is in many cases has been a race to the bottom. >> does he have a point? we'll discuss it. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> happy president's day, folks. we know it's a holiday wherever it might be. we're here live on curvy couch. welcome back. >> thank you. seeing that skiing story is really traumatic. i was just skiing for the last couple of days. you never know what can happen. let's get to the headlines. three experienced skiers have died. they were swept away by a fast moving avalanche in washington state. the snow broke loose yesterday afternoon sweeping the skiers at least 1500 feet down the side of a mountain. amazingly, a fourth skier escaped alive. she was wearing a safety device that fills with air during an avalanche keeping her above the snow. amazing. >> really rough day up here

with a lot of the people and yeah, it's just been hard to swallow. a little bit like been kicked in the gut or something. >> most of the other skiers who survived were wearing similar safety devices. rescuers aren't sure if the victims who died had them. new overnight, a mid air collision forces a helicopter and a small plane to make an emergency landing just feet from a busy highway in antioch, california. both pilots suffered minor injuries. other person on board the plane escaped without any bumps or bruises. the f.a.a. says it's currently investigating why the small plane clipped the chopper in the first place. several major developments in iran this morning. the team of nuclear inspectors arrived there overnight trying to get iran to stop stonewalling the investigation into its nuclear program. meantime, iran is lashing out at the economic sanctions that have been crippling its economy.

it's refusing to sell oil to britain and france. it's driving the price up to the highest price in nine months. extreme weather alert for you this morning. parts of the south blanketed in snow this weekend. winter storm dumping several inches in virginia. over 300 accidents reported in richmond, virginia, alone. tens of thousands of people lost their power as well. some did take the time to enjoy the weather, though, saying the change is appreciated from the mild winter they've seen so far. some areas got up to 6 inches of snow. and those are your headlines. i never thought in my life growing up in minnesota i would feel the same way. bring on the snow! >> it's winter, why not? >> i don't know. i'm a lightweight when it comes to the snow. nice to have some around here, wouldn't it? >> we had it in october. we got it out of the way. let's talk a little bit about this. there was a senator that came out and told abc, i think it was on friday night, he said if romney can't win his home state of michigan, then we're going to need another candidate. they said what about rick santorum?

and this candidate said -- rather, this senator said rick santorum would lose 35 states and so would newt gingrich and they said well, who do you like? he goes i like the idea of a brockered convention and at the brokered convention, jeb bush. that's what this particular guy said. >> yeah, you know, there's going to be a lot of prognosticators right now because it doesn't appear that we have one person who is moving along as quickly as we did in 2008 with john mccain where the race was wrapped up in mid march or george w. bush in 2000 when his nomination or his -- yeah, nomination, so to speak, the fact that he was going to be a candidate was also in march. does that mean people should start throwing out other names or does this energize the current people that we have running in the race? >> i don't know. it seems like there's a dissatisfaction. there's a faction of romney supporters that gets 25% or 30% of the vote every time and a big group that says anyone else and they can't really kind of -- it's been newt. it's been rick santorum.

it hasn't been ron paul yet. they're still looking for something. why not some new blood? is that crazy of an idea? >> exactly. we know that newt knows that he's going to win on super tuesday, georgia. so now when you look at the polls up in the state of michigan which is where mitt romney was born and where he grew up and where his father was a very popular governor, if he does not win michigan, that could be a problem. newt gingrich said if he didn't, he should get out. listen. >> if any of the three of us lose our home state, if santorum loses pennsylvania, romney loses michigan or i lose georgia, you have a very weakened candidacy for any of the three of us. i was home campaigning the last two days precisely to say to all my friends back home, georgia really matters. you cannot take this for granted. >> that's right. >> to me, the most important thing that's going to happen this week is a debate. there's going to be a debate on wednesday night. we haven't had one. i know you're saying probably goodie too shoes.

for a while we were having three a week. it comes down to what happens wednesday night on that stage. will it really be now romney and santorum or will newt gingrich come back to the old newt gingrich that we saw earlier on in south carolina and will he win this debate and then put this whole race back up and running. nobody can guarantee what happens come thursday morning. >> there's a great item in "the wall street journal" over the weekend that did the numbers and it showed how, you know, in 2008, the republicans watched as the democrats became energized because they had this long slugfest between hillary and barack obama. and so the republicans said that really did well for them because it sharpened obama for the general election. nonetheless, and there's one other fact. they say -- they did the math at the "wall street journal", the earliest that mitt romney would win if he won every primary from now forward with winning at least 49% of the vote, the earliest he could win would be

june 5th or june 26th depending on when texas holds its primary. >> shows the splintered nature of the race so far which also brings up how would a brokered convention look? how would it work? listen to karl rove. here's what he thinks. here's how he thinks the odds of that happening are. >> i think it's about as remote as life on pluto. you know, and it could happen. sure. you could make up all kinds of scenarios but in all likelihood, what happens in the dynamic of a primaries, once somebody starts to win, they keep on winning. we got a nationwide at least in the pundits request, a case of premature electionitis. we have had five contests so far that have awarded delegates. we have eight contests in which delegates could conceivably be and one beauty pageant. we have 54 contests in this thing and we've concluded five of them. >> all right. what is so wrong with possibly entertaining a brokered convention? that's the way it used to be, folks!

and by the way, i think there's a huge majority of people in this america that are upset with the establishment saying hey, this is a done deal. even before we started putting delegates in the camps for different people. i think there's a tremendous amount of anger at the way things are supposed to go and now these people are maybe saying not so fast this time. >> the way we're doing it right now is we're letting the people speak, letting people all across the country decide and that's what has people going wait a minute, shouldn't we already have a frontrunner by now? shouldn't we be -- in fact, when you look at when the candidates have clinched the nomination in the past, we've got a graphic now. this about the brokered convention, this at the top, that destroyed gerald ford. it wound up being down to the convention. and they were so splintered, ford would go on to lose to jimmy carter but as you notice, in recent history, at the bottom of the chart, george w. bush was

able to clinch the nomination in early march followed by bob dole, as you can see, and then george herbert walker bush in april. reagan eventually in 1981 in may but the longer you go, the more damage you'd do to the party is the conventional wisdom. >> can i just point out that karl rove, great guy, he knows he's been around for, you know, everything, the architect but they -- that's more established -- establishment wants to see a quick win. they want to get a quick frontrunner in the g.o.p. someone getting the 1144 delegates needed to get the nomination and then start going after president obama. but can i just -- very quickly, i interviewed sarah palin last wednesday night and i asked her that question. she said what about a brokered convention? she said absolutely in the realm of possibilities. not life on pluto. maybe there is life on pluto. i don't know. but not -- and i also said would you be willing to jump in if given that opportunity? she said yes. >> all i was going to add to that is karl rove said that's

not the conventional way that things work. but i don't think there's anything conventional about this election cycle. there's nothing conventional about it so you can't look at a playbook and say this is the way it's automatically going to happen in 2012 because almost nothing thus far has happened that way. we've been at those conventions, right, i would like a little excitement. when you're there, we have a lot of fun, don't get me wrong. we have a lot of fun and we do our jobs but we pretty much know what's going to happen and it might be a lot of fun if you're into all that political theater if there was a little unknown, just a little bit. >> and that's always the excitement of the vice president. because you never know -- >> instead of wondering what we're going to have for dinner that afternoon. >> pretty much. we eat at 4:00 in the afternoon. rick santorum was out in columbus, ohio over the weekend and he was speaking and there was a camera there and he was talking about the president's environmental policies. and then he would probably like a do over on this but he injected a little religion or at

least it sounded like into the conversation and wound up with this soundbite that's caused some problems. >> it's not about you. it's not about your quality of life. it's not about your jobs. it's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. not a thee onlying based on the bible. a different theology. >> and see, that got him in trouble because theology is the study of religion. is he saying the president isn't really a christian? that went over a lot of people's heads. >> this drives me crazy. these kinds of comments drive me absolutely crazy. this is what we do now. we watch for every little word that every candidate says and then we go oh, gotcha! gotcha! because i think that's what you meant. it's just -- let's get down to the basics, folks, let's talk about policies. let's talk about how we're going to move this country forward. >> but we need to point out that he did clarify himself after

yesterday, take a listen on cbs. >> when you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says that, you know, we can't take those resources because we're going to harm the earth by things that are -- that frankly are just not scientifically proven, for example, the politization of the whole global warming debate. >> i'm sure in his heart of hearts, he would like a do over on that. if he would have done it again, he would not have used theology. that opens up a whole can of something. robert gibbs was on one of the chat shows yesterday and he said regarding this, republicans bad. >> i think that if you make comments like that, you make comments that are well over the line. i think this g.o.p. primary is

in many cases, jake, has been a race to the bottom. we have seen nastiness, divisiveness, ugliness, distortions of opponents' records, of the president's record. >> yeah. >> no doubt, it's getting -- it's getting heated up. these guys really want the nomination. and when you're spending as much as they are in front of the camera, you're right. every word is scrutinized. >> sure and for him, robert gibbs to say that stuff, just remember, four years ago, when clinton vs. obama, it was the same kind of at each other right through may. so it's not like we're on the easy pass to a quick decision. according to the math, that's an impossibility. >> if you're brewing your coffee, keep it going. big show straight ahead. still, coming up, we've had vets coming home from war having trouble finding jobs. we know who the biggest offender is. could it be the federal government? >> have you ever skipped sunday

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thank you, sir, for joining us. you have some very interesting facts about past presidents. tell us about grover cleveland. >> grover cleveland had cancer in his mouth and as a result, they didn't want the public to know. didn't want the public to worry. so he had the surgery done on a yacht and told everybody was vacationing. when he finally came back, he had a prosthetic that was so realistic that only his closest aides knew what it happened. so he's walking around with this prosthetic jaw and nobody knew it. >> that's crazy. they didn't want to say yeah, the president has cancer because that would terrify everybody. it was kept a secret until 20 years later. we were talking a moment ago about the president and religion. ronald reagan, a deeply religious guy but he didn't go to church very often because why? >> he didn't go to church because this is a man who had an assassination attempt very early in his presidency and he was

concerned that another attempt might endanger all the other churchgoers and, you know, and just -- he was afraid for the security of those around him. but his diaries came out just a few years ago and revealed a deeply religious man who talked about god and jesus quite frequently in his private diaries. >> uh-huh. ok, larry, what about martin van burren? you have an interesting story about him as well. >> well, martin van buren especially in his younger years became quite anti-slave in his views and he developed some modern day democratic party in the 1820's to keep slavery from causing a civil war. the little known fact is he himself was a slave owner. his father had bequeathed him a slave. the slave ran away and buren never saw him and didn't make attempt to recapture him but never freed him either. >> there you go. meanwhile and finally, let's talk about our bachelor president james buchanan.

