to vince neil, the motley crue

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>> this just in. the shot of the day. and it's the shot of the morning. forget about tebowing. the latest internet craze is the brady hunch. people all over the country now mocking the new england patriots quarterback. this is not funny. by imitating his pitiful post-game pose after losing the super bowl sunday night. he played great. here's another guy bradying at his office. if you have a brady hunch picture, please send it to us and try to pick a different place. we've given you two locations. try to pick another. and don't wear a helmet. steve, you can't play. >> i thought i would submit my own picture live. >> you cannot play. >> good news for tim tebow. it will take the pressure off of the ridicule he faces for doing the tebow. >> and he's rejected "dancing with the stars." i'll give you more on that story later. >> but he's talked a little bit, perhaps, about politics. >> yes. >> whoa! >> he did that to the golf channel. >> he did. >> yes. >> meanwhile, we have some news for you and headlines for you on this wednesday morning.

attorney general eric holder being sued by the state of south carolina over the state's new voting law. it requires voters show government issued photo i.d.'s at the polls. last december, holder blocked the law saying it would prevent minorities from voting. but south carolina's attorney general says holder is wrong and it's designed to prevent voter fraud. indiana has a similar law and it has been upheld as constitutional. >> chevy volt sales now so dismal they're practically giving the car away. the state of tennessee just announced another huge rebate for drivers who buy g.m.'s new battery-operated car. an extra $2500 on top of the $7500 federal tax rebate that's already available. act now and they'll even throw in a free charger. the chargers run about $8,000. >> what? >> last month, the volt saw its worst sales since last summer. only 603 volts left u.s. lots. compare that to 38,000 for trucks. >> it's a good car. i just don't like plugging it in

every night because i get it when i have to. brand new video of an explosion outside of a russian nuclear reactor. it was caught on dash cam over the weekend. just came out overnight. originally russian government officials said the explosion was no big deal but they said it in russian. but this tape certainly has people scratching their heads. here's another angle from a surveillance camera. despite the flash of light, that practically turns day into night, the government insist it was a minor wiring problem in the basement. brezhnev still has a cold. they go on to play it's a nonnuclear area of the reactor and there were no flames. no open flames. we'll look into this. >> talk about a dramatic rescue. a dog pulled from an icy lake. it happened yesterday afternoon in lakewood, colorado. so the owner says the dog named max fell in after chasing a coyote. max was able to stay afloat for about 20 minutes until help arrived. >> with the coyote. >> a firefighter in a special protective suit went out to save

him and other firefighters pulled him to safety as he grabbed max. thanks to the firefighters, a real happy ending. max doing just fine apparently this morning. >> that's good. >> meanwhile, let's take a look at the maps and find out where we have some ice in u.s. of a today. we have a little bit of snow moving through portions of the ohio valley and the great lake states at this hour. rain south of that through the mid atlantic. also out west in the pacific northwest, a shower to start the day. meanwhile, the current temperatures, it is bitterly cold in rapid city, south dakota. right now, they've only got 9. it's colder yet in caribou, maine. 11 below, not the wind chill. that's the air temperature. here in new york city, it's freezing. meanwhile in raleigh, a little below that at 31. we have 40's currently across much of the area. later today in tampa, they will jack it up to 78 degrees. 60's across much of the gulf area. 50's and 60's across texas. it will be freezing today in cleveland, ohio. meanwhile, 71 the daytime high

in los angeles. it was by the way in the 50's yesterday for a big parade in the canyon of heroes, mr. kilmeade. >> right. >> steve, first, i have to correct the record. chris chulo pointed it out about the russian explosion story. he says the explosion made day turn into night. it's a night sky. you mean night into day. it lit up the sky. >> those confused, you are now no longer confused. >> thank you, chris. we'll get you a job here. this internship is really working out. did you have employees call out sick yesterday with the blue flu? the good news is it is over. the bad news they were totally faking it. nearly one million fans attending the ticker tape parade for the giants yesterday over in manhattan. tons of fans chanting "let's go blue" as blue and white confetti came down in the canyon of heroes. new york city mayor michael bloomberg gave each member of the giants a key to the city. big blue also honored in a ceremony at metlife stadium in

new jersey. governor christie made sure of that. there are about 30,000 fans, as you know they beat the patriots in the super bowl. and get this, 2.1 million people watched the game on line. that is a record for streaming viewers. that's from your ipad to your iphone to your actual computer. the only title broncos quarterback tim tebow wants to win is the super bowl. the team spokesman says tebow isn't interested in appearing on "dancing with the stars." and is focusing on preparing for the 2012 season. current "dancing with the stars" champ j.r. martinez says he met tebow over the super bowl weekend. martinez claims he talked to tebow about the show and the quarterback said "maybe in a year." now the big story of the day. this adorable little kitty taking the field at a professional soccer game in the u.k. that is -- hey, he brought the match to a stand still for more than 10 minutes while he ran from goal to goal. finally a stadium employee was able to catch the cat and now he's an internet sensation. several people even have set up

twitter accounts sending out messages on the cat's behalf. if you go to foxandfriends.com and go to keeping score, all these interviews we got on the field minutes after the giants super bowl win will be post there had and all the stuff from over the weekend. >> let's go back to politics for a minute because president obama at one point said that he wanted to do away with all that big money that we've been hearing about on the republican side right now called super pacs. these are the big money machines that then put out all of these ads typically a lot of negative ads. well, now, the president seems to be having a change of heart now that we're in the election cycle again. now he says he loves those ads because they're fair or it's only fair? >> would i love to take some of the big money out of politics? i would. unfortunately right now, partly because of supreme court rulings and a bunch of decisions out there, it is very hard to be able to get your message out without having some resources.

>> so you've got the president of the united states who in the past has said the super pacs are, "a threat to our democracy" and yet, you've got jim mucina, his campaign manager on the phone doing a conference call on monday with big donors saying, you know what? we're going to have to do a flip-flop here. send your money to our super pac, priorities u.s.a. which will be run by a number of former barack obama associates. >> guess what? he got a pass yesterday because all the focus was on rick santorum's sensational three victories and again, the president must be saying this is like a friday night document dump. because everyone is kind of ignoring my controversial moves. not senator rick santorum though, last night, listen. >> this is typical of obama, doing whatever is necessary for him to keep power. not a matter of principle. not a matter of doing what's right. always a matter of doing what's best for him. >> and brian and i were talking before the show how this is reminiscent of when he was

running for president. then senator barack obama in 2008 said i'm not going to -- i will accept public financing until he realized, yeah, i can raise 3/4 of a billion dollars and then he broke that promise. he also promised he wouldn't take lobbyists money. he since has taken scads of lobbyists money. what about in 2010 when he bad mouthed the chamber of commerce for, you know, having super pacs and not disclosing donors. now he's got his own super pac that won't disclose. >> what do you think as viewers? should politicians be able to raise millions and billions of dollars so they can attack each other and what's left is in smitharines? >> it's the law. >> i'm going back to the whole thing. a lot of people are on this movement, should we get rid of the negative ads and all that money instead of putting it into the political ads? look at the crisis that we're in in this country. >> i'm going to attack you before not supporting negative ads. before i do that, i have to correct the record.

we don't talk directly. my chief of staff talks to his chief of staff and then we exchange notes. >> we're down in the pods. he's facing that way. i'm over here. hey, what about that? >> and i have secret microphones while i'm getting my hair done to listen to what you guys are talking about. >> i knew it! >> all right. 19 minutes before the top of the hour on this wednesday. coming up, our own dr. marc siegel sat down with two of the teenagers suffering mysterious tourettes like symptoms for an exclusive interview. >> i was walking with my sister and everything and then i started to freak out and then i had a panic attack. and then i just started to like tic. >> then what happened? dr. siegel joins us with more of the exclusive interviews. >> plus, stuart varney is standing by with this, a tax rebellion happening in the heartland? that sounds like "mission impossible" music. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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>> some quick headlines now. new york city hotel employees may have the dominique strauss-khan sex assault case to thank for this. they have ok'd a deal that calls for a 28% pay hike. the former imf chief was accused of sexually assaulting a maid at the suffolk hotel new york. but prosecutors dropped the charges. a long high speed chase comes to a screeching halt in los angeles. a police car hits the back end of the truck and spins out of control. the driver then jumps out the window and officers make the arrest. it started when police tried to pull a man over for unsafe lane changes. sound familiar? >> stop it.

