aidala is, it's not really a world. it's a name. i don't think we can use that in scramble. >> i don't think we can use that one either. >> arthur aidala, ladies and gentlemen. >> "fox & friends"! "fox & friends"! "fox & friends"! >> "fox & friends" starts right now by the way with eric. bye! >> can we get that aidala guy to stand behind me for the next three hours and just do that? that could be entertaining. because it's tgif, everyone! it's friday. it's march 9th. time to party. i'm gretchen carlson keeping the cash. that pro obama super pac refusing to give back bill maher's million after he made controversial remarks about women and now sarah palin is asking how president obama can sleep at night? >> i don't know how barack obama can sleep at night, if he really thinks about sasha and malia and the treatment of some women today, how he can accept that dirty money.

>> plus what the other side is saying now. >> and he may not have enough delegates to win the republican nomination for president but rick santorum has enough to make a deal. is he going into business with mitt romney? we're going to tell you what we know this morning. >> and he was sworn to serve and protect the clintons. now this secret service agent is speaking out about that time and what he says may shock you. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> thank god it's friday! >> i kind of had forgotten how short the shorts were that bill clinton used to wear when he was out jogging. >> times have changed. all you have to do is look at the nba for the way things have changed. >> those are your short shorts. ♪ he wears short shorts you got to look like the president. >> kilmeade still wears those short shorts. >> that's why kilmeade is off today. >> slam him when he's not here!

>> he's doing coaching duties. good to have you here, eric. >> good to be here. >> on that note, let's start out your friday with some headlines. the u.s. and afghanistan reaching a last minute deal this morning on how to transfer control of prisons there to the afghan government. we have learned that the u.s. will oversee the transfer process. it will also be consulted on decisions for the detention facilities. we don't know yet how long it will take to transfer control. conflicts of the handover threaten to harm the two countries' relationship. the deal is expected to be signed later today. brand new information about the man who opened fire at a psychiatric clinic at the university of pittsburgh. we just learned that he was carrying two semiautomatic handguns. police say he walked through the front door firing shots at seven people leaving one person dead. after exchanging gunfire with police, the man was killed. at about 12:30 eastern, president obama will be pitching his new $1 billion plan to pump up manufacturing. he's visiting a rolls royce

plant near richmond, virginia, announcing plans to set up a network of institutes to develop manufacturing technology. he says the big investment will create jobs. gone for more than 60 years. a world war ii vet now has his military dog tags back. and he has two little boys to thank. >> i was behind him. and i just looked at the dirt and see if i could jump over. and i just saw a necklace sticking out of the ground. >> they found it outside their daycare center. and gave it to the manager. the woman recognized the name and called the rightful owner, bill breyer. >> it looks as if there's some engraving inside but we couldn't read it. i'm not sure what that was. >> probably says i love you. >> probably does. >> bleyer says he's amazed his tags have made it back to him after all of this time.

wow. amazing story. >> that's fantastic. >> let's tell you what's going on in the news, stuff you'll be talking about today. earlier this week, the president of the united states weighed in on rush limbaugh's battle with sandra fluke. he, of course, has since apologiz apologized. he used something inappropriate and people on the right were going wait a minute, you're the guy on the left, bill maher who hosts that show on hbo says really reprehensible things about all sorts of people and he's donated a million dollars to the president's super pac, priorities u.s.a. action. >> so a lot of people said maybe he should give that money back. meaning the president should ask his super pac to give that money back. now, the question this morning is -- is it the same thing? if you're bill burton who used to work for the president as a spokesperson, he claims that maher and limbaugh are two totally different person. that it's mixing apples and oranges, what do you think? >> the notion that there's an equivalence between what a

comedian has said over the course of his career and what the de facto leader of the republican party said to sexually degrade a woman who engaged in an important debate of our time is crazy! like there's no similarity between what rush limbaugh said lying about the argument that miss fluke was making a law student at georgetown and what a-- and what a comedian has said in the past. >> there you go again, sort of with this comedian shield which we've talked a lot about over the past couple of years. it seems to be that late night comedians and others are getting into the political business and they're able to hide their comments, reprehensible or not by saying, well, i'm just a comedian so i can get away with that. >> they get away with that on the left, they don't get away with it on the right. >> prior on that, yesterday, jay carney, the president's spokesperson said no, the president isn't going to give the money back. he's not going to be the final arbitor of every word spoken on either side which means they're

not going to give the million dollars back and they said we can't tell the super pac to give the money back. here's the problem -- "the new york times" reports there are four senior advisors from the white house. axelrod, david plouffe, sabelius and a fourth i can't remember now who are going to headline raising money for the super pac. why can't they send $1 million back? >> there's also another problem with that answer from carney which is the president after the shooting of gabby giffords, remember, he went out in an amazing speech in tucson and said we should stop the rhetoric on both sides of the fence. so if you're going to make a personal phone call to sandra fluke and say, i'm sorry. where was the phone call to sarah palin's daughters when david letterman said nasty things about them? so you can't just really have it one way. i think now, we're going to have this nationwide discussion about this. >> governor sarah palin was on sean hannity program last night

and kind of put all together referring back to the president and his daughters and bill maher. here it all is in 16 seconds. >> i don't know how anyone can sit in the audience of a commentator like bill maher and chuckle and laugh and thinks that's entertaining. i think it's disgusting and it's dirty money that he's provided barack obama's campaign and i don't know how barack obama can sleep at night. >> there you go, just one other thing. one of the things that bill burton said, was, you know, there's no equivalence because rush limbaugh is the de facto leader of the republican party. he's an entertainer and broadcaster, but is he the de facto leader of the republican party? e-mail, i'd like to know what you think. >> they point out that bill maher says a lot of things about the governor as well. the democratic party in alabama actually put up a web site saying bill maher, come see him.

we're going to sell tickets and they're going to raise money. i called them and i said are you really going to do this? are democrats going to sign on to this guy? march 17th they're having a little get together. they say the way it actually is going to be is bill maher is going to do a show down there. they sold tickets. it's sold out, $100 a ticket, all democrats. bill maher is not going to speak at the fundraiser but it's, again, here -- this is the mentality of the left. bill maher, put him on a pedestal. he says nasty things about someone on the right, ignore it. if someone on the right says it, completely trash him. >> i'm not surprised that we're having this nationwide discussion about this, because you would think that it would just be all about how rush made an inappropriate remark and that there would never be anymore discussion about how other people have made comments about conservative women. i'm surprised that we're having this national discussion. >> you know why we are. >> some people have taken a step back. bill maher himself has said, hey, rush is off the hook. he apologized. >> gretchen, you know this thing would have died down if

president obama didn't go on super tuesday, picked super tuesday to do his first press conference of the year and said you know what? i picked up the phone and called sandra fluke. if that hadn't happened, we wouldn't be talking about it. >> it shows you the double standard in the country. let's talk about this. the cost of gasoline is a gigantic political issue. on super tuesday, exit polls shows that 77% of the people that voted shows the price of gas was a gigantic concern to their families. that explains why when it looks like a number of democrats were going to sign on to an amendment brought up in the u.s. senate yesterday, part of a transportation bill, where they could actually speed up the construction of the xl pipeline, the president saw a huge political nightmare and started calling democrats and said whatever you do, do not vote for that. in the end, here's the senate vote. 56 said no. and only 42 said yes. it went down! they're not going to fast track it. >> can i -- i'm sorry,

gretchen, point out there are 11 democrats that defected and they voted they wanted the pipeline and they come from oil producing states, no less. they're interested -- they know that oil -- bring the pipeline, you're going to bring jobs, period. end of story. >> this was a smart move by people who want the pipeline, they were going to try to go around the president's decision to say no to it. here's his spokesperson responding. >> as you all know the history here is pretty clear. and the fact is that because republicans decided to play politics with keystone, their action essentially forced the administration to deny the permit process because they insisted on a time frame within which it was impossible to appropriately approve the pipeline. >> you blame the republicans for making a political -- >> but the president didn't turn down the keystone pipeline. can't review and approve a pipeline the route for which doesn't even exist.

>> why is that important? because that was back on february 21st, i should have set that up better. that was looking back in time when jay carney was saying that it was republicans who were playing politics. what do you call yesterday when the president called up individually the democrats and said don't vote for this. some people would say that's playing politics. >> meanwhile, let's talk political politics and, of course, presidential politics as well. rick santorum has had a problem. on super tuesday, he missed 64 delegates because of organizational problems. he didn't wind up on the ballot in a number of districts and he's not going to wind up with any delegates in four of illinois' 18 districts next month because they missed some deadlines and it goes to show you how in the early days and this is what he's told us is he had very limited resources early on and didn't have the people to go out to all the places and do the filing but nonetheless, it has put him at a great disadvantage against mitt romney who has got a world class organization. >> exactly. in illinois, alabama, i think there's some other states so it

could hurt him now that he's front and center because you can't go back in time and have the organization in the early parts of january when he didn't have it. however, reports starting to come out about deals that could be being made behind the scenes so there's a report out today that maybe santorum would choose gingrich as his running mate. now there's a report out that says maybe santorum and romney are talking to one another. that santorum would be the v.p. to romney. these are the kinds of stories that are going to really start taking steam now because there's still indecision. >> and very quickly, with the big super tuesday win with respect to mitt romney, i'm guessing he's probably not going to make any deals right now. when you're more than triple ahead of the next closest competitor, i think it's probably not time to be deal making. >> with the prediction market that is very accurate when it comes to politics where people wager money to figure out what's going to happen. they say the odds of rick santorum being vice president 6.5%. and you got to -- in "the

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on the saudis to produce more. others who have called on other sources such as the brazilians and yet others who recognize supply matters by calling for release from the strategic petroleum reserves. >> and jack gerardy is the man in that clip and the ceo of the american petroleum institute and joins us live from houston. thanks for getting up early for us, sir. should the saudis produce or? should the brazilians produce oregon should we just produce more right here in america? >> it would be great if we got serious about energy and produced more right here in america. what occurred yesterday on the senate floor, frankly, was shocking. here's an opportunity to bring in another 800,000 barrels today, about half what we bring in from the middle east from canada, and the president personally lobbied against it. so we have a hard time believing the president when he says i'm for all the above energy policy and then he personally lobbies to make sure we add no more oil to help bring down the price of gasoline at the pump.

