tweeter. >> that's right. he is a tweeter. he can catch you on "fox & friends" starting in 10 seconds. >> have a great day, everyone. take care. >> good morning, it is tuesday, march 20th. and i'm melissa francis in for gretchen carlson. just one hour away from the next republican presidential showdown. the illinois primary and the candidates are fighting over focus. is the race about the economy or freedom? we report, you decide. >> brian, by the way, i think that counts as your sportscast. >> i guess so. he's 100% right. >> there you go. meanwhile in 2008, obamacare was more important than getting millions much americans back to work. remember how excited joe biden was? >> i almost had forgotten about that. >> i'll remind you. so why is the white house now ignoring this week's two-year anniversary of obamacare. why are -- aren't they talking

about it? it's a big deal. >> it is. it will be for the supreme court. salt police strike again. this time, food donations to the homeless are being banned because they may make them fat! really? i mean, really? melissa talks through everyone of my cold opens. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> ♪ you can feel it our love ♪ >> note to the bank next door, you need to replace the bulbs. >> yeah. >> look at that, it is 62 degrees and a minute after 6:00 eastern time here in the big apple. it is the first day of spring. spring officially sprang at 1:14 eastern time as you look up

sixth avenue, the avenue of the americas and -- >> melissa francis is here. do you rotate your clothes out season to season or move it over? >> this is a big point of interest for you, obviously. >> right. >> it was so hot, i said i'm getting rid of all my winter stuff and i'm putting it away. >> you do rotate your clothes? >> i do the rotation principle into a tub. >> where does the rest go? you must live in a huge mansion. >> i don't have to do it. i had my house help do it. >> did you bring them and stick them in your office? >> i asked you a question. do you rotate your clothes? >> i do. >> when are you going to do it? today is the first day of spring. >> would it upset you to know i already did it? it was last weekend, i went through -- i threw stuff out. i did my kids' clothes. i was so unpopular this weekend. >> she is all business. she is melissa francis from the fox business network and joining us today. and we didn't run her off yesterday so she's back for

three more hours of fun today. >> filling in for gretchen. >> my alarm went often this morning and i said i got to go to work. i can't stay here in bed. >> that's what happens every time, right? >> i watched dr. sumadi on "fox & friends" first, we're all going to die. >> we don't get enough sleep. we don't get enough sleep so we can bring you the news. >> right. so we start with the headlines. >> primary day in illinois and voters are getting ready to go to the polls. recent polls show that mitt romney is ahead and he turns his focus on president obama. rick santorum is quick to point out the polls can be wrong. >> been above 8% ever since and he said he'd cut the deficit in half. he's doubles it. he's out of ideas. he's out of excuses in 2012. we got to make sure he's out of office. >> if we're fortunate enough to pull off a huge upset here in illinois and i know it would be an upset. that's what they said last week in mississippi.

we couldn't do it there and we did. >> santorum said yesterday, the election is not just about the jobless numbers. he talked about freedom. there are 54 delegates up for grabs today in the primary. and while you were sleeping, a series of bombings rocking iraq. at least 46 people killed. nearly 200 are injured. the deadliest attack was in the shiite city of karballah at a crowded shopping center. other attacks targeted police officers and the attacks come days before arab leaders visit baghdad. u.s. just marked nine years since the start of operation iraqi freedom. and scary moments in texas as a tornado touches down near san antonio. check out the lightning storm when the video slows down, you can actually see the funnel cloud. there's reports of people being trapped in their mobile homes but officials say so far, no serious injuries or deaths from the destructive storm. and strong winds, heavy rains and hail tore through the area throughout the day causing

serious damage to homes and businesses. several parts of texas remain under tornado watch. and i guess you could call it one big deal of an anniversary but apparently president obama is not celebrating this one. this friday marks the second anniversary of the president signing his health care reform bill into law. vice president joe biden was famously caught saying this -- >> thank you. >> well, white house says unclear what will be on the president's schedule this friday but says he's focused on the forward agenda. those are the headlines. >> let's talk a little bit about what the republicans in the house are focused on. they're focused on coming out with a unified plan to appear before the electorate that they've got away -- unlike the president of the united states, they want to cut your taxes and bloat up the government. >> and they want to look into cutting the deficit and i got to give paul ryan a c for courage and dave kemp, i haven't seen

for a long time. they went out and put together a forward leaning budget proposal which i'm sure is going to get people on the other side saying look how mean they are and look at how partisan they are but what i'm thinking he's doing is he's attacking the major problems facing this country. entitlements and he's also -- he's also attacking medicare and our tax structure. >> that's right. and when you look at specifically what he's doing with the tax structure, they say they want to put in two brackets of 10% and 25% but more importantly, they want to stop the tax on overseas earnings for corporations. this is really important because companies have billions of dollars right now that are essentially trapped overseas. if they bring it home and pay a huge tax on it. if they leave it there, they can invest in doing things like hiring people and building factories. >> sure. >> and accumulate all of this wealth overseas without having to pay tax on it. >> double taxes, correct? because you're paying taxes to that -- in that country and then you pay taxes in this country. >> also, we saw on the -- on that list of some of the proposals we're hearing will be

unveiled by the republicans later today, cuts the deficit by $5 trillion unlike the current president of the united states who is actually jacking up the deficit. the brackets 10% to 25%. they're vague where they don't tell you who would get the 10 and who would get the 25. it would eliminate the taxes on overseas earnings for corporations plus it would lower the top corporate rate of tax from 35% to 25%. >> which makes companies, you know, more competitive around the world and especially if they bring all that revenue back here, they can hire people here, build factories here. >> here's brit hume last night reacted as it began to leak out what this budget contained. listen. >> those with the nerve to vote with him are betting something has changed. that the old game of creating and expanding entitlements and relying on the votes of those dependent on them for re-election is over. that game always worked while the economy fast enough to pay the bills but the bills are now being paid with borrowed money

and alarm over that is at historic highs so ryan and company will climb out on a limb hoping this time the voters won't let the opposition saw it off. >> yeah, and remember, as brian depicted, paul ryan last time was depicted and he, in fact, writes today in "the wall street journal" in on op ed about how he was depicted throwing him off the cliff. he was simply being serious about something that the president is not serious about and that is making sure that programs like social security and medicare and medicaid work today and in the future. >> and we don't turn into greece. >> true. >> the president is on the record saying medicare and medicaid and the social security cannot continue on the current path. steve israel in charge of getting the democrats to take back the house says this -- republicans are on a maddening push once again to end medicare and raise health care costs for seniors while giving more special tax breaks to big oil companies and millionaires. >> all right. meanwhile, across the street from where we sit is the corporate headquarters for

general electric. you know, we have talked a number of times about jeffrey imelt, the guy that runs g.e., the ceo over there, he is the top outside advisor for president obama. there he is pictured right there. >> right. he's on the jobs council. >> yeah and one of your friends from the fox business network, charlie gasparino has a story today in "the new york post" that talks about how mr. imelt is disillusioned with our president. >> i talked to charlie at length about this yesterday and reported this on the fox business network. he has a source close to jeff imelt to told him this time around it's a totally different story. one way you could see from the outside if you look at corporate giving and he found this on a web site called open secrets. last time around, g.e. gave to president obama's campaign at a rate of 5-1. this time, they're actually giving to romney at a rate of 2-1. >> he's not even the nominee yet. >> so he's the jobs czar

essentially and it turns out as a lifelong republican has reported to be, he thought he could get in there with president obama and moderate some of his views that are left leaning and also, he felt as though it's good for g.e. for him to be that close to the white house and who can argue with that philosophy but he's dismaid how president obama has moved far left after three years, not to the middle and he hates the class warfare talk. >> yeah, indeed. and in fact, his letter to the shareholders said "we live in a tough era in which the public discourse in general is negative. american companies particularly big companies are vilified when we need to work together to find a better way." >> of course, he is a life long republican, you know, but this made a lot of sense for g.e. if nothing else because obviously it's a company that's focused on green energy, energy in general. you want to get in and lobby the president. >> don't want to make him angry now. they're writing a big check for them. >> and you get to go to the dinner parties. there's a big book coming out by david corn and david corn writes this book and it is essentially

looking at president obama's digest decisions and obviously called "showdown" and much to the surprise of almost no one, he blames fox news for his dismal -- his party's dismal performance in the 2010 election. >> he told labor leaders he held fox partly responsible for the president losing white males, in particular, and also, barack obama said and he writes that fed by fox news, they hear obama is a muslim 24/7. and it begins to seep in. the republicans have been at this for 40 years. they have new resources. but the strategy is old. so even though barack obama has said in the past, you know, i really don't watch cable news, looks like he watches cable news and apparently, he doesn't like it. >> i don't know what channel he's watching but saying he's a muslim 24 hours a day is 99.9% inaccurate. >> i don't know what he's talking about either.

but it does sound interesting what mr. corn and clearly this is a pro obama book unlike the suskin book that came out a couple of months ago. >> started out as pro obama but when he started figuring out the inner workings of the obama administration, it started to change. >> it did. we'll talk a little bit later on about the war on women. it was the suskin book that made it clear in the early days of the obama administration, it was kind of a war on women in the white house where it was a hostile environment for women to work. >> so the economy is not his fault. >> right. >> and the -- >> gas prices are not his fault and the display where he almost lost in the senate is not his fault. >> no, it's fox's fault. >> i don't know we had that much power. really something. >> now that i blame melissa, now that i get to know you. >> she's wearing her spring outfit. >> i noticed two weeks ago she -- i just asked you if you rotated your clothes.

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to speak, from the obama administration. the name of the company, first solar. an arizona manufacturer gets millions of dollars in federal loan grants and guarantees to sell solar panels to wind farms owned by first solar. >> sounds like a shell game, right? stuart varney is here with us. >> no, it's not a shell game. it's a way of dressing up the solar industry to make it look financially healthier than it is. first solar sells solar panels to a canadian company. it wholly owns the canadian company but it gets a $455 million taxpayer loan guarantee to make that sell to itself. >> can i try to defend them for a second? could this be a case of when a company goes out and buys its supplier? i mean, maybe it's an integration of some type? no, i don't know. i'm trying to think of a defense for this because it's ridiculous. >> look, the solar industry is in trouble. it's under a great deal of price pressure so what do you do? well, you sell your product to

yourself and get a government guarantee on the loan that backs up that sale. if anything goes wrong with this sale and goes wrong with the solar industry in this particular area, the taxpayer loses money. now, you know, this is a real problem because this is president obama's answer to the energy crisis. it's not oil. he doesn't like oil. no, it's green energy. it's solar. it's wind and he's about to take off on a multistate tour going to new mexico, i believe it is, and he's going to be touting solar power which is now the subject of even more scrutiny and argument. >> and stuart, here are the exact numbers. in 2010, first government subsidies were $7.3 million in government grants and they got $15 million in government loans. >> why would you leave? that's a lot of money. $455 million to subsidize a sale of your product to yourself.

