>> keep going. i've almost got it. give me a second. don't yell it out. >> yeah. >> starts with -- >> delaware? >> going to join you all at 8:00. >> that's right. >> did you bring your running shoes or just heels? >> they are packed. >> work harder tomorrow. >> make it a great day. bye. >> all right. we all feel smart this morning, right? >> just you. you got it. >> steve did, too. >> how does that make me feel? >> you'll do well at the race. good morning, everyone. it's march 6, it's super tuesday! all right! 10 states, 419 delegates, four g.o.p. candidates. there's a lot at stake for the race for the g.o.p. nomination. we're breaking it down including surprising comments from a former first lady who speaks like it is. >> and we've got a fox news alert this morning. iran just making the first move in a tense stand-off as america

tries to avoid getting dragged into another war. the very latest details coming up. >> taxpayers spent millions on the chevy volt before it just stopped production. why is it being named car of the year? "fox & friends" starts right now. plug it in! >> at some point, one of our producers didn't say on super tuesday you should wear superman and superwoman outfits. >> that's an e-mail that i would pretend not to get. i don't need to be seen in tights. >> we did a show. >> wonder woman, that's what i would have to end up in. >> this watch could block a bullet. >> i just figured out within the last minute if we're invited to be on "wheel of fortune" we might need an alternate.

>> you need another guy. >> good news for you. >> real bowling out here with peter johnson. >> the good news we're not going to be invited on "wheel of fortune." >> pat used to like us. he did a show here for a while. the word is delegates. >> it is. >> let's break down super tuesday. it used to be a lot more superer. it was 24 states and now we're looking at 10 states. they're going to be significant, none bigger than ohio and tennessee. it will be a nail biter for santorum and mitt romney in both those areas. >> let's break it down. georgia, here we start with an open primary, 76 delegates and it's really complicated now because some of these states used to be more winner take all and now they're proportional and the whole thought process was to make the race go on and on. people are hooking and saying that's want not a great idea. >> after georgia, it's an open

primary. anybody from any party can vote. ohio, 63 delegates up for grabs. it, too, is an open primary. the spin today is if romney is able to win ohio, then he will have won the two biggest swing states in america. >> then, of course, you have tennessee which we just discussed. i think altering candidates spent some time there thinking they had a legitimate shot. it's really down to the top two, santorum and newt gingrich. excuse me and mitt romney. 55 delegates up for grabs and if it's -- it is the winner takes all. >> it's complicated. >> this is what i'm saying. it's really complicated. let's go to virginia. i think this is the most important state that's not being talked about enough. why? because only romney and paul are on ballot. why is that significant? because both santorum and gingrich have lived in virginia. they could have claimed this one of the home states that mitt romney has been saying with other states that he has been born in or lived in so this is really important. 46 delegates up for grabs. they're not in this race in virginia. and as we all know right now,

every delegate counts. >> where is the adopted hometown of rick santorum? he decided it was oklahoma, steve. >> he did. in fact -- and it's a closed primary. they got 40 delegates that are allocated proportionally, santorum is leading substantially in the polls. >> that's a big republican state so by saying it's closed, it's really open to everybody. >> massachusetts, that's probably a foregone conclusion for mitt romney. still 38 delegates. idaho, similar situation. pretty big mormon population, there are 32 delegates. north dakota, alaska and vermont round out the top three. i feel bad for people living in north dakota today. no poll results really when you look at some of the other articles this morning. they say there's no poll results for north dakota, no recent poll numbers. no recent poll numbers for idaho. >> couple of those final states that you zoom through, massachusetts, semiclosed. idaho is semiclosed and so is north dakota. semiclosed means that if you are registered but not in any

particular party, like an independent, you can vote in whichever of the two primaries you prefer. the republican or the democrat. >> so the candidates, two of them at least, rick santorum and newt gingrich are going at it. this is sort of their final call, some say. let's listen. >> listen to the polls, don't listen to all the media hype and all the things about what this race is about. just focus in on whether we want a man who can stand up and paint a very different vision for this country. >> one of my competitors, governor romney yesterday said i was pandering. he said nobody can get -- nobody knows you would be at $2.50. of course nobody knows you'd be at $2.50. there's a thing about setting goals. it's not called pandering but leadership. >> his gas price pledge, just want to clarify, he said he would have a solution to getting

gas prices back down to $2.50. >> there you've got newt and rick and they're taking shots at mitt romney. mitt romney instead chose to take shots at president obama. meanwhile, down at the campus of smu yesterday, barbara bush and laura bush and former president george w. bush were part of a chat of life in the white house and it's interesting, barbara bush who is married to george herbert walker bush said this is the worst campaign that i have ever seen in my life. she said i hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word. >> i totally agree with her, by the way. here she is on the phone. she was on "the five" yesterday. >> i'm worried about this campaign because it's too ugly. i really don't like it. and i think it's too bad and i'm very much for mitt romney as i guess is my husband. i'm endorsing him for george. but there i go again. >> she's always been known as a straight talker, someone who

says what she thinks and a lot of people feel that way. they agree with barbara bush about this, the ugly tone and it goes back to these super pacs in my mind and the negative advertising. is that a good idea when you just eviscerate each other. people argue when you get to the major race against president obama, he would do the same thing. maybe, but at what expense to the candidates currently? >> it's like a polio vaccine, which you're doing is getting all out in the open, throwing it out there so when the democrats decide to come back at, let's say it's mitt romney, they'll say the bain capital argument? we went through that? the olympics, he asked for -- he asked for earmarks, we went over that. >> the negatives have gone up so dramatically in the meantime. >> right now, the negatives currently, romneys are up 38% have negative feelings for him to 22% positive for him and that's certainly gone down since these guys have fought. in fact, barack obama has said, i might just run some portions of these debates in my ads.

>> did you just mention barack obama? you know what he's doing on super tuesday? he's not voting for a republican. i can tell you that. but he is going to hold his very first news conference of 2012. he hasn't had one since october or november and get this, even though in the past, he has tried to do big things on days the republicans are having big days, his aides say this is a complete coincidence that the president would be having a major primetime -- major press conference on the same day as super tuesday. >> yeah, right. spokesperson for the president, jay carney, why don't people just tell the truth? president obama will hold a news conference tomorrow afternoon. there you have it. it was short and sweet. everybody knows why the president is having a press conference today to steal the thunder and media attention from the republicans. >> he gave the democrats bad news. you know the $800 million he's likely to raise, they will get none of it to help win back the house and retain the senate. that's got to tick off democratic leadership. >> absolutely. in other words, here they have

been good soldiers, done what he has asked of them and now when they need some money, right there, you're on your own. sorry, folks. >> let's get to the rest of your headlines now, let's start with a fox news alert. moments ago, iran caving to international pressure agreeing to allow u.n. inspectors into one of its top nuclear facilities according to a statement released by the country's permanent envoy to the international atomic energy agency. iran granting one time access to its military base where it's believed to be conducting explosives tests in an attempt to develop that atomic bomb. last month, iran refused to allow inspectors into that base. maybe it's because of the next guy we're going to talk about. netanyahu and israel. yep, iran's announcement comes hours after tough talks from israel's prime minister. netanyahu late last night, benjamin netanyahu telling thousands of jewish americans his nation has a right to defend itself against iran's nuclear threat. >> we've waited for diplomacy to work.

we've waited for sanctions to work. none of us can afford to wait much longer. as prime minister of israel, i will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation. >> netanyahu's speech in washington, d.c. is drastically different from president obama's appeal. he urged israel to give diplomacy with iran a chance to work. the teenager accused of murdering three students at a high school in ohio is due in court today. t.j. lane facing murder and attempted murder charges for the shooting at chardon high school. prosecutors asking the judge to deny the media access to any records of abuse or neglect of lane or the victims. they argue their past experiences aren't relevant to the case and the media frenzy could poison potential jurors. another chevy volt shocker. well, just hours after g.m. announced it's temporarily halting production of the volt because sales are fizzling in the united states, the plug-in

hybrid and its european cousins were just name the 2012 european car of the year. a panel of journalists in switzerland choosing the volt over 35 other cars despite its lower than expected electric range rating from the e.p.a. and engine crash test. those are the headlines this morning. >> congratulations, volt. >> 11 minutes after the hour. more delegates up for grabs today than any other day of the year. does that make it -- does this make it a make or break for the republican candidates? or can they survive a super tuesday flop? that's next. >> and disaster caught on camera. a monster avalanche taking out everything in its path. and the rush to save whatever or whoever is buried underneath. stay with us. ♪ [ sighs ] hey! come on! what? i've been skimming mac and cheese for 75 years. 75?

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could super tuesday be make or break for this republican presidential candidate slate four years ago and then presidential candidate john mccain gained frontrunner status on super tuesday by winning less than half of the states which were up for grabs. republican strategist rich gaelin joins us live from washington. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> let's talk a little bit about 2008 in a moment but first, let's talk about today. you've already voted, you're a resident of the commonwealth of virginia and you found it to be an unusual situation. >> very strange. very bizarre. we walk into the polling place, i voted early on the theory that i would be doing this all over town today in the district. and there were only two things on the ballot. paul, romney. no constitutional amendments, no issues. no write-ins. no county commissioners. just two things. and i walked up after finishing voting on the machine said this is like voted in the ukraine.

two things to vote for. >> like putin, not putin. >> like putin, turn yourself in. >> ok. let's talk a little bit about 2008. you know, everybody said mccain is -- if he's going to be the front runner, he'll have to one most of the states. there were 21 primaries, i believe, he only won nine but the key was the delegates. >> yeah, he got about 62% of the delegates that night even though he won less than half the states. he won nine, romney won seven and huckabee won five. it's hard to remember back that that was still kind of going on and it's interesting. this is before twitter was what it was today. facebook was really the province of college students on the obama campaign so we didn't have this instantaneous rush of reporters reacting to things. if that had been the case, i think that mccain would have had a tougher time because reporters might have well declared him the loser that he didn't get more

than half the states. >> sure. and i know that so many people are concentrating on ohio and right now it's a coin toss on ohio. romney has been surging there and santorum had a big lead a couple of weeks ago. what will be the metric tomorrow morning to figure out who the big winner was? >> i think the delegate count will probably be it. i'm not sure we'll know them all but we'll soon see. i mean, the only thing that newt has available to him is the fact that georgia is the biggest single state of delegates and he'll win that pretty easily. he's given up apparently on everything else. he's not going anywhere. but i think for romney, if he wins with any distance between him and santorum in ohio and if he wins tennessee which is a little higher hill for him but doable, then i think this will be seen as a good night for romney. if he loses ohio, and loses tennessee, then i think we're back in the soup as far as coming up with the nominee.