it turns out he was a teetotaler so what would he do when he would hold a reception at the white house? >> buchanan was a big partyier and he had a lot of dances there and he would take whiskey glasses and tip them up to his -- his mouth but never imbibe. he was also blind in one eye and he would constantly cock his head when talking to people. that would lead people to believe he was interested in what they had to say. in fact, he was trying to see them. >> he was a bachelor, right? >> that's right. and in these dances, he had extremely small hands. and in the dances, he would dance around and feature his hands so that everybody could see what dainty hands he had. >> thank you, larry. thank you, sir. >> have a great day on this president's day. >> thank you. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. 50 years ago today, john glenn made history as the first american to orbit the earth three times. up next, a former astronaut says

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claiming that bobby was found smoke marijuana hours after the funeral. it's not your ordinary waterfall. it looks like molten lava. the phenomenon happens for two minutes every february as it lights off the waterfall at the right angle. >> 50 years ago today, john glenn made history as the first mesh to orbit the earth. america is no longer sending americans to space. is america spacing out? former astronaut tom jones joins me now. good morning. >> good morning, gretchen. >> is america spacing out? >> we don't have the ability what we did 50 years ago. today, we can't launch our own astronauts into space. we have to send them to russia on rented rockets and that's going to continue for the next five years so nasa is in a steady decline and we have to do something to switch that around. >> so 50 years ago, you were a

young boy and john glenn was your hero, right? >> he was. i was only 7 years old when he first flew and i still have the book here that i got right after his flight that told me all about the mercury astronauts and john actually signed it for me when i was a shuttle astronaut back in the 1990's when he was training for his second flight so he was my role model and i became an air force pilot and a space scientist and astronaut. i would like to see our country generate the same inspiration for youth in the 21st century. >> it's amazing to hear you tell that story because so many parents raise their children and hear their kids say mom, you know, i want to be this or that and for you it actually played out that you wanted to be an astronaut. the amazing thing, too, is there was only a 78% chance that john glenn was going to come back ok, right? >> the booster that he read was a tricky intercontinental missile and had a success rate of 3 out of 4. there was a 25% chance that his booster was going to fail on the

way to orbit. when he got there, he had more problems. he had a failed thruster that forced him to fly manually and you may know the story about his faulty heat shield. we thought he was going to burn up on re-entry. he had a very, very tense ride back to earth. >> wow. talk to me about the mood of the country. i know you were a young boy at the time but was it a nation coming together, being inspired by watching these astronauts like john glenn? >> everything stopped when john glenn or alan shepard, all the mercury astronauts took their flights, everything stopped in my classroom, the teachers rolled in a borrowed television that some parent brought in, we stopped the day to watch the oshit and the splashdown and i got the sense as a 7-year-old this was important to the country. the space race had come right to my hometown. we were building the rockets for the next generation, the gemini

program of flights. >> if you compare that to today's mood, what do you make of this? >> there's the sense that space flight is routine. that could be hardly further from the truth. it's risky business for today. it requires real dedication and leadership to make sure our nation retains the leadership we've enjoyed for the last 50 years and i think we've seen in these last four years, a steady decline in our ability to do things in space. we have a space station with americans aboard right now but we can't get their replacements up there on our own rockets and if we continue on this trenld, we're certainly going to be a second class power in space. >> unbelievable to do the comparisons 50 years ago to today. it's always great to speak with you. former astronaut and author of "sky walking" thank you so much for being our guest. >> you're welcome. >> john glenn will join us live at 7:20 a.m. today. that's not john glenn in your picture there but he will be joining us. coming up on our show, president obama promising to cut the unemployment rate among veterans but guess what? vets say the government is the problem. we'll explain. >> then oil reached a new high

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morning. the lin-nluenza spreads across the country during a nationally televised game from new york, the knicks' overnight sensation having his best game yet against the reigning champs, the dallas mavericks. jeremy lin doing it all, stealing, dunking, hitting three-point bomb, the crowd goes insane. he knocked off 24 points and 14 assists as the knicks won 104-97. >> people in new york and all across the country just love that kid. >> great story! > >> every time he makes this big play, he has this big gigantic smile on his face. it's terrific. >> you know what that is? that's the, you know, the -- >> half court. >> nba going who is the new guys? you know, it's the -- you can relate it to politics. >> to politics! good analogy. you can also relate it to this. could lin-sanity be the new tebow? guess what he wears on his wrist? uh-oh! jeremy, get ready to have some

criticism. here it comes. you have on your wrist something about faith. watch out. people are going to come after you. could it be the fact that he wears that particular bracelet to remind him about his faith and maybe inspire him for those three point shots? >> that particular wrist band says act of faith on it. that's a christian-based sports apparel company. apparently, there's a former nba player by the name of lanny smith who is one of the founders of this company. and one of his pregame rituals was he prayed before playing and he ended up every prayer with saying "in jesus' name i pray, amen." and that is the slogan of this particular company. mr. lin has been wearing that wrist band on his wrist long before he became a big star. if you're interested in getting one, i just looked on their web site. they're $3. >> you know what? hopefully no one takes shots at him for that because a lot of nba players are wearing those

rubber wrist bands and for whatever causes and their own ideas and whatever, it's ok for him to do that. this is great. hopefully he doesn't get the scrutiny that tim tebow got for kneeling down after a game and inviting anyone that wants to join him. that's fantastic. >> you're not sharing in my pessimism this morning. >> absolutely not. >> that he'll be the next one to get hit, just wait. i bet he will. >> i bet because he's wearing them, kids all over the country are going to start wearing them. >> yeah. >> you just watch. >> i walked into dick's sporting goods yesterday and the whole first row -- as you walk in, it's all jeremy lin. lin t-shirts. for the first time, one young guy reinvigorating a whole franchise. >> absolutely and the amazing thing about that stuff, it's brand new. a week ago, none of it existed. they had to do the rush order on cooking up all that stuff because this guy is a phenom. >> let's get to some of your headlines. republican senators john mccain and lindsay graham in

afghanistan calling on the obama administration to arm the syrian rebels. while the president assad's forces continue their deadly crackdown on syrian protesters, mccain and graham say rebel fighters deserve to be better armed and helping them could weaken iran. >> the united states can play a far more active and productive role and it's almost shameful that we have not -- >> this is a moment in time to replace assad with something new that would be a crippling blow to iran. >> the senators say the u.s. doesn't have to directly arm the rebels but could give them weapons through the arab league. eric? >> thousands of u.s. service men and women criticizing president obama for not lowering the unemployment rate among veterans. >> we have to make sure as our troops return from battle, they can find a job when they get home. >> according to a report, a new report, thousands of national guard troops say they're being

discriminated against and the federal government is the biggest offender. the soldiers say they're being denied jobs and even being fired by employers because of their military obligations. last year, about 20% of the 1500 military discrimination complaints were against federal agencies. >> didn't know that. >> meanwhile, more protests in greece over the severe budget cuts that are being made so that country can get a $171 billion bailout. man, what do they do with all that dough? while thousands of greeks aren't happy about it, the stock markets are loving it. european stock markets up today. where it's not a federal holiday as eurozone finance ministers are meeting to finalize the bailout, this will be the second one. the u.s. markets are closed today for president's day but the dow did edge closer to 13,000 mark on friday. highest point since before the crash in 2008. >> some tense moments at a kansas city zoo when two gorillas escaped from their cage. the pair, much like these from

previous video taken at the zoo wandered through a back hallway of their building. these are pictures of some visitors who were locked down for about an hour. while half of the zoo was actually evacuated. >> they all just started going up this ladder and like jumping out and then they kicked the ladder down and then one of them just came in, she was like sprinting through just screaming, everyone, get out, a gorilla is loose. >> zoo officials say the code red happened when a zookeeper left a door unlocked. luckily, no one was hurt. >> no apes of wrath. that's a good thing. all right. meanwhile, take a look at this. we've got a winter storm moving through the southlands making for dangerous road conditions in tennessee this past weekend. a massive pile-up shut down parts of interstate 75. the snow and fog made for whiteout conditions. it dumped a couple of inches of snow on a band of southern states triggering accidents on slippery roads knocking out power to tens of thousands of

customers. it brought snow to kentucky, virginia, and west virginia on sunday. meanwhile, real quickly, let's see where it is precipitating at this hour on this president's day. as you can see, mid atlantic for the most part, the storm is out to sea. we do have some lingering snow shower activity in the northern plains through kansas at this hour. the balance of the country for the most part is nice and dry. meanwhile, it's freezing here in new york city, 32 degrees. caribo caribou, maine, the chilly spot on the map. just 3. 40's and 50's across much of dixieland and the gulf coast states. today's daytime highs if you're going to go out and enjoy the day. why wouldn't you? a lot of 50's from dixieland down through the gulf coast. 72 later today in tampa. it will be 57 in kansas city, the home of the zoo where apes sometimes just go walking around in their own building. >> that's great news. >> it is. >> room temperature somewhere in america. >> you were complaining about that. >> look at that. tampa, room temperature. all right, guys. gas prices hitting all time high

for february with the national average reaching $3.56 this morning. and it's about to get a whole lot worse as iran halts oil sales to european nations. >> joining us now to weigh in, the host of varney & company, stu varney. somebody is going to start talking about gas prices, right? >> we're in the middle of a spike. this morning it's $3.56 a gallon, up $0.07 in a week and it's going to go higher still. the price of oil this morning has reached $105 a barrel. that price is not yet factored into the pump. this thing is going higher still. there will be people watching us right now who will get up, go out and fill up their tank right now because they figure that tomorrow it's going to be even more expensive. >> i brought some gasoline in. here's regular gasoline. >> keep the lighter away from him! >> here's the problem. this gasoline was probably traded on an exchange somewhere two months ago. which means the $105 barrel that

we're seeing right now, $120 or something in europe, that won't hit the pump for a good 30 or 45 days so we're going to see gas prices rising for a long time. >> i think so. it looks like $4 as the national average is definitely on the horizon. it's already arrived in california. the average for all gas stations in california, regular unleaded is now $4.03 a gallon. here we come. we're heading to $4. >> sure, so we're heading to $4. let's give folks at home a little historical perspective. when barack obama was president of the united states for the first day, the gas at the pump there in washington, d.c. and across the country, the average was $1.84, fast forward to today, $3.52, as you can see. interesting, we were talking about this on friday, as you know, when the president was then senator running, he said of the high price when george bush was president, you know, if i'm elected, we should have the department of justice investigate whether or not there's some collusion going on here. we should tax the windfall

