>> good job. >> i got it. >> get him out of there. don't turn your back on him. haven't i told you about arthur? turn around, keep your eye on him. >> i don't want to turn my back! thanks, brian. we'll catch with you in a minute. "fox & friends" is going to start right now. patty ann, pleasure working with you. >> great working with you, too. have a great day, everyone. >> and arthur! >> thank you for watching. >> right. like arthur is going to leave between two women. are you kidding me? >> doesn't he have a job? >> he's not practicing any law today. >> he's practicing something. it wasn't the women. it was the camera. >> all right. arthur, come and stand behind me any time you want. good morning, everyone. tgif, friday, march 30th. i'm gretchen carlson. celebs from spike lee to roseanne barr taking on to twitter calling for vigilante justice over the death of trayvon martin. is their rush to judgment making matters worse? you decide this morning. >> plus, wildfires are still

raging in colorado and new information this morning that residents never even had a chance. there was no warning that it was coming. the latest on the flames straight ahead. >> millions of people will try their luck today in the record mega millions lottery. who knows, tomorrow you may wake up very, very rich and decide to increase your cable channels. we have all your chances of winning coming up because "fox & friends" starts as soon as arthur goes behind gretchen. >> all right! >> i think we need to go right to break. >> that would be kind of funny to have somebody behind us. what do you think about that? when we said something they didn't agree with, maybe like this when they say something good, you'd be like this. >> of course, great point. why can't we be the first morning show with a live audience? and turns on us? >> mocking us behind us. >> they already do that in other places. >> twitter and e-mail.

>> oh, yeah. >> arthur, if you want to stand behind gretchen, go out here to 48th street right over there in front of the chipolte, ok? >> while you're out there, arthur, get me some java. i'll pay you back. hope you'll have a fantastic friday and a weekend. it's judgment day for obamacare. while the rest of the nation has to wait until june for the supreme court's ruling on the president's controversial health care reform law, the justices, guess what they're going to do today. as common practice, they're going to vote on this in private this morning. no one else will be in the room. it will be an unofficial vote, though, and their decisions could change after they've read each other's draft opinions, the way it works. you have to wonder what the mood was like for this meeting. mitt romney admitting he had a secret meeting with newt gingrich. the g.o.p. rivals met before the primary last week. romney says it isn't a big deal since the campaigns are regularly in touch. gingrich cut his staff earlier this week and said he was

scaling back on campaign appearances but said he's the best bet to challenge president obama and will remain through the convention at least which is august, remain in the race. as firefighters make progress battling deadly wildfires in colorado, we're seeing more pictures of how bad the destruction is there. take a look at this rubble. that's the house before the wildfire tore through this and this is a car before it was gutted by the blaze. the governor going up in the sky yesterday to get a first-hand look at the damage in jefferson county. over two dozen homes are either destroyed or damaged. crews are still racing to find a missing woman and we now know that some people who were supposed to get calls about evacuating never got them. this one hits close to home, guys. i know a woman, her parents lost their home in that blaze. >> wow. >> pranks for nothing? april fools day is this sunday and it's apparently a very stressful time for zoos. yes, zoos. the zoo in st. paul, minnesota, my home state, for example, installing four extra phone lines this year to deal with all

the crank calls like people asking to speak with animals like mr. donkey or mrs. salamander. >> why am i reading this story? >> it's true. >> speaking of blogs and making fun, this will probably make it now. here's brian's favorite. and steve's favorite. mr. parakeet. >> mr. perry keet. >> each time i can hear the person yelling parakeet. last time today. >> is your refrigerator running? >> yeah, it's fantastic. >> let's talk a little bit about -- >> newt gingrich loves zoos. he goes to zoos all the time. >> loves them. absolutely. >> he can't pay at zoos. >> unrelated to the zoo, knute. >> who is a polar bear in german. >> let's talk a little bit about the trayvon martin case. we've told you about the vigilante justice that's going on. it was a couple of days ago where the new black panther party said time for beer summit is over. we're offering a bounty of now a

million dollars for george zimmerman dead or alive. and then you got spike lee tweeting out what he believed to be george zimmerman's address. it wasn't. 70-year-old people lived there and they were terrorized and then roseanne barr tweeted out the correct address for george zimmerman parents. and saying that if people don't go get him, she might have to. >> a lot of people are weighing in on the other side now. laura ingraham was on "the o'reilly factor" last night and she made an interesting analogy. with regard to spike lee tweeting out that wrong address for that elderly couple who now on to move out of their homes, laura ingraham compares spike lee's apology after that to another apology we've heard recently. see what you think. >> funny like when rush limbaugh apologizes for something, it's not meaningful but when spike lee apologizes and two innocent people are terrified, elderly couple, then everything is oh, that's fine. i'll forgive him. >> that's a great point. including guys like imus who

does a lot of apologizing himself. he was even critical of rush limbaugh. but that's pretty amazing, too, that a lot of people are weighing in including oprah winfrey. she weighed in on the entire event. she wasn't so much focused on what's happening now. it's how long did it take to get here and to have everyone look at this. listen. >> it is a tragedy. and it is a shame. that we're sitting here 33 days later and there hasn't been an arrest or questioning of actually what happened. it's a tragedy and it is a shame and we all know it. black people, white people, brown people, yellow people all over this country and all over the world are saying the same thing. it's a tragedy and it's a shame. and justice needs to be served. >> you know what oprah said before that i thought was significant, i'm reading twitter and reading blogs and saying nothing has changed in this country since the 1950's.

she said everything has changed. she said there's collective outrage about this incident and people want to get to the root of this, how it happened and how it could happen. she's admitting things have changed in this country which is relatively heartening. >> blacks make up about 13% of the not -- american population and the most recent records show 90% of murders of african-americans are committed by other african-americans. there is something to be made of some people saying this is a typical scenario. caucasian person killing a black person and nothing being done about it. >> the key is you can't have a rush to judgment and can't have vigilan vigilante justice. >> if you're roseanne barr, you know everything. you don't need to know everything. >> the thing is whether it's spike lee or roseanne barr twittering out somebody's address, what if some nitwit who subscribes to their twitter feed

sees an address, goes to that house and kills somebody. then what happens? anyway, bill o'reilly was on with the trayvon martin family attorney last night and he had this observation. >> the special prosecutor is gonna see the tape. the special prosecutor is gonna listen to what you present to him. so why does oprah winfrey or msnbc have to convict zimmerman on television. why? it's unnecessary! >> i don't know if it's a conviction, they're calling for an arrest. there's a big difference between an arrest and a conviction. >> that's an interesting point. there is a huge difference between an arrest and a conviction. so, you know, i think the authorities are now looking into this. there's a special prosecutor assigned to it. but i think it gets dangerous in this age of technology with twitter and with the internet and all this kind of stuff where regular people are making a rush to judgment and we really don't know all the facts. and honestly on this couch, we have no idea what happened.

we have no idea what happened. >> they did a movie about the misinformation on the case that by the way, contained a lot of the same characters led by reverend al sharpton to quickly went down to condemn the team and jesse jackson is back. >> only one guy on earth knows what happened and that's george zimmerman so stand by. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about this. president obama's budget was voted on on capitol hill. it failed. not a single democrat voted for it 414-0. paul ryan had better luck in the house. his budget did pass yesterday. >> yeah, it passed but it lost 10 republican votes along the way and didn't get a single democratic vote. in this election year, can you be surprised? paul ryan did not back off from a year ago where he's thoroughed focused on the debt and deficit. here he is, not only his plan but the reaction to his plan. >> for the second year in a row, they've shown americans explicitly how we plan to save

this country from a future of debt, doubt and decline. >> this budget is going nowhere fast. our budget fixes the president's proposals to gut our military. >> significant retreat in the area of health care. >> this kind of divided government doesn't work. >> that was pretty divided there. you can tell who is on what side of the fence because they're totally opposed. let me tell you what's in the ryan's budget. it cuts $5.3 trillion in spending over the next decade compared to president obama's plan and cuts debt as a share of the economy by 15%. reduces corporate tax rate by 10 percentage points to try and stimulate the economy and guess what, coming up 8:15 a.m., this is great booking today. congressman paul ryan will be here. he made a major endorsement last night and he's going to make it official right here on the show this morning. >> we think so. >> while he's smiling right there, he can't be happy about the fact that harry reid is not going to bring this thing up on the u.s. senate. >> third straight year. >> why pass a budget, let's just