>> maybe you're not sure if you're going to pay yourself or not. >> i guess that's -- >> it's another way of making solar look like a really viable option, that it's really healthy. it is not. the solar industry wouldn't exist without taxpayer subsidies. >> i would love to see the application for that loan process. did it say with a little flow chart i'll eventually sell it to myself and make profit for myself therefore paying you back. >> no. if you could see the loan application, i guarantee it's a stack of papers yea big that requires a dozen lawyers to fill it out and get it in. >> we'll watch you at 9:20 guaranteed where you play yourself. >> i do indeed. >> the wall street occupier who wanted to kill a cop is getting death threats of his own. he's saying that's not fair. should he be allowed to complain? >> up next, the top myths of the tea party and how they could impact the next election. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there?

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>> welcome back. quick headlines right now. in a few hours, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is expected to tell congress we must stay the course there despite anger over u.s. soldiers alleged killing of afghan civilia civilians. general john allen will testify against the house services committee. they will call for complete withdrawal until december. buyers of the new ipad say the device is overheating too much, it's too hard to hold on to.

apple is looking into the issue. >> thank you, melissa. despite having a major impact in the 2010 midterm elections, democrats are writing off the tea party's political influence and creating some myths that according to our next guests are not true. >> co-founder of the national tea party coalition and author of a new book that comes out today, called "covenant of liberty, the ideological origins of the tea party movement" mr. michael patrick leahy joins us live. >> great to be with you. >> let's look at the tea party myths out right now and you can tell me whether or not they're true. you're out of business and you have lost all political party. >> not true. instead of having rallies, we're organizing to get out the vote and i have good news for everybody out there. we are going to, if need be, drag the republican nomination to victory across the finish line. >> well, and that brings up the second point and that's that tea party members won't vote for mitt romney. are you telling me that if mitt

romney is the nominee, you'll support him? >> you know, the polls show that he pretty much has the same amount of support as santorum and gingrich, whoever the nominee is, the tea party will support the most conservative candidate. >> what about the suggestion that your view of government spending is out of the mainstream? >> you know, within weeks of the obama administration, we saw a pattern of financially reckless extremism. that really showed little respect for the constitution. the tea party is mainstream and we respect the american constitution. >> and you're mainly about money issues and so when people say this, social issues are a part of your agenda, you say what? >> they're not. i mean, it's fiscal responsibility. constitutionally limited government and free markets. >> you don't care about contraception. >> our motto has been save the republic first, and then let the traditionalists and nontraditionalists duke it out over the social issues. >> what about this? and i think we heard this originally from nancy pelosi that tea party events are

astroturf, not real grassroots, that billionaires fund the movement. >> i haven't received my check yet, steve. there's nothing to that? >> there are about 3,000 local tea parties around the country and we're funded really by the spare change and the couch that people put together. so no, we don't get any conservative billionaire money at the grassroots level. >> ever since the midterms, we haven't seen much of the tea parties. they've essentially gone to ground. are they coming back before the election? >> well, we're there. i mean, we are there. we are doing the hard work. >> not as the same level as before. >> we're doing something far more important, we're organizing to get out the vote and the real story of this election is going to be the tea party with limited resources but true patriotism working to get out the vote vs. the hundreds of millions of dollars that the unions and the left wing are going to pay people to get out the vote. we're going to win and the question is the margin of victory. i think if the conservative donors and the republican establishment get smart and put

money in get out the vote, the margin will be a landslide. if they don't, it will be a more narrow victory. >> i got to ask you a question. we had debbie wasserman schultz on here a couple of months ago as the occupy wall street thing was getting going. and i said, you know, you never saw this many arrests at any tea party events. and she said you've seen a lot of them. how many people -- >> zero. >> zero, right? >> in three years, zero arrests at tea party events. >> that's quite a contrast to occupy wall street. the book is called "covenant of liberal liberally -- liberty, the origins of tea party movement." news of another botch job in the scandal, the prime suspect is caught and let go, why are we just finding out about this now? we have a few of the answers and the food police strike again. this time, food donations to the homeless are being banned because the salt might make them fat. first, happy birthday to holly

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>> big sports news. peyton manning has agreed to join the denver broncos. which means denver will trade tim tebow after just one year as a starter. even kim kardashian was like come on, who dumps a pro athlete that quickly? >> like she, of course, did. >> sure. >> and by the way, have they gotten back together? >> i don't think so. i don't know. >> who do i look like mary hart? >> by the way, mary hart retired. >> i know, but you still think of her -- >> hey. she's walked off the set. >> how about the fast & furious scandal? yesterday, we had darrell issa on here, the chief guy investigating over in the house. this scandal is back in the news as more revelations and more documents become exposed on fridays where you have the weekend to read it and find out what exactly is going on with this investigation. possibly the most alarming thing has now come to surface.

>> prime suspect, this is manuel accosta was stopped by border agents as he was crossing the border and the report says that they found high capacity drum magazine loaded with 74 rounds and an a.k. type weapon inside his truck. they ran a check and found out he was already under investigation for firearm trafficking. >> so he's in jail right now, right? >> no, no, they stopped his truck in 2010. this was like two years ago. >> so he's been in jail for two years, right? >> no, they stopped him and looked into his background and saw the note, something about money to a killer or something like that. >> so he's definitely in jail. >> no! instead of taking him into jail, they contacted the special agent by the name of hope mccallister. >> then he's in solitary. >> hope mccallister said, listen, we'd like you to help us. so how about if we let you go and you contact us again, extraordinarily he said ok, sure, i'll do that. she wrote her contact information on a $10 bill. gave it to him.

said ok, once you go to mexico, contact me and we'll try to coordinate some of this information and we'll spring it and we'll come to the resolution of this case. >> so how many voice mails has he left to hope mccallister since then? >> he never got in contact with her again. and he kept the $10 bill. >> it would be funny if it weren't such a disaster. >> if you think of a guy with drug cartel relationships and an arsenal worth of weapons in his trunk would not call back once he was let go to stay in touch with the a.t.f. agent that interrogated him. whose idea was it to let this guy go? even in the mutual of omaha, they tag the leopard's ear and they track him. >> special agent mccallister did this a couple of years ago and the thing is now we've been talking about it for a while and we're now discovering details about -- this is the prime suspect, one of the main gun runners, we let him go. >> yeah, just another reason why all of these calls for eric

holder's resignation keep getting louder and louder as more information comes out. >> there's something more on that story. that cannot be true. coming up a little bit later, representati representative will be joining out of wisconsin. >> to talk more about that. >> that's right. the terror alert in france is at its highest level as they search for the gunman who killed three children and a rabbi outside of a school. new video of president nicolas sarkozy leading a moment of silence to remember the victims. that happened just moments ago. the killer opened fire and then set off on a motorcycle. overnight, french officials revealing that the gunman may have filmed the attacks. one of the guns used was the same one used in two separate deadly attacks last week that left three terror troopers dead. police suspect the killer is targeting minorities and fear he might strike again. >> as the united states and its allies try to stop iran's nuclear program, iran is now doing its best to spread propaganda around the world.

the country just launched its first spanish language tv channel. hispan-tv with the support and help of venezuelan president hugo chavez. the channel that runs 24 hours a day pushes anti-american, anti-west and in some cases, anti-christian messages. >> all right. look who is complaining about death threats. an occupy wall street sympathizer who made death threats against nypd officers is now getting threats himself. the 22-year-old of florida admits he's the guy who tweeted "we won't make a difference if we don't kill a cop or two." he says he didn't mean what he said which he actually wrote. but he was still being hit with charges. >> might be. >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg playing food cop banning food donations, wait for it, to homeless shelters. city officials not allowing donations of fresh bagels. even homemade stew because officials can't determine their

salt, fat or fiber content. got to have a lot of fiber. mayor says the policy is being strictly enforced for safety reasons but people who donate to shelters say the policy is only taking good food away from people who need it. >> so what are they going to do, test the food to see if it's too salty before they give it to hungry people? >> they're going to take the bagels and throw them in the trash. i don't know. brian kilmeade and the stunning news. tim tebow could be gone. >> or steve, go with the alternate headline. peyton manning has a new team. the peyton manning sweepstakes that lasted about two weeks is over and apparently, the winner is the denver broncos. the reports are that he picked denver over tennessee and san francisco, as you know, expected to be the deal worth five years, about $95 million. he's had three neck operations but looks great in practice. no other way to put it, broncos v.p. john elway made a major score for the franchise by landing manning and his star power had a lot to do with it. if the deal is finalized today, it will mean the end of the

tebow mania and era in denver. reports say the broncos will trade him. it looks like he's going to go to jacksonville. elway was never a huge fan but tebow did lead them to a second round of the playoffs. miami and jacksonville are two places for possible designations. miami is set for another big quarterback signing. huge victory for the mets and big loss for their fans and their season hasn't even started. ceo fred wilopp and saul katz agreed to pay $162 million but it's expected they'll pay even less. trustee was looking for $1 billion. the co-owners have denied knowing what madoff was up to. they cut a deal thanks to the former governor mario cuomo. deal could keep control of the team for wilpon and katz and they announced they selled shares at $20 million each. they owe the bank of america $40

million. major league baseball $20 million and "the new york times" reports they've already repaid it and let all their best players go. receipts are down 30%. they don't have the money to own this team so they're going to torture mets fans. >> and now the hot dogs are $30 a piece. >> absolutely, yes. >> i put a down payment on one and i'm going to come back and get it towards the end of the season. >> look who is here on the curvy couch. clayton morris with an update of what's going on in texas. >> the south by southwest festival. i showed you the great apps down there during the week and i had a chance to check out some gadgets. a lot of companies wanted to show off the gadgets. one is a skateboard that you can control with your mind. you control with your mind and you move forward. watch as i almost break my neck learning how to use this thing. watch. >> this year's south by southwest, it's not just about the apps and the software. there's all sorts of gizmos and

gadgets to get excited about. let's go see some of them. >> all right. i'm here with whirly who created a skateboard that you control with your mind. am i right about this? >> that's right. you control it with your imagination. so basically, you imagine where you want to go and you see that distance point and you think about the speed you want to go and this set converts your brain waves into commands that control the electrical voltage of the motor on this board. >> we have to like really -- almost like you're meditating. >> it was amazing. you literally would move forward with your mind. >> frankenstein movie. >> that little needle strapped to your head. >> it really was. little contacts on my head and he was saying just concentrate and i was thinking about not moving and i wasn't moving. as soon as i would start thinking about moving, i would go. >> you're kidding. >> no. and i wasn't moving my body at