>> all right, so sir, let's talk about it. how much of the price at the pump, how much of that would be affected if we were to open up, say, 700,000 barrels from keystone coming down from canada? >> let me give you two points that are very important. the first one is about 76% of the cost of a gallon of gasoline is directly tied to the cost of crude. so if we want to bring down the price of gasoline, we have to bring down the price of crude oil. in the middle of 2008, you may recall then president bush announced that he was going to open up the outer continental shelf. oil at that time, crude oil, was $145 a barrel. within two days, that price dropped $16 a barrel merely because the market knew that we were going to bring more supply to the marketplace. >> that was the week of july 15, 2008, i remember it distinctly. president bush signed the order

removing the moratorium on off-shore drilling and the price went from $147 that week down to $33 a barrel the first week of president obama's term. >> that's right. >> and that's what we use now. >> go ahead, sorry. >> i was just going to say, eric, that's really what we need now. the president says there's no silver bullets, there's nothing we can do. we can absolutely do a lot in this country. we have vast domestic resources. vast resources of oil and natural gas and the president has placed off-limits 87% of our outer continental shelf and will not allow us to even explore for these assets, these resources. and in permitting, we're down 70% in the rocky mountains in just getting the ability to go produce oil there. so there's a conflict between what the president says and what the president does. >> all right, jack, very quickly, the crude oil price, 76% of the gallon of gas in a crude oil price. $2.55. that means we're sending $2.55

of every gallon, all 130 billion gallons a day that we use over to the saudis or to at least a portion of that to foreign oil producers. isn't it time to bring that $2.50 right back here to domestic drillers, refiners and mom and pops on the corner selling gas? >> absolutely. there are a lot of factors that determine the price of crude oil. unrest in the middle east, the value of the dollar, the demand from china. but the one factor we have complete control over is how much supply we put into the marketplace. with modern technologies, we have the ability to produce hundreds of thousands of barrels more but the president is keeping us from that by keeping the land locked up here in the united states where we have those resources. >> all right. jack, we got to go. thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, eric. >> this guy is a big lotto winner but he's also an illegal immigrant. should he be allowed to keep that check? we'll tell you what a judge just

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>> some quick headlines. we're learning the pentagon is "absolutely preparing for a possible strike against iran." defense secretary leon panetta says the u.s. has been considering plans for a long time and a jury in georgia letting an illegal immigrant from guatemala collect his $750,000 lottery jackpot. he gets the prize plus 225 grand for attorney's fees and damages but now, he has to leave the country. gretchen? >> thank you, eric. drug testing, the unemployed. the arizona state senate recently approved a bill that

would require those who have been laid off to prove they're not on drugs in order to get benefits. so should this type of screening be mandatory? joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, arizona state senators david luhon and ron gould. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> ron, let me start with you. i know you were in favor of this bill. tell me a little bit more about it. >> essentially what it does is get on unemployment, you have to pass a drug test. if you fail that test, you can test again in a month. but if you don't pass that, you can't get on unemployment for six months. >> all right. david, i assume that you were opposed to this bill. why? >> well, keep in mind, people that have qualified for unemployment are on unemployment because they were involuntarily terminated for their job. if they were fired for misconduct or drug use on the job, they don't qualify for unemployment benefits to begin with. so i think -- and then the cost to administer this program from the state of arizona's standpoint, i think the cost of administering the program is

going to outweigh any money that is prevented to people using drugs on unemployment. >> what do you say about that? will it be a high percentage of people who will test positive? do you have any way of knowing that? >> we don't really know at this time. but you need to bear in mind that a lot of people get on unemployment even when they're really fired for cause. a lot of times they've done something wrong. their job performance is poor. so they're let go. but that they end up on unemployment even if the employer protests them being on unemployment. and the only way that we're really going to find out how bad drug use is amongst the unemployed is by drug testing them. we have to make sure we protect the fund because everybody pays into that fund. >> exactly. very good points there. i know when i went for my very first job, i was relatively innocent, 22 years old, first thing i did was pee in a cup. lots of people have to do it. >> right. there's employers that already require it. the state of florida and indiana have tried similar programs before they were stopped by the

courts. what they found is less than 1% to 2% of the people that were tested were actually using drugs. and so talking about a very small percentage. the amount that you get for unemployment in arizona is the lowest in the country, about $240 per week. >> my point is for government jobs, i think people have to do this. i mean, i'm trying to figure out what the down side is. maybe we would be helping people who actually have a drug problem. >> well, perhaps. there's money in this bill for funding for drug treatment, yes, but what the federal government has said is that if we go forward with this legislation, that we could very likely lose our federal money for unemployment. so that means, you know, thousands of people in arizona who are on unemployment who aren't using drugs are going to lose the $200 a week that they need to put money on the table, to feed their families and to get back on their feet. >> all right. it's a very interesting debate. >> you know, beauty of our federal system is we have 50 states so we have 50 laboratories on how to run public policy and the federal

government needs to give us the freedom so that arizona can do what's right for arizona. i'm not sure that this will end up in a lawsuit. >> all right. got to leave it there. thanks so much for getting up bright and early. interesting debate. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next on the rundown, i'd like to supersize that brawl, please, the fight in a mcdonald's and unlucky hero. how this ends might surprise you. he promised ethics reform. some of president obama's biggest donors now have big time administration jobs. stuart varney says that's not the worst part. he's here to weigh in. happy birthday to emanuel lewis. webster is 40? what's up with that? man, i'm glad aflac pays cash.

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obama promised transparency and was swept into office with big fanfare and the help of big donors. >> now, some of those donors getting top jobs in the president's administration. here to explain, the host of "varney & company" stuart varney from the fox business network. >> were you hoping for change by some chance in the way the administration does business? >> forget it. when it comes to doling out power, money, influence, prestige to those who have given you money in the campaign, this white house is worst than previous administrations. no less than "the washington post" looked at 47 of the top donors, bundlers to the obama 23008 campaign. 24 of them got nice jobs in the foreign service, ambassadorships, for example, and another nine went into power jobs in the white house in the administration. >> and the bundler is somebody who goes out and says we're raising money for barack obama. i can sign you up for how much? >> these 47 got together more

than a half million dollars each for the 2008 campaign and they were richly rewarded. >> so every administration does this. i mean, they reward people who raise money for them! duh! but the difference here, i think, and why the american public would be upset is if they get position or money from taxpayers. for example, like a solyndra situation. if a bundler was involved in that. was that part of this? >> that's precisely true. i bring you the case of steven spinner, i'm sorry, steve spinner, he was a big bundler, more than a half million dollars. he then gets position as liaison to the energy department. and according to e-mails that have been uncovered, he steers money, taxpayer money, to solyndra, ok? that's all under criminal investigation at the moment. >> wasn't his wife involved in solyndra? >> she was indeed. i'm not sure of the exact relationship. she was involved in this whole story which is under investigation. >> so what are we saying here? bundling shouldn't get jobs.

>> here's what we're saying, in this administration, crony capitalism has run riot. it wasn't just g.e. and jeff imelt and not just warren buffet, now it's these bundlers who have been elevated to positions of power and authority. if you're a bundler and if you give support, you give money to the president in 2008, you're ok. you'll be taken care of. but if you're on the other side of the fence, you're a banker, for example, an oil company, a drug company, you're wealthy. oh, you're in trouble. you will be demonized and you will be taxed and you will be held up to ridicule. >> you know, businesswise, it makes a lot of sense. if you are in an industry that, you know, it's just trying to get off the ground like solar industry, something like that. and then you think ok, now, if i could get in tight with the white house and if i could bring a -- if i could be a rainmaker and bring a bunch of money, who knows? maybe my company or somebody i have ties to will wind up with a government loan. >> that's exactly what happened. let me give you the case, warren

buffet very much on president obama's side. warren buffet's company owns net jets who provides jets for wealthy people, they were lobbying the administration to lower taxes for them. over the next four years, net jets will get lower tax rates. >> i thought warren buffet wants to pay higher taxes. >> he does want to pay higher taxes but not on one of his companies. am i getting excited here, eric? >> for 6:36 in the morning, you're hot under the collar and ready for your 9:20 show. >> as a matter of fact, i am. we'll be watching this morning on fox business. >> got it. >> thank you, sir. now we have some big headlines for you on this friday morning. new york police department coming under fire for its terror surveillance at mosques and muslim student meetings across the river from new york city in new jersey. and now attorney general eric holder is threatening to investigate. >> at least what i've read publicly, again, just what i've

read in the newspapers is disturbing and these are things that are under review with the justice department. >> was anything illegal? 14 terror plots have been stopped in new york since the september 11th attacks and f.b.i. director robert muller says the new york police department and its commissioner ray kelly are doing a great job. >> that's a big story. hundreds of thousands of financially strapped homeowners getting some much needed help thanks to a side deal struck between bank of america and the federal government over its foreclosure practices so under the terms, bank of america will not have to pay $850 million in penalties. this will allow the bank to help households reduce their mortgage balances, some even cutting them to their home's current market value. eric? >> call him fast feud. a police officer getting into a supersized brawl with a would-be thief inside a mcdonald's. >> kind of pushed off and threw me off of him and the fight was on!

>> that was deputy kevin meyer, the florida police officer called to the scene after the thug tried robbing another customer of his backpack. as you can see, the suspect didn't go down without a fight. deputy meyer says he couldn't even call for backup because his radio was knocked off. lucky for him, three homeless men stepped in and subdued the suspect. now that guy is behind bars. >> was the hamburglar involved? >> always. >> they needed him, i think. call it a newt term. newt gingrich getting creative with his vocabulary. take a listen to this. >> those of you who don't know about twitter, you send out tweets to tweeples. >> that was gingrich at a rally in mississippi trying to encourage the crowd to show their support for him on line. he's campaigning hard in mississippi and alabama this week in hopes of winning both states, primaries which take place on tuesday. >> he was talking about twittering in tupelo. all right. 22 minutes before the top of the