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>> 16 minutes after the top of the hour. the president asking congress to pass legislation ending $4 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas industries. >> instead of taxpayer giveaways to an industry that's never been more profitable, we should be using that money to double down to investments in clean energy technologies that have never been more promising. investments in wind power, in solar power, in biofuels,

investments in fuel efficient cars and trucks. and energy efficient homes and buildings. that's the future. >> is he kidding? >> brian is having a meltdown. >> invest in wind? >> it is a little disingenuous based on the fact that a lot of the taxpayer money that's gone into companies like solyndra means we have companies that are belly up. >> since when do we have taxpayer giveaways to the oil companies? show me the check. show me the check. >> all companies in america when they invest in equipment get a tax break on that investment. the oil companies included. the president says that is a subsidy. it is not. it is not a payment of money from the treasury to an oil company. all that -- i mean, do you get a payment from the treasury when you have a break on your mortgage, on your interest? of course you don't. he's confusing everybody with this use of the word "subsidy". >> and here's the fact. oil companies pay an effective tax rate of 41.1% when the

average corporate tax's effective rate is 24%. they're already paying on average $86 million a day in taxes while hiring 9.2 million people. >> publicly, the president is beating up on the oil companies because he thinks it is politically popular and will win him votes in november. >> and he's right. because when people hear that, stuart. >> you shouldn't mislead people. >> of course you shouldn't. i'm telling you what he says may work. that may work. because here's what's gonna happen. he's going to beat up on the oil companies because most people don't dig deep to find out all the stuff that brian just said and when gas prices eventually go down before the election, he's going to be able to say look, i'll take credit for that. >> publicly, he's beating up on the oil companies. privately and quietly, he's planning with the french and the british and the japanese to release oil from strategic reserves around the world. put some more supply on to the market and get the price down. he's talking to the saudis. he's begging the saudis, please,

pump some more oil and get the price down. he is hoping that by august, prices level off or come down a little bit and he's able to say look, my policies worked. the direction is right. it's going down. stick with me. vote for me. that's the -- that's the playbook that the president is operating by. >> and the theory is, people think they're all rich oil executives. you know how middle class people have oil jobs somewhere around the oil industry. >> precisely. >> now, just as the president was speaking yesterday, it emerged that a chinese company, a chinese oil company only 13 years old has emerged as the biggest driller, private enterprise driller in the world beating exxon mobile so as we're beating up on exxon and forcing them down, the chinese are encouraging the supply of oil for their own country and making themselves number one. extraordinary stuff. >> we're going to watch more from you on this at 9:20 eastern time. that was the president speaking yesterday morning. we'll get your reaction. >> i have advice for lottery

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>> if you're just waking up, 23 minutes after the top of the hour. couple of quick headlines for you now. new details about usama bin laden's life on the run revealed by one of his wives. his widow from yemen telling pakistani police bin laden moved around living in five statehouses and fathered four children during his nine years

in hiding. google is watching your every move on line. the new activity page can show what you searched for the most, where you are, what machines you use and who you e-mail the most often. internet search giant said it's help to keep your on-line activity more secure. >> time to use yahoo! mary taylor was fired from her job as high school custodian in wisconsin because she had this sign supporting embattle the governor scott walker on her car. she was later given her job back at another school. she's concerned about being singled out for her political beliefs. we are joined live by mary taylor and her attorney tom simon. good morning. >> good morning. >> mary, you had this sign in the back of your car. >> yes, i did. >> and your head custodian told you what? >> she told me that i was to take the sign out of the back window and put it on the floor of the car or i could park across the street. >> right.

>> so you had the "stand with walker" sign. there are a lot of teachers' cars in the parking lot that had anti-walker bumper stickers. >> that's correct. >> so you didn't take it down. why? >> i did not. >> why? >> because i had my rights to put signs in my car. i know that's my right. >> sure. >> and, of course, i stand for scott walker so i felt that it was necessary for me to provide information for other people that i indeed do stand for scott walker. and when i first started there, these teachers had these recall schools on their cars. didn't bother me one bit. >> right. >> when you're told you've got to take yours down, they can keep theirs up. next thing you know, you're fired because you wouldn't take this down. >> that's right. that's right. that's correct. >> what's going on? >> well, i think the problem here is that she -- the school district obviously claims that they had nothing to do with this. that this was her private employer that did this. but clearly, in the information

that we're gathering, there were reports from teachers complaining about it. that moved up a little bit and eventually it came to her supervisor who said you're done. >> does your -- your supervisor at that school, did they have a political agenda? >> all i can say is my supervisor's daughter is a schoolteacher. at a different school. >> don't you think that's a coincidence? >> all right. so a couple of days later, after this hit the fan that you got fired for having the sign in your back window, people started getting -- realizing, wait a minute, we could be in trouble. the school district has come out and said they had nothing to do with that. >> that's what they say, yes. >> do you believe that? >> not really. i mean, it started there. it ended up coming from there. and there's a question of whether or not they're liable. that's what we're looking at right now. >> yeah, we reached out to mary's employer, diversified

building maintenance but did not hear back. they have since placed you in another school, right? >> no, they didn't. >> they didn't? >> they asked me if i wanted to go to another school. the manager of diversified offered me unemployment. and she said, mary, i'll let you collect unemployment and try to find you another job. >> ok. >> this job was about 30 miles from my home. whitewater is about 22 miles. >> so you are out of work right now because you had this sign in your back window and now you've got an attorney and you want justice. >> i do. >> what is justice for you? >> justice for me is just to hopefully let people know that liberal school teachers and liberals in general cannot push the public around when they have different opinions. other than theirs. >> sure. >> it's ok for them to have bumper stickers but you should be able to have your sign in the

same park lot. >> absolutely. >> all right. we'll be watching to see what happens. >> thank you. >> mary taylor and tom simon, thank you very much for making the trip into new york today. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> all right. what do you think about mary's case? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com or you could twitter us as well at fox and friends. meanwhile, how's this for a bad day at the office? >> the police normally we don't deal with flying trucks and naked people running down the streets. >> yeah, usually not the flying trucks. yep, they're naked. you can't make this stuff up. we'll tell you what happened between police and this very naked neighborhood menace coming up. and it's a story we've been following closely. atheists being allowed to run prayer groups at one university. this morning, there is a big update on the case. first, happy birthday to celine dion. she's going on today even though she's 44. [ horse neighing ]

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>> is that real? >> yeah, that's real. i watched it over the weekend. >> you watched it over the weekend, it's got to be real. >> no, i watched these guys. these guys travel all over the world and make these amazing shots. >> they only show the shots they make. >> right. >> that's incredible. >> see, anyone can do this. all you need is to rent a blimp, get some friends and find an isolated basket in the middle of a field. >> have you ever been in a blimp? yes, at the super bowl one year, it's not anything you think it is. it's like being on a boat in the ocean. whoo! like this! if they made that shot, that's pretty spectacular. i felt so bad for the camera guy i was with in the blimp because you're looking through a viewfinder and you're rolling like this. they actually make those shots, it's a lot harder than you think. >> he had the window open. i guess it's going so slow, the wind wasn't blowing in. >> stationary. parked above it. who know how many basketballs they had in that blimp until

they finally made that shot. >> this guy has a scholarship to college off that shot. >> i'm still not totally sold on it. >> from what i saw, i believe these guys have some sort of a commercial endorsement where they travel around and make these crazy shots. they're on you tube. meanwhile, 26 minutes before the top of the hour on this friday. republicans are accusing president obama of playing politics at the pump. he says his plan to end tax breaks for all companies will do nothing to cut gas prices. peter doocy live with the latest. good morning to you, peter. >> good morning. gas prices would actually increase on the president's plan and so would the dependence on foreign oil and that's according to the congressional service that's nonpartisan but the president's priority remains, eliminating tax breaks for the five biggest oil companies. >> taxpayer giveaways to an industry that's never been more profitable, we should be using that money to double down on

investments in clean energy technologies that have never been more promising. >> but when the president was a senator, he took a different tact about these tax breaks. >> thank you very much. >> why did the president vote for the energy bill in 2005 as a senator that had over $2 billion in tax breaks for the oil industry. they were making a lot of money then. >> what i can tell you, ed, is that the oil and gas companies in this country are making record profits. now. in 2012. the price at the pump is very high and that is plenty of incentives for these companies to continue to drill, to continue to explore and continue to develop energy sources here in the united states. and abroad. there is no reason for the american taxpayer to subsidize that activity. >> after all that, the democratically controlled senate couldn't pass the president's plan and beforehand, minority

leader mitch mcconnell explained the opposition. >> somehow, they thought that doing this would set up some kind of political win for them which frankly, i don't understand. i mean, i can't imagine anybody giving them any fives for not lowering gas prices. >> and some speculate that gas prices will eventually go down if there's an emergency release of the strategic petroleum reserves that we've only done twice in history. the white house says that's on the table but no decision has been made yet. back to you. >> all right, peter, thank you very much for the live report from the bureau. >> the rest of your headlines for a friday. former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and fox news contributor john bolton is accused the obama administration of betraying a major israeli military secret. bolton says the new report that israel has been granted access to air bases on iran's northern border was leaked by the obama administration. bolton says the leak was meant to thwart a possible israeli air

strike on iran. >> i think this today is part of the administration's campaign against an israeli attack so the obama administration has torqued it up a notch and now they're going to reveal very sensitive, very important information that will allow iran to defeat an israeli attack. >> the obama administration has not responded to ambassador bolton's assessments. >> meanwhile, an alabama nightclub coming under fire for its food stamp friday party! yeah. that's the name of the event. here's the invitation to the rose supper club. it says next friday's cover charge is just $5 with a food stamp card and it's also offering "free shots at the door." the club is getting criticized for glamourizing federal assistance and encouraging food stamp recipients to booze it up which they can't do. >> all right. talk about a wild ride. a man speeding through an ohio neighborhood when he hits a curb

sending his truck flying sfwu the air. -- into the air. the vehicle then slams into a porch before finally landing on a parked car. but that wasn't even the most bizarre part. the driver then got out and stripped off his clothes and began chasing a woman through the streets. before finally being taken down by a group of neighbors, the neighbors had clothes. >> all of a sudden, a guy comes crawling out from under the cars like an animal. he looked like an animal to me and he stood up and in one motion, all of his clothes went off. >> sounds like tearaway cars. >> police arrived on the scene arresting the man. no charges have yet been filed. you cuff him. no, i don't want to cuff him. you cuff him. >> i'm not sure. >> sounds like something he might do. >> nobody could take down borat. he was hard to get to the floor. >> he's tall. >> let's find out where it is raining today and where it is going to be sunny and as you can see, we got rain all over the place. northern plains, great lake states down along the gulf coast up through dixieland back from