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>> welcome back. national outcry over the case of a 17-year-old fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain is taking a new turn this morning. joining us from washington right now, kelly wright who is getting involved into the investigation. who is, kelly? >> the justice department is getting involved, civil rights division as well as the u.s. attorney in the middle of florida district as well as the f.b.i. is now investigating the shooting death of the black teenager. the 17-year-old florida teenager was shot and killed last month while walking through a neighborhood to his home. man who shot him has not been arrested because he claims the shooting was done in self-defense. >> as a father, i don't know what to say. i'm hurt. i feel betrayed by the police department and there's no way i can instill trust in them in investigating this crime. >> george zimmerman, a

neighborhood watch captain says he was acting in self-defense when he shot the teenager but a 911 call that zimmerman made before the shooting has many questioning his actions. on the 911 call, zimmerman is heard describing him as a black man who appears to be "up to no good" and reaching in his pocket. zimmerman also ignores the dispatcher's advice to not follow the teen. moments later, martin is dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. protesters at rallies on a number of college campuses are now demanding police to arrest zimmerman. local prosecutors may not be able to charge him, however, due to a florida law that states a person is allowed to use deadly force if he or she faces a deadly threat. >> our son was murdered and we miss him! he was murdered and it's a shame that he's not getting any justice. we're not as a family getting

any closure. we're not getting any answers. and it's very disturbing. >> the congressional black caucus is urging the justice department to treat the case as a hate crime saying it sets a bad precedence of vigil justice. >> thank you. another tragic story, this one in washington state. a teenager may be facing big charges after accused of stabbing and killing his best friend. he says he was high on the drug spice at the time and felt the urge to hurt someone. as it turns out, spice isn't an illegal drug. it's readily available at smoke shops across the country. what is it? dr. david sumadi has done the research and knows. what the heck is spice? >> you've heard of k-2 probably or spice or many other different names for it. it's called blaze, aroma, we're learning about all these drugs that are in the market and unfortunately, they're going on to legal drugs because they're not being controlled by the drug

enforcement agency and that's really a huge problem. it's known as a synthetic pot or marijuana. and that's out there and becoming more and more popular among the teenagers and they're using it. one milligram of this material can be completely intoxicating you and totally put you in a situation where you're not in control. the problem is that the way they make this, from lab to lab, it completely -- a different formula can affect different people and it's not detectible under commercial kind of drugs. if they show up to the emergency room and the doctors will check, you may not even detect it so it's really dangerous. >> they say it was sin synthesized from marijuana. marijuana is not a drug that you would take and get violent. does spice have a history of affecting people this way? >> there are many, many studies. if you look at 2010, there was about 4500 calls coming into the poison control from parents, from the emergency room doctors using this kind of substance and they have mentioned it over and

over that this is a public hazard. and you've got to control this so we don't know how much chemicals are going into this but it's very accessible. gas stations, corner stores, internet. teenagers are getting this and now recently, the big news is that in february, now the drug control agency is looking at this as a substance one, schedule one substance. that means it has a high potential for abuse. it's not accepted for any kind of medical use and they're really coming down on this. >> so the f.d.a. will stop cancer drugs from coming forward. they go through years of testing but somebody can make a derivative of a legal drug like this and people have to die before it's -- >> it's very unfortunate. but watch out for those teenagers in schools where they show signs of anxiety, paranoia, high blood pressure. very dangerous stuff. >> always great to have you on. >> nice to see you, brian. the f.a.a. is reviewing its ban on electronic devices in flight. were they lying about the whole interference thing all along? the judge is up next with his blackberry in his pocket. are choosing advil®.

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>> so please turn off all electronic devices. it's the annoying rule we must all follow during takeoff and landing when we fly. for years, the f.a.a. has been telling us it's a safety issue. >> well, but now, melissa francis, the f.a.a. is reportedly reviewing that policy and could lift the ban. does that mean it was never a safety issue in the first place? judge andrew napolitano, fox news senior analyst joins us live. >> good morning, guys. i'm laughing because -- >> are we trying to shake hands? >> i'm laughing because the f.a.a. does not want to acknowledge whether there was any other scientific basis or any legitimate fear about personal digital assistance, ipads and iphones and

blackberries interfering with the pilots in the first place. >> where did that come from? >> well, it came from the f.a.a. notwithstanding the resistance from the airline. >> with an abundance of caution. >> by the way, last night, the f.a.a. claimed it has always said to airlines you can permit this if you want. and the airlines are saying what? we never knew that. you told us we couldn't. this was the government's rule but i must tell you of these experiences i've had in the past two or three months, i've flown about 12 times. three of those times, my blackberry and my ipad worked the entire flight. they didn't tell us not to use it. they didn't tell us it would work. many people were using it and apparently, there was no interference. the only time they cautioned us, as you pointed out during the break, takeoff and landing. >> i covered tech for a long time and tech executives used to tell me and unnamed phone companies it doesn't interfere with the signal. this was always an overabundance of caution or something or is it just control? >> i don't know.

well, the government does like to control people. >> they do. they do. >> wait a minute, so alec baldwin when he said look, i'm not going to turn that off, so -- >> defend alec baldwin? >> it would have had no impact. >> apparently, it would not have had an impact. >> but it was still the law. is still the law. >> correct. correct. but the f.a.a. now recognizes that there might never have been a basis for what it ordered and it is thinking about allowing airlines to decide. you have a choice. some airlines will advertise. you can't talk on the phone but you can use your blackberry. >> could be a good way to steal customers. come on our airline, we'll let you text as much as you want. >> remember, those blackberries that also liberate, they're a tether. boss will want to know what are you doing right now? why are you in omaha? >> right. >> all right. judge andrew napolitano, always a pleasure. >> pleasure, guys. >> all right. and they're the best kept secrets on any presidential

campaign until now. the secret service code names for rick santorum and mitt romney just revealed. >> and they're good, too. >> they're kind of silly. >> and then the president said he'd stand up for women attacked by the media. now, bristol palin says mr. president, where's my phone call? i'm waiting! ok, guys-- what's next ?

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>> good morning, it's tuesday, march 20th. and i'm melissa francis in for gretchen carlson. the primary is open, candidates battling for votes and some of their secrets are out.

specifically their secret service code names. we'll reveal that straight ahead. >> and speaking of secrets, the first lady michelle obama asked to dish on her private conversations with the president? >> at the end of the day, has your husband ever come home and said to you -- oh, that john boehner, what an idiot! >> what she said and why some are not happy about her late show appearance. >> and he's not a terrorist. he's a toddler. the tsa swabbed a 3-year-old in a wheelchair and dad is holding the camera. hour two live from new york on the first day of spring starts right now. >> ♪ if i ruled the world

♪ every man would be as free as a bird ♪ ♪ every voice would be a voice to be heard ♪ ♪ take my word ♪ we would treasure each day that occurred ♪ ♪ my world >> did you read what that sign said? 62 degrees in new york on the first day of spring, 7:00 in the morning. i don't know what's going on but i love it. >> tony bennett who lives in midtown manhattan singing "if i rule the world and it's going to be a beautiful day temperaturewise across a lot of the country but showers in the mid part. show you details a little later on. >> and tony bennett is actually singing it. he did not want to be on camera

but he's live. this is exactly the way bible scripted it. this is the way spring should be. you should be walking around without a coat. >> wait a minute, where did the bible say we should start with tony bennett? >> somewhere between genesis and revelations. isn't this a script, if you were to write a movie, this is a spring day in new york, this is what it would be like. >> yesterday was spectacular for the final day of winter and spring started at 1:15 this morning. >> i want people to participate in twitter. the name of the song is "if i ruled the world" can you answer us? if you ruled the world, what would change? write us on twitter and see how that goes. >> all right. >> sugar covered peeps for everyone. i dream big, right? >> you do. >> and easter just around the corner. melissa francis from fox business joins us today for gretch. >> i can't believe you guys had

me back after yesterday. >> we're shocked! we're shocked! >> obviously, joel liked you. he is the floor manager. he makes the decisions. >> all right. meanwhile, a busy day. >> that's right. polls have just opened in illinois with the holding of the republican primaries today, mitt romney and rick santorum both need to win there. >> are you adjusting your outfit? >> he wanted to look good for steve brown who joins us from illinois right now with a look at the g.o.p. showdown. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, steve, melissa, brian, yes, the polls have just opened here. we're in lyle, illinois, which is in dupage county. if the illinois republican party kind of had a home base and an official home, this would be it. it's a substantially republican county just west of cooke county which is, of course, where chicago is. illinois has the distinction of having been one of the states in 2011 which actually lost jobs. one of the very few states that lost jobs. in 2011, so unemployment rates

are a sensitive subject up here. yesterday when rick santorum said he didn't care that the unemployment rate went up or down, mitt romney immediately attempted to capitalize. have a listen. >> one of the people who is running also for the republican nomination today says he doesn't care about the unemployment rate. that doesn't bother him. i do care about the unemployment rate. it does bother me. i want to get people back to work. i'm concerned about those who are out of work. one of the reasons i'm running is to get my expertise in place so we can put people back to work and get american strong again. >> of course i care about the unemployment rate. i want the unemployment rate to go down. i'm saying my candidacy doesn't hinge on whether the unemployment rate goes up and down and our candidacy is about something that transcends it, about freedom. >> turnout is going to be a real big issue here. illinois doesn't have a history of turning out really strongly for primaries. even presidential primaries. a lot of that has to do with where they place on the calendar. it's not often that they're a difference maker in a presidential nomination process

so quite frankly, there isn't the habit that's built in about two years ago in the gubernatorial primary out here, i think we had turnout around 18%. low turnout may be a good thing for rick santorum, a higher turnout particularly in the suburbs where we are now -- could be a good thing for mitt romney. it seemed like that's the breakout with santorum running stronger down state and in the far western suburbs and mitt romney running much stronger in the other counties, we'll see as the day turns out what turnout looks like. but it doesn't look like it's going to be all that strong just from basically the early voting we've gotten in some of the absentee polling numbers. back to you folks in new york. >> looking behind you, we're off to a slow start unless, of course, the doors are locked. thanks so much. 1988 is last time illinois mattered and in the big picture, it seems as though the trend continues, rick santorum has overachieved according to the latest polls in almost every one of the last 10 states. so let's see if he can do that again today. >> did you finish adjusting yourself? everything all set?