>> and what about rick santorum then? we understand that he has declared oklahoma to be his home state for super tuesday. how can he look tomorrow morning at whatever happens and say look, we're still in this to win it? >> he's got a legitimate claim on the fact that, you know, two months ago he was sitting on a percentage point and he was beyond ron paul and just through sheer, you know, stick to itness, he's made himself the not romney candidate so he's got a claim being a legitimate candidate and as long as the money keeps going. if he runs out of money and has a bad night tonight and i'm not suggesting that he will. and the money dries up, then this will be the beginning of the end but i suspect when we wake up tomorrow morning, that this will have been seen as a pretty decent day for romney and will add the distance between romney's delegate total and everybody else's. >> interesting. all right, rich has a great web

site called mullings.com and a great column up right now about super tuesday. check it out. thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. have a good day. >> you as well. have a super tuesday. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. is the united states ready for another war in the middle east? israel's prime minister claims the writing is on the wall but our next guest says judging by the past, liberal americans won't listen. then two big automakers making some changes to their pickup truck lines and get better gas mileage but at what cost? we'll talk about that as we roll on live from new york city. i'm freaking out man, he's on my back about providing for his little girl. hey don't worry,

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>> all right. quick headlines now. the navy about to begin giving breathalyzer tests to sailors before they report to duty aboard ships. new program targets sailors who are standing watch and overseeing important parts of the ship like its nuclear reactors. other sailors will be tested at random. and is president obama blowing off his hometown? the president just revealed he's bailing out on chicago as host of the g-8 summit. he's now going with camp david. it's an odd move so he never hosted a world leader there. it's said to have a more intimate setting for the may meetings. gretch? >> bit of a history lesson now. 66 years ago, winston churchill delivered his pivotal iron curtain speech warning america

and president truman about the threat of the soviet union's iron curtain. >> the iron curtain has descended across the continent, all the cities and the population around them lie in the soviet step and all our countries in one or another not only to soviet influence but a very high and in some cases increasing -- >> why the history lesson? fast forward to today when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu once again warning president obama about iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. the story and the author of "our supreme task, how winston churchill's iron curtain speech defined the cold war alliance," phillip white is my guest. good morning. >> good morning. >> you see it's analogous, the situation with stalin and churchill and warning about communism is analogous to what's going on today, how?

>> yes, i do. both countries are sharing a nuclear weapon and both are really censoring the media in their own countries and in iran's case, trying to lock down twitter, facebook and the internet. so really, they've put a digital iron curtain in place. much as russia did back in the day. >> and one of the interesting notes that we should make is back then, truman, a liberal. churchill a conservative. but they came together on their approach, correct? >> yes, that's correct. and i think just now as then, it's really a moment of opportunity for an issue that affects all of us and churchill called in his speech the situation at the time anxious and baffling times. and i think as well today and to meet those challenges that obama and the republicans have a chance to come together for something that's more important than party and politics and to cross the lines to really face a global danger. >> because both netanyahu and obama probably don't want to be the leaders that under their

leadership, iran gets a nuclear bomb. >> indeed. >> let's listen to netanyahu, he spoke before the jewish apac last night. >> some people refuse to acknowledge that iran's goal is to develop nuclear weapons. if it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, then what is it? what is it? that's right. it's a duck! but this duck is a nuclear duck. and it's time the world started calling a duck a duck. > >> which got a lot of cheers there. i want to get your opinion on this breaking news this morning that iran is apparently going to allow a united nations inspector into one of those uranium enrichment plants. is that because of the strong words of netanyahu yesterday?

>> i believe it is. netanyahu meeting with the most powerful individual in president obama, i think the international pressure there just really forced iran to make this move but i hope it's a genuine move and, according to that breaking news, this is a one time inspection and so i hope that iran follows through on that and it's a sign of things to come. >> yeah, because right now, you have israel chomping at the bit, apparently, to try to take out these nuclear plants and you have president obama saying diplomacy should work. where do you fall? >> much like in my book with winston churchill, he advocated active diplomacy at the highest level until there are no other options left other than force. so i think, again, both sides coming together with active top level summit diplomacy but backed by strength, much as with churchill and also obviously with people like j.f.k. during the cuban missile crisis. >> very interesting, bringing it all together from 66 years ago, phillip white, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> coming up on "fox & friends",

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>> that would show why some of them look like this. can you get a shot of this one? i'm not sure what language that is. anyway, they come with blueberry and raspberry filling instead of the white stuff? >> by the way, 50% of all oreo eaters pull apart their cookies before eating them which means roughly 50% don't. >> had a campaign, do you really know how to eat an oreo? >> you unscrew it very fast. >> there you go. you know what i love about this? they haven't tried to improve it. >> it's perfect. >> they peaked in 1912. >> in other words, you wouldn't like this kind? >> uh-uh. and how many years after this -- i guess they have tried to improve it. they added a derivative. but you know what i like about this? is that -- >> number one. >> people can opt to dunk it. >> you can. >> and it retains its integrity unless you hold it in too long. >> the slogan right now is milk's best friend.

delicious. >> by the way -- >> i never knew they had blueberry ones in the united states, did you know that? >> we didn't know how many there were. there's a nabisco plant by my house and stuart varney drives by it on the way home and some days you can actually smell them making -- you can tell the difference between the vanilla wafers and the oreos. >> you can smell a lot of things in new jersey. no offense, i know when i'm in new jersey without checking my gps. >> you know my oreos. >> brian, you're fired. >> listen, i'm being honest. >> stuart is coming up in a moment. first, big stories making headlines this morning. there's word that former president bill clinton will be teaming up with president obama for a series of fundraisers. shocking. no dates are set yet but they'll reportedly appear together at upcoming events in new york, chicago and los angeles. big apple fundraiser aimed at getting big money donations from the wall street crowd. you know those fat cats down there. >> take a look at this amazing video. yeah, that's a tour bus. that was full of people leaving the hoover dam.

it goes up in flames. bus driver tried to put the fire out but the flames were moving too fast. luckily, the driver, tour guide and 59 passengers not hurt. the cause of that fire is under investigation. >> g.m. and chrysler are revamping their pickup truck giving the drivers the option of natural gas by the end of this year. you'll be able to buy a chevy silverado or g.m.c. sierra that runs on regular gasoline and natural gas. today, chrysler is expected to announce a buy fuel ram truck that can run 250 miles on natural gas before automatically switching over to an eight gallon gas tank. where were they hiding this technology? >> that's fantastic. a utah snowmobiler is lucky to be alive after getting caught in an avalanche buried under 10 feet of snow. >> auto where is he at? >> oh, my goodness. they watched the whole thing go down literally armed with

shovels and a whole lot of determination, they started digging for their friend. >> in all reality, i know what's going on in my head. i'm going i'm going to pull out my life long best friend and he's not going to be alive. >> black was buried under the snow for about 20 minutes and amazing he only suffered a banged up knee and credits his quick thinking friends for actually saving his life. >> wow, what a story. let's go to some sports stories now with brian. >> gretch, we have another one. eli manning becoming one of the first players to speak out on the saints bounty pool. he says there's no doubt the team crossed the line meaning the saints. the quarterback who has had his fair share of heavy hits says a bounty pool isn't what football is about and shows no -- and shows disrespect for the game. reports say saints owner tom benson is still standing behind the head coach and the g.m. mickey loomis on the right even though the nfl said they knew about the pool and they would pay as much as $10,000 if you took a player out on a stretcher

or knocked him out. former defensive coordinator greg williams admits running it. he met with the league yesterday. can you believe not good? the league likely asked about the reporters of similar bounty pools when he was with the redskins and when he was with the bills. hey, did the mets know what bernie madoff was up to and looked the other way? a judge says maybe so and will let it go to trial. the judge ruling that the owners, fred wilpon and sal katz have to pay up to $180 million to a trust fee in the case. it's not that bad. it could cost them another $300 million, though and control of the team. the mets are in a financial hole losing stars like beltran and raez to cut payroll. they're also seeking investors for the team. we have more money than the wilpons right now. they have to sell that team and they're selfishly destroying the franchise. who would buy season tickets to

the mets game when they're not trying to win. >> commentary by brian kilmeade. >> coming up later, football, good story, super bowl champs mario manningham of the new york giants will be here on the couch. >> and the fastest man in the world, karl lewis will be here, too. >> i don't know if he still is. it's time for stuart and here's the topic today, americans are still feeling the pain at the pump. the price for a gallon of gas is, as you can see, $3.76. >> and now 70 democratic members of congress are calling for federal regulators to curb oil speculation but is this really the way to ease the fuel prices? >> stuart varney, you have something to say snoo auto i do have something to say. i am the bearer of good news! >> all right! >> thank you very much indeed. the streak of constant increases in gas prices came to an end overnight. and gas prices this morning are down just a fraction of $0.01 but down and the streak has halted. i'll tell you why, because we have in fact got supply and demand. we've got that equation back into more of a balance. instead of going off against the

speculators, what really has begun to fix the problem is supply and demand coming back into some kind of balance. europe is in recession. china is slowing down. it doesn't look like there's going to be an attack tomorrow morning on iran so supply and demand, back in balance. the streak in gas prices has come to at least a temporary halt. >> but i'll go back to what i've been saying for months which is why does anyone think $3.75 a gallon is the new normal? why should we be satisfied with that? >> i'm talking about how to get the gas price surge under control. congressmen, 70 of them, they want to interfere with the market. they want to clamp down on speculators. they think that's the way to get gas prices under control. i'm saying the real way to do it is get the supply and demand equation back into some kind of balance. that is happening right now. >> so you believe that if president obama came forward with a drastic plan for oil production, just that statement and a belief that he's going to

back up that statement would be enough. >> yes, a declaration -- he's got a news conference today, 1:15 eastern time, ok? if he came out with a strong declaration, we're going to maximize domestic production and we're going to free up refinery capacity, maybe changing some of the e.p.a. rules, if you came out with a strong statement that we're going to increase domestic supply, i think it would have a longer term impact. >> i'll give you both of these if that happens. >> no bets. no bets. i won't take that bet. >> did you read in "the wall street journal", i believe, on saturday, they had a breakdown on how much every gallon of gas, you know, who gets various parts of the money. and something like $0.56 per gallon goes to speculators. so you can understand why 70 lawmakers are pushing for speculation. but you don't like the idea of pampering to the markets. >> don't mess around with the markets. >> even though according to "the wall street journal", apparently there was a provision in dodd frank to try to deal with it. >> look, who are these

speculators? we're making them out to be this wicked bunch of people that's manipulating prices. look, the price may start to fall now. it will be speculator who's push the price down. >> it's the free market. >> the market works. if you interfere with that marketplace, you're rigging the market. you're rigging the price. and you won't get an accurate price reflection. >> gordon gecko did that and ended up in jail, right? >> that was in the first one. second one, he's doing ok. >> turns out. >> he's got a grandkid. it's good. >> you have it on dvd? >> i do. i actually got it here on this computer during the commercial. >> wasn't that much worth it. >> i just got ambushed by you, i'm getting the impression. >> we'll all watch at 9:20 fox business network. >> i'm watching "wall street 2" sorry. >> good. >> straight ahead, more americans than ever now depending on food stamps to get by. once we're there, can we really go back? we're going to report and you're going to decide. >> nine states working on a plan