the pacific northwest down through northern portions of california and the current readings as you head out on this friday here in new york we have barely 48 degrees. 28 in caribou. cleveland and much of the ohio valley in the 30's currently. meanwhile, from the mid atlantic down south, warmer. 50's, 60's and 70's. later on today, look at this. it's going to be 90 in phoenix. beautiful day there. 86 in el paso and in san antonio. beautiful day across much of texas and the gulf coast. mid atlantic, mid to upper 70's across the big northeastern corridor city area along 95. 50's will prevail. meanwhile, it looks as if the daytime high in rapid city, 78 degrees. glorious for a friday in march. >> well, we've told you about this story over the last couple of months. there's this new policy that's going to actually go into effect

in the next few days at vanderbilt university. it's called the all comers policy. the school says this is a nondiscrimination policy that will allow any person of any faith or any belief or any organization to join other organizations. so, for example, we've had people on the show before who run christian organizations on campus and what this policy would mean is that an atheist could actually be the leader of that organization and under the school's new policy, they deem that to be fair. some people might deem that to be crazy because why would an atheist want to lead a christian organization and what does this say the way in which political correctness has come into our society. >> what is he going to do? >> it's not just religious groups. i mean, if you are -- if you are a member of the young democrats, you could actually, according to their policy, the leader could actually be a young republican. and apparently, what happened last spring, allegations were made against against a fraternity where an openly gay

member was asked to leave because of his sexual orientation. he said we have to get rid of any of those problems so they're opening them up to anybody and the news is today that vanderbilt catholic, one of the biggest organizations on campus has decide not to re-reregister. they are no longer -- no longer a campus activity. which is a gigantic. >> they're not leaving the school but vandy catholic itself will not be a recognized institution. >> i thought they were leaving the school. >> the group is not going to re-reregister. each year, you have to register as a campus organization. they said look, that policy is crazy. under your policy, vanderbilt, we might have to have an atheist as our leader. that's crazy. we have father john baker who is a chaplain at vanderbilt catholic going to be joining us coming up a little later on. just about an hour and four minutes from right now. >> all right. in the meantime, also coming up, as outrage grows over the shooting death of trayvon martin, are some groups

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>> the national security agency is denying itself against claims that its software is tracking phone calls, e-mails and internet searches conducted by the average american right here at home and now, there are concerns about the $2 billion data center that the nsa is

currently building in utah relatively secretly until "wired" magazine wrote about it. joining us right now is fox news senior judicial analyst judge napolitano. how do we end up with stories like this? >> i don't know, judge. this must drive you crazy when you heard about this. >> it does drive me crazy and it's a perfect storm of a bunch of unanticipated events. general petraeus revealed to us about two weeks ago that sort of new kitchen appliances that have computer chips in them when you connect them to your laptop, the c.i.a. and other entities of the government have software that allows them to know when you're using the entity. so do you want the government to know when you're in the kitchen? that's issue number one. number two, attorney general holder announced when the government gathers information about people, even innocent people, even people about whom it has no reason to suspect any wrongdoing is going on, they're going to keep that information for five years rather than use it or discard it. number three is this $2 billion construction project. it will use 10,000 construction workers and it will be the third

largest federal project -- federal building in the country and was never authorized by the congress. it was authorized by the national security agency. that's a tremendous amount of money and an enormous building without the people's representatives voting on it. the fourth event is members of the intelligence committee telling this author from "wired" that this building is being built so every e-mail and every voicemail and every cell phone can be captured by the government. >> and you believe congress has sat there, your words, like a potted plant and allowed this to happen. >> yes, i don't think the government should be doing this but if the government is going to be doing it, it should be done by the congress after a debate so that it is reflective of the will of the people. congress has done nothing about this except let it go on. >> i want you to take in this message and see if it makes you feel better. from the nsa, many allegations have been made about the planned activities of the utah data center. what it will be is a state of the art facility designed to split the intelligence community's efforts to further

strengthen and protect the nation. >> and we promise we won't spy on americans. but i didn't hear that. >> but unless, of course, they have bad -- bad intentions. don't you want to know ahead of time? >> i want the -- i want the congress to decide when things like this are happening and i want the constitution to protect everybody's privacy and i want the federal government to keep us free and safe. >> ok. >> did you like that answer? >> it was a very good answer, judge. but i want the government to know when i'm having more cake in my oven. >> you do not want them to know that! mrs. kilmeade doesn't want them to know that. >> they would be so bored with my life, do i have to listen to this anymore? judge napolitano, thanks so much. >> have a great weekend. >> coming up straight ahead, outrage growing over the shooting death of trayvon martin but are some groups like the new black panther party calling for vigilante justice actually contributing to all the anger? and turning a dollar and dream to $540 million big ones. we are live in the middle of the mega millions madness. steve got a ticket! gretchen got a ticket.

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>> pressure on the sanford police now in florida to make an arrest in the shooting death of florida teen trayvon martin. this as newly released video of george zimmerman arriving at a florida police station the night of the shooting. martin's family says this video proves zimmerman's self-defense claim is phony.

as outrage continues to build, our next guest says the rhetoric coming from the civil rights establishment is irresponsibly fanning the flames in this case. fox news contributor jason riley is a member of the "wall street journal" editorial board and he's my guest this morning. >> good morning. >> so it's been more than a month and i think the longer the time goes on with some people perceiving no action, the more we're going to have these celebrities and other community leaders coming out and giving their personal opinions. is that correct? >> well, i think the civil rights establishment has a particular responsibility to behave in a constructive manner and i don't think they're doing that right now. the special prosecutor has been named in florida. the justice department is looking into it. i think those two processes should run their course and that's a good thing that they're happening but what the civil rights establishment seems to be doing, i'm talking about folks like the naacp and jesse

jackson, al sharpton is they're irresponsibly fanning the flames. they're trying to make the case into a racial narrative as they see it. it's a false narrative. it's a notion that young black men in america walk around worrying about being shot dead by people who look like george zimmerman as opposed to people that look like them. >> what you point to actually are statistics, the most recent come from 2008 and they say this -- 90% of black victim homicides are committed or were at least in 2008 by black offenders. >> yes. yes. >> what your problem is the word typical. when jesse jackson or al sharpton says this is typical of what happened down in florida. actually what's typical is black on black crimes. >> not only is black on black crime much more typical but when there is interracial crime, it's much more likely to be black on white than white on black. so this is also atypical in that sense. >> how does this affect our culture and the way in which we

perceive things? >> well, it -- it's just not helpful. it's not constructive for the civil rights community to be doing this. it doesn't help us get to the bottom of the trayvon martin case which is what everyone wants. but also, this idea that we live in this racist society that's -- that has an indifferent criminal justice system when it comes to black isn't true and the civil rights community should be focused on things that do matter. and are of much more consequence to the black community and black on black crime is one of them. one of the things they could be focused on. and instead, they're out there trying to pretend this is the norm when, in fact, it isn't. >> and every day, more and more celebrities are coming out and voicing their opinions so we'll just wait and see what the people in florida end up deciding. jason riley, thanks for your thoughts this morning. >> thank you. >> president obama declaring war on oil subsidies but will

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for all of us. >> can you spell tgif? you better, today is friday, march 30th. thanks for sharing your time today. i'm gretchen carlson. the media not backing off trying the trayvon martin on tv and across the technological sphere and you can add oprah winfrey to that list. we'll tell you what she said coming up. >> in a little over an hour from

now, mitt romney will pick up a huge republican endorsement especially considering that wisconsin is a big primary. paul ryan live here on "fox & friends" with that exclusive announcement. >> i think i can connect those dots. >> you cannot! >> meanwhile, sorry, kids, no easter egg hunt for you. why? because your parents just can't behave. "fox & friends" for a friday live from new york continues right now! >> welcome to the show, folks. >> good morning. >> with the easter egg hunt when we lived in great falls, virginia, in the town square they had an easter egg hunt for the kids, right? a local jeweller announced before they released the kids there were actually some diamonds and some precious gems in the easter eggs and pretty much the parents heard that and the parents took off. my kids didn't wind up with any. but we're going to tell you

about how sometimes the best intentions run awry when suddenly the parents take over for their kids. >> ok. >> so was there actual jewels in there or was that -- >> yeah, there were actual jewels. >> thinking about moving down there. >> toddlers with probably footprints on their back. >> you wouldn't have to go shopping for any presents. >> look what i found in an egg just for you randomly. picks the pink one! >> we have so much to get to today. let's get to your headlines. judgment day for obamacare kind of. while the rest of the nation has to wait until june for the supreme court's ruling on the president's controversial health care reform law, guess what the justices do today. as usual, now they vote after hearing testimony, they're going to vote in private this morning. no one else will be in the room. it will be an unofficial vote, though, because their decisions could change after they've read each other's draft opinions so write it good! >> leak that out. >> in about an hour, mitt romney will get the backing of a major figure in the republican party.

congressman paul ryan will make the announcement here live on "fox & friends." ryan, the house just passed his $3.5 trillion budget plan last night. wisconsin republican regularly mentioned as a possible v.p. candidate so make sure you stay tuned. congressman ryan will be here 8:15 a.m. eastern time. if you could have been a fly on the wall for this meeting, these two guys together. mitt romney confirms he did, in fact, have a secret meeting with g.o.p. rival newt gingrich about a week ago. it happened the day before louisiana's primary last week. romney down playing the significance and says they talk regularly. i wonder if it's more pleasant than if they're on a debate stage. newt gingrich scaled back his campaign and cut his staff. he's vowing to cut romney for the nomination all the way to the convention in august. when it comes to queen, this guy is the king. take a look. >> ♪ oooo ♪ i don't want to

die ♪ ♪ i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all ♪ ♪ carry on ♪ carry on >> we don't need a blood test, sir. we have our man! >> actually, i think he wanted to die the next morning when he had a hangover. if you didn't recognize it, that was queen's bohemian rhapsody performed by a very enthusiastic dui suspect. >> what a great cameraman. >> this is in canada, by the way. the guy sings every single verse in total eight minutes. >> ♪ will you do the fandango thunderbolt of lightning ♪ >> didn't he do this in wayne's world. >> ♪ galileo ♪ go ♪ i'm just a poor boy nobody loves me ♪ >> very nice.