>> i couldn't believe when i put my hands out, how much shirt i saw. >> have you been growing? >> i think so. you never know. >> part of his spring collection. he's adjusting himself with the new clothes. did you realize folks that if you were a candidate for president and you get secret service protection, you actually get to pick your own code name. "g.q." magazine has revealed the names for mr. romney and mr. santorum. they each got for pick their own and there they are. >> kind of disappointing. javelin for mitt romney there. >> from a 60's muscle car. >> maybe. from amc when his dad ran it. there it is. >> ted will get -- zoom in on it and get a picture. for you folks who do not remember what the javelin looked like, there it is right there. meanwhile, that's the javelin. >> i like what rick santorum said when he heard it was the javelin, he said, yeah, i remember the javelin, it was an unusual car. i think that sort of fits. >> in fact, if you -- >> not a strong endorsement.

>> i can't believe he said that. >> i got the tape. >> let's see. >> let's roll em! >> the petrus is the latin word for peter and you've heard me talk repeatedly about my grandfather, his name was pietro and i don't think that would work. i just -- it's a name and i didn't want a name so i thought petrus which is a latin word for peter and for rock, i thought was a more apt name than italian name for peter. >> i understand that governor romney's name is javelin, any sort of final thoughts on that? might as well end on a light note on your secret service name. >> no, i think -- you know, i understand he named it after an american motors car. i remember the javelin so it was a very -- it was an unusual car so i think it sort of fits. >> he could have named himself pacer. that was an unusual car. >> gremlin would have been very

disturbing. >> pinto. >> yes, i understand there's three people left that have one. here's the thing. i thought these were supposed to be secret. if they're on the walkie-talkie, javelin is in my sight. pick up petrus. now that everyone knows their code names, why have their code names? >> they say it's not a security issue because now the secret service can encrypt the messages so the people out listening on their radios or what not, whatever picks up their band, can't hear it. >> maybe it's just fodder for us so we can sit here on the curvy couch and make fun. >> something to talk about. do you know what joe biden's code word is? >> no. >> i did know. what is it? >> celtic. >> that's interesting and we know rose bud is one of the obama kids. >> tell us what else is up. >> we begin with a fox news alert. overnight, a series of bombings across iraq leaving 46 people dead. 200 are hurt. the attacks targeted security

forces and shiite pilgrims. the waves of violence days before an arab summit in baghdad and yesterday, the united states marked nine years since the start of operation iraqi freedom. >> and severe weather alert remains for folks down in texas. you're taking a live look right now at dallas, texas. overnight, a tornado touched down near san antonio, take a close look at the screen and we've slowed this down a little. when the lightning strikes, you can see the twister, wow, off in the distance. there have been reports of people trapped in their mobile homes and at this hour, several parts of texas are under tornado watch. the budget battle starts all over again, oh, boy, when the house budget committee chairman paul ryan unveils his 2013 budget plan. he wants to spend $19 billion less than the limit agreed to last year. he wants to simplify the tax code reducing the current six tax brackets to just two. and while you were sleeping, first lady michelle obama made her first visit to david letterman's show.

>> how are things at the white house? ok? >> things are good. things are good. trying to stay out of trouble. >> there's trouble everywhere. in politics. >> yea. >> you have to be careful what you say, what you do. where you go. who you look at. at the end of the day, has your husband ever come home and said to you, oh, that john boehner, what an idiot? >> it has never happened. never, ever. he is always upbeat particularly about congress. >> the fist lady talked about her famed trip to target. she says a woman had no idea who she was and asked her to get a bottle of detergent off a higher shelf for her. >> there you go. >> yeah, she probably did it, right? those are your headlines. >> we saw the first lady on the david letterman show last night. you know, david letterman who has revealed himself over the last couple of years to be quite a leftie has said some very inappropriate things about

conservative women and a lot of people said they don't know whether or not it's a good idea for the first lady to go on the letterman program. here's sean hannity on his program last night. >> here the president lectured the company on civility and tone and talks about his daughters and there's michelle obama tonight on letterman. there's bill maher as vial as he's been, you know, attacking the children of governor palin. attacking the children of rick santorum, using the c word against governor palin, he takes a million dollars from them. why wouldn't obama take that moment and do something that would prove that he's not just, you know, about political rhetoric. should michelle obama have gone on letterman's show a week after he lectures us about his children where letterman attacked governor palin's daughter and attacked governor palin. >> i'm not sure. >> i've sensed that bob beckel didn't agree. i didn't have a chance to watch that. he thinks they didn't. jay leno is somebody who does not do that. he does not take sides.

david letterman has. he went after mccain on a separate note every single day during the election. >> it's like letterman making fun of chris christie's weight. why is that ok? why is that funny? personal attack. >> meanwhile, of course, a couple of weeks ago, the president of the united states reached out to that georgetown law student, sandra fluke and said that he supported her given what rush limbaugh had said. well, a lot of bad things have been said about the palins and in fact, bristol palin wrote yesterday on the internet, wanted to know when the president was going to call her. she wrote in part "dear president obama, you don't know my telephone number but i hope your staff is busy trying to find it. ever since you called sandra fluke after rush limbaugh called her an inappropriate word, i figured i might be next." so far, he has not called. >> but she's sitting by the phone, i think. >> she's got the edge of her mom. i agree. we all remember that controversy and on top of that, you do also know that bristol palin is

somebody that was targeted early on and had an extremely rough time. >> double standard, you can't go out there and make fun of one group -- make fun of everybody, right? or you take the high road and have, you know a more positive tone. >> right. well, the whole thing is they're -- there seems to be a double standard. one side gets away with making the shots that seem inappropriate but once people apologize, move on. and yet, the double standard exists. what tdo you think about it? >> teachers reprimanding students by shooting them in the face with spray bottles? and right now, they're still on the job. >> plus, the prime suspect let go by the government. our next guest says it's time for eric holder to step aside. ♪

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>> shocking news details in the botched fast & furious operation seven months into the gunrunning program, federal agents caught their main suspect with 74 rounds of ammunition, nine cell phones hidden inside his car. but instead of locking him up, they cut a deal to make him an informant. he was let go and wasn't arrested until months later. >> and really didn't do any informing and this adds to the growing controversy around fast & furious and now 121 members of congress are calling for attorney general eric holder to step down. wisconsin congressman is one of them and joins us right now from capitol hill. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning. thanks for having me on. >> this guy was stopped a couple of years ago, the prime suspect in this thing, we're

just finding out about it now. >> well, this is typical, though, weave been trying to get information. i wrote attorney general holder a letter back on october 3rd of last year, nearly 5 1/2 months ago, still, i've had no response at all. this is typical of what we're seeing out of the current department of justice. >> what is it you want to know? what are you looking for that you haven't seen yet? >> we're looking at all the information that happened on fast & furious and over 80% of the documents that have been subpoenaed by the house oversight committee haven't been delivered to the committee yet. you begin to wonder what don't they want the american people to know? if there's no problem here and he said there's nothing behind all this like he's testified before a committee, he should bring the documents forward and everything should be ok. we need the information. the american people have a right to know. >> why the delay of game? do you think it's something political or do you think there's something criminal they're concealing.

>> i don't know for sure but it looks political right now but a lot of things that the administration has done and in particular attorney general holder has done has been political. this kind of pattern that we're starting to see starting with the president saying listen, we're not going to enforce a law like doma and the attorney general accepting it, this is a law that was signed into law by the president and they say we're not going to enforce it to the whole issue around fast & furious a few weeks ago, the department of justice announced in the state of texas on voter i.d. issues. everything has been political with this administration. >> well, let's see what happens. all right, joining us from capitol hill, wisconsin congressman reed ribble, thanks very much for joining us today. >> thank you. >> and he's a toddler, not a terrorist. we'll talk to this boy's father. why was he this 3-year-old boy in a wheelchair targeted for a tsa patdown? >> and he's the son of liberal parents who protested the vietnam war. up next, the remarkable story of a man who despite his family

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>> you may recognize our next guest from "the wire" but there's more to benjamin bush than you see on that small screen. he's the grandson of two war veterans and hero in his own right having served 16 years in the u.s. marine corps, two tours in iraq. he's sharing his life long journey in his new memoir "dust to dust" thanks so much for your service. what a life you've had so far. >> it's still going on. i think we're in for some more. >> why a memoir now? >> you know, i came back from my second combat tour in iraq on

my daughter's first birthday and very shortly after, that i lost both of my parents and i think my own fatherhood coupled with the loss of my parents made me re-examine where i was in my life and kind of our place in time and on this earth. and because of that, i realized i had lost their memories and that mine were the only ones remaining and the power that we have in rememberance was something that i had taken for granted. i could bring them back from the dead and that's what i did in this book. >> you talk about going back to your childhood and able to revisit those people and those times so vividly. that's probably what makes you a pretty good actor. you got a great vivid imagination. >> you need a lot of imagination for acting because you are, you know, embedding yourself in an entirely different person and i think that's fascinating. >> benjamin, we have your two stints in iraq. how has that changed you?

>> yesterday marks our nine year anniversary in the invasion of iraq and you can never tell really how these experiences change you but they've influenced my life. i've been exposed to death and trauma and incredible feats of self-sacrifice that i have forever imprint on me. and not really sure how that exactly comes out in the end but it's made a difference in my life. >> every time you serve in iraq in a war zone is significant. when you're told to go to ramadi for seven months where in 2005 you know you've seen a lot of action and a lot of horror. what a great accomplishment in the big picture. they say that americans don't stay the course. americans quit when the first sight of blood and americans can't handle urban warfare. you have and you and your colleagues and those that have served have checked that box in every single way and say not true, not true. >> marines don't retreat. >> enough said. your parents were not -- were against the vietnam war.

