than you do? >> i got it. blagojevich. blago! take that, alisyn camerota. >> all right. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day, everyone. >> good morning, everyone. it's march 15th. i'm alisyn camerota in for gretchen this morning. >> who failed miserably. >> d.c. goes hollywood as president obama's big bundleers and hot shot celebrities flock to the white house for a state dinner with the british prime minister. what the president served up and who was on the guest list next. >> we weren't. mitt romney wasn't invited either and he says he knows what the country wants and needs. >> what the nation wants is someone who understands the economy, not a -- if you will, an economic lightweight. senator santorum is a nice guy but he does not understand how the economy works. >> ok, but is the economy enough to put him, mr. romney, ahead of president obama? we got some numbers for this thursday morning. >> and food stamps for seniors.

>> now that i'm retired and have a fixed income, those stamps are a big help. they help me eat right when money is tight. >> wow, why is the administration pushing for more government assistance on the air waves? "fox & friends" starts now. >> thank you! >> good morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. >> look at you miss sunshine in your white dress. >> one of the crews thought i was getting married today. >> again? it is a thursday! >> she's only been married once that we know of. >> yes. and also, don't adjust your set. that is steve doocy with a tan. you look fantastic. >> kind of. i'm kind of blushing. i was out in the sun like brian. >> for the irish, that's dangerous. >> it is. we have a busy three hours kicks off right now with the news. >> let's tell you what's happening with your headlines.

start with a fox news alert. we have new video from kabul, afghanistan of defense secretary leon panetta meeting with hamid karzai there. this meeting comes as officials say they believe an afghan man was trying to attack a large group of u.s. marines assembled to meet secretary panetta as he touched down in the country. he said he was, however, not the intended target. the man drove a stolen pickup on to a ramp along a runway. before he could reach the marines, the truck crashed into a ditch. the driver got out covered in flames that he likely ignited himself. overnight, he died from those injuries. panetta's trip already a tense one, of course, in the wake of an american soldier killing 16 afghan civilians. meanwhile, while you were sleeping, that soldier was flown out of afghanistan and into kuwait. an official say they deny have the proper facilities needed to detain the soldier long term. there's a chance he will be tried there down the road.

afghan lawmakers are outraged by the move, many of them calling on the afghan president hamid karzai to suspend all talks with the white house until that suspect is back on their soil. we're getting a look at some new video of cross border violence between israel and gaza. overnight, israeli air force bombs hit the factory in gaza strip and as you can see, it exploded into flames. israel says it was targeting a rocket launching site and terror tunnel. no one was hurt. this attack comes hours after rocket fire hit southern israel. the attack continued despite a cease-fire that supposedly went into effect on thursday. going head to head with the department of justice over the challenge to the state's voter i.d. program. texas says it does not need anyone's approval to change its voting laws and wants everyone to show photo i.d. in the next election but the 1965 voting rights act says otherwise giving the feds "final say" when it comes to rules regulating elections. texas has asked a federal panel of judges for permission to challenge that act which they say is unconstitutional.

governor perry's administration insists it's only trying to crack down on voter fraud. well, forget about the economy or social policy, a new study shows what voters really want is a candidate with a nice, deep voice. just like president palmer on the show "24." >> the call they would make. >> researchers at duke university and the university of miami held mock elections and found that voters preferred candidates with deeper, lower pitched voices over those with high pitched tones. >> that's why richard simmons will not be president. why they say they found them stronger and more competent. by the way, the deep voice theory also applied to female candidates. those are your headlines. >> really? >> nice. >> 4 minutes after the top of the hour. >> big party in washington, d.c. last night, we weren't invited. the first family throwing their biggest state dinner honoring the british prime minister and

his lovely wife. >> latest on the details and the party that happened in washington, d.c., peter doocy. peter? >> brian, on tuesday night, you remember, president obama took british prime minister david cameron to ohio for a basketball game and a hot dog. last night, the affair was a little fancier and they didn't have to leave the white house because prime minister cameron and his wife samantha were the honored guested at the big state dinner and some really famous people got wanded by the secret service at the gate to join them including george clooney who was in town to testify on the hill earlier in the day about the sudan. richard branson and warren buffet both of whom have billions of dollars and both of whom were taking advantage of the free food so big time backers of the president's re-election campaign were invited as well including "vogue" editor adam winter and movie producer harvey winestein and at the end of the night they got to see the world leaders toast each other. >> when we met two years ago, we exchanged beers from our

hometowns. one news story said david cameron and barack obama cemented their special relationship by hitting the bottle. >> you don't get to choose the leaders you have to work with. but all i can say is that it is a pleasure to work with someone with moral strength, with clear reason, and with fundamental decency. >> last night's first course was crisped halibut with potato crust followed by shaved breakfast radish. the entree was wellington with red wine reduction and french beans and dessert was a warm lemon steamed pudding and there was also an american wine paired with each course but we don't know which ones. back to you. i hope my voice was deep enough. >> it was plenty deep. >> you win. thank you very much. >> he does win. >> 6 minutes after the top of the hour. as you reported yesterday because you're on america's newsroom and steve you've been tracking, although rick santorum who won the two major states, mitt romney walked away with most of the delegates.

head to head people have to wonder as we get to the back stretch of this campaign that keeps going on and on and the most turbulent in a generation on the g.o.p. side, where does the nominees stack up when going head to head with president obama? >> all right. so let's take a look. now on the left part of your screen, that's the president's numbers vs., for instance, mitt romney. mitt romney 42% prefer him. but 46% prefer the president. then when you look at ron paul, he's got 38. as you can see, the president beats all of them just generally but that follows conventional wisdom because we want to like our president and things like that. besides the republican party is split. they haven't quite solidified behind one guy. >> of course, it was a mixed result because when they asked respondents who was most qualified to handle the economy, they got a different result than the president. most people said is romney qualified? yes, 69%. no, 24%. that compares to the presidents where people thought yes, only

60% vs. no 38%. gingrich dropped then to yes, 49% to 44%. santorum is lower at 48%. >> here's the thing, if you think that the number one issue in almost every poll that says it's the economy, it's almost like america has a split personality with this fox news poll because if you think the best person to handle the economy is mitt romney, why is it that it seems the president beats him head to head although in another poll yesterday, the president loses by two points to mitt romney. mitt romney brought that up yesterday. >> some people were very conservative, may not be up in my camp but they will be when i become the nominee, when i face barack obama because again, what the nation wants is someone who understands the economy, not a -- if you will, an economic lightweight. i mean, senator santorum is a nice guy but he does not understand how the economy works. >> ouch! so as this primary process goes on, there are -- and we can look at this brand new fox news poll that shows that republicans are concerned that they're beating

each other up too much. as you can see -- ok, this is actually interesting. this is the one -- you know, they say that if newt gingrich were to drop out, everybody -- >> everybody would go to rick santorum. that snis not the case. take a look. without gingrich and the number you want to look at is in the far right upper corner, without gingrich, mitt romney still bests rick santorum by four which is close to the margin of error. >> as opposed to six if he stays in. >> what you were referring to is whether or not people think this protracted primary process has hurt or energized the party and the voters. most people think it has weakened -- >> do you confirm with alisyn who interpreted what you were referring to. go ahead, alisyn. >> huh? i need to diagram that sentence. >> most people, 56% think that it has divided, 66% our graphic says has divided and weakened

the party rather than energizeed and strengthened it at 19%. >> people should remember it was three or four years ago, the year was 2008 when senator hillary clinton and senator barack obama were tearing each other apart! for six months! all the way through june. let's look back. >> shame on you, barack obama! it is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. now, i could stand up here and say let's just get everybody together, let's get unified. the sky will open. the light will come down. celestial choirs will be singing. and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect! and people always say well, can we do this? yes, we can. but that's not the right question. will we do this? >> i think that i have a lifetime of experience that i will bring to the white house.

i know senator mccain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the white house. and senator obama has a speech he gave in 2002. >> very important to understand the context of this and that is that senator clinton has her campaign at least has constantly sent out negative attacks on us. e-mail, robocalls, flyers, television ads. >> she doesn't believe, i think, in bottom up democracy. >> in this campaign, she has taken nearly double the amount from lobbyists than any democrat or republican running for president. that's not being a part of the solutions business. that is being in the business as usual business. >> see, that was just four short years ago, there they were beating each other up and remember, she did not bow out until, i think, the first or second week in june. >> and now, she is his

secretary ofof state. how times change. >> i will make a bet. you will not see newt gingrich, rick santorum or mitt romney. >> in the cabinet? >> no. i say no. i think -- i think that these -- i think it's too divided. i think there's just too much. >> too much blood in the water? >> what would happen if they said that in 2008, too? things change, look at that. >> she was never the number two, though. >> that's true. >> yeah. >> we've got a busy three hours today. thank you very much for joining us. straight ahead, the government now advertising its handouts. have you heard this one on the radio? >> now that i'm retired and have a fixed income, food stamps are a big help. they help me eat right when money is tight. >> i've heard that commercial. can the government really afford to expand entitlement programs? stuart varney weighs in next. that's right. we're going to weigh you. stand by. >> and more lawmakers call for attorney general eric holder's resignation. senate majority leader harry

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>> is the government now pushing for senior citizens to take more handouts in the form of food stamps? take a listen to this radio ad. >> would you look at margie? she looks amazing. >> she sure does! >> i wonder how she stays so fit. what's her secret? >> well, she told me that food stamp benefits help her eat right and she stays active, too. >> oh! i didn't know they helped people our age. >> oh, food stamps help lots of people. people you know.