>> how in that state do you remember every word of one of the most difficult to remember songs in the history of man. this isn't "we are the champions." >> it's a very left brained thing. >> i guess so. >> let's talk a little bit about the trayvon martin case. >> never reached the right hemisphere. >> in the trayvon martin case, yesterday we told you about this video that abc released where it shows george martin 40 minutes after trayvon. george zimmerman 40 minutes after trayvon martin was shot dead getting out of a police cruiser and they said look, you can't see anything. it doesn't look like his nose is broken. and he doesn't have a big, bloody gash on the back of his head. yesterday, last night, george sgli zimmerman's brother was on tv and said his nose looks swollen. i'm not a physician. a lot of injuries take time, 24 to 36 hours to show the bruising. >> don't you take pictures? by the way, don't you take pictures or mug shot? they were going to charge him with manslaughter so we would be able to see if the nose is

broken and all you need to find out is what the officer said about the blood on his head. why are we speculating? >> why are we speculating? why are we speculating? i'm not going to but other people are. and you got spike lee now twittering out the supposed address of george zimmerman, ends up being that it belonged to an elderly couple who now had to flee their home. you have oprah winfrey. you have roseanne barr. who really cares what some of those people think? >> roseanne barr, roseanne barr twittered out the home address of -- of this guy, george zimmerman's parents. there's no indication that he's staying with his parents. >> yeah. she wrote -- was good to let people know that no one can hide anymore. and then she goes on to twitter. if zimmerman isn't arrested, i'll retweet his address again, maybe go to his house myself. here's the thing. there's roseanne right there. she broke twitter's rules just as spike lee did because you

cannot release confidential information. and so she deleted that but it's still on her twitter feed. >> nobody knows what happened. that's why it's so presumptive. >> vigilante justice going on in the twitter verse. >> it's just -- it's irresponsible. it is. it's irresponsible. laura ingraham brought up an interesting analogy last night on "the o'reilly factor" about spike lee apologizing for twittering out that wrong address and other people who have made apologies and different perceptions. >> it's funny, when rush limbaugh apologizes for something, it's not meaningful but when spike lee apologizes and two innocent people are terrified, elderly couple, then everything is oh, that's fine. i'll forgive him. >> meanwhile, here's oprah winfrey. she weighs in on it, too. >> it is a tragedy and it is a shame. that we're sitting here 33 days later and there hasn't been an arrest and questioning of what happened. it's a tragedy and it's a shame and we all know it.

black people, white people, brown people, yellow people all over the country and all over the world are saying the same thing. it's a tragedy and it's a shame and justice needs to be served! >> all right. >> it does. it does. it definitely needs to be served but we don't know -- unless you're the police officer investigating or you're george zimmerman and unfortunately, trayvon martin dead so he can't tell us. but those are the people who know and maybe some of the witnesses who were there. and that's why eventually you have an investigation and maybe they'll be -- >> and will not be a grand jury and panel. they're going to investigate themselves. let's go over some of the things you're sending to us. rob from massachusetts says this, isn't it ironic those rushing to accuse zimmerman are because they blame him for rushing to a judgment? >> john from gaston, south carolina says why is the justice department not actively seeking arrest warrants for those placing bounties on the accused? in particular, you know, you've got the new black panther party which apparently has affixed a $1 million bounty to the head of

george zimmerman, wanted dead or alive. yesterday, the governor of the great state of florida, rick scott, said talk of bounties and retribution has no place in this dialogue and they compound tragedy with tragedy. >> there was this tweet from jim johnson. this is what the left does, attack regardless of fact, truth. where's the civility or due process? we are in deep trouble. as we were talking about with our last guest in the 6:00 hour and i think it bears mentioning again because it's really important is where's the outrage about the black on black crime? i mean, that is the majority. 90% of black victims are killed by african-americans. same thing with white people. 83.3% of white victim homicides committed by white offenders so really, that's the typical. that's the typical murder that's happening in our society. i'm not so sure it's typical that it's white on black or vice versa. >> speaking of the twitter verse and things people do on the twitter, there's a twitter address at kill zimmerman up right now.

it says this page is for people who believe zimmerman should be shot dead in the street. the same way trayvon was. no justice. no peace. >> all right. 9 minutes after the hour now. there's now 540 million reasons to catch mega millions fever. the record-breaking jackpot soared yet again yesterday. and people are lining up across the country hoping to hit it big later tonight. a special surprise to the people of hoboken. a chance to see rick leventhal and get a ticket! he is outside. hey, rick, how happy are the people to see you? >> excited. ecstatic actually. you know, brian, this jackpot started at $476. it was estimated and then jumped to $500. now $540. could go even higher as the ticket sales continue to skyrocket. new jersey selling at least $2,000 worth of mega millions tickets every minute. texas is selling $2 million worth every single hour despite these astronomical odds of 1 in 176 million, you're more likely, 18 times more likely to be

elected president of the united states than win this lottery. you're a dozen times more likely to be an astronaut than win this lottery but someone might do it tonight at 11:00. all you need are five numbers and that mega ball correct. no one has done it since january 24th. odds are someone will. yesterday, i spoke to the director of the new jersey lottery. i figured if anyone can help me win, it would be her and here's what she told me. >> i can't guarantee it. >> are you in charge of the lottery? >> yes, i think i am. yeah. >> i would like to win. >> well, good luck. >> i'll give you some money. >> do we have that on tape? an attempted bribe of a state official? >> you think i'm going to get in trouble for that? >> yeah. >> a lot of trouble. >> yeah. >> the current lump sum jackpot $260 million, you can feed a family of four for 22,000 years. with that money. >> right. >> rick, i got a question for

you, in front of that -- let's say that shop sells the winning mega millions ticket tonight, how much does the owner of that shop get? >> how much do i get? that's what i want to know. >> is he inside? can you go and ask him? >> they get thousands and the state gets millions and there's 42 states involved in this drawing and they're all sort of hoping they're the ones because there will be a windfall for whatever state has the winning ticket. sells the winning ticket and, you know, a lot of that money goes to education. they're saying hey, buy a ticket. but don't buy too many and you can help your kids get smarter. >> i hope that wherever i go, the guy in front of me isn't buying a lotto ticket because it takes forever. all i want to do is get something quick and get out of there. >> i bought mine in three seconds yesterday. >> you made up your mind before you got there, you know. >> the quick pick goes fast. we got an expert coming up in the next hour who says don't do the quick pick and we've got -- >> thanks, rick. >> we've got details. >> rick leventhal live in the land of frank sinatra, hoboken! >> right, he's not there

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>> 15 minutes after the top of the hour. president obama calling for an end to tax breaks for oil companies. >> i think it's time they got by without more help from taxpayers who already have a tough enough time paying the bills and filling up their gas tanks. >> but it seems president obama didn't even have the support of the democrat led senate. they rejected his proposal.

here to weigh in is our political panel, former lieutenant governor and author of the new book "decoding the health care law" and ryan clayton, democrat campaign consultant and founder of 100 proof politics. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> betsy bought along some props! >> that's right. >> which is? >> supreme court justices didn't want to read the obama health law. >> legislation. >> that's right. i bought it along for all of us. >> we'll get to that. >> that's right. >> we'll get to that a little bit later. here's the thing, betsy. let me start with you on this. was the president disingenuous yesterday when he was calling for tax breaks on -- or to get rid of the tax breaks for these oil companies. >> i would call it demagoguery instead of being insincere and this is the reason. this president has consistently proposed putting algae and seaweed in our gas tanks. i call him the possible scum president. he is poured billions of dollars into clean energy

alternatives like solyndra, companies that went belly up. that's a real misuse of taxpayer dollars. these clean energy sources have not proven to be economically viable. they currently provide only 7% of our resources. we need fossil fuel -- >> to continue. >> exploration. >> let me ask you this, is he telling the full story? isn't it true that all companies that invest in machinery and equipment, that they get these tax subsidies so it's not just oil companies and don't they pay millions of dollars in taxes? 41%, i think, of their profits. >> yeah, i think most americans know that the real story here is we're all feeling pain at the pump and what we need to do is reduce demand on the oil supply and we need to explore alternative fuels and do things like the car leaf that's coming out of the big three automakers in detroit. we're going to reduce demand on oil. that's going to drive down the price of gas. that's what everybody wants. i don't know why we're giving tax subsidies to oil companies that make billions and trillions

of dollars and we give them tax subsidies and they take tax cuts, too. i don't think that's an economically feasible situation and not good for the revenue of the government and not good nor most americans. >> i got to get this in. i don't have time to play the whole thing. in 2005, president obama as a senator voted to continue the tax subsidies for oil companies and now he's saying he's against it. >> well, which proves that this is all kind of a political game here. i mean, i partly agree with ryan. i mean, i'd be more than happy to get rid of all of these -- all of these kinds of subsidies but if you're going to do that, if you're going to get rid of corporate subsidies, you'll have to do it comprehensively rather than just going after the big, bad oil boogie man which is what the president seems to be doing right now. >> which is my point, it's all companies that invest in equipment and machinery that get that kind of a tax subsidy. would you agree with that? >> yeah, why are we paying people, though, that are punishing us at the pump? you know, i think what we should do is make them a deal and say hey, if we're going to give you these tax subsidies, bring down

the price of gasoline. >> no -- >> not taxpayer money! >> the amount they actually get is actually very small -- a small portion because a lot of the price has to do with taxes and things like that. but the reason why the gas prices are going up has more to do on the speculation side rather than actually on the oil company side. >> let me point out that the reason the speculators are behaving that way is there are not enough positive signs that we're going to have enough energy supply. we need keystone. we need more domestic oil exploration. >> let me correct on you on that. the reason they're speculating is there's no rules on wall street right now and we all know that's the source of the problem. keystone is going to raise -- >> oh -- >> oil production -- where people -- >> a lot of people think wall street is overregulated right now. >> and prices keep going on. because they're raking in record profits. they're raking in record profits. >> misguided -- >> they're going to continue to debate while i go -- i love this! you guys are fired up for a friday! all right. they're going to stick around, though, and they're going to have more of that when we come back because it's judgment day for obamacare. betsy brought the entire law there.