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that's good news. talk about back tracking. the tsa had apologized for an agent who would not let this woman on to a flight until proving that her breast pump was real. now, the agency chief says the problem is with passengers and they need to check the tsa web site before flying and figuring out what they can travel with. >> is that last story true? >> that last story was true. shocking but true. >> how ridiculous. what are you going to do during this segment? >> not much. i think i'm going to go into the green room now and have some coffee. >> good. we got a great guest. new evidence that americans are becoming more dependent on government according to new numbers released by the department of agriculture. >> 46.5 million americans, more than 1 in 7 now are on food stamps so how did we get to this point? joining us now, fox news contributor and author of the brand new book today "backlash, how obama and the left are driving americans to the government plantations."

wow. that is -- that is an eye catching lead in on the front cover of your book. what do you mean by that? >> it's true. we have more and more people who are depending on government for their everyday basic needs. food, housing, energy, as you mentioned, over 46 million americans are on food stamps. president obama's policies are not creating jobs. they're not growing the economy. they're driving more people to the government plantation and today's government is yesterday's plantation. too many people are relying on the government. >> you know, what the president would say and axelrod & company that defend the president would say listen, i inherited a mess. i'm trying to help those people. >> what you don't do is push policies that make it worse for people. if you look at the deplorable energy policy, obama has a war on fossil fuels. coal, oil and natural gas is the most frequent thing we have, reliable, dependable. you drive up the cost of fossil fuels, you're harming those he claims he wants to help the most. the poor, those on the fixed income.

when you think about it, obama doesn't like coal, he's pushing his renewable energy efforts. it's not working. it can't stand on its own and he's harming our economy and harming our hard working americans. >> you also point out in blacklash that you believe the failed stimulus has played a lot into this, in what way? >> absolutely. he wasted our tax dollars. that money could have been used for sgels. he keeps putting more money into the green energy industry and all the companies that have gone bankrupt. and it has not created the jobs that we need in our country and that is resulting to people relying more and more on government. >> you know, we know everything about obama care and so unpopular it is that the president is not even talking about it so that's an indication that i not wo-- it's not workin. i want to bring you to another startling statistic. 1 in 7 americans are now on food camp -- stamps. they're saying he's helping those people who need a good meal.

>> we don't need government butting into our lives. first of all, government can barely deliver the mail. have you been to a motor vehicles lately? i mean, you know, government is not the answer. it's the individual and what we need are policies that are going to grow the economy. cut taxes, reduce regulations, that's what we need coming from our president. >> the book is called "blacklash how obama and the left are driving americans to the government plantation." as i said, it's very eye catching and probably worth a read. thanks so much for the book. >> thank you. >> coming up straight ahead, nine states launching a fight for their freedom against the president's latest regulations. will that work or will the feds get their final say? that's next. >> and are you sick of movie theaters marking up the price of snacks? >> yes,>> prices got one guy so angry, he's suing now. but will that really make a difference? send us your e-mails. here's my question, should you be allowed to bring in our own food to the movie theater? >> in my place i can. i have raisinettes on a layaway

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>> nine attorneys general are banding together to fight what they say are violations of states' rights by this obama administration. >> but will they be successful? >> we are joined now by fox news senior judicial analyst and the author of "the constitution in exile" so he'd know about this kind of stuff, judge andrew napolitano. >> look at that youngster. >> in high school, i think. >> good morning, guys. >> in the history of the united states, when was the last time -- there's your book right there. when was the last time a bunch of attorneys generals banded

together to speak out against the president in this fashion? >> i don't know of one. at least not in modern times. we have seen for the past 100 years since the president was theodore roosevelt or woodrow wilson a continuing growth of the federal government and a continuing shrinkage of the power of the states in things like everyday government from speeds on the highways to the regulation of alcohol and regulation of schools. congress has gotten away with this by dangling money into the states. take this money but do this. even though the this we don't have the power to regulate. >> but do it. >> right. the government offer, the federal government offered in the reagan administration to pave the highways in the states as long as the states lowered their speedlimits to 55 miles an hour. every state but south dakota said yes. south dakota sued, we want the money but don't want the strings. the supreme court said you take the money and you take the strings. that's how congress gets away with regulating things in the

states and take power away from the states by giving them the cash. >> this administration has quite a list. this is why the attorneys general have bounded together. here's an example. number one, obama care. they think that's some place, the mandate within obamacare. that's something that's got to be addressed. >> here's their legitimate in my view beef about obama care. it forces the states to raise money and tells the states how to spend it. this is one of the challenges of obamacare that will be argued before the supreme court later on this month. can the congress tell the states what to do with their own tax dollars? >> plus, we had on the screen for a moment the contraceptive mandate that has the new cardinal of new york absolutely furious at this administration. >> well, this is a profound violation of first amendment rights and is an area of human behavior where the government should have no say whatsoever. >> is it really a war on women? that's what the left says. war on women. >> that's what the left says because the left wants the government to provide free health care for everybody.

and the left doesn't care about the religious liberties of those of us who don't think the government should be providing. >> in oklahoma, you're looking at the e.p.a. illegally taking over oklahoma's authority in the clean air act. e.p.a. is everywhere over the last 3 1/2 years. >> the e.p.a. is everywhere. the e.p.a. has a particularly horrendous example, brian, because the congress defeated some regulations that the e.p.a. enacted so you have the people's elected representative saying no and you have a bunch of bureaucrats appointed by the president saying yes and they have the force of law behind them. that is not the way the constitution is supposed to work. >> you know, he knows so much about the constitution, it's a good thing he's written some books. >> mr. borgnine. >> let's not talk about borgnine. >> i know. >> air wolf. >> there you go. >> pleasure. >> thank you. >> well, it's super tuesday and more delegates are up today for grabs than any other day of the year. we'll break down the numbers and tell you where each candidate stands at the top of the hour.

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>> top of the morning to you. it's march 6th and it's super tuesday. good morning, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time today. get ready for the biggest day yet in the republican nomination. 10 states up for grabs and a whole lot riding on the line as voters go to the polls all across the country. we are live on the ground in several states straight ahead. >> and look out! check out this video of an ohio intersection. >> whoa! whoa! >> looks like a derby. we'll tell you why these cars are out of control! >> i want to hear that. first gas prices and now the

price of popcorn. that's right. one man is doing what he thinks it will take to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake on their trip to the concession stand. you've got to hear what he is doing -- oh, i love that stuff that's not really butter but tastes like it. "fox & friends" hour two for a tuesday, super tuesday starts right now. >> hard to believe we're already here but it is super tuesday, march 6th, the big day has arrived. 10 states are holding their voting contests. mike emanuel joins us live from nashville, tennessee. i told you we'd be all over the place. good morning, mike. >> good morning, gretchen, the candidates are -- have made their final arguments to voters across these 10 different states. let's take a look at where they're going to be today.

mitt romney will spend much of his day in his home state of massachusetts which is on the -- up for grabs today. rick santorum is spending much of his day in washington, d.c. he will be in ohio tonight for results. newt gingrich will be in georgia and also alabama which votes one week from today and ron paul will be in the state of idaho. when we talk about super tuesday, let's look at the states that are up for grabs. alaska, idaho, ohio, vermont, georgia, massachusetts, tennessee, north dakota, virginia and oklahoma, the top three in terms of critical delegates are georgia, ohio, and here in tennessee. gretchen? >> all right. mike emanuel, thank you very much for breaking that down for us. we'll check back with you throughout the show. >> one of the interesting things is three of the four candidates stand to win at least one state tonight. plus ron paul, they're a bunch of caucus states and he said all along it's about gathering some delegates. doubtless he will wind up with them as well. >> said yesterday and i guess i

thought we were past the personal attacks. the vitriol in a way. i thought he would be talking about his blue collar roots and less about mitt romney. he had severe things to say, he said essentially he could be the weakest candidate we'd probably put forward on the most important issues of the day and that, i think, is huge. newt gingrich saying that mitt romney does not understand the everyday person and gas prices are a perfect example. others saying he doesn't know how to pump his own gas. so if he -- >> that's fighting words. >> it's hard to imagine they're going to coalesce any time soon. >> all right, all of them have been negative and they're trying to get the votes. i guess that's the argument. here's the final plea from santorum and gingrich. >> don't listen to the polls and don't listen to all the media hype and all the things about what this race is about. just focus in on whether we want a man who can stand up and paint a very different vision for this kun

country. >> one of my competitors, governor romney yesterday said i was pandering. he said nobody can get -- nobody knows you'd be at $2.50. let me say up front, of course nobody knows you'd be at $2.50 but there's this thing called setting goals. it's called -- it's not called pandering. it's called leadership. >> so as newt and rick took shots at mitt, mitt took shots at barack obama. according to, i believe it was "the wall street journal" that i read today, it said that part of the strategy on the part of the romney campaign, it's not all about trying to get the majority of states, they would like to win as many as possible obviously but they're trying to instead just rack up a bunch of delegates. now, they're not counting on winning georgia or tennessee. but they are trying to win delegates around atlanta and knoxville, tennessee as well because it's proportional. >> one of the things that's changed in this campaign is it is proportional. keep in mind, the republicans, i think, argued for this. what that means is the delegates in these states right there on your screen for the most part, the losers still get delegates so that's what keeps this whole