>> they were and i think they tried to steward me away from service as all parents probably do in some ways because it's leading their child away from harm's way. service is actually the marine corps and combat arms throughout all the services is going to put you in front of bullets and they wanted to preserve me. and so they were not in favor of military service until it became inevitable that i was going to be a marine and then they supported me completely. >> wow. that's fantastic and they must have been so proud and still are. never an ex-marine. always a marine. >> good luck with your book "dust to dust" it was excellent. it comes out today is the first day. >> first day of spring. >> all right. we'll have it on foxandfriends.com. >> wonderful. thank you very much. >> no problem. thank you. major controversy, his family says it makes him look bad. and he's less than two weeks away from the match of a lifetime and former wwe champ john fina just got sidelined by

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>> john just told us it's time for the shot of the morning so we're going to tell you about that. the floor director. >> oops! notice anything wrong with this picture? it was sent out by starbucks to major media outlets promoting their new juice bar. let's give you a closer look. the word vegetable is misspelled with an a instead of an e after the b. within hours of this picture going viral, starbucks removed it from their multimedia gallery for the press. >> there's a heated debate over plans for memorial for dwight d. eisenhower, the family is upset over the proposed design and wants it revamped. heather joins us now with the details. >> good morning. one of the granddaughters of former president eisenhower is testifying actually on capitol hill today. that is because the family is very upset about a memorial that is set to be built. it's set to open in 2015 alongside the national mall. we're talking about a $100

million project, four acres. we're looking at sort of a sketch of what this is proposed to look like right now. part of the problem is the family is offended. that's because the statue that's set to go up of eisenhower would be a small statue of him as a boy, it would show his humble roots from kansas, of course, your home state. >> my hometown. >> it would show him barefoot, actually, sort of barefoot wearing flood type style pants and the family says that doesn't do him justice. he was president of the united states, he was the allied commander of the u.s. forces during world war ii. let's depict him as he really was. not just as a young child. >> in a helmet! >> well, exactly. exactly. so the family has -- is going to congress to talk about this today. some members of congress are also upset about how the memorial is supposed to look, how it's slated to look as of now and one of the family members actually stepped off of the commission and resigned from his position in the commission back in december so congress

calling for a revamping and a redesign of this memorial. you saw some of the pictures up there. but then there's a little bit more of a controversy. and that is one republican member of congress, republican of texas had this to say. he said i respect the family's concern and the commission has asked for their input but it's not the family memorial to eisenhower, it's the national memorial to eisenhower. >> was he a national figure as a child? >> they think as a child that would inspire other young children to go on and become something great. >> come on! i mean, it doesn't seem right to go ahead with something -- >> ted williams in a cradle. >> to be fair, there are some screens that would be put up that have some sketches that show some pictures of him as he was president of the united states and as he was conducting our military campaigns. but the family members believe that's not just enough. >> i'll tell you what, i have been many times to the eisenhower library in abilene, kansas. >> really? >> yeah, absolutely. all of the images, the public

images for the most part are as him -- >> as an adult. >> as the allied commander and as president, i can see that. >> it would be nice to see both. to see him as a boy from his humble beginnings and what he grew to become. >> thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> now to your headlines, let's begin here. the terror alert in france is at its highest level as police search for the gunman who killed three children and a rabbi outside of a jewish school. a short time ago, president nicolas sarkozy led a moment of silence to remember the victims. he opened fire and sped off on a motorcycle overnight. french officials revealing the gunman may have filmed the shooting. one of the guns used was the same one used in two separate deadly attacks last week that left three paratroopers dead. steve? >> meanwhile, brian, if you think the presidential race here and in the united states is nasty, wait until you hear what is going on in venezuela where strongman hugo chavez is running for re-election. he claims he received word that someone is trying to kill his

main opponent. he insists it's not him but a rival who is trying to assassinate. they've offered his opponent special protection. chavez's rival refusing that offer. >> and it's one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century and now secretary of state hillary clinton is getting involved. she will meet later today with historians and scientists did ameala earhardt's disappearance over the south pacific. the group will begin a new search of the wreckage of her plane in june. it coincides with the 75th anniversary of when her flight took off. >> two teachers accused of repeatedly spraying special needs students in the face with water, in the wake of mounting pressure, the women have resigned but not effective until the end of the school year. some parents say not good enough. >> in our eyes, there's a right and there's a wrong. and these two teachers have done wrong!

and they need to be terminated. >> the deer park school district says they will transfer the teachers to different special ed classrooms. >> all right. >> meanwhile, thank you very much. it is the first day of spring, started at 1:14 this morning, eastern time. let's find out spring showers as you can see all the way from the great lakes down through the central plain states. heavy stuff all the way from just south of kansas city right down along the gulf coast. they've had a rumble of thunder and some tornadoes move through the southern plains earlier today and last night as well. you can see if you're looking at the tv, quite a front. in front of it, temperatures in the 50's, 60's and 70's. behind it, temperatures in the 30's. right now, in denver, it's only 31. here in new york city, 56 degrees. >> all right, for all you fight fans out there, wrestle mania 28 is less than two weeks away. >> whoo-hoo! >> in the event is supposed to be duane "the rock" johnson against former champ john cena. >> he gave his fans a scare when

he was involved in a car accident in philadelphia. i don't know what that is. will the match be over before it begins? we'll ask the wwe superstar john cena is here with us right now. how are you? are you ok? >> i'm fine. i'm fine. >> it happened yesterday. >> it happened yesterday while i was in philadelphia, we had our monday night raw broadcast last night in philadelphia and during the day, i did local media to promote wrestle mania on april 1st. we got hit by a car that was hit by a dump truck and it kind of got -- >> wow! >> nobody was hurt. i know some of the frames may look a little disturbing but nobody was hurt. everybody walked away and was fine. i wrestled and competed against the 400 pound world's strongest man mark henry last night on television. i was successful. i won. i'm in one piece. >> i thought you were going to say you were your own jaws of life. >> i was in the middle of the highway just crushing cars and getting ready for wrestle mania. >> the guy that hit you, you got out of the car and approached him, did he say oh, mid goodness, look who i hit?

>> what happened is i was in the back of the s.u.v. doing a phone interview. the drivers got out and it got heed. right after the phone interview, i stepped out of the car and there was silence. >> sorry, man, we didn't mean any harm by it. >> is this a prank? you know, what's going on? i got to ask, before we talk about wrestle mania on april 1st against the rock, i think you're going to beat him. he's gotten soft. absolutely. let's talk a little bit about, do you follow politics at all? >> just a little bit. just a little bit. >> who do you think -- we got a big primary tonight. >> yep. >> in illinois, what do you think about mitt romney and rick santorum and newt gingrich. >> i can say what i like about mitt romney because i got to personally meet him at the daytona 500. he was kind of making the rounds at the daytona 500 and with so much going on at a super race like that, in true politician status but he did spend time to talk to anybody. i didn't think he would say hello to me. he said hello to us and said hello to our crew. he was really, really personable and i wish nothing but the best of him. i had a great interaction with him. once you get to know a guy, you

want to pull the guy. >> you have changed your shirt since that day, right? >> no. this is the daytona shirt. >> you met chris christie,too, right? >> yes, we're bringing wrestle mania 29 to metlife stadium in new jersey, so he was there for the big announcement. >> let's talk about wrestle mania 28, it's going to be on april 1st. featured match will be you and the rock. match that has been billed for a year. have you had a chance to view any footage of him? because we have, just in case we end up fighting him. tell us if this helps you at all to look back to break it down and tell me where you might see some vulnerability. rock in action. do we have some of that? >> i've been watching game tapes. >> here he is. >> put me down! >> i mean, i would think he's gotten soft. he looks like a fairy. >> apparently to prepare for an

opponent that actually can fly and become invisible. i thought i was just fighting a regular guy in the ring. he can fly, become invisible and shrink himself. >> you're 35 in the prime of your life. >> everybody says that. rock has been to our television program for the last six weeks. he's in the top physical condition of his life. i've been talking trash about rock for a year now. if you want to check my backlogs, you can check twitter at john cena. we've been going back and forth for a year. >> speaking of talking trash, though, people have talked trash about you. now you're connected to fruity pebble? >> absolutely. rock came out on our program, me, i always wear bright colors and not afraid to pretty much be who i am and he called me a fruity pebble. in the vain of taking a negative and turning it into a positive, i switched around and got on 2.5 million cereal boxes. >> good job! >> there he is. >> there you are. >> turn it into cash. >> pebbles could be the new wheaties, we don't know! >> fruity pebbles could be the breakfast of champions! >> my breakfast every day.

hopefully i'm a champion on april 1st. >> thank you, guys. i appreciate it. >> if you can, try to work out a little. >> i'm going to start hitting the gym. > >> right. >> it's a respect fest. how about that? we have very similar builds. thanks, john. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> coming up -- >> all right, coming up, the top five companies hiring this week. some will even pay for college! >> terrific. and he's a toddler, not a terrorist. we'll talk to that young man's father. why his 3-year-old son in the wheelchair was targeted for a tsa patdown and how the dad feels about it right now. ♪

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>> quick headlines now. rosie isn't the only one getting axed from the struggling oprah winfrey network. 30 staffers have been laid off from the own channel. oprah says it was a tough decision but necessary to get costs down. and a nurse from tennessee dodging jail time for having a gun in her pocketbook at the september 11th memorial in new york. i'm talking about meredith graves. she forgot the gun was in her purse and you need a permit to pack heat in new york and she did not have that permit. steve, i permit you to go. >> thank you very much, brian. there's growing outrage over this video that's gone viral in the last week. it shows a wheelchair bound toddler being patted down by the tsa agent and the entire exchange caught on camera by the father. >> weird, huh? feel a little weird? >> yeah. >> are you nervous? don't be nervous. it's ok.