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>> now it's time for your news by the numbers. first, 800,000, that's how many people, adults and kids to could is have their social security numbers compromised in california. ibm reportedly lost data cartridges from a social services department. way to go. next, number one. the united states taking a top spot for having the world's

highest corporate tax rate. fantastic. the distinction will become official on sunday after japan's rate drops. and finally, $1.3 million. that's how much more britney spears got for her beverly hills house than the asking price. it was listed at just under $3 million. and a bidding frenzy helped it sell for $4.3. way to go. just what she needs. more money. gretch? >> today, the supreme court justices will meet to make a decision on the health care law. it's going to be private. we will have to wait until the late part of june to hear if the individual mandate in obamacare is constitutional or unconstitutional. will this be a rude awakening, then, for liberals if it's not upheld? we're back with our political panel, betsy mccoy, author of the new e book "decoding the health care law." and robert clayton, democratic campaign consultant and founder of 100 proof politics. let me start with you, ryan. you think the supreme court is

going to uphold this. everything is going to be constitutional. >> this law is constitutional. republicans used to support this law before they were against it and the fact is that the constitutionality of what they suggested back then still hasn't changed. the reality is that they're playing politics with millions of americans' lives who now have health care, children, 17 million children now have pre-existing condition coverage. women who had higher rates on insurance just for being a woman, meaning being a woman is a pre-existing condition. now that's going away. i think those are great things. the reality is in america, if an american is sick, they should be able to see a doctor. it's that simple. i don't know why conservatives and republicans are so opposed to that certain fact. >> i don't know many -- >> i believe all americans should get good health care and good coverage and there are ways to do it without putting the government in charge of everyone's care and taking their freedom away. the real issue before the court this week was if the federal government can force you to buy a health plan to solve the national problem, what can't the federal government force you to do or buy as the justices said, can the federal government force you to buy burial plots, can the

federal government force you to buy a g.m. car to prop up detroit or stocks and bonds to prop up wall street. there's no limit and that means no liberty left. >> is it a slippery slope? >> it is. i think it is a slippery slope but i mean, the question you ask, though, are liberals in kind of denial about what's going to happen? i mean, i think just the reaction that they saw from the tough questioning, that conservatives had for the solicitor general i think proves that liberals were shocked realizing the serious constitutional ramification specifically with the individual mandate on part of it. and i think there's a broad consensus among all the conservatives justices that that's going to go. the question, then, is, though, will the rest of the law be upheld as constitutional and that's about 50/50. >> i want to get all three of your opinions on this. political ramifications if the individual mandate or the whole thing is thrown out. >> i think actually if that happens, it will be a major gift to mitt romney. the way romney care was looked at as a weakness in the primary,

this becomes strong and he can now say i delivered health care in my state and i did it constitutionally and the constitutional law professor in the white house took a year and a half to push this law through and it turned out to be unconstitutional. powerful argument. >> three ramifications. when the constitution prevails, all americans are winners. number two, it's going to be a strong warning to mr. obama that in this country, the rule of law is king, not mr. obama. and it will be a warning to americans that if he gets a second term, lo and behold, who is he going to put on the court next? >> the political ramifications of this are very serious. it's that the supreme court's legitimacy is at stake. they're going to prove themselves to be radical right wing legislators from the bench who think it's their job to issue laws and legislate from the bench. that's not their job. their job is to apply the constitution to the laws of this kunlt. -- country. that's what they need to do in this instance. >> if justice kennedy votes with the conservatives, i don't think

many people will call him right wing. he tends to be the centrist vote. i have to wrap it up there. sorry, guys. have a fantastic weekend. eric holder not investigating the trayvon martin case but they are going after the governor of south carolina. the reason why coming up next and an easter egg hunt called off because of bad behavior. guess what? not because of the kids. they were perfectly fine. nope, it was the parents and now everyone is paying the price. even people who weren't there. you have to hear this one.

>> shot of the morning. today, we've got these gigantic pencils because -- >> why? >> because it's international pencil day. >> yes. >> way to celebrate. >> i was so excited. i thought look, that's the biggest pencil i've ever seen. look at that. it's fake. can't really write with it. >> this one writes. >> it does? >> yeah. >> i was shocked to find out that people are using pencils. in lieu of ipads. >> we're so lazy, we don't want to grind them and sharpen them. we have questions for you folks. >> don't want to sharpen pencils? >> i do every day for my kids. >> with a knife? with a machete? >> not like i'm in the wilderness. >> folks, play along. we have three questions. >> i need pencil quiz music. any pencil quiz music? just answer the questions.

>> what does the 2 in a number 2 pencil stand for? >> let's do family feud style. i think it's b. >> the writing core's hardness and size and length of a pencil. >> writing core's hardness. >> that's correct. >> number 2, what do call the section of the exposed shaved wood above the writing point. is it the tip, the blade or the collar? >> alan, i'm going to say c. >> c is collar is correct. >> very nice. >> i don't know. plus the final question is how do european pencils differ from those sold in the united states. a, they don't have erasers. they're shorter or they're actually pens. >> they don't work much over there? >> i'm going to go with a. i have no idea what you're going to go with. >> you are correct. a is close enough. a is the answer. they don't have -- europeans apparently make no mistakes. >> they're perfect! >> they don't need no stinking erasers. >> they don't have any erasers?

>> go out there and have a great day. it's international national pencil day. >> right. and now we have to deal with a set that has pencils on it even though we'll be talking about other stuff. >> all right. speaking of -- ripped from the headlines, is it a teaching moment or is it too much too soon? here's the story. there was this 10-year-old boy charged with a felony now for stealing a bike. now, here's the story. he was on a trike for some reason. i'm not sure why. and then he went over to steal an actual bike and some sort of a b.b. gun. >> air rifle. >> an air rifle. and so the penalty now is pretty stiff. it is going to be a felony so is that over the top or is that the right thing to do to teach a lesson? >> the other guy came back for his tricycle and that's when they nailed him. >> it was and so what do they do with the 10-year-old? they mirandized him in front of his stepmother. he's been released into her custody. >> let me tell you something in that case, if you're going to go to those lengths and going into

the garage to steal a gun that ends up being an air rifle, i think he gets 10 years. >> what's going to happen to those kids? remember the scene from "animal house". it's a classic. watch this. there was an actual food fight. nobody knows who started it but at the end of it, 16 kids were suspended and four kids were hauled into court and charged because tables were flying and chairs were flying much like an episode of "jersey housewives." >> according to the sheriff there, it was an organized event and that's what led to it being taken so seriously. what i liked was that one -- one parent left their child in jail an extra night. now, they said that they couldn't come up with the $500 bond to get them out but i'm wondering if they left them in

jail for a second night for the lesson. >> they had the pinstripes on and had the jump suits on and showed them as prisoners. i think this is way over the top. i love what this mom said, didn't we all do goofy things in high school? who hasn't? why should we go to jail for a food fight? >> we weren't there. we don't know how it was. you can't have that, teachers and principals have enough to do right now with kids acting up in school, they can't touch them or they go to jail. right? so in this case, i don't know. we weren't there. i have to know more about it. >> the superintendent. >> i've had enough. i say let them fight! >> the superintendent said this was not just your run of the mill ordinary cafeteria horseplay and the sheriff said yeah, that's chargeable offense so anyway, what do you think? >> why are you taking gretchen's side? it makes me feel bad. >> there you go. >> get over here. i'm going to kill you. >> right now, the complaint. >> good. >> meanwhile, headlines for you. new reports this morning south carolina governor niki haley could be indicted on charges of

tax fraud as early as this week. the department of justice leading the investigation. according to the palmetto public record, the alleged charges stemming from accusations haley helped cook the books while managing finances at a center run by her father. the governor calling the allegations completely false. >> all right. so not their color. taliban fighters busted in drag in afghanistan. where colorful women's clothing and full beefrds were everywhere. >> huh? >> the reason for dressing up, afghan intelligence says they wanted to get closer to u.s. and nato troops to attack them. these guys aren't the first ones to get caught in disguise. >> kind of weird. well, the jet blue pilot who had a meltdown in the middle of that flight, no stranger to tragedy. captain clayton osbon lost his father in a plane crash. his father and a friend were headed to the bahamas in 1995 when their plane lost power and crashed in daytona beach,

florida. osbon charged with interfering with flight crew instructions. it could mean 20 years behind bars. >> meanwhile, check out this incredible video from nasza. -- nasa. this is a massive solar tornado twisting across the surface of the sun. and by massive, we mean it is five times wider than planet earth. is that the sound from it? it packs winds of 330 miles an hour. there could be sound, we can't hear it. real quickly, let's take a look at the map and find out we've got a lot of shower activity. some heavy thunderstorms moving through portions of the great lakes down through the ohio valley. as you can see, central plain states, southern plains. dixie dixieland, rainy, same thing out west. up to the pacific northwest. current temperatures in memphis right now, 65. same with kansas city. out in denver, 53 and currently in raleigh, you've got 49 but raleigh later on today, look at that.