>> well, as our nation faces a trail -- you think this is funny, stuart varney? our nation is facing a trillion dollar deficit. can we afford it? we ask you. >> of course you cannot afford it. now, alisyn is going to attack me that i'm harsh. >> i'd say challenged. >> that's what you're going to say. let me make a couple of points, if i may, miss bride-to-be. >> i do. >> number one, if this administration outreach on food stamps actually buying votes. >> sure. >> question number one. number two, can we afford this? we've got a trillion dollar deficit every year as far as the eye can see. but we want to reach out and give people food. >> wasn't actually going to challenge you. >> you will now. >> no, i was going to ask you about whether or not this is considered educational. are they trying to tell people we don't give up just government blocks of cheese, we give out fruits and vegetables? >> no, no, no, they are saying you're eligible. therefore you are entitled. now, do you want an entitlement

nation? newt gingrich said this is the food stamp president. is this an entitlement nation? where the government goes out and says hey, you're entitled to this. you should have it. it will make you feel good. by the way, when we give you this, maybe you'll vote for us because we're giving you something. >> so you see it as a re-election thing. >> i do. >> but, you know, it is informational. there are a lot of people who might not know about it. i mean, the government has got so many programs nobody has heard about. this would be helpful for the elderly person and the senior citizen, retired person who is having tough times. >> yes. and i don't wish to be harsh but we do have 46 million americans on food stamps right now. that was as of december of last year. 22 million households. that's up by half since president obama came to office in january of 2009. >> are you happy with this? i mean, do you want this vast expansion of another entitlement program? do you want the government to outreach and say come on in, we got the money.

we got the food. you're entitled? go get it. >> why use the name margie in the ad. does that signify a different generation? >> it's in the radio industry. this is a good -- >> right. it's an industry. margie and gladys, two names usually associated with that generation. >> could have been stuart and brian. >> could be. >> that's the next generation. >> because we're all seniors, you see. >> no, you're not. are you really? >> we'll be watching his program three hours from now on fox business whether you like it or not. >> yes indeed. thank you very much. >> coming up straight ahead, the nypd is looking into muslim student groups and the war on terror but those investigations seem to be sparking another war on the nypd. is that fair? or are they just doing their job? that is next. >> and how the heck did this happen? a man's iphone gets so hot, it explodes! >> it must have been angry birds. >> or one of those 900 lines. >> what? [ male announcer ] what if that hemorrhoid pain

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>> time for some quick headlines. a man on trial in texas in jail after police say he opened fire outside of a courthouse killing one person as well as shooting his own daughter. his ex-wife and another bystander. bartholomew granger took hostages in a nearby building. they fought back. granger's daughter in critical condition. her mother treated and released. and today we'll get to see the long-awaited report on the flawed prosecution of late senator ted stevens. we now know it says there was "systemic concealment" of

evidence in the corruption case. he was convicted of lying on disclosure forms and the conviction was later wiped out. let's go to brian. >> the nypd, alisyn, under fire for investigating muslims under a controversial surveillance program. controversy to some, necessary to others. critics raise from local muslim protesters to attorney general eric holder now. according to a recent quinnipiac poll, 53% of new yorkers say the nypd has treated muslims appropriately while another 29% claim that muslims have been treated unfairly. here to talk about what the real deal is, former homeland security advisor for new york michael dalvonne. the scrutiny that the nypd is under right now from the highest level to the lowest, justified? >> well, you know, what's ironic, brian, is in page 32 of the f.b.i.'s 2008 field operations guide says and you can go out to concentrated ethnic communities to try to develop the main awareness for counter terrorism. that's exactly what the nypd has

been doing. what everybody knows is you don't plan an attack in the target city. you go on the outside. which is why places like long island, upstate new york, new jersey, connecticut, those are the places where you need to have your eyes and ears and what they call the main awareness. and that's what the nypd intel has been doing for many, many years now. >> so we got about 2,000 nypd officers who just focus on counterterrorism because all the intercepts and all the intelligence shows us the islamic extremists are fixated on new york. >> that's been proven time and time again. as ray kelly has said, you know, new york is the stage and terrorism is the drama. it's always going to happen here. someone of interest comes into the country, you follow them. where do they go? do they go to a business and particular hotel? do they try to hide within a community so they're not spotted? you follow them. that's what this program is about. >> you talk about a line. you're not looking to alienate the muslim community. if you're going to find out about an attack, they're the ones that are going to know and tell you. >> it's absolutely essential to

try to achieve that balance. you do not want to alienate the muslim community. first of all, they're americans. they're u.s. citizens. secondly, they're the ones who are going to be victimized also by these attacks. they have families and businesses here, too. it's finding that balance that's so crucial. >> and do you believe that the federal investigation and the pressure and scrutiny is altering the way ray kelly's police force is acting? >> it very well might. >> already? >> yeah, it could be happening. it depends upon how the city is going to be able to interact with other municipalities. information sharing is crucial. when another municipality says let's have another dialogue, that's a good thing. but at the same time, maintaining operational security is absolutely essential. >> i want to bring you to another point. mayor bloomberg is under fire because he said you can build a mosque at ground zero and he's the same guy that said ray kelly, go ahead and monitor the muslim community because we need to stay a step aside.

>> you can't call ray kelly and mike bloomberg islamaphobes. they've been in this city and it's the most culturally diverse city in the world. they fought for the rights of free association and religion when it came to ground zero and now they're looking to protect this city and everybody in it. >> when something happens, nypd will be blamed. if they're preventing an attack, now they're getting additional scrutiny. it's a no win situation but hopefully they understand most people appreciate what they're doing. >> right. >> and what you've done. thanks so much. great to see you. >> good to see you, too. 3 minutes before the bottom of the hour. american troops were told to drop their weapons during leon panetta's visit to afghanistan. does that show a lack of trust in our troops? we report, you decide. can't find it in stores. clayton morris has one of the very first ipad 3's. he wrote it off. me and steve have to pay for it. show some of the new features coming up and happy birthday to dee snyder, the first celebrity that you got a chance to talk to

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>> leon panetta lands in afghanistan and there's an explosion first off and wow, is this an attack? so the wisdom of the general on the ground said i have a great idea. when the secretary of defense goes to make a speech in afghanistan, being that the -- the horrible massacre took place at the hands of, it seems, one of our troops, let's show a little bit of trust to the afghan community by telling all the marines to put down their weapons during the speech. >> yeah, you know, when i saw this, i thought that can't possibly be true but it is. it happened at camp leatherneck, there were 200 men and women. some were u.s. marines. some were afghans and so here's what the official at the helman, the top nato guy said.

he said "i wanted to have the marines look just like their afghan partners. we've got one of the most important people in the world in the room." what they did is they disarmed everybody. >> because the afghan soldiers weren't bringing in weapons so they asked the u.s. troops to also put down their weapons and not bring any in. it's hard to know what the rational is. i mean, we can by by what that official had said. >> somebody got itchy. >> that was one of the theories is somebody got itchy and, of course, after the violence but they're worried about random violence, that that was just a hypothesis, some other people thought they wanted a level playing field with the afghan soldiers that they're training and the u.s. soldiers so we don't know what was behind that. >> i assume something was around the perimeter or they went through some metal detection devices. can you imagine our secretary of defense being unprotected in the middle of a war zone. it doesn't make any logical sense to me? >> i read somewhere, it might have been in "the new york times," this is the first time that americans have ever been asked to disarm while being

addressed by the u.s. secretary of defense. i saw on one of the blogs and i want to say it was hotair.com, they said one of the worries was given what happened a couple of days ago with -- that u.s. soldier shooting people allegedly, that, perhaps, an afghani might grab the sidearm of an american and then go and shoot some americans. you know, and so -- with an abundance of caution, they just ask everybody to disarm but still, you got to figure that some of the men -- some of the u.s. soldiers asked to give up their guns are -- >> i'm just wondering -- do you think the u.s. soldiers can't be trusted because of that one soldier went off the reservation and massacred all the people? is that what they're saying? they're worried that the marines couldn't be trusted with their own arms? >> i think one of the worries was, ok, if there's a marine right there and there's an afghan guy, he grabs the marine's sidearm. yeah, i know. >> hard to say again what the motivation behind that decision

was but we'll keep you posted if we get more information. let's get to your headlines. we want to show you a live look now of rod blagojevich's home in chicago. there it is. >> that's live all right. >> zoom, baby, zoom! >> there it is. and some people just went inside, the reason the cameras are there, of course, is because you'll remember the former illinois governor is expected to be leaving for a colorado prison at any moment this morning. this is to begin serving his 14-year sentence on corruption charges. here was blago saying his final farewell today. >> tomorrow when i leave, i'm saying good-bye to patty and to my kids will be the hardest thing that i've ever had to do. >> i have to confess there are times when i want to give up but then look i look into the eyes of my daughters and i look at my little girls and i think that is not what a father is supposed to do. >> blago was convicted on 17 counts including charges that he tried to sell barack obama's open senate seat to the highest bidder. he will do his time at a federal

prison outside of denver. it's sad for his daughters. it's terrible. >> absolutely. senate majority leader harry reid joining the course of democrats pushing back against calls for attorney general air derriere i can holder to step down. house minority leader nancy pelosi and dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz backing holder. >> meanwhile, venezuelan president and strong man hugo chavez set to return home after cancer surgery in cuba. when he arrives, he'll find a country filled with questions and rumors. there are major doubts about how healthy he is after his cancer has returned. meantime, his opponents dodging bullets on the campaign trail. literally one of them did. they fired a bullet at the chavez opponent. it narrowly missed his head while a supporter was wounded.

some say the tensions will only get worse and uncertainty grows about that country's future. >> a man in southern california looking for answers after his iphone exploded in his hands! travis dixon says he was playing a game when the phone overheated. you were right, brian, angry birds and the battery blew up. his hand is bruised and bandaged now. and he's even lost some movement in his fingers, he says. apple is currently working to figure out what happened. sometimes when i talk on the phone too long, i feel like that's going to happen. >> my blackberry doesn't do that! >> your blackberry doesn't do that. thank you, clayton. you're still doing a google search from last tuesday. >> i know. still waiting for that bar to go across my screen. >> real quickly take a look at the day ahead weatherwise and as you can see, we've got some storms out west although away from the pacific northwest down through portions of california and widely scattered showers lower mississippi valley to the great lake states at this hour. current temperatures for the

most part lovely in the mid atlantic, mid to upper 50's. middle 60's from dixieland up through the central plains and down along the gulf coast. it's 66 right now in tampa. later today, in tampa, 85 delicious degrees. same as raleigh/durham. that area, 80 in kansas city. here in new york city, 55, the double nickel. look at that. rapid city and denver today will have 73 degrees. beautiful! >> warmer than new york. i don't like that. >> let's go over to brian for a look at scores. >> all right. thank you for the reluctant toss. we'll talk about it later. the giants making calvin johnson the highest paid receiver in the nfl. he says he's worth every penny. signing an eight year deal worth up to $132 million. $60 million is guaranteed. he was just the third player ever last season to have 95 receptions. 1600 yards and 15 scores. he was the number two draft pick in the 2007 draft and one of the

main reasons that detroit went from 0-16 to being a playoff team and finally, knicks fans were chatting for mike to go and he picked up and left. he resigned as head coach of the new york knicks amid a six game losing streak. reports that caramelo anthony wanted to be traded because he had it with the coach. it doesn't help that he trade his entire time for a guy that doesn't like him. the knicks won by about 5,000 points and beat the blazers actually by 4 it 2. knicks hitting a season high 19 three-pointers. they wouldn't have went in if they had a different coach. >> nerd alert right now. apple's new ipad officially in stores tomorrow. we've got our own resident nerd here. >> clayton morris already has his mit on one. >> yeah, i've been testing it out for the past week and this thing is amazing. i figured what i'd do is show you a speed test. steve is holding last year's model, ipad 2. this is the brand new ipad.