thing going. some people say that's a great thing and some people say that's bad for the eventual nominee because it weakens them in the long run. >> it will be interesting. you have mitt romney here for the first time in the campaign on a sustained role. he's won the last five states. if he can get ohio and tennessee, he'll make a case to saying this is over, are we just playing out the string? if he loses both, if he splits them, candidates can say, listen, newt gingrich say i didn't win those two big states but i won georgia and that's where the most delegates lie. and you can have rick santorum saying i just took on -- i was outspent 8-1 and i took on mitt romney and i still prevailed. >> if you live in the states of vermont or ohio, there's a real good chance that later on today, your phone will ring and on the phone when you pick it up will be barbara bush. >> and she will object a robocall so she can't hear your questions. >> you can go ahead and ask, you're right. she won't hear what you're saying. >> you know, the herbert walker bush is unofficially endorsed

mitt romney back in december. and they've known the romneys for many, many years. yesterday, she was out and about talking about the tenor of this particular campaign. she doesn't like it. >> i'm worried about this campaign because it's too ugly. i really don't like it and i think it's too bad and i'm very much for mitt romney as, i guess, is my husband. i'm endorsing him for george. but there i go again! >> can you do that? can you endorse for somebody else. >> well, presidents typically don't endorse. maybe that's why she's saying that. but here's my question for you today. is this a male-female thing about the ugliness of this campaign? please e-mail or twitter on this topic because i agree with barbara bush about the ugly tenor. i don't like it. but i have a feeling steve and brian are not bothered by it. so i'm wondering is this -- >> i wish it was better. >> you need to do this because when you face barack obama, he's

also so negative. >> now you're talking about the negative ads. >> that's the thing she's talking about, the ugliness in general about the whole way that this campaign has gone. i'm wondering, is it a male-female thing or is it not? >> i'm positive about the negative ads. so i am positive -- >> i'm positive they work. and i also find it interesting but i just think the sustained period of which the negativity has existed might be tough to overcome. for example, bush 41 and ronald reagan. they went at it. it got personal. voodoo economics but ended up coalescing and becoming a ticket and we know that john edwards and al gore became a ticket or john kerry became a ticket, excuse me. >> look at the ads and the percentage. i believe the negative ads this time around from the super pac, 7 e -- 75% are negative. >> the ads were still very, very vicious four years ago and yet, there was still plenty of time for the nominee to heal the party and, of course, we know barack obama. >> this is what i'm talking about, we disagree. let me know what you think about

it. now the rest of the headlines and start with a fox news alert. iran agreeing to allow u.n. nuclear inspectors into one of its top secret military facilities. this is big news this morning and it's according to a statement released by the country's permanent envoy to the international atomic energy agency. iran granting one time access to its military base where it's believed to be conducting explosives tests in an attempt to develop the atomic bomb. last month, iran refused to allow those inspectors into that base. could it be because of this guy? iran's announcement comes hours after tough talks from israel's prime minister. last night, benjamin netanyahu telling thousands of jewish-americans his nation has a right to defend itself against iran's nuclear threat. >> we've waited for diplomacy to work. we've waited for sanctions to work. none of us can afford to wait much longer. >> as prime minister of israel,

i will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation. >> netanyahu's speech in washington, d.c. drastically different from president obama's appeal. he urged israel to give diplomacy a chance to work a little bit longer. >> the teenager accused of murdering three students at a high school in ohio due in court today. 17-year-old t.j. lane facing murder and attempted murder charges for the shooting at chardon high school. prosecutors asking the judge to deny the media access to any records of abuse or neglect of lane or the victim. they argue their past experiences are not relevant to the case. and the media frenzy could poison potential jurors. now, some serious disorder in the court? the family of murder victims jessica rohas could not hold back their emotions when they came face to face with their

accused killer in a massachusetts courtroom. her father and a family friend now charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. and those are your headlines. >> you can't blame him. i mean, just seeing that in front of you and seeing him walk around with that attitude. >> all right. let's talk a little bit about that. how many times have you gone into the movie theater and you're about to see "the artist" or one of these great new movies and you think -->> need popcorn for that. >> i love -- i would love -- >> quiet down, it's a silent movie. >> i'm going to have to have some of that. you think it's so costly. take a look at this right here. this graphic. soda and candy, $8. and then, of course, they say you have an option to get a large which is the size of your gas tank. upgrade for $2. >> one of the problems in america right now $11 for soda and popcorn. what do you think about this? let us know. see, my question is yeah, we know the prices have gone up but should you be allowed to bring in your own stuff? >> we are.

>> i do. i bring it in. i don't know if i'm supposed to or not. >> joshua thompson is suing in michigan, he's a resident there, he's suing the amc movie theater in the hopes of forcing theaters statewide to dial down snack prices. he's doing work for the american people! johnny appleseed, marco polo have nothing on this character. >> here's the thing. theaters make about a quarter of their revenue from the concessions. a little bit of markup there so they love it when people go ahead and buy that stuff and it is intoxicating but look, if you don't like -- >> it is. i love the smell of that popcorn and i love the taste of it. but if you don't like the prices, don't buy it. why sue? >> why sue them? >> well, they get that smell. for my son's birthday party a couple of years ago, maybe it was my daughter's, i brought in my own popcorn. >> to a theater? >> yeah, i brought in little bags for every kid that was going to be there. come organizatin, i wasn't goind $8. a friend of mine we go to the movies and bring in salads and we crunch them.

>> i remember growing up, we would go to the drive-in movie theater and my mom and dad would pop a great big barrel of popcorn. it would be that deep. >> i have a similar story. i go on line with my family and buy snacks. this guy is my hero. i support him. anything i can do, just call me. straight ahead -- >> is this year's election turning to a debate over social issues and do republicans have an advantage or is this exactly what the democrats want? we'll take a look. coming up next. >> look at this, an ohio intersection turns into a demolition derby, what are they skidding on? the story is straight ahead.

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>> i'm reflecting of the views of the church that i believe in. i used to be tolerant of those beliefs. i guess now when you have beliefs that are consistent with the church, somehow or another, you're out of the mainstream and that to me is a pretty sad situation when you can't have personal health beliefs. >> social issues to the forefront like you just heard. in this year's presidential race, especially rick santorum and the g.o.p. candidates even forced to defend their religious beliefs and comment on issues like abortion and contraception. what is the current state of social conservativism in america and how big of an impact will it have in these elections? jeffrey bell is here, former advisor to president reagan and the aut author of this book, polarizing politics, why america needs social conservativism." it's not all about the economy. you think republicans need to go back to social issues. >> particularly if the economy is doing the way it is lately, social issues will be pivotal and come into the race.

>> when did it come into politics? >> i would say in the late 60's. it was in response to the democrats cultural revolution that got under way in the turmoil of the 60's. >> it really took root, you think, in the 80's and 90's. why? >> that's when it really realigned the republican party. evangelicals came over from carter to reagan, there was a huge shift. catholics also trended towards the republicans. >> you are swimming a little bit against the stream -- mainstream now because a lot of people think republicans got themselves in trouble by talking about social issues and deflecting attention from the economy and obamacare and things like that. >> well, it does depend how you phrase it. but ask senator scott brown if he thinks they backfired. he came out against the hhs mandate, his opponent, his democratic opponent elizabeth warren took the other position and he went up in the polls and took a slight lead after the race had been tied. >> so you believe the democratic party really is trying to push forward the sexual revolution

from the 60's in today -- in some way, shape or form. >> it's really been in the left's d.n.a. since the late 18th century when the word of the left was first used. >> when you look currently at the social issues, you think and recommend come forward, what are they? >> abortion, same sex marriage, there's an enormous push in the democratic party, governors, legislators, to impose same sex marriage even on states that don't want it. that could be a big issue in this election. >> how candidates are handling this in terms of social issues. what candidates have really stood out? rick santorum, for example. >> he's stood out but romney is taking a much more socially conservative position than in his background. this field is more noted of being socially conservative than the 2008 field. >> you conclude that the only way president obama can benefit is if republicans don't bring those social issues front and center. >> if they shy away from it and their body language is i don't like talking about this, that's the biggest danger. >> congratulations on the book.

"case for polarized politics" thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, brian. >> coming up straight ahead, school districts in deep trouble going through their budgets line by line to find out teachers are getting plastic surgery for free? what's that about? a teen activist taking the movie industry by storm. she says kids should be allowed to watch this r rated movie. might be able to learn something. do you have anything for a headache...like excedr...

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>> time for news by the numbers. first 16%. that's how many gitmo detainees returned to terror activities after being released. really? this according to a brand new intel report. don't like that. next, thousands. that's how many jobs are going to be cut at yahoo. reports say the major restructuring will involve the p.r., marketing and research departments at yahoo. and finally $700,000. that's the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on medicaid coverage to dead people. a clerical glitch is being blamed. gretch? >> all right. thanks, steve. over 13 million, 13 million american kids will be bullied this year making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in our country. now a new documentary titled "bully" shedding light on the issue. take a look at this. >> punched me, strangled me. >> give it to him hard!

>> on that bus. i've been on that bus. they are just as good as gold. >> well, that film intended to teach youngsters now being rated r by the mpaa because of six swear words. some say that will prevent it from reaching the exact audience that it's intended for and joining me now, who agrees with that? 17-year-old katie butler. she heard about the rating and is working on a petition to have it changed. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you would like this movie to be downgraded to a pg-13. why? >> i definitely think it should be rated pg-13 so the kids who have been intended to see the movie can see it. >> obviously, it's a very hot topic. i just said 13 million american kids, it's such a sad commentary of where we are on in society because it pains me because i'm the mom of a child who has faced it as well. you face it. what was your story? >> yes, when i was in middle school, i came out of a lesbian and there weren't a lot of people in my school who were supporting that. and i was bullied every day.