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but it sure did create a spectacular northern lights show. look at that. stunning pictures taken in canada overnight. experts say the lights could be out again tonight as those flares continue to radiate off the sun. and rub-a-dub-dub, there's a bear in the tub. check it out, this brown bear in alaska looks like he's giving himself a sponge bath. must have had an itch he needed to scratch as he uses a barnacle covered rock to scratch his face. is that normal? and that's your shot of the morning. >> cute! adorable. from afar. exactly. >> he's right here. >> you're right here. >> hard to miss the judge off to the side. he's not on camera yet. attorney general eric holder on tuesday attempting to justify the presidential killing of anwar al-awlaki, remember he was the american terrorist killed with a drone. did the government have the right to order the killing of an

american without due process? this is going to be interesting discussion. >> and the -- is the administration attacking our constitution? let's bring in fox news senior judicial analyst. judge, what do you think? >> good morning, guys. we're all friends. >> on first bluff, you say if they want to kill us, even if they're americans, we should be able to kill them, no? >> no. the constitution -- the people that wrote the constitution did not trust the power to kill in the hands of anybody, even the president. now, we're not talking about wartime. the last time the federal government claimed the power to kill americans was during the civil war and even lincoln said only when someone is shooting at you. here, the federal government is saying we have the right to kill an american without any due process whatsoever. what is due process? it is the notification that you have violated the law and the government's obligation to prove to a neutral jury in public that you violated the law and you having all the constitutional protections to defend yourself. without that due process, the

government could take anybody's property and the government could take anybody's life and the founders who lived under the british king wrote the constitution to prevent that from happening. what due process did anwar al-awlaki get? let's concede that he was a terrorist. let's agree that he was a mad man, a monster who provoked horrific events here in the united states that resulted in the deaths of innocents. >> he was an american. >> yes. >> he was born in new mexico. he was never charged with a crime. he was never indicted for a crime and the so-called due process he got was a secret meeting in the white house with president obama and his advisors. would you trust that gavel with your life? of course not. >> the difference here is you would be in favor of the way in which usama bin laden was killed. because he didn't get due process either but the difference is he was not an american citizen. >> no. without getting too technical, the clause in the constitution that requires due process requires that of all persons. usama bin laden is a different situation than anwar al-awlaki. >> why? >> because usama bin laden

acknowledged that he was involved in the most horrendous event of modern times, 9/11. >> so did al-awlaki. >> no, he didn't acknowledge that he was involved in any act of violence. bin laden had been indicted and he had been charged. i'm not defending what the seals did and not attacking what the seals did. like everybody, i'm glad that bin laden is gone. this case involving this american could set a dangerous precedence. here's why. bob muller, the director of the f.b.i., a fine public servant who truly understands the constitution when asked under oath on tuesday by a congressman, can the president kill an american in america? said i can't answer that. you'll have to ask attorney general holder. it is reprehensible that he couldn't answer it. he knows the answer is no but he wants to keep his job! so he's not going to defy his boss, eric holder. >> what about under the cover -- you said during wartime, things are different. during the bush administration, we had this war on terror but this administration prefers not to use that term.

we're not at war with terror currently but, you know, given what you had said earlier, it would seem like that would be an easy out for them. >> if the c.i.a. went to arrest al-awlaki and he pulled out a gun, of course they could shoot him and of course they could use force in that environment. he was riding in a car in a desert with a 16-year-old son who also was killed, who also was murdered by the federal government. the constitution was written precisely to prevent that from happening. and the danger is if they can do it in yemen, can they do it in peoria? >> why is it that kids' family or their heirs bring suit against the federal government? >> i really don't know. their grandfather, al-awlaki's father brought a suit against the federal government before al-awlaki was killed to get a federal government to prevent them from killing him! and the judge said you filed too soon. you have to wait until something happens. >> the aclu is filing a suit, it's my understanding, against -- >> very interesting to see what kind of evidence comes out. >> we got to go. very quickly, what strikes me is the big concern would be, you know, radical islamists apply for citizenship and then they're

covered by the constitution. >> good point. >> it's the price we pay for freedom. >> fair enough. >> all right. >> pleasure. >> hot topic, my friend. >> yeah, it is. hot lady in red. >> ok! coming up on the show, look out. an out of control car and a terrifying near miss. wait until you hear who is behind the wheel. is it the bear? >> maybe. plus he was sworn to serve and protect the clintons. now this secret service agent is dishing the dirt. i'm guessing there's a lot of it. is that becoming of an agent? before you judge him, hear what he has to say. he's next on the couch right next to us. dan, come on over! i take a multivitamin, but i wanted more support for my heart. i found centrum specialist. a complete multivitamin enhanced for what's important to me. vision. energy. prenatal. heart. [ man] new centrum specialist

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>> welcome back. our next guest was just 8 years old when president kennedy was assassinated. from that point on, he dreamed of one day becoming a secret service agent and for him, that dream came true. >> so here he is, protecting president clinton and now he's retired from the agency and has written a provocative new book on what it's like to protect presidents. >> former secret service agent dan emmitt is the author of "within arm's length" and joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we'll tell some of the stories. first, a little controversy about this. you say some reporters have taken things out of context where they said hillary could be aloof at times referring to the former first lady. >> right. that unfortunate article came as a result of a telephone interview i did with "the washington examiner." the reporter said well, i couldn't get anything from dan so i'll just write this. so this was -- >> taken out of context. >> taken tremendously out of

context. >> the other controversy about the book is that secret service agents, i guess, are not supposed to write books. why did you feel it was important to do so? >> they are not encouraged to write books. there's no actual regulation prohibiting it. i chose to do it because there had never really been a book about the working level secret service agents and i chose to write a book that covered the 21 years of my career which, you know, span from 1983 until 2004, two tours on the presidential detail and some unique experiences there such as running with the president. >> no kidding. here's what the secret service says regarding that. we stress to all our employees the importance of not sharing anecdotes about the personal, private moments about the protectees. it causes concern because we don't want to erode the trust that we have with our protectees. let's talk about the trip that you made with president clinton to north korea. there he was. i remember the pictures vividly where he was standing there at the dmz. what? 50 yards away are guys with guns. >> right. and you have to remember that

state are war still exists in korea. that war never officially ended. just merely a cease-fire. >> who at the white house thought that was a good idea? >> really don't know. we could never really attribute that to any one specific person. >> was the president in danger that day? >> potentially because you are literally within 50 to 75 yards of heavily armed north korean troops and an area where it's technically still a war zone. >> sure. tell us what it's like on a daily basis for a secret service agent. i mean, we'd love to get inside the mind of what -- so you wake up early, put on the short shorts and go out running with clinton. >> well, he liked to run. that was one of the things he enjoyed doing to escape the -- what harry truman once described as the prison which is the white house. so he enjoyed running out in public. generally during morning rush hour through the streets of washington, d.c. and of course, we had to run with him to ensure his safety. >> and you didn't know where he wanted to go. you had a vague idea. i know you guys went out to haines point a lot when you weren't stopping by a mcdonald's

back in those days. you didn't know if there was somebody with a gun along the way. >> we had no way of knowing and the fact that we did it three to four days per week, we were coming -- becoming somewhat predictable so it was a concern. >> and in fact, you put on the shorts every day. whether or not you knew he was in the right mind to want to go for a run but if he didn't, you would go change into your other clothes. >> that's exactly right. we didn't know if he was going to run until the elevator doors open. >> the interesting thing about what you learn about in this book, you ended up marrying another secret service agent. your wife was doing this at the siem time. >> i did. i was on the presidential detail for a little over five years and then when i left, my wife replaced me. she had been an agent in the washington field office, and she came over and did four years during the clinton administration. >> something that you do address here is the question of the president's dogs. whether or not you walked the dogs and whether or not you pick up after the dogs. >> right. i felt the need to actually address that. because that is one of the myths attributed to the secret service. i can assure you that agents do not walk the president's dog or

clean up after it. that's other people who do that. >> what do you have to do to become an agent? >> well, the candidate pool we choose from, young men and women, college educated between the ages of 21 and 37 and generally in good health and motivated to want to serve their country and take care of the president. and investigate, investigate financial crimes against the united states. >> and possibly every day have the chance that you might have your life in danger. >> you have to accept that possibility certainly because it always is -- it's always there. >> i have read that somebody said this is one of the best books ever written about the secret service. so we thank you very much. we encourage you to check it out. it's called "within arm's length." it's available at on-line retailers. thank you very much for joining us and thank you for your service. >> thank you very much. it was always my pleasure. >> our pleasure having you today. thank you, dan. >> coming up on "fox & friends" before you head out to fill it up today, you'll want to stick around for this. the real reason for your pain at the pump. we're breaking it down. penny by penny.

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>> tgif, everyone. it's friday! yea! march 9th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time today. give back that comedian's cash! well, after bill maher's controversial comments about women, sarah palin now telling the president's super pac, cough up those donations! >> i think it's disgusting and it's dirty money that he has now provided barack obama's campaign and i don't know how barack obama can sleep at night. >> so what are the president's people saying now? you'll hear from them next. >> and with gas prices at nearly $5 a gallon, what are you really paying for? it's not just the oil. i'll break it down penny by

penny. >> good, i want to know! and hey, men, tired of wearing these neckties? well, loosen it and lose it. >> you got it. >> whoo-hoo! >> i've been waiting to do that all day. >> what, do you have a part time job at chip n dale's? we'll tell you how the tie could go obsolete in the next 20 years. "fox & friends" hour two for a friday starts now. >> thank god it's friday! >> all right. excuse us, i didn't realize -- i was very glad it was friday, i didn't realize both the men would be stripping momentarily. >> i'm not stripping! >> come on. eric started the whole pattern. >> casual friday. we'll tell you all about the necktie thing coming up and i personally hate neckties because they're hard to tie.

and they catch every -- it's like a bib. it's a bib for grown-ups. >> in 20 years, these will be obsolete and shirts in the next 30 years, too. >> shirts? >> yeah. lose our shirts. >> wow! >> i hope i live that long is all i can say. hard twist now to some headlines and a fox news alert. give it our best shot. the u.s. and afghanistan just signing a major agreement. the countries reaching a deal on how to transfer control of prisons in afghanistan. transfer will take place in six months. the u.s. will oversee the process and decisions over the deal. it comes amid rising tensions between the two countries, protests, as you recall, broke out in afghanistan after qurans were burned at a u.s. military base, a nato base. dozens were killed in the protest including american soldiers. we're learning some new information about the man who opened fire at a psychiatric clinic at the university of pittsburgh. he was carrying two semiautomatic handguns. police say he walked through the front door firing shots at seven

people. he killed one of those people. after exchanging gun fire with place, he was also shot dead. at about 12:30 eastern, president obama will be pitching his new $1 billion plan to pump up manufacturing. he's visiting a rolls royce plant near richmond, virginia, announcing plans to set up a network of institutes to develop manufacturing technologies. he is the big investment will create jobs. yard work not usually very dangerous unless you're this guy. >> oh, no! >> this brand new video coming in from corpus christi, texas. you can see the man working in his front yard. oh, my gosh! that s.u.v. comes barrelling towards him. fortunately, he was able to jump out of the way. the driver did end up hitting his house and parked car along the way. we're told that driver was a 16-year-old boy. not clear why he lost control but police say he will not face