we'll both hit the tech page on the fox newschannel at the same time and see how quickly mine loads. three, two, one. tap. so we're both loading here. look how quickly -- >> wow, you beat him by a milisecond. >> you can do your laundry in the meantime. >> actually, it depends on where you are, this is running speeds now and it's super fast. >> the big buzz is about the screen. text on this thing is absolutely incredible. to give you a frame of reference, if you're watching fox news at home on a high definition television, this screen has 3.1 million pixels. that's about as four times as many as your screen at home. you think alisyn looks crisp and clear at home right now? imagine her on ipad. >> great, 4hgtv, that's what i need. >> you know what this is going to do, if this is going to be a great device for watching stuff, people are going to start downloading hulu things and netflix and watching it on the

ipad. >> and fox news just rolled out their brand new fox news app for the ipad and you can stream "fox & friends" on your ipad now. live. live on the web right now on your ipad. >> right. and, of course, the beach scene that we have on our show. >> this is iphoto, they rolled this out. this is my son. >> cutest ever. >> photos are crisp and clear and feels like you're holding a 12 inch glossy print in your hand. the speed is amazing. crispness of the screen is incredible and the fact that the battery life is the same as the older ipad and it's the same price $499, it's really remarkable and if you saw apple's stock price yesterday, nearing $600 a share. >> won't be needing your ipad 2 anymore. >> matches your white wedding dress. >> what was the buzz of the announcement? did it live up to the hype for the insiders who know this like you? >> analysts and journalists were sitting in the audience at this event saying how did they imagine to get that screen? the cost involved in getting this new retina display must be incredible for them and the

technology involved taking what they have on the iphone 4s and putting it on the ipad, they own the production line, you'll see all these other tablets come out this year that are now getting up to snuff with the first generation ipad. they own the market. >> this was in the pipeline before steve jobs died. so are you -- is everybody still wondering if the creativity is still going to be there? >> i think it is and you see some of these product teams that work at apple, they're really excited about what they're doing over the next few years and i know some of those guys are doing some great work out there. >> i think their main designer, that ivy guy went to the state dinner last night at the white house. >> yeah, he's heralded -- he just was knighted in england, by the way. >> yeah. >> i knight. >> they go on sale tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. >> how much? >> $499. >> and my full reruview is up o foxnews.com. >> alisyn, give me that thing! >> what? >> don't put that on the ledge. >> look at clayton's, it's covered with drool. >> he has his baby.

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by china. >> peter is the author of "becoming china's b word" and nine more catastrophes we must avoid right now. what do you mean becoming china's b word? >> i think we are at a crossroads, we can either embrace china, understand it and confront them when they're being unfair and go after them when we have opportunities. we can restore america's greatness as an economic power if we understand china as well as they understand us. >> all right. help us understand it. you say one of the catastrophes that could befall the united states is if we become too dependent on china. >> precisely. we are right now in a position where china is a major supplier to us and our biggest banker. >> right. >> that's a complicated relationship. >> so they -- they give us money and cheap stuff. >> correct. and that's a co-dependency that you have to watch. no one would say it's a good idea to have most of your goods and most of your borrowing from the same place. what we have to do to kind of

even things out is confront them where they're being unfair and they are being unfair in some areas of trade. >> george bush has confronted them on monetary policy as barack obama has and they don't budge. >> one of the things that we have to do is act with teeth. one of the things that you can't do is be sort of generic and give toasts and say let's be fair. i think the actions that obama has taken, for instance, taking world trade organizations steps, that's the beginning of the kind of discussion that characterizes a good relationship. i think of it as economic detante. >> i want to move on to the next one. i want to get through your three. you say one of our problems that could get us into trouble is america's energy problems. which part? >> i think we have to finally and certainly declare energy independence and that means making some tough choices. we have to begin that now. >> how do we do that? >> there are a couple of ways. one is we have to do things like build the keystone pipeline. in my opinion, it will be built. that's a necessity. we have to also refurbish. we have 104 nuclear power plants

and haven't built a new one since 1979. we're committed to atomic energy and we have to go that direction and build a bridge to alternative energy. that's a trillion dollar bet and we have to make it now. >> finally, labor unions in this country. they don't have them in china. >> one of the issues with labor that frustrates me is right this minute, there are two million jobs available in the united states. these jobs don't need to be created. they need to be filled. and city by city, we literally have to work together in granular form to get people plugged into the available jobs. so we're looking at 200,000 jobs a month. imagine if we filled the available jobs today. >> makes perfect sense. you're the author of "becoming china's b word" as we like to say over breakfast time. peter, thanks so much. >> such a pleasure. >> the b stands for breakfast. >> enjoy your breakfast. >> thank you. >> straight ahead on this thursday morning, rick santorum gaining popularity but can he really catch up to mitt romney's huge delegate lead? the fair and balanced debate is coming up. >> and a symbol of freedom, our national bird now allowed to be

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>> welcome back. a federal agency has granted a north american indian tribe in wyoming a permit to kill a living american symbol, the bald eagle for religious purposes. joining us right now is the founder and president of the american eagle foundation, with

our old buddy challenger right there as well. good morning to you, al. >> good morning, steve. >> ok, so the north arapahoe tribe had filed suit with the u.s. fish and wildlife because they refused to allow them to kill some eagles because they used the feathers in religious ceremonies. now, apparently, they've said it's going to be ok. we're going to allow you to kill two eagles. how do you feel about that? >> well, i think it's alarming and disturbing and i just hope we're not opening up a pandora's box that will open the door for others to do the same. you know, we've spent well over 40 years conservation groups and thousands of conservationists across the country have spent 40 years bringing the eagle back from the brink of extinction to have our national symbol in the future. this doesn't sit right with me. >> the argument by the indian tribe is they use and have for a very long time used eagle

feathers and eagle parts in their services and they -- and they need them. but as i understand, apparently the wildlife service does provide eagle feathers and claws and things like that, right? >> that's right. there are so many other options to obtaining eagle feathers and body parts besides killing an eagle. for instance, our organization has 40 captive bald eagles that are nonreleasable and every year they molt their feathers. occasionally, we get eagles that are injured or, you know, threatened in some way and they end up dying because they can't be treated so there's plenty of opportunities to obtain a good eagle carcass and hundreds of eagle feathers either through the government, the federal depository. >> but now they have -- the federal government has given the tribe the permission to kill two eagles. here's a statement from them. they say the service must also dmrie with other laws and regulations as well.

now, as i understand, the eagle is not on the endangered list but is protected by federal statute. >> right, it's protected species under the bald eagle act of 1940 which is pretty strictly protected under those regulations. >> not surprisingly, so many of our viewers, i looked at the e-mail a little while ago and they are outraged this is happening. >> we are as well and right now, i'd like to, you know, appeal to chairman jim shakespeare and his tribal council to consider other options. we've worked too hard to bring this symbol back to america. i know it's sacred to millions of americans not only as our national bird but millions of american indians who really adore this bird and we have other options to pursue besides killing eagles. >> all right. joining us today from knoxville along with challenger, thank you very much. >> you're very welcome. >> all right. e-mail us. coming up, a fox news alert from

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we're going to find out. "fox & friends" live from new york hour two starts right now. >> you're from new jersey. >> and i'm italian and i'm from the jersey shore. i can't wait to see what they have to say to me about that. >> how about this? that was almost a new jersey accent. >> i was about to start fist pumping. >> out of your system. the other thing is we have the ongoing battle between governor christie who says he wants it to end and the jersey cast that gets more and more popular. could the show be ending this year? >> we have a lot to talk about. >> right. meanwhile, as we told you, a fox news alert coming your way now. new details emerging surrounding the attempted attack on the air base in afghanistan during defense secretary leon panetta's visit. >> peter doocy joins us from our washington bureau. defense secretary just wrapped up a meeting with president hamid karzai. what do we know? >> well, alisyn, the latest out

of kabul is that u.s. secretary of defense, leon panetta is saying now he has no reason to believe that the attempted attack on the base yesterday was directed at him and the afghan man who lit himself on fire after crashing a pickup truck he drove on to the runway where secretary panetta's plane was set to land is now dead. he was hospitalized with burns all over his body and a general said earlier it was his personal opinion that the man's intent was to do harm. but he did not end up doing harm to the secretary and that man, the suspect, an afghan is now dead. now, later on at camp leatherneck, rather earlier yesterday, a group of marines waiting to hear from secretary panetta were told that if they wanted to be in the same room as the secretary, they had to leave their weapons oisd and the marines followed that order and the officer who signed off on the order, major general said he made that order which had not been made in the past because there's a new sheriff in town, that's his quote so basically he's running the show and he said it's because two dozen

afghan soldiers there were unarmed and he said "i want them to have the marines look just like their afghan partners. you've got one of the most important people in the world in the room. "now, keep in mind, this comes just days after an american soldier allegedly killed 16 afghans but nobody has said anything to suggest that there's a connection between that soldier's killing spree and the order to keep away from secretary panetta while carrying a weapon. back to you. >> peter, just to recap, leon panetta says he does not believe that the guy who lit himself on fire was related to his appearance there? >> he said he has no reason to believe that which flies in the face of what his own general said yesterday. >> all right. >> based on the latest information, he says he has no reason to believe that. >> all right. obviously a developing story and we'll keep everybody posted, peter. thank you. we have other headlines to tell you about including another fox news alert right now. former illinois governor rod blagojevich is about to leave his home in chicago for o'hare

airport and from there, he will fly to colorado to begin serving his 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges. you'll remember that he was convicted on 17 counts including charges that he tried to sell barack obama's open senate seat. this is now live, this is live and the helicopter shot, they are monitoring when he leaves his home. leaving for 14 years and leaving two young daughters and his wife patty behind. >> he shouldn't have broken the law. >> that's really the answer here. i believe that's the lesson today that we get from this. >> no kidding. >> he is a good guy. >> if your invitation got lost in the mail, you missed the biggest state dinner the president and first lady had ever thrown. the party was in honor of the british prime minister and his wife samantha. on the guest list, hollywood stars like george clooney who went dateless. >> it looks like a date. >> i believe that's a handler. >> billionaires including richard branson and warren

buffet. nearly 3,000 of the campaign donors were there including "the devil wears prada" herself the "vogue" editor and a producer harvey winestein each stuffed about $500,000 into the president's re-election war chest. incredible story a decade in the making. infant kidnapped eight years ago in texas found alive. this is what he looked like the last time his family saw him in 2004. now, the boy's grandmother, crystal tanner is behind bars charged with kidnapping him. she was supposed to be babysitting. tanner was reportedly caught after someone turned her in for alleged child abuse. miguel should be back with his real family as soon as tomorrow. what a story. those are your headlines. >> all right, now 5 minutes after the top of the hour. listen, when you talk about what concerns people most, they aren't really talking about the election as much as they're talking about gas prices. i filled up. i know it's $3.83 the national average. i went for the 89 octane. $4.19.