>> to the point where you were physically harmed. >> yes. i ended up having my hand slammed in my locker and my finger was broken. >> so you've been active in michigan, your home state, as far as the anti-bullying bill there. >> yes. >> and now you want people to sign a petition to do what? >> well, we want the rating to be changed from r to pg-13. we want to show the mpaa that they are over 200,000 people who are systeming this change. >> the mpaa is the organization that puts ratings on movies and they say because there are these six swear words that, therefore, that denotes it as an r. i'm wondering why the movie couldn't have just bleeped those words. so would that have taken care of it? >> i don't think so. i think the language is really important in the movie. i think that's the language that kids hear every day and no one bleeps out that language when you hear it in school. >> good point. good point. i hadn't thought of it in that way. how much effect do you think you can have with having people sign

this petition? >> i think we can have a huge effect. i mean 200,000 people is a lot of pressure on the mpaa to change it. >> so we reached out to the mpaa and they had a statement regarding their position on this. i'm going to paraphrase. basically, saying this movie will be allowed in schools even though it's rated r if there's parental support and supervision at that time. is that good enough for you? >> i think that's definitely a step in the right direction. but having this movie rated pg-13 in actual movie theaters would make a huge difference also, because then the students could go see it in the movie theaters with their peers which is a totally different experience than going to see it with a parent. >> so this is a real life documentary. these are real life kids who have been affected, correct? >> yes. and they're telling their real stories. >> why is it so important to see the real stories as opposed to just a movie with a teenaged actress depicting somebody being bullied. >> i think because there's so much passion behind it. there's so much truth.

and i personally -- i saw the movie and i could definitely relate to it. >> and you think it could help a lot of kids. >> yes, definitely. the kids that are being bullied would see that they're not alone and there are other kids who this has happened to and if we all stand together, we definitely can make a change and the bullies can see it, too, and they can see the direct repercussions of their actions. >> the movie comes out into theaters march 30th and it's simply called "bully." we'll see if your issue to get the petition signed will make a change. you can go to change.org/bully. >> yes. >> to sign it. and we will link that to "fox & friends" as well. katie, thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> coming up, the most outrageous video you'll see all day. an ohio intersection turns into a demolition derby. wow! yikes! and talk about a brush with the law. a woman at the airport over her nail polish on the airplane. you'll have to hear this one. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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rounded up after refusing to leave the state capitol building. they were protesting budget cuts to california's state universities and community colleges. >> meanwhile, there is word that former president bill clinton will be teaming up with president barack obama for a series of fundraisers. no dates are set yet but they'll reportedly appear together at upcoming events in new york, chicago and l.a. big apple fundraiser aimed at getting big money donations from the wall street crowd. you go where the money is and they got a lot of it. >> all right. 1 ohio road is turning into a demolition derby. you got to see this for yourself. listen and watch. cameras were rolling as dozens of cars, one right after another. why was the camera rolling on this? >> why is the camera guy going up the road? there's somebody waving. >> ok. lost control on the icy highway. one car just missed a tractor-trailer. the good news here no one was hurt. they must have been rushing home to see "fox & friends" but that is just a report from one

bystander who said they were rushing home to see "fox & friends." >> that was a rush. >> right. that's good. those are four wheel drives a couple of them. >> i know. >> well, pigs, you heard right, pigs, taking over a houston rodeo. watch this. >> one up the race track. among the competitors, kevin bacon, christina hogilerra and britney spareribs. they're racing for a pretty sweet prize. a pack of oreo cookies. are we just saying that because it's the 100th birthday of oreos today. that's so cute clam>> i didn't know they couldn't swim. i knew they couldn't fly. i didn't know they could swim. >> they can't swim? >> there you go. >> let's find out what's going on in the weather on this super tuesday, is it going to impact people going to vote? no, unless up in alaska they're doing, i think, it's a primary or caucus today.

so 48 connected states, limited precipitation and we like that for this tuesday. meanwhile, the temperatures as you head out, it is chilly here in new york city. we got 26 but it's much colder up in portions of new england, caribou maine at this hour 5 degrees. meanwhile, mid atlantic below freezing. currently in the raleigh durham area, it's less than 30. we have 55 right now in tampa. and 50 currently in the big easy. real quickly, let's take a look at the highs for today. here in new york city, eventually 43 degrees. northern plains, temperatures in the 50's approaching 60. 70's all the way from the central plains to the southern plains across the gulf coast area. looks like later on today, in denver, colorado, the high will be 68. mr. kilmeade, tell us some sports. >> all right, eli manning becomes one of the first players to speak out on the saints bounty pool. you know about that? the saints defensesive coordinator were offering his

players incentives to knock people out and knock them out of the game. no doubt the team crossed the line. the quarterback who has had his fair share of big hits says a bounty pool is not what it's about and shows disrespect for the game. the saints owner still standing behind their coach there on the left and g.m. loomis there not on the left, even though the nfl said they knew about the pool, former defensive coordinator greg williams admits running it. he met with the league yesterday. we don't know yet or how the meeting went. can you say not good for greg? the league likely asked about reports of similar bounty pools with his other teams, redskins and bills. they could be losing draft picks, huge fines and suspensions. did the mets know what bernie madoff was up to and look the other way while bringing in fake profits? a judge says maybe so. we're going to let it go to trial. judge ruling that owners fred wilpon and saul katz have to pay $83 million to the trustee in the case and the jury trial could cost them another $300 million. that would mean they lose

control of the team. the mets are in a financial hole in every respect. they did not take a shot at jose raez as a free agent. carlos beltran sent out during the regular season last year. their payroll was $100 million and now down to $65 million and they're seeking cheap investors for the team. it's three years in prison for disgraced former mets and phillies outfielder lenny dykstra. he pleaded no contest in california to grand theft auto and giving a false statement. bad play by him. the judge refused to let him withdraw his plea. prosecutors say he gave bogus info to obtain credit and lease upscale cars from dealerships and he originally pleaded not guilty after police arrested him and found cocaine, ecstasy and hgh on his -- in his house. 21 of the 25 counts were dropped when he pleaded no contest. not good for our former guest. what's good news, though, mario manningham here, made one of the

greatest catches in super bowl history and he'll be live to talk about the giants dvd that's now out, a season in review. he'll be here live in the morning and he might take place in the big race with carl lewis. >> fantastic. >> ok. >> i'll pick him. >> and mark conseulas, husband of kelly and fine actor and athlete in his own right. >> let's tell you about genie daniels. she was traveling from california to houston to see her boyfriend. she was sitting in her seats and she put some nail polish on her fingers and the flight attendant came over and said hey, you can't do that. people hate that smell. and it's not allowed on board. >> it is flammable. and so here's the quote from the woman detained, i discovered i only had two nails left to paint. if i went to the bathroom and did it, it wouldn't offend anyone. she was getting so loud, i was like will you stop? and i was loud when i said stop talking to me, she wouldn't end the conversation. interestingly enough, i don't think nail polish -- i don't think you're allowed to put nail polish on the airplane and years and years ago i was on a flight

with my sister. she was doing the same thing and they asked her to stop. so i don't think it's a 9/11 thing. i don't think it's just -- >> you can have it in your checked bags. >> i don't think you can put it on and it may be your point, brian, that it is flammable. >> right. it might be true. you know, people lighten up their shoes so you shouldn't paint your nails. so this woman was arrested. don't you think that's a little severe. >> she was. >> do we have a basic course in human relations? that you have to scream at people like that? >> so she was arrested because, as gretch read, her -- >> she said the word for bleeping there. the couple -- >> what was that word? >> tell you in the break. >> a couple of cops met her because she used the inappropriate language to the second flight attendant and the cops from houston had to call the d.a. and said can we charge her with abuse of profane language? she wound up getting hauled downtown. sat in jail for 10 hours and eventually the judge threw it out and said nope, can't charge her. >> it's interesting.

the tenor on airplanes have changed. i was on an airplane recently where a guy just said a couple of things and the flight attendants, you know, they're -- they're the boss. they're not standing for it anymore and he was off. he had to go back to the gate. he was off. >> good news for the woman during the 10 hours, she could use that nail polish in prison. >> you can use nail polish in prison, right? >> no, i think they confiscate on the way in. somebody might drink it. >> that's true. >> coming up on our show, big companies in need of big help hiring hundreds of people this week. cheryl casone from the fox business network breaking down the five companies hiring right now. >> and next on the rundown, are you hot for your teacher? >> what? >> no, are you hot for your teacher? no wonder why, teachers in one city getting plastic surgery for free. >> huh? >> she might not be real but she is attractive! @? i take a multivitamin,

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>> some quick headlines now. president obama abruptly changing the location of the g-8 summit from chicago to camp david. it's an unusual move since president obama never hosted a world leader there. is it an apparent dis to his hometown? i don't know. mayor rahm emanuel, his former chief of staff, the president says he wants a more intimate setting. chevy has temporarily stopped the production of the chevy volt and they also get european car of the year. congratulations to all five people that bought it. steve? >> you sure about five? all right. meanwhile, listen to this. all 3400 members of the teachers union in buffalo, new york, are eligible for free nose jobs, liposuction and all sorts of

plastic surgery under their cushy union health plan. the cosmetic rider, as it's called. guess who is paying for it? that's right. taxpayers. joining us right now with more is kyle olson, the founder of education action group and the producer of "a tale of two missions." good morning to you, kyle. >> good morning. >> ok, so this cosmetic rider up there in buffalo costs taxpayers $6 million. you would think that they would then be flushed with dough in that particular school district. not so. right now, they're operating at a $42 million deficit. and nonetheless, teachers get lipo. what bugs you about this? >> well, the -- another number to throw out is that the graduation rate in buffalo public schools is under 50%. and so here you've got a district, as you said, $42 million deficit but last year alone, they spent $5.9 million on these types of surgeries which equals $1700 per teacher.

and so what i think people need to understand is that buffalo, the buffalo teachers union has had an expired contract for six years so they've been going back and forth in negotiations for six years. but what they have is called an evergreen clause which basically states that if a contract expires, those terms remain in effect so the raises continue, these types of programs continue until they reach new terms so there is zero incentive for the union to reach new terms if it thinks it's going to lose. >> so while the school board might go to the teachers union, you know, to the teachers and say, look, $42 million in the red this year. we're going to redo the work rules and what not, the teachers just go no, you know what? we're getting automatic pay increases and we don't want to get rid of our nose job proviso that we've had for decades and we should point out as well, kyle, i understand that apparently the police and fire

up there get the same deal but they're not in the same financial straits. >> that's right. and so it's outrageous and so here we hear from politicians and union leaders that, oh, we're not paying enough. we're not spending enough on education and we need to invest more in education and so i would just encourage everyone to think about this example and others that we talk about each week as we -- as we -- as the establishment comes to us and says, we need to pay more, we need to invest more. it's absolutely outrageous. >> it is outrageous. and i think that the statistic that i had not heard that you started your segment with was really jaw dropping. while they're spending $6 million to cut this cosmetic rider, they're $42 million in debt and yet, less than half of the kids graduate in buffalo. that's just a shame! >> that's right. and you never hear about those types of -- those types of concerns when they're negotiating a contract. i mean, what do you hear in the news is precisely what we're

talking about. should the teachers have plastic surgery or not and should taxpayers pay for that? what we're not talking about and certainly what we're not hearing from the teachers union is how do we improve student performance? how do we boost graduation rates? how do we hold the adults accountable and those sorts of things. that's where the focus should be. >> whatever they got in their last deal, they are entitled to, obviously, but when, you know, when they just do delay of game, so they don't have to give up the sweet deal and do a new deal, that is maddening. but that's what we talk about every week with kyle olson, the founder of education action group. joining us today from michigan. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> that's something. all right. coming up, need a new job? there are some big time companies hiring right now. we are talking thousands of jobs up for grabs. grab a pencil and a paper. cheryl casone with the details coming up next. but first on this date back in 1994, "the sign" by ace of base.