charges. it's only funny because nobody got hurt. >> thank goodness. it was a close call. something you're going to be talking about today. last week, rush limbaugh was taking a shot from a woman who testified on capitol hill regarding birth control. her name is sandra fluke. the president of the united states got involved in that. and then people -- and rush has since apologized for his language, use of words. people started to say wait a minute, white house and mr. president. what about bill maher? there's sandra fluke right there. bill maher who donated a million dollars to your super pac made some atrocious comments about women. maybe you should give back the million dollars that he donated to your super pac. then yesterday, bill burton, the guy who runs the super pac said look, there's a big difference between bill maher and rush limbaugh. what's the difference? here's bill burton. >> the notion that there's an

equivalence between what a comedian has said over the course of his career and what the de facto leader of the republican party said to sexually degrade a woman who engaged in an important debate of our time is crazy. there's no similarity between what rush limbaugh said lying about the argument that miss fluke was making a law student at georgetown and what -- and what a comedian has said in the past. >> comedian. >> this gets old after a while, the idea that you can hide behind your comedic talent. i mean, we have seen over the last couple of years a lot of late night comics get into the business of politics. if you're going to do that, you have to own the statements that you make. i'm sorry, you do. remember what happened with david letterman? he said vulgar things about one of sarah palin's daughters. he had to call and apologize to her. did the president call then -- you're giving dangerous territory as president of the united states when you call up a citizen and now, is he going to call everyone? what happens the next time bill

maher decides to say something vulgar again about a woman. will the president then call that woman and give back the super pac money? it's very dicey territory. >> this goes back to super tuesday when the president held his first press conference of the year on super tuesday, republican super tuesday, he invoked the names of his wife and two children said i'm very concerned about the rhetoric. i don't want my daughters to hear what some of the things that are being said. well, if that's the case, then he definitely owes a phone call to governor palin because the things that bill maher said far, far more vulgar and disgusting and denigrating to women than what -- than what rush may have said about sandra fluke. take a listen to how sarah palin or take a listen to what she had to say on hannity last night about this. >> i don't know how anyone can sit in the audience of a commentator like bill maher and chuckle and laugh and think that's entertaining. i think it's disgusting and it's

dirty money he's provided barack obama's campaign and i don't know how barack obama can sleep at night. >> we asked you an hour ago about this and the question was bill burton had suggested there was no equivalence because rush limbaugh is a de facto leader of the republican party. we asked you if you thought that was true. and you said well, he's a great broadcaster and he certainly is conservative and republican. but they don't regard him as the de facto leader. so to call him de facto leader, while at the same time say the other guy is just a comedian, what's that about? >> that's played into the talking points of this administration. you remember, it was two or three years ago when they started saying that rush limbaugh was the leader of the republican party. president's own spokesperson have been saying that. they stayed on message with that. let's be honest. rush played into those talking points last week when he did say that. now, it's interesting to me that after his apology, the discussion has turned into more of a nationwide discussion about everyone who says bad things about women. >> well, i remember a couple of

years ago as well, gretch, where the left was trying to dismiss rush limbaugh, where they would go, you know, he's just a broadcaster. he's nothing, he's not to be paid attention to. now they've done a 180 because it's convenient for them. >> very convenient is bill burton comes from the white house and is part of the super pac that is raising money from obama. obama's administration says we can't tell priorities u.s.a. to tell the administration to give back to bill maher. that would be illegal. they can raise money for him. it's a little bit of a double standard. >> let's talk about gas prices. that's been on the forefront mind of so many americans right now as the prices continue to pick up. it happens with brian kilmeade out today, eric bolling happens to be an expert on oil and gas. what are you going to tell us? >> my gas can. let's clarify that. gallon of gasoline, lot of different things go into a gallon of gasoline. >> we'll zoom in on that. >> all right. so the crude oil price, we had

jack gerard from the american petroleum institute talk about this a little bit earlier. i didn't do that for the camera but for us. on the $3.76 national average of gasoline, $2.55 of that is the crude oil price. then you take it down to refining and marketing, $0.40 for a gallon. transportation, you have to move the stuff around, $0.15. federal taxes 18 1/2 cents. call it about 20. after taxes, transportation and all the other things going on, the gas station owner is left with somewhere around 5 to $0.10 a gallon. so american small businesses making $0.05 to $0.10 a gallon, meanwhile we're shipping the good portion of the crude oil price overseas to sheiks and oil people that may not like us much. >> i heard a story last night on cbs where they talked about how because of speculators and speculators -- given the uncertainty have been, you know, leveraging the price of a single gallon of gas higher and higher on every gallon of gas, there's

about $0.50 that goes to the speculators. >> i don't know -- because that would that -- here it is. it would have to come somewhere in the line of petroleum. >> this must be official. it's right there on the can. >> this is what it is. i came up with the $2.55. it's $107 a barrel of oil right now. that's $2.55. if there's speculative price in there, maybe that's where it's buried. i will tell you, i will tell you that i put my phone number out there because i said i can guarantee a dollar lower on gas yesterday. i put it out there and gotten nonstop phone calls and i was hoping that obama would call because i can do it. it would address what you just said right there much the speculator. there's a way to fix this whole problem without interfering with the free market. and that's really the trick here. obama wants to play around with the free market. you don't want to go there. that will muck things up even more. >> that leads to the next question, should the president take immediate action? look at this latest poll number. 85% of americans say yes, the

president and congress should take immediate action and newt gingrich last night on greta van susteren's program says the president can lower gas prices. >> the president keeps saying that there are no silver bullets but he does have a presidential panel. he could right now approve the keystone xl pipeline, that would be 700,000 barrels a day of canadian oil going to houston. he could right now authorize louisiana and texas development off shore, that's 400,000 barrels a day. he could right now authorize several areas of alaska that do not require congressional action. that's about 1,200,000 barrels a day. >> i'm applauding newt gingrich for that. a lot of people are saying let's open up the strategic petroleum reserve. we have about 730 million barrels. >> that's the backup plan. leave it alone. >> it's a backup plan and only meant for supply disruption. >> emergencies. >> we don't have an emergency and don't have a supply disruption. that would be short sided and wouldn't work. >> it would be political. it would be political to lower

the price by a few cents. i got to get to this point. i was very excited about this at the beginning of the show. the guys are going to take off their ties. eric already has. why? is a tie going to be obsolete in 20 years? that's what a new study says. it says we've become more casual in the way we dress when we come to work. for example, women do not wear corsets anymore when they come to the office. >> that's a good thing. >> oh, producer is telling me it's transferred to spanx. >> i don't know what spanx are. >> if you're a woman, julie on the panel knows exactly what i'm talking about, right? spanx, those are like a tight little fashionable girdle. >> they say given the rise of creative industries. you know the ceo of facebook or google shows up for work so within 20 years, there's a real good chance that the tie will go the way of the dodo and won't be used much. however, they say, can you imagine going in to see -- talk to your financial planner and

he's wearing a track suit. >> it would not engender confidence so there will be certain industries, lawyers, probably politicians, maybe people on tv. >> can i point something out? >> i don't know. the ratings could go up. >> i came here from another network. i never wore a tie there. >> you were the one guy. >> i was married without wearing a tie and i go to black ties and i don't wear the black ties. i came here and i said do you mind? he goes, we're going to grandfather you in but i don't want to see anyone else, though. >> fit to be untied. >> you know, i started wearing the tie because, you know, we're interviewing some, you know, senators, congresspeople, some major important people here and i felt a little awkward. i don't know. you tell me, tie or no tie? i'll take your thoughts. >> i think you were behind it. you're trying to get a movement. >> i feel so much better without one. >> it looks good. all right, it is now 13 minutes after the top of the hour on this friday. is president obama playing both sides of the energy debate? listen. >> under my administration,

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>> president obama on a campaign of his own in recent days that has some people wondering if he's playing both sides of the energy debate. he wouldn't do that, would he? in a speech on wednesday, the president first criticized republican candidates for being pro oil drilling and then in that same speech takes credit for america's oil production. >> the american people have subsidized the oil industry long enough and the next time you hear some politician trotting out some three point plan for $2 gas, you let them know we know better. under my administration, america is producing more oil today than any time in the last eight years. >> really? joining us right now with

reaction, we've got a political panel, rick newman is chief business correspondent for "u.s. news & world report," julie is a fox news contributor, they join us all live at the big plastic desk. there he was taking credit. we'll put up a graphic that shows people. he's talking about how production of oil has increased and yet, this is from a rich lowry piece that he wrote yesterday. on federal lands, oil production has declined 11% over the last year. on state and private lands, production has increased 14%. natural gas production on federal lands dropped 27%. and increased 28% on state and private lands. the president has taken credit for a trend which he had nothing to do with. right, tony? >> correct, because all the production, if there is any increase have come from permits and leases granted seven years ago or five years ago because that's how long it actually takes of beginning the process to get the oil production that those leases were for.

under the obama administration, on on-shore drilling, steve, not these controversial off shore like b.p., on-shore drilling leases down 35% from the bush administration. 70% from the clinton administration. he talks all of the above but he only cares about one thing, green energy to the tune of $100 billion of failed investments in green energy over four years. >> i think what he really cares about is getting re-elected and with that exit poll on super tuesday, 77% of the people said that gas, the cost of gas is a major element to their daily lives. he knows -- >> he acknowledges, and he's acknowledged it. he's basically said, look, no one wants to get into an election year -- >> why did he call senators up yesterday and say vote no on xl pipeline? >> because keystone won't do anything in the short term. >> it would send a message to speculators, hey, more oil is coming. >> you know what's going to send a message? telling the israelis and look at the foreign policy issue to not attack iran. that's driving up gas prices. telling the chinese not to pro create so much because there's a billion people coming on line. that's not going to happen. you know, there's a bunch of

things going on that are outside of his control that he can't do. bush couldn't have done. >> bush increased production and that's why we are right now. >> bush raised production but don't forget, prices were still incredibly high under bush as well. >> prices have doubled. >> remember that the election isn't today and the election isn't in july when if there is going to be a gas price spike, it's most likely to happen. the election is in november and there's a good chance if gas prices do spike in the summer, they'll be coming back down by -- there's a good chance that gas prices will be below 350 on election day with obama doing nothing and the biggest factor here is what happens in iran and obama does have some control over that. i mean, he can push that to the brink right now which he clearly is not doing and he can try to wait until after the election. >> this is a spirited debate. that was so good, you're going to stick around and do it again. coming up, attorney general eric holder not holding back. he's going after new york city police commissioner ray kelly. details on the stunning investigation coming up. and where's the love for the love boat?