thank you very much, brian, who is ruining the economy? call it the new tax rebellion. more states are looking to cut or eliminate the personal income tax in their states. will it really hurt their economies and cause savage cuts in schools, public safety and programs for the poor as critics claim? stuart varney joins us live. good morning to you, stuart. >> hi, steve. step back a second. just let's back off for a second. use the states and their experience with taxes and use that as a pointer as to what happens when you raise taxes, ok? all of the high tax states, the highest tax states in the nation, they're the ones who have a poor employment situation, they're the ones who are cutting back on basic services. >> all right. let us put up -- and these are the states with the highest income taxes. >> oregon, california, new york, ohio, vermont. they have the highest income tax rates in the nation. >> now, compare and contrast them with states with no income

tax as you can see right here including florida and texas. >> that's new hampshire, tennessee, texas, washington, wyoming. those states on the map there, they are growing in population. they're growing jobs. they're gaining jobs. and they've got fast rates of economic growth. so no tax equals solid, sound growth economy. high tax equals fewer jobs and less growth and actually declining populations. >> all right, we've got one more graphic that's going to -- stuart is going to have to explain it a little bit. it makes your case. >> that tells the story. if the no tax states on the left, they are gaining population. they're growing their economies and their employment is growing. that's on the left. that's the left scale. the highest tax states, ok, their population growth is very limited. their state growth in terms of economic growth, very limited and they're actually losing jobs. now, if you use the states as kind of a petri dish that's got

pointers, they're an experimental laboratory. that's got pointers as to what a national economy should look like and we are just as split at the federal level as the states are at the state level. >> sure. well, you know, some people have talked about tax reform or a flat tax. we're never going to get away from no federal taxes. >> no, we're not. >> for instance, these states even though they don't have state income taxes they have other ways to bring in the dough. >> lesson from the states is if you lower income tax rates, just lower those rates, you attract business and you attract jobs. ok? >> and you know what? you made the case a couple of days ago where you talked about how indiana which last week became a right to work state suddenly business -- they're open for business and it sounds like caterpillar may actually relocate their locomotive business in indiana because it is a right to work state and not a union state. >> and it's making it a more business friendly environment. that's all part of the mix. lower your taxes. make it business friendly. lower the regulatory burden. watch out for the unions.

you do all that, you will grow your economy and grow the number of jobs in your state. that's the lesson that you learn from the states as an experimental laboratory. >> and stuart and i live in new jersey which is one of the highest tax states in america. >> which is proposing to lower tax rates. >> could they hurry? >> stuart, thank you very much. >> yes, sir. >> check out his show at 9:20 eastern over there on the fox business network. thank you, stuart. meanwhile, new details on this super bowl ad touting detroit's recovery. remember? >> we're all scared because this isn't the game. people in detroit know something about this. they almost lost everything. >> clint eastwood denies there's a political message but there's new evidence of ties to president obama. we'll do some explaining. and our own dr. marc siegel sat down with two of the teenagers suffering mysterious tourette's

seems. the doctor makes a house call.

>> doctors are still struggling to find answers to those bizarre cases of teens and now one adult coming down with tourette's like symptoms in one upstate new york town. dr. marc siegel sat down with two of the teenagers for an interview for "fox & friends." >> i was like walking with my sister around and everything and then i started to freak out and then i had a panic attack. and then it just started to like ok. >> i got up from school and my

right arm started flailing and i made really weird gruntlike noises. and ever since then, it's been on and off. >> dr. marc siegel from the medical a team joins me now. what do you make of this after interviewing these two teens? >> that's the key, gretchen. first of all, i'm not their physician and we've been speculating a lot in the media. after interviewing them and i basically took a medical history from both, i'm impressed with how vulnerable they are. how fearful they are. they're not doing this for media attention. i feel very badly for them and their parents. they're looking for answers and this came on suddenly. one in particular was fine until this occurred. lauren said i walked into a store and i saw someone else ticking and i began to tic, the actual movements they have and what they experience seems to me now and i'm one of the people that's raised the possibility of infection in the environment, at the end of the day, i think that this is probably psychiatric so i want to toss to dr. mcveegue,

a shot from her from buffalo who explains why she thinks this is psychiatric. >> thashz a large portion of the kids that may have pre-existing psych logic conditions or just maybe an environment that's unstable. that predisposed them to this but i do think that once it gets so big and once it gets on the media, like this there is this element of contagion. >> how does that happen? how is something like a tic contagious? >> isn't that the key word there, gretchen, contagious. i wrote a book on fear about how fear is contagious. this is a small school. there's been a lot of speculation, it's about facebook. it's not about facebook. this is a small school. everyone in the school knows what's going on. they hear about something. there was probably a case first that was real. that really was tourette's and everyone started to panic and they started to get it. now, to be totally fair, there's another side to this. and i interviewed also a doctor in new jersey who is treating these children and is convinced something called pandis which is

a pediatric autoimmune syndrome he thinks could be brought on by toxins in the environment that have been in leroy, new york for a long time. i want to hear what he has to say as well. >> the remarkable thing is that there are anti-inflammatories that are probably sitting in your medicine cabinet right now that you could use to treat these girls. >> all right. so you have the psychological explanation. you have the biological explanation. and then there's the environmental one. >> absolutely. and you know what the key here is -- dr. tripoletti is very concerned about these kids and very involved with their parents and it's old-fashioned doctoring. he's really treating the human condition. i think he may be treating it more with a placebo effect making them feel better although he's done a lot of testing, he doesn't have consistent results that this is either in the environment or a bacteria. i'm not ruling it out. but i was very impressed with the doctor-patient relationship in this case. this man cares and that's one of the reasons he's having effect. >> thanks for being on this case for us, dr. siegel.

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union? that guy. >> i can't talk anymore, you have to read. >> remember the super bowl ad touting detroit's recovery? >> it's halftime in america, too. people are out of work and they're hurting. and they're all wondering what they're going to do to make a comeback. and we're all scared. this isn't a game. >> it isn't a game. clint eastwood denies there's a political message. new evidence of ties to president obama. we will explain. you're watching "fox & friends" live from new york city. >> you think the giants were happy, rick santorum was happier than all of them. this was his trip down the canyon of heroes. look what he did in three separate races.

first, missouri where there was no newt and a lot of people with rick. >> 65%. this was the stunner right here, colorado. in 2008, mitt romney won 60% of the vote. ironically he was considered the conservative candidate against john mccain. he won minnesota and colorado in 2008 but not this time. these were the results coming out of colorado. newt down to 13 and ron paul 12. >> guess who is in second, ron paul. in third is mitt romney. that has never happened before with 17% of the vote in minnesota. they're sending a message, it seems. >> absolutely. >> plus this completely destroys newt gingrich's argument that it's a two man race, just newt and mitt because there you got rick santorum last night, winning three in a row. and now he's got his eyes on the president. >> another person who maybe -- maybe is listening to your cheers here tonight also and that might be at 1600

pennsylvania avenue. you better start listening to the voice of the people! then again, i wouldn't be surprised if he isn't listening. why would you think he would be listening now? has he ever listened to the voice of america before? no, he -- why? because he thinks he knows better. he thinks he's smarter than you. he thinks he's someone who is a privileged person who should be able to rule over all of you. but we have a different message for him. >> so it's a stinging rebuke now. rick santorum, you got to wonder a couple of questions this morning. there was little advertisement in these three states. there was a ton of advertisement in south carolina and florida. a lot of it negative advertising. so you have to wonder, does that play into the equation when you don't have ads out there to

persuade the voters, who comes out on top? is that one way of looking at it this morning? also, the idea that in the last national poll before these three states, rick santorum was the only one who beat president obama in that poll. so was that a precursor to what was going to happen in these states moving forward. >> the result is there's not much going on until you have the caucus in maine and then you have two primaries in arizona and in michigan. so that will count and that's what the romney campaign is saying or spinning, saying that's the one we're focusing on, not these beauty contests that don't really have many delegates at stake. but charles krauthammer i had had a salient point for a change, he's not really very good and not that smart. he says now rick santorum has a shot at making people listen. he's got a couple of weeks where there's nothing going on. where his message is going to be taken in by this entire nation and they'll say, is this the guy that i can back? is this the guy that i would take over mitt romney? if he blows it, he blows it. but he's going to have the --

he's going to have the audience. >> sure, absolutely. plus if you're mitt romney and you're waking up today and thinking i came in third in minnesota? i came in third in -- wait a minute, tim pawlenty, one of the first guys that signed on to my campaign that was supposed to help me there, that did not happen. you have to wonder who exactly showed up for these beauty contests? remember, mr. santorum stands for very strongly when it comes to abortion and gay marriage and how big an issue is this contraceptive mandate that the administration have been jamming down the throats of catholic -- >> they look to the mormon as someone who won't stand up to that as the catholic is what you're thinking. >> he's very strong when it comes to social conservative issues and rick santorum was the guy last night. >> you have to factor in after mitt romney had -- yeah, he's going to be coming up next hour. >> that's some good booking. >> you have to factor in after the florida situation where mitt romney had such a big win and the next morning when he once