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>> super tuesday right upon us. we're in the middle of it and four republican candidates talking about the economy and how they can get america back to work, perfect time for "fox & friends" to talk about getting a head start ahead of the final results. look at five companies that are hiring today. cheryl casone is here joining us from the fox business network. cheryl. >> election edition. >> who do we start with today? >> we are going to start actually today with intercontinental hotel group. you may not know ihg, the

moniker but you know the hotel brand, this is crown plaza and holiday inn and they're expanding. there are a few jobs open now but the ceo came on my show on fox business last week and said look, we're really going to be hiring. listen to what he said. >> the u.s. is going to continue to grow. it's a big market. the demographics look good in terms of people traveling more. you know, high disposal income. so the u.s. will continue to be big for us. we are hiring actually. we just announced 3,000 new jobs in the u.k. and over the coming few years, we're looking for about 100,000 people. a lot of them in china as we have hotels. a lot of growth going on. very exciting time. >> big story with these guys is global growth and global expansion and real quick, they're opening up hotels, here in the united states later on this year and it's health conscious hotel living. >> everyone knows sisco is a huge company and they have openings. about 3,000 worldwide. >> think about it, this is networking. this is networking for your

home. this is networking for business. they've got reuters and everything and really cisco is around the world. a lot of these jobs will be engineering and sales jobs, i.t. related jobs. cisco has great benefits, company has been around a long time. based in california. strong company and strong technology name. >> the salary range is from $80,000 to $150,000. >> that depends on the experience that you have and the more i.t. experience you have, the more money you'll make. >> or if you cry during the interview and see if you can make more money. >> is that how you got this? >> i weeped. at&t looking to expand again, second largest provider of telephones. >> you know at&t, seven largest united states based company and they've got jobs, again, a lot of this will be i.t. based, whatever. they've got a twitter handle at attjobs and i'll be tweeting about that later on today. they're military friendly and the top 100 of military friendly companies. they're always a lot of turnover at at&t, whether you're doing sales, i.t., but again, this is a company that's always kind of evolving so you want to kind of

check in your local area but i.t. sales, customer service are the main positions that they have a lot of availability in. >> you didn't like the first three. what about four? provider of outpatient health care, this is a new trend. >> this is health care and this is something that's not going to change, everybody. if you can be a nurse, if you are a nurse, if you're a physician, physician's assistant, if you've got management experience anywhere in the health care industry, concentra is, they've got centers and this is basically secondary rehab coming out of the hospital. they have 300 centers. 40 states. 651 jobs, dallas, chicago, detroit, phoenix, san francisco, salary range, again, pretty broad. we're talking either you're a doctor or a nurse or a physician's assistant. $35,000 to $100,000. >> 651 jobs open. that's significant. you asked me before did i know this? i didn't until i saw the description was, makers of jack daniel and southern comfort, you can do both. i believe they also have a new whiskey out called devil's brew.

>> devil's brew. is that a whiskey? i did not know that. they have 31 brands actually. it is one of the largest liquor companies in the world and they are again expanding and they're always growing and trying to come up with new products, obviously devil's brew looks like it's one of them. they have 89 jobs right now. whether you're a laborer, sales and marketing, this is the kind of company where the benefits are strong and i look at companies and base them on medical, dental, and you may need medical and dental if you're working for a liquor company or rehab. i don't know. >> definitely should floss after every gargling with whiskey. >> those are good companies. >> five great companies. a lot of jobs and a lot of hope. good job. >> i'll be writing about today switching careers, a lot of you out there will be writing to me asking how to fine tune your resume to switch careers if you have to -- advice on the web site. >> and watch you at noon on the fox business network. as we say good-bye to cheryl, say hello to you. more evidence of bias in the mine stream media? latest example getting personal

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your tax money used to pay medical bills for dead people. that's right. medicaid beyond the grave. just wait until you hear the details on this one. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: it's super tuesday. >> gretchen: it is. it's super fun and super tuesday. we've got a jam packed last hour. >> steve: last time it was more super. in 2008, i think they had 21 different states. this year it's just ten states with caucuses and primaries. >> brian: enough to keep bret baier and meghan up until midnight. >> steve: something is going to be close. probably ohio will be close. >> brian: right. i think so. >> gretchen: let's get to your headlines before the politics because let's start on that. big day arrived. it's super tuesday. ten states holding their voting contest. some of the polls already open. this is live now in ohio. where will the four candidates be? mitt romney is in massachusetts. rick santorum will be in

washington, d.c newt gingrich will be spending the morning in georgia, heading over to alabama after that and ron paul will be in idaho. up for grabs, 419 delegates. the magic number for winning the republican nomination, 1144. from israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu telling thousands of jewish americans his nation has a right to defend itself against iran's nuclear threat. >> we waited for diplomacy to work. we've waited for sanctions to work. none of us can afford to wait much longer. as prime minister of israel, i will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation. >> gretchen: his speech in washington, d.c. was drastically different from president obama's appeal here to give diplomacy a chance to washing. the teen-ager accused of murdering three students in ohio

is due in court. t.j. lane facing murder and attempted murder charges for the shooting at chardon high school. prosecutors asking the judge to deny the media access to any records of abuse or neglect of lane or the victims. they say they're not relevant to the case. people can't really take advantage of their health care benefits if they're, well, dead, for example. right? turns out wrong. an audit of the department of health care in washington, d.c. found the agency spent nearly $700,000 of taxpayer money on medicaid coverage for patients who were no longer alive. the agency says it was a clerical glitch that has since been fixed. yeah, right. those are your headlines. time to bring in laura ingraham. i'm not sure that you want to comment on that particular little glitch, laura. sounds like par for the course. >> yeah. exactly. we'll go on to all the exciting topics of the day. super tuesday. happy super tuesday.

>> brian: same to you. i didn't catch anything this year. we'll see how that goes. president obama decided yesterday around 11:00 a.m. to call a news conference today. did he know it was super tuesday? >> when you're tired, you've been working as hard as he's been working for the american people, fixing our economy, all these things he's been doing, i'm sure he thought it was almost a thursday. the way time flies in the white house, he didn't have any idea. look, who knows? one thing i'm looking for in this press conference, because he doesn't do many, so i'm going to look forward to this -- how many questions will be asked about miss fluke and the could contraception debate. we have the visit by netanyahu, the dangers posed by nuclear iran, and i imagine about 40% of the questions will be about

something that is totally not relevant to the current national dialogue. >> steve: yeah. we'd like a bunch of questions about gas prices and stuff like that. don't hold -- hold your horses on that. you brought up on interesting point about the contraceptive mandate. will it be framed from the point of view of the georgetown student who wants catholic institutions to pay for it or the reaction from the new cardinal from new york who is furious about it and is -- it sounds like mobilizing catholics to go out and register to vote. >> cardinal dolan has been out front on this issue from the very beginning and he's very well liked in the catholic community. obviously newly named cardinal and his voice has been interesting because he gives the catholic perspective, but then reminds people that this is just an issue of moral conscience. it is not just about a catholic. it drives me crazy, eric cantor said, this is forcing the catholic church. this is catholic church. it's not a catholic issue. catholics are involved for sure.

this is about every employer in the united states having to pay two or three services -- for services that are not medical necessary that other people want for free. now we find out there was a law journal article written by this particular woman that seems to indicate that she believes that if you don't pay for sex change operations, gender reassignment, it's called, operation, you also could be described as a discriminatory employer. so today the pill. tomorrow sex reassignment surgery perhaps. and then down the road, what other things should be covered for free? because remember, guys, access now means if you tonight get it free, you're being prevented from getting the service or the medical device or the medical procedure. that's the new lexicon. access means get it free. >> gretchen: we all know or are familiar with what rush limbaugh called this young woman last

week and now there has been all these calls to pull his advertisers and he did apologize. but it's interesting when you look at the other side of the fence because i know that you yourself, me, too, have called similar -- been called similar things by liberal commentators. is there a double standard? >> look, i think conservative women -- even most women know what's going on here. the idea that this is a war on women, that's just the old line that the left always goes to. when they're losing the debate substantively, they say the republicans have a war on african-american, war on gay, war on blacks, war on latino, war on women. they don't want to talk about the president's record, so this is what they're doing. now it's all rush limbaugh's fault. what we know, gretchen, is that the left routinely does this and when ed schultz called me what he called me, i've got to say, i just kind of laughed. when that's what you're doing, you either make a verbal slip,

people do that, or you're losing the argument or you're frustrated. he did that. he apologized. i accepted the apology. i didn't lose any sleep over it. but i did tweet, i was waiting for the president's call. last may, and somehow i guess my number is hard to find. when it was brought up on "the view," i go on there every now and then of the they're always really nice to me when i go. when it was brought up on "the view," barbara walters kind of laughed it off, like, joy, you call me that word all the time and they just laughed. but when fluke goes on yesterday, it's oh, isn't this horrible. rush limbaugh should be driven off the air. this is about free speech and the idea they're going to target this man's advertisers because of this with a 20-year career, you know why they're going after rush. because he's effective. >> gretchen: i wish both sides wouldn't use that word for describing women at all and all the other words we can think of. >> it's unfortunate and i think

rush clearly said that. now they're saying his apology isn't genuine because he needs to actually cut off part of his right limb and hand it to them or something to make it -- it's not about an apology. it's about trying to drive him off the air. >> steve: how about this? one in seven americans now rely on food stamps and snap program. i remember, i think it was last year, you were talking about how president obama wants food stamps for everybody and you took some heat from that. now you look at that number. getting closer to a reality. >> yeah. one in seven. in washington, d.c. where i am, it's one in five. mississippi, it's 21%. some states are doing better than others and again, back to the issues of the day, america is hurting. americans at the lower end of the economic spectrum -- by the way, a lot of those people on the food stamp program are women. when we talk about a war on women, why don't we talk about a war on people who want to do better for their families and what's happening to them? food stamps, it's a temporary

program. we hope for people. but this is not a sign of robust recovery and certainly i think if we talk about these issues in a fair minded way, the president should acknowledge that that is not a sign of some type of revitalization on his part. >> gretchen: the stimulus for the economy because they're using the food stamp money to go back into the economy. >> yeah. >> steve: laura, i bet you a dollar that nobody asks a question about food stamps today at the press conference. >> no, no food stamp questions. probably no russia questions. i don't country russia has even been mentioned once in any of the presidential debates. >> brian: it's inconsequential. >> steve: more about rush than russia. >> exactly. they're helping build the defensive shield for iran right now. but let's not talk about putin and russia. >> brian: they're so efficient, they had the results in before the day of the election.