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blockbuster "home alone." love that show. that movie. steven? >> thank you very much, eric. the new york city police department under fire for conducting surveillance on mosques and islamic student organizations as part of their anti-terror program of 9/11. that program is being slammed by u.s. attorney general eric holder. >> we are in the process of reviewing the letters that have come in expressing concerns about those matters. at least what i've read publicly. again, just what i've read in the newspapers is disturbing and these are things that are under review with the justice department. >> so there you heard him. he said he's disturbed by the new york police department's program where police from new york panel went over to new jersey and kept an eye on things. rick, let's start with you. you got a problem with this? >> there's always tension between new york and new jersey and i think this is a matter of just communicating a little better with your neighbors. it's very hard to fault -- >> the attorney general of the

united states to say i am disturbed by this. we're going to investigate this. >> you have to be disturbed, that's wiggle language that allows him to say we look into it. >> you know who else is disturbed? chris christie, the governor of new jersey is disturbed. more troubling to me is tom cain, the former governor of new jersey, the former head of the 9/11 commission that bush appointed said he's disturbed, this is what led to intelligence failures. don't share information. if they shared informations with the f.b.i. and the new jersey state police, we wouldn't be having any problem. >> how many potential threats or plots has the new york anti-terror department actually uncovered? >> in this case we don't know. share information. why not share information with the feds? why not share information with the new jersey state police? >> share information, coordinate, absolutely right. that's fine. what led to the failure of stopping terror before that is the jurisdiction turf battles that thought it was their

jurisdiction, their responsibility and they didn't -- >> there was a wall. >> which is stopping terrorism. >> there is a wall but this is the same wall. why not go and say to the feds, why not go and say to the jersey state police, this is what we're doing. we need your help. we need your coordination. why do this -- >> that's an improvement that could be made going forward. that's not a reason to investigate it from the department of justice. >> oh, absolutely it is. >> there's a division between holder's concern and chris christie's concern. >> no, excuse me, we have a 9/11 commission and laws were adopted to prevent this kind of thing. >> let me ask you something, have they broken any laws besides the new york police department said we called up new york police and said we're going to be there. >> the newark police with all due respect, my friend can't catch people that break into -- >> that's a protocol. >> they called. >> they need to let the feds know. there's a guy in f.b.i. and new jersey said this was a travesty because it actually hinders their -- >> new york city is an active terrorist target. we know this.

there have been attempted terrorist attacks. nypd is going to do what it has to do play nicer with their neighbors. they're going to continue to go where they need to go to prevent attacks. >> i hope so. excellent panel today. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> now they've got to share a cab. that's going to be tense! all right. meanwhile, straight ahead on this friday, whose bright idea was this? a $50 light bulb. paid for with $10 million of our money. would you buy a bulb for $50? we'll tell you about it. plus this story has got your goat. how did this guy get into a new york city pizzaria. plus this marine ready to bike 3,000 miles in 100 days and he's starting out on our plaza. that is the coolest bike i've ever seen. we'll tell you about that and him when we roll on. live from new york city. a safe city.

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in new york city decided to take matters into its own hooves. yep. the farm animal making himself right at home at the famous restaurant lunching on pizza with a couple that he was there with. >> wait a minute. >> i wonder if it's goat cheese pizza. >> very good, steve. >> we're missing the headline, though. >> what is the headline? >> why the hell is there a goat in a restaurant? >> you know what? you can take animals into -- >> no! >> absolutely. i've seasen a million dogs. >> that goat has a permit to be in a place where they're making food? >> seeing eye goat. could be a service goat. don't know. >> service goat? >> the pizza must be good there. it's the same spot that donald trump and sarah palin were seen having a slice just last spring, it's about four blocks from where we're sitting right here. >> i guarantee you, if trump saw that goat in the same seat, there's no way he's sitting down. there's no way! >> put paper down. >> honestly, seriously, you can

bring a goat into a restaurant. >> you can bring dogs into restaurants. >> can you bring a goat into a restaurant? >> i don't know where the -- i don't know what the dividing line is. ok. we have to have a permit to have a lemonade stand, but you can bring a goat into a restaurant. give me a break! >> i don't get it. >> the owner of that is a friend of mine. that may have been a stunt. he's a very big marketer. great pizza, by the way, also. >> let's talk about this. there has been a government award program, the government figured it out. let's give some company $10 million. come up with a way to create a light bulb and they did. and they have given the $10 million now to phillips electronics and apparently, one of the standards was they had to use less than 12 1/2 watts of power and this one uses 10 watts. and so if you want to buy this super great green light bulb, that will cost you $50. >> i think the point of this

study or this proposal the companies to come up with this is they were also supposed to produce it cheaply. the price is supposed to be affordable for americans. now, i don't know about you but i can't afford to spend $50 on one light bulb. who is going to buy that? >> not only that, we've done a bunch of these keep your hands off my 100 watt light bulb. there was rumors they were going to be obsolete and try to phase it out. if you take a 100 watt light bulb and take the equivalent of the fluorescent light bulb, you know, the ones that you can touch and they don't get hot. the curly q ones, that one and this one, there is nowhere near the amount of light that they produce. i mean, i know they say 100 vs. 100. it's not the same. 100 watt incandescent light bulb throws a lot of light. look, not only that, 10 million taxpayer dollars going to generate a $50 light bulb. >> to build an affordable light bulb and think about in your house. how many light bulbs would you

replaces? let's say 20 times 50? that's $1,000. >> let's talk about fisker, you know that's this really expensive $100,000 electric car that some stars, justin bieber, lena lenardo dicaprio are tooling around in this very spiffy kind of car. here's the problem. "consumer reports" did a speed test this week with this car and how long did it last before it broke down? 180 miles. that's it. 180 miles. now, they have two engineers visiting this particular fisker to see exactly what went wrong with it. they don't know what went wrong with this car. you're going to spend that kind of dough on a car and it's going to last 180 miles, there's a big problem in the market. >> which in and of itself isn't the problem. the problem lies fisker, the recipient of the taxpayer funded loan that we gave them to develop the car, a lot of that car is made outside of the united states as well. there's so many things wrong with the obama energy department's green energy

program, giving money to sew -- solyndra fail. giving money to beacon, fail. giving money to this electric car company breaks down in 180 miles. >> we gave the $10 million to come up with an affordable light bulb and gave them all that money to come out with a car that clunks out. it was the first time in the history of "consumer reports" that a car clunked out on them. >> not good for the marketing of that. we have to get to headlines for your friday. defense secretary leon panetta contradicting the president's own words now. revealing that they have been developing military options against iran for a long time and he says the u.s. strike would be more effective than one by israel. days ago, president obama said sanctions could still work after meeting with israel's prime minister and said there should be no rush to consider military options. benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister, however, says time is quickly running out to stop iran from getting the nuclear weapon. a warning about cyberspace.

a former top intelligence official telling fox news it's a certainty that a terror group will launch a full scale cyber attack on the u.s. f.b.i. director robert mueller just testified it's one of the most serious threats for our country right now including on the battlefield. he also implied that a country like iran, china or russia could launch a cyber attack and use the stolen information during a possible war. talk about an auto body. take a look at what border agents just found. a 45-year-old man hiding underneath a pickup truck they stopped at a checkpoint in california. agents say the driver was acting nervous so they looked under the truck and found a suspected illegal immigrant tucked in the space between the gas tank and the undercarriage. both men are now under arrest. the guys went outside and time for a little weather action. steve? >> yep, gretch, thank you very much. you're going to see an ellipitigo in a minute. let's take a look at the maps

and find out what kind of day we have ahead weatherwise. you know what? this is the first time in the history of "fox & friends" i've come outside to do the weather and i can't actually -- here we go. i'll go over here. we have widely scattered showers moving through portions of the northeast down through the mid atlantic. heavy thunderstorms from dixieland to the gulf coast and a lot of thunderstorms as well in portions of texas. next map will show you the current readings as we've got them coast to coast. chilly in the northern plains and as you can see from the mid atlantic to florida, temperatures in the 50's and 60's. eric, over to you. >> all right. well, come on over with us, steve. this is our man. this is the marine. >> rich, a former marine now trekking across the country to raise money for injured marines. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> tell us about the semperfi fund. >> they're based in camp

pendleton in california and they -- they raise money to help the injured servicemen, marines and other servicemen and their families. for the cost during their treatment or rehabilitation or afterwards. >> what are we doing here? what's the next event going on? >> well, my next event i'm going to be starting my coast to coast on the 23rd of march from marine corps recruit depot to marine corps recruit. >> this looks like an elliptical you might see in a gymnasium. >> it was based on an elliptical trainer. >> you want to give us a demo? >> it's really simple to use. if you can walk, you can ride it. >> i'm going to go, steve. ready? >> look at you.

>> there goes eric. >> we just push off. >> all right. >> go get them, dooce. >> that's a cool bike. how do you stop it? >> it has brakes like a bicycle. >> what i like about this is it's a little lower impact, right? >> whoo! >> thank you. >> you must be the people from ellipitgo, right? very nice. thank you. >> that's great. if you'd like more information about how you can help this guy raise money for the fund, go to our web site at foxandfriends.com a little later on today. gretch, back inside to you. >> all right, guys. looking good out there. well, regulations are supposed to make our lived period of time, right? well, regulations about the number of building blocks allowed at a daycare? you have to hear this one coming up next. and school's out but your kids are still going to be watched over the summertime?

