>> what in the world? >> jambalaya. >> i have no idea. i'm just -- >> numerical. no. what's the first letter, that will help us? >> lumberjack. >> lumberjack. good job, all right! we've got that. >> bye, guys. >> what are you going to do with lumberjack? >> see you tomorrow. >> i thought the word was supposed to be from their show in the morning. >> it might have been. >> did they have a fox news alert about a lumberjack? >> i'm not sure. >> we don't. >> in the meantime, good morning, everyone. it's thursday, april 12th. i'm gretchen carlson and we start with a fox news alert. at any moment, north korea could launch a missile that can travel thousands of miles in defiance of america's orders to stop. that's not all that they have mranld. we're watching this breaking news for you. >> brian? >> president obama has an idea to get support for the buffet rule. change the name to the reagan rule. >> one of my predecessors

traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. that wild eyed socialist tax hiking war here was ronald reagan. >> one problem, he's wrong. but will voters believe the spin? we'll spell it out. >> meanwhile, when you get into trouble, we're talking about headline making trouble, there's only one person to call. washington's top professional scandal fixer finally sharing her story and she is here live. "fox & friends" for this thursday starts right now. >> as it turns out, lumberjack is on a list of the worst jobs, tv hosts got to be high. >> you know who loves being a lumberjack? the beaver can chop down a tree according to the cartoons with his teeth. >> what about paul bunion? from minnesota, a huge statue of paul bunyon next to the blue ox.

>> apparently he was miserable. that's a job that people don't like. >> that might have been a better job back in his day. we'll tell you about the top 10 worst jobs that you don't want to be looking for if you're unemployed. let's get to the headlines. major turn of events in the trayvon martin case. neighborhood watchman george zimmerman set to make his first court appearance today after officially being charged with second-degree murder. zimmerman arrived to the county jail in sanford, florida, late last night hours after turning himself in. his new attorney, mark o'meara met with him at the jail and said zimmerman will plead not guilty. >> he's concerned about getting a fair trial and fair presentation. there's been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it has been premature and maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> so that lawyer also saying he

gathered some new information after meeting with zimmerman and he will likely present that today in court. second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove zimmerman killed martin intentionally and not in self-defense as he claims. criminal trial for former presidential candidate out today. once picked, it will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship with rielle hunter. edwards denies knowing about any of those payments. two earthquakes hitting on the border of california. rocking the baja coast. people as far north as tucson, arizona felt that quake. minutes before that, a 6.2 magnitude quake hitting nearby in mexico. no reports of injuries and damage and no tsunami warnings have been issued at this time. just yesterday, a magnitude 6.5 quake hit the southwestern part

of that country. bruce springsteen may be one of new jersey's favorite sons but even the state's other boss reportedly couldn't keep it together for his entire concert at madison square garden. concert goers swear they saw governor chris christie jamming it out in the stands before then dozing off for a brief nap. cut him some slack, he's exhausted from turning around the state. and voters agree, a new poll shows governor christie is more popular than ever with 58% approval rating. >> he's the boss. >> it's interesting. i think he's been to over 100 bruce springsteen concerts. >> let's talk about this once again. the president of the united states was making his pitch that we should pass the buffet rule, the rule where millionaires who pay at least 30% on their

capital gains. so what did he do? he brought up a very popular republican, brian, to try to sell it. >> yeah, he did. his name was ronald reagan and he took an excerpt from a speech. let's hear what president obama did yesterday to try to get ahead of monday's vote on whether the buffet bill would actually be passed. listen. >> several years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. this president gave another speech where he said it was crazy. that's a quote. but certain tax loopholes make it possible for multimillionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary. that wild eyed socialist tax hiking class warrior was ronald reagan. if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule. >> interesting thing is that all the chips will go down on monday. that's when congress will vote

on this buffet rule. it's not going to pass in congress. what will the president be saying next week? let's blame it on congress again. that's going to be interesting turn of events. now, let's get back to the actual details of whether or not ronald reagan actually said that. did he actually say that? or was he talking about something else? listen to this from think progress, they released excerpts from reagan's speech from june 6th in 1985. >> we're going to close the unproductive tax loophole that allows some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share and bury some of those loopholes in practice somehow made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary and that's crazy. do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less? >> well, see, that's a very convenient little excerpt. but think progress which is a leftie organization, they took

the president -- former president completely out of context. what reagan was trying to do at that point was he was pushing not just, you know, adding one little layer of government like the buffet rule would for millionaires, he was talking about broad tax relief. he was talking about lowering taxes, flattening them out. >> tax reform. >> absolutely. and eventually he wound up getting it. >> you know how he did it? he went to the treasury and said come up with a plan and went to democrats and said come up with a plan and they hatcheted together a plan that ended up working. did he say it? yes, would we like to see -- i think president obama's staff has got to say listen, let's not focus on the buffet rule like carol ford brought up the other day, a democrat, he said why not do tax reform? >> because that's too dismantling and actually tough. i've made this argument for the last couple of weeks. >> i don't think so. >> no one else is doing it. it's tough in the sense -- >> paul ryan proposed it. >> people want tax reform. >> they do! what i'm saying is congress is

afraid to take it on. politicians are afraid to take it on because like talking about entitlements, people think you should do something about it but nobody does because it actually might lose some votes along the way. that's what i mean by not taking it on. as far as simplistic, this might work for president obama, this argument because it's a populist message and not only is it populist but to talk about ronald reagan in the same message, come on! >> a democratic group called the third wave did a study and they asked independents, what do you think about this fairness on tax? 15% say tax equality matters. 80% say they prefer their candidate to focus on job creation. >> it is clearly another brick in the wall as the president tries to build up the class warfare argument that he's going to make through election day. you want to know what reagan really meant regarding tax reform? here he is a little later back in 1985. this is what ronald reagan wanted. lower, flatter tax rates will

give americans more confidence in the future. it will mean if you work overtime or get a raise or promotion or if you have a small business, and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs, in your wallet, not in uncle sam's pocket. when he was done reforming taxes, ronald reagan with, of course, the help of congress, they reduced the number of brackets from 14 to 2. his top tax bracket is 28. this president would like people on the upper end to be closer to 40. >> people actually worked together back then. fox news alert right now as you might have known from watching "fox & friends" first, north korea defying to launch a rocket. >> the former asian affairs director for the national security council and author of "the impossible state." good morning to you, victor. >> good morning. >> why do they need their own weather satellite?

can't they just look at the weather channel? >> you know, i think it's a good question. i think what people forget is they say they're launching a weather satellite but they don't have a space program. they don't have a civilian space program. so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. they're trying to launch a ballistic missile. >> why now? >> it's in part to solidify the position of this new young and untested leader. this 28-year-old who took over after his father died last december. and they have a big celebration this month which is the equivalent of new year's and christmas and july 4th wrapped into one. >> why should we be worried about this? they're going to send a rocket straight up to the sky. why should the american watching right now be keshd -- concerned? >> the thing that concerns me, if they lift the satellite into orbit, that means they have the ballistic missile technology to produce a weapon that can reach american soil so it's for a military application and this is what the soviets and the chinese did decades ago when they first started a rocket program.

it had an immediate military implication once they can lift it into orbit. >> you're talking about parts of alaska or the hawaiian islands, right? >> or possibly the western coast of the united states, that's right. >> what about the threat to south korea? is there any sort of a threat by launching this missile for that country? >> i mean, there's an immediate threat if the missile -- if they make a mistake, if it blows up and pieces of it all on the flight path. and they're good at that, right. the broader concern is, of course, is, of course, the artillery they have pointed at seoul. >> according to "the new york times" today, it seems as though the american policy will be to down play this and not play -- pull out all the stops to get russia and china to put the pressure on north korea. we don't want to play that card yet. what do you think? >> i think that if they are successful in launching the satellite, it is a new strategic reality for the united states. it will be the first country besides russia and china that can reach the u.s. with icbm's and it looks like they're preparing for a third nuclear

test. so that is a very serious situation and i don't think patience is really the right answer. >> well, we'll find out what they actually do. thank you very much for joining us early on this thursday morning live from washington. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> coming up on "fox & friends", talk about a get out of jail free card. this guy using his welfare card for bail? wait until you hear this one. >> and gas prices headed for $4.50 a gallon. our next guest says there are three things president obama can do right now to ease your pain at the pump. >> folks, it's now official. the price of gasoline has now doubled under president obama's administration. well, he and jimmy carter are the only two presidents ever to have had that happen, double the price of gas. but in fairness, at least under president obama, we didn't have to listen to disco. ok. that's -- i think that made it worse. wake up!

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>> many americans getting a taste of pricey gasoline especially in major cities like honolulu, hawaii where prices on average are $4.47. santa barbara, california, $4.63 a gallon. now they are saying shock at the pump could get a whole lot worse. what are three things that president obama can do right now to lower gas prices? jack gerard is the c.e.o. of american petroleum institute. you would think he knows. welcome. what should he do first? >> first, the president has to send a positive signal to the marketplace and suggest help is on the way by approving other operations to produce here in the united states. second, what he can do is immediately approve the keystone xl pipeline and the last thing he should do is quit talking about increasing taxes on energy companies. that tells the marketplace the president's desire is to increase costs, not to decrease costs. >> so a lot it was is symbolism

and shows intention. how does that matter in your business? >> well, our business is much like the market. it's built on expectation. if we expect that the president of the united states is going to increase our costs of producing oil here in the united states, we're likely to move those investment dollars elsewhere in the world. we need a clear signal, a long-term signal that we're going to be allowed to produce the oil and natural gas the country needs and that will put downward pressure on prices. >> let's talk about deep water drilling. we hear it's up. it's back up to where it was before the b.p. disaster. what is the truth? where should it be heading? >> well, the truth is we're nowhere near where it was pre the unfortunate disaster in the gulf following the b.p. spill. what they're talking about now is they're saying gee, we have more rigs coming back to the gulf. many of those rigs are waiting on permits by the administration to allow them back into the gulf. the better way to measure it, rather than say, well, if we have the same, don't we have the same, let's look at production.