profits and stuff like that. fast forward to today. he's president. he could do something. zip! >> that's right. if you look at the summer of 2008, when george bush was president, it reached $4.11 a gallon. the media was all over president bush. it is your fault. you're not doing anything about it. they really just went to town on him. exact opposite today. the establishment media has not taken off on the price of gas. >> let's look at what it was under george w. bush. when he took office in january of 2001 it was $1.49. and when he left it was $1.84. it got as high as $4.11 a gallon during his time as president. i remember that was like the news headline everywhere for months on end, we were talking about gas prices. i've been talking to a couple of friends about this and they seem to think that if gaskets to $5 a gallon, that that will be the actual tipping point because it's never been there. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, i guess so. you will certainly see premium

gasoline hit $5 a gallon. i think we're very close to that already. as a national average for premium, that also is on the horizon but, you know, the story right now is the spike. people are going to wake up this morning, drive out and see the price has gone up significantly over the weekend. we're in the middle of a spike. that's the immediate news story. it's happening right now. very important. >> very quickly, i know we have to go but difference between $1.84 a gallon and $3.56 which it is today in spending power to u.s. consumers, a quarter of a trillion dollars a year. >> oh, my goodness. >> it has a huge impact. >> with the economy sputtering along, that's huge. >> it is huge. >> you can talk about that on your program coming up at 9:20 eastern time. >> today, we start at 9:00 sharp. >> wow! >> 9:00 sharp, everybody, varney & company, we'll be there. >> varney & company, always sharp. thank you very much, sir. i'll give you a dollar for that gas right there. >> it's going to cost you more than that. >> coming up on our show, what happens if mitt romney loses his

home state of michigan. a top republican says the party could nominate jeb bush instead? is that realistic? our washington insiders sort it out next. >> plus a man trapped in this car buried under snow. get this, for two months. amazingly, he walked out alive. how he managed to survive that. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices?

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need a new candidate. maybe like a jeb bush. our washington insiders are here. michael barnes is a republican policy advisor and attorney for dcba law and policy and gary bower is the president of american values. we'll start with you, michael. what do you think about this? does mitt romney have to win michigan to become the inevitable nominee? >> absolutely not. it would be nice for him to, of course, but look at rick santorum. he lost pennsylvania in 2006 but by 18 points and was booted about the u.s. senate and he's come back so voters nationwide are not going to be looking at what the religious conservatives who control midwestern primaries in the republican party are doing. they're going to look for who could win in an election against obama? romney is the only guy who has the resources and the capabilities to win against obama in the general election. that matters to republicans nationwide. >> what about you, gary? does romney have to win michigan in your opinion? >> if he loses michigan, that's a devastating blow and by the way, since when do we start

disrespecting religious conservatives? they make about 45% to 50% of the republican party. we need a nominee. i believe that guy will be rick santorum. that can bring together all kinds of conservatives. that is conservatives who believe in smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense and yes, conservatives that are pro life and pro family. that's always been the winning formula. it's one of the reasons mitt romney is having a hard time because some of those conservatives don't quite trust this background. and i think it's one of the reasons that rick santorum is -- >> we need to step back from the religious conservative issue. rick santorum is trying to force his religion on the government through public policy. >> what in the world are you talking about? >> there's no way he's going to be able to win a general election. i'm talking about look at trying to force women to come home and give up their jobs and stop taking their birth control. that's completely inconsistent

with anything that any mainstream voter is going to support. >> my goodness, that's -- >> last thought. >> that's the most ridiculous thing i've heard in my life. the idea that senator santorum or anybody in the republican party wants to force women to come back home and give up their birth control, are you kidding me? >> all right. we'll have to leave it there. >> we'll have to leave it there. that's michael barnes on the left side. gary bower on the right side. guys, great debate. talk to you soon. >> thank you. >> all right, this teen atheist successful in getting a prayer banner taken down at her high school? her award $41,000. guess who is raising money for her. and a senior member of president obama's re-election team says religion has no business in politics. is that right? brad stine weighs in next. ugh, my sinus congestion, and it's your fault.

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>> it is now 8 minute before the top of the hour on this president's day. g.o.p. presidential candidate rick santorum says he was not questioning president obama's belief in christianity when he made these remarks on saturday. >> it's not about you. it's not about your quality of life. it's not about your jobs. it's about some phony ideal, some phony theology, not a theology based on the bible. a different theology. >> but president obama's re-election team didn't waste any time jumping on mr. santorum. listen. >> i think this g.o.p. primary is in many cases, jake, has been a race to the bottom. >> conservative comedian brad stine is here. he joins us from nashville to weigh in on this. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm fine, thank you very much. so there you had -- we had rick

santorum for a moment on saturday night in columbus, ohio, talking about the president's phony theology. he was referring to his environmental and energy policies but because he said theology, that has really gotten the democrats incensed. >> right, you know, if there's anything you can count on from christians and conservatives it's that we actually believe in real truth, good and bad. some ideas are supposed to be disqualified which is really what he was saying, you know, if he had two people claiming the mathematicians and one said 2 plus 2 is 4 and another said 2 plus 2 is cheese. not only would i disagree with you but you would be disqualified. this is what he was getting at. we've been dealing with the christian obama thing for quite sometime. jesus said he was the way. he was the way you get to heaven. obama said back in 2008 i'm a christian but really, who gets to decide who gets into heaven? you know, i'm thinking maybe jesus. i mean, if you're christian, maybe we need to go that direction. you know, if santorum doesn't

want to question his christianity, i will because he's not really part of that and yet, he's always been slant. if santorum can be slammed for living like a christian, why can't obama be slammed for faking it? >> what do you mean he's faking it? >> because he doesn't actually do what he says. he says that people that are rich need to have their money taken from them and give them to somebody else. that breaks the eighth commandment. you're not supposed to steal. he actually believes people with more stuff than other people, that's not good. that's breaking the 10th commandment. he's not doing what he's supposed to do. you're supposed to live it like it's real. see, liberals have never been good with christianity but it's intolerant. they actually make you change your beliefs whether you like it or not even if it hurts your feelings. christianity doesn't work well with liberals. >> rick santorum did follow up and he did say i'm not saying he's not a christian. i believe that barack obama is a christian. >> yeah. i mean, i'm just saying that if you don't live like that, i

don't know if that's actually true. i don't think he is. if i'm wrong, if he wants to admit like we all do on tv who are really christians that jesus is the only way to get into heaven, i will apologize. i'll give $1,000 to a charity of his choice. but i'm not holding my breath because if i did, i'd day. but the good news is i'd go to heaven because i really believe in jesus. >> we have heard religion injected into the whole presidential dialogue in the last couple of weeks, whether the president's decision to mandate that the catholic church pay for contraceptives and stuff like that. so that has certainly gotten that ball rolling. all right. brad, always a pleasure to have you early on these friday morning -- monday mornings. we thank you very much for joining us today from nashville. >> see, that's how early it is. you don't even know what day it is. i'm telling you, that's what we need to get back to. >> please do, my brother. >> thank you, sir. straight ahead, is government overregulation killing cures? somebody who used to run the f.d.a. says you'd be surprised what ailments we could fix if

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from. we'll tell you. "fox & friends" hour two for this president's day starts right now. >> yep, it's the third monday now every february. it is president's day to honor george washington and all presidents as well. >> and as you know, and what you might love about "fox & friends" there's always the unexpected. i dumped my entire coffee on the set moments ago, poor eric is sitting on a pillow because he has coffee butt. >> coffee butt? >> i'm so sorry! and steve, i'm so sorry. i think i ruined your computer for life. >> it -- listen, they're ok. i feel sorry for you. you bought one of those new york city coffee shop glasses cups of coffee, that was like $19?

>> at least $4.40. >> i know. i never got one sip of it! anyway -- >> who needs those little -- right now, chuck schumer is railing about the inhaleable caffeine. >> round two? round two is on its way. >> maybe that pillow. >> why would you do that? why would you do that? >> thank you so much! >> special delivery. >> thank you so much. all right. let's see. >> yes, perfect. i will do my best to not spill this one. >> the morning joe is here. ok. let's get right to your headlines now because three experienced skiers have died in a horrible accident. they were swept away by a fast moving avalanche in washington state. the snow broke loose yesterday afternoon on stevens pass sweeping the skiers at least 1500 feet down the side of the mountain. amazingly, a fourth skier did escape alive. she's been identified as elise sogstad, the woman in the middle of this photo right here. she was wearing a safety device

that fills with air during an avalanche and that kept her above the snow. >> it's been, yeah, really rough day up here with a lot of the people and yeah, it's been hard to swallow. feel like i've been kicked in the gut or something. >> other skiers who survived were wearing similar safety devices. rescuers aren't sure if the victims who died had those devices on. new overnight for you, a mid-air collision forces a helicopter and a small plane to make an emergency landing just feet from a busy highway in antioch, california. now, both pilots suffered only minor injuries and the other person on board the plane escaped without any bumps or bruises. the f.d.a. says it's currently investigating why the small plane clipped the chopper in the first place. extreme weather alert, parts of the south blanketed in snow this weekend. winter storm dumping several inches in virginia. over 300 accidents were reported in richmond, virginia, alone and tens of thousands of people lost their power. meantime, snow and fog making whiteout conditions for drivers

in tennessee. a massive pile-up shut down parts of interstate 75 and sent seven people to the hospital. talk about a miracle. police find a swedish man barely alive inside this buried car. turns out he had been trapped there for two months. battling subzero temperatures. the man claims he survived on just snow. he's now in critical condition. some doctors say they're baffled considering the brutal conditions. others believe he survived by going into some kind of human hibernation. and those are your headlines. >> what a story. soon be a movie of the week. you watch. that guy's story. >> all right, let's talk a little bit about what's going on in the world of news. you know that there are tensions in the mideast regarding iran saying they're going to shut down the straits of hermuth. this morning, apparently sauda arabia says they're going to cut production of oil. plus iran says they're going to stop selling to the countries of

great britain and france and explain that, eric. >> right. very quickly, so there's a whole thing going on between iran and the european union. the european union says if you don't cut back on your nuclear enrichment facilities and desires, we're not going to buy oil from you, so iran turns around yesterday on sunday and says i'll tell you what, we'll beat you on that. they said as of july 1st, they were going to cut back buying iranian oil. iran says forget it, we're not selling you, france and britain, oil right now. >> you're fired. >> immediately the oil price jumps $2 a barrel overnight. right now, it's trading over $105. if i'm not mistaken, we're above $105 a barrel. gasoline was up another $0.03 a gallon just overnight. so all these price increases, expect the national average which is $3.56, expect that to continue higher especially if these middle eastern tensions don't ease a bit.