after $85, my hand was so exhausted, i had to exhaust it. my wrist was swollen and i called it quits. >> i was home in florida gassing up the rental car and it was north of $4 a gallon. this is something. here's the thing, with $4 a gallon gas, people say the president has a lot of political peril there. but when you look at this brand new fox news poll, who do you -- and the first question is do you blame the president for gas prices? 52% say no. only 40% say yes. which is interesting because you go back four years or so ago when we had high gas prices, so many people blame president george bush. >> including candidate obama. >> right. >> but it's a bit of a mixed result as these polls tend to be because then the question asks how do you -- what do you think of president obama's handling of the gas prices and only 26% approve of how he's handling the prices. 61% disapprove.

so while they may not be keeping controls over the price, they think he could be doing something different or better. >> the other thing is that might play into the fact that there was a poll showing the president's approval rating dropped to 41%. it dropped eight points since the gas prices started picking up steam. one woman can't decide or one man can't decide what the gas prices will be, they're saying the pipeline was shut down on friday thanks to the personal phone calls to democratic senators. the drilling has gone down. people have been educated on federal land as opposed to private land and other people have come forward like senator mary landru and said the permits to drill in the gulf are so slow in coming, people can't get back to work. >> when the white house says we've got this all of the above strategy and you go, no, you don't. you said no to keystone. you're really not doing much permitting. and you hear about the secretary of energy saying yeah, you know, we'd really -- we're not about driving down the price of gas. we're about driving down demand although he's done a 180 on that

and you realize, maybe -- i know there are a lot of factors but maybe the white house isn't doing everything it could. >> newt gingrich certainly believes that some of those aforementioned things could move the needle. he was on greta's show last night talking about his $2.50 plan for gas. >> we have an opportunity to offer an american energy program which not only makes us independent of the middle east and means that no american president will ever bow to a saudi king again, not only means we'll have $2.50 or less per gallon of gas, if you are a typical hard working hispanic american and you pull into a gas station tomorrow morning in chicago and you're paying $4.25 a gallon and newt gingrich planned to get you below $2.50, it's right in your pocketbook and right in your family's quality of life. >> when you look at what presidents can do when george bush was president and gas was way up there, they started permitting and they knew that more oil would be coming on line and really this president, obama

as well, has benefited from the increased production and suddenly you got that going. >> this is a fox news alert. we want to show you rod blagojevich leaving for his 14-year prison sentence in a colorado prison. you see the scrum of reporters around his house, the spotlight is on. you can see them moving clearly blago must be in the middle of that. he just left. he was, of course, convicted on many corruption charges of 17 including the fact that he tried to sell barack obama's open senate seat to the highest bidder. he will do his time in federal prison outside of denver. >> yeah and his first trial was no problem. the second trial, they got him! and he's basically out of money as well. >> yeah and the thing about this as you recall was there was so much -- there he is right there. so long! on tape. just moments ago. there was so much audio tape of him where he was talking about different things. >> never heard that much of it.

>> we've heard enough to know that he curses a lot. i want to say that jaunty style of him coming out of the door, that was just standard vintage blago. i mean, headed to prison but still keeping his signature attitude. >> and one thing about him, we've had him on this program a number of times. he's got a great personality. he is a great politician who, as we now see is going to jail because he broke the law. >> by the way, six months before his first trial, he shows up at the community fund dinner because he met steve baldwin and they come walking in and he seemed like a great guy. >> screen left is live. i wonder if they'll be -- >> he's talking to reporters, again, signature blago. >> let's listen to wfld and see if we can hear anything there. i guess not. >> smiling, waving. >> my old transistor radio. >> answering questions. he's going out in his blago style. to your point, yes, having interviewed him, he is charming. that's what people -- he at one time -- >> he doesn't believe he did

anything wrong. >> of course, that's right, he doesn't and he was a real rising star in the democratic party and people said he had presidential aspirations and people, because he was so charming and charismatic thought he could be on that route and he made bad choices in office as the governor of illinois. >> and the people of illinois, some of them are going to miss that mop top of his but he'll be back in 14 years. >> although i don't see -- i don't know a single politician that stood by his side. do you know anybody that came forward and said he's my guy? >> no, we did see many of those public opinion polls even though there was a lot of damning evidence against him, he was popular with a portion of the people. >> and he will not be eligible to vote in the tuesday primary in illinois. >> convicted felon. sure. it's chicago, though, he's probably already voted. >> maybe. let's hope they got that right. >> and look at that. >> it's not a bentley. it's a chrysler. i think it's a chrysler 300. >> doesn't want to get his seat belt. >> bentley? you lived in new york too long.

>> i was almost mowed down by one a few days ago so i'm familiar with the grille of it. >> it would make for a better headline. bye-bye blago in a bentley. >> yeah, he's about to drive away and head down. >> you want to hear me? >> now, we can hear you. >> let's listen. >> i am sorry. we had a little bit of audio problems there in the shuffle. i was right next to the former governor. he actually held on to my hand as he was walking to his car. and there was quite the crush of reporters. in fact, i got squeezed and hit in the head a couple of times. but he seemed a little disoriented as he was trying to make his way to the vehicle. i kept asking him, and you probably couldn't hear me but i kept asking him, did you get any sleep last night? get up early in the morning. and he, you know, a couple of people asked him what did you say to your children? he said what did you say to your children? i'm just trying to go forward and get to the car here. so, you know, when he got to the car, there were people who were saying, governor, governor, governor, and somebody handed him a newspaper. he took the newspaper but then

he did eventually end up leaving. we got people who are upset that we're here and blocking the way here, some people obviously a little upset about this whole situation. you can see the former governor inside the car this morning. he's making his way. it is a little crazy this morning. i don't know who these other individuals are in the car with him this morning. >> yeah. ok, we lost the audio portion but as you can see -- >> look at this. chopper from above. >> how big is our budget? >> no kidding! >> you know, obviously, blago has been a punch line for a long time but that one question she said that all the reporters zeroed in on, what did you say to your kids today? he has two young daughters. that part is heartbreaking. >> he said what did you say to your kids? turned it around. >> 30 seconds before we go to black. there's no doubt that rick santorum is picking up popularity. can he catch up to mitt romney in the race for delegates? we'll debate it next and bring some math. >> and then they're taking over the jersey shore much to my

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>> good morning. >> thank you. >> i want to start with you, santorum has momentum. but romney has the numbers in delegates. can santorum overtake him? >> yes, he can. it's going to be a very tough run. mitt romney has got states that he's likely to win that are coming up. rick santorum has got states in the south that he's likely to win. santorum certainly has to win wisconsin and has to win indiana, one would think. that looks like states that could be flavorable to his message. at some point to have a shot of catching up to mitt romney, i suspect he's going to have to win some state that frankly today is seems unlikely he would win, whether it's illinois or at some point, he has to pull off an upset. >> rick santorum is making the argument that this is a two-man race. a new fox news poll out yesterday shows that if somehow newt gingrich were to step aside, he does not want to, but

if he were, if you took gingrich out of the equation, it's still romney now -- if you took out gingrich, romney would have 38%. rick santorum would have 32%. sorry, 43% without gingrich, rick santorum would have 39% so mitt romney would still be leading even without gingrich. >> and he would still be leading not just in polls but in delegate math and ali, that's all that matters right now. look, he would have to, meaning rick santorum, he would have to capture 60% to 70% of the delegates going forward. is it impossible? no. is it likely? no. probably not. it's like me becoming the next "american idol." could it happen? it could. will it happen? probably not if you've ever heard me sing. >> good point. >> and you look at the states that are coming up like california and texas, mitt romney is likely to take most of them. now the other states that are winner take all like new jersey, utah, washington, d.c., that are -- i'm sorry, that are winner

take all, mitt romney is likely to get. the other states like california and texas that i just mentioned, those are proportional so rick santorum would have to capture historic amount of the vote which just isn't likely when you look at history and because of the way that the rnc set up this whole process this time, it's much like the democrats with the proportional system. it's just not likely in the math that gingrich or santorum could catch up at this point. >> we don't have a lot of time but i did want to note something that you had said, basically that you think that this current administration is out of ideas so that leaves an opening for anyone on the g.o.p. side who comes in with fresh ideas. >> well, one thing that you may notice about the obama administration is that several years ago they had a lot of big ideas. whether you agreed with them or not, there were big things they wanted to do on tax reform and climate change, but right now, the priorities of the administration is trying to get