based on where production was supposed to be today, we're down 30% over where it was expected to be at this time just a few years ago. that's the way to measure our success, what are we doing to bring supply to the marketplace to truly put downward pressure on the price. >> jack, listen to the president of the united states talking in january of this year. >> over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration and tonight, i'm directing my administration to open more than 75% of our potential oil and gas resources. >> so did he? will he? >> not at all. in fact, brian, it's unfortunate. that statement is very misleading. what the president has allowed us to do is look in only 15% of the off shore of the united states and what that statement really meant was i'm going to give you access to 75% of what

we already know exists in 15% of where there's ability to produce oil and gas. >> jack, i don't know -- >> very misleading. >> that's true. jack, i want you to take a look at the monitor if you have one there. here's a map of where president bush was drilling and here's a map of where president obama is drilling. bush is on my screen left. and president obama my screen right. so a bit of a difference there. >> very significant difference. in fact, it was interesting in the middle of 2008, at the last year of the bush administration the price of gasoline began to rise, president bush announced lifting the moratorium, all those red areas that you saw in the map there dealing with president obama, that announcement over the course of three days, the price of crude sale dropped $15. that's what we need, a signal to the marketplace, help is on the way. we're serious about producing u.s. resource for the benefit of all americans. >> and the red is the closed

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>> quick headlines now. the son of hollywood legend clark gable answering to police this morning after his girlfriend was found dead in his

malibu mansion. john clark gable jr. says his girlfriend told him she wasn't feeling well just hours before she died. right now, police do not suspect foul play. and boston lawmakers say this man is the new face of the welfare abuse. yep, kimble clark, convicted drug dealer was arrested again for dealing drugs. police say clark actually tried to use his tax fair -- taxpayer funded card to get out of jail. >> missouri congressman emanuel cleaver under fire to pay off a bank loan he needed to buy the business before coming to washington. >> now the taxpayer is on the hook for over a million dollars to bail him out. how did that happen? stuart varney here is details. this guy apparently has a history of not repaying loans. >> this is a politician who wants a bailout for himself. that's kind of new. he wants a bailout for a business that he bought with taxpayer support.

he wants a bailout for a car wash that he bought back in missouri in the year 2002. he didn't have a good history of running that car wash. and he didn't make the payments on the loan to bank of america which was backed up by the taxpayer. eventually, march of this year, bank of america says we want the money back. you haven't been paying. we want it back. about $1 1/2 million, we want it back plus penalty and interest. mr. cleaver can't pay. they sued him for the money. now, if he can't pay, he can't come up with the money, we, the taxpayer are on the hook. >> why? >> because the small business administration backed up the original loan to buy the car wash. we went in, the taxpayer, went into this loan to support the loan in the first place. >> loan guarantee? >> yeah, like solyndra got. >> somewhat similar but only smaller. when it goes belly up, we are on the look hook for over a million dollars. >> how many of these are

existing around the country? how many loans did we give that people cannot pay off and the taxpayers have to? >> that, i don't know. the small business administration regularly makes loans to small businesses and tries to get the money back. not a direct loan. this is a loan guarantee. when the business goes belly up, you have a problem for the taxpayer. >> you probably figure the small business administration thinks ok, we'll land a member of congress. >> he wasn't a member of congress. >> a future -- wasn't he in the law business at that point? >> the loan was made in the year of 2002 mr. cleaver was elected to congress in 2004. it's not a matter of a conflict of interest. >> why don't they simply garnish their wages with congress? >> they would. that's what they would do for us. >> would the small business administration then garner his wages from congress because he owes via the bank of america the taxpayer? >> how embarrassing. >> it would take a long time to pay off a million plus on the

member of congress' salary. >> would you like us to try? >> exit question. how do you become -- how are you -- how do you apply for these small business loans? like if i go and apply for it, do i get it? what are the qualifications? do you know? >> i don't know. i do know you'll have to fill out a stack of forms yea high and there are some preferences given to who gets the loan and who does not. the interesting question is how much money did mr. cleaver have in that car wash of his own? did he have any skin in the game? >> sure. >> i don't know that. interesting speculation. >> absolutely. all right, thanks for bringing that to our attention. >> ok. >> stuart does this every day at 9:20 eastern time over on fox business. in fact, he's got to run there right now. >> i do indeed. see you later. >> thank you very much. we don't know how to tell you this but there's more from outrageous g.s.a. group wasting taxpayer money. how do you call making music videos at work and partying it up in vegas. how about a 10-day trip to

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>> i read that harvard law school will soon offer a class called "understanding obama." while barnum and bailey clown college will offer a class called understanding biden. and it's just -- >> but seriously, folks. here's something interesting. at portland state university, they are now for you parents out there who are paying thousands of dollars for your kids to go to college, how would you like one of your children to call you up and say mom, dad, guess what i'm studying at portland state, revolutionary marxism where i learn all about marxism and i apply it to daily life? >> some of the things here on the syllabus there, the fundamentals of marxist theory. to apply marxist analysis to current events, to apply marxist

theory to local political and community organizing. >> we also go on to say they examine the onset of the arab spring. i assume they support it. revolts in european capitals and they equate it all to the occupy movement in the u.s. >> and in fact, we understand, apparently, if you want to be in this class, you've got to be involved in a local organization like occupy portland or the mayday celebrations or what not. interestingly enough, although not surprising, the instructors are both admitted socialists so if you want your kid to know more about marxism, they're the ones to learn the stuff from. >> all right. let's do some other headlines for your thursday. the fight for religious freedom. speaking of another college going through something like this, vanderbilt university is getting even more heated today. one of the largest religious groups on campus, vanderbilt catholic being forced to change its name. the order put in place following the group's decision to leave campus after the university decided to enforce this all

comers policy. what does that mean? it means all groups including religious ones must be open to all students so even atheists like an atheist could run the christian organization on campus. a university spokesperson saying those student groups who choose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy do forfeit the privileges associated with registered student association status and that includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> all right. a government plan to help home owners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. a new report from the inspector general finds the treasury department rushed out the revamped plan in 2010 which limited its ability to help people who are out of work at the time or those who owed more on their homes than they were worth. the hardest hit was part of the controversial $700 billion financial bailout, we know it as tarp. >> extreme weather alert. tornado touching down in northern california. take a look at that funnel cloud, the national service confirming it hit outside of stockton, california. the twister destroying a lot of

things in its path including barns, roofs, power lines in the area. thankfully, no injuries reported. >> call him a spared rib? a cow that tried to escape from a jersey slaughterhouse getting the last minute pardon? we first told you mike the steer yesterday running wild until police finally tranquilized him. it turns out the owner of the slaughterhouse took mercy on him. mike now going to live in an animal sanctuary in upstate new york. ok. >> good luck. >> mike, you have no idea how lucky you are. >> almost as lucky as the husky that escaped neutering earlier this week. >> temporarily. >> well, we're not sure whether or not the knife is coming to jack. >> we have a newtutering correspondent. >> bad news for the procreation hopes. >> he'll be less hyper. >> i guess. he'll slow anyone down.

>> i was trying to think of the right word to describe that. something else that's getting ridiculous, new details about the g.s.a.'s spending so outrageous, it sounds that it could be made up but apparently it's all real. >> and "the daily" uncovered exclusive details of the travel expenses of the senior official at the center of the scandal, jeff nealy. >> turns out he was enjoying 10-day trips to hawaii on our dime. the white house and congressional correspondent for "the daily" miles miller joins us from washington, d.c. good morning to you, miles. >> good morning, guys, how are you? >> doing ok although it sounds like the job to have in government, jeff nealy. tell us about this character. >> well, he is the number two guy over at the g.s.a. in the pacific rim region. his job is to go inspect government buildings in the pacific rim which includes california, nevada, some of the pacific islands and, of course, hawaii where he spent 10 days. in all fairness, his job is to inspect these buildings and he went for a ribbon cutting

ceremony to do the ribbon cutting for this f.b.i. building just last year. he stayed for 10 days. our records also show -- >> in hawaii? >> yeah, hawaii. and, you know, this is -- this is sort of the case and this is where the investigation has led now. he's taken 131 trips from march of 2007 through september 2010 and it costs taxpayers a total of $108,980. so that's a big price tag. >> yeah. >> it's my understanding on one of these trips, miles, that -- of that 10-day trip, he did one event for work. he went to a ribbon-cutting ceremony, right? >> right. and according to transcripts received from a congressional committee that's actually investigating this, it showed that one of his -- one of the employees at g.s.a. said that, you know, it was one of these things where he'd leave on a saturday and come back on a friday and do one ribbon cutting. and, you know, there's only two million square feet of buildings in hawaii that are federal

buildings so much remains to be seen about how much he did in terms of inspecting these buildings and in terms of, you know, going there. all he needs to do is meet with the employees, see what's happening and then head home. >> a lot of this is coming out in testimony on capitol hill. this is one embarrassment after another. >> right, the capitol hill testimony will come out next week. what's really shocking is we saw this one trip to napa and it was really interesting because napa is just an hour's drive or hour 3 minutes drive from that building in san francisco where he works at the g.s.a. so that was really shocking as well. >> no kidding. what about the political equation here, miles? this is not good for the obama administration. because this is all happening on the president's dime. >> well, as i told you, this started in 2007 and it lasted until -- >> it's really mushroomed. >> so this is not about the obama administration or the bush administration. this is about -- about a bureaucrat who likes to take trips. and in all fairness, it is his

job but this isn't about a specific administration. this is about going on -- >> it is about the oversight. where is the oversight? >> right, the oversight and all of this kind of stuff will come out in those hearings next week. but this is really about -- about, you know, just a spiralling situation going on at the g.s.a. >> it's about a culture of corruption potentially within government-run businesses where nobody was paying that close of attention until now. because we're suddenly talking about the deficit and being out of dough. that is why we are looking at this so closely right now. >> right. and you saw that las vegas conference just back in 2010 and that cost taxpayers $822,000. that was a big thing. and you know, at a time when there is this big push for austerity, it's really something that you see this kind of numbers being spent. >> the good news is i don't think it was a new clown outfit. i think they did get a secondhand one. >> they recycled and they're green. >> possibly. >> miles miller from "the daily" available on your ipad and your