beautiful! 78 degrees. 70's throughout dixieland, 80's in through texas today and dallas/ft. worth, it's going to be 84. i talked to my daughter there yesterday and she said it was downright hot. >> wait until -- >> she won't be there in the summer, right? >> nope. >> having lived there, the summers can get a little toasty. i loved it down there. all right, brian, what's going on in sports? >> why do you ask? >> because you're supposed to -- if you don't want to do sports, i will. >> fine. >> ok! >> i'm just excited. i'm excited to do sports. i'm excited that tim tebow is excited and he's still excited about being a jet. the quarterback returned to twitter for the first time since being traded to the jets. tebow poked a little fun at himself saying "i've already said it 44 times so here goes number 45. i'm really excited to be a jet." he also got serious and said it's an honor to be with the team and he thanked the bronco fans for all their support but they have peyton manning now. is it the real thing or just a dead ringser?

new york giants linebacker leaking what could be the design for the team's super bowl ring on twitter. the design is supposed to be kept secret until the official announcement in may. it's a huge scandal. the giants front office saying it's not the real thing. just an unfinished version of one possible design. a few new york jewelers are weighing in. if it's the real thing, it's really tacky and stinks. the seattle mariners trip to tokyo is a trip that one player will never forget. he decided to propose to his squeeze, long time girlfriend on this trip but naturally didn't know the perfect place so he reached out to mlb to find him a spot in japan. he popped the question on the 90th floor of the tower. that's one of tokyo's tallest buildings. seattle lost the game 3-1 so they're not going to go through with the wedding. ryan was 1-7 on the trip but probably just isn't too worried

about it since he scored elsewhere. by the way, if you want to talk sports a little bit later -- fox and friends.com/keepingscore. >> your blog. >> yes. my blog. >> lot of scoring today. >> lots of sports. >> i responded to your twitter, you asked what the big story is today. >> what did you respond? >> i said that shirt/tie combination, i think it's smart. >> it's time for it get off the shelf. >> i think it's time for you to take a couple of days off if you're going to start talking like that. it's a story we've been following closely. catholic groups being forced to let an atheist run their organization. our next guest have a huge update on that case. >> easter egg hunt canceled because of bad behavior by parents. everybody is paying the price, even people who weren't there. you're going to hear from one mother. brian is going to sit down with her shortly. >> yep. can't wait. i'm more of an absentee plant parent.

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ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. [ doctor ] enbrel, the number one biolog medicine prescribed by rheumatologists. >> 45 minutes past the top of the hour. couple of quick headlines for you now. sobering new statistics. a report out by the cdc finds 1 in 88 children in the u.s. have autism. the hardest hit -- boys. the figures mean autism nearly twice as common as health officials said it was five years ago but experts say part of the increase is due to wider screening and better diagnosis. and mattel announcing it will be giving bald barbie dolls to children who lost their hair to cancer. you may remember the idea was first inspired by a movement on facebook. steve? >> thanks, gretchen. next fall we were telling you one of vanderbilt's largest student religious organizations won't be on campus. that's because vanderbilt catholic decided not to re-register as an official student organization after deciding that complying with the university's new

nondiscrimination policy would force them to lie. the policy says student organizations must keep leadership positions open to all students regardless of their backgrounds including religious beliefs. we're joined by the chaplain of vanderbilt catholic, father john sims baker and the student president of vanderbilt catholic, p.j., thanks for joining us from nashville. >> good morning, how are you? >> father baker, let's start with you. the way things are now, if you want to be in a campus organization at vanderbilt, you got to say, ok, anybody regardless of background could be the leader including your organization, you might have to have an atheist head up the catholics. >> that's a theoretical possibility but we have to allow, according to this policy, anyone to apply for leadership and we're saying as a faith based organization, faith based

criteria, religious belief and practice is what we're all about so that kind of qualification is essential to our mission really. >> what you've decided, you've decided not to re-register as an officially recognized campus organization in the coming year. what's that going to mean for vanderbilt catholic? >> we don't know for sure. we know on our part, we want to be as engaged on the campus as we've ever been. always open and reaching out to all the students on the campus and providing all of the, you know, religious formation that we can and proposing jesus christ on the campus. we're talking with the university. there seems to be some sort of concept of an unregistered status and there's some question marks about that. of course, that will be up to the university administration. we're talking with them and hoping that will mean there will be a good bit of engagement on campus as well. >> i know that you're hoping that you can continue to have mass in the chapel. that's up in the air. what do you think about what vanderbilt is doing to the

organizations? >> well, i think a very well intentioned policy but unfortunately, it accomplishes the exact opposite of what it's meant to do. it's intended to be policy that prevents discrimination but in fact, it's discriminating against faith-based organizations. it's intended to be a policy that encourages diversity but, in fact, it's stifling diversity by not valuing voices who believe they have a message worth preserving. >> sure. >> it's very unfortunate that it's come to this and they're sticking with this policy but nonetheless, we're confident and moving forward with our ministry. >> p.j., if the organization not allowed on campus, you'll have to leave campus, perhaps, to observe your faith. >> well, in a way, we'll have to leave campus but also in another way, we'll still be very much present on campus. we're confident we can still be an active and vibrant student group on campus. our mission to propose jesus christ is not dependent on official university statous so we're going to face a lot of

difficulties and have less access maybe to campus, we're confident in moving forward and hopeful for what god will continue to do through our community. >> before you guys go, i have to read the statement from vanderbilt. they say "we do not believe our nondiscriminatory policy is incompatible with religious freedom. vanderbilt's policy does not mandate whom student orpgss should elect as leaders. it simply allows for anyone to be eligible for membership and to seek a leadership position." but that's not going to work out for you guys because you will not re-register with vanderbilt. all right, father baker and p.j., gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> good talking to you. thanks. >> all right. what do you think? e-mail us. meanwhile, we're telling you this -- an easter egg hunt called off because of bad behavior not by the kids but by their parents. our next guest is paying the price literally and she wasn't even there. cute kids. but first, on this day back in

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>> one colorado town canceling its easter egg hunt because of bad behavior but it was not the kids who were out of control. it was, say it with me, the parents. the town says parents were so competitive they were getting too aggressive. but kids aren't the only ones paying a price this easter, so is the local community. joining us right now is the parents and a colorado springs business owner, molly smith. molly, you got a pet boutique and it is not going to have the business of the people coming down, what did you witness happen last year? >> well, we actually just opened our local retail location in september so we weren't a

business in old colorado city last year. i actually attended as a citizen and it was a little bit chaotic but hearing the feedback following the event is really where the shocker comes in. >> what do you mean? >> well, they had stories of parents actually jumping the rope to get in on the easter egg hunt. parents yelling at their kids to take eggs away from other children. and then, of course, the follow-up -- >> are you kidding? >> oh, yes. and then the organization that puts on the event received calls following the event from disgruntled parents saying my kids didn't get an egg and didn't get enough eggs and generally complaining about the event, really stripping the community spirit. out of the whole thing. >> it's not a scholarship is at stake. even that wouldn't have been an excuse. i heard it was so intense the whole easter egg hunt was over in a matter of minutes. >> it was. we were absolutely astonished looking on and we were watching from a little bit of a distance, i mean, there was an incredible

number of people in attendance. and it was literally in a matter of seconds it was over. >> listen to this quote. this backs up what you're saying. this is one parent. you better believe i'm going to help my kid get one of those eggs! i promised my kid an easter egg hunt and i want to give him an even edge which by the way doesn't even make sense. your kid has to walk away with 20 eggs or you're not a good parent. >> right. exactly. >> wow, here's what the executive director of the old colorado city association says. "it sort of got out of hand. there were disgruntled people because there either weren't enough eggs to go around or some kids didn't get one. parents would get aggressive." this is totally the easter spirit, by the way. "rather than to create ill will, let's not just do it." so dave says we're not doing it and businesses like yours are hurt and kids will not have that memory. >> right. i mean, we -- we are a member of the old colorado city associates.

we are, you know, a little bit disapointed it's not going to take place. our business is located directly across from the park. it would have been great exposure for our business but as a member, we absolutely understand why the decision was made and we agree with it. you know, as a parent, we teach our children that if you abuse a privilege, then it gets taken away from you and in this case, it was the parents abusing prift ledge and when you try to do something nice and bolster community spirit and nobody appreciates it, unfortunately, you know, it had to be canceled. >> good luck with your boutique and hopefully your store can bounce back and collect some revenues some other place and parents, snap out of it. it's embarrassing. thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. >> coming up straight ahead in our final hour of the week, mitt romney about to pick up a huge republican endorsement. congressman paul ryan. you'll hear it here exclusively straight from ryan himself. it's a "fox & friends" exclusive just 15 minutes away. then a stunning stat. 1 in 5 adults are still getting an allowance from their parents. are we doing something wrong as a society? what can parents do differently

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>> instead of taxpayer give aways to an industry that's never been more profitable, we should be using that money to double down on investments in clean energy technologies that have never been more promising. >> but the president wasn't quite so opposed to tax breaks for big oil when he was a senator because back then, he voted for them. >> why did the president vote for the energy bill in 2005 that had over $2 billion in tax breaks? they were making a lot of money then. >> what i can tell you is that the oil and gas companies in this country are making record profits now in 2012. the price at the pump is very high and that is plenty of incentive for these companies to continue to drill, to continue to explore, and continue to develop energy sources here in the united states and abroad. there is no reason for the