again stumbled over his words, remember that very poor comment. you got to wonder if that has also factored in as well to this rick santorum situation. or is this just the ebb and flow of the entire election season that we've been seeing this far? where the republicans can't seem to figure out who they actually like, if anyone. >> great philosopher is jerry seinfeld. he came out and he said this -- he said why don't you get married. he said well, my answer is i love first dates. america seems to be saying i love first dates. and seeing how it goes. >> we love things that are fresh. mitt romney said last night, ok, congratulations, mr. santorum. but i think, mitt romney, i'm being mitt romney here. without the singing part. i'm going to be the nominee. listen. >> i want to congratulate senator santorum and wish him the very best. we'll keep campaigning down the road but i expect to become your

nominee with your help. i want to congratulate all of my fellow republicans, particularly senator santorum and i look forward to the contest to come. but we're going to take our message of liberty and prosperity to every corner of the country. and when this primary season is over, we're going to -- we're going to stand united as a party behind our nominee to defeat barack obama and to restore the values that have made america the greatest nation in the history of the earth. >> you know what it reminds me of? >> you're going to quote george constanza. >> i think i'm going to go sinbad. i'm kidding. this reminds me of senator obama against senator clinton. remember after it looked like senator obama was the inevitable candidate, senator clinton started rattling off victory after victory after victory. >> it would be interesting to

look back and look where obama and clinton were at this point in the race compared to where we are with the republicans at this point in time in february of 2012 vs. 2008. one other quick comment, we know -- we've debated on this show for sometime that negative ads appear to work but are they the good thing to do? that's the question that we're asking you this morning because you end up eviscerating the candidates within the same party before they actually go to the big time! >> are you saying you're more amenable to it in the general? because they're going to come out. barack obama is going to spend a billion dollars worth of negative ads. >> that's the prevailing thought process. >> i bet you a dollar. >> of course. of course that's going to happen! my point is a little deeper this morning, is whether or not we should actually have these negative ads. >> and i go back to that 1934 classic movie, remember when santa -- i forgot the name of it. remember when santa was telling people go to gimball's. what if they go to ads and president obama recommends mitt romney or rick santorum and others and they recommend

president obama for certain things. >> a couple of nights ago, matt lauer tried to get the president to pledge no negative ads in the general. he took a pass. >> of course he has to take a pass. >> ok. >> it's frustrating. >> we might not like the negative ads but there's a thing called freedom of speech and with the super pacs now, everything is game. >> but look at what's happening now. now you have to ask a very important question this morning. can mitt romney only win in states when he has negative advertisements? i mean, that is a very important political question this morning. and i think everyone should be concerned about that. anyway, maybe it's a gender thing. let me know. now to my headlines and begin with the two chilling 911 calls made moments before josh powell set fire to his own home with his two young sons inside. the caller a social worker who just dropped off the boys for a visit. >> i'd like to pull out of the driveway because i smell gasoline and he won't let me do it. >> how long will it be? >> i don't know. we have to respond to emergency life threatening situations first. first available deputy. >> this could be life threatening!

he went to court on wednesday and he's -- he didn't get his kids back. and this is really -- i'm afraid for their lives. >> wow. >> amazing call from that social worker who was trying to get back into that home and look what ended up happening. that call was made at least seven minutes before the house went up in flames. that's when the social worker got another dispatcher on the phone. >> powell's own sister had called police before the fire and told them she had received a strange voicemail from josh powell hinting he might do something drastic. new day and brand new violence shattering syria at this hour. the city coming under attack for the fifth day in a row.

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kind of response did you get? >> huge. if they want to take the fairness quiz, they can go to "the wall street journal" web site. we have a tremendous outpouring of support for this and people were surprised by some of these numbers. >> it's the president's mantra over and over again. fair share. time for the rich to pay their fair share. here's the first quiz question. is it fair that those who took out responsible mortgages and pay them each month have to see their tax dollars used to subsidize those who acted recklessly in taking out mortgages they now can't afford to repay? >> how is that fair? i mean, people, you know, most of the people watching this show paid their mortgages on time, sometimes it's a financial sacrifice to do it and then they have to pay taxes for someone who acted irresponsibly. the president this week came out with another mortgage plan. they're going to give $2,000 to people who didn't pay their mortgages. there's no free money. if you're going to give people $2,000, that will have to come from you and me. >> that doesn't come up much in his description. is it fair that the richest 10%

pay 2/3 of the tax? >> you know what? i bet a lot of people don't believe that number. it's true. it comes right from the irs but most people have no idea that the wealthiest 1%, you know, those evil 1% at the top, they pay 40% of the taxes and yes, the top 10% pay 67%. one other statistic, brian, the bottom 50%, all americans below the median, they're only paying 2 1/2% of the tax. it's a highly progressive tax system, this idea that the rich aren't paying their fair share. the statistics don't bear that out. >> richest 10% in america pay more than every other industrialized nation including socialized sweden. >> that's what shocked me. i know these numbers. that we depend on the rich to pay the share of taxes more than any other country even sweden. >> all right. question number 3, is it fair those who work full-time jobs have pay taxes to support extending unemployment benefits for those who don't work to the tune of 99 weeks. >> almost two years. you know, i don't think most people have any problem with somebody is out of luck loses their job giving them three or six months of benefits but two years, brian? of not working and getting paid?

that isn't fair. >> i want to go to a fourth one here, is it fair that president obama's campaign contributors got federal loan guarantees on their investment in projects that went bust? specifically? solyndra. >> solyndra and there's others, by the way, this is what we call crony capitalism. people have access to the president and congress, get loans. others don't. >> this is something that i'm going to indict my industry. is it fair that roughly 88% of political contributions from supposedly impartial network television reporters, producers and other employees in 2008 went to democrats? is that fair? >> not so fair and balanced, is it? got to read this and i'll tell you what, if you're rick santorum, mitt romney or newt gingrich or ron paul, i would memorize it. >> right. you know what? this is the way to respond to obama trying to take the moral high ground on these issues. >> instead of an attack ad, hit him with facts. great job, very insightful. >> thank you. >> coming up straight ahead, the last line of defense when it comes to stopping terrorists in the skies.

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>> all right. time for news by the numbers. first $4 billion over budget. that's the new estimate for construction at the new world trade center site. costs now soaring to close to $15 billion. all because they made some changes. next, 32%. that's how much oprah's magazine

sales have plunged since last year. o is now one of the biggest losers on the magazine rack. and finally, $2.90. that's all you need to buy a bacon milkshake. delicious! fast food chain jack-in-the-box rolling out the drink but it only contains flavored syrup of bacon. sorry, folks, no real meat in the shake. nonetheless, it sounds delicious. gretch? >> thank you, steve. nearly six months ago, taylor armstrong went from being the star of a hit reality show to the center of a real and public tragedy. her husband russell took his own life after taylor left him and since then, she has released private and disturbing details about her abusive marriage in hopes of advocating against domestic violence. >> we're all protecting you. >> we're all protecting you! >> about my marriage? >> what you tell about your marriage. >> because we don't say that he hit you! >> one of the stars of the real housewives of beverly hills and

the author of the new book "hiding from reality" taylor armstrong is my guest. good to see you in person, taylor. i know this is just a horrible time for you. you're in an abusive relationship, you leave your husband. he commits suicide and you have a child to raise. >> true. >> tell us a little bit about the abuse because we didn't see it actually on the show. you alluded to it and many of your friends on the show didn't understand if it was actually really happening. >> i think that one of my points in hiding from reality is just that the cycle is so hard to understand. when you're in it, there's that honeymoon phase that is so alluring that you're willing to stay for so long and of course, you never see it. you know, bringing the cameras into my life really was like being in a restaurant or in a mall, it's one of those things where you think this person is not going to act out because there are cameras all around us. >> it was still happening because the cameras were never capturing what you allege was going on behind the scenes. >> true. >> let's talk about some of the

injuries you had surgery last summer because your whole eye was knocked in. >> true. i had an orbital floor blowout with my muscle being trapped in the fracture. i have a titanium mesh implant in my right eye now supporting my right eye. and thankfully i had two amazing surgeons that tag teamed the operation and i saved my eye but that was really the moment when i thought this is -- this is just beyond safe. >> well, some people would agree with that. although you talk in the book about how difficult it is to get out of this cycle of violence. and you were a victim of it from history. your mom was also abused. do you think that played into the kind of person you ended up choosing? >> absolutely. you know, i searched for men my entire life, i was always grabbing on to boys even at a very young age and i -- i was just as broken as russell.

we were just broken in different ways. >> you've been criticized now after the book has come out by some of the cast members as trying to capitalize on his sudden death and turning around a book so quickly. what's your response to that? >> well, the press might criticize me, not a cast member, first of all, she's a wannabe cast member. exactly. i think she's trying to capitalize on this opportunity to make herself a cast member and i understand that. at the same time, i don't know her. and i don't really respond to that. i have been journalling for over a year. and a lot of the book is about that. >> so your effort in writing the book is to let people know about what was going on in your life in hopes of what? >> things that could be happening to me in the midst of a reality tv show, it's happening to so many other women out there. i mean, there are three women

that die every single day from battery and my hope is by them seeing me and me saying this is what went on in my life, that they might be able to get out before i did. >> i did a lot of extensive work on dmomestic violence as well. i, too, needed to be educated on this. your book is a good read for somebody who is looking for the help they might need. taylor armstrong "hiding from reality" is the book. continued success. >> thank you. >> coming up, do you need a loan? you may need to boost your credit score first. dave ramsey with tips to do it quick. next. then want to give your kids a better education but you live in a terrible school district? too bad. that's what the head of one teachers union is saying to all those kids. ugh, my sinus congestion, and it's your fault. instead of blaming me, try advil congestion relief.