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>> got some quick headlines for you. it may be a win for millions of workers in the state of california. the state supreme court there will decide today whether managers must order workers to take rest and meal breaks at certain times throughout the work day. the lawsuit filed in 2004 argued employers were taking advantage of employees. and it's official, britney spears signing on with "the x factor." word is the pop star will make $15 million for the season judging alongside simon cowell and music producer l.a. reid. we hear she will perform a couple of times as well and, of course, simon is an expert at getting publicity. he just got $15 worth. >> what j. lo did for "american idol." >> that's good for britney spears. she needs a comeback. >> she needs $15 million unlike us, we wouldn't recognize that in our accounts. >> we're overqualified. >> that's true. >> ok, well -- thank you! >> sorry. >> we haven't even started the

segment yet. you're laughing at -- this is a woman that's a concert violinist. >> i know. >> she should be on "x factor." >> the fact that she wouldn't recognize an additional $15 million in her account, i think that's profound. >> you're right. >> i was trying to make a funny before 7:00 a.m. >> let's pretend the judge isn't here and start again. want to know what your tax dollars pay for? it turns $40 million will be spent on mowing lawn. >> the government bailout of fannie mae and freddie mac has left you the taxpayer responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes. fox senior judicial analyst and resident laugher judge andrew napolitano joins us now. so nobody thinks -- like they think foreclosure and they don't think that means picking up all the cost with maintaining these homes. >> think about it, if a home on your street has been foreclosed because the people who borrowed money from the bank couldn't pay the money back and the bank took the house, the bank wants to sell the house. to keep the house looking

attractive, the bank wants to maintain the house so the bank wants to maybe paint it and certainly mow the lawn this time of year. now, imagine that the bank is the federal government and imagine that instead of one house, it has 200,000 houses. now, you know why it's spending $40 million this season which, of course, in the northeast, the lawn mowing season has just started, kilmeade has just changed the oil on his lawnmower last weekend. >> my lawn boy needs a mixture of oil and gas. >> and now the mowing starts. we can laugh at it. it's clearly an example of unintended consequences and clearly an example of federal government overreach. does the constitution let the federal government own these homes? buy these mortgages? induce people to own houses that probably are in over their head? no, it doesn't. it costs the federal taxpayers $160 billion with a b dollars for this gamut and now the government is stuck with a quarter of a million homes they can't sell. >> a lot of these people i see

in the run down areas are raising the homes and taking it out which costs money. even if you make it a lot, you have to mow the grass. >> the government as far as i know is not raising the homes. the government is trying to sell them. now, the good side of this is some people will get very good bargains on homes because the government will take a loss. the bad side is the government doesn't take a loss, the taxpayers do. we lose money when the government does this. >> the other good side is if you're looking for the job, mowing lawns could be a good place to start. >> i bet the government pays well, brian. >> i do, too. and you could get it in cash and you don't have to write it off. not that i'm supporting that kind of thing. when 16-year-olds want to make some money, that's how you do it. >> i don't think the government pays cash. i think the government deducts no matter what it pays you. >> i would tend to agree with you on that one. but we digress on this entire segment. >> $15 million in your account for playing a violin. >> that would have been nice. unfortunately, this country

doesn't pay classical musicians that type of dough. >> hopefully simon will be on soon talking about the signing of britney spears. >> this has come full circle. >> what a delight it is to start the day with you. >> thanks. >> ladies, give your man a break next time he bellies up to the bar. new research shows beer makes men smarter? >> uh-oh. >> even smarter than your sober friends. brian, you're so smart right now, read the next bit. >> call me genius and when you get into trouble, we're talking headline making monica lewinsky type trouble, there's one person to call. washington's top scandal fixer and the inspiration for the new show "scandal" is standing by. [ female announcer ] ready for a taste of what's hot? check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip,

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>> welcome back. the new primetime show "scandal" highlights the people behind the scenes that helps the most powerful people survive career ending crises when they do bad stuff. >> it's an honor to work for your law firm. >> we're not a law firm. we're lawyers but this is not a law firm. we solve problems. >> manage crises, save reputations. >> right, of course. it's still an honor. >> feed you a line about being a gladiator in a suit? >> he did and i am ready to gladiate or whatever. >> you know how to gladiate a diaper change? >> our next guest is the inspiration for the show and the author of the brand new book "good self, bad self. crisis communications expert judy smith joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> since we just saw a clip from the new "scandal" show on abc,

you worked in the bush white house. >> i did. i did. >> and you had to give the president a call recently because why? >> well, i just wanted to call him to let him know because when the first episode which everybody has seen now, they're seeing one having a kiss with the president. i want to make sure everybody knew there was a difference between carrie washington and judy smith in a presidential relationship. >> that never happened when you were working at the white house. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> you have had a very long career in washington and elsewhere, bailing people out of trouble like monica lewinsky, michael vick, marion berry, you were involved in helping enron, the sars epidemic and stuff like this. you've written a book about how people can bail themselves out of bad situations. it's not just the high and mighty. it's the ordinary person and a family man as well. >> absolutely. what i try to do in the book really is to take the 25 years

of crisis experience that i've been giving to sort of the high profile people and really give everyday people tools to help navigate their life in crises and problems that might come up. >> we were talking a little while ago in the green room about john edwards, he's a guy that dug himself in deeper and now he's looking at a jury trial down there. what was his fatal flaw in this? >> his was a combination of it. it was ambition, good thing. certainly got him to be in a position to run for president. but it was a combination of ambition, fear and denial that i think really led to his downfall. and it's the same issues with the book. you know, the things that can propel us to success can also bring us down. >> when somebody gives you a call. >> yes. >> and you -- until the tv show came out, you know, you're almost invisible on the internet. people would call your company and say, look, judy, i'm in big trouble. generally, before they'd call you, have they already dug

themselves in such a hole they are way in over their heads? >> yes, they are! and it's always so difficult. i really wish i would get that call prior to them digging themselves into deep into the hole. but, you know, some of the things that we often tell clients which also work with everyday people is the first thing you have to do is sort of face the music. one, you need to admit that you're in trouble. >> to who? >> to yourself, to yourself, that's the first thing. people are usually in denial about that. i think the second thing you want to do is to tell the truth because it has a funny way of staying around. it never goes away. and it always surfaces as we've seen with all the scandals that we've been involved in. and i think another key thing that people really want to do is really understand what the facts are. you know, when you get into trouble, we sort of have a tendency to let the facts be something we want them to be and not what they really are. yeah. >> that's good advice. what's your number one go to

thing that you would suggest to anybody, not per se a get out of jail card but it is the one judy smith secret that never fails you. >> truth. >> tell the truth. >> mom was right! >> that's exactly right. she used to scare you and say you better tell the truth where you've been because i'll know. that's the truth. >> so many times, for instance, people in washington d.c. and the capital is behind you, they tried to squash the truth and they tried to massage the truth. we were talking earlier about anthony weiner, there he goes out there. i didn't do that. he did that. >> that's right. who believed that? that's the whole thing. sometimes people think the american public, they're not smart. but did anybody believe those pictures were not his? maybe his mom? nobody else did. >> that's crazy. it's a great book. check it out. "good self, bad self" judy smith, america's number one crisis management expert. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. straight ahead on "fox & friends", another two hours straight ahead. while the president accuses republicans of waging a war on women, democrats are attacking

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like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? bring on the pork chops and the hot fudge. fantastic. are you done sweetie? yea [ male announcer ] fiber one. >> good morning, everyone. today is thursday, april 12th. hope you're going to have a fantastic day. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing part of it with us. the obama campaign has been talking about the war on women. now they got one of their own attacking stay-at-home moms as people who have never worked a day in their lives. as one mom to another knows, moms are going to fire back, right? >> i would think so. due process? don't bother, just hours after neighborhood watchman george zimmerman was charged with murder, attorney general eric holder offers al sharpton some praise. >> great. and ladies, listen up don't be so hard on your man next time he bellies up to the bar. new research shows beer makes men smarter. than his sober friends.

are you ok? >> i'm sorry. >> "fox & friends" hour two, it's happy hour! starts right now. >> the first part of that study is i'm going to have to start liking beer. >> you don't like beer at all? >> how many years have you known me? >> i know you like one but you don't like beer? i didn't know you had a dislike of beer. >> yeah, i had a one time run-in with beer. that was it. >> really? >> uh-huh. >> mine was with tequila so. >> who hasn't had one of those? >> this is confession now. >> steve, have you had a run-in with anything that kept you away forever? >> let me put it this way, on capitol hill, they've been talking about the buffet rule. i thought they were talking about the jimmy buffet rule which means less than four margaritas probably a good idea. >> that's tequila. we have something in common! >> i'm surprised, gretchen, the story about how beer makes you smarter is not your number one

story. but it's coming up. >> we'll get to that eventually. here are the other headlines. the criminal trial for former presidential candidate john edwards getting under way. jury selection begins today and once picked, the jury will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship with filmmaker rielle hunter. edwards denies knowing about any of those payments. the son of hollywood legend clark gable answering to police this morning after his girlfriend was found dead in his malibu mansion. 51-year-old john clark gable jr. says his girlfriend told him she wasn't feeling well and then went to sleep. by the time he tried to wake her, gable says she was already dead. right now, police do not suspect foul play. overnight, two powerful earthquakes hitting near the border of california, the biggest a magnitude 6.9 rocking the baja coast. people as far north as tucson, arizona, felt that quake and minutes before that, a 6.2 magnitude quake hitting nearby in mexico.

no reports of damages and no tsunami warnings have been issued thus far. yesterday, there was another earthquake in this region. 6.5 magnitude hit the southwestern part of that country, mexico. men, here it is. listen up and women, too, there are a lot of women beer drinkers. beer may actually make you smarter. researchers at the university of illinois have found that guys who drank 2 pints of beer were better at solving brain teasers than men who were sober. >> or have had 25 years. >> guys who had the beers got 40% -- this is scary, guys who had the beers got 40% more right and also solved the problems quicker. i sense that beer will be allowed in every college classroom coming up. researchers say it shows there's more creativity when people are less focused. >> i think that study was done by annheuser busch and they're trying to tip the scales a little bit. >> oh, man. >> you'll be the new spokesperson for it. >> i'm angling.