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>> regulation nation about to strike the family farm now that government wants to regulate kids helping out on their parents' land. our next guest confronted labor secretary yesterday on capitol hill about this proposal. >> the fact that you would suggest rules that relate to whether a farmer's own child at age 15 can work on their own farm suggests that input is needed, that this is a major change in the way that we live

our lives. >> while i don't have a problem with children working on their parents or relatives' farms, that is a question that we're going to be seeking comment on. >> really? >> but why? kansas senator jerry moran joins us from washington, d.c. we were talking during the break. i was driving the neighbor's hay baler at age 13 in kansas legally, i might point out. they have an ag permit. they're talking about this administration, about changing almost everything regarding family life for farmers. >> well, people need to understand that in most instances, agriculture in this country is a family operation. it's moms and dads, grandparents, brothers and sisters, and it takes the whole family to have a successful farm and we need another generation of young people who want to grow up and be farmers and ranchers. we have a -- who would have ever thought in this country we would have the department of labor, this administration saying that we need to regulate the

relationship between moms and dads and their kids working on their own family business? this is one of those things that you would never expect in this country called the united states of america. >> i like the way they put the regulations out and then are seeking input. here's an example of what's out there now. number one, restrict kids from working on a farm or a ranch. restrict kids from learning essential skills through the 4-h, ffa clubs and restrict tasks like rounding up cattle and operating tractors and other tasks like cleaning and using battery-operated tools. >> it's a crazy set of rules and you're right, they're looking for comment now and, of course, that was their answer. we'll see what the public has to say. but the idea that they would start with this crazy stuff suggests that they have no understanding that who more than a mom or dad cares about their own kids working on their own family's farm or working for a neighboring farmer? again, this is a way of life that we can't afford to lose. this would fundamentally alter

the way we operate but in a bigger sense, it's like if the federal government can do this, what really is off-limits? if they can regulate that relationship between moms and dads and kids, what left is it that you could say, well, government can't get involved in? so this is broad and overreaching and the craziness -- including they're seeking comment on whether or not there ought to be regulations about a kid working on a farm when the weather, the temperature is either too high or too low or the humidity is too high. those are things that just show that this administration, this department is totally out of touch with the reality of life in america. >> yeah. ok, moms and dads, you can have your kids work out in the fields. they have to carry a parasol, they don't want them getting too much sun exposure. this is really shocking. we're hoping you can keep us posted on what's going on regarding this. senator jerry moran, republican from kansas, thanks very much for bringing this to our attention, sir. >> thank you very much. >> all right, coming up straight

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>> fox news alert for you right now. we have new details that are emerging this morning surrounding that attempted attack on an air base in afghanistan during defense secretary leon panetta's visit. >> connor powell joins us from afghanistan where the secretary of defense just wrapping up a meeting with president hamid karzai. connor, how did it go? >> well, brian, we're just getting details that that meeting is wrapping up and he's expected to talk about a range of issues, everything from the most recent shooting down in kandahar to a long term strategic partnership between the united states and afghanistan. a lot of big issues that secretary panetta and president karzai are dealing with right now. we are getting new information about that attack down in helman province yesterday as secretary

panetta's plane was beginning to land. about 11:00 a.m. or so, an afghan interpreter working at the basis stole a vehicle and started heading towards the landing area where panetta's plane was coming and he then ran into a british soldier and somehow the vehicle stopped. we don't know if it crashed or if it just -- if the afghan interpreter got out of the vehicle or what. but somehow he was set on fire. they're trying to determine if he set himself on fire or if the vehicle caught on fire. the military says at no time was panetta in danger but they did move his landing spot to a different area so there was obviously some cause for concern. we're getting information that the soldier suspected in the killing of 16 afghan civilians on sunday has now landed in kuwait and been transferred to afghanistan. that's a point of contention here in afghanistan. afghan lawmakers wanted to u.s. soldier tried here in afghanistan. that's not going to happen, brian. >> all right, connor powell,

we'll check in with you again. thanks so much. meanwhile, 27 minutes before the top of the hour. i'll take my own shot, alisyn. senate majority leader harry reid joining a chorus of democrats for eric holder to step aside because of a fast & furious scandal last night. he said he still has full confidence in him. nancy pelosi and debbie wasserman-schultz backs holder. >> new figures show foreclosure activity shot up last month in 26 states as banks tackled a backlog of homes with unpaid mortgages. the increases were in states where the courts supervised the foreclosure process. realty track says the 24 states that do not oversee the process actually saw a decline. the pace is picking up after a $25 billion settlement with the mortgage industry about foreclosure abuses. >> they are calling it a disgrace to old glory. it's an american flag. but the stars have been replaced

with an image of president obama has been flying outside of the lake county democratic party headquarters for two months. after complaints from veterans, the headquarters took down the flag and apologized, too, but the party's chairman says she can't promise she won't fly it again. can you promise to do the weather if we toss to you? >> if you have a special guest. >> someone to assist me with the weather? i don't know if anybody is available. anybody here in the studio want to help me? >> steve, let me help you out! >> it's dina from "the jersey shore." come over here because you're in the dark. have you ever done the weather before? >> no, i haven't. >> perfect! >> delightful. i mean, it is -- the maps are kind of self-explanatory. tell us where it's raining and stuff right now. >> it looks like it's raining around here today. and there's going to be a chance of thunderstorms. >> all right. >> very good. that's right. now, you are -- you know, i heard so many times they go

those jersey shore people are not from jersey. you're actually from jersey. >> i live like by freehold mall, six flags area. good to know. >> kind of a new york inside joke. these are the current temperatures. what do you think? >> so it looks like for us new york people, it's going to be 44 degrees. look it at up there in maine, 24! >> have you ever been to maine? >> i've been to maine once. >> doing what? >> just visiting friends. >> party? >> no -- yeah, kind of. >> do you go to parties every day? >> no, actually, on the weeks, i just chill out especially on rainy days. >> good transition. >> these are today's daytime highs. >> today it's going to reach up to 55 degrees. nice! >> wow! >> where is that going to be? >> in new york. >> in new york! hello! hello! thank you. >> 55 in new york today. >> look at this, it's going to be 70's in denver today. >> i know! lucky denver gets 73 degrees.

>> very nicely done! round of applause for dina. >> thanks. >> go over to the curvy couch. >> nicely done. >> that was fun. >> you were fantastic. >> steve's worried now. >> the only bad news, dina, is that if country -- if states -- people that live in the upper north would not be getting the weather from you. that was a little high. you have nothing to point to. >> i'd be like oh -- >> forget it. read at home. hey, we're also joined not only by dina but by vinny from "the jersey shore" as well as sami is also here from "jersey shore." you can't say their last names. nobody ever you uses their last names. >> right. >> so guys, hi! great to have you. >> thanks for having us. >> fellow jersey shore person right here. we can do fist pumps later. snooki is going to be a mom? >> yeah. >> were you shocked? >> very shocked. i was actually worried at first. >> were you? >> a couple of people were.

>> i thought you were worried about her health. >> wait a minute. >> i don't know. >> some question about the paternity of the child? >> exactly. >> oh! >> he knew it was gianni. >> right. >> oh, my god! >> in the beginning, she said no, i'm not pregnant. absolutely not. i'm not pregnant. she was pregnant. >> she was waiting for like -- >> like a month. >> if you say it before, it's sometimes bad luck. >> italian. >> wow! so what do you think she's going to be like as a mom? >> i think it's going to be a total shock. >> i think she'll be a great mom. >> she's going to be fun -- she'll be a fun mom. >> she'll mature when the baby comes. >> not yet. i hear she's mature already! >> she hasn't drank -- >> everybody sees one side of us, kind of the party side. you see the party side and don't get to see -- when she got gianna, you started to see another side of nicole but everybody has like -- you know, like two sides. serious side. she's actually a very genuine

person and puts people before her. >> we remember when "jersey shore" burst on the scene, everybody said it was a little controversial. next thing you know it's still ratings winner. you're number one on mtv. is it true, sami, you don't know what's happening next season? >> we have no idea. >> you don't know if there's a jersey shore? >> we want to do it again. >> we never knew since season 1. >> yes. >> they tell us at the last second. come back. >> the thing about "jersey shore" is often a lot of you aren't from jersey and often you're not in jersey. you go to italy. you're going to miami. >> you were like an investigative reporter. >> i live in jersey! >> you know why? it's like down the jersey shore in the summer, the whole tristate goes down there and you get houses and you party. in the winter, you go on vacation. that's kind of like what we do. >> we understand you recently failed a vocabulary test. >> right! >> what word didn't you know? >> well, what was it?

encylopdenia that's what the vocabulary test is. >> guy from bravo? >> gotcha. we're going to give you o'reilly's vocabulary test. >> word of the day. he has a word of the day. >> big word. at the end, and he tries to sort of educate his viewers. i'm sure you're a constant viewer of o'reilly. so you probably know these. let's start with miscrant. >> something missing in action. >> i'll take that! >> where did i put my crease? it's missing! >> the answer is a vicious or depraved person but i like how you delivered that. you knew it! >> let's move on, talk show host. the next word, morose. do you know what morose means? >> go ahead. anybody know? >> sami, go ahead. >> i have no idea. >> is it a good thing or bad thing? >> is that like a fine wine? >> that's merlot! >> i had the cabernay last

night. >> it all comes back to hooch. >> it's like something sick. >> a gloomy attitude or character. >> wow! >> see, i'm smart. i am smart! >> can you deliver this next one? >> yeah. the word is -- you've heard o'reilly say this. jackanapse. >> crazy, they say! >> don't start doing that to me. >> we're getting these words next season. >> we want to hear these. this means conceited or impractical person. >> i can use that. >> speaking of next season, this is the conclusion of your season. >> yes. finale is tonight at 10:00. give us the scoop, what's going to happen on the finale? >> can't even say it on fox, i don't think. >> no. >> pretend you're on mtv. >> sex. >> we come home and you're going to see the reactions to the prank that the guys pulled.