>> matt dubial is the father of that little boy named rocco and he's the person who filmed the incident and joins us live from chicago. good morning to you. >> good morning! >> ok, this has gone viral. a lot of people are looking at it, feel really sorry for you and rocco. this happened two years ago. and i know you were en route to disney and you wanted to get through the line, right? >> yeah, you know, i had three kids with me. two in-laws. my wife and a partridge in a pear tree and my wife just wanted me to get through, didn't want me to even tape it. but i felt that i needed to at least let the gentleman who was examining my son know that somebody was watching and it was being documented just in case. >> sure. and you hadn't even looked at this tape until the last week or so and then when you looked at it again, because you've got a busy life. you got angry all over that you should have done more then to help your son who had the broken

leg. >> yeah, not just angry, i got sad and i felt a little bit ashamed. i was watching it with my oldest who is about to be 10 years old, and he started asking me questions, and i didn't like my answers whatsoever. and i started to really regret not having shared it with anyone and not having done something differently when i was on the scene to prevent that display. >> but you know what, matt? you did what a lot of parents would do and i watched the whole video and you could see that rocco was trembling and rocco was a little freaked out and you were trying to reassure him that everything was ok. even though i kind of sensed you were a little bugged by it. >> yeah, it wasn't ok and i feel that, you know, my kids look to me to gauge my emotions and they know how to feel. so i wanted to get him through it. in hindsight, i think that it might have been the bad -- the wrong decision because if i keep doing this and i keep laying

down and other parents keep doing what's convenient in the moment then this sort of thing is going to be the way. and i don't think this should be the way. i don't think any parent can say that this is how it should be. we're in the united states. we're supposed to be the best! there should be a better way. we can figure out a better way than this, i think. >> sure absolutely. we have a statement from the tsa. this is what they say. tsa has reviewed the video and determined the screening shown occurred two years ago prior to tsa's modification of security procedures for passengers 12 and under. the new procedures have greatly reduced although not eliminated the patdowns. one of the interesting things about your video, not only did you post the video in some cases you put some captions and you could tell you were a little angry about this. talking about see -- there's probably -- you probably missed the c-4 in the wheelchair. >> i could have done what other people do and put music behind

it and tug on heart strings. i called it as it was happening. you can't really see, people that aren't in television don't know how far things are when you're looking on camera and how far away it is and what's really happening and he was physically trembling and a lot of people, you can't even see that on film. so i just wanted to let people know factually what was happening and then let them -- and then ask, is this ok with you if you're a parent, do you think this is acceptable? >> absolutely. and, of course there was no c-4. it was tongue in cheek. you posted the video of your son rocco who is now 5 years old and completely forgotten about that, i do hope. matt dubiel joining us today from chicago. sir, thank you very much for sharing your story. >> thanks very much. take care. >> you bet. what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. meanwhile, every week, we give you the top five companies hiring. but today, we're sweetening the pot. we've got companies that will also pay for college. plus say she's exactly who mitt

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>> the economy is beginning to tick back but as of last month, there are still 12 million americans unemployed. each week on "fox & friends", we are getting an inside look at the five companies hiring right now. cheryl casone from the fox business network joins us now with the scoop.

a lot of tech in your list this week. >> we find a lot of technology companies. but i've actually got a good mixture this week. i want to start with adobe because we talked to one of the recruiters over there and he says look, sometimes you have to celebrate failure. believe it or not, they appreciate those who are coming in for the interview and saying i've had some missteps. here's what i learned from my mistakes. >> i like that! >> you really like that as well. 1,000 jobs opening right now. they've got digital marketing and digital media positions and have a really good reimbursement program for higher education and near number 41 on "fortune 100" best companies to work for. california. >> terrific. lockheed martin. >> aerospace, defense and also technology as well. they've got 74% of their revenues, as you know, coming from military sales at lockheed martin. 7,000 jobs opening worldwide. now, they are across the country. they're across the world. you may have to move. they've got several -- not going to surprise you, engineers, i.t., program managers, they're headquartered in bethesda. but again, 46 states across the country and there's openings worldwide.

you have to go to the web site for that one. >> your next item i like a lot, it's pnc bank, there are a lot of good jobs in local banks that people don't think about. you can work your way up to branch manager and make a lot of money. >> look, 1,000 openings right now. and here's the -- you just hit it. most of these in pittsburgh, i want to highlight that at pnc but the smaller banks and regional banks are doing better because a lot of customers are saying forget the big bank, i don't like you anymore. we're seeing a shift in customers. they're hiring tellers, financial advisors and mortgage loan officers. there are jobs at pnc but mostly pittsburgh. >> they operate fitness centers, count sports. >> you probably know the names, mostly here in the east coast. it's new york sports club, boston sports club and they need managers and they're going to be expanding a lot of their programs as far as training and as far as physical fitness activities but they really are looking for those that can be, you know, physical trainers, that can go out and be trainers. they'll train you to do that. i wanted to highlight that as well. over the next six to 12 months,

there will be a big expansion. right now, they have 150 gyms and there's positions in every gym. you would to have to go to that, your neighborhood sports club. >> right. your last one is in a field that's exploding, home health. >> yes, come on. i mean, nurses, hospice care, alabama, california, georgia, north carolina, texas, wisconsin, registered nurses, 1500 jobs, obviously there is benefits. medical. dental. there is also again with this one retirement and tuition assistance but registered nurses. oh, my gosh. i cannot believe the nursing shortage in this country right now, melissa. it's fascinating and sad in a way. >> we can watch you later on the fox business network coming up at 11:00 eastern. we'll tune in there. >> and the white neighborhood watchman who killed a black teen is protected by his state self-defense law but now the obama administration may step in and overrule that. can they do it? some are suggesting that mitt romney could pick condy rice as his running mate. would she be up for it? she'll be here. we'll be right back.

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>> good morning. it is tuesday, march 20. i'm melissa in for gretchen carlson. is condoleeza rice mitt romney ticket to the white house? some say she's the perfect pick for vp. would she take the job? former secretary of state is here to answer the question. >> steve: meanwhile, back in 2008, obamacare was more important than getting millions of americans back to work. remember how excited joe biden was when it passed? >> melissa: we don't get tired of that. >> steve: you just don't. why did the could you say decide to ignore this week's second anniversary of obamacare? >> brian: and this time, food donations to the home really being banned because they're too salty.

really? really? "fox & friends" starts now. really? >> steve: it's too salty. i know you're hungry, but it's too salty. >> melissa: bagels? >> steve: can you believe it? >> brian: we're privilege to do have with us, the former secretary of state. she's in the on deck circle. >> steve: i thought you were going to see she'll be here in a minute. i thought -- >> brian: sorry. you know exactly what to say, if i only could say it. good job. it's been fun having you here. >> melissa: thank you, yes. i woke up, i had nowhere to go, so i showed up knocking at the door. >> brian: at 2:30, it's so natural to ous yourself. >> melissa: it's time for your headlines. a fox news alert. nearly simultaneously bombings across iraq leaving at least 46 people dead overnight. another 200 people are hurt. the attacks happened in eight

different iraqi cities. it's believed to be an effort to thwart the annual arab summit next week in baghdad. no one claimed responsibility. severe weather alert remains for folks in texas. overnight a tornado touched down near san antonio. take a close look at your screen. we slowed this down. when the lightning strikes, you can see the twister in the distance. there have been reports of people trapped in mobile homes and at this hour, several parts of texas are under tornado watch. peyton manning making his pick and the broncos have their man. multiple reports say he's working on a deal to head to denver. he picked denver over tennessee and san francisco. it's expected the deal will be for five years and worth about $95 million. wow. reports say the broncos will look to trade tim tebow, who led them to the second round of the

playoffs last year and has a major following among fans. i guess you would call it a big deal, anniversary. but apparently president obama will not be celebrating the -- friday marks the second anniversary of the president's signing his healthcare reform bill into law. you might remember joe biden was famously caught saying this. >> (bleep) [ applause ] >> melissa: white house says it's unclear what will be on the president's schedule this friday, but says he is focused on a forward agenda. those are the headlines. >> steve: meanwhile, voters heading to the polls in illinois for the republican presidential primary where voter turnout is expected to be perhaps light. >> brian: right. steve brown is live with us fro napierville with more. hey, steve. >> good morning. sometimes the answer is, i don't know. the state's election authority, the illinois board of election, says it does not make itself -- isn't in the business, excuse

me, of making projections on how it is the turn out will be today. the fact is, in illinois when it comes to republican presidential primaries, there are very little -- very few examples of it -- the state having a lot of say about this because usually the contest is all by the time the illinois primary rolls around. not so this time. but in terms of turnout, according to all indications, that may be a bit of a mystery. >> i think the turnout is not going to be that great in the illinois primary. i say that because it hasn't been real hot in a lot of other states around the country. so a lot of republicans aren't real happy with this field. there is a lot of ambivalence about politics today in general. it's hard to tell who will benefit most from a low turnout. >> the romney campaign and the santorum campaign are kind of looking at this from different perspectives. are am knee would very much like spike to turn out in the suburbs

around their city of chicago where we are right now. if there is high turnout there, it's thought to be a good indicator for romney. down state, a bit more socially conservative area as far as republican voters are concerned. santorum folks would love it if there was a spiked turnout down there. we'll be monitoring this throughout the day. but generally speaking, turnout here historically has not been very strong. just a year ago, the gubernatorial primary had turnout in the neighborhood of 18%. back to you in new york. >> steve: all right. steve brown live in napierville, illinois. >> brian: we're joined by condoleeza rice, former secretary of state, national security advisor. great to see you again. >> nice to see you. good morning. >> brian: i know you've been extremely busy. i guess the first thing is, the gop election, you know what's happening in illinois today. people are thinking that it's probably going to be mitt romney perhaps. we're wondering, would you accept his call if he asked you to be his running mate? >> we're going to have a lot of great candidates for vice president and it's going to be a

terrific ticket for the republican party. but that's not my strong suit. i really love policy, not politics. but they'll find the right person. >> steve: the reason we brought it up is because there have been op eds written about it. they love the idea of biden-obama versus romney-rice. >> i think we should go another direction and find somebody who really wants -- how many ways can i say it. not me. >> steve: that's clear. thank you, ma'am. >> melissa: let's move to topic attention of what you were want to go talk about. president obama's handling of both iran and israel. are there things you would do differently than the current administration, how they're handling it? maybe if you want to start in iran? >> iran, i think the most important thing is make very clear to the iranians that we really will not allow them to get a nuclear weapon. that means that you have to have a military option that you are prepared to use and that the

iranians know you are prepared to use and you can't send mixed signals about that. in fact, if the iranians really do believe you will use military force, you might, through the diplomacy, which is very active and i think is actually having some effect, you might be able to get the iranians to change course. it's got to be a very strong message and unequivocal. >> brian: i imagine you are getting some of those mixed signals. you're reading the paper, hearing the quotes and seeing the different administration officials saying opposite things. are those the mixed signals you're referring to? >> well, the president has said he has the military option and he means he will use it. but then do you get the back stories and the whispers here and there and occasionally someone questioning whether or not the military option is a real option. the iranians just eat that up. so let's have one message from the president that he will use military force if necessary. >> melissa: some have questioned the president's support of israel. do you think he's showing enough

support? >> well, israel is a reliable and strong friend of the united states and yes, sometimes it can be frustrating dealing with a democratic state that has different views than we do from time to time. but the united states has to stand by israel. it's a democracy in the middle east where it would have been wiped off the face of the map years ago but for the perseverance and the toughness of the israeli people. i think it's awfully important that we affirm and reaffirm our commitment to israel's security. >> steve: let's talk a little about this, when you were still secretary of state at the end of the bush administration and candidate obama was running, he took real shots at the bush administration and different tactics. he criticized military tribunals, said he would close gitmo, talked about the surge, indefinite detentions, the surveillance, increased drone strikes. those are things that he was against then, but he's for now.

that must make you feel good. >> it looks a little different when you're in the oval office and you have responsibility to actually protect the american people. and i think we're seeing that in this war on terror, which by the way, still goes on because we still have to be vigilant about the terrorists and what they might do, that many of the tools that president bush left in place, surveillance tools, the ability to get information from terrorists to prevent the next attack, even the possibility of the pilotless drone which is are being used so often over afghanistan and pakistan, those tools that the president left in place have turned out to be essential to protecting america. >> brian: i want you to weigh in on the big story of the day, in a second, peyton manning. but in afghanistan, i have to get your take. there is a lot of people even on the right saying, our job is done. we have to get out of there. as secretary of state, you know what's at stake. is there still anything to be done in afghanistan?