>> bud-wiser! the wiser part. >> you are a genius. >> i'm signing up. speaking of genius -- >> in german, that means smarter, i think. >> is this a genius -- >> you must have had a beer! >> is this a genius thing for a democratic strategist who works for the d.n.c. to do? keep in mine, they've been trying to say that the republicans are waging a war on women, right? that's phony, that's made up. but when you look at what a democratic strategist who works for the d.n.c. by the name of hillary rosen said about stay-at-home moms last night over on cnn, you realize she's clueless. watch. >> what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues. and when i listen to my wife, that's what i'm hearing. guess what? his wife has actually never worked a day in her life! >> ok. game on! >> that set everything on fire. i find it interesting that one of the top -- two of the top two

advisors of president obama immediately went to twitter to say how wrong that was but first, ann romney herself went to twitter. here's what she said." i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work. i have to tell you i sat down one time at her home and did an interview with ann and mitt romney a couple of years ago and i specifically remember, she told me all these stories about how difficult it was to raise these five boys. she was young when they were born and one particular story stands out in my mind where she was going to college after she had had her first son and she was sitting in the back row breast-feeding him while she was paying attention to class. so, you know, i think that there was a little bit of work going on in raising five children and anybody who is a parn parent knows that. >> i think that's interesting, too, david axelrod immediately came out and said wait a second, i see a huge advantage of our female vote going out the window. he said that was inappropriate and offensive and jim mussina followed right up.

>> speak of the -- speaking of the war on women, take a look at this. according to the annual report of the white house staff, women who work at the white house actually make 18% less than men. the average guy makes $71,000. the average woman makes $60,000 at the white house. then, you know, add to something we were talking about yesterday where the governor, former governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts, mr. romney said and i looked it up, he was citing the department of labor statistics which said that since barack obama has been in office since the day he took office up to the end of march 2012 of the women who have been losing jobs under president obama, 92% of the people who have lost jobs have been women. 92% of people who have lost jobs since that guy took office have been women. >> i think that one full screen graphic we just had up is even more damning if you are going to

do this war on women as one of your main talking points. that one right there. because how do you defend that? if you're president obama going around the country saying the republicans have a war on women, how do you defend this disparity in the wages that you're paying right at the white house? i think that that -- well, if the republicans want to have a defense, they should get a hold of that graphic. >> if you read the books written about the inner workings of the white house, the women didn't feel appreciated often but if you look at the "washington post" poll, they don't seem to be paying the price. the advantage that president obama has over mitt romney is substantial. 19 points. 53% to 44%. let's see if he can chip away at that. >> dee dee myers said women are his base and they don't have enough women at the base that work in the inner circle. >> in the meantime, mitt romney will try to capitalize on this so he has been packing his events with female business leaders, you know, so there are female who's are in the work

force as well as stay-at-home moms who might actually like mitt romney and at the event yesterday, he had a lot of them there supporting him. >> in connecticut, in hartford so a big event because there's a primary coming up there. >> there is and then it's on to the general. meanwhile, brand new information this morning on the other big story everybody is talking about, neighborhood watchman zimmerman now officially charged with second degree murder for shooting trayvon martin. >> he'll be making his court appearance today. there will be some drama today. what is going to happen besides the symbolism and the ceremony? >> first of all, this guy is in protective custody. they don't want anyone near him. he has gotten so much media attention. there's a lot of people out there that want to harm him. george zimmerman actually arrived at the county jail in sanford, florida, late last night just hours before he turned himself in. the sheriff there deciding to keep him in isolation away from the general population while he's behind bars. it's going to be a while.

zimmerman's new attorney mark o'mara meeting with him at the jail. he said he learned new information at that meeting that he'll bring up in court when zimmerman pleads not guilty. listen. >> he's concerned about getting a fair trial. and a fair presentation. there's obviously been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it has been both premature and maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> zimmerman will invoke florida's stand your ground law claiming he killed 17-year-old trayvon martin in self-defense. that's the same law that has protected him from legal action for the last month and a half or so since the shooting. of course, all that changed yesterday when special prosecutor angela cory announced the charges. trayvon's mother calling it a huge victory. >> i want to say thank god.

we simply wanted an arrest. we wanted nothing more, nothing less. we just wanted an arrest and we got it and i say thank you. thank you, lord. thank you, jesus! >> the special prosecutor in the case not detailing exactly what evidence might have emerged that caused her to charge zimmerman. she insists she was not influenced by public outcry. many legal experts say they overcharged him and they are surprised by the severity of the charge because second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars. and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove zimmerman killed martin intentionally and not in self-defense and so you remember the casey anthony trial, a lot of people say that she been charged with a lesser crime, she would have been convicted. but instead, she walked. >> the interesting thing will be whether or not the jury is given the ability to look at several different charges. and decide on manslaughter or second-degree murder. >> i wonder if there's going to

be a jury that's unbiassed enough to be -- they got to get 12 people? >> that was quite a press conference last knnight. >> it's going to be tough. to prove intent is where they'll have their work cut out for them. >> thank you very much. continuing on talking a little bit about the trayvon martin case, al sharpton has been very, very vocal. he has said, you know, we need to move to the next level if george zimmerman is not arrested. he said that before he was arrested. he's been a rebel rouser on this for the most part. >> but the attorney general has pointed out he's -- he is a person who just praised him up and down for his entire career yesterday. and i thought that was relatively different. >> at the same time, people are asking, well, will the attorney general have any action with the new black panthers? because remember, they had put $10,000 to a million dollar bounty on the head of the suspect in this case, george zimmerman. well, here's the response now from michelle williams, the new black panthers chief of staff.

>> right, she was -- she has been very nice publicly but this is very interesting to see when she was -- a message was left where she lets her feelings known. i was stunned by this. >> i just want to say to all the listeners that on this phone call, if you are having any doubts about getting armed up for this race war that we in that has never ended, let me tell you something, the things that's about to happen to these honkies, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these [beep] people, it has been long overdue. my prize right now this evening is going to be the bounty, the arrest, dead or alive for george zimmerman. >> let's tell you a little bit about michelle williams once known as michelle conyers, several run-ins with the law. she had been arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a handgun to fraudulent use of personal information, fraudulent use of a credit card, two counts of forgery and exploitation of

an elderly person. she entered guilty pleas to several charges and was sentenced to restitution and probation which she completed successfully. >> but you have to ask the question, where is the attorney general eric holder on this? when you hear that kind of language, i mean, do you open an investigation, then into the new black panther party and what they're saying? that sounds like pretty vial language to me and it's kind of scary, it really is kind of scary. >> he had a chance to investigated the new black panthers party after the voter intimidation in pennsylvania after the last election but he chose to pass on it. >> all right. 13 minutes after the hour. coming up, though, the list of the 10 worst jobs in the country, e-mail us, should yours be on the list? >> let us know if you're a lumberjack. on. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.

>> welcome back, everyone. is the president banking on speeches and slogans in his bid for re-election? this week, he's bringing the old fairness argument back front and center.

>> fair share. >> fair shot. >> fair share. >> fair shot. >> fair share. fair share in taxes. >> but should he be digging deeper into more details and be more specific about some of these issues or is fairness a fair enough argument to one a second term? here to weigh in, our co-host of "the five" juan williams and andrea tantaros. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> andrea, it seems to me part of the campaign strategy is to keep things on the surface. to use buzz words that seem to be resonating in internal polls like millionaires and billionaires and fairness and not getting to the nitty-gritty of this whole buffet rule. your thoughts? >> exactly. that's how he got elected. remember, gretchen, it was all bumper stickers, hope and change and the fierce urgency of now. this administration is not one of details and his 2008 campaign stayed away from the details and they're doing that again. in fairness, to use the word fairness that he likes to use, all politicians like to use buzz

words and message discipline and go by what resonates with voters. but gretchen, it's not going to get him elected these gimmicks that he's doing. you have the buffet rule and the payroll tax cut extension. these aren't real things to get the economy going and i will point out, though, when they've tried to get into the details, they always lose. for example, they said if we pass this stimulus, unemployment won't go above 8%. very specific. well, that wasn't true. so they do not want to get into specifics because they assume, too, that we're dumb enough to believe what they're pushing. >> juan, are we dumb enough? is that why they don't get into the details? >> i just disagree with the premise, gretchen. i think andrea is right, politicians love buzz words and slogans but in this case, there's lots of meat on the bone because it's very clear that they've laid out that the buffet rule, you know, 30% tax on millionaires so they would not be paying a lower tax cut on investment income and people pay on earned income is the heart and soul of the rules so i don't know how you can complain that

there's not meat on the bone. >> they change the meat on the bone, though, juan. at first the president -- >> you can say they change -- >> at first the president said it was going to go to reduce the deficit. now they're admitting it has nothing to do with reducing the deficit. when you do the math, it doesn't and now they're saying it's just all about fairness. that billionaires should pay more because it's fair. >> that's exactly right. it has something to do with the deficit. it's not a huge chunk of money, by the way, if that's your point, you're right. when you look at things like the bush tax cuts and you look at the payroll tax cut that andrea was referring to, those amount to bigger shares of dollars and over the years, this is something that the white house has been very clear about, the president is clear about this week. if you look at over the last 50 years, the rate of taxation on the very rich in this country has remained very low. in addition to cutting entitlement spending to reduce the debt, we also have to have some increase in tax revenue

from people who have been less -- >> juan, you have "the washington post." you have media outlets that typically a lot of times carry the president's saying this is a gimmick. dana wilback from "the washington post" came out and said so. bloomberg, reuters, national journal. this is not going to work. i will say this, look at how this white house treated the american public last week when he bungled the precedent on the commerce clause. you know what the excuse was? we, the american electorate, we didn't understand what the president meant. that is the core and the crux of liberalism. they know better. we don't know how to spend our own money. we don't know how to make decisions about our health care. that is what liberals truly believe. there's this elitist attitude and that comes out in the -->> i got to make the decision, unfortunately, that we got to go! we're running out of time. >> well, i just -- >> that's fair, right? juan? >> andrea, you might debate this later on, on "the five" and we'll be watching for that. thanks so much. >> have a great day. >> thanks. $1 gas too good to be true? nope, we'll show you where it's