>> pulled this epic prank. >> retaliate and try to prank them back. >> go to the clubs one last time. >> and vinny is going on have a great time. >> yeah. we go out with a bang. let's say that. >> like you came in. >> this section many is going out with a bang. we know yesterday was your 25th birthday, sami. look here, a lovely parting gift. very nice. >> no problem! >> thanks. >> thank you guys. >> thank you for having us. >> congratulations on the success. we keep our fingers crossed for you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> straight ahead on our telecast for this thursday, it is one of president obama's favorite words. fair. >> do their fair share. everyone gets a fair shot! and everyone does their fair share! >> we should pay the -- play the vocabulary word with him. john stossel says in the world we live in, nothing is fair because he doesn't get a cake and he is next. >> and they're called soldier

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kids are forced into lousy union schools? is it fair that 10 of the 15 richest counties in america happened to be near washington, d.c.? >> you're right. that doesn't sound fair. what's the answer? here is the host of "stossel" on the fox business network, john stossel joining us live. >> i think it's good to explore the meaning of fair. is it fair in 22 states, workers are forced to join a union like i used to be at abc and is it fair that alisyn is good looking and you're not? life is unfair. >> you're right. it's not fair. when our president is talking about fair, some say he's talking about that to make it easier for wealth redistribution. let's -- you've got a lot of money. that person doesn't have so much. it's fair if he takes some of your money and gives it over to that person. >> and that seems fair to people. >> the problem is -- >> is that fair to you? >> to some extent.

when government gets big, people get small and the worst isn't that government makes us poor which it does but it makes us less and it takes decision making power from people. >> is it fair that the politically connected investors get the money of the united states federal treasury? >> no, i would say it's not fair that some people who don't believe in birth control are forced to pay for other people's birth control. we can go on and on about this. is it fair that rich people have to pay traffic fines in the united states. in finland, rich people pay more. one guy had $100,000 fine. >> for doing what? >> for speeding. and it's the third one here that the richest counties in america just happened to be around washington, d.c. we're doing this huge wealth redistribution to washington and the subsidies are supposed to go to poor people. usually go to politically connected people and they tend to be rich. >> isn't that because so much of our money goes to the federal government and the federal government is making itself bigger and bigger and the people

who work in the government benefit from them. >> right. and it's not like state government is getting any smaller either. we want to help the electric car industry. the average buyer of a schchevy volt has an income of $115,000 a year. >> is it fair that when you buy a volt you get a tax credit or something like that whereas if i bought a mazda off the lot, i don't get anything. >> if there was proof that it was going to solve global warming and global warming was a real crisis, then you can say it was fair. but they don't -- they don't reach that level of proof. >> this is going to be provocative. check out john stossel tonight on fox business. that will be at 9:00 eastern time. >> fair job. >> thank you. >> fair indeed. >> when we come back, our canine heroes are called soldier dogs. and they do everything from

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>> hey, most americans were surprised to learn that working military dogs helped seal team 6 kill usama bin laden. >> they're called soldier dogs and they do everything from sniffing out ied's to leading patrols. some even jump out of helicopters with special forces. our next guest has chronicled these amazing animals and is the author of "soldiers dogs, untold story of america's canine

heroes. "she joins us now. you didn't know about soldier dogs. most of us don't. what are we missing? >> yeah, i actually grew up with my father telling me -- he was in world war ii and he told me how important they were out in the field and he wasn't a handler but comforted by these dogs at the end of the day. it was a piece of home. i grew up thinking these dogs are so cool. i'm a reporter and then i'm a dog writer as well. i began hearing more and more about military working dogs and not reading much about them. when the bin laden raid happened and the dog was part of the raid, i think this is something people need to know about. >> what are the breeds that work best and what the dogs do to help the situation? >> yeah. right now, the big breeds dual purpose breeds are belgium malamese and german shepherds. your labrador retriever is good. and these dogs, their primary purpose right now is to lead the troops through these ied infested fields and places in afghanistan and it's their nose

everybody depends on their nose to get them through alive because their noses are so sensitive. and they will signal and the handler will tell someone and they'll take care of it. >> and we should mention that the reason we don't have any of these dogs here today. usually we have animals in these segments is because they're deployed right now. they're hard at work. >> they're out there on deployment working hard to save lives. they're so needed in this war because ied's are the number one killer. >> you say there is canine ptsd. >> yes, it wasn't officially recognized until january of last year and now they're doing a lot to help combat it. to help these dogs. they have many of the same symptoms and signs as people. they're withdrawing. they have changes of behavior. they may not be eating and they're really trying to work through it and about a quarter of the dogs will never go back to any kind of work and will be adopted out to the general public. >> how do you treat canine ptsd. >> they're trying to figure it out right now at lackland. a combination of drug therapy,

rest, relaxation and lots of love. sometimes if it's not going to work, they get adopted to a loving home. i followed one dog, buck, who i had met him in the adoption kennels in lackland and he was just staring out into nothingness and so different. everybody else was barking and they said what's with this dog? he had ptsd and the next day he was adopted out to a very loving san antonio family and he's doing much better. >> the name of the book is "soldier dogs". congratulations for putting it together and the stories you collected. >> thanks so much. >> thanks for being here. >> thanks. >> all right. coming up straight ahead, why is one of america's largest unions paying tribute to china? calling them the best friend of american workers? what am i missing? >> michelle malkin will weigh in on that. and what does the president of syria have to do with this song?

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>> alisyn: good morning, everyone. it's thursday, march 15. i'm alisyn camerota in for gretchen today. we begin with a fox news alert because secretary of defense, leon panetta, was nearly attacked in afghanistan and now there is word that the attacker is dead. we'll have a live report from kabul on the latest. >> steve: meanwhile, washington, d.c. goes to the potomac as president obama's bundlers and hot shot celebrities flock to the white house for a state dinner. what did the president serve up and who was on the guest list? we'll have that next. >> brian: one mom does not know her own strength or accuracy. there you go. she feels bad about it at least. but please, you either scoop it up or don't even kick it at your child. "fox & friends" starts right now. cry in your room.

>> steve: welcome aboard. a number of e-mailers want to know where you're registered 'cause you're clearly getting married today. >> brian: it's a very nice dress ask we're making you paranoid. >> alisyn: it's a little shorter than a wedding dress. >> steve: not for you. >> alisyn: it does look festive. bloomingdale's. >> steve: it's great to have you in today. >> alisyn: thanks so much. >> steve: a fox news alert. new details more thanking surrounding that attempted attack on an air base in afghanistan during secretary of defense leon panetta's visit yesterday. >> brian: doug live at the white house with the latest details. what do we know? >> we have learned from a military source that this is a strange incident yesterday in afghanistan. just as the secretary of defense was about to arrive aboard his c-17 for an unannounced visit, was not an accident. it was indeed an attempted attack. today panetta said he had no

reason to believe that i was a target. but fox news has now learned that the attacker was an afghan interpreter who was apparently carrying gasoline with him and a lighter in a pick up truck that he managed to steal from a british soldier. that british soldier was injured in the attack. he was apparently run over by the pick up truck with the afghan interpreter driving inside. the afghan interpreter managed to drive the stolen car over the very ramp where the secretary of defense was scheduled to arrive. the secretary of defense's c-17 was diverted to a different ramp. after crashing the pick up truck into a ditch, the afghan interpreter apparently got out of the truck, doused himself with gasoline, and lit himself on fire. it now appears, according to what military officials said at the pentagon yesterday, that there were no explosives found. that's direct quote. there were no explosives found. in light of what we've learned,

that appears to be a little bit of a word game because we all know that gasoline is intensely explosive. in addition, military authorities tell us that he apparently tried to run over a group of marines. exactly where he did that in the spectrum of things, we have yet to learn. but again, this was no accident. it was an attempted attack. whether or not the secretary of defense was the attempted target, we can not say. back to you in new york. >> steve: all right. thank you very much. live report, north lawn. >> brian: after that he gets out and kills himself. >> alisyn: oh, boy. that's a developing story. we'll bring you more details as we get them. other headlines. this fox news alert because you're looking at brand-new video out of chicago. that's former illinois governor rod blagojevich. he left his home less than an hour ago to catch a flight to colorado where he will serve a 14-year prison sentence on a corruption charges. he stopped for a moment to talk to reporters and to the many well wishers who were there to see him off.

he said saying good-bye is the hardest thing he'll ever have to do and he's doing so with a heavy heart. he leaves his wife and two daughters back in chicago. brand-new video overnight, violence between israel and gaza. israeli air force rockets hit the gaza strip. the bombs hitting a factory, as you can see. in a moment, you'll see -- there, it explodes into flames. israel says it was targeting a rocket launching site and a terror tunnel. no one was hurt. this attack comes hours after rocket fire hit southern israel. the attacks continued despite a cease fire that supposedly went into effect on tuesday. if your invitation got lost in the mail, you missed the biggest state dinner the president and first lady have ever flown. party was in honor of david cameron and his wife, samantha. on the guest list, george clooney and billionaires, including richard branson, who seems festive. and warren buffet. more than three dozen of the president's top campaign donors were there, including vogue

editor and hollywood producer harvey weinstein. they each stuffed more than $500,000 into the president's reelection war chest. syrian dictator al assad, his personal e-mails were leaked to the british newspaper, the guardian, and more than 3,000 e-mails reveal the syrian strongman is hooked on itunes. while his wife spent more than $10,000 shopping on-line, assad downloaded video games, movie, apps, and tunes by lmfao, chris brown and country star blake shelton. ♪ assad apparently sent his wife "god gave me you" as a gift. >> steve: he's got a soft side at 99 cents a pop. >> brian: he personifies evil. but who personifies goodness?

michelle malkin. >> steve: good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: let's back the truck up one story before the cheery assad story and that is big state dinner last night, the president hosting david cameron, prime minister of the united kingdom and his wife. >> yeah. what happened to shared sacrifice? it looked like it tasted pretty yummy there at the taxpayer-funded state dinner, bison wellington on the menu. they skipped out on the wagu beef this time. this really was a bundler's paradise and i that, that you hl of these high powered donors essentially getting rewarded. of course, this is nothing new and that really is the point, that the politics of washington certainly haven't changed when it comes to granting access to all these big dollar donors. but i found more interesting the invite list of the so-called british journalists who were in attendance as well because

they're every bit as sick of antic as the donors who were invited. you had the likes of -- someone onment list i found rather shocking and vile, andrew sullivan of the once respected atlantic magazine, who was best known on the internet for his whacky trig palin conspiracy theory, yet he was an honored guest here. we also had lackies like richard wolf, whose hacked tackler reputation is so bad that even his fellow lefties are embarrassed. there was a bbc anchor, catty kay, who happens to be the best friend of the wife of jay carney, the spokesperson. business as usual, all on our dime. >> alisyn: let's talk about something else interesting that happened this week. that is that president obama

signed a law making it a felony to protest anywhere the secret service goes. this is interesting. why now? the secret service and the president go a lot of places. why aren't you allowed to protest and why didn't other presidents need this sort of protection? >> yeah. you know, i find it interesting because we've got sort of agreement on both sides of the aisle, free speech activists on both sides of the aisle who are questioning this expansion of the anti-free speech bubble around the president. and apparently the legislation that he signed was backed by a lot of republicans, which i find embarrassing, and i think people who are mad about this ought to take a look at that sponsor list and complain because this wasn't an executive order: this is one of the exceptions where it wasn't something that came solely from the white house. apparently the genesis of it was

that the secret service was worried about the occupy movement. but i don't care. i don't care. i think that this is a problem for this president and his squelching of dissent. but i would point out to some of the people on the left that they're to blame for a lot of this because these free speech bubbles were originally created to quelch the pro-life protesters and this is the same idea, that you can keep expanding this bubble. never mind what the constitution says. >> brian: we missed another award show and it was time to honor the best friend of the american union worker and once again, special thanks, it's a lay-up, china. the best friend to the american worker? how did this happen and what union did this? >> right. so this is the international long shoremans association giving a big high five to their friends in china and i would imagine that rank and file members would be rather shocked to learn that this is how their

union bosses are going around spreading their goodwill. but it is not a shock if you understand the long-time radical history of the ila and the ilwu. i've been tracking this big labor organization for the last several years. these are the people who are in cahoots with the occupy movement and who have been trying to shut down ports all up and down the west coast. you guys will recall that late last year during the spring and sort of under the radar screen, these were people going around waging turf wars and actually damaging and hurting american workers by holding them hostage to these turf wars. so i'm not surprised. what i'd like to see is some full disclosure of this award to china on the ilwu's own web site so their members know what they're doing. >> steve: all right. michelle malkin joins us every thursday at this time. and michelle, your new web site

is twitchy.com? >> yeah. come on over and you'll know who said what about anything on twitter. >> brian: i thought that was very courageous of new a time when sponsors were jumping, you jumped in to support rush limbaugh. >> we did. i don't know if you noticed, but you were featured, just as i promised on twitchy.com. >> brian: thank you. >> you bet. >> alisyn: okay. >> take care. >> alisyn: the white house has a plan to lower your mortgage payments. but will it really make a difference? the average american family even qualify? real estate guru bob massi will break it down for all of us next. >> brian: replacing the stars and stripes with a picture of president obama? some are fuming over this interpretation of the american flag. wake up!