>> so how much of the productivity that great britain and france need? how much gas they need come from iran? >> iranian oil shipments to the european union account for about 18% of what they sell. in other words, 80% goes elsewhere and they use some of it themselves. very important that any sort of dislocation in -- oil is a a world currency. that means that oil is not going on to a global market. if you pull two million, three million barrels of oil off the market, they produce four. they export around 2 1/2 and three million. if you pull that off the world oil market, you're talking about really almost -- i mean, the balance is so tight. 84 million barrels produced. 83 -- >> you know what, eric? this is coming at the worst time for the white house. you know, they've got their people out going look, the unemployment is getting better.

the stock market is roaring. and then for this to happen where the prices of oil are going up and eric has got a model -- he's got his bottle of oil right there. >> this is regular gasoline. regular gasoline. since -- for every dollar, let's do it this way. for every dollar rise in the price of a gallon of gasoline, $140 billion a year in consumer spending coming directly out of the market. the problem is when the price of this goes up, it doesn't matter if you're rich, middle class or poor, you feel it. >> it's everybody. >> to me, this is a bigger issue of talking about foreign policy again, too. because for the most part, people would argue that this administration has decided not to deal as much with iran right now as you've got israel, it appears to be begging for help in their situation with iran, and now, will the focus right before an election come back to what the heck is the united states going to do about iran snoo auto i know the left is going to go you're an idiot, the price of a barrel of oil, gallon of gasoline, day one in the

obama administration was $1.83. it came down from $4 a gallon under george bush, yes, it was $4 but the day it started on its downward trajectory, oil prices and gasoline was july 17th of 2008. you know what happened that exact same week, that was the week that george bush said he's pulling the moratorium on off-shore drilling and opened up drilling off the coasts and oil prices started to tumble from $145 a barrel down to $33 a barrel in january of 2009. >> the rnc sees trouble for the president regarding this and apparently, they sent out something, according to the papers called pundit prep for their talking heads to go out. they say the three best ways to define the barack obama economy, the national debt which is skyrocketing. the unemployment which is north of 8%. and gas prices. >> that's true. >> the gas prices are impacting you. how has it affected you? what are you going without? e-mail us, we'd like to know.

friends at foxnews.com. we did this on friday and we were just amazed at the number of people who said they're cutting back on food because of the high price of gas. >> let's go back to politics again for a moment which is front and center this week with another debate coming up for the republicans on wednesday night. and there's an interesting discussion about what would happen to mitt romney if in fact he does not win what many deem to be his home state even though he hasn't lived there for a long time. he was born and raised there. michigan. what would happen then? would somebody else suddenly get into the race? would we have a brokered convention? would he drop out of the race as newt gingrich is alluding if you don't drop off if you don't win your home state. >> if mitt romney did lose michigan, what does that mean? i mean the last time -- and you had a pundit on a little while ago, eric, who said look, the last time rick santorum had a statewide race, he lost by, what, 16, 18 points or something like that. what's interesting is back in

2008 the republicans watched as the democrats got energized because their process of nominating a nominee was getting people interested in hillary and also, barack obama, and so the republicans decided to change things so that there would be fewer winner take all states. also, they backloaded the big states towards the end so it would draw it out and keep the excitement goi. but "the wall street journal" did the math and it is just practically impossible for anybody to win this thing through june. i mean, it's going to keep going through june! >> right, and that's a good thing, though. i mean, there are those who think the longer it goes, the more we can hear from the inevitable g.o.p. nominee which would be a good thing. we'll know him a lot better. the downside to it is through june, if it's negative advertising, negative campaigns, that's going to be a lot of, i guess, ammunition against the white house against whoever he or she may be. i said she because i'm thinking -- >> sarah palin made it in. >> perfect convention.

to me, you hit the nail on the head. it might be a good thing for energizing the republican party and make it exciting if it doesn't get it back into the negative advertising which i think has done great damage to the candidates thus far. in the meantime, what does karl rove think whether or not there will be a brokered convention? we'll go all the way to september. >> i think it's about remote as life on pluto. you know, it could happen, sure. you can make up all kinds of scenarios. in all likelihood, what happens in the dynamic of a primary once somebody starts to win, they keep on winning. we have a nationwide at least in the pundits request, a case of premature electionitis. we've had five contests that have awarded delegates and we've had eight contests at which delegates could conceivably be and one beauty contest. we have 54 contests in this thing and we concluded five of them. >> that's right. it's still early in the process

and so many people are going come on, we have to have a winner. >> come on. >> that's what people are saying. >> a lot of the establishment people were saying we had a winner months ago and now they're changing their tune because it might look like they might go on and on a little bit. i think to a certain extent, some americans want to see this go on and on because they're just -- because they're just not sure about who they want to support. >> isn't that the nature of what this is, though? we don't have the one that everyone wants and there's no one coalescing behind one because maybe there isn't one that deserves or who -- who should be the nominee to go up against president obama. >> right. and the person who is surging right now is rick santorum and, you know, how much do we really know about rick santorum? we don't know that much so to sarah palin's point, it's great that the process keeps going because that way we can learn more about him which, you know, some stuff is coming up. >> but the establishment doesn't want that. >> who is the establishment? who is the establishment? >> the people who have been in d.c. for a very long time.

the people who write the checks. we know who these -- >> all right. so speaking of the establishment, we asked -- we always ask for your point of view and here was an e-mail that we got earlier in the day. this is out of virginia. you are correct, we don't want the establishment telling us who we should be voting for. we can make up our own minds and none of the g.o.p. candidates have shown us they could win the election in november. so if it's a healthy debate in my mind, i say bring it on. keep it going. healthy debate, learn more about the people. >> agreed. >> no kidding. >> 13 minutes after the top of the hour on this president's day. is government overregulation killing cures? somebody who used to run the f.d.a. says you'd be surprised what medical miracles we could pull off if the government would just get out of the way. >> and g.m. posts record profits. who are they spreading the wealth to? employee bonuses? donald trump joins us live to weigh in on this one. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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>> would we see more medical miracles in america if there wasn't so much government regulation? let's ask the former commissioner, dr. ensbach. what's the problem that you see with the f.d.a. as far as timing and permitting? go ahead, sir. >> good morning, thank you for having me this morning. you know, we've all seen the fact that we have patients suffering and dying with cancer and alzheimer's and many other diseases, and at the same time, it's obvious that we're making tremendous progress in major medical breakthroughs because of science and technology and they're helping us understand these diseases in the way that we can develop new, innovative interventions. the problem is we need a bridge

between all of that innovation and science and technology and those patients who need it. and that bridge is the food and drug administration. and although we've invested billions of dollars into discovering new therapies and new cures for these diseases, we over decades have neglected the f.d.a. we have not invested in the infrastructure and the scientific tools that the agency needs to be a modern f.d.a. and although it was the gold standard in the 20th century, it's not aligned with the 21st. >> ok, tell us about where is the f.d.a.? is it the bridge that you're talking about or is it a barrier? >> no, the f.d.a. needs to be a bridge instead of a barrier. and if we don't modernize the f.d.a., if we don't give it to the tools and the support that it needs, then, in fact, it becomes a barrier. it slows down the ability to bring those new products to patients. >> talk to us a little bit about

that. we don't have a lot of time. the f.d.a., is it up to speed with the amount of testing and requirement that a new drug company needs to do or is it so, i guess, buried in the past that the time is -- used to be and actually could be shrunk, is that not right? >> that's right. the agency over a period of time has been neglected from the point of view of both its resources but it also needs a modernization with regard to its regulatory processes. 20 years ago, when we faced the problem of aids, we created a new regulatory pathway called accelerated approval. and then 15 years ago, because of cancer and its needs, we developed a fast track. those are the exceptions to the rule where they may now need to be the modern way of which we regulate all drugs and medical devices. >> very quickly, if we don't modernize the f.d.a., what's the risk that the other countries will beat us to the punch in developing new drugs? >> all countries around the

world have raisedd -- recognize that the 21st century is the century of the life sciences. they're investing billions of thrashes in the research and development to get to the forefront and they're creating responses to let these drugs come to patients more rapidly and efficiently. we in the united states have been the gold standard and need to keep pace and stay ahead of that. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you, sir. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me. >> a teen atheist gets a prayer banner removed from her high school. her award $41,000. we'll tell you where that cash is coming from next. and 50 years ago today, john glenn made history as the first american to orbit the earth. he joins us after the break. i wouldn't do that. pay the check?

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>> 50 years ago today, john glenn boarded friendship seven and was launched into space becoming the first american to orbit the earth. >> legendary astronaut and former ohio senator john glenn joins us today from columbus, ohio. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm fine. i am old enough to remember the day you blasted off and we got the updates, of course, we didn't have the coverage then that we have today. as we look at some of the pictures of you orbiting the earth three times, what are your best memories of that day? >> oh, there are a lot of good memories of that day. of course, the whole thing, it was brand new. we hadn't experienced it before. it seems like two weeks ago to me instead of 50 years because it was so vivid at that time. and i guess i've recalled it almost every day since then and somebody wanted to say something about it so it's been a

recollection quite often and i think that's kept it very fresh in my memory. >> one of the things that people may not realize is how dangerous this was for you to do, right? >> well, we had a very high confidence level. perhaps higher than anybody else because we've been of the testing of machinery. we'd gone through simulations time after time. i was a military test pilot and so you -- you accepted those risks. but the risks were small by what we -- the way we looked at it after all of our training. and so i was just anxious to go. i went on the 11 scheduled date and i suited up four times and once it was -- the flight was canceled because of the weather when i was in the transfer van on the way to the launch pad, was up twice before and so it was almost hard to believe when we went to the final 18 second count and realized i was really going to go on this day 50 years ago, great feeling. >> sure. i know at one point, you had a thruster fail and you actually

had to drive the darn thing. but then it -- when you were coming back into the earth's atmosphere, you know, this is something we'd never thought about here on earth. the heat shield on the bottom of the capsule. you actually drove in backwards as you came through re-entry. there was some worry it was loose and that you were going to burn up. >> well, there was. there had been two signals that went down that said -- two radio signals that went down to the ground that two different stations that said the heat shield was loose and the latches had pulled on the heat shield and it normally -- that would not occur normally until you're down on the main parachute and the heat shield would drop about four feet on a rubber bag so that you had sort of an air cushion, air pillow. that was mainly in case you had to make an emergency landing on land some place. and the indication was that had already occurred in space. that would be a bad day so we left the retropack sat right in the middle of the heat shield

and left it in order to hold that in place during the high heat of re-entry where the heat on the shield itself gets around 3,000 degrees and the ionized layer about 3 1/2 to 4 feet in front gets up around 9,000 degrees but it all worked right and the retropack burned off and the shield worked just the way it should. >> all worked out and today, we're honoring the 50th anniversary of friendship 7. i hope a lot of young kids are watching today and that they can see you as the hero that you are. and be inspired to one day do something like you did. senator john glenn, thanks so much for being our guest. wow. amazing feat. >> that was a fast 50 years and how many people watching that day, kids my age said some day i'm going to be an astronaut. >> we interviewed one in the 6:00 hour. tom jones who ended up being an astronaut. >> i wanted to be an astronaut until i saw part of the testing was at the centrifuge where they spun you around like that and you throw up. remember that, john? >> oh, yeah. >> then i decided i wanted to be a fireman.