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>> all right. thanks, gretch. 24 minutes after the hour. from airport security to health care, the government continues to take over more and more industries by claiming we'll be better off with them involved. but let's look back, have things gotten any better? >> don't ask me. let's talk to john stossel, author of the new book "no, they can't. why government fails but individuals succeed" and host of "stossel" on fox business. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this is kind of a no brainer, isn't it? given the choice between whether the government runs stuff right or private industry, private industry does a lot better job. >> i think so. but our instinct when we're scared is to say government has to do it. after 9/11, we were scared and we said government had to take over airport security. tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize. how is that working out for them? >> of course, representative john michael also brought up who was in control of the t.s.a. and it passed the senate 100-0, he

brought up the fact that it's not even working. >> we go to san francisco where one big city where they've opted out of using t.s.a. screeners and passengers tell us, hey, these people are friendly. and the lines move quickly and the t.s.a.'s own tests say they're more likely to find contraband so these screeners are friendlier and better at their job because they're working for a private contractor. and they know if they don't do a good job they can be fired. if they do a good job. they can make money, that's how israel and europe do it. in the united states, we turn it over to the federal government and then worse, put in his bill, cities get to opt out if they want to. but the t.s.a. ignores the city's request. a bunch have asked to. they ignored it for a year and they finally say, we don't think this is useful for the federal government. wouldn't mcdonald's like to say that to burger king? >> look at john stossel doing voices. very impressive. what would you like to see

happen going forward? >> limited government. the founders' vision. that's why i titled the book "no, they can't" after the politicians yes, we can. but we think they can but they almost never do. leave it to the people. leave it to private sector competition. the government can manage it. but i mean, the government can supervise it. but let private actors run life. we do it better. >> even in health care, you see that happen? >> look at lasik eye surgery, the one tiny piece of health care where we have a free market. prices go down and quality goes up. doctors even give out their e-mail addresses and phone numbers because they want to please the customer. >> i got a feeling you would like to see u.p.s. and federal express run the postal service as well? >> well, i'm happy that they're at least allowed to compete with the post office. obamacare doesn't let anyone compete with government health care. >> all right. got a new book out called "no, they can't." also, join john on his program thursdays at 9:00 on fox

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>> you heard the rooster crowing. time to get up. thanks for joining "fox & friends" this morning. we'll kick off this half-hour with headlines for you. a home grown terrorist that conspired to help al-qaida is going to find out his fate. for some reason, federal prosecutors is seeking 25 years. he grew up in a wealthy suburb of boston went to yemen to seek training at a terrorist camp. when that plan failed, he returned to the u.s. to promote violent jihad on line. >> police are releasing the 911 calls made at the beverly hills

hilton hotel moments after the singer was found in the bathtub. >> also this morning, police officially closing the investigation into whitney houston's death saying they will not be pressing any charges. >> heard about road rage but this man's rampage happened off the road. watch this video. whoa! >> destroying the show room and several cars at a dealership in russia. you can see him just plowing into vehicles with the shop's loaner car. and the man was angry since he waited 20 minutes to pick up his car after repair. >> good luck. >> even longer to wait for bread. he was retrained after the car got stuck. thankfully -- he was restrained after the car was struck.

no one was hurt. he said he probably won't need that car anymore. he will have to use the subway for a while. so -- >> if of a job this morning, do you hate it? now you can find out if that feeling is warranted or if you need to quit complaining. that's because job advice web site career cast has released this year's list of the 10 worst jobs in the united states based on a few factors like stress, working conditions and availability of positions. well, they say the worst job is lumberjack followed by a dairy farmer, enlisted military soldier, oil rig worker and newspaper reporter. several restaurant positions like waiter and dishwasher making the list and the worst job in america what we do right here, broadcaster. >> we're right behind butcher. >> probably because we have to work -- things go on tv year round. you miss a lot of holidays with your family. >> wow. >> those are some of the things

but the reason that you went from probably the butcher to actually h how you lived your life. >> what do you mean? >> you worked at a meat packing plant. >> like tom arnold. >> i was scraping flank steak for a long time. i wrapped it up and i made chopped meat. i sat in the refrigerator and jammed it through the grinder. >> and interestingly enough, today you do not eat red meat. completely unrelated. >> if you don't want to eat red meat, work with a butcher. >> recent wave of wildfires popping up across the country. what's going on? janice dean here with a closer look. good morning bright and early to you. >> good morning. a lot of us have loved the fact that we have seen a very warm winter with hardly any snow, right. that's part of the reason we're seeing active wildfires so early on in the year plus a lot of states that we don't typically see wildfires this time of year. take a look at this. wildfire season starts early this year due to warm

temperatures across the country, blazes that usually start in late spring have been popping up along the east coast. several states east of the rockies saw their warmest temperatures on record between january and march. and those high temperatures combined with dryness from little snow this winter and wind is a perfect recipe for out of control wildfires. in the east, parts of florida, georgia, north carolina and virginia had red flag warnings on wednesday. but warnings also headed west as arizona, colorado, new mexico, utah, wyoming, montana and north dakota were on alert. earlier this week, long island, new york was hit hard and a state of emergency was declared in certain areas. other hot spots included new york city's staten island where nearly 20 acres burned and new jersey's burlington county. two dozen homes were threatened before the blaze was contained. and in florida, almost 100 wildfires affecting nearly 16,000 acres were ablaze on just

tuesday alone. ironically, it's wildfire awareness week in several states including florida. >> take a look at this map, this is where we have red flag warnings up for the southeast including parts of florida, up towards georgia, and mississippi, alabama, as well. you could see the potential for wildfire danger and across the four corners region where we have dry conditions, breezy conditions and still very warm. you're seeing a lot of moisture but not in the areas that we need to see it. across the west, the central u.s. and then across the northeast, a little bit of precipitation here but not really helping things. we need to see some of that moisture hitting the ground. just want to point out, guys, we're also seeing the potential for severe weather not only today but tomorrow and in through saturday, not only are we going to see hail, damaging winds, and the potential for tornadoes but we could see large, long lasting tornadoes through the weekend and as we head through saturday, see that

red area, that bull's eye, that's where we think conditions are going to be very favorable for large, long lasting and possibly very destructive tornadoes so very active season already on a lot of threats in the weather center. back to you. >> all right. wildfires and tornadoes, thank you very much. my wife called me yesterday about 1:00 and said something big is on fire over that way and you could see this great big plume of smoke. the meadowlands. >> wow. lot of volunteer firemen fighting this fire, too. >> no stranger being in front of the camera, ali fedotowsky is best known for her quest for love on the reality show "the bachelorette". but now the tv star is taking on a decidedly different role trading romance for travel on nbc's show called "1st look." >> she joins us live to talk about it. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> first we saw you fall in love with that guy and now we see you fall in love with travel? >> fall in love with travel, food, nightlife, entertainment,

really fall in love with traveling all over and having a good time. >> can i point out your observation where we were rolling where he was on one knee and proposing to you, you kind of giggled, right? >> yeah, i -- >> it's history. >> yeah, it was a happy moment. i like looking back on it. that was a happy day for me. >> what happened to you two kids? didn't work out? >> it didn't. that happens. >> you looked on the show like it was real. >> it was real! and it absolutely was real. i was with him for a year and a half after the show. >> a lot of people who loved "the bachelor" and "the bachelorette" get so involved in the show with you while you're living this moment and i think so many of them feel so distressed that most of these relationships don't end up working in the long run. what can we do to change that or why don't they work? >> i think that they have the same probability of working as any other relationship that you start anywhere. it's no better or worse. i think staying in a relationship for a year and a half is actually considered a pretty successful relationship in the sense that you learn something from that relationship. so i think it's like any other

odds. >> it seems so natural to line up 10 guys, 20 guys and weed them out week by week with music in the background. >> and have all the men and women living together. >> it's fantastic. >> is there pressure, though, after that final scene to make it last because you worry well, you know, on tv, we have all those people counting on this working out. >> no, not at all. i mean, i really didn't feel any pressure. i felt pressure from fans a little bit but for the most part, you got to do what's right. >> what did your family say about you being on that show sf>> they were happy for me but more happy about my new show "1st look." >> tell us about "1st look." >> you travel all over the place. >> i'm traveling all over the country trying amazing things like from food to nightlife to entertainment. and that bowl you just saw was a four pound bowl of noodles, food eating challenge and one of the three girls in this clip, either one or the other two girls finishes that whole bowl. >> is there a trip to a hospital after that? >> i wasn't feeling good after that. do you think i did it? >> no. >> you did it.

you ate the whole darn bowl. >> why? we're looking at your body and there's no way that body could ingest all those noodles. >> those girls were smaller than i was. >> yeah. >> they don't have your figure. >> oh. that's nice. >> you can win at eating contest. >> you'll have to tune in it and see. >> maybe she'll surprise us. when can we catch this show? >> it's on nbc after "saturday night live" it premieres this saturday so please, if you don't stay up that late, set your d.v.r. and you can watch it. >> is this something you always wanted to do? >> i worked at facebook before "the bachelorette" and i worked in advertising. i loved working with people. that's a skill of mine talking with people and working with people so i'm taking that on the road and doing what i love which is getting to know people and trying new things. >> ok. so everybody, you can friend her and you can watch her show. "1st look" on nbc after "s.n.l." good luck to you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> a win for christians, why teachers in one state will no longer get in trouble bringing police into the classroom.