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>> check out this sculpture, one colorado family, that's good, truly taking tebowing to a higher level. >> that's a lot of snow. >> it is. that's how tracy fox and his family spent super bowl sunday, fox says he moved about 10 tons of snow for it and some friends from church helped him. the family says it helps give glory to god and show they are

big broncos fans. this isn't the family's first snow creation, though. the foxes said they did a minnesota vikings snow sculpture when they lived near the twin cities. >> all right. the vikings need all the help they can get whether it's an ice sculpture or new team members. >> a little rebuilding and they need a new stadium. can you get that done? >> get right on it. >> ok. >> the new stadium actually is going to be outdoors. outdoors in the winter in minnesota. if any place needs a roof. >> i agree. growing up, i went to the old met and you wore about 17 snowmobile suits and it built stamina. >> didn't mind that? >> as a kid, you don't mind anything like that. come on! >> oftentimes when you get the -- when you have a lid, though, you wind up with a super bowl. this past weekend, there was -- brian was at the super bowl. one of the ads that caught so many people's eyes was that one where clint eastwood was -- a lot of people think he directed itment he didn't. he was simply the narrator and people have suggested there are political overtones to it.

it seems -- >> who are these people with those suggestion? >> it seems pro obama such as karl rove. but it turns out a couple of members of the creative team do have ties to barack obama. >> and to espn. they do those ads. these two have worked and donated their time in 2008 to pro obama art. they're two members of the advertising firm that by the way, do great stuff. if you like those espn commercials and a lot of the coke commercials that's them. so there is somewhat of a -- at least they're obama supporters. >> it made me think of subliminal messages, you know, kind of like remember in the olden days when you went to the movie theater and they would kind of flash in coke and popcorn to make you want to get some. they didn't let you do that anymore or didn't let the advertisers do that anymore. >> they stopped drive-ins. >> if there is this history, maybe not on purpose but just because there is that history, do these people making this ad kind of skew it? karl rove seemed to think at the

end of this two minute ad, it should have said paid for by barack obama. here's what he said. >> this is stupid for them to have done. they should not have done this. >> why was it stupid? >> it turned something into that was a great iconic moment and turned it into something that's transparentally political and makes the white house again look like a bunch of cheap chicago pauls. you know, they should have just left it alone. let it be by itself. instead, they have this sort of strut around the stage like little guys blowing their horns saying look at us. look at us. look at us. it was a stupid move on their part. >> was there consultation or collaboration? it's interesting because apparently, a member of the team, creative director joe staples tweeted after the president of the united states gave labor day speech, he said "i think obama just paraphrased our ad in his labor day speech from detroit. holy" and then he says something on par with cow. it sounds like the president echoed what they had already planned to put in the ad. >> he didn't say holy cow.

>> he didn't. it started with a c. >> it's amazing this is what we're talking about after the super bowl because there's all these other ads, and they wish we were talking about them. instead we're talking about this. >> let's go to the news. last line of defense when it comes to stopping terrorists in the sky. some federal air marshalls think their job is a big joke. the department of homeland security is about to release a damaging report on the air marshall program. it shows bitter infighting in the agency among agents who did not get along. that's the worst type of infighting and it shows this air marshall photographed sleeping on the job with a loaded gun on his lap. >> oh! >> everything in this report happened after the 9/11 attacks. the full details expected tomorrow. >> you sure he wasn't just faking sleeping? >> that's what i think. >> yeah. >> most air marshalls i know are very vigilant. >> me, too. >> soon, they might be giving them away for free! chevy volt, the electric car sales are so dismal the state of tennessee has just announced

another huge rebate on the battery operated car. an extra $2500. keep in mind, you already get a $7500 federal tax rebate. that's currently available. act now before midnight, not midnight but act now and they'll even throw in a free charger usually the charger is if you have one of those cars costs $8,000 additional dollars. volt saw its worst sales since last summer, only 603 volts left u.s. lots as you listen to some electricity compared to 38,000 ford trucks that don't run on electricity. >> the head of the new jersey teachers union coming under fire for telling poor families, sorry, life isn't fair. new jersey education association executive director vincent giordano had this say when asked why low income families should not be allowed to use vouchers to send their kids to private schools. >> most parents should have exactly the same options and

they do. we don't say that you can't take your kid out of the public school. we would argue not and we would say let's work more closely and more harmoniously. >> they can't afford -- some of these kids, their parents can't take their kids out of school. >> life isn't always fair. i'm sorry about that. >> wow. he makes around $500,000 a year. republican governor chris christie is expected to address his remarks at a town hall meeting today. >> meanwhile, incredible story out of corpus christi, texas. two sick puppies get the medical care they desperately need by walking right through the automatic doors into a hospital. not a pet hospital. a human hospital. >> wow! >> that's right! the dogs both dangerously underweight went -- when a secretary noticed them hiding under a desk near the emergency room, that's when a couple of doctors jumped into action nursing the pups back to health. a nearby animal shelter now caring for the dogs until they find families to adopt them. human hospital saved the dogs.

>> wow, how did they know where to go? >> it's that hospital smell. once you have it, you never lose it! i mean, you can just -- >> i should have known that when i posed that question for you, i might get that kind of response, brian. >> it wasn't for the food. >> i try to answer all questions even if my answers don't make sense. >> ok. >> i got to tell you what happened yesterday in new york city. did you call -- did you have your employees call out sick yesterday if you're a ceo or a manager? the good news is it is called the blue flu. and it is the -- the bad news is they were totally faking it. nearly one million fans attended the ticker tape parade for the giants yesterday in manhattan. their second in four years. tons of fans chanting "let's go blue. let's go eli. boy, you're good." "and where's my beer" you knocked over my beer was heard constantly. you're not allowed to have an open beer in the city and you have to hide it. canyon of heroes is where it took place. mayor bloomberg gave away the key to the city. big blue is honored in a

ceremony at the metlife stadium in new jersey. their governor christie held the ceremonies. by the way, the patriots and the giants combined to win the on-line bowl 2.1 million watched free streaming on line, ipad, iphones and your computer. that's amazing. and that's a quick look at the world of sports. hey, your credit score is arguably one of the most important pieces of information in your financial life but in a struggling economy, many americans are seeing theirs take a dive. so how do you boost your ratings without going into debt to do it? let's ask personal financial expert and author of "entrepreneur leadership" dave ramsey. hey, dave. >> hey, good morning. >> first off, it's not over when it comes to my credit score. what could i do? >> i think the thing you need to remember is you don't want to worship at the altar of the great fico. so many people spend a lot of time trying to build their credit score when really it's completely based on debt. we've got a couple of new scores hitting the market right now that's checking things like

utilities and your cell phone bill and that kind of a thing. rent bureau with experion and one called core logic. be about the business of doing your job, paying your bills on time and then you don't have to sweat the small stuff on this time. >> do a written budget. that will help you write your bills on time. you can receive manual underwriting on a home loan if you're making timely payments on your bills. jake from texas writes this. i'm currently in a 30 year mortgage at a rate of 7.25. it hurts me to say. i've been eager to refinance. however, i'm self-employed. owning two businesses, i started three years ago. our income is climbing every year but i don't have enough of a track record for the bank. how can i fix this? >> well, you do have enough of a track record for a standard mortgage. a typical fannie mae or fha loan will take two years of tax returns when you get ready to do -- on your business, your schedule c will suffice when you get ready to do your underwriting for a typical mortgage. the problem is you don't have enough of an income during those

two years is what i think i'm hearing and so in that case, you're probably going to be renting a little while. that's ok, you'll be sitting on that 7.25% for a little while until you get your income up and stablize it in this small business. >> right. let's go to ebilene from florida. if you settled an account with a creditor, how long does that negativity remain on your credit report? what do you think? >> well, it stays on for seven years. all things stay on your credit bureau report for seven years except a chapter 7 bankruptcy which will stay on for 10 years. it won't count against you but about three or four years but it will remain on there for seven. >> and i got to -- i also heard you can write an explanation towards your negative -- what's written negatively and put that in the ledger when people go to look it up. i got to ask you, when you talk about these credit repair agencies and we see them on television all the time, what do you think, dave ramsey? should we explore that? >> no, absolutely not. the only thing you can have repaired on your credit are things that are inaccurate. you can do that yourself and too

many of these credit repair agencies are being investigated by the federal trade commission because they're going in and basically lying to tell the credit bureau to change something that is accurately reported. that would be called fraud. you can't do that. the only thing you can repair on your credit are things that are inaccurate. again, you can do that yourself. >> dave ramsey, we couldn't have done this segment ourselves. we needed you. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, guys. appreciate you having me. >> actually, steve and gretchen deserve no credit for this. steve and gretchen, take it away. >> all right, fine. >> thank you, brian. coming up next, with his mandate on contraception, is president obama staring down a major catholic problem come november in the election? the professor peeks into his crystal ball on that topic next. >> and the french do it better! we're talking about parenting. the woman with the facts comes up next. you're going to want to hear it. >> first, your trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1941, this actor played football, basketball and baseball in college before getting his first