>> there certainly is. we just have to think back to ten years ago when the taliban was in control and what afghanistan looked like and what afghanistan meant for our security. yes, we still have work to do to train reliable afghan security forces that can protect the afghan state. we still have work to do to help the afghans get better governance, particularly in the provinces. we still have work to do to weaken the capacity of the taliban. we set a time line. i personally wouldn't have set a time line. but we've said 2014. nato said 2014. let's use that time not going back and forth about whether or not we're going to accelerate the timetable, the taliban shouldn't be able to sit there counting the days on the calendar. let's do the work that we've got left so we don't have a continuing safe haven for terrorists in afghanistan. >> brian: all right. so everybody knows, secretary of state, you grew up -- your dad is a football coach. you grew up watching films.

that's what you prefer to do. so peyton manning, perhaps the greatest quarterback ever does something historic, chooses denver. are you surprised? what would condoleeza rice do with tim tebow? >> i'm a little surprised because denver has a lot of cold weather. denver is a great place. i lived there for a lot of my life. peyton manning is going to love it. denver is going to love him. i certainly hope it's going to work out for them both. i'm very happy that he's chosen denver. though it would have been fun to watch him play every sunday for san francisco. and john elway is a good stanford man. he knows what to do. so we'll trust him to make a decision about tim tebow. >> brian: what do you think? i know you know he means lot to the fort and to sports in particular. where does he go? >> he's a wonderful young man and he's great for the game. i hope he finds a good home. look, i'm a cleveland browns fan. i'd be really happy there. but i don't think it's on the

list. so wherever tim tebow goes, he's going to have a great influence because he's quality person and that's the important thing here. >> steve: okay. please stand by. we want you to continue with us. we're going to talk about a very pressing national security issue. we're talking about education and that's what you're addressing today live from washington. more with condy rice. >> melissa: plus the wall street occupier who wanted to kill a cop is now getting death threats of his own. he says it's not fair. is he allowed to complain? >> brian: and up next, he refuses to kiss another woman. that is except his wife. kirk cameron will let us know about his deep ties to his faith and its impact on his film s

>> steve: what is the biggest national security threat facing our country today? a new report about to be released today by the council on foreign relations says it's our country's failing school system. they say 75% of students don't qualify to serve in the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or inadequate levels of education. we are continuing our conversation now with former secretary of state, condoleeza rice, and former new york city school chancellor, joel klein. they led the task force that published the report. by the way, mr. klein also is the executive vice president and ceo of the educational division of news corps, which is who we all work for. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> steve: okay. madam secretary, let's start with you. education, a signal security issue. explain that. >> our national security is broader than our military

forces. but even when it comes to populating the military, the intelligence services, the foreign service, we don't have people with the skills, foreign languages to be the human capital that we need. we also need people who can take on the jobs of the 21st century and innovation and technology and keep us competitive. we are a country that has to believe, our kids have to believe that it doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you are going. >> steve: mr. klein, how do we fix it? >> i think there are several things we need to do. this report makes three really strong recommendations. rather than give a laundry list, we try focus on the things we think will have the core leverage. let's really move to a shared national standard that the states all adopt. right now about 45 states have adopted them in math and in literacy. let's move it across the board, science matters, civics matter. let's insist on really high demanding standards like our global competitors do.

we're not kidding anybody when we say you graduate high school, but not remotely ready for college. second thing is, let's give people real choices. the system has really focused on a one and done approach, if the school year is no good, then forget about it. for knows who are affluent or middle class, they have a choice. we want choice for everyone and a full range of choices. the third thing is let's have a national audit so that we can tell what schools are doing well, parents can have a choice and the country stays focus. one of the things that bothers me is as we go into this presidential election, you barely hear education being talked about and yet, it is as secretary rice said a critical national security interest. >> steve: mr. klein, you headed up the schools here in new york city. i don't have to tell you that the teachers unions were very -- are very strong here and when talk about school choice, they want to keep the kids in the public schools. they don't want them going to public or charter schools.

>> i think the key is to keep the kids in what's right for the kids. if we're going to do what's right for the adults, we're going to undermine the system. so new york city under mayor bloomberg, we opened up over 100 new charter schools and you see parents voting with their feet -- i'll give you one statistic. last year, 13,000 charter seats, there were 64,000 families applied. that speaks volumes. we need to make those options open. people say we need parents more engaged in the schools. way to get our parents more engaged is give them meaningful choices that will do right by their kids. parents want what's right for their kids. all the other issues, let's put that aside and do what's right for our families, our kids and our nation. >> steve: it certainly is a national security issue, plus we're talking about competitiveness in the world ahead. we've got to educate the kids. joel klein, condoleeza rice, thank you very much for joining us live today from washington, d.c. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: all right.

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bloomberg claim food participatories banning donations to homeless. fresh bagel, home made stew. dangerous bagels. fire has come to an end in spain. every year the city of valencia honors st. joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. it isn't officially over until wooden sculptures are set ablaze in the streets. wow. we need to do that here in new york. >> brian: no, we don't. serious stuff now, the shooting death of a black florida teen-ager is sparking public outrage. now the f.b.i. and the justice department have decided to investigate the case. late last month, mr. martin, unarmed, was walking home from a 7-11 when he was noticed by a neighborhood watchman, his name george zimmerman. that's when zimmerman called 911. >> we heard break-ins had my neighborhood and there is a real

suspicious guy. this guy looks like he's up to no good or on drugs or something. >> are you following him? >> yeah. >> we don't need you to do that. >> brian: right after that phone call, zimmerman not only followed him, but approached him. a fight broke out and that's when zimmerman shot martin, claiming self-defense. because of that claim, the police never filed charges. now some are wondering if zimmerman is getting away with murder. here to debate it and analyze it, rod, former dc homicide detective and fox news contributor, and florida-based criminal defense attorney, eric schwartz-reich. rod, about this case, what bothers you, if anything? >> there is a lot of things that have not occurred in this case. as far as the criminal investigation is concerned, brian that, should have occurred. now, as you know, i am a police advocate. however, in this case, this is a case where the justice department definitely needs to look into it. now, i just learned new information last night, and this is startling. this glia, zimmerman, called the

police department nearly 50 times over the past year! the police department should have had that information available when they sent the units to that house the day in which the shooting occurred. the other thing i learned yesterday was that the police department ordered a drug and toxicology examination of mr. martin, the kid that was shot. this is the kid that was armed with a bag of skittles. they ordered the toxicology exam of him, but they didn't order it for zimmerman, the shooter that. is not police protocol. those are major issues, brian. >> brian: i saw that in your notes, you believe after listening to the tape that you think he was intoxicated. but that is just your opinion 'cause we don't know. eric, the stand your ground law seems to have baled out zimmerman to this point. tell us what it is and if it works here. >> right, good morning. welcome to the shine state. the heat we're packing is not sunshine, it's firearm. we call this is the shoot first and ask questions later law. someone has a right to defend

themselves and stand their ground. in 2005, florida legislature, they passed a new law. it used to be only in your home you had no duty to retreat if attacked. now in a parking lot, in the streets, out in the open, you have no duty to retreat. if you reasonably, and i emphasize that, believe someone was going to hurt you, bodily harm, kill you, you have a right to stand your ground and defend yourself. the danger doesn't have to be real or actual. it depends what mr. zimmerman thought, what he believed that this young man was going to do to him. >> brian: rod, is the problem that zimmerman was moving towards the victim? >> exactly. let me say something about that stand your ground law. we call it the make my day law. that law, the police department -- this is interesting, the police department in that city and all across the country oppose that law. the reason we oppose that law, brian, is because we knew that there is individuals like zimmerman who would try to use this law to their benefit.

basically what that law is saying is that? the state of florida, look at the case law, you can actually shoot a dog. it happens all the time. you can shoot and kill a dog and get arrested and be put in jail. but if you kill a kid and especially a black kid in florida, you can walk away. that's what that law means. >> brian: all right. when you look at this whole picture, eric, do you think in the end, zimmerman walks away like he's walking away now? >> i don't think -- go ahead. >> i don't know. you're in law enforcement. it takes a long time sometimes to arrest people. the criminal defense field, i see investigations that could take days, months, years. the bottom line is he has this law. he's asserted self-defense. he's going to use it. whether or not that dog is going to hunt. whether it's going to fly, it will be up to a j it will be up to a jury and februaries he was being attacked, he could successfully assert flat fellow stand your ground -- florida stand your ground law. >> brian: we heard from the parents. they are disillusioned by the whole process and grieving the loss of their son. thanks so much. >> thank you, brian.

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>> how are things at the white house, okay? [ laughter ] >> things are good. things are good. trying to stay out of trouble. >> there is trouble everywhere. politics. you have to be careful what you say, what you do, where you go, who you look at. at the end of the day, has your husband ever come home and said to you, oh, that john boehner, what an idiot? >> it has never happened. never. never. he is always upbeat, particularly about congress. [ laughter ] >> steve: that's funny. >> melissa: it is pretty funny.