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so you are throwing your support to? >> mitt romney. here is the point, we vote here in wisconsin. lots of my friends, family and supporters are asking me, who do we think we should vote for? i have two criteria i'm using to make my decision to vote tuesday. who is the best person to be president. who will make the best president? who has the best chance of defeating barak obama? in my opinion, mitt romney is clearly that person. i spent a good deal of time with mitt romney going through our country's fiscal situation, talk being what it will take to get the country back on track. and i am convinced mitt romney has the skills, the tenacity, principles, the courage and integrity to do what it takes to get america on track. i believe he's the right person for the job and i think this primary has been productive. i think it's been constructive up 'til now. i think it's made them better. i think we're entering a phase where it's counterproductive if

it drags on much longer. we need to coalesce around mitt romney and focus on the task, which is defeating barak obama. >> brian: did you have a chance -- i know you called rick santorum. did you tell him that besides i'm going to back mitt romney? did you tell him it's best for the party to step aside. >> i put in a call for him yesterday. now that i got home, i want to focus on the primary here. rick and i are trying to hook up. it's a logistical thing. i finished sharing what we call the presidential trust at the republican national committee, the fund that's used to finance the general election. i said the last six months learning about the details of presidential campaign fundraising, of what it takes to put together a successful presidential campaign. it's an enormous task and i'm convince fundamental we drag this to the summer, it will make it that much harder to defeat barak obama this fall. that's why i think mitt romney

is the best guy fort job, he'll make the best president, he has the best chance of winning and the more we drag it out, the harder it is to win in november. that's why i think it's important we coalesce as conservatives and focus on defeating the president in the fall. >> gretchen: you have a lot of experience in going up against the president, specifically about dueling budgets. you really were the one who made him react to last year when you put out your budget and all your graphs and charts and then he came out with his. his was voted down unanimously. democrats voted his down. yours passed in the house yesterday. the senate is not even going to take it up. is that your understanding? >> yes. they've already announced that. harry reid has already said like 2010 and 2011, he's not going to do a budget. even though the budget act requires we pass one by april 15. that's tax at this for everybody. it's also budget day tore congress. they ignored that law for three years. here is the deal, we feel that if we don't like the direction the president is taking the country, which i would argue is taking us into a debt crisis,

into a welfare state in decline, if we don't like that direction, we need to show the country exactly how we would get off that track, get back on saving the american dream, and then give the country a choice in the fall. we think we owe the american people a clear choice of two futures so they can decide this fall what do they want america to be? that's what we're going to do and i'm convinced mitt romney is the best guy to do it. >> brian: we're going to put up bullet points of what your plan has and i want to let america hear what some of the democrats are saying about your plan. let's listen. >> the ryan republican budget loses jobs. >> it asks old people to pay the built, seniors to pay the bill, vulnerable to pay the bill, but not the wealthiest in america. >> show us how you make up for $4.6 trillion in lost revenue from dropping that tax rate without socking it to middle income taxpayers.

show us, chairman ryan. >> brian: answer him, if you would. >> it's like groundhog day, i've been through this all over again. the number chris throws out means if we don't have this massive tax increase in january by having all the tax cuts expire and what are you going to increase that tax increase with another tax increase? we don't want to raise taxes. what chris is talking about is the need to raise taxes, in his opinion, and if we don't like president obama's tax increases under his math, we should come up with our own tax increases. we're saying no. that's not the problem. spending is the problem in washington. we should focus on spending and not raising taxes. you'll hurt the economy if you raise taxes. >> steve: because the senate is not going to be voting on this, because they just don't do that over on that side, this really is kind of a campaign document because it draws a bright line between what the republicans stand for and what the democrats stand for. if you want big government, the democrats are your party. whereas if you want a party that's making some hard choice,

vote republican. is anybody getting short changed with the big cuts your making? >> to me, it's more than a campaign document. it's a governing document. it's showing the country specifically how we can save and strengthen medicare, how we can get our budget balanced and debt paid off and grow our economy. yeah, we're cutting $5.3 trillion out of the president's budget. we're cutting every government agency. we're taking money out of every government agency because we have to make them do more with less. we're cutting federal pay, federal employee work force. we're restrengthening and structuring the safety net so we get people back to work on their feet. we're cutting all over the place. >> gretchen: you said from the beginning that people were going to attack you for actually looking at this in a realistic way. let me ask you before you go, the dnc is putting out a new video about a romance between you and mitt romney and they're going to try and pin your budget now to romney in a negative way.

did you decide to endorse him because you have some sort of agreement with him that you will be his vice presidential pick? >> no. that's ridiculous. we've never discussed that at all. >> gretchen: would you be a good pick? >> gretchen, my focus has been on the budget, my job in congress. i haven't given any of that serious thought. the reason i endorsed him is it's clear to me, he understands the fork in the road america is facing. it's clear to me he understands exactly what we need to do to stop america from having a debt crisis. that's why i'm endorsing him. i also think he's the best chance of winning in the fall. >> brian: he's up in wisconsin by 7. chairman ryan, thank you for joining us this morning. best of luck. >> you bet, thank you. >> steve: meanwhile, 20 minutes after the top of the hour. stunning statistic. one in five adults still getting an allowance from their parents. are those parents creating an entitlement society? our next guest says yes. but he has three things you can do to change that.

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>> brian: helping with the brandry, taking out the trash, all chores some kids will get an allowance for doing. how old is too old to be paid for helping out around the house? >> gretchen: i thought those were things you were telling me you do every day. >> brian: there is no verification of that. >> gretchen: that's a joke. new survey showing that one in five adults between the ages of 18 and 34 still get some sort of allowance from good old mom and dad. one in ten of all adults get financial help from their parents or relatives. joining us is author of "your kids are your own fault," larry wingef with his thoughts. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: is it a good thing

for parents to give their kids an allowance? >> no. listen, these are adult kids. they don't need an allowance. they need a paycheck. and that means they need a job, which means you need to kick them out of your house. listen, this is real simple. if your adult child still lives in their bedroom, you have failed as a parent. the ultimate goal of every parent is complete independence for your children, which means you should teach them what it takes to earn money, save money, invest their money, how to get a job, keep a job, how to go to a job on time, be respectful of the customers. those sort of basic things. if you haven't done that, then your kid can't make it in the world and they come back and live at home. >> brian: right. by the way, i think the great philosopher billy joel said it best when he said if you're 21 and your mother still makes your bed, that's wrong. and having said that, if you do have a 21-year-old and you're watching and you're making his bed, what do you do to change

things? >> you stop making their bed, first of all. you require rent from them. you tell them that they have to pay for groceries. now, here it gets real simple. if they can pay you rent and they can pay you for groceries, they can pay somebody else rent and somebody else for groceries. don't allow your children and you are enabling them, don't allow them to steal your retirement from you in terms of your personal time, your space, and your money. you should have taught them better along the way. there comes a time they need to go away. i'm not convinced it's the job market or the recession that's causing this problem. not all these adult kids live at home because they have to. some of them live at home because they are allowed to. we need to stop allowing that. >> gretchen: that's interesting because we pointed to some of the statistics earlier. to me, it's such a huge percentage. do you believe that this has changed over time? >> of course it has. there was a time -- i know when

i was 18 years old, it was time to go away, which means i had to figure out what i was going to do. i went to college and earned my own way and i think most people in my generation, probably your generation did the very same thing. we created an expectation when our kids were very young that at a certain age, they had to go away and move out and be on their own. because that expectation was there, our parents taught us what it took for that to happen. we've not done that now. we're not teaching our kids what it takes to be self-reliant and live on their own. that's a mistake of the parents. not the kids. i don't blame the kid. we also have gotten to the point that we don't honor the fact that earning money on your own is much more honorable than taking money from your parents or from the government. >> gretchen: great point. >> brian: where is the pride? larry -- >> there isn't any. >> brian: it's all in your book, which is excellent. appreciate you joining us. the first guy to be on our show

today without a tie. >> gretchen: thanks. we'll see you soon. >> thanks. >> brian: coming up. >> gretchen: do you want a better chance at winning the half a billion dollar mega millions jackpot? stick around. the man who won seven. he's going to spill his secrets for us. >> brian: we still had to give him free car service. forget free speech. the janitor who says she was fired for supporting wisconsin governor walk be with a bumper sticker is speaking out exclusively on "fox & friends" captain, we have to keep going!

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have gone up. it could be $600 million before it's all done. if you don't have a ticket yet, there is still time. be prepared to wait. people lining up everywhere to score a shot at tonight's record shattering $540 million jackpot right now. >> gretchen: rick leventhal joins us from hoboken, new jersey for more with lottery fever gripping the country. what happened since the last time we talked to you? >> a guy drove by in a bus and waved a ticket at me and said he had the winning ticket. so i guess there is no point in anyone else buying tickets. but there are a lot of people lined up here at this news stand across the river from new york city. they are selling tickets at a rate of couple thousand a minute here in new jersey, a couple million an hour in texas and across the country. 42 states actually have the mega millions drawing. a couple of territories as well. and all these folks believe that they're the ones that will walk out with a lump sum of perhaps

260, maybe more, $290 million, depending on what state you're living in and how high the taxes are. your 30 times for likely to die prosecute a -- from a bee sting than win with the odds 176 million. yesterday i spoke to a professor of statistics and he said there is no secret to winning. >> if you don't play, the probable of winning is zero. if you do play, the probability of winning is a little more than zero you have to go to the eighth or ninth decimal before you get a digit other than zero. >> tell that to the guy who says there is a secret to winning, 'cause that professor told me no number is better than any other number and there is no guarantee that anyone will even win this time. if nobody wins it could be over $1 billion. >> gretchen: that's crazy!