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>> quick headlines now. talk about a view from the top. take a look at this video of the aurora lights over the u.s. and canada. the brilliant images captured by a camera on the international space station. yep, we still have one. call it maroon five's latest single. the band's front man adam levine reportedly dumped by the supermodel girlfriend. that's why i stopped dating them. they appeared in the music video together. levine reportedly heart broken. if you see him, give him a hug. steve? >> i will, believe me. >> meanwhile, last week, the white house said they would not

compromise at all on their decision to force religious employers like catholic hospitals and universities to provide free birth control but yesterday, white house press secretary jay carney said they are open to working with religious institutions. let me clear my throat. could the flip-flop have a lot to do with the key voting group a swing vote, catholics? the director at the university of virginia center of politics joins us live from charlottesville. good morning to you, larry. >> good morning, steve. >> first of all, let's start with the basic question, could barack obama get re-elected without the support of catholics? >> well, it's theoretically possible but remember, in 2008, he carried catholics 54% to mccain's 45%. he got a larger percentage of catholics than he did in the overall country as a whole so i don't think he wants to do without catholics. steve, that's why they're back tracking. >> they are. >> you know, you can always tell when an administration has

goofed. when they say let's work this out. let's take another look. it's true whether it's a democrat or republican. >> why do you think the, you know, the white house drew such -- such a bold line in the sand saying look, we're going to give you a year to figure out how to reverse 2,000 years of religious doctrine but you got a year so stop complaining. >> it's the triumphs of ideology over practical election politics. and now it's back in the laps of the people who focus on practical election politics. that's why it's being "rethought". >> so this is a gigantic goof. now, if you are a catholic voter, if you're really conservative, there's a possibility you weren't going to vote for the president anyway, right? >> look, the 45% of the catholics who voted for mccain, they are the conservative catholics who are most upset by this. remember, steve, this could be a very close and competitive

election. it's possible that this costs, if they continue and they don't resolve it, it could cost obama 1%, 2%, 3% of the catholics he did win last time. if it's a close and competitive election, 1%, 2%, 3% of catholics depending on the election, that's the election potentially. >> interesting stuff. before you go, just 15 seconds, how big and important are rick santorum's three wins last night? >> very big. i mean, that is very impressive for him operating on a shoestring but mainly, it's a message to mitt romney. boy, he does not have the base. there's buyer's remorse in a large piece of the conservative base in the republican party and romney had better find a way to deal with it if he's going to be a successful nominee or the nominee at all. >> all right. larry sabato, thank you very much for joining us from the commonwealth of virginia. thank you, sir. >> thank you, steve. >> you bet. all right, our next guest says when it comes to parenting, americans should listen to the french. she will explain next.

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>> the answer to the trivia question of the day nick nolte. the winner is chuck from fair x fairfax, virginia. american moms could learn parenting tips from french mothers? excuse moi. >> that's what our next guest says in her new book. "one american mother discovers the wisdom of french parenting" and joining us now is former wall street staff writer there and author pamela drukerman. i love your book. it's great.

and it's interesting, at one point, you talk -- you've been living in france for a number of years. you're talking to a french mom and you're saying -- not just yours but a lot of french moms, the kids are so well behaved. >> yep. >> how do you discipline them and she said discipline? >> we don't do discipline, we do education. it's sort of overarching structure which has nothing to do with school which are all the little things that parents teach their kids. really, they expect more from their kids, i would say, in france and that's -- that's what i took away from it as an american parent. i don't think everything about french parenting is perfect or wonderful. you know, i love that my kids are american, too. but i've been able to choose sort of the best of both. >> let's take a look at some of your lessons because millions of parents are sitting out there looking for help. hello. good-bye. thank you and please. what do you mean from that? >> so in america, of course, we have the two magic words, please and thank you. in french, they have two additional magic words. hello and good-bye. so when a french child goes into my house, he has to say hello to

me and partly, it's politeness but it humanizes the child. it frees him from his own selfishness from his own bubble and teaches him there are other people with needs in the world and i think french parents really stress teaching this kind of emotional intelligence. much more than practical skills early on. one french mother said to me after she read my book, very interesting book but what is a flash card? >> oh, my gosh! >> they don't learn to read there, you know, early on in school and i'm the one mom in the class, when is my daughter going to learn to read? there are other things. they're going to learn how to think, to get along with others. >> very interesting. i like that. >> something else you say, when you say no to a child. you got to mean it. you got to use the right voice and everything else. plus when appropriate, and when needed, give them the big eyes. >> i practiced doing the big eyes a lot. but it's that stern look when the child understands. with all the french parents and nannies and experts told me, you know, you should be very strict about a few key things. but then really quite permissive

about the rest. respect that the child can get along without your constant interference. and i think it's this cocktail, this combination of kids really knowing what the limits are but also feeling autonomous and free that kids respond well to. one thing french parents told us at bedtime, you must stay in your room. they don't do the two hour extended bedtimes. in your room, you can do whatever you want. i can do anything i want? stay in your room. >> they feel they have this power. you say don't be afraid to say no to them. you also say only one snack, please tell me how you to do that. >> it helps when nobody else is snacking. in france, there's one snack a day. kids eat three times a day. what it means is when they sit down and eat lunch and dinner, they're actually hungry. >> i know. >> fantastic. >> we serve vegetables first. that's our secret. >> read about it in "bringing up bebe". thank you very much. >> thank you for having me on. >> au revoir. thank you. great book. >> coming up on the show, rick

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sorry, guys. i know you're disappointed. victoria secret models are here to talk valentine's day. >> steve: they're your best friends? >> brian: my only friends perhaps. and who needs anybody else? back in a moment. >> steve: brian, when did you have the cable removed from your house? >> brian: she's busy in the morning, getting people dressed, making few in a for lunch. they're both here and are frequent guests. >> gretchen: but they're always at a certain particular time in our show. >> brian: right. valentine's day. >> gretchen: could that be when the car pooling is going on? >> brian: exactly. they preferred the 7:00 o'clock hour. i said north texas you'll -- no, you'll wait. >> gretchen: let's bring in some headlines. a chilling 911 call made moments

before josh powell set fire to his home with his two young sons inside. the caller is a social worker who had just dropped the boys off for a supervised visit. she was supposed to be in the home with them. but the door got slammed in her feet. she begged police to come quickly, only to be told it wasn't a priority? >> i'd like to pull out of that driveway 'cause i smell gasoline and he won't let me in. >> how long will it be? >> i don't know, ma'am, they have o respond to emergency, life-threatening situations first. first available deputy. >> this could be life-threatening. he went to court on wednesday and he didn't get his kids back and this is really -- i'm afraid for their lives. >> gretchen: well, that call made at least seven minutes before the house went up in flames. that wasn't the only warning sign. both powell's sister and lawyer called police earlier in the day, saying they had received strange e-mail and voice mail mentales from josh powell hinting he might do something drastic. police also trying to figure out why powell with drew $7,000 from his bank account one day before

he killed himself and his two boys. brand-new violence shattering syria today. city coming under attack for the fifth day in a row. today the heaviest so far. 40 people have died. according to reports, the pentagon has started an internal review of military capabilities in case president obama calls for action. however, top officials say they are working on nonmilitary options first. qantas airways grounding one of its jets after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings in january. flown 20 to 30 times since the cracks were found. this is not the first problem for the airline. in 2008, you may recall these images when an oxygen tank exploded on a tank, rip ago hole in the fuselage. that plane forced to make an emergency landing. the new cracks are link to do a manufacturing issue. the plane should be back in the