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>> if i have a marshmallows, i could have roasted them. >> he was charging his iphone 3g with a third party device when it exploded burning a hole through his seat. he says at&t gave him a new charger but he's now afraid to use it. steve? >> thank you. gretch. a win for christians in tennessee. teachers will no longer get in trouble for bringing beliefs into the classroom. they can talk about creationism and not just evolution. joining us is one of sponsors of the bill, tennessee state senator bo watson. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what were you folks trying to do with this bill? >> first of all, let's be clear what this bill does not do. this bill does not change in any way the curriculum in the state of tennessee. this bill does not change the science standards in the state of tennessee. what this bill is designed to do is teach students critical thinking, engage students in good discussion in the science classroom and create an

environment where all ideas are open for discussion in the science classroom. >> right. >> it's really about giving teachers teachable moments with students about a myriad of subjects, not just evolution or global warming or creationism or intelligent design. it's really about creating teachable moments for teachers. >> as i understand, senator and you can correct me if i'm incorrect, they're in tennessee which is where the scopes monkey trial was many, many decades ago, going forward, if a kid asks a teacher a question about, for instance, creationism, well, teacher, you're talking about evolution, what about god created man? then they can get into a dialogue about creationism vs. evolution, right? >> sure, and the idea there is that students need to learn how to think critically about subjects. in today's world, we have to recognize that students have far more information from the internet and other sources when they come into the classroom

than they did in the past and teachers need to be comfortable in engaging students in discussions about the information that students are bringing in to the classroom. so what you would hope is if a student asks that kind of question is that teacher would address the question and -- but still remain within the curriculum framework, for example, the teacher would explain to a student, this is the difference between science and religion. this is the difference between science and other ideas. this is why science chooses evolution vs. intelligent design or flat earth theory is because science uses empirical data in order to come to a conclusion. it's not about introducing religion into the science classroom. that's been totally mischaracterized by the scientific establishment. >> you should be able to talk about it. i gotcha. >> right. right. and no state in this country is doing more to challenge the status quo of how we deliver education in this country than the state of tennessee.

we've made tremendous progress and are making tremendous progress in providing the best education possible to the citizens of the state of tennessee and we're committed to doing that. >> all right. very nicely put. senator bo watson from there in tennessee. thank you very much for joining us live. >> you're welcome. >> meanwhile, we've got to get to this. we have a fox news alert. officials on edge watchings on north korea prepares to launch a long range missile. greg palcott is live in north korea right now. what's happening? >> hey, steve. sorry, i got in with you a little bit later than expected. i got held up by about 100,000 troops rolling by in trucks. how about that for an excuse? only in north korea can you come up with an excuse like that. you're right, we're looking at a hold in the countdown of that launch in what the folks here say is a peaceful civilian satellite but what the united states and other country says is something else, a test of a

ballistic missile. north korea has admitted to having an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has people here very nervous. it's all about politics here, too, steve. the launch marking the anniversary of the birth date of the north korean founder and trying to shore up support for the new young leader of this country. and they're laying out everything here, steve. they're dressing up this city like i've never seen it before. the country is impoverished but in fact, we saw lights, we saw cars, at least for these couple of days, the impression that they're trying to give is that this is a strong country, a prosperous country but with a country again that is struggling, that's a very hard image to hold up. again, we're waiting for the launch. could happen as early as tomorrow. we'll keep you posted. >> all right. greg palcott live in north korea with 100,000 troops marching by. thank you very much for that live report. all right, now at 10 minutes before the top of the hour. he's an exceptional high school athlete who also happens to have down's syndrome but he may be

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>> eric earned a player of the week by a local paper with that shot. however, he's about to be kicked off the team. why? he's one year older than the league rules allow but he also has down's syndrome. should there be an exception for eric? we're joined right now by his dad. dean, he made -- he made the team. he's a great basketball player. but he's too old. how hard is eric taking this news? >> he's taking it pretty hard. lately, with the comments that people have been giving him on facebook in support, he's gotten

better. he's perked up quite a bit but before that, he would ask, you know, dad, how is the rule going? have we changed the rule yet? and since the nhsa rejected our proposal in december, i've had to kind of break it gradually to him that he probably won't be able to play next year. >> he's back-up kicker, too, on the football team. this is that rule in michigan that stands. they're not going to get together until may. but if it's ohio, they have a rule for this. what is it going to take for michigan to budge? >> i'm not sure what it's going to take. i thought we had a pretty good proposal laid out for them. they rejected it. i guess what -- we started the petition at change.org and when i last checked, we had nearly 78,000 signatures from people across the country asking the mhsa to look at this again and consider changing the rules. >> dean, i know -- >> i think what needs to happen, what needs to happen are the

individual schools in michigan apparently need to get a hold of the mhsa leadership and ask them to extend it to the schools for a vote. >> you can go to change.org to help out and support. but just tell me, dean, i know you're his dad but he's an inspiration to everybody that sees him play. we're seeing this footage. this is amazing. >> yeah. if it's the footage of the play of the week, i took that footage and you'll notice i didn't videotape him after the shot was made. what i videotaped was the crowd cheering and most of that crowd was people who were there to support the opponents. and so no matter where we've gone this year, when eric has gotten in the game for the last couple of minutes, the fans have been great. >> dean, you've been great to come on with us and to fight for your son and tell eric we're supporting him. change.org and we'll also tweet that out on our twitter page. thanks so much. >> thank you for having me. >> all right. straight ahead, how do you top making music videos at work and

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. it's thursday, april 12. i'm gretchen carlson. while the president accuses republicans of wage a war on women, democrats are attacking stay at home moms? they've never worked a take in their lives. that was the quote by one of their operatives. so who is really waging a war then on women? michelle malkin will weigh in on that. >> steve: president obama has an idea to get support for the buffet rule. change the name to the ronald reagan rule. >> one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. wild eyed social class warrior was ronald reagan. >> steve: one problem, though. the concept is not the same. but will voters believe the

spin? we've got that straight ahead. >> brian: gsa didn't just use your tax dollars to make those outrageous videos and partying it up in vegas. they went on vacation. ten-day trip to hawaii. must be nice. "fox & friends" starts right now >> steve: brian, i'm looking at your twitter and it says that in the next hour, we're going to welcome the women's national team captain for soccer. >> brian: that's true, steve. you can also read the rundown. you love your social media. >> steve: thank you. >> gretchen: you sound surprised, is it because of the guests or because he got it right? >> steve: it's because i'm going to be the goalie. >> brian: we're setting up the field right now. >> gretchen: you must admit, the tease he did, it was a good thing you didn't hear it.

he dissed you as being the goalie. >> brian: i did, but i also know your opponent, if we can get gretchen in sneakers, gretchen carlson will play the other goal. >> gretchen: i'll travel really far in this skirt. rip. criminal trial for former presidential candidate john edwards getting underway. jury selection begins today and once picked, the jury will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship withry yehl hunter. he denies knowing about those payments. neighborhood watchman george zimmerman set to make his first court appearance after officially being charged with second degree murder. he arrived at the county jail in sanford, florida late last night hours after turning himself in. his new attorney met with him at the jail before midnight. he says zimmerman will plead not

guilty. >> he is concerned about getting a fair trial and a fair presentation. there has obviously been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it's been premature, maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> gretchen: he also said he gathered new information after meeting with zimmerman and he will likely present that today in court. second degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove that zimmerman killed him intentionally and not in self-defense as he claims. the son of hollywood legend clark gable answering to police this morning after his girlfriend was found dead in his malibu mansion. 51 year old john clark gable, junior told them his girlfriend wasn't feeling well and when he tried to wake her up, she was already dead. police do not suspect foul play.

bruce springstein may be one of new jersey's favorite son, but even the state's other boss reportedly couldn't keep it together for his entire concert at madison square garden recently. concert goers swear they saw governor chris christie jamming it out in the stands before dozing off for a brief nap. but maybe people should cut him some slack. some say he's exhausted from turning around the state and voters appear to agree. a poll shows governor christie is more popular than ever with 59% approval rating. those are your headlines. >> brian: very democratic state. >> steve: yep. >> brian: really says ising. >> steve: let's dial in michelle malkin. she joins us every thursday at this time from colorado springs. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: hey, i know you have weighed in on your blog about this phony war on women that the democrats are saying that the republicans are waging. yet when you look at what a strategist for the dnc, a woman named hillary rosen said last night, it looks like she's got a war on working moms.

she was taking a shot at ann romney. we'll play the clip. listen to her tell folks that ann romney as a stay at home mom has never worked a day in her life. yeah, right. >> what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying, well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues and when i listen to my wife, that's what i'm hearing. guess what? his wife is actually never worked a day in her life. >> steve: okay. >> brian: your reaction, michelle? >> a mother of five sons. anybody with a son knows it's a full-time job. you've got your hands full when you've got that much testosterone in the house, for goodness sake. this is not a coincidence, by the way. and it needs to be pointed out and we pointed it out when this thing exploded on twitter last night when ann romney joined twitter to push back at this frontal assault that hillary rosen, who is a career dc

lobbyist and a woman of great elite privilege in the dc community is somebody who works alongside anita dunn, who just happens to be the former obama communications hit woman and this idea that somehow stay at home moms and conservative moms deserve this kind of vitriol is part of the strategy of the democrats. >> brian: i think it's bad strategy because they started winning the female vote. and now they're insulting housewives across the country. >> of course it is. but these leftist women cannot help themselves. as i pointed out, both at michellemalkin.com, this is a page from an old playbook. hillary clinton did it when she went after stay at home moms who bake cookies and have tea. this happened in 2004 when theresa heinze carey disparaged laura bush and said she had

never had a quote, unquote, real job in her life. although laura bush worked both as a teacher and librarian. now you have hillary rosen echoing hillary clinton. these people don't just are contempt for conservative stay at home moms, they have contempt for all conservative moms and yes, it's going to backfire. thanks for doing us all a favor, hillary. >> gretchen: by the way, there are some stay at home moms who might vote democrat, too. that's what's being missed in this entire discussion. they might be voting for barak obama, but maybe not after that kind of comment. i just don't know if -- do you think hillary rosen got some sort of marching orders from the administration because they came out firing pretty heavily right after, david axelrod, strident twitter saying this was a total mistake. we should not be getting into this battle at all. >> yeah. we have that all documented. i think that what these people have not expected, the white house and the obama administration, is that the

right and conservative activists on the line would push back the way they did. thank goodness we have social media alternatives now like twitter to give voice to the women who don't make it into the front pages of the liberal media every day. >> steve: speaking of twitter, you mentioned a moment ago ann romney with her debut twitter response said this of the comments: i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys, believe me, it was hard work. all right. let's talk more about -- >> brian: she just said this, bill hemmer and martha mccallum will have her on next hour. >> steve: that's right. you mentioned anita dunn. interestingly enough, of it in that rounces kind book where she said having worked in the white house, it meets the legal standard for a hostile work environment and then you look at this and this supports the idea that maybe there is a war on women from the white house, where if you are a woman at the white house, you are making on

average 18% less than your male counterpart on an average basis. >> yeah. that was reported by the washington free beacon and it's not a surprise that this comes from the do as we say, not as we do white house, that passed the so-called lily ledbetter county to mandate equal pay for everybody else. but apparently somehow the white house got a waiver for that, like they get waivers for everything else. >> gretchen: let's change gears for a moment because there is more stuff coming out now about the general services administration, the gsa, the waste. it keeps getting worst, michelle. now there is a new report out by the daily here saying that one of their top executives went on a ten-day boondoggle to hawaii and did ten hours of work at a ribbon cutting ceremony. what are we to make of this additional information. >> brian: what she called snorkeling work, then it would be double. >> steve: unless you're lloyd

bridge, no. >> well, last week the joke was that you can't spell las vegas without gsa. this week we're learning that that was the tip of the iceberg and this all came out in the inspector general's investigation and it was one of the top officials who spilled the beans on this, that one of the administrators who -- and some of the people recently fired, were involved in this junket to hawaii and i think it was five or ten-day trip for a one-hour ground breaking ceremony. i think that there is a larger question that needs to be about the entire enterprise of the gsa because i'm hearing from a lot of people who had to deal with this administration that the junkets are really a proxy for all of the waste and cronyism that goes on with the contracting at gsa, which costs billions of dollars as opposed to the millions that are involved here. >> gretchen: you have to wonder about other agencies. not just this one.