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>> steve: with millions of american homeowners still under water with their mortgages, and the original harp program being a complete washout, the new harp 2 program is being pumped up by the obama administration, but how successful can this new program be or is it just a lot of hot air? here to continue last week's analysis of the harp 2 program is fox news legal analyst and real estate expert, bob massi. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: okay. so the president unveiled this less than a month ago. tell us in a nutshell, if you will, what does harp 2 aim to do? >> it aims to refinance homeowners who are current on their payments, who have not been late on a payment in the last six months, or in the last 12 months and it's all fannie

mae and freddie loans. it's designed to help those people who have been current. >> steve: okay. so those are the guidelines. a lot of our viewers have questions about them and they're specific. so for instance, the first one, if a homeowner wants to see if they can qualify for harp 2, can they refinance, assuming they meet the protocols, if they have pmi, private mortgage insurance? good question. >> absolutely. it is considered a new loan and any lender that they may be dealing with, steve, that says that because there is private mortgage insurance involved in their existing loan and that they can't do it, they should walk away from that lender and get a new one because it's new loan. pmi has no variance to harp 2. >> steve: second question what, if you have a second mortgage, how does that affect it, if at all, the second? >> it does not. second mortgages are not impacted. harp 2 specifically only addresses first mortgages. second mortgages basically stay in place. so if the home is refinanced, steve, and if you read the

protocol, the second continues to go on. you make the payments on the second and as a result of that, do not be concerned about the second mortgage. only the refinance of the first. >> steve: okay. final question for today. what if i am unemployed and have no income. can i still use harp 2? >> you can. you can actually be unemployed, as long as your payment does not increase more than 20% from what it presently is, then you actually do not have -- because there is no stated income on harp 2. you don't have to worry about that part of it. if it goes over 20%, then yes, then the stated income becomes your -- your income becomes more of a relevant issue as it relates to the qualification for harp 2. >> steve: if you wanted to help people, you would think they would have come up with a program that would have been a little easier to understand. but look at us. we need a lawyer to figure it out. >> you know, steve, honestly, the thing that the -- the rhetoric we're dealing with right now with an election year, it's not that the intentions are

bad, but i know i hammer this home and i'm sure people get tired of hearing it, but i'm going to say it again. until the actual issue of the principal reduction in our country is dealt with -- and i had to laugh real quick -- the other day, bank of america came out and said, because of the $25 billion settlement, we're going to look at certain homeowners and principlely reduce them. but here is the reason behind that, steve, because they assessed $350 million in penalties and fines because of illegal foreclosures, the only reason bank of america is going to try to principlely reduce some of the money that's coming in is because it's going to help them. not because they care and be noble to help homeowners in america. >> steve: if you would like some help from the great bob massi, e-mail us and we will put your e-mail perhaps in an upcoming segment. mr. las vegas, thank you for joining us today. >> yes, sir. >> steve: 18 minutes after the top of the hour. straight ahead, he won the seat left vacant by disgraced democrat anthony wiener. remember him?

now republican bob turner has his sights set on an even higher ranking democrat's job. the congressman joins us next. then why not skip the gym and have a beer instead? so far so good. we're going to explain why some so-called bad habits are actually good for you. this video from alisyn camerota's breakfast lunch.

>> alisyn: 22 minutes past the hour. very unhappy goldman sachs employee costing the company

$2.2 billion. its market value plunged after an op ed to the "new york times" criticized for the ceo and his treatment of clients. he said they were often called muppets. the worker also wrote in the op ed that he was quitting. and hillary 2016? the guys who wrote "game change" say book it. they predict she will run for president again in 2016, but if vice president joe biden gets a second term in 2012, and then runs for president, they say clinton probably would not challenge him. let's go over to brian. >> brian: thank you very much. first he was disgraced democratic anthony wiener's congressional seat. he won that seat. no one said it was possible for a republican to do so. this new york republican, robert turner, has his sights set on a higher office. turner running to replace democratic senator kirsten jill brant in the u.s. senate. you were a congressman and now you want to be a senator!

>> yes. it's a calling. >> brian: from a day ago, you finally made this decision? >> well, i had hoped and expected to run again for my congressional seat, but that's not going to be possible. >> brian: they redistricted it out? >> to a point where this is now a redistrict to do an area where mccain got 13% of the vote. >> brian: if you wanted to stay within the vicinity, that's where congressman meeks is and he's pretty dominant? >> that's true. >> brian: you decide, i'm going to try for the u.s. senate and try to become the first u.s. seat since al d'amato. why do you think you're the guy? >> we have a proven track record in performance and building a grassroots operation. i have some name recognition and i think my head is screwed on straight. i want to get this job done. i want to bring a practical business sense to the table and get the job done. >> brian: that's your

background. >> that's all i do. >> brian: you jumped into politics to help the country. this is service. >> i have 13 grandchildren and the legacy we're leaving them is a disgrace. we have to fix this mess. >> brian: senator gillibrand, what's she not doing that makes you say, i can't stand by any more? >> the senator is part of the problem and not part of the solution. there are a lot of things we have to fix to restore prosperity. we have taxes, deficit. she's on the wrong side of the equation in every area. i think we'll have a clear choice for the voters. if i get the nomination on how to proceed. >> brian: when will you find out if you get the nomination? >> tomorrow night. >> brian: tomorrow night. there's a few people that are not big names. you are the biggest name. >> good people that have been working on this and i've come into this very late, but we'll give the delegation a choice.

>> brian: when you upset the democratic party and won that seat, you became somewhat of a republican star. now can you tap into that to get some support because if you're just going to go to small-time people, you're not going to have a shot against the machine. >> absolutely. when one realizes the size of the commitment financially that has to be mounted, i'm going to have my work cut out for me, but i believe it's there and i've been getting a lot of good encouragement. >> brian: we talked to you after your failed attempt and after you were victorious. now that you've been in washington, what do you know now that makes you want to go higher? >> the problem -- we've started on it. i'm very encouraged with some of the things the house has done, keeping spending at discretionary spending at a cap and fighting for all the right things. everything is stalled in the

senate. we have 30 bills -- 30 that promote job growth, prosperity that, are stalled there. the senate is a dysfunctional arm of our legislature retama and i think something he said that got to be done. that's my target. >> brian: that's the businessman in you trying to get it done. hopefully you can do it. congressman turner, best of luck. meanwhile, 27 minutes after the hour. we invited senator gillibrand to come down and be on with you and we have not heard back if her office yet. we're awaiting breaking news on the jobless front. brand-new numbers after the break. then new polls on the economy and gas prices. what does that tell us about president obama's chances for reelection? you might be surprised. and it's the symbol of freedom in america. so why is the government granting licenses to kill the bald eagle? hear from a man who dedicated his life to saving our national symbol.

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economists were expecting about 356,000. we want to bring in charlie. >> everything is great. the economy is clearly getting better. i thought this would happen a year ago. everyone was predicting this to happen in the beginning of 2011. it didn't. there is lots of reasons why we can talk about why it didn't. this had to happen. you have to ask why did it happen? we've had unprecedented monetary stimulus, no doubt about that. the fed had interest rates at zero now for four years. they actually printed money, something known as qe 1 and 2. we print money into the economy. >> steve: that's propping up the stock market. >> when people buy bonds because they give you so little return, go out and buy stocks. that's having a wealth effect. put all this together -- and you have businesses that can borrow at very favorable rates, you're going to have the economy getting better. the question is, why didn't it happen sooner and why isn't it a lot better?

you can make -- without being political, you can make really good case that the president's economic policies from threatening to raise taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs to all the stuff he wanted to do with gasoline -- excuse me, with carbon emissions, that has really held back the economy. if you talk to businessmen, they are scared about this administration. now, at some point, when the economy gets better, you have to start hiring. that's what we have. >> steve: what about at the end of this year, that's when all the george bush era tax cut also expire and that means the businessmen who have been panicked about what the administration is doing are going to be panicked again. >> right. you do have to realize that companies are global, so they move a lot of jobs overseas. i think the problem the president will have in the election is he's going to have to make a case why he should be reelected based on his economic policies. give me the one economic policy that the president has put forth that you can clearly say contributed to the economy getting better. was it the stimulus plan? even his own people will admit, it didn't work. it was supposed to keep

unemployment at 8% three years ago. >> alisyn: how about the auto bailout? car companies are doing better. >> he will try to use that and i think you can make somewhat -- remember, he's talk being bailing things out. the government bailing out. i think that kind of sits the wrong way with people. >> brian: that's good news. 351 again, encouraging. now, the biggest story for the average american arguably is gas prices. this fox poll, i want to you comment on. president obama's handling the gas prices situation, how many people approve of what he's done since the price has gone up? 26% approve. 61% disapprove. >> people know that we have oil here. we have the keystone pipeline that can bring oil from canada. people understand that the policy that he has in terms of gas prices is sort of absurd. we're dependent on middle eastern oil because of whatever policies he has that prevents from getting oil here in north america. i will say this about gas price, i don't know if this is enough to derail the economy getting better.