that didn't work out either. >> you ended up here. better things happened. >> coming up on our show, president obama scrapping hope and change. his campaign shopping for a new slogan now? what do you think it should be? uh-oh, we're opening up the e-mail and twitter for that one. >> donald trump goes back to the board room. celebrity apprentice premiered last night. here with the reaction next, the man himself. donald trump! [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait

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>> i'm going to be very nice if that time happens. >> hopefully it won't. >> i think george tekay had it coming. >> demanding, difficult. >> my eyes on you two. >> ok, there you have it. it premiered last night, "the celebrity apprentice" and we've got donald trump on the show to react to it. good morning. >> good morning. >> you said this one was going to be a great show and last night you kicked it off. >> well, it was and we really have a great cast. we love the people and they've been doing really well. cheryl tiegs got fired, as you probably know. >> how can you fire a supermodel? >> i don't know. it was very tough. she's a really nice person but she almost felt -- she felt very

uncomfortable. she's in with some real killers, some real sharks and they were going after her and she got the boot. and i think she was relieved to be honest with you. she actually said she didn't belong there. >> donald, it's bolling. couple of big personalities last night. boy, victoria gotti, dee snyder. big, big names and big opinions, huh? >> we've got some big names and we've got some very strong people and i'll tell you, it's going to be an amazing 15 weeks. we have 15 weeks which is the largest we've ever done and it's also 18 people. so it's the largest number of people we've ever had. but it's going to be really, i think, an incredible 15 weeks. >> and so you split up into men and women teams and the guy who is the project manager on the guys team is paul tuttle sr. from "american chopper." we've had him on a million times. he is a character. he could make it all the way to the end. >> he's a great character and

he's smart. he raised almost half a millions for for his charity which is a great charity. it's a great show and it's going to be getting a lot better. this is an introductory show. we had to tell everybody who was going on, what happens. the shows are amazing and they get just -- we're shooting it right now. i mean, we're shooting it literally right now and the shows have been amazing. >> all right. we will look forward to every week of that and in the meantime, let's talk a little politics with you because the white house, remember the economic report that talked about unemployment and jobs created and such. and we've seen an improvement over the last couple of weeks. but some people are saying this report hides the sharp drop in the number of actual working americans. how did you do at math, donald? are you able to dissect all this? >> it's really been very easy and the numbers are, you know, that they've been putting out every month and every week are much better than they actually are, in fact, and the truth is that people are not being shown as unemployed because they stopped looking for jobs. i mean, the way they add these

numbers is just -- it's almost criminal. >> well -- >> donald, that's a very important point. i mean, it's done in a household survey on a month-to-month basis. they picked up the phone and called 60,000 people. there's a lot of room for error. there are 308 million americans in the country. when you go to the number of jobs in america, it's gone down substantially, hasn't it? >> the number of jobs are going down and the way they -- the way, look, eric is an all time pro so eric understands this very well. that's what he does. but you give up looking for work and they no longer say you're unemployed and all of a sudden, the statistics look much better. there are people out there that have given up looking for work and they're not put down in the numbers and the fact is the number of jobs we have in this country have gone down because we're not doing things like we used to anymore. other countries are making our product. we have a problem. this country is really sick and we have a problem. a very big problem. >> yeah, and the problem is,

according to this report that the white house tried to put the bad news in the small print is that the number of working age americans right now working, only 63% which is the lowest in 30 years. we're going to move on now to general motors or government motors as some have referred to it. they have the highest profits in company history. it's wonders what $50 billion worth of bailout will do for you. rather than paying back what the federal government owe, each employee is going to wind up with a $7,000 bonus or something like that? >> right. they're going to get $7,000 plus, plus. and, you know, there's a big debate about this. if you paid back the government immediately, is the government going to get paid back? you know, this was the deal that obama made with the unions, a lot of people think it was made for the unions and by the unions and, you know, you could maybe

do a combination of both. it's something nice about getting an incentive to employees. i'm not knocking that. maybe you do combinations of both but a lot of people are very angry by the fact that that money has not been paid back. >> the problem is they can't pay us back because in our infinite wisdom, we took g.m. stock instead of keeping that loan outstanding. we have to wait for it to get to $54. it came on the market at $30 and went to $20 and now it's at $25 or so. it would have to double. >> it has to go up a lot. whether they could buy back the stock, they could do it very easily. this will be discussed for a long time because what's happened is amazing. >> before you go, today is president's day. federal holiday. who is your favorite president? >> well, of the modern days, it's definitely ronald reagan. i mean, you , you lovet? ronald ags, we have git ern day

i have no doubt in m mind about that one. >> and further back? >> you know, you look at some of the great ones and you look at always -- i always say this is the most important election we've had since lincoln. you look at lincoln. you look at washington, the original. you always have to go with that. >> that's why they're on the money. >> you can never go wrong with lincoln or washington. >> you got that right. >> or reagan for that matter. >> great speaking with you, as always. talk to you again next week. >> very good. thank you very much. >> time for some headlines now and eric will kick it off. >> more protests in greece over the severe budget cuts that are being made so the country can get a $171 billion bailout but while thousands of greeks are up in arms about the deal. the stock markets are loving it. the european stock markets up today as eurozone ministers are meeting to finalize a bailout. u.s. markets are closed today for's press -- president's day

but it edged close to her 13,000 mark. >> whitney houston's grave now open to the public. this as rumors are swirling that houston's daughter bobbi kristina was found smoking pot hours after saturday's funeral of her mom. the emotional 18-year-old allegedly slipped away from family after growing upset that her dad bobby brown caused a stir at the service. he reportedly bailed early after a fight over the seats. >> meanwhile, a rare phenomenon caught on camera at yosemite national park. check this out. it looks like molten lava rolling down a waterfall, right? this happens when the sun lights up the horse tail fall in just the right way making the water appear to be red like fire. that's cool. it only lasts for two minutes and takes place every february. so -- >> beautiful! >> got the shot if you're there. two minutes. >> coming up on our show,

president obama scrapping hope and change. his campaign is shopping for a new slogan. what do you think it should be? let us know. you can twitter or e-mail. >> we got suggestions. and a monumental weekend at the vatican as new york city archbishop timothy dolan was elevated to cardinal but among the celebration, scandal as well. peter johnson jr. joins us live from the vatican coming up next. >> scandal? >> it's true! ugh, my sinus congestion, and it's your fault. 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. so i can breathi. we're spreading the word about new honey bunches of oats fruit blends and their unique taste combinations. like peach/raspberry. with one flavor in the granola bunch and one on the flake. two flavors. in harmony. honey bunches of oats. make your day bunches better.

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re-election campaign. instead, the marketing team is looking to change that slogan to something else. what that is isn't known yet. send us your ideas. what should it be? steve? >> thank you, gretch. it was a monumental weekend at the vatican as new york archbishop timothy dolan was elevated to cardinal. fox news legal analyst usually peter johnson jr. now our papal correspondent joins us live from the eternal city of rome. peter, i understand you just in the last hour were with a papal audience with the pope and the new cardinals. >> yeah, i attended a papal audience with the new cardinal dolan, cardinal o'brien from america and about two dozen other new cardinals and thousands of pilgrims to came to hear a blessing from the pope. they brought their rosaries and crucifixes, their crosses, their religious articles to be held up for the holy father and they were blessed so it was a moving, moving moment here in vatican

city today. now 125 cardinals will be able to elect a new pope when that happens, pope benedict still in very good shape. his voice was strong on saturday. he looks strong and assertive and smiling to the crowd today as they sang out in praise of him and all these cardinals from arnold the -- around the world so it was an exciting day. >> archbishop dolan elevated to cardinal, there have been a whole bunch of stories while you've been there in rome here in the united states about how could this guy be selected pope in the future? i mean, there was -- i think it was an italian newspaper that said that of all the cardinals and the members of the college of cardinals, they regarded this particular guy, dolan, as a real rock star. >> well, you know, i don't think in the american history, we've had a cardinal as magnetic

and as charismatic especially in the media age as cardinal dolan. in new york, we're lucky to have now two cardinals, cardinal dolan and cardinal egan and he responded to these questions about him being the rock star for the 21st century in the catholic church by invoking the image of st. peter upon this rock, we shall build the church so we said in that sense, invoking the memory and religiousity of st. peter and his role as the patriarch of this church, he said yes, he that he would be up there with bruce springsteen or mick jagger or lady gaga or folks like that but he understands his importance and i think the catholic church has pointed him in the direction of stepping out in terms of evangilization, bringing new catholics into the fold and evangilization to the community of faith, bringing people together, christians,

jews, muslims in the spirit of faith and in the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood. he understands his role. it was a big role. >> when you were just speaking, we flashed a picture of your wife blanche and daughter veronica who were in attendance. and had a little audience with the new cardinal. >> they'll be embarrassed. the people are so nice here in rome and really is important in terms of reaffirming my faith to see this and to meet so many great people here in rome. and the great people here at fox in rome. mario and mateo, they're the rock of fox in rome so it's a wonderful thing. it's nice to see family and new family. >> absolutely. it's nice that you would say those things and the thing about dolan is he seems to be such a man of the people and with church attendance going down, maybe he -- >> he is. >> before you go, peter, there's something that's been brewing, we've seen, there's some sort of vatican money laundering or some rumory thing going on over there. if you would, explain what it

is. >> well, what's happening -- absolutely. what's happening the vatican is experiencing its own version of wikileaks. when you administer a faith to 1.2 billion people worldwide and you have a worldwide organization, every continent, almost every nation in the world obviously, they're a dissatisfied people and some folks have put out internal documents with regard to financial areas with regard to possible financial regularities and deficits and so there's been kind of a scrum, a political scrum between some people here at the vatican. i predict that it will go away quickly. but again, it's -- it's any large organization that has these issues. and the vatican and the church has always been a hierarchical organization led by the pope and its operations have always been pretty secretive. they'll continue to be. but this is always big news when it comes out and gives everybody a little something to read. >> it does indeed. i'm glad you're able to answer

what it's all about. peter johnson jr., peter, it's lunch time over there. >> good to see you. see you soon. >> take you out to lunch in rome. >> they're the best. greg burke and all these guys. >> all right, peter, thank you very much. see you back here in the united states in no time. meanwhile, it's not the economy, stupid. at least this time around. some people say social issues will be the deciding factor in the 2012 elections. so which candidate would cash in on that? we'll talk about it. but first on this date in 1985, "careless whisper" by wham, america's numero uno song. [ male announcer ] where's your road to happiness? what ithe first step on that road is a bowl of soup? delicious campbell's soups fill you with vegetable nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do.