didn't off book "culture of corruption"? >> i sure do. >> gretchen: you have to wonder if this is part of the culture and only now we're paying attention to it because we have this huge deficit. >> brian: and a smoking clown. >> steve: there go. we do. michelle malkin, we thank you very much for weighing in. check out her web site, michellemalkin.com and the other is twitchy.com? >> you got it. >> brian: big feature on me to kick off. >> that's right. take care. >> steve: thank you. >> brian: straight ahead, have you heard america is in the middle of a major drug shortage? what's causing it and should the government get involved? the medical a team is here to break it down. >> gretchen: ever dream of buying a house, fixing it up and making your own dream home but think you can't afford it? bob massi says don't stop dreaming. he'll show you how to make it happen cording to the signs,

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>> gretchen: 15 minutes after the top of the hour. did you ever dream of buying a house, fixing it up and making your own dream home? who hasn't? now that dream can come true thanks to a loan that will cover the cost of your home and the repairs that come with it. bob massi here to explain how. bob, it's one of those things that sounds too good to be true. what is it? >> it's a hud program that's been around for many years, gretchen. and because of what's going on in america with so many homes being foreclosed on and have been destroyed, this program was designed years ago to revitalize neighborhoods. but i want our viewers to know it does exist. what it basically means is that a buyer could go in and qualify for a loan to rehab or repair a

home and can not only get qualified for the loan, but also for money to do the construction and repair of the home. so i wanted to talk a little bit about that today to inform our viewers of this program that has been on the books for years, but it's used more now than before. >> gretchen: who can participate in the program and are there any requirements for participating? >> yeah. the minimum requirement has to be a minimum of $5,000 in repairs to the home, which today day and age is not much. but also somebody who is in a position to buy a home. and by the way, this is not a program designed for investors. this is designed for people who have to live in the home. if, in fact, they do, they qualify for the loan and the construction, the rehab or repair, there is actually part of this program where you could take a home, believe it or not, from the existing foundation and move it to another foundation that will cover it. and also you can refinance existing loans on the property to do the repairs for the home.

here is the down side. it's a federal program which has about four-inches of paper to fill out. but again, it's something that not many people talk about, which is why i want to sort of get had information out to the viewers today. >> gretchen: all right. final question, can you increase the mortgage amount to cover additional questions then? >> yeah. that's one thing i want our viewers to know. if you qualify for this, you have to get a good appraiser, the contractor, people that know exactly what the cost is going to be because once you get approved for this loan, gretchen, for purposes of rehabbing it, that's it. if the contractor comes in and says, oh, by the way, we missed this, you have to come out of pocket to do that. so if you are eligible for the program, you get qualified people in there to do the appraisals, the estimates, so that if whatever moneys you get, it's going to be used for the improvement of the home.

>> gretchen: i lied. ann core question. if our viewers are interested in the program, what do they need to do if they're interested in it? >> go to the web site, hud.gov has a web site that explains the 2 or 3 k program, the process to do it. i think it's important for all of to us know about it. i'veen educated more about it in the last six months, which is why i want to throw it out. some may qualify, some may not. some may not be interested. but it's better to know than not know. >> gretchen: thanks for your help. you can e-mail bob your questions. see you next week. have a good one. coming up on "fox & friends," talk about get out of jail free card, this guy using his welfare card for bail. wait until you hear this one. and america is in the middle of a dangerous drug shortage and it's getting worse now. is it time for the government to get involved? could they help? the medical a team tackles that topic next this is delicious okay...

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>> gretchen: 22 minutes after the top of the hour. quick headlines. two powerful earthquakes hitting near the border of california overnight. the biggest, a 6.9 rocking the baha coast. minutes before that, a 6.2 magnitude quake hitting in mexico. no reports of injuries or damage. boston lawmakers say this man is the new face of welfare abuse. kimble clark was arrested again for dealing drugs. police say he tried using his

taxpayer funded ebt benefits card to get cash for his bail. wonder if it works. >> steve: ask anybody who has gone to the pharmacy, they may have already had a tough time getting drugs they want because there seems to be a major shortage of everyday prescriptions. >> brian: totally underreported. cancer medication and others. what is causing it? what is the solution. here to explain, dr. mark siegle when did this start becoming an issue? >> since 2005, but it is now five times more of a problem, brian, than it was back then. we're talking 267 drugs that are short. we're talking blood thinners, heart medications, if you come in with a heart attack, cancer drugs, steroids, antibiotics, all of the emergency medications that i need to use on a daily basis. >> steve: some people will be looking at this and going, we knew there was going to be

rationing with obamacare. is this a result of the legislation that was passed by congress? >> steve, it's not a result of, but i'm definitely concerned that that's going to make it worse because the more regulations you have and the more insurance companies don't want to cover expensive drug, the more pressure there is on the drug companies not to produce them. if they don't make a profit, they're not going to want to make them. more and more of these drugs are going generic and you have to have so much sterilization on top of it to make sure that you can actually put them into someone's vein. they're finding glass particles, fungal particles. so it costs a lot of money for the drug company to make sure these drugs are safe. understandable. but where is the profit in it? also a lot of them went overseas for the war effort. with iraq and afghanistan off the top, understandably, the antibiotics and the steroids went right to the war. >> brian: let's go over some of the drugs that really concerned you. fighting for cancer, cancer drugs, infections for treating cardiovascular diseases.

managing psychiatric condition, pain medications in anesthesia. >> sedatives. >> brian: so what you're saying is, that the drugs are out there. they're just not getting here. correct? >> they're out there, except that there is also production problems. the drug companies are not making them the way they were before because the patents are running out. >> steve: and because the drug companies, they look at the bottom line. we're not going to make that much money on that drug, so we're not going to make it. >> as you mentioned, they look toward the future and say wait a minute. we see drugs being cut and not going to be covered and more and more regulation. now, what is the solution to this? that's the biggest question. the solution is the f.d.a. is saying we're going to march in and we want to know in advance so we can get emergency supplies from overseas. we can ask the drug companies to make more. but that's like a finger in the dike when the holes are coming everywhere. you can't solve the problem that way. we don't need more drugs coming from overseas. >> brian: biotech companies investing all types of money to

come up with new drug also no long have an incentive. >> that's great point. they're seeing that and saying, wait a minute, if i'm not going to make a profit, why should i put a billion dollars in developing this drug? on the front lines, in the trenches, i'm worried because a patient comes in with an asthma attack, i don't have the steroid to give him. someone comes in with a life-threatening infection, i don't have the antibiotic to give him. i have patients calling every day saying i'm one of the super responders, but i can't get the chemo any more. >> steve: are these shortages going to kill people? >> they already are. 82% of hospitals believe these delays are life-threatening. 82%. >> brian: dr. siegle, thank you very much for coming in. now you're back to your other job, seeing patients. >> trying to work with the shortages. >> brian: straight ahead, fox news alert. major breaking news on the economy. jobless numbers due out any moment. eric bolling will be here to analyze and break them down. >> steve: and we showed think video yesterday.

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>> gretchen: fox business alert for you.

the labor department just released brand-new weekly jobless numbers as they do every thursday. 380,000 first-time unemployment claims were filed last week. that's up from 357,000 the week before. economists were expecting 355,000. i guess eric, you're going to say back up. >> for so many weeks, we were approaching 350. i think we dipped below 350,000 first-time unemployment claims, people walked in. those are exact numbers. they're not an estimate the way the unemployment rate is at the beginning of every month for the prior month. that's not good news. you want to see it pushing below 350, towards 300. that's an economy that's creating jobs. last month, the most recent rate, we saw it tick down, but there are only 120,000 jobs were created now. a lot of them were temporary jobs. the unemployment situation is getting a little bit shaky right now. the administration won't be able to do a victory lap for that number. it may be one off, but again,

look at these four-week averages, that's not going to help. >> brian: can you figure out an economic factor, sometimes they talk about holiday hiring. can you figure out anything? >> no. i don't know. the only thing i can think of is maybe there is a big push, people are look to get back into the labor force. this one is not a good number. >> gretchen: does it have anything to do with the jobs created number that we saw last week, which was lower, even though the unemployment rate had gone down from 8.3% to 8.2%, the number of jobs created was about 100,000 less than they thought. it was in -- >> again, that number that they put out is called the situation report, unemployment situation report, labor report comes out. it's a telephone survey. they literally pick up the phone and survey 60,000 homes and say are you working? are you looking for work? have you given up? there is a lot of room for leeway in that number. some say it can be skewed, has become partisan, which would be a scary thing if the bureau of labor statistics has become a

partisan tool. >> steve: no kidding. what about this, the president has been making his pitch to have the congress pass the so-called buffet rule and yesterday, interestingly enough, he's trying to get it through the senate. it's not going to pass. but he tried to make the connection between this is exactly what ronald reagan proposed back in the mid 80s. here is the president trying to do that. listen. >> some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. this president gave another speech where he said it was crazy to quote, certain tax loopholes make it possible for multi-millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary. that wild eyed socialist tax hiking class warrior was ronald reagan. if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule.