air within a week. the air force caving to pressure from an atheist group to drop god from a phrase on a logo. the motto for the rapid capabilities office originally said, doing god's work with other people's money. but will now say, doing miracles with other people's money. republican congressman randy forbes is very troubled by the change. he says, quote, it is most egregious. i'm concerned that the rco capitulate to do pressure from an outside group that consistently seeks to remove references to god and faith in our military. the rco's action to modify the logo sets a dangerous precedent that all references to god must be removed from the military. those are your headline this is morning. >> steve: let's go out to missouri. the show me state. boy, did he show them. rick santorum swept the state's of missouri, colorado and minute. weren't you supposed to drop out about a month ago? >> hi, steve. well, yeah, i guess there were a

few people suggesting that. but not very many. the last few weeks, while we weren't doing particularly well in the polls in florida and nevada, we were doing great in getting the kind of support we needed to keep this campaign going. our fundraising was maybe our best two weeks the last two weeks. we felt it coming. we felt that people were understanding that we have the best record and the best vision to go up against president obama. we will make him the issue in this race instead of what we saw the bickering between two candidates who weren't that different on the issues, unfortunately. they're not that different from president obama on the issues and people realizing that. >> gretchen: did that help you, because of that bickering issues those with debates in florida, where you were the -- pretty much the only one talking policy because so much of the focus was gingrich and romney going after each other, did that help you with the american people? >> it's a question that the american people are looking for someone who has a positive, uplifting vision for the country that will talk about getting our

manufacturing jobs back in this country, talk about -- yes, very poor, and giving them the opportunity to rise in society. i was the author of welfare reform. i don't believe that government safety net are the answer. ladder success to the poorest of the poor in america. you look at the kinds of things we've been talking about across this country. they're resonating with people. i'm hopeful that will continue as time goes on. >> brian: in your three win, two substantial and one was five-point win. they were blow outs. mitt romney's camp said this: we are emphasizing the campaign -- the campaign is emphasizing, going to be making decisions to compete in states matter delegate wise. since these delegate also be awarded later, the romney camp indicating they didn't want to focus much here. >> i can tell you we elected

folks who are going to be in that delegate hunt for us in colorado and minnesota. we started that process also and we are very, very confident that we're going to not only get the percentage of delegates out of both those states, but do a little better than that. they know that just like in iowa and other places where you have these caucus, it's a starting point, but it's a critical starting point in getting those delegates we need. missouri, i agree, was a beauty contest. but missouri is a very, very key state. we saw a huge -- 5%, guys -- 55%. we beat the governor here in the midwest. governor romney spent more money than we did in minnesota. i think more money in colorado than i did. four years ago, he got 61% of the vote in colorado. this was an area that i wasn't supposed to be able to compete. if you look at the denver area where we did exceptionally well there given all the expectations are. we've got a campaign that can attract folks from all across this country and we'll go out across this country and have a strong message of growth and

opportunity and freedom. >> gretchen: the people will say you don't have the cash like romney to push it through. let me ask you this: do you think now that the romney campaign will come after you like they did against newt gingrich after he won south carolina? >> well, they already are and they did. i was handed three mailers when i was up in minneapolis yesterday, romney negative mailings. they've been making robo calls and doing it for several states. the bottom line is, their attacks on me -- mitt romney is saying i'm not a conservative. i mean, it's almost laughable for a moderate massachusetts governor who has been for big government programs, he says i earmark. he was for the biggest earmark in the country, the wall street bailout. as governor, he advocated for more money coming to the state of massachusetts. we've got the best record. he's gog have to live with that record and we'll make it part of this campaign. >> steve: you've got a very strong record when it comes to

social issues. it's very conservative on things like abortion and gay marriage and contraceptive. how big an issue was, since the white house and this administration is forcing upon catholic institutions, including hospitals and universities, the mandate they've got to provide contraception, sterilization, how big was contraceptive, and you have been very strong in your opinion, on getting people to pull the lever and wave their hand in those states and help you win? >> i don't think it was a big issue at all. our numbers were doing much better before this controversy came up. we've been talking about jobs and the importance of manufacturing and giving opportunity to people from the very bottom up and talking about the issue of fundamental -- issue he was our founding fathers and building a free america again, free economy from the bottom up. not top down.

the issues i've been stressing are obamacare, the wall street bailout and cap and trade, three issues where barak obama and unfortunately mitt romney are on the same position where they believe in the government managing the energy, manufacturing, health care and financial services sector of the economy. that's what got us going across this country and it's going to keep us going all the way to the fall. >> brian: back to steve's question, it is a big deal and i know you brought it up yesterday in your exit interview after acknowledging your crowd. jay carney, press secretary, talked about backtracking a little bit. let's listen. >> we're going to continue to work with religious groups to try to allay their concerns as we implement a policy that provides this coverage to women across the country. >> brian: indicating maybe he's open to discussing this. do you believe they are? >> absolutely not. i don't believe that they have any interest in doing so. that doesn't mean they won't backtrack because what they've done here is a direct assault on

the first amendment. not just the direct assault on the freedom of religion by forcing people specifically to do things that are against their religious teachings, but number two, as you saw with the military archdiocese, the u.s. army basically told the archbishop that he couldn't communicate to the people in the pews and the army the information that -- what the obama administration was doing. this is a president who just recently -- this is on a case -- making the argument that catholics had -- maybe even had to go so far as to hire women priests to comply with employment discrimination issues. this is a very hostile president to people of faith. a hostile president not just to people of faith, of all freedom, economic freedoms. he believes he's the smartest guy in the room and he should tell people what to believe and how to run their lives and that's what this election is about. that's the contrast that i bring on a variety of issues, economic

freedoms as well as first amendment rights. >> brian: what i get from this, whether they support you or not is hard work pays off. impossible odds, you kept yourself in contention and now everyone is saying you're up there near the top spot, if not there. congratulations. >> well, thank you. hard work and good ideas and a great vision for the country and a lot of great people went out and worked very hard for us. this was a grassroots effort and a lot of great people across the country, i want to thank you for your help and prayers. >> gretchen: we'll see how this continues for you as we move towards super tuesday in a couple primaries in between. senator rick santorum i that for your time this morning. >> thanks, gretchen. >> steve: all right. coming up next, congressman paul ryan joins us. he's preparing to release his budget plan, but he says democrats are already plotting and planning against it. >> gretchen: take a look at this. the pentagon revealing its top secret to your project -- two-year project. the details on what this robot can do wake up!

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>> steve: 16 minutes after the top of the morning. the battle of the bum jet is on. many predict the fight will be especially nasty in the run up to the elections. democrats are on the attack, just take a look at this poster demonizing republicans over proposed changes to medicare. in a press release, democrats spokesperson said, quote, house republicans made crystal clear they won't back away from this ideological crusade to dismantle medicare that seniors paid into for a lifetime and depended on for generations. house republican also true their true priority is the ultrawealthy and leave seniors to wither on the vine. the president is expected to release his own budget which makes dramatics cuts in medicare and medicaid spending as well. congressman paul ryan is the chair of the house budget committee. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> doing just fine. a lot of going back and forth

this. what do you make of where you are right now with your budget? >> we're used to this. this is what they do. the president and his party leader's rhetoric never match up their agenda. we're going to put out a budget to save it from the debt crisis. with respect to medicare, let's remember the plan we put out and we're going to be advancing more ideas as well, saves medicare, strengthens it. doesn't change it for people over the age of 55 and saves it for future generations from bankruptcy. that is opposed to the president's law which puts 15 bureaucrats in charge of medicare this year to who are in charge of putting price controls on medicare, which leads to denial of care for current seniors. he has a plan to race medicare -- ration medicare. we get rid of the rationing board, stop raiding money from medicare and save it for not just this generation, but future generations and we make no changes for people 55 and above. so when the dust settles and the

facts actually get out there, we think we'll be fine. more to the point, what's disturbing about this is the president from early press reports is again not going to put a solution on the table to save us from a debt crisis. the democrats, we hear, aren't going to do a budget again. they didn't pass one in 2010. they didn't pass one in 2011 and now senator reid is not going to bother budgeting again in 2012. the law says we have to budget every year. they've ignored it for three years. >> gretchen: it's hard to believe it's been a year, but i remember when you revealed your budget from last year and you had all those posters and graphs and then -- you knew you were going to be anilated for that and the president came out with his budget and it didn't get one vote, did it? >> no, it didn't. failed 97-0 in the senate. here is the issue, gretchen. if we just are afraid of a attacks from the other side, then that will paralyze us to doing nothing. we're not afraid of that because we believe the country understands we're in a really tough situation. we have a debt crisis on the horizon that will be just like