>> hey, putin, no prompters. old-fashioned speech. i want more of that. >> gretchen: hopefully there will be some questions about iran and israel at this press conference because it's a pressing issue right now. thanks so much for your time. have a great radio show. we'll see you next week. >> see you. >> steve: straight ahead on the super tuesday, eric holder, who is under fire for a botched gun running scandal, claims he's a target for political reasons. is that true? former attorney general of the united states of negotiation, john ashcroft joins us next. would he face the same criticism as a bush appointee? we wonder. >> brian: we're going relay racing with carl lewis, olympic gold medalist, mark consuelos, and new york giants superstar, mario manningham, and ainsley is here. look how fresh they are. they've only had two days of

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>> gretchen: 15 minutes after the top of the hour. thanks for sharing your time with us. gop presidential hopeful mitt romney aring up to super tuesday with a slew of new endorsements now. over the weekend, we told you he gained the support of house majority leader eric cantor and oklahoma senator tom coburn. yesterday romney received the backing of former attorney general and former senator, john ashcroft. joining me now is the former attorney general. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, gretchen. >> gretchen: a lot of former politicians have decided they're not going to endorse this election cycle. we've talked a lot about that on "fox & friends." why did you decide to endorse mitt romney? >> we've had a robust debate.

we've discussed the issues thoroughly. i think it's time for us to make a decision and to unify the republican party and mitt romney is an individual with whom i worked when he was governor. i worked with him in regard to the securing of the olympics which took place, the winter olympics taking place after 9-11. he's a person of very strong character with a true moral com pass. he's a leader. he makes executive decisions. knows how to set priorities. he's had that executive experience and he had it at the state level where you have to be responsible about what you're doing. you just can't print money. you have to pay your bills. having been a governor, i was one of the governors during the reagan revolution. we kept taxes at a very low rate in the state of missouri and were able to grow the economy in that setting. i think he knows how to do that. that's the reason i think he's the best for the future of america. >> gretchen: was one of the reasons that you are endorsing him now is because you feel the

republican party should move forward with a nominee? >> well, obviously we need to move forward with a nominee. that's what the process is all about. we've had a robust set of debates and i think all of the candidates in the debate environment have been helpful and are people about which the republican party can be grateful, but for me, on balance, it's clear that mitt romney is the individual who has the capacity to lead, to make tough decisions that are necessary for america to return to growth, strength and prosperity. he has the moral character. he has a true moral compass. i think he's the person to get it done. so i decided it was time for me to participate in this election by announcing my support. i had the privilege of voting for him about a month ago here in missouri. >> gretchen: i want to move on to your former job as the attorney general because there has been much made about what's been going on with the counter attorney general, eric holder,

with regard to fast and furious. i'm interested in knowing about your thoughts on that and whether or not you feel you would have faced the same kind of scrutiny or even more if you were attorney general. >> well, i lived under a magnifying glass of scrutiny with the democrat-controlled congress and i know what it means to have the bright light of inquiry on me. however, i think it's important for the congress, the representatives of the people, to reflect the will of the people and to make sure that the administration does what's right. i think people who go into executive jobs can expect the elected representatives of the people to be interested in what they're doing and to find out what the truth is. so i don't find it to be unusual or inappropriate that the congress asks questions. information is the basis of a democracy. >> gretchen: yesterday the attorney general, eric holder, said this, he was giving defense as to how the united states has

now taken out an american-born citizen who was a terrorist, al-awlaki, with a drone. let's listen to this. >> in response to the attacks perpetrated and the continuing threat posed by al-qaeda, taliban, and associated forces, congress has authorized the president to use all necessary and appropriate force against those groups. >> gretchen: the aclu was not happy with the fact that america had taken out an american citizen even though he was a terrorist. how do you feel about that? >> well, if people attack the united states, they're enemy combatants, in my mind. a person attacking the united states, we should respond to them. when you're shooting across the lines in battle, you don't have a chance to shout out to your opponent, what kind of passport do you hold? in a combat situation, you extinguish your enemy and the ones you don't extinguish, you

incarcerate and detain as enemy combatants. we've had a lot of talk about that through the years, but that's accepted practice and has been for civilizations for hundreds of years. >> gretchen: all right. former attorney general and former governor of the great state of missouri, i love how you say it, much better than i do -- john ashcroft. i like it. sounds really great. >> thank you. >> gretchen: good to see you today. >> thank you. >> gretchen: if you're not watching your tv right now, come take a look at this. without warning, an ohio intersection becomes a demolition derby. wow. that full story ahead. and stick around for the "fox & friends" olympics. we're going racing with carl lewis, mark consuelos and new york giants mario manningham. that's brian out there with anna and ainsley. the "fox & friends" team. who is going to win? oh, my gosh! watch your groin, brian

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>> steve: we're outside where it's freezing. we should do some running around and for that, we've got carl lewis gold medal winner. >> brian: nine-time olympic gold medalist. he's the most famous american olympic athlete in history. you're here today. great to see you, carl lewis. >> thank you. i feel warm all of a sudden. it's amazing. >> brian: what's keeping you busy these days? >> i'm here to talk about the 35th anniversary of the track and field games. it's a wonderful event that's been going on forever. it's hershey's 35th birthday. if you want more information, go to hershey's track and field.com.

this is a jump rope. it's part of the kit. >> steve: free jump rope? >> yeah. they're giving away things. go to hershey track and field. you can go all kind of things with the family together. you can exercise. it's really a great event that i've been involved with for seven years. >> brian: you're one of the famous athleteses in the world, i'll give you that. but you also could have been a football player. how often do you think about the fact that two nfl teams drafted you and you could have went into the nfl? >> i think of it this way, i had the best blockers in the world, those two white lines on the track. don't come across. >> brian: all right. listen, you're the world's best relay runner. we thought we'd get our own relay race. you just had summer, so sadly, you can't run against me, which was a dream of yours. >> steve: we could get a gurney and push you. >> brian: i wanted to make it a fair race. >> steve: you're going to be our judge. >> brian: this is our teams, from the 5:00 a.m hour, two days old, these kids have never been

fresher. ainsley and anna! [ cheers and applause ] legendary actor, talk show host, extraordinary athlete, mark consuelos. >> is this really happening? >> brian: this is happening. steve and i will run as well. the problem is, we are one person down and you're a better eth treats. we have to have a way to balance out the field. chris! this is a man that's going to make it equal. who is going to start off? come on! >> steve: ready, set, go! >> steve: and mark is off. ♪

♪ >> brian: i technically lost? >> you got to cross the line! >> brian: are you okay? er. >> i'm fine. >> steve: let me ask you something, did you do that on purpose, because as soon as you did, ainsley and anna ran over to see if you were okay. >> part of the game, steve. >> steve: like you needed mouth to mouth. >> brian: carl lewis, you were the judge. who won that race? >> you got to cross the line. >> brian: wait a second. i went back to help my co-worker and i'm going to pay the you will price? you get the gift. he gets the win.

[ cheers and applause ] we're going to go to -- where is the sign. hersheys track and field.com. >> brian: here you go. there is the plug. anesy and anna, great job on the 5:00 a.m. >> thank you. >> you were doing the heart attack run. >> steve: all right. we're all pooped. gretchen, to you. >> gretchen: brian, i think i saw you trip chris. >> brian: i did not trip chris. but he was beating me, by the way. you were beating me! >> gretchen: my goodness, i hope he's okay. more delegates are out for grabs today than any other day of the year and polls across the country just opened their doors. we'll take you live to two different locations after the break. and mario manningham. he's going to stick around. mar with the new york giants

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live in richmond, virginia. good morning to you. >> i'm here in virginia where they've got a unique situation. only two contenders on the ballot. only mitt romney and ron paul qualified. several of the other folks in the primary who didn't make it sued. they bound together for a lawsuit. but ultimately failed. so only two choices today and a lot of voters i talked to are not happy about that. they say even if their candidate is on the ballot, they don't think it's fair. and there are limbed chances, but it's benefited mitt romney. he only had to face off with ron paul and been carrying a pretty wide lead here in recent weeks. there are some who say they feel disenfranchised and see a conspiracy theory behind this whole thing. i talked to larry sabato about that. here is what he told me. >> the governor of virginia strongly supports mitt romney and hopes to be on the ticket for vice president. the lieutenant governor of virginia is the head of the

romney campaign in virginia. they control the gop apparatus. and the belief is that -- i think there is some truth to this -- there has never been such careful checking of the signatures before. >> all right. so that's one of the theories. it could be a good day for ron paul. his team is looking for delegates pickups here today. they may get help from other camps. newt gingrich, though not directly from his campaign, but groups supporting his campaign, say they want folks to turn out in force for ron paul, hoping to keep the number of delegates that romney can pick up here to a minimum. now to my colleague, mike emmanuel covering things in another state, nashville, tennessee. >> good morning from the music city, nashville, tennessee, the polling location behind me has been open for about a half hour. now it's in the hands of voters here in the volunteer state. it's expected to be a very, very competitive race here. so we've seen three of the four rincon tenders come here and spend significant time within

the past couple of days. newt gingrich spent a good amount of time here, crisscrossing the volunteer state, making multiple stops, clearly trying to show strength in the south. he's hoping to win georgia, hoping to have a strong finish here in tennessee. mitt romney was here on sunday. he stopped in knoxville and then rick santorum, forgive me, was in memphis and joined some of the barbecue and making several stops at catholic churches there. all the candidates trying to connect with tennessee voters. i talked with the party's republican chairman and he explained winning the volunteer state is complicated. >> you have conservative democrats who switched over to the republican party over the last few years. you have a tea party element here in nashville in the suburban areas. so you have to appeal to this broad base of folk. >> the state party chairman tells me he expect has competitive race. he expects it will be a couple hours after the polls close before they have a winner here in tennessee. back to you guys in new york. >> steve: all right.