>> gretchen: is that disengine with us? >> more than that. to look over here while i do something here, it shouldn't be called the buffet rule because warren buffet doesn't sign on to this. for some reason, president obama took this one piece, this tax, people making over a million, when warren buffet told us clearly, simpson-bowles, a massive tax reform, tax and spending reforms is what he would recommend to tackle the deficit. president obama is being very, very political with this and now to try and attach ronald reagan's name to increasing the tax is disingenuous and unfair and conservatives like me are unfair about it. mark levine, one of the most vocal voices for conservatives will be on neil cavuto, i can't believe, who also worked for ronald reagan. he'll attack this. this is outrageous. >> brian: it's also important to know that ronald reagan speech he was referring to is the tax reform, which is something the president should be talking about. >> and subsequently to that speech, the following year

ronald reagan passed tax reform that dropped top marginal tax rates from 50% down to 28%, which by the way, had a -- was met with a lot of success. he brought growth back to an economy. >> brian: basically he admitted it was a gimmick, the president. it's only going to bring in $50 billion over ten years, if it does pass. >> yeah. >> gretchen: originally they were trying to sell it as a definite sit reducer. when somebody did the math and figured it out it wasn't, now they're actually admitting that it's just all about fairness. >> fairness. a class warfare tool. it's one of the few arrows in president obama's quiver right now. but they're going to still do it. they're going to call it a war on women by the republican. it should be called obama's tax on success. that would be a great name for his new proposed tax. >> steve: it's not exactly a tax on everybody, but it affects everybody and we're talking about the high cost of gasoline. yesterday when you were hosting

the program, you mentioned that coming up on friday, you got a special on gas with former governor sarah palin. >> the governor and i are going to sit down and -- there is a special -- gasoline, 139 billion gallons we use a year. that means during the presidency since president obama took office, gasoline went from 1.83 to 3.93, 3.92. that means $200 billion per half year so -- almost $500 million. almost half a trillion dollars we're shipping overseas to the middle eastern dictators instead of americans spends it. governor palin and i will sit down and break it down from regulation, speculation. >> steve: what can we do right now to bring down the price? >> the most important part is at the end of the show, we'll put together a four-part plan, present it to president obama and see if he takes it.

>> gretchen: that's in your envelope. >> that's in the envelope. >> gretchen: i know what's in that envelope. >> you do? >> gretchen: yeah, i saw it. >> steve: this is a new envelope. >> we're going to open it tomorrow night at 10:00 o'clock and honestly, this will drop gasoline prices. he's had the opportunity. president obama has had the tonto call us up. but now he's gog have to do it with governor palin and i. >> steve: this is your expertise. for many, many years, you worked on wall street trading oil. >> not only on wall street, i bought and sold gasoline, took deliver, made deliveries of it. 23 years i was in the oil business and governor palin was in the oil business for the better part of two decades as well. it's coming from very qualified people. >> brian: how many barrelyou actually fill up yourself. >> steve: 'cause you didn't do a very good job with this. >> for a period of four or five years. >> steve: the price of natural gas now at a historic low cost.

this is great for us. >> this is what we should be doing. looking at natural gas instead of necessarily buying oil from foreign dictators. >> steve: he'll open the envelope tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. right here on the fox news channel. >> gretchen: figure it out while we're reading headlines. >> brian: this is an airing. the fight for freedom of religion at vanderbilt university is heating up. one of the largest religious groups on campus is being forced to change its name. the order put in place following the group's decision to leave campus after the university decided to enforce an all groups -- it must be open to all students. even atheists. they would even be allowed to lead those groups. wouldn't that be fascinating? the university spokesperson saying, quote, those student groups who chose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy forfeit the privileges associated with the registered student association status and that

includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> gretchen: government plan to help homeowners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. that according to a new report revealed this morning from the inspector general' office. the treasury department rushed out the revamped foreclosure plan in 2010, limiting its ability to help people who are out of work or those who owed more on their homes than they are actually worth. the hardest hit fund was part of the controversial $700 billion financial bailout known as tarp. >> steve: from tarp to twisters, a tornado touching down in northern california. take a look at that funnel cloud. the national weather service confirming it hit just outside of oakland, california. it destroyed everything in its path, including barns, ripping off roofs, knocking down power lines in the area. nobody was hurt thankfully. >> brian: call him spared rib. a cow tried to escape from a new jersey slaughter house getting a last-minute pardon.

we showed you mike, the steer yesterday, running wild until police tranquilized him. it turns out the owner of the slaughter house took mercy on him. mike going to live on an animal sanctuary in upstate new york. so it will be boring, but you won't be slaughtered. that's good. >> gretchen: seems animals are getting smarter and smart. we had jack the husky dog who escaped newtering. we don't know whether he was neutered. but make gets saved. >> brian: do i have permission to update the mike story? the miniature husky escaped after the newtering, was caught after -- he was caught after the newtering. he was so upset by the newtering, he ran away. when he came back -- >> gretchen: that's a fox news alert because before we thought it was before the newtering. >> brian: do i have that right? >> steve: apparently so. here is the thing, the copy said that particular cow -- not a cow, a steer, which means it's gone through the newtering

process. >> brian: but he's alive and he will not be cut up. >> steve: well, not yet. >> gretchen: he almost got cut up with that truck. >> brian: look out for the chevy. >> gretchen: you guys know a lot about newtering. >> steve: know a lot about cows. >> brian: we just perked up when that happened. >> steve: this is what happens when you join the future farmers of america. >> gretchen: i wonder if you guy also have enough testosterone to do this soccer match coming up. >> brian: the captain of the u.s. women's team. >> steve: straight ahead, it sounded like a plot of catch me if you can. a teen-ager stealing an airplane and pulling off an international crime spree. up next, incredible inside story of the so-called barefoot bandit. that guy. >> brian: the real soccer mom, the captain of the u.s. women's national soccer team here to take on, well, the captain of "fox & friends." >> steve: you! >> brian: yes. she's a real life mom and a real life superstar player. incredible.

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>> brian: quick headlines. may be a win for california workers. the state supreme court will decide whether managers must order workers to take rest and meal breaks on regular intervals during its workday. the lawsuit filed in 2004 argued employers were taking advantage of employees. and general hospital fans will remember this moment. communicate laura's wedding. i remember it like it was yesterday. you can breathe a sigh of relief. abc confirming it renewed the soap for another season. a talk show, the revolution, has been canceled. i can't take it. >> gretchen: i remember watching that. well, moving on to this story in the summer of 2010, americans became obsessed with the story of the barefoot bandit. a brazen 19-year-old who stole a

plane, boats, cars and eventually escaped to the bahamas. most of the time without wearing shoes. two years later, we're finally getting the true story behind his escape and dramatic showdown with police. >> steve: here with the inside scoop is the author of the book "the barefoot bandit," mr. bob friel joins us from seattle. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: i know that in the beginning when you heard the first broad outlines of the story, you thought he's probably a meth head, stealing things to fuel his addiction. but as it turned out, he was a really smart kid with an awful personal life. >> yeah. he had a really tough upbringing and he grew up on an island south of why i live -- where i live. when he escaped from a juvenile halfway house in 2008, he chose to come to the island where i was living and start this big international crime spree. that was where he stole his first plane, we landed two more of the planes. he fell in love, lucky for us,

with our island. so we started having this bizarre crime wave. >> gretchen: it totally changed the way you lived your life on this island because you were still in part of america where you didn't have to lock your doors at night. >> yeah. it's really something special. it's even hard to grasp for most people. i grew up in a city, so moving to a place where you never had to lock your doors at night, where you left your keys in your car all the time, that was something that was such a wonderful lifestyle. that all changed. >> steve: when he stole his first plane, then we started to hear about well, you know what? he learned how it fly a plane not in an actual airplane, but with dvds and he read a book and video games and stuff like that. eventually fast forward, i understand his mother contacted you and at one point you asked for him to give you a sign that he was still alive. what did he do? >> yeah. i did the first national

magazine story on colten for outside magazine. once i did that, he was still running full speed. so i started a blog where i could update the story. i had been talking to his mom. i had actually been in the trailer where he grew up and she told me and friends who i was in contact with of colton, told me he was reading the blog, kind of obsessively every time i would write something, he would read it. and at first i used that just to try to talk him in. everybody was pretty sure he was going to wind up dead. but there was a chance that a police officer or a homeowner would wind up dead. i didn't want that to happen. soy tried to talk him in. at one point, the f.b.i. had kind of let on to his mom that he had probably died in a boat accident. so she called me up and she was all upset and said could you use your blog to try to talk to him just to see if he's alive. so i put a little note in there saying, colton, people are worried, can you give us a sign? that was one evening. the next morning i got up and i live in a tiny cabin in the woods. the only way i can get anywhere on the island is cross this

little bridge and when i get there, there is a 13-foot barefoot print spray painted on the bridge. it was a sign. >> gretchen: he had given you the message. well, the movie rights are now coming from your book and in the end, you say that he wants to go to college for aerospace engineering and probably is to go to prison for a while first. fascinating story. bob friel, author, good luck with the book. >> thank you very much. >> steve: all right. i think we're going outside to talk to brian kilmeade. what's coming up? >> brian: coming up, he would say the captain of the national women's soccer team is here. she's the ultimate soccer mom and she's taking brian on in a shootout. she's good shot with that foot. >> gretchen: let's check in with martha mccallum for what's on at the top of the hour. >> i bet the rest of the soccer moms feel inadequate. good morning, everybody. we have an america's news room exclusive today. ann romney will join us live with her reaction to the

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>> brian: this might be one of america's finest athletes and here is why. kristy is here, 36 years old. i don't mind giving your age 'cause you are captain of the u.s. women's national team. a round of applause for this young lady! [ applause ] very nice! a real life soccer mom. correct? >> yeah. >> brian: you have two children while raising while traveling the world playing the best. >> i have two daughters, reilly and reese, six years old and two years old.

they travel around. reilly has been through two passports already. been amazing. >> brian: they watched you at the world cup, losing a penalty kick. >> i know. i tell her every day, mommy has to keep training and getting better. we lost some, but it's motivation for this upcoming olympics. >> gretchen: how did you become captain of the team? >> just chosen. respect for your teammates. they think i'm the mom of the team. the one that looks more toward the team than themselves. >> brian: tell me about this soccer for success program. that's the one that you have sponsored. but it's all part of a city bank program. >> yes. the program is every step of the way, 13 olympic athletes. and what you can do to get started is go on the web site, city web site. it's about tweeting, facebook, giving back to the organization that gave to us. aspiring organizations. you have the team kristy shirts on, support me, support the

organization, but most importantly, making aware of the organizations. >> steve: i hear you're good, but i just thought it would be a good idea -- >> brian: let's play one on one. here you go. >> steve: don't kick it too hard! >> brian: let's go back a