europe is right now. so we want to take on these issues, fix this problem before it gets out of our control, and preempt a debt crisis so that nobody gets hurt. so that seniors can depend on these programs that they've organized their lives around, so we can get this economy growing by getting this debt under control, and by the way, all these tax increases they're talking about, they don't actually go to reducing the deficit or the debt. they only fuel more spending in washington and that is part of our problem. spending. we don't see it that way. >> gretchen: before i let you go, do you think that we're going to get back to talking about the debt crisis in this country, because it seems like we talked about it a lot in 2011 when there were a lot of votes and trying to come up with solutions, but we haven't discussed it recently. >> i do. because this is budget season. so the president, he's a week late, but coming out with his budget on monday. we will do our budget in march. on time, before the deadline. senate obviously isn't gog do a budget. we call this budget season, so

yes, we have no choice but to talk about these issues but more importantly, look at europe. they're in the throws of a debt crisis. we're a couple of years behind them. so we have no choice but to talk about this because this really affects the destiny of america, whether we're going to be a prosperous society that keeps its promises to people, or whether we're going to have a debt crisis and keep sending empty promises to americans. >> gretchen: that's why the election is so important coming up in 2012. congressman paul ryan from wisconsin, great to see you this morning. >> you, too. >> gretchen: he finished near the bottom last night and one of his former colleagues says newt should stay there or it will spell serious trouble for the republican party. al demotto explains his feelings next. look at this video. a dolphin swimming alongside that wake boarder. so who wins this race, man or beast [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day

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>> gretchen: couple headlines. casey anthony surfacing again in another video diary. the two minute clip not being made public right now, but we're told she talks about how happy she is and even makes reference to a new boyfriend. no mention of her daughter, caylee, in those clips. man versus beast. check it out. all caught on camera. check this out. two dolphins keeping up with the wake boarder. the video taken off the beach in saint pete, florida. back upstairs to the guys. >> steve: they call it flipper, flipper. thank you, gretch. newt gingrich finishing near the

bottom of the gop field in last night's primary and caucuses. >> brian: despite being known as a strong debater action our next guest believes if newt gingrich gets the nomination, president obama will destroy him. former new york senator, senator al damotta. he did not have a good night and not on the ballot in missouri. what is the new metrics for him because now he's got senator santorum not going to drop out, but has more delegates than him? >> i think it's interesting that the week before you hear newt saying, rick, you should get out, you should drop so we can unify behind me. now i think the pressure is the other way. he should withdraw. but he won't because you know why? he's planning his next book tour. he's planning to write about how the establishment -- >> brian: you don't think he thinks he can win? >> he can't win and he knows he can't win. if he did, we wouldn't carry ten states. we would lose the house of

representatives and we would not capture the senate. that's what a disaster he would be. could you imagine the obama super pacs, now that the president says super pacs are okay, you know, we do a little reversal and he gets away with it and where is the "new york times" excoriating him the way they would if a republican did? but they would drop millions of dollars on his business of lobbying for freddie mac and fannie mae when he claims he was an historian. they'd say, where is the historical documents? they would charge him with having committed a felony by lobbying and failing to register. they would destroy him and the party. >> steve: something that's going on, has gone on during this primary season is mitt romney has spent a lot of money on negative ads against newt gingrich. newt gingrich also super pac and done a whole bunch of negative ads as well. but they work because they get you to think twice about, oh, i don't know if i like that guy. do you think this price, though, that the republicans are going

to pay is -- they've torn him down so much, it will destroy him for the general. >> i think it will be very difficult to beat an incumbent president that has the media lined up, the ultraliberal pacs lined up, has the persona that he does, and we're making it more difficult by these negative attacks and it's hurt romney. >> brian: it's true. it seems that ed rollins told me the other day, his entire career he's never seen it this vicious for this long. what's different today? if you're mitt romney, you get up, you lost all three. not many delegates yet, what's different for you? >> well, i think the field is narrowing now. i think it will be santorum will eventually be the candidate for romney to beat. i think romney still has a lead. i don't mean just in delegates, but in terms of his organization, strength and -- in the knoll much has changed?

>> except that now the flavor of the month is rick santorum as it relates to conservatives. conservatives are not happy with romney. >> steve: we're happy that you showed up. >> i made the couch. mama. my wife said, are you going to make the couch or going to be on the panel? so i made the big time. >> steve: congratulations. >> brian: we can commute home 'cause we both live on long island. 28 minutes after the hour. he doesn't want to ride with me. >> steve: coming up next, super flip flop. first the president blasted super pacs. now he's saying they're okay. just like the senator just told us. ed henry live at the white house with the latest on this one. >> brian: and take a look at this. my new best friends. they've been -- we've been best friends for nine minutes. these ladies is a secret and i'm going to find out what it is [ male announcer ] capri sun has 25% less sugar

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>> brian: time for your shot of the morning. forget about tebowing. the latest internet craze, the brady hunch. people all over the country now mocking the new england patriots' quarterback by imitating his post game pose after being crest fallen and losing the super bowl on sunday night. we asked you to send in your pictures of your own brady hunch. here is one from sandra in georgia. she says her cat, smoky, has

been trying to perfect the hunch all morning long. hang in there. if you're hunching, call us. >> gretchen: every kid in america is doing the hunch and parents are saying, sit up straight! >> brian: steve is with hot models. >> steve: hot referring to the weather. victoria secret models, adriana and lindsey. good morning. they're going to assist me with the weather. lindsey, you're from the west coast, so you handle the west coast. adriana, you handle the east coast. first we'll start out west. where is it raining? >> looks like it's raining down here and up there. >> steve: okay. so far, so good! what do you think is happening in the middle? >> it's really dry. >> steve: really dry. very nice. adriana? >> okay. memphis looks like it's raining. but here in new york, it seems like it's quite dry for now. >> steve: quite dried for now. you're from brazil?

>> i'm from brazil. >> steve: for instance, in new york city, now we'll do the temperatures, ladies. here in new york city right now, it's freezing. how cold does it ever get in brazil? my hometown, it never gets cold. so i'm lucky. it's always hot. >> brian: it's always hot in her hometown. >> steve: give us some other temperatures on the east coast. >> okay. new york, 32. atlanta, 46. how is the west coast, lindsey? >> it's 54 in los angeles. 49 in san francisco. 43 in seattle. >> steve: now, i know this is kind of not a pc question, but of all the cities on that map which would be your favorite? adriana, you're from brazil, which town in america do you like the best? >> okay. i love -- can i choose two? >> steve: sure. >> new york and miami. >> steve: there you go. both on the east coast. lindsey? >> i love los angeles and new york. >> steve: all right.

very good. you're bi-coastal and from the palm springs area. >> yes. >> steve: all right. very nice. how about a round of applause, my brand-new weather helpers? [ applause ] >> steve: brian is going to talk to you in a couple of minutes. all right? very nicely done. >> gretchen: speaking of two, brian had a fascinating question for me. >> brian: really? >> gretchen: yes. >> brian: i'm going over your notes, adriana and i notice you're introducing something i didn't even know what the 2 meant, but now i understand why a bra would be sold with the 2 in the title. >> gretchen: two cups. >> brian: right. i said why two? >> gretchen: rest assured, i explained what that meant. >> brian: this is my preinterview. i'm dealing with gretchen to let people know. >> gretchen: we have to do a twist -- he was talk being a bra. >> brian: two cups. >> steve: okay, okay. >> gretchen: s he was confused. >> steve: unless it's on the

map, i don't get it. >> brian: you know, i can hear you. you're right across the studio. >> gretchen: i can think of no better transition right now to politics, to ed henry. ed henry, rest assured, you don't get this kind of an introduction on any other show, right, where we're talking about from two cups to two bits in washington, d.c., right? >> yeah, this is really dangerous. i don't know where to quite go with it and it's really not fair to have me follow that report because it's really hard for me to follow that. let's just say that. but let's talk a little bit about the president and the citizens united ruling. he's making a lot of flak 'cause you'll remember in 2010 after the supreme court opened the door with that ruling to the super pacs raising millions and millions of unregulated dollars, the president used his 2010 state of the union address to call out the supreme court justices who were there to say that this ruling was wrong and then went out on the campaign trail during the mid terms in 2010 to say that this was threat to democracy.