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involved with pms influences part of the brain that deals with fear and this could help steer women clear of danger. and two men just sentenced for partying weekend at bernie's style. instead of doing it at a dead guy's beach house, these two put their dead friend at the back of the car and used his credit card as bars and strip clubs. a judge sentenced them to two years' probation. eric? >> well, we become a nation of regulation. regulations are supposed to make our lives better but instead our next guest says they've led us down a path of government intrusion that's costing us millions of dollars. phillip k. howard is the founder and chair of common good and the author of "the death of common sense" and he says we need to hit the restart button on all these regulations. thanks for joining us, sir. so regulation is bad? all regulation is bad? >> no. i mean, regulation in a crowded society at one level is necessary.

but you can't tell people how to do everything without making them fail. same reason that soviet central planning failed. it's like death by 1,000 cuts. >> so some regulation works to keep order. but it's when government gets too big and out of control, that's when it becomes a problem. >> especially when it tries to tell people exactly how to build a factory or how to run a daycare center. >> let's look at the first example. in colorado, daycare centers, as you point out, are required to have at least two centers with a minimum of 10 blocks per set and they must be played on it. i don't know what this means. what does this mean? explain this to me. >> there are these regulations in colorado that literally tell people how much space they need for the kids to play on the blocks. how many blocks there have to be. there are seven categories in which the workers have to go wash their hands specifically. as if people are going to read these hundreds of regulations to do their jobs. >> they have to wash their hands, right? >> it's not bad that they should have a place to play on the blocks but if you have a rule, you have people running

around all day with their nose in the rule books instead of taking care of the kids. >> do we have another? let's put the next one up. in new jersey a soup kitchen was forced to be considered a retail food establishment and no longer allowed any food donations. how is this regulation hurting them? >> for 27 years, the soup kitchen has fed homeless people 200 meals a day by volunteers bringing in food cooked from their homes. there's never been an incident. then some well meaning bureaucrat says oh, wait a minute, there's a rule against any food coming from an uninspected place like someone's kitchen so you either have to have the food prepared on premises or have it come from a restaurant. so it's costing the soup kitchen an extra $150,000 a year. >> how do we fix it? >> we have to start over. we have to start and have regulation focus on results. is this soup kitchen actually preparing good food or not? if it is with no problems, let them do it.

let people in a free country do things their own way. if they fail, hold them accountable. >> but we're not headed in that direction. we've seen more and more. the book of new regulations gets bigger and bigger every year. >> absolutely. we're going to collapse. it's like this giant blob has come into our society. it seeps under the doors. nobody could do anything. >> it costs us billions and costs us jobs as well. >> absolutely. >> and leave it there. thank you very much. a plan to punish kids for things they do outside of school but guess what? the principals don't even like it. one of them joins us next. but first, on this day in 1976, december 1963, "oh what a night" by the four seasons was the number one song. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice? when you pour chunky beef with country vegetables soup over it... you can do dinner.

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>> all right. if you're waiting for the answer to the question of the day. it was steve wilkos and the winner is connie in st. louis. congratulations. so here's an interesting story for you to ponder as a parent. even when school is out for the summer, the principal will still be watching your kid. that's the idea behind a new bill in indiana that proposes this -- "a student may be suspended or expelled for engaging in unlawful activity on or off school grounds. this includes weekends, holidays, school breaks and even summertime." so is this a good idea or does it go too far? todd best is an associate executive director of indiana association of school principals and he's our guest this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> what was the reasoning behind thinking this kind of law needed to be put in place? >> this statute actually has been in place for several years and the key element is that it

has to cause an interference with school purposes or the action would be important to protect those who are in the schools. so just a simple activity outside of the school day or, as us, during the summer wouldn't necessarily fall under this statute. >> so you seem to be focusing a lot on internet activity. are you talking about examples of a student who might be cyber bullying somebody else off of school time? off of school property during the summertime potentially? >> i think that was part of the intent of this law and certainly as new behaviors emerge with kids, we always need to make sure that we're providing the right environment in our schools and as -- as cyber bullying might not necessarily be unlawful, i think that was the reason the discussion took place on this legislation. >> uh-huh. so as a principal, do you feel that this is a duty that principals now want to be in charge of outside of school

hours? >> i think it's the balancing act. we've always needed to have some ability to work with our kids outside of the school grounds and school activities. because of the potential for what can occur in the school building. yet, at the same time, our main focus is what's going on during the school day and with our kids during those activities. principals do not have the time to sit and look through internet files or try to track down all those digital messages that are flying across our nation. >> right. and you make the point of saying they're not going to spend hours doing that. this is in a circumstance where a problem arises that has something to do with something that's going on at school. let me ask you this question, though, this is a hot topic in the state that i live which is connecticut. some schools are saying kids will be held responsible for drinking alcohol and doing drugs as well even outside of school time. is that something that's in this law? >> i wouldn't say so. for indiana's statutes and i'm

not familiar with connecticut's laws and how their legal description reads because, again, it has to be unlawful. it has to cause interference with the school purposes. and so i really would have to know that situation. at times, though, there are certain athletic codes, perhaps, or extracurricular codes that do get into behaviors that are regulated during those times and those go above and beyond and that's ok because those kids are voluntarily participating in that athletic event or that extracurricular activity. >> all right. very interesting topic. todd bess, the associate executive director, you have a long title, indiana association of school principals. it's a mouthful. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks so much for having me. >> coming up on "fox & friends", a child's temper tantrum gets the entire family booted from a flight. uh-oh. did the airline go too far or were they justified? hear both sides of this story. and then president obama is keeping the cash saying he's not going to return the million

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and plots. should he be picking a fight with america's top cop? we're going to talk about that with geraldo rivera. >> crying kids on a plane. why did one pilot think that was enough to boot a family from his flight? really? come on. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> thank god it's friday! >> steve: yep. tgif. thank goodness it's fox. that's what you're watching right now. today we've got eric bolling in for brian kilmeade who is taking the day off. good to have you. coming up in a half hour, the big unemployment number. right? >> big number. expectations are for 8.3. it may tick up or down. 200,000 is what everyone is looking for for new jobs created last month. >> steve: we want more jobs (that will be in 29 minutes. a couple headlines for you. a developing story, u.s. and afghanistan signing a deal

moments ago to transfer control of the main prison there to the afghan government. it was signed at a ceremony in kabul. the u.s. will still have access to detainees at the bagram air base and block the release of those they feel should not be freed. it will take place within six months. new information about the man who opened fire at a psychiatric clinic at the university of pittsburgh. we have learned that he was carrying two semiautomatic hand guns. police say he walked through the front door firing shots at seven people, leaving one person dead. that person, an employee at the clinic. then after exchanging gun fire with police, that man was killed. 12:30 eastern time today, president obama will be pitching his new $1 billion plan to pump up manufacturing. he's visiting a rolls royse plant announcing plans to set up an institute to develop manufacturing technologies. he says this kind of a big investment will create jobs. no crying while flying?

that was the case for a family kicked off a jetblue flight because their two-year-old was throw ago temper tantrum. imagine that with a two-year-old ? colette and her husband trying to fly back to boston from the turks and caicos when their daughter started acting up. the pilot taxied back to the gate, telling the family he was concerned for the other passengers' safety? the whole thing forcing them o spend an extra two grand on a hotel room and new plane tickets. jetblue saying the pilot followed protocol. those are your headlines. watch out, parents! pretty soon you're not going to be able to travel with your kids. >> brian: clearly he was a -- >> clear leaves single pilot. >> steve: had they describe it as the kid acting up, that must have been big acting. geraldo rivera joins us live. good morning to you. >> i'm going to throw a tantrum. >> steve: wouldn't be the first time. >> gretchen: you can't get away with it. you're older than two. >> steve: let's talk about this, it all startd about a week ago when rush limbaugh was

describing sandra fluke using an inappropriate word. the president called her, weighed in on that. apparently the president won't weigh in. apparently bill maher, using inappropriate language when referring to women, especially sarah palin, it's been suggested he gave a million dollars to barak obama's super pac. they should give the money back. they're not going to. >> it's a whole bunch of stuff there. let me start with i think first of all, rush limbaugh should send a bouquet of roses to kirsten powers because she bailed him out n. doubt about it. if it wasn't for her, nobody have drawn the connection between the right and left and why not equal opportunity condemnation? i think she did a brilliant job. i had her on the radio. debating gloria allred who would like nothing more than to get after rush limbaugh, legally speaking, in terms of slander. florida has a special statute,

you can't impugne the the chastity in public. he apologized. let's move on from it. now jump cut to bill maher. he is also, i have to point out, one of the first people to defend rush limbaugh's right to say anything he wants. it's a first amendment issue. rush limbbecause -- limbaugh wants to say this or that, that's not the reason to get an advertiser boycott and it's censorship and violating the bill of rights and rush limbaugh's freedom. in terms of bill maher's contribution, the million dollars to president obama, i think that right now here i'll make an offer. bill maher will give the money back as soon as every other super pac donor is publicly noted under the corporate anonymous names they currently -- >> steve: that's not the law. >> it's not the law that he give the money back either. we're going to be --

>> steve: look at the double standard. >> there is lots of double standards. my beef is the anonymity. people can influence the process without being public. >> gretchen: i agree with you. but that's a separate discussion. i think what gets me going about this whole thing is that in be recent time, comedians have gone so political and then when they say something vile about somebody, like they have, david letterman did it to sarah palin's daughter, bill maher has done it to sarah palin and other conservative women. they hide under the helmet of oh, i'm a comedian, so i can get away with that. i think a is disingenuous. shouldn't that be the case if rush limbaugh shouldn't say it, bill maher shouldn't say it? >> i think the response of the two men is indicative they're not the same. rush limbaugh is one of the most respected -- >> steve: defacto leader of the republican party.

>> if not the republican party, the entire right side of the american spectrum certainly through the conservative world. >> steve: one of the loudest voices, i don't know that he's the leader. >> i believe that rush limbaugh has a higher duty and he responded in a way that reflected his higher duty -- >> gretchen: so it's okay for bill maher to say those things about women? >> i go back to the marketplace, gretchen. i believe that the market will weed out the people who offend public sensibility. i was at abc for a long time. in 2001 before i came here and i was at nbc, i remember bill maher shortly after 9-11, a week after 9-11, someone said, those cowards attacked the towers. he said, wait a second, they weren't cowards. they killed themselves. the cowards are those who lob missiles in the post 9-11. he was fired from abc. i opposed his being fired, but i

understood it. listen, i think that there has to be civility in discourse. you laugh when you see an old lady slip on the ice. you can make that funny even though it's horrible. i think comedy, people have to look into their own hearts what makes them laugh. >> there is first amendment rights, freedom of speech, and they're on equal playing, fine. president obama called sandra fluke. does he owe sarah palin the same phone call? >> i think, eric, really, sandra fluke and sarah palin are way different people. sarah palin, the governor of a state, a person -- >> gretchen: slippery slope, geraldo. >> i'm telling you -- listen, i love when women unite to put down that -- >> gretchen: they rarely do. >> i want women to flock to sarah palin's defense and say, you can't say these things that invoke womenly things about

sarah palin. that's off limits. you can criticize her politics. you can criticize some of her word choices. but lay off her in terms of the c word and the t word. >> he owes her the same courtesy that he -- . >> you're whistling in the dark. it's not going to happen. i think the -- listen, i go back to what kirsten powers said, it's represencible. some people laugh at it. some people scorn it and reject it. let the marketplace decide. i think that rush, what he did in terms of his apology, that's fine. i think that what his advertisers may or may not be doing can be lamentable. i think that when you start having been the target of those kinds of campaigns during my daytime talk show, a phase of my career, i can tell you how awful it is when people go to your advertisers, put pressure on the people that just want to do business and make them withdraw

their commercial support for your program and undermine everything it is you do for a living. >> gretchen: so many angles on this story. got to move on to this next one. eric holder, the attorney general, reviewing ray kelly, who runs the police department here in new york city, over surveillance that his department has done. so my question to you, should holder be pick ago fight with america's top cop who thwarted i think on record now, 14 terror it threats that have not happened because of him? >> full disclosure, i absolutely, unequivocally endorse ray kelly to be the next mayor of new york city. i think that he has been one of the best police commissioners in a major city in modern history of the united states of america. he's a tough cop. he's a smart cop. he's a fair cop. now,. >> steve: but. >> but nobody is perfect. i think the muslim surveillance, while absolutely logical, practical, and reasonable and helpful probably, the 1993

attack on the world trade center emanated across the hudson river. we live on the other side of the hudson river. you can throw a rock to new jersey. it's not like it's california. but there must be some way to coordinate these efforts where you don't have the nypd doing something the newark pd may not know about. there should be some form to fill out. >> steve: he did call him. >> here is the form 625 and you file it and anybody interested, the chief special agent in charge of the f.b.i. has the form. oh, the nypd will be -- >> that will stay secret. that probably won't leak at all. >> i remember the drug days when the drug war was on everyone's mind. that was the terror of the '70s and the '80s, the war on drugs. who were they failing in those days? it was latinos, hispanics, people with mustaches were being surveilled. i remember how it was in the preterror days to be searched and researched. hi, geraldo, i know it's but, but let me check it out.