>> in the past few weeks, the economy has taken a back seat to social issues on the campaign trail and our next guest says hey, you can't focus just on the economy without discussing social issues as well. joining me now, james robinson and j.w. richards, co-authors of "indivisible, restoring faith, family and freedom before it's too late." good morning to you, gentlemen. we have a catholic and evangelical that came together. what's your main message of the book? >> it's really in the title. the indivisiblity of things like faith, family and freedom and the economy. we have the social issues, abortion, religious liberty and marriage on the forefront of the debate the last several weeks and this doesn't surprise us because we think you can't finally separate the economic and the social. >> james, why not? why can't you just talk about the economy? why can't you just talk about social issues separate?

>> as george gilder says in an endorsment, it settles the issue that you can't. what happens in our families affects what happens economically. sadly, many people who love their families and who want to do the right things, be responsible, and teach their children responsibility, they don't understand the importance of the economics that we've literally turned over to a federal government who has proven to be very inept at managing anything well including the economy. and so the two are linked together. years ago, i hosted a meeting titled "the national affairs briefing." we brought religious leaders in from all over the united states and had a briefing about national issues. we invited then governor reagan to come and to speak. he and i spoke on the main night together. and i suggested to him before he went out, i said, this is a nonpartisan meeting and by the way, i don't think the church or christians should be an appendage of any political party. we ought to affect everybody in every party and help them understand what is best. i suggested to mr. reagan when

you go out, since we don't endorse, why don't you consider, i know you can't endorse me. i want you to know i endorse you. he said that, he said it's the best opening he ever had. he told me the next day and nancy said it was, too. he literally made headlines nationwide when he recognized you cannot separate the social issues and the moral concerns from the economic concerns of the day. he was 100% right. >> very interesting. here are some of the principles that you talk about in the book of "faith, family and freedom" every human being has equal value and dignity. number 2, marriage and the family are the fundamental social institutions. number 3, when we're free, we can create wealth and there's a fourth one. culture comes before politics. so these are the tenets of what you're talking about in the book. >> absolutely. we really talked about the policies that we all are concerned about in politics but we end with what we call the principles of faith, family and freedom. we're convinced that, perhaps, 80% of the american people actually believes these things and if we can come together around these fundamental principles, i think we'll have a much easier time coming up with policies that are both

consistent with our fundamental convictions and are likely to work in the political spirit. >> james, what gets in the way? i mean, this sounds so reasonable. i'm like yeah, and yeah. what gets in the way of that happening? >> i think people have been convinced in the community of faith that you don't mix religion and politics, stay out and the people who really love their families who are dedicated to doing the right things, who understand personal responsibility, they have actually dismissed themselves from being well informed and actively involved in the political process and as a result, we're taking it on the chin. while good people take care of business, the government is giving us the business. here's a catholic, i'm an evangelical, we found common ground to address our very legitimate common concerns effectively. and one of the talk show hosts who talked to jay richards about the book said this is body armor for the culture war and that's what we're providing. >> well, check it out. it sounds like a fascinating read. jay and james, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you, gretchen. >> still ahead, could this be the secret behind jeremy lin's

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. it's back to work. maybe not if you're celebrating president's day. we're back here and it's monday, february 20. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us. the republican race for president getting tighter than ever before and no one wants to bow out. why would they? 'cause this pry -- could the primary stretch through the summer or will the party nominate another candidate? >> steve: remember when gas was $3 a gallon with president bush in office? remember this? >> a number of people we spoke to are blaming president bush. >> the bush administration under pressure to curb rising gas price. >> political pressure is rising about as fast as the price of

gas. >> steve: that was bush's fault. now gas is 3.56 a gallon. it's over $4 in other parts of the country. hear what the media are saying today. it's a different tune. >> eric: "fox & friends" getting wild this hour with america's animal expert, the great jack hannah and some of his favorite animals are here. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: it is a federal holiday coast to coast. there you can see 1600 pennsylvania avenue, the house where our presidents live. welcome to "fox & friends" live from new york city. it's great to have you on this federal holiday with us. >> gretchen: it is. and dana perino is going to be joining us on the curvy coach in just a moment.

first, eric is fill not guilty for brian. good to have you. >> gretchen: good morning. >> gretchen: let's get to your headlines. three expert skiers have died. they were swept away by a fast moving avalanche in washington state. the snow broke loose yesterday afternoon on steven's pass, sweeping the skiers at least 1500 feet down the side of a mountain. amazingly a fourth skier escaped alive. the woman in the middle of this photo recalled the horrific ordeal. >> i believe i'm still in shock and i'm devastated by the loss of our friends. ultimately i think you don't have much time to react and the first thing that came to my mind was to deploy my avalanche air bag device. >> gretchen: other skiers who survived were wearing similar safety devices. rescuers aren't sure if the victims who died had them on. new overnight, a midair collision force has helicopter and a small plane to make an

emergency landing feet from a busy highway in antioch, california. both pilots suffered only minor injuries. the other person on board the plane escaped without bumps or bruises. the faa says it's currently investigating why the small plane clipped the chopper in the first place. several major developments in iran this morning. team of u.n. nuclear inspectors arrived overnight. they're trying to get iran to stop stone walling the investigation into its nuclear program. meantime, iran is lashing out at the international sanctions that have been crippling its economy. it's now refuse to go sell oil to britain and france. that move driving oil prices up to $105 a barrel today, the highest price in nine months. extreme weather alert, parts of the south have been blanketed in snow. this video into our news room of the winter woman lop that hit tennessee. they have a near whiteout condition. massive pileup shut down parts

of interstate 75 this weekend. sending seven people to the hospital. some parts of virginia getting six inches. over 300 accidents reported in richmond alone and tense of thousands of people left without their power. those are your headlines. >> steve: let's dial in dana perino, one of eric's co-stars from "the five." how are you? >> i'm great. >> steve: newt gingrich said if mitt romney can't win michigan, he should drop out. what prompted that question was apparently an unnamed senator told abc news, if romney can't win his home state of michigan, we need another candidate. they said, how about santorum or gingrich? they go, no, they're going to lose by 35 states. what about the other person? who would that be? the guy said, jeb bush. jeb bush could be a guy at a convention. what are the possibilities of that happening? >> slim, possibly slim to none. i know that his brother, the former president, certainly not

encourage thing do that. i think he thought he and his dad both thought jeb could have run this time and could have run, but they're sitting back. that gop senator who set the cat amongst the pigeons and walk away, i don't think that there was any coordination behind the scenes to try to get them to put out jeb bush's name. >> gretchen: amazing how much attention one comment anonymously can get. but at the same time, frankly, what would be the difference between jeb wish and mitt romney as candidates? >> i think they'd have to make the case, right? you have to draw contrast between you and somebody else. i think jeb bush could point to governing a very different type of state. florida is really representative population wise of all the different types of people and ethnicities that live there, represent america more broadly. education reforms that were very popular, as well as on the immigration side of things. i think that he could draw a

different line because romney has gone farther to the right than most people. jeb makes a very good case for that. but they both had -- they've both been governors, had private sector experience. >> eric: does romney have to win michigan to stay viable in the race? >> no, you don't have to do anything. romney didn't win iowa either. santorum won by eight hose. >> eric: the home state doesn't matter? >> you remember when al gore couldn't win tennessee. we made fun of him for years. truth is, sometimes after -- you've been born someplace but haven't spent a lot of time there in your life, even if your dad was famous governor, you might not win it. i think it will be kind of crippling to not win, but i don't necessarily think that means he's out of the race at all. we have just one week from tomorrow until super tuesday. that's where a lot of the primary races are held that day. that's the real big ticket. >> gretchen: in your mind, we can't say anything because now newt gingrich has gotten more dough again. he's probably going to be strong

on super tuesday. do you see this going well into the summer time? >> it could. democrats' primary in 2008 went until may, i think. former speaker gingrich's infusion of cash will get him a little bit of the way, but the thing that he's missing now is a little bit of the media that he used to get. it has softened a little bit as santorum has picked up. i don't know how much longer he can last. >> steve: speaking of rick santorum, who was in columbus, he was talking about the president's energy and environmental policies and at one point, he referred to it as a phony theology. he later walked it back and said, i'm not talking about his religion. he's a christian. robert gibbs yesterday, i wanted to -- on one of the chat shows yesterday, on the republican side, not good. >> i think that you make

comments like that, you make comments that are well over the line. i think this gop primary is in many cases, jake has been a been a race to the bottom. we have seen nastiness, ugliness , opponents records of the president's record. >> steve: it was a mistake, rick santorum, to refer to the president energy policies by using the word theology probably. >> but he walked it back right away, unlike remember clinging to gods and guns? remember. you could say that was just as bad. i have a very different style. if i were on the democratic side in chicago, i would let the republicans all beat each other up. i would blow it off and say he walked it back, we're not going to harp on that. let me tell you why president obama should get a second term 'cause he has got big plans for america. you never hear that. >> steve: no. >> i think everybody is miss ago huge opportunity to talk about some of the really big issues.