>> brian: she good an appearance on david letterman. >> melissa: the rest of the headline, the terror alert in france is at its highest level as police search for a gunman who killed three children and a rabbi outside a jewish school. short time ago, president star codes zoo led a moment of silence to remember the victims. the killer opened fire, then sped off on a motorcycle. overnight, french officials revealing the gunman may have filmed the shooting. it was the same one used in two separate attacks last week that left three paratroopers dead. >> brian: death threats, occupy wall street sympathizer who made death threats against an nypd officer himself is getting threats on his own. 23-year-old rusty braxton, no relation to toni, admits he's the guy who tweeted, quote, we won't make a difference if we don't kill a cop or two. braxton now says he didn't mean what he wrote, but he may still be hit with charges. >> steve: great. meanwhile, the video is going

viral. a tsa agent patting down a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair in chicago. >> weird, huh? a little weird? >> yeah. >> you nervous? don't be nervous. it's okay. >> steve: well, the little boy and his family on their way to disney world two years ago when they were frisked at chicago midway airport. earlier we were joined by the boy's father who is stillout raged. he only recently looked at the video for the first time. he explained why he posted that video. >> he was physically trembling and a lot of people, you can't even see that on film. i just wanted to let people know factually what was happening and then let them -- then ask, is this okay with you? if you're a parent, do you think this is acceptable? >> steve: the tsa's reaction to the video, they would only say it was shot before they changed their procedures on screening small children. but they admit some kids still get pat-downs by men and women

in blue gloves. >> melissa: army sergeant home from kuwait gives his nine-year-old son the surprise of a lifetime right in the middle of math class. sergeant cory jackson was on yearlong deployment. he wasn't scheduled to be home until june, but he got a two-week leave and he headed straight to his son's school. >> i know he's very proud of me, but he doesn't really understand everything that i do and it's kind of hard for him with the separation and i talk to him on the phone a lot. he's like, dad, i just miss you. >> melissa: it makes you cry. the surprise three weeks in the making. he had the entire elementary school on board. how sweet. >> steve: that is wonderful. meanwhile, let's take a look at the weather on this, the first day of spring. >> brian: i was once a caterpillar. >> steve: yeah, i think so. now if it's soaking because we got rain heavy. thunderstorms all the way from the gulf coast through texas, up through the ozarks, portions of oklahoma as well getting hammered, up through the great lakes states. in front of it, temperatures

this morning on the first day of spring, in the 60s and 70s. here in new york city, approaching 60 degrees. 72 in new orleans. behind it, though, the front that is to say, cool temperatures. now in denver, about freezing. later today in denver, 52 degrees. look at chicago and memphis. temperatures in the mid 80s. 82 today in cleveland. 84 in atlanta. it will be 82 in the raleigh-durham area. that's your travelcast. >> melissa: and he's most famous for playing mike seaver in the sitcom "growing pains" but his latest project he sets to find out the real meaning of america. >> the set of ideas that is being implemented and advanced in this capitol at this time is terribly frightening to people who are students of history. if you look at the super powers in history, every single one of them has called themselves exceptional. >> when you look at the roman

empire, parallels to what is going on in america are absolutely frightening. >> and the question is, were we going to go the right path ourselves or are we going to continue down the wrong path like so many nations have fallen into? >> brian: and joining us now, kirk cameron who looks disturbed by what he was learning and hearing. kirk, welcome to the couch. >> thank you. nice couch. >> brian: it's really not, but nice of to you say. tell me about what prompted to you do this? >> well, i made this movie not so much as an actor, but as a dad. i've got six kids and my kids are growing up quick. i'm concerned about the world that they're growing up in. so i look around and economically we're 15, $16 trillion in debt, morally, spiritually, families falling apart. >> steve: how did this happen? how did we got here? >> that was my question. i want to know even more importantly, what do we need to do to fix it? so instead of just trying to figure out while everyone blames one another what's wrong, i

thought, maybe we'd go back and talk to the men and women who built this country. so i went to england and retraced the escape route of the pilgrims before they were called pilgrims, they were separatists. i followed them into the castles they were thrown into, all the way to holland where they stayed for 12 years and learned the nation building principles that they carried on the mayflower to the new world. in order to find the secret sauce, how did they do it? they left us a map so that we could always find our way back if we ever got lost. >> brian: what do you mean, map? >> melissa: we're asking you to give away the whole entire movie. >> it's called "monumental, in search of america's national treasure." what our ancestors left us was the most stunning monument you've ever seen in your life. it is 180-tons of granite making it the largest granite monument in america laying out the strategy for how they did it and how we sustain a free and just society. most people have never heard of

it. never seen it. >> steve: give us a clue. >> about? >> steve: where is it at? >> in plymouth. overlooking plymouth rock, overlooking the entire harbor and it's behind a forest of trees in a residential area and most people have never seen it. >> steve: are you saying in the monument are clues on how to run the country? >> absolutely. it contains -- >> steve: this does sound like national treasure. >> melissa: you've been waiting to say that. >> in the whole documentary, i take you on the journey, through england, through holland, all the way across the ocean to plymouth and what they left us was a set of core values and ideas and principles in granite and the cool thing is, it's not a treasure hidden on the back of the delicious of independence. you don't have to keyes lemon juice on it to make it show up. there it is! everyone saying, don't ever forget. this is how we did it. >> melissa: do you think these are values that we've largely forgot? >> oh, yes.

yes. i mean, what i learned about the pilgrims and who they were, i thought they were these religious fuddy duddies who skirted out looking for freedom and i find out these were the free thinkers of their day. these were the out of the box radicals that risked and suffered and sacrificed it all for the sake of their kids and the rocket fuel that drove them was their faith. it was their character and their courage. these are the heros that we need to understand today in order to face our challenges. >> brian: how do we get this? >> you get the movie by going to the theaters on march 27, that's a week from tonight, tuesday night, in 500 theaters across america there is a one night only live event called "monumental." you can get your tickets by going to monumental movie.com. >> melissa: was it crowded? we were guessing what monument it was. it's something we haven't heard a lot about. >> that's right. i had never heard about it. >> melissa: what made go there? >> because when you go visit

plymouth rock to understand who the pilgrims were, you look up on the hill and you can just see the tip of her finger pointing to heaven. if you go there and you ask what it is and you ask the tour guide, they will tell what you it is. >> brian: kirk, i got to ask you about some comments. it really goes to the theme of your movie in terms of what do you think this country was based on. you got some controversy about some comments you made about gay marriage in particular, saying it's ultimately destructive to our society. do you change your feeling about those comments or do you feel that's a right thing? >> no, i don't change my feeling about the comments. what disheartens me, to be honest with you, is that when you're sitting across the table from someone who knows what your perspective is on issues, and i've been very consistent, i don't think anything i said surprised anybody as a bible believing christian, but to take some answers and reduce an important and personal and sensitive issue to -- for a sound bite and toss it into a

community to start a political bonfire, and really upset people that you're saying you're looking to protect, i think is disingenuous and it was an interview that was supposed to be about this movie. not about gay marriage, homosexuality, abortion, the president. >> brian: no one is watching that show anyway. >> steve: all right. so tuesday night, a week from tonight, if you're interested, go to monumentalmovie.com. >> brian: i went to plymouth rock and didn't know it was there. >> steve: it is now 17 minutes before the top of the hour. should children conceived after their father's death be allowed to collect government benefits? the legal battle, not funny. it's heading to the supreme court. peter johnson, jr. here to explain. >> melissa: they've been around for decades playing a major part in almost any electronic device. the look inside bell labs and

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our phones and computers have millions of these, billions of them in some cases. >> melissa: unix? >> that's right the fundamental operating system of computer systems. >> melissa: i imagine in a lab like this, there is also a lot of failure, a lot of things that got thrown by the wayside, right? >> there were. innovation means you make lot of mistakes. there were big bombs, for instance, the picture phone we could talk about. but other things as well. >> melissa: the picture phone that, is so interesting because now everyone uses their iphone and ipad. was it just an idea that was before its time? >> it was. you can fail because you're too early with something. i think a picture phone was a good example of that. this was an era before the internet. so if you wanted to talk to somebody on picture phone, someone else to have a picture phone, too. you needed this critical mass of picture phone which is never actually happened and it was a big disaster. >> melissa: what was the secret sauce inside this lab that made it work? >> it was really large. being attached to a monopoly

gave it a huge advantage. they had in never ending stream of problems and innovation really is a response to problem solving a lot of times. so at a critical moment in some ways in our country's history, it was just a kind of well spring of ideas and innovations that kept coming. >> melissa: you mentioned that it was a monopoly and obviously that is what ultimately caused it to go away. >> the contradiction here is that monopolies are not good for consumers. they create high price, limit our choice, they can slow the rate of innovation. at the same time again at this moment in created a platform for new industries by creating these innovations. >> melissa: now a lot of people say innovation has gone overseas. you think that's true? >> i think the u.s. is the most innovative country in the world. we have universities and google, intel, ibm. at the same time, the competition for talent world wide has never been greater. i don't think there is a bell labs in china, but i don't see why it couldn't northbound a few years. >> melissa: john, author of "the idea factory," when does it come

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>> steve: modern medicine and old laws clashing at the supreme court. an issue is a case involving a woman who conceived twins through invitro fertilization, but only after her husband passed away. she applied for her husband's social security benefits for the children, but was denied. so should babies conceived after the death be eligible for government benefits? interesting question. let's turn now to fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. >> a lot of our audience may not like it. the answer is probably yes, but the supreme court is going to decide. under the law, the children are children under the 1939 social security law. so if you read the law in a simple, straightforward way and you interpret the plain meaning of the statute which is what lawyers are supposed to do in the supreme court, then you would say yes. these children are survivors of

this marriage that they are the biological offspring of this couple through invitro fertilization. >> steve: so they should get benefits? >> on the straight fact, on the straight law, yes. but it's a 1939 law. did franklin roosevelt know about invitro fertilization? no. did ends that perhaps there could be five different parents under any given scheme in terms of invitro fertilization and other types of conception for a child? obviously the father, who was going through chemotherapy and had stored his frozen sperm, didn't know that these children were conceived. they were conceived nine months after his death, born 18 months after his death. so is this a scam to get over on the system or is this a woman who is venerating the memory of her husband, who wanted to have these children and having these

children and should they be entitled to the same benefits of children that were alive at the time of his death? now, the supreme court has got a problem and they'll say, they don't know. the law doesn't seem to apply. if they get really knotted up, they're going to say, the administrative determination of the social security board will stand because it's ambiguous and say go back to congress. figure this out based on 2 isist century -- 21st century medicine. >> steve: interesting stuff. reporting from the supreme court, good to see you. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. we're going to roll on. more "fox & friends" live from new york, about two minutes i's and some coffee. sure. cake or pie? pie. apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream.

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