what do you have -- all right. so i understand what it means to be singled out that way. but it is a fact of life that that's where the terror emanates from, the surveillance is absolutely reasonable. there should be some coordination. that was one of the lessons of the 9-11 -- >> gretchen: should the department of justice be investigating ray kelly? >> i think -- i'm not so sure they are investigating ray kelly. i think that's all pr. i think when he says i'm going to check out the incidents plats -- i haven't heard one congressman say there is going to be hearings. i saw yesterday many muslim americans protest not guilty favor of ray kelly and in favor of the surveillance. so i think ray kelly will be fine. he's done a magnificent job. he should be mayor of new york. he and bloomberg have kept us very safe. the other argument or -- stop and frisk of minority youngsters in inner city neighborhoods which is a lot like muslim surveillance in the sense that there is no warrant and you're

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>> steve: you may hear the main stream media reporting the number of former gitmo detainees returning to terror after being released is decreasing. but that is not, according to senator kelly eye yacht. >> eric: the other day, she got word the numbers on the rise and questions one of our top military commanders about it. listen. >> two are former guantanamo bay detainees who have been released. >> he is the number two man in al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen. he is their number two military commander right now. he's engaged in active operations. akir, he is a taliban commander in afghanistan and again, engaged with it. >> eric: senator ayotte joins us live from d.c the serving trend, the actual number of people returning to terrorism is growing. how are they getting out?

>> well, we've previously released them under both administrations and what happens is, we release them to third countries and we don't keep track of them. they get back out. they get back into the fight against us and as identified in that hearing, it's not just that they're getting back in the fight to commit attacks against us, they're leading the fight. for example, one of the top taliban commanders we had at gitmo, we released him and he got back in the fight against us. the number two guy in al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula is a former gitmo detain yeah. it's real problem we released these individuals and the reengagement rate has gone up. >> steve: it's gone in the wrong direction. and the problem going forward, senator, of course, barak obama famously said as soon as i'm president, i'm going to close gitmo. this country doesn't have a long-term plan on where to put these people who clearly, from the reengagement rate, can't go

back home. >> that's the big problem. i was actually asking general matus at the hearing. basically he said we have no place to put these individuals. i asked our military commanders, so if we get the guy who took over for bin laden tomorrow, where will we detain him to question him? there is no answer because this administration wants to close guantanamo bay. we certainly don't want these individuals brought to the united states of america. guantanamo bay is a top rate detention facility and it doesn't make sense to close it when we have no place to put these individuals that is secure, so we can question them to get information and protect americans. >> eric: very quickly, i don't have a lot of time, is there any sort of intel that the prisoners or the detainees that are here when they go back into service, you said they're leading the fight, is that because it's been a badge of honor to spend time in gitmo? >> unfortunately, it has become a badge of honor and so they get back into the fight and they're trying to kill americans.

they're committing suicide attacks, leading the fight. it's really unfortunate, committing terrorism acts and so this has become a badge of honor, but the fact that we don't have any place to put them if we recapture them tomorrow or get, for example, the leader of al-qaeda is outrageous. the administration should keep gitmo open. >> steve: yeah, they have that brand-new $750,000 soccer field. it's delightful. senator, we thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> eric: since when is community service not good enough when it's done at a church? high school student finding that the hard way. >> steve: then you want to see the real story of sarah palin, the one that's not made up, the one that's not on hbo, stick around éyéy÷y [ male announcer ] for fastidious librarian emily skinner,

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>> steve: yes, now it's time for quick headlines from the control room. we're learning that the pentagon is, quote, absolutely preparing for a possible strike against the country of iran. defense secretary panetta says the united states has been considering plans for a long time and also says the u.s. strike would be more effective than an israeli strike. jury in georgia letting an illegal immigrant from guatemala collect his $750,000 lottery jackpot. he gets the prize, plus $225,000 for attorney fees and damages, but now he's got to leave the country. now, of course, he's rich.

gretch, eric? >> gretchen: thank you, steve. as we all know, she rose to national prominence back in 2008 when she was picked to be senator john mccain's presidential running mate. now a documentary giving a more intimate look into the life and career of governor sarah palin. >> unlike many states, the government in the state of alaska, the constitution was written. the founder decided we needed a ceo, one person that would be responsible. >> all decisions must go through this ceo. >> if things were to go wrong in the state, they want the ability for the people to know where does that blame lay? >> eric: this is the producer of the undefeated. thank you for joining us. so tell us a little about the movie you're going -- by the way, this is a follow-up, right? this is the real sarah palin story? >> it's taken totally -- i don't interview her. it's taken from tv foot annual and news footage. nothing is made up. you see all the facts are there. the packs of the film have never

been questioned. what has been questioned is how i bunched them because the liberal media and the main stream media never wanted to really address what we just talk about there, what a great leader she is and what an effective politician she's been. >> gretchen: you said that throughout your research of putting this together that you found out things about sarah palin that people had never heard about before. like what? >> i think when you go back -- alaska in mid decade is very much like the united states today. you had a compromise and corrupt political class, in bed with big business and big finance. sarah palin was a reformer at every step of the way, whether it was wasilla, when she was governor, she went against incredible odds. she changed the tax structure. she did a tremendous job on economic development. everything she did was passed unanimously by both houses of the legislature in alaska. she sold it like during the tea party. she went around to small groups and sold it. she's a very accomplished -- the reason i wanted to make the film is that the liberals made this name that she's combination of barbie meets bible spice.

what you have, i think, is a leader who is more accomplished at the time, given what she had done, than bill clinton when he was governor, george bush when he was governor, and certainly then senator barak obama. >> eric: one of the most important things for us, we're going to watch the movie or seen the movie -- i have seen it -- where is the governor on the movie? does she like it and think it's accurate? >> when they approached heifer to do short videos, i came back and said, my partners and i will put the money up. we'll finance the film, but we have to tell it our way. we don't even want to interview you. we'll show you the film before we put it in theaters. we showed it to her in arizona. she and her husband, seven months after we started. she took a look at it. at that version was the x rated version which had the vulgarity. she got up and said, i love it. don't change a thing. shook our hands and said, see you later. she said later on greta, i really love the film. i think it tells my story. >> gretchen: just to explain why it was x rated was not because of things she said. it was because of what was we're talk being, the comedians.

>> tea party and middle america don't really watch a lot of hbo or comedians like louis ck. i wanted to show an audience what it's like to be sarah palin. so i start off with this beat down. then that's why i didn't interview her i. put it in the vortex of what it was to be sarah palin at the time. that volume garrity shocked an -- vulgarity shocked an audience. it's on 8:00 p.m. eastern time on the reelz channel. thank you for your time. coming up, a huge report on the economy. >> eric: we'll get the monthly unemployment rate. >> gretchen: then let's make a deal. >> eric: he is rick santorum working out a secret deal with mitt romney. the details next. >> gretchen: and take a look at this. the first of its kind air bags on the outside of a car?

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>> steve: fox news alert for you right now. the monthly jobless numbers coming out. unemployment remains unchanged at 8.3%. that's where it was last month. employers added, here is great news -- 227,000 jobs in the month of february.

they were expecting about 210,000 jobs. so let's turn now to chris wallace who joins us from our nation's capitol. chris, that sounds pretty good. 227,000 people got new jobs in the last month. >> absolutely. look, it isn't as many as you'd like, but it's as you say, better than expected. we're now in the number. and eric can talk about this with more expertise than i can. we're in the area where if you can continue it up, you not only keep up with population growth, but you begin to eat away at the unemployment number. i obviously haven't seen why it didn't go down at all this month. but we're not at 70,000 or 150,000. when you get up over 200,000, you're creating enough jobs to begin slowly to eat away at the big unemployment, the millions of unemployed. so that's good news for the country and good news for barak obama. >> gretchen: eats away at the republican argument about high unemployment rate, et cetera, doesn't it?