now word that the president is going to get behind and lend his support to a democratic super pac that will help his campaign in 2012 leading republicans like rick santorum to say this is a flip flop. take a listen. >> this is typical obama which is whatever it necessary for him to keep power. not a matter of principle. not a matter of doing what's right. it's always a matter of doing what's best for him. >> the white house response is that when you have republican donors out there on the trail right now, like shelly addleson in las vegas, he and his wife have put up $10 million to help with super pac benefitting newt gingrich's campaign, essentially propped up that campaign right now, white house spokesman jay carney says there is no way the president can unilaterally disarm and not let his own donors help him. take a listen to jay carney. >> he is not saying that the

system is now healthy or good. he's saying -- he's making a decision, his campaign is making a decision that the rules are what they are and they will not -- they can not play by a different set of rules than republicans are playing. >> aides here say while cabinet secretaries and some advisors to the president may be out there on the stump raising money for democratic super pacs, the president, vice president and their spouses will not do it. so there is an indirect link. the fact of the matter is, democrats like former senate russ feingold, says the president getting involved in any way here is, in his words, dancing with the devil, guys. >> gretchen: all right. you recovered brilliantly, ed! you were able to focus. i'm so glad. >> i was slightly distracted at the beginning, but i feel like i caught my balance. >> gretchen: not to mention all the noise going on behind you. i bet you wish you're in the studio. we'll see you soon. >> brian: it's amazing.

the white house seems to mow their lawn in the morning, even in the winter. >> gretchen: interesting how that works. let's do some headlines for your wednesday because the head of the new jersey teachers union coming under fire for telling poor families sorry, life isn't fair? new jersey education association executive director vincent giordano this had this to say when asked why low income families should not be allowed to use vouch force send their kids to private school. >> most parents should have exactly the same options and they do. we don't say that you can't take your kid out of the public school. we would argue not and we would say let's work more closely -- >> they can't afford it, you know that. some of these parents can't afford it. >> life is not always fair and i'm sorry about that. >> gretchen: wow. he makes $500,000 a year. maybe he can't relate. governor chris christie expected to address his remark at a town hall meeting today. >> steve: the pentagon just revealed a top secret project, something it's been working on for two years.

take a look at this. what is it? well, they call it the mule, a heavy duty robot designed to carry soldiers' gear in the field. what you can't see is how smart the mule is. troops can load up to 400 pounds of gear on board and the mule will follow them wherever they go. uses sensors for eyes and avoiding trees and rocks and rugged terrain. the mule even responds to soldiers' voices, obeying their commands. troops will start to test this thing coming up this summer. gretch? >> gretchen: it's not quite mardi gras, but that's not stopping people from preparing to celebrate. >> brian: you're done talking, aren't you? once again, the puppy also get into the action this weekend at st. louis' annual begging pet parade. >> gretchen: joining us is four legged friends. good morning to you. >> brian: this is exciting. it's happening in st. louis and

you're going to set a guiness book of world record. what do we have to do to make history? >> register at www.beggen pet free.com and check the box you want to participate. we're one of the largest pet parades in the country. why not make it official by break ago record? >> gretchen: we have beautiful pups. are they -- is this josey? >> this is rescued from a puppy mill. alex 6-year-old shitzu mix. lucky, one-year-old black lab. >> brian: all in costume. >> then we have ned, a two-year-old beagle mix. >> brian: a little shy. turn around. you're on national television. >> gretchen: the other one did it when you said it. >> we have fred, 1 1/2-year-old husky shepherd mutt mix. then yodi, eight-month old border collie. and benji, terrier mix, marty, the puppy a collie mix. >> brian: in the parade, everybody just marches in order?

you got mountain dogs? >> definitely. >> brian: how does that work out? do they get along? >> yes, definitely. all the dogs and their owners come down in their most creative costume and we have it set up at the beginning to stand up and be counted. >> gretchen: this year is love for the smell of bacon? >> yeah. lots of bacon and beggen samples and come down and enjoy the parade. >> brian: can we try something? what if you guys all dropped the leashes, dropped the dogs and let them be dogs? can we just do that? let's go ahead. your studio is our playground. >> all of that fun and energy. everybody go. >> brian: this is an idea what the parade will be like 'cause dogs need freedom. >> gretchen: marches, dogs. >> brian: they're free to smell where they want to smell. >> the parade will count. last year we had over 80,000 attend. >> 8,000 dogs. why not make it official with the guiness book of world record. >> brian: the town has a lot of fun. >> absolutely. we're the second largest mardi gras. we have a lot of fun.

>> brian: the dogs will be here all week. >> gretchen: they're all up for adoption. so north shore animal league. you can find out more information on our web site, animalleague.org. >> brian: kate, thanks so much. good luck setting a world record. a pleasure meeting you and all your dogs. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, has censorship reached the pulpit? military chaplains told not to talk about the president's mandate on birth control. >> brian: one of these ladies don't do the weather, they have a big secret. i'm going to find out what that secret is because i'm a journalist. >> gretchen: does it have anything to do with cups? >> brian: i think so. we'll have dogs running around the studio for 20 minutes looking for those cups

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>> steve: has censorship reached the pulpit? military chaplains told not to

talk about the president's mandate on birth control. there is more to this story and peter johnson, jr. joining us live. good morning to you. >> you know, in one sense there really isn't. you said it all. there was a letter by archbishop who runs the archdiocese for military services and all the catholic chaplains. so he had a letter that he wanted read at the sunday mass, condemning obamacare's mandate that catholic institutions provide abortion pills and sterilization and contraception. so the army said no, not so fast. >> steve: this is the army head chaplain guy. >> you're not going to read that and what happened in the end is the archbishop agreed to take out a line based on the censorship that the army engaged. the army said there is no censorship here at all. in fact, there was a catholic priest employed by the military who pointed out that this line may be objectionable in some way. but what have we come to in this

country when the government, when the military is reaching into a faith service on a sunday. a catholic mass and saying, you don't have the right, priest, to speak to your congregation. >> steve: here is what the army says. they say at no time did the chief of chaplains offer any judgment, statement or opinion as to the appropriateness of the letter's op to say to a federal policy. only his concern that a single line might run counter to proper military order and discipline. let's talk about the single line. what were they afraid of? >> the single line says we can not, we will not comply with this unjust law. the archbishop was saying this with regard to -- >> steve: what does that sound like? >> it sounds like it's his prescription for an illegal, unconstitutional and in his view, immoral mandate of the government. but are we saying now that somehow this priest is citing -- trying to cause insurrection

among the troops, that this priest during a sunday mass is somehow inciting congress gantts at a sunday mass to violence? there have been cases similar to this. the law is clear going back to 1997, that it's a violation of law, it's a violation of constitution. states stay out of the church. governments, stay out of mass. don't touch the liturgy of any faith. it's more than catholics. it's something that affects all faiths. the fact that a government could reach into a service and then edit what's being said. it's quite incredible and we should keep our eyes on it. >> steve: the military, the last thing they would do is rise up. but none the less -- what you brought us is troubling. >> incredible. >> steve: thank you so much. what do you think about this? e-mail us. the moment brian has been waiting for all three hours long. he thinks these ladies have a secret. martha mccallum is in studio j right now. gee, i wonder what the secret could be, martha.

>> i don't know. i thought he was waiting for my tease all morning long. here it comes. thank you, steve. good morning, everybody. steven hayes and ed rollins will weigh in on rick santorum's stunner last night. governor brewer will be here. she joins us, her immigration case is on a path to the highest court and also the arizona primary. lots of talk this week about contraception. how about a college that has a vending machine for the morning after pill? it is happening. a fair and balanced debate coming up when bill and i join you at the top of the hour. we'll see you then instead of blaming me, try advil congestion relief. often the real problem is swelling, not mucus. advil congestion relief reduces swelling due to nasal inflammation. so i can breathe. advil congestion relief. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce so i can breathe. 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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what to do. welcome back to the show, she's our most frequent guest ever outside henry kissinger, adriana lima and lindsey making her debut. nice to meet you. what have you told lindsey about the show? >> it's fun, you know. >> we got to do the weather already. >> brian: resume has gotten bigger. we got good news coming your way for guys watching right now, for gifts. first things first, a fellow brazilian super model in the news, giselle, do you feel bad about some of the people, some of the negative publicity she's getting about what she said about tom brady's receivers and things like that? >> i do feel bad, you know. i'm sure she did not mean anything bad, you know, about it. being a celebrity, anything you do, you're being followed by everything. you're judged by anything you do, by any movement. i do feel bad. i think people should relax a little bit and let her live her

life. >> brian: a lot of people think, she was just standing up for her husband. is there anything wrong with that? you married a professional basketball player. you know what it's like, right? >> yeah. it's not easy, you know. those guys are not only athletes under a lot of pressure, but their families have a lot of pressure. it was a huge game and things happen. >> brian: right. let's talk -- that's a great explanation 'cause you definitely can relate. can we learn about what you have new this year in the victoria secret collection? we're even going to play music. what are you holding there? >> victoria secret has everything a woman needs to look and feel gorgeous. this is the first thing you need, which is the gorgeous two cup pushup. this is going to add two cups to -- >> brian: two cup sizes? >> two cup sizes. >> brian: the key is you can't tell, right? >> you can tell. >> brian: call me naive, i can't

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