>> steve: thank you, sir. let's tell you the case of mary taylor. she was a custodian at a high school in wisconsin. she put a pro-scott walker sign in her car. her boss from the janitorial service said hey, mare, gout to get rid of that because i have teachers complaining. she said no way. there are a bunch of anti-scott walker bumper stickers in the parking lot, i'm not going to do it. a couple days later she got fired because she had the stand with walker sign on our car. she was on our program a couple hours ago and she said it's her right to keep that sign on her car. >> i had a right to put the sign on my car. of course, i stand for scott walker. so i felt that it was necessary for me to provide information for other people that i indeed do stand for scott walker and

when i first started there, these teachers had recall stickers on their cars. didn't bother me one bit. liberal school teachers and liberals in general cannot push the public around when they have different opinions other than theirs. >> steve: way to go. >> gretchen: it sounds like a pretty good legal case for her. i mean, if you can prove that there were other bumper stickers in the same parking lot with a differing point of view and then she just has her own personal point of view there, sounds to me lick on a pretty big case. we reached out to mary's employer, diversified building maintenance, but did not hear back. could the school district be involved with this as well potentially because the lawyer told you, steve, that he was not sure if the school district -- >> steve: the school district said they were not involved in getting her fired. she is right now back at that school where the teachers were complaining about her. i asked if there had been any retribution and she said, well, somebody keyed my car. anyway, that's the case with

mary taylor standing bravely out there in wisconsin. >> brian: steve, bravely give us the news. >> steve: all right. let's start with this. former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and fox news contributor, john bolton, is accusing the obama administration of betraying a major israeli military secret. bolton says a new report that israel has been granted access to air bases in azerbaijan on iran's northern border was leaked by the obama administration. bolton says the leak was meant to thwart a possible israeli strike on iran. >> i think today this is part of the administration's campaign against an israeli attack. so the obama administration has torqued it up a notch and now they're going to reveal very sensitive, very important information that will allow iran to defeat an israeli attack. >> steve: the obama administration has not responded to ambassador bolton's assessment so far.

brian. >> brian: candice bergen dropping a medical bombshell. revealing she had a stroke in 2006 and still suffers memory loss as a result. she reportedly took two weeks off from taping "boston legal" to recover, but says she kept quiet about it because she didn't want to be considered a liability. >> gretchen: don't try this at home. a woman getting up close and personal with a giant moose. she has been wanting to touch one of the creatures ever since moving to alaska from miami. as you can see, she made her move. the moose seems to be cool with it until he gets up and walks away. >> brian: so in alaska, there are moose everywhere? >> gretchen: wait a minute, i thought he was going to kiss her or something like that. experts warn it's a bad idea considering the average moose is 7 feet tall, 1,000 pounds, and could squash you like a bug. >> brian: it looks like prehistoric. >> steve: that's what they look like. the moose is loose. meanwhile, let's go ahead and take a look at the weather.

nice weather for a moose in alaska. no snow to speak of. we got a little in the u.p. of michigan right now. as you can see, widely scattered showers all across the map. the eastern coast is clear right now, but things are going to get spotty later on today. current temperatures, look for the nearest big city. that's probably a good indicator of what it's like at your place. today's daytime highs, almost 80 in kansas city. 80s, approaching 90 across texas, along the gulf coast. mid atlanta, 80s. mid- to upper 70s and here in the big town of new york city, 56 the daytime high. that's your travel cast for this friday. >> gretchen: one year ago, an ice agent was murdered by cartel agents. was the gun that killed him part of fast and furious? you'll hear from his mother and judge jeanine will be with us coming up. >> brian: you want a better chance of winning the half billion dollars mega million jackpot? stick around. the man who has won seven here to spill his secrets only to you. but first, dave and clayton who

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>> steve: you are more likely to be struck by lightning twice in your lifetime than win the mega millions jackpot tonight. but that hasn't stopped a lot of americans who are trying their luck hoping that that record of close to $600 million could be theirs. so is there anything you can do to improve your odds? >> brian: our next guest won the lottery numerous times and says he has a system. richard is the author of "learn how to increase your chances of winning the lottery." a good title, fine biofor this segment. how do we do it? >> well, for tonight, unless you're a regular player and you are following a method like mine, for tonight the only thing to do tonight to increase your chances of winning is buy as many tickets as you possibly can. the most important message i've been trying to get across to america all week regarding

tonight's drawing is don't get lottery fever. don't spend more money than you can afford to spend because remember something, if there is a winner tonight, there will be one, two, maybe three winners that will split the pot. but there will be millions of people tonight that are not going to win. so don't wake up tomorrow morning, find out you didn't win and now you're saying, oh, my god. how am i going to replace all that money? >> brian: that's solid. but we want to know how to win. >> steve: you say generally when it comes it picking lottery numbers, don't use the quick pick. what do you do instead? >> absolutely. quick picks, i tell people all the time, don't buy quick picks. people say, what do you mean? i always buy them. have you won yet? the meat of my message teaches people how to increase your chances of winning. you never do whether you buy quick picks because you're getting a different set of numbers all the time so your odds will be at the worst. by play ago regular set of numbers consistently, the more you play that set of numbers, the better your chances become. >> brian: you talk about a good

set of numbers instead of just isolated numbers. what's a good set of numbers? >> it's very difficult to explain in a short interview like this. but there is a method you can do to research sets of numbers. i teach people that in my book. and it's very simple to do, but you research and you'll find out if your set or sets of numbers are good sets of numbers. if they are not, you throw them out and pick a different set. if they're good, then start playing them and keep playing them. >> steve: i know this is putting the horse before the cart as it should be, but when it comes to we don't know whether or not we're going to win. we hope we do. but lump sum or payout over years? i've heard that so many people blow all the dough in five or six years. it would make sense to me to spread it out. >> well, that's something else a financial advisor would be able to tell you. i personally take the money

every time lump sum. but you might be better off taking it over the years. you're right, that's what happens. people who win large jackpots never had that much money before. they don't know how to deal with that influx of money. so get help. a financial advisor or an accountant, a lawyer, make sure those people are reputable people and they will tell you how to use that money to secure your financial future. >> steve: are you playing tonight? >> absolutely i'm playing tonight. >> brian: even though you're not going to win. >> steve: what are your numbers? >> we never know. >> steve: give us one of your numbers. >> those are my numbers. i'm not going to tell them. >> brian: we're not going to move until you tell us. i mean, i got all day. tell hemmer and mccallum to go back to bed. >> steve: thank you, sir. >> you're welcome. >> brian: what a stand-off. up next, one year ago, an ice agent was murdered by cartel

members. the gun that killed him part of the fast and furious debauchle perhaps? his parents demanding answers, but are they -- but what are they getting? >> steve: you know what we're getting right now, martha mccallum with a preview of what's happening. >> i'm not giving you my numbers either. >> brian: i'm going to sit here then. >> good morning, everybody. roseann barr and spike lee caught up in a dangerous tweeting situation. how trayvon martin's murder is causing even more pain today. john bolton accuses the white house of leaking israeli intelligence. he's going to be here to explain that. and why you may not want to buy a lottery ticket on your way home today. what? yeah. we'll see you at the top of the hour

>> gretchen: ice agent was gunned down more than a year ago. the guns used traced back to the fast and furious scandal. now his parents are speaking out and want long awaited answers. william lajeunesse sat down with them. >> we want to find out the truth. who in the first place thought of this program? how come they let those weapons go when they knew who had bought them, who had them? how come they let them go through the border without even trying to stop them? that's what we want to know. >> i don't know anything now that i didn't know the first day. >> steve: so why does the family not know anything more now than they did more than a year ago? joining us now is the host of "justice" with judge jeanine pirro. it's a travis see. >> it is, and a tragedy. this is what's going on with the justice department and with atf these days.

we saw it with fast and furious and eric holder where they are denying congress' request for documents, they're refuse to go hand them. >> steve: stone walling. >> that's a better word. and right now we're seeing it again. what's shocking is it's possible that this is another fast and furious, not generated out of arizona, but this time out of texas. we've got two guys that we know about, barber and osario that were under the watch of ice, dea, everyone knew they were buying gun, they had straw purchasers, they were obliterating the numbers. they had them on wires. they had search warrants. they had everything and this family is absolutely right when they say why didn't they stop the guns? why did they let them cross the border? why was my son who was in mexico for nine days, not trained better, why was he on this highway 57 which is a killing highway? why did the locks automatically open when the door went into

park allowing these cartels to put an ak 47 to get all rounds and kill their son? >> gretchen: what recourse dot parents have? can they sue the federal government? >> there is something called immunity where the govern is immune from any kind of award in a case like this. but what we are seeing now is a government that is not in control. we are giving these drug cartels the weapons. we're giving them them for free. we know where they're going. we're not tracking them and we're finding them at the scenes of our men, brian terry, border patrol, miami zapata, ice. how many more men are we going to find killed by our own guns? these ice and dea dealers need to understand that they got to put on their big boy pants and start arresting these guys and not letting the guns go across the border. >> steve: some members of the administration say look, this is a witch hunt. it's all political. but for the families who have lost their men, they deserve

answers. >> if anyone in the government says this is a witch hunt, they should be fired because these people are dying because of the reckless disregard for their lives by our government which allows people to sell these guns, one guy in particular, barba who was arrested for drugs and meth. we put him on the streets and released him. we let him be a snitch. we get all the evidence and we don't arrest them because, well, maybe we could have, but, you know, we wanted to see -- hogwash! arrest these people and stop this. this is eric holder's mess. it continues in texas. >> gretchen: all right. you'll hear that kind of passion if you tune in over the weekend to judge jeanine's show, 9:00 p.m. eastern time on saturday. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >> steve: thank you. >> gretchen: if you haven't seen this, you probably should. the epic performance of bohemian rhapsody from the back seat of a cop car. that guy, let's just say he had a little help.

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