in the volunteer state, our volunteer to get up early, mike emmanuel. >> brian: right. no payment. now more on the big stories and making news around the world. there is word now that former president bill clinton will be teaming up with president obama for a series of fund-raisers. no dates are set yet. but they'll reportedly appear together at upcoming events in new york, chicago, l.a., the big apple fund-raiser aimed at the wall street crowd. >> gretchen: gm giving drivers the option of getting a silver ado or sierra that runs on regular gas and natural gas. and today chrysler expected to announce a buy fuel ram truck that can run 255 miles on natural gas before automatically switching over to an 8-gallon gas tank. great. >> steve: look at this. one ohio road looking more like a demolition derby. you got to see this to believe this. look at this.

cameras rolling as dozens of cars, one right after another, a lot of suv, lot of four wheel drives. just missed that 18 wheeler out there on this icy highway. the good news here, no one was hurt. one witness reports they were rushing home to see "fox & friends". maybe the segment we're about to do, but that was only one report. >> brian: right. let's talk sports. it was the pivotal play in super bowl xlvi, one of the greatest super bowls ever. the catch that set up the new york giants for their fourth super bowl victory in franchise history. watch. >> the shotgun, back to throw. finds the pocket. down the left sideline and it will be caught. was he inbounds? yes! manningham on the side lines! >> this is the catch of a miracle. i want to see this again. >> brian: mario manningham made a 38-yard catch, proved crucial in the win over the patriots. >> gretchen: that catch and the

entire new york giants super bowl run being highlighted now in a new dvd, super bowl xlvi champions, new york giants, and giants star mario manningham joins us live. >> brian: there it is! congratulations! clutch play for anybody who likes sports. what are you thinking? the ball is in the air. you know your team is trailing you know you're covered by two guys. what are you thinking? >> catch the ball. that's all i'm thinking. i know i'm going to get hit. stay in bounds. >> steve: when you had the ball in your hands, you had to be thinking, how did i catch that? two of the bad guys were trying orgeat it away from you. >> i knew that was coming. >> brian: what about you right there? you are just screaming. you knew you caught it. >> i think that was vic. >> brian: okay. >> gretchen: so you know what's amazing seeing me in person is that sometimes we think of wide receivers as being really tall guys. how tall are you? >> 5' 11. >> steve: tall enough. >> gretchen: how do you do it

against your defenders? how do you get the ball? >> i know i'm not a big guy, so i got to use my speed and use my strength to get outside of them and just beat them. >> brian: right. people got to realize the giants don't get there if you don't make that touchdown catch against the 49ers, too. right? >> yeah. we did it as a team. >> brian: you caught it! i want to you hear this. you didn't know this, but i'm sure you saw last night on the blue carpet event. this is with bill belichick, the coach of the new england patriots said to his team before that final drive, listen. >> that ball that goes through your hands, i mean, i know we're right on him, it's tight. but those are still the guys. make them go to manningham! especially in coverage. know where they are. >> brian: make them go to

manningham. >> steve: way to go. >> gretchen: what do you make of that, that he was telling them to not cover you as much? >> yeah, basically i appreciate it. thanks for letting me go out there and make a play. >> gretchen: although there were two guys on you in that one catch. >> brian: you guys go on to win and after this season, there is two other things we want to discuss. but for you, you're a free agent. you can go anywhere. what are your chances you're going back to the giants? >> i want to come back, but i don't know what is in it, like i don't know what's going on. like i don't know what they're talk being right now. >> brian: have they made you an offer yet? >> no. >> steve: i live in new jersey. on behalf of the people of new jersey, please stay. >> i want to stay. i do. i want to stay. it's no place like new york. >> brian: would you take less money to stay? >> steve: that's hard. >> i'm not sure. >> brian: okay. >> gretchen: he's not giving up his part of the negotiation. >> the physical part of the game, like you never know, like, what injury you can run into. you have to take care of you and your family.

that's how it is. >> steve: this is the dvd. it's their championship season. check it out. mario, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: that play will live in infamy in super bowl history. thanks so much. >> gretchen: attorney general eric holder spoke out yesterday explaining why it was legal for the president to order al-awlakis death. but would his case hold up? the aclu now suing the united states government. peter johnson, jr. here to explain. >> brian: he helped us with the relay race challenge a short while ago. >> steve: he chris tripped. >> brian: that was so wrong. mark consuelos is tackling something much different off the track and he's wondering why he came up and almost pulled a hamstring this morning before the segment. somebody rub that. losing weight clicked for me when i found a plan

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>> gretchen: fox news alert for you right now. we've learned that donald payne, the democratic u.s. congressman from new jersey, has lost his battle with cancer. he died this morning at 77 years old. payne announced last month he was under treatment for colon cancer and left washington. he had expected to make a full recovery. last week his health took a turn for the worse. he was new jersey's first and only black congressman. >> steve: attorney general eric holder yesterday laying down the law regarding how to justify the obama administration's so-called targeted kill program. yesterday's speech came months after u.s. born al-qaeda cleric anwar al-awlaki, was killed by a drone strike in yemen. >> some will argue the president

is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a united states citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-qaeda or associated forces. this is simply not accurate. due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. >> steve: peter johnson, jr. is here with the prescription for justice. so this morning was an american citizen and critics say he didn't get his due process. >> hooray for eric holder. i'm glad we're hearing this now. they seem to have been adopting the bush mantra with regard to taking down enemy combatants. >> steve: what do you mean? >> the attorney general is saying, we have three rules, if a person is an imminent threat, if it's not feasible to capture them and we're going to comply with the rules of war, we can target an american citizen who is part of al-qaeda for

extermination, for killing, as an act of war, as part of war. and this is not reviewable by a federal court or the aclu, or the libertarian party, or people who are saying, oh, this is a violation of the constitution. this is illegal. well, he's saying this is a matter of american survival in a war on terror. so for the first time in this kind of public way, the attorney general is saying yes, yes! war on terror. enemy. citizen or not, we have the right to act on behalf of americans. so i say, hooray for the ag, hooray for holder and i think it's a limited policy in a war time with regard to al-qaeda. no one is saying there is an assassination program going on by the president of the united states to target american citizens. but we are saying that if you are part of al-qaeda and you

intend to do harm and we can't capture you, then you will be killed. >> steve: right. it only took him three years, but they sure sound a lot like the bush administration in many respects. >> it's absolutely bush, it's the repeat of bush and of course, we all remember how much the bush administration was decried and attacked in the 2008 election by the president and now there seems to be a switcharoo. >> steve: are you saying we're back to the future? >> we're kind of back to the future. unfortunately, we have to do that in this world. i think the attorney general made a compelling case. and it's ridiculous to say, release the memo. we want to see the memo the president saw. it's war time! you don't get to see those. >> steve: well stated. good to see you. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. straight ahead, he helped us tackle the relay challenge earlier. more with mark consuelos after the break. he's moving a little slower now. first let's check in with bill

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>> gretchen: did you see it earlier in we put him through a relay challenge and now mark is tackling a new role as a spanish teacher on "i hate my teenage daughter." look at this.

>> welcome to spanish 101. i am professor castillo. i am glad that your spanish is your second language. i think you'll find it beneficial, especially here in texas because let's be honest, we are taking it back. [ laughter ] >> steve: we're joined now by actor mark consuelos. good morning to you. >> i got to tell you, thank you so much for inviting me so i could -- to see chulo fall. [ laughter ] >> steve: you make it sound like you're old buddies. >> here he comes. whoa. look at that. >> brian: if you don't get a lawsuit settlement by noon, call me. >> i think it's very serious what they did to you. there is nothing funnier, i'm sorry, than to watch someone fall. >> brian: really? i agree. especially when it's someone else. >> gretchen: it's a guy thing? >> we all giggle a little bit. >> gretchen: when somebody falls? even when a chick falls? >> when a chick falls, inside.

>> steve: we laugh. >> brian: i want to know, i know how you race, i know you're a great athlete and soccer player. ito know in this project, you dd the first episodes. >> what's great is i don't speak spanish. >> steve: wait. you're a spanish teacher. >> brian: you speak italian. >> call the emmy commission because i lied my way through it. >> brian: you're an actor. >> steve: good acting. >> but jamie presley and others were amazing. they're hysterical and i had a great time. >> gretchen: is this going to be a returning role for you? >> i don't know. i may fill in for chulo because he's very injured. >> steve: mark could be on camera 4 tomorrow. >> i could be carrying cable and pulling it around. >> gretchen: operating the camera. >> steve: what about the name of the show, "i hate my teenage daughter ." do they really? >> no. i think at times you're very annoyed. i don't have a teenage daughter. i have a teenage son. and at moments, i'm very emotionally committed to how i

feel. >> gretchen: that's a good way of putting it. i get it. so speaking of your family, you are married to kelly ripa and you have future projects coming up. like a reality show. >> yeah. we have a show with cmt that we're going to announce soon. i can't tell you exactly what it is. >> steve: you just write it down, the detail force us. >> it's starring a camera man who falls in front of a -- >> brian: that was the longest fall i've ever seen in my life. >> it was. >> steve: it wasn't just a fall. it was the slide. >> gretchen: speaking of real life, will you actually end up being kelly's full time host on her show? >> no one has asked me. >> gretchen: no one asked? >> no. >> steve: we're asking you now. >> i'm already her co-host in the morning. i have the first cup of coffee with her when i wake up. we have host chat in front of the kids. they're a great audience. gilman is not there talking to us, which is really good. >> brian: i got to tell you, irrelevant think it's good

because regis said that the key was not talking before the show so when they came out with the first 20 minute, they'd be fresh. you wouldn't be able to talk to her until the show. >> exactly. many times after something i've done the night before, she's not talking to me anyway. >> brian: that makes for a long 20 minutes. >> yes. i've slept on the couch. >> steve: can you stick around a couple more minutes? >> sure. why not? is somebody else going to follow? >> steve: find out in two minutes. we'll be right back. >> gretchen: you never know on this show. right back "why did i roll over my i.r.a. to scottrade?" "for starters, it didn't cost me anything." "and i got a one-hundred dollar cash bonus for rolling over by april 16th." "i like bonuses." "plus at scottrade, there are thousands of commission-free investments."

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