>> gretchen: this is what drives me crazy, is every single word and pronunciation, it's just all down now. people try to make a big news day out of it. instead of talking just about the policies. now we're going to talk about this for however many days. it's just kind of got noon crazihood in my mind. >> with somebody like santorum talks about an energy theology, then he walks it back, the key thing is, what did he mean by that? let's argue on the merits. let's look at the logic, why does he think a? because they want to put more resource, your taxpayer dollars, into green energy jobs that haven't proven to work. there is another way, which is to let the free market work, try to find new technologies that go along with our traditional technologies so we don't deal with $150 of gasoline a barrel. >> eric: a lot of people hammered the bush administration during -- your the runup in gas prices and frankly, george bush came out and said, look, i'm pulling the moratorium on offshore drilling and that was the beginning of the decline in oil prices from a record high 147 you down to 33 bucks a

barrel. those on the left say no, it was the economy that did it. >> when you played the montage before -- >> steve: you want to see it before? >> yes. >> steve: here is when she was the press secretary and george bush was the president. >> a lot of people are blaming oil companies, but it could be an ominous sign for republicans, a number of people we spoke to are blaming president bush. >> the bush administration under pressure to curb rising gas price. >> the political pressure is rising about as fast as the price of gas. so the president gives a major energy speech today. >> spiking gas prices from coast to coast have created new political pain for an administration already falling in the polls. >> gretchen: you see those prices and they're not even close to where we are right now. you're looking there, i saw 2.73. we arguably, it did get up to 4.11 for president bush, but do you see a complete difference in the way we're looking at it now? >> sure.

because if you look at that commentary, the gas prices we're dealing with now have been more gradual. when it's more -- when it happens over a month or two-month long period, that hurts more. families adjust when it's gradual. all of a sudden the media is talking about the laws of supply and demand and putting things in context. when president bush was president, they talked about oil speculators. who were friends of president bush? they would put it together like that. unfortunately, what's happening now, is there is very little slack in the market. there used to be more room for more supply other places. but now you see when iran makes a decision to cut off u.k. and french oil, all of a sudden, overnight you have a spike like you saw today. >> steve: you know, the main stream need media is one thing, where you see them beating up george w. bush, but when you look at what then senator barak obama said, look at what he's doing to gas prices. if i were president of the united states, i'd have the department of justice investigating. we would have some sort of a

windfall profits tax on the big oil. okay. now he's president. nothing. >> and they did do an investigation. i think maybe it was the eighth or ninth since the nixon administration, independent investigation and found there was no collusion. this saturday or sunday on the "new york times," gas prices give republicans something to attack. the gop is now going to attack him. this good man who has done nothing wrong. >> eric: nothing wrong other than slow down the permitting process on offshore drilling, decline the excel pipeline which could bring thousands of barrels into the country per day. >> steve: we don't need that for our electric cars. >> eric: there is nothing that he's done, the administration has done to bring oil prices down or gas prices down. >> excel pipeline, we wouldn't have the gasoline tomorrow, but it would send a very good signal to the market long-term. there are other places that need

and want oil. everybody wants to have the same kind of conveniences that we all have, that we have today, all around the world. they want to be able to flip the switch v the lights turn on and have a little car or scooter to get around and you need energy to do that. >> gretchen: we will see you today on "the five" with eric bolling. he's pulling double duty. >> i'll bring hip -- hip a coffee. >> gretchen: he's got it on his pants because i dumped. 1976 primary tipped the scale and launched the reagan revolution. our next guest says that's about to happen again? >> eric: "fox & friends" is getting wild this hour. america's animal expert, jack hannah, with some of his favorite animal friends here. that's adorable.

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>> whether it is different this time than it has ever been before, i believe the republican party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors with no pale pastel shades. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: that was ronald reagan speaking at the republican national convention in 1976. i believe in kansas city. our next guest says that primary race actually mirrors what's going on today on the gop side. the quest for the nomination. here to explain is the author of the book "reagan's comeback, four weeks in texas that changed american politics forever". mr. garcia. so let's go back to when this takes place. at that point, jerry ford was running away with it, wasn't he? >> he's won eight of the first nine primaries.

reagan and his campaign manager decided if we lose texas, we're getting out of the race. the argument that i make and many people in the texas republican party feel this way is that if reagan had dropped out of the race, having lost nine out of the first ten primaries, he would have had a much tougher time coming back in 1980 and making a credible case for himself. >> steve: so reagan wound up winning texas, turning it completely around and suddenly they were heading for the convention and it was finally a dual again. who was it in texas that said, hey, wait a minute. egg sun our guy. not that ford guy. >> the establishment was behind ford. john tower, the only statewide elected republican, was a u.s. senator, was very staunch ford supporter. but reagan just had the grassroots movement, particularly in the houston area. it was very similar to what we're seeing with the tea party movement. there were a lot of parallels between, they were kind of outsiders and the republican party and they were very staunch conservatives and they were

uncompromising. >> steve: let's look at some of the parallels between what's going on and 1976. both drawn out nomination battles. two-man race to the convention. conservative democrats and you got the tea party. and unpredictable primaries, which has been true so far. so let's talk a little bit about the tea party today. that's what -- that's the right base. and back in the day, back in 1976, it was a number of democrats because texas was wide open. a number of democrats said reagan speaks to me better than my own party's nominee. >> we had three times in texas, three times the turnout in the republican primary than had ever been seen in a texas republican -- >> steve: because democrat. >> and reagan was very conscious of that. he courted the democratic vote. he knew there were a loft conservative democrats. called george wallis democrats who were open to his message and they crossed over for him. >> steve: it's an interesting

idea and a great historical perspective. check it out "reagan's comeback." we thank you for joining us live. >> thank you. >> steve: you heard dana perino's moments ago saying a loss for mitt romney in his home state of michigan could cripple his campaign. does he stand a chance of winning? we got the governor of michigan. he'll join us next. can jeremy lin credit his faith for his recent success? the knicks' new star giving some credit to god! if there was a pill to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin

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>> eric: time for news bit numbers. 525 million bucks. that's how much money it's believed president george washington would be worth today. this estimate making him the

richest president ever. thomas jefferson was second with a little more than $200 million. next, $41,000. that's the amount of a scholarship raised by an atheist association for a teen's job well done. the group rewarding jessica allquist after she successfully got a prayer banner at her rhode island high school removed. finally, $24 million. that's how much money made for the number one movie at the box office. >> gretchen: thanks very much. the michigan primary just over a week away now and rick santorum currently leading the polls there. so could this spell trouble for mitt romney in his home state? michigan's governor thinks he's still the only guy for the job. and the republican governor of michigan, race snyder -- rick snyder joins me now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: you recently endorsed mitt romney. when you look at the polls, are you nervous about the guy you're backing? >> not at all.

governor romney's endorsement was relatively straightforward. if you look at it, he's got the business background like i have had. it's really about job creation when you look at that issue, he's got chief executive experience in terms of running massachusetts and look at his perform, it's about jobs and economic growth. and for michigan people, that's about jobs. >> gretchen: so last time around in 2008, he won the state of michigan, even though he ended up not going on to win the nomination. now if you look at the polls, you have him inching up a little bit. i think this is interesting to show. so now you have rick santorum at 37%. mitt romney at 33%. but just a few d ago, mitt. it's all within the margin of error, so to speak. what could you point to as to why mitt romney might be going up in the polls in michigan slightly? >> michigan is in the focus now. with all the primary schedule that the candidate goes through, it's amazing how hard they have

to work for this process. now michigan is in the spotlight and i think we're going to see a real response as people have a chance to hear from governor romney more. there will be a lot of tv advertising. there is appearances. people are talking about it. so he's going to come up strongly in the poll, i believe. >> gretchen: we just had the former spokesperson for president george w. bush, dana perino, on our show. she said that mitt romney losing his home state of michigan could be crippling. would you agree with that? >> i don't know if i'd say that because if you look at the whole process, it's going to take a while for any candidate, the way the delegates are being distributed and such, again, michigan is an important state. i think we're a great role model for the rest of the country. so i'm happy to have the primary here 'cause it can highlight our great comeback and it's a story of what washington needs to do. we had a big deficit. we took care of that. we started paying down long-term liabilities. the michigan story is really a role model for what washington needs to do and governor romney is a good person to do it. >> gretchen: so much of his campaign has been about his

executive experience and having been a governor and turning around the olympics. what will happen to his campaign if the focus becomes more on foreign policy or social issues? >> well, if you look at what's still most important, the unemployment rate is still too high. if you looked at michigan in particular, we were over 14% back in 2009. we're down to 9.3%. we've improved better than the rest of the country in a relative sense. but it's still too high. so when you go out and talk to the average citizen, a lot of it's still back to jobs. in michigan, the way i see it, the number one issue is jobs and the number two issue is, is there a bright future for our kids? there is, but we need candidates out talking about both jobs and kids. >> gretchen: i guess that would be the deficit, talking about the future of our kids. governor rick snyder, republican from michigan who endorsed mitt romney, thanks for your thoughts. have a great week. >> thank you. >> gretchen: president obama says it is a top priority.

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we're a divided nation. it's not as intense as back then, but what we need most now is leadership. we got to pull together and -- ♪ pulling together ♪ . >> all right. now, it's going to take the kind of tremendous leadership that president lincoln had to give this country. all right? that's what we need to get it back on course. ♪ back on the path yeah ♪ . >> okay. so we can have that leadership and it was just a tragedy that he died the way he did. >> it's a tragedy, baby ♪ ♪ and i got to say oooo ♪ . >> steve: bill o'reilly has got to be thinking, what's up with that. >> gretchen: doesn't he know if you touch bill o'reilly, you get in trouble? >> eric: he did that live, his

timing was pretty darn good. >> steve: funny segment. >> gretchen: all right. so he can have a good sense of humor as well. we got to do some headlines. >> eric: republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham in afghanistan calling on the obama administration to arm the syrian rebels while president assad's forces continue their deadly crackdown on syrian protesters. they say rebel fighters deserve to be better armed and helping them, weakens iran. >> united states can play a far more active and productive role and it's almost shameful that we have not. >> this is a moment in time to replace assad with something new that would be a crippling blow to iran. >> eric: the senators say the u.s. doesn't have to directly arm the rebels, but could give them weapons through the arab league. >> gretchen: thousands of u.s. servicemen and women criticizing president obama for not living up to his promise to cut the unemployment rate among them.