>> well, look, historically, no. historically since fdr, nobody has won, no president has won reelection with unemployment over 7.2%. that was ronald reagan in 1983 and come down from 10%. so 8.3 is still historically very high. jimmy carter didn't get relie detectorred. with unemployment at 7 1/2%. neither did geri ford. but having said that, it's in the right direction and the job creation -- that's the argument it will be. republicans will say, look, it's still historically very high and the democrat also say, but the trend line is sharply down. >> eric: let me point out, i'm paging through the release right now. it just came out literally 3 1/2 minutes ago. manufacturing, 30,000 jobs created. not enough. they really need -- it needs to be a bigger number. very important, construction. zero added jobs. those two areas, you want to help the economy, you'd be increasing employment in

manufacturing and most importantly construction that. would signal the real estate market. >> 'cause we're building stuff. >> eric: it's not happening yet. good number, though. a lot of it in services. lot of restaurant workers, bar workers, services. not necessarily sign of a healthy economy. >> no. and you're exactly right. something like manufacturing, when you're hiring for a company that makes something, that's an indication that the bosses think people are going to start buying things. so therefore, they're going to start making more of it. also obviously construction. but still, 220,000, when you think of where we were, that's a pretty good number. >> gretchen: so we're probably -- we'll probably hear the republican candidates talk being this today. let's talk about a problem that's arising for rick santorum with regard to delegates. way back a couple months ago when you had to register in some of these state districts, congressional districts, he didn't have the organization or the money. he was down 2, 3% in the polls. now that could be creating problem, like in illinois, alabama, et cetera? >> absolutely. we saw it just last tuesday in

ohio where he wasn't eligible -- i don't know how it ended up, but at one point, there were as many as 18 delegates. he couldn't compete and he wasn't on the ballot in virginia. i asked him about it last sunday and he said, look, you're exactly right. but you have to remember that back when we were having to file, that the santorum campaign basically consisted of him and trusted advisor in a pick up truck driving around to all 99 counties of iowa. he's paying a price for that now. he can go forward from here, but you can't reverse the time -- as much as i've tried, steve, you can not reverse the time, space continuum. i know brian probably back in 1820 right now. >> steve: could be. or 2050. >> the result is he can't get on the ballots he needed to file for months ago. >> steve: it's a math problem. and a couple of days ago, the romney people made a power point presentation to the press and said look, mathematically, mitt romney needs 48% of the votes going forward.

santorum, 65. and newt, 70%. that's a really high hill to climb. so some are suggesting that maybe what mr. santorum could do right now, 'cause he is amacing did he go gates, is maybe -- delegates, is maybe he would make a deal with mitt romney. you make me the number two guy and i will pledge all of my delegates to follow you. >> i think that's way premature. i know that's being speculated. if i were rick santorum, i mean -- if i'm rick santorum, i lost by 3% in romney's native state of michigan. i lost by 12,000 votes in ohio, there is not a reason in the world why i wouldn't keep going. it may well be that he can't get the 1144 delegates, but if he stays in the race, if paul stays in the race, if newt gingrich stays in the race, they could prevent mitt romney from getting the 1144 and bring this to an open convention. >> gretchen: the reason that some of these stories are coming about is because the selection cycle continues and nobody is the nominee yet. so now there is going to be all

this speculation of if they would actually hand over their delegates. >> that might be a discussion to have in may or june. it's not a discussion to have in march when he's just a few thousand votes away from really damaging the romney campaign. >> eric: you have newt coming up on the show. what are you going to ask him? >> look, he's at a crucial point in his campaign. he has won two of 23 primaries. the ones that he can say for himself is that he's a southern candidate. the two he won were in georgia and south carolina. next tuesday, alabama and mississippi. we'll be talking to him about does he have to win those states or will he drop out? that's what santorum would love is to be able to go at romney one on one. another reason why santorum isn't about to drop u. then we'll talk to john mccain. obviously a lot of key issues. he came out this week and said we should start impose ago no fly zone in syria. a lot to say aboutish ran and israel. and whether we like it or not, game change, the movie, the hbo

movie about mccain's choice of sarah palin going to be on hbo saturday night. he promises he's not going to watch it. i predict he -- look, if ed harris were playing me, i would watch. i'm going to ask him whether or not he watched it. >> steve: another reason to watch fox news sunday is not only is it hosted by chris wallace, but this week, chris wallace is an award winner. this past week, honored in our nation's capitol by the national press foundation. tell us a little about the award that you won, sir. >> well, thank you. he was a guy who founded broadcasting magazine -- modesty -- it's a big deal. >> steve: it is a big deal. >> really a lot of very -- brit hume won it. ted koppel won it. the cast of "60 minutes" won it. so it's sort of a lifetime achievement award and i'm actually kind of honor to do have gotten it. >> gretchen: here is one of the reasons why you got it. let's see you in action.

>> why didn't you do more to put bin laden and al-qaeda out of business when you were president? >> you did your conservative -- what i want to know is -- >> answer the question. that's a legitimate question. >> it was a perfectly legitimate question, but i want to know how many people in the bush administration you asked this. >> what do you make of the charge that pre9-11 that, this government, the bush administration, largely ignored the threat from al-qaeda? >> dr. rice, all the talk about the nuclear program, all the talk about aluminum tubes was wrong. >> you never feel far away from the job because it's always wherever you go. >> steve: chris wallace, this is your life. >> gretchen: he knows some people. >> steve: the great thing about your show is you are a terrific interviewer and you are fair and it's great that the national press foundation would go ahead and honor you with this because when it comes to sunday morning chat, you're the best in the business. >> eric: by the way, chris, ed harris probably wouldn't play you. i'm thinking maybe more edward

norton. >> steve: brad pitt! >> well, any of the above. they all -- let me ask one question. is this why brian kilmeade isn't here? he couldn't stomach the idea of the tribute? >> gretchen: right. exactly. he'll be giving it to you next week, i promise. >> i'm sure he will. thank you, guys. that's very, very sweet and let me just say, because people are going to say, you're too tough on the republicans. when the democrats are willing to come on, we're just as tough on them. >> steve: absolutely. he's fair and balanced. >> gretchen: chris, have a great show on sunday. we'll be watching. >> thank you. i really appreciate that. >> gretchen: for the rest of your headlines for friday, the senate killing an attempt to speed up approval for the keystone pipeline. the amendment would have removed president obama from the decision making process. majority of senators backed it, including 11 democrats. but it failed to meet the required 60 votes. the senate minority leader shocked the president, asked democrats to vote no. he called up democrats and said vote no. >> a moment when millions are out of work, gas prices are

literally skyrocketing, and the middle east is in turmoil, we've got a president who is up making phone calls trying to block a pipeline here at home. >> gretchen: some say the project could have created up to 20,000 jobs. >> eric: check out this video. it's an air bag outside of the car. volvo coming up with a cushion which would pop out over the front windshield after the bumper fields. the goal is keep pedestrians heads and necks from slamming into the car. the feature will be on the volvo v 40s, but will they be the first? i'm laughing because isn't it a little too late f you already hit the pedestrian? >> steve: maybe not. it would be like hitting a pillow. >> gretchen: how often does that happen? >> steve: they know what they're doing. a controversial story out of fairfax county, virginia, a high school threatening to remove one of its students from the national honor society because she performed her community service at her church's sunday school program.

fairfax county school board defending its decision saying all faith-based service activities must have a, quote, secular purpose. the students now suing for religious discrimination. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. >> gretchen: coming up, eric holder, attorney general, taking on new york city police commissioner ray kelly over how he investigates terror threats. but wait, isn't the nypd responsible for stopping terrorist attacks? >> eric: but first, here is ali and dave with a look with what's on tap for the weekend. >> hey. great to see you. >> hey. the shocking report on how illegal immigrants are getting billions in refunds all thanks to your hard earned taxpayer dollars. >> plus, can you end your bad mood just by eating the right foods? we have details on the happiness diet from eat this, not that. >> and this homecoming queen could become the first female college football player in nearly ten years at a major university. we'll meet her. that's all coming up this weekend starting at 6 a.m don't miss my friend here on

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investigations to stop terrorist attacks, then we will have another terrorist attack. then, unfortunately, thousands of people will die in the city or some other american city. when we allow that political correctness to seep into investigative techniques. i think that there has been a lot of misinformation on -- >> steve: a lot. >> clearly you see former mayor ed koch, 9-11 survivors speaking out on behalf of the nypd and commissioner ray kelly and saying no, there is no proof of any wrongdoing. in fact, the newark police department, which complained allegedly that they weren't aware that there was an investigation going on, was, in fact, informed of it, was aware of it, and so now it's become a political football. my concern is that a political football will result in deaths of people because if they stop for one day what they're doing -- you pointed out earlier

in the show, 14 -- at least 14 terrorist attacks that we know of have been thwarted as a result of the nypd activities. so when you start to drag 30 something thousand police officers through the mud and subject them to this kind of political hangman approach, including the commission, i think it's bad for policing. >> steve: absolutely. the whole idea is to keep us safe. and they didn't break any laws apparently. apparently, however, one report that chris christie himself knew that apparently -- when he was u.s. attorney in new jersey, to a varying degree knew -- >> unfortunately there, has been a lot of allegations against the f.b.i. for infiltrating mosques across the country and lawsuits in that regard. so i think -- >> steve: who heads up the f.b.i.? oh, yeah. something to think about. peter johnson, jr., thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> steve: straight ahead, all the republican candidates vying to be the reagan candidate, but at that time, back in 1980,

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>> gretchen: in an election where the gop candidates are vying for the title of true reagan conservative, it may be hard to believe that around this time in the 1980s, no one gave ronald reagan a chance to win the presidency. he was expected to be blown out of the water by president jimmy carter and even trailed by 30 points in some hypothetical poll. months later, reagan took the presidency by a landslide. so how does this reflect upon the current gop race? here to discuss, the son of ronald reagan, michael reagan. he has endorsed newt gingrich in the race. good morning to you, michael. >> good morning to you. >> gretchen: when i saw this comparison from 1980 on super tuesday, i thought that this was the most fascinating thing of the entire day. it's so interesting to look back and see where your father was. what was going on then? >> i mean, going on then, we were fighting for the nomination of the party. we weren't thinking about jimmy carter. we were thinking about winning the nomination of the party way back then in 1980.

since then you see what people are doing and all these polls, which are snapshots of that moment in time. back in 1980, we weren't sure my father was going to win the election until the last week of the campaign. that's usually when it all closes down and you find out who is going to go ahead, who is going to be behind, who is falling back, who is moving forward. i mean, it really happens right at the very end. so all the stuff that's going on right now is what it is. it's just campaign mode, it's media mode and everything else. >> gretchen: with so much made of it as it is today in 2012, so many people -- bad for the republican party to not have a nominee? >> gerald ford out there want to go put himself into and insert himself into the campaign thinking he would be the guy to save the party after winning in 1976. so much so, the ultimately want to be the vice president of the united states thinking ronald reagan needed him to win the presidency in 1980, yet he

wouldn't choose ronald reagan in 1976. so this kind of thing is always going on. back in 1980, we didn't have the media outlets that we have today. we had abc, nbc, cbs. we didn't have fox. we didn't have cable. we didn't have the internet. we didn't have the social media that you have today that brings it all to a head every day. >> gretchen: so in 30 seconds, michael what, advice would you give to the remaining republican candidates to pull it out like your father did? >> i would tell me them to stop trying to be ronald reagan and find your own drummer. build your own city on a hill. tell me your story. invite me in. if you look for ronald reagan, you're not going to find him. we're not going to find him either. we, as a republican party, need to look at the next great leader of our movement. don't look for ronald reagan. if you're doing that, you may walk right past the next leader. >> gretchen: all right. michael reagan will continue our discussion in our after the show show. thanks so much. see you back in a couple of minutes.

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