generally $4 a gallon gasoline, people -- i talked to a lot of economist, they don't think that can derail the economy and i wonder if that's the one economic issue that could basically be -- >> brian: i'm not an economist. let's say you did talk to me. this is the thing, if we were going crazy about a payroll tax holiday, we need that had $20 a week, we're losing that $20 into the tanks, so you can't have both stories! >> you're absolutely right. i'm just saying it might not derail the recovery. you're right. the most regresssive tax in america has to be high gas prices when they go up because it affects everybody. middle income people, low income people, just like it affects rich people. it hurts the bottom line of average people and it's clearly going to be a problem in the election. >> steve: that's why you take the subway. you live in new york. >> i do. that's one of the good things about living here. >> steve: check him out on fox business and here on fox news as well. thank you. >> brian: he loves talking politics. >> steve: meanwhile, we've got a fox news alert for you.

moments ago, the afghan taliban cutting off all talks with the united states. the announcement coming as secretary of defense leon panetta wrapped up quite a dramatic trip to afghanistan. >> alisyn: now more with the latest. tell us what's happened conner. >> we knew that this trip for secretary of defense panetta was coming at a crucial time. did we know that it was going to be this dramatic? i don't think so. just a few minutes ago, the taliban released a statement, said they were suspending talks and they were going to no longer open up their diplomatic office in the country of qatar. it's not exactly clear why they're doing this now, but they just reloosed this statement saying that the shake -- the real source of the obstacle was the shaky, vague standpoint of the americans. so the taliban are essentially saying that the americans are changing the rules and the conditions that they want to engage in the talks. the americans aren't commenting just yet on this. american officials have sort of tried not to do this in the media. but the taliban are very angry

about what they see as a shifting in opinion and changes of the sort of goals and standards that they want to engage in discussion. now, just before that statement came out, president karzai released a statement saying he wants to speed up the transition from u.s. and international troops to afghan troops. he says he wants this done by 2013. he wants u.s. troops out of here sooner than planned and he wants u.s. troops no longer patrolling. this is a big day for afghanistan because we've seen dramatically shifting matters of opinion here. >> alisyn: we can imagine there has been a lot of developments regarding this. thanks for the update. >> brian: we don't have to release those four taliban bigwigs now from gitmo. senator majority leader harry reid pushing back on eric holder to step down because of the fast and furious scandal and other things, defending him saying he still has confidence in him, but he said it differently. house minority leader nancy pelosi and dnc chair woman

debbie wasserman schultz also backing holder. >> alisyn: then hugo chavez set to return home after cancer surgery in cuba. when he arrives, he'll find a country filled with rumors. major doubts about how healthy he really is after his cancer has returned. meanwhile, his opponent is dodging bullets on the campaign trail, literally. loyalists to the current government showed up at an oppositional rally and fired a bullet at chavez's opponent. it narrowly missed his head. a supporter was wounded. some say the tensions will only get worse as uncertainty grows about the country's future inasmuch veterans in. >> beth: did she. >> steve: veterans are calling it a disgrace. american flag, burr the stars have been replaced with an imof president obama. see that right there. it has been flying outside of the lake county democratic party headquarters for two months. after complaints, in particular from veteran, the headquarters

took it down and later apologized. but the party's chairwoman says she can't promise that she won't fly it again. >> brian: update on a story that is striking a nerve across the u.s. where we live. federal agency granted north american tribe in wyoming a permit to kill the living american symbol, bald eagle, for religious purposes. he earlier we were joined by the president of the american eagle foundation. >> i think it's alarming and disturbing and i've just -- i hope we're not opening up a pandora's box that will open the box for others to do the same. we spent well over 40 years conservation groups and thousands of conservationists across the country, spent over 40 years bringing the eagle back from the brink of extinguish so we could have our national symbol for the future. this doesn't sit right. >> brian: the group says the tribe doesn't have to kill an eagle to get the eagle feathers. or carcasses it needs for its ceremonies. they can get them from zoos and conservation groups. >> steve: there are ways.

for your weather, we go to a very special guest weatherrologist who joined us, dana from the "jersey shore". >> there is going to be a chance of thunderstorms. so looks like for us in new york, people, it's going to be 44 degrees. look at up there. in maine, 24. >> steve: look at this, it's going to be 70s in denver today! >> lucky denver, gets 73 degrees. >> alisyn: she's just like you. >> steve: with a tan. she joined us earlier with fellow cast mates vinny and sammy sweetheart. the season finale airing tonight. they told us they have no idea if they'll be shooting another season, especially with snooki currently being pregnant. >> alisyn: with child. >> brian: we'll bring in a regular programming as those negotiations for their new season progresses. >> steve: same day we did with chopper and blasso. >> alisyn: and as she goes into labor. >> brian: we got a few months to prepare.

>> alisyn: this mom must know her own strength. i meant not know her own strength as she beans her son in the head. >> brian: is bad parenting. the hat fell down, too. >> steve: then sit back, relax and crack open a cold one. we'll break down the so-called bad habits like drinking beer that alisyn insists quite good for you. and brian concurs. >> brian: right. i'll be her second source. >> alisyn: a health segment i can get my arms around. >> brian: one funnel at a time with you, alisyn. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

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mom. bam. >> brian: got to learn to head the ball. >> steve: she kicks it right in his face, by accident, we presume. eventually he does calm down. hopefully he finds a new soccer buddy. >> brian: i think he's playing lacrosse. >> steve: yeah, the helmet. former democratic state senator from new york accused of blowing $60,000 in taxpayer money on sushi and lobster dinners. pedro espada, junior, also accused of splurging on spa treatments and luxury cars after stealing more than half a million dollars from a state funded clinic. i'd say he's in trouble. ali? >> alisyn: well, sometimes you just have to be bad. like when you eat that extra piece of cake or you day dream when you're supposed to be listening, but you can get over the guilt this morning because it turns out some of our favorite bad habits may actually be good for us. here to explain is fox news medical a team's dr. mark

siegle. finally, a health segment everybody can be excited about. you have broken down the five bad habits that can actually be good for us. let's start with drinking coffee. >> by the way, i call this is silver lining segment because i am not prescribing this, but if you happen to be on them, there's a silver lining. coffee, i'm not telling anyone to become a coffee drinker, but there is a study that shows that it decreases the risk of depression in women by 15%. it can get you going in the morning. it can improve your mood. there is also some evidence with coffee that the antioxidants in some of the proteins may decrease your risk of certain cancers. >> alisyn: prostate and uterine. >> exactly. so i think for a way to improve your mood and possibly to decrease cancer risk, coffee is a good thing. it is acidic, it can increase your heart rate and blood pressure from the caffeine. so i'm not recommending if you're not already on it. >> alisyn: don't start guzzling. but you can skip the gym two days in a row, right? >> i have a caveat on this. the idea here is you want to

give your muscles a chance to relax and recover. so in between, when you're not doing your workout, you got to do plenty much walking or skip rope or ride a bike. but i don't want it to be two to three days a week 'cause i'm worried you'll lose the discipline. i'd like it to be one day a week. take a day off on the weekend and relax and let your muscles come back. if you take two days, you might lose the discipline and go to the gym. >> alisyn: next, i was really surprised to see this. you say sleeping sleep aids is okay? >> in one miff books i call it the cycle of worry. you want to break the cycle of worry. nothing else works, you don't want sleepless night after sleepless night. sometimes a sleeping pill will get you back on track. it can make you more tired the next day. if it's allergy season like we are in now, sometimes an antihistamine may help. it will help you with the allergies and it will help you get to sleep at night. >> alisyn: we want to skip right now to steve doocy's statement v a beer. we've always heard that red wine is good for you if you have to have a drink. but beer? >> beer is very high in calories, alisyn. i'm not recommending that

either. but i will tell you, it seems to have the same circulation effects as wine in terms of maybe helping your heart. it's got silicon in it, which is very good for bones and iron in it. so it's got great minerals in it and may help your heart. but it's got 150 to 200 calories. steve doocy will get that beer belly if he has too much. >> alisyn: what do you mean get? thanks so much. >> great to see you. sorry about that, steve. >> alisyn: st. patrick's day arrives early. the celtic woman are here to perform after a quick time out. hi, ladies. first let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on at the top of the hour. >> we're going to be watching to see what doocy has to say after this commercial break. >> alisyn: i know. >> good morning to you. there is breaking news on the u.s. mission in afghanistan. breaking news on the jobs picture. we'll have all that for you. there is no fox polling on who has the edge in the republican race. who does best against barak

obama. in studio, governor mitt romney on the biggest issues facing america today. don't miss that. see you in ten minutes here on "america's newsroom"

>> steve: since their debut, the all female ensemble has become a global phenomenon, selling more than 6 1/2 million cds and dvds and more than 2 million concert tickets world wide. their latest hit release is called "believe." we're joined by celtic woman this morning. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> steve: how about some danny boy? >> we figured with st. patrick's day coming up this weekend, we'll do a rendition. >> steve: hit it! ♪ o danny boy ♪

♪ the pines are calling ♪ from glenn to glenn and down the mountain side ♪ ♪ the sun is gone and all roads are falling ♪ ♪ it's you, it's you ♪ and i must die ♪ but coming back when summer is in the meadow ♪ ♪ or when the valleys hush and i'll be here with sunshine

orange shadows ♪ ♪ o danny boy, o danny boy ♪ i love you so ♪ but when ye come and all the flowers are dying ♪ ♪ if i am dead as dead i well may be ♪ ♪ you come and find the place where am lying ♪ ♪ and kneel and say you'll be there for me ♪ ♪ and i shall hear the breath above me ♪

♪ for you will bear and tell me that you love me ♪ ♪ and i shall sleep in peace until you come to me ♪ [ applause ] >> steve: that was fantastic! really, really nice. did i read -- ladies and gentlemen, celtic woman. did i read somewhere that you were brought together to do a tv show initially? much like in this country, we

invented the monkeys, they invented you? >> yes. we were supposed to be just the one night and we were -- well, we knew each other and so it all came together and there was something magical on stage. >> steve: speaking of magical, we're coming up on st. patrick's day and i understand y'all feel about the same. we do st. patrick's day better here in the united states than in ireland? >> i think it's true, yes. >> we have the privilege of being here last year. we were there last year on st. patrick's day and we couldn't get across fifth avenue for the carnival feeling. it was amazing to see how ireland is celebrated all over the world. >> steve: all that green beer. >> i know. >> steve: ladies, stick around. more with celtic woman as "fox & friends" rolls on. live from new york in two minutes. ♪ two. three. one. two. and, three.

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