>> we need to make sure that as our troops return from battle, they can find a job when they get home. >> gretchen: according to a new report, thousands of national guard troops say they're being discriminated against and the federal government is the biggest offender. the soldiers say they're being denied jobs and being fired by employers because of the military obligation. last year, about 20% of 1500 military discrimination complaints were against federal agencies. >> steve: meanwhile, 50 years ago today, john glenn boarded friendship 7 and launched into space, becoming the first american to orbit the earth. last hour we had the great honor of being joined by the legendary astronaut and former ohio senator and he talked about his frightening return to earth's atmosphere when it appeared the ship's heat shield was breaking apart and he was going to burn up. >> during the high heat of reentry where the heat on the shield itself gets around

3,000-degrees and out 3 1/2 or four feet in front, it's 9,000-degrees. but it all worked right, the shield worked the way it should. >> steve: thank goodness. the odds of john glenn not surviving the mission were one in six. about the same as russian roulette. >> gretchen: tense moments at the kansas city zoo after two gorillas escaped their pen. they roamed free for three hours. the pair, 19-year-old brothers, were part of this larger gorilla exhibit. inside that exhibit, an unlatched door left open by a trainer. zoo visitors were locked down in a special area while crews used water hoses to herd the gorillas back toward their cage. >> started going up this ladder and like jumping out. then they kicked the ladder down. then one of them came in. she was, like, sprinting through, just screaming. everyone get out, a gorilla is loose. >> gretchen: well, luckily no one was hurt.

>> steve: they've all got a story to tell. the lin fluenza outbreak spreading across the country, from new york. did you watch this yesterday? a lot of you did. the knicks, having his best game night against the dallas mavs. jeremy lin doing it all. stealing, dunking, hitting three pointers. is he giving god some of the credit? check out his wrist. that wristband is from an apparel company called act of faith. they were started by former player lannie smith. he is a member of joel osteen's lakewood church down in texas. look at that. >> eric: i had to race a few presidents. these guys race every fourth inning at the washington nationals game, every single home game. the way i understand it, teddy right here hasn't won one yet.

so i'm going to race these guys. we're going to go from this end of the plaza to the other and i don't know, i'm thinking -- hey, what do you think? you think i got a shot here? no? george? no? all right. here we go. you guys ready? on the count, three, two, one, let's go! come on! ♪ >> president down! president down! can i help you up? can i help you up? mr. jefferson, let me help you up, sir. oh, my gosh. what can we do? gretch, steve, i don't know. >> gretchen: couldn't you let the presidents win on

presidents' day? >> steve: he did. >> gretchen: is he really hurt? >> eric: is he okay? >> steve: you know what they do at the nationals game -- >> eric: let's do it again. >> gretchen: all right. >> steve: eric, it's impossible for you to lose. those guys have 300-pound heads! >> eric: let's do this again. be careful! jefferson -- oh, my gosh! come on, come on. let's go. no cheating this time, guys. all right? presidents don't cheat. ready? three, two, one, go! ♪ >> steve: oh, boy. once again, eric, one of the guys with the 300-pound heads beats you. eric, is that what they did at the nationals game, they start

at dashing presidents, but wind up taking each other out? >> eric: i don't know. does someone always fall? only for u steve. >> steve: good job, eric. >> eric: thank you. >> gretchen: very fun. >> steve: the guy down. >> gretchen: he looked relatively hurt. >> steve: president down. "fox & friends," president down. >> gretchen: i loved eric's line that usually presidents tonight cheat. usually. is the president's budget for real or is it just a cleverly designed campaign ad? see what we found so you can decide. >> steve: plus, "fox & friends" is getting wild this hour. said hello to him. america's animal expert, jack hannah, some of his favoriten airmail friends are here. >> steve: it looks like a cantaloupe. i bet it's an armadillo. >> gretchen: coconut? okay hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices?

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like beggin' time. and check out beggin' thick cut. i'm gonna need a bigger mouth! >> steve: welcome back. quick presidents' day headlines for you. the 99% becomes aa moose for the boss. bruce springstein says his new album was motivated by the occupy movement. he's a 1% himself. they say every dog has his day. this wasn't it for one unfortunate pooch. that poor poodle got stranded in a frozen lake in denver, colorado. firefighters rescued the pooch. he's now recovering quietly in a shelter. probably looking for a home. gretch? >> eric: even president obama says his $3.8 trillion budget is a step in the right direction. but our next guest says the president's budget is nothing more than a campaign strategy.

>> gretchen: here to explain is fox news contributor michael goodwin. good to see you. you take it a step more. you say that the budget that the president proposed using your words, is a fraud, a scam, a wooden nickel, pure and unadulted flimflam, how do you really feel? >> i could have found a few more words, but i think that would make the point. this is not really a budget in the sense that the president's proposed a spending plan he hopes congress will adopt. it's none of that. he knows congress is not going to vote on it. harry reid, senate majority leader, the president's own party, said i'm not even going to bring it up for a vote. the last time he brought one up, it got zero votes in the senate. this is a place where the democrats have a majority, all you need for a budget vote is a majority. you don't need 60 votes. harry reid has 53 democrats. he won't even bring it up. that should tell you how misshapen this thing is, how it's not really a budget at all. it's just something for the president to go out and wage class warfare on to say, i want

to raise taxes on everybody. i want to spend more. no talk of reducing the deficit. no worry about the debt. in fact, it would increase both of them. so it's not really a budget. what it is is it sets up the argument for the election even though should the president win reelection, this budget still wouldn't become law because the numbers are phony. >> eric: the president also said what he plans to do this year legislatively is simply pass the payroll tax cut, which means everything else is out the window. is that what this budget represents, everything else going out the window? >> sure. yeah. there is no plan to govern. this is simply let's campaign all year. john boehner said, i wish he had governed a little longer so we could campaign. i must say, it doesn't make any sense from my perspective for the president. why not get some things done, then go out in the country and run on your record of having achieved things? instead to just run on this false argument -- >> gretchen: i think so many people get frustrated because they see presidents starting

their reelection campaigns about one year into actually holding office instead of getting stuff done. the irony here is that one of the president's claims for reelection is that he's running against a do nothing congress. you make very clear in your article that actually the do nothing congress, in your mind, is his own party! >> sure. look, the house republicans have passed a budget. look, it's not something that the democrats will support, a lot of it. but then the argument is, okay. democrats, pass your budget in the senate, which you control, and you'll have a joint conference that will work out the details and the president presumably would sign whatever congress agreed on. but the democrats don't intend to have a budget. they have not had a budget vote in over 1,000 days in the senate because in the last -- in the 2000 term, 2010 era, it was because all those votes will kill us in the election. here we go again in 2012, the same thing. they don't want to vote for the president's plan because it's unpopular. >> eric: it may bode well for the president in 2012, but not

for democrats running to be reelected in 2012. right? >> sure. that's why they don't want to vote for it. they don't want to vote for the tax increases that he wants. they don't want to vote to gut the military that he wants to do. they don't want to vote to increase the deficit, which he wants to do. so all of those are killer votes for democrats to take in the senate and they know even if they voted for them, it would never become law because the numbers -- for example, he predicts economic growth of something like 4%. no one believes that's going to happen. so therefore, you take those moneys out, the budget is not even close to balanced. >> gretchen: we had you had remind everyone that michael voted for president obama in 2008. >> my punishment. >> gretchen: he's come full circle to the words that you now describe the president. good to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: check it out, here is jack hannah. what does he have? >> eric: oh, boy. whatever it is, it's adorable. wild animals. he's going to be with us coming up next. >> gretchen: that's not the paneller, is it? that's an otter?

a rat?

>> i'm bill hemmer. the price of gasoline crush any chance of recovery? stewart varney on that. tax maggedden. you know how much taxes could go up later this year? this could be historic unless washington acts. what did high ranking u.s. officials tell israel about attacking iran? general keane will handle that. and santorum and romney, the story changes by the day. we'll see new eight minutes on "america's newsroom".

>> steve: ladies, "fox & friends" has gone wild. >> gretchen: we're joined by host of jack hannah's wild count down, jack hannah, you brought special friends as he usually does. good to see you again. >> good to be back. >> gretchen: who is this? >> a kangaroo. >> steve: why is he licking eric? >> he was trying to breast-feed over here. >> gretchen: that's why eric is holding him now, because i was the mama in the house. >> it has three babies at one time. one leaving the pouch at six months. then breed the same day. >> eric: this guy will get big? >> the mother pushed out of the pouch. she does that sometimes. they get five feet tall. you call a group of them a mob. they go 30 miles an hour, hop about 30 miles an hour, hop 25 feet at a time. >> steve: the baby is a joey? >> a joey.

exactly. it's marsupial. raised in the pouch. not the mommy's tummy. it attaches to the breast and stays up to six months. >> gretchen: next on the list, the otter? it doesn't have a name. does this otter have a name? >> steve: let's call it opie. >> what you're seeing here is almost extinct in the wild. this is the arian river otter, a baby. the aquarium association, these are on the ssp. they're very, very rare. they're eating shrimp. they hunt these for their pelts. we got through filming the giant river otter in south america. you'll see shortly. they love to play. they also have a scent that when they get bigger, it's almost like a weasel. >> steve: i have seen otter in the wild. >> these are asian river otters from asia. the otters in this country do pretty well in florida and other states. >> gretchen: what is seeking?

>> steve: he wants more shrimp. >> this is from the phoenix zoo. they breed them. >> gretchen: some animal has a coconut. who is that? >> this animal. >> steve: looks like a bowling ball. >> this is a three banded armadillo. the only animal in the world that carried leprosy, when it was prevalent. that's true fact. but i don't think this has leprosy. >> steve: his behind legs are shaking. >> he's fine. >> steve: he's got to be overwhelmed. >> no, no. he does all kinds of shows. he's never overwhelmed. >> gretchen: why is he shaking? >> watch this. i'll put the batteries in it. let's see what happens. there we go. >> steve: look at that! adorable. are you going to rwanda? >> i leave in a few weeks. we have an orphanage and school there. we do a lot for the people, as well as i have a little house

near the mountain of gorillas. we'll be filming. he can smell a worm one foot under ground. have you ever heard of a worm? where did he go? he ain't got any teeth. >> gretchen: what is the closest relative of the armadillo? >> gosh, you asked me a tough question. >> steve: bowling ball? >> gretchen: he looks prehistoric. >> exactly. they date back to the dinosaur era. they used to weigh 1,000 pounds. this is from brazil. they're very rare 'cause they eat them like a taco in that part of the world. >> gretchen: more jack hannah in two minutes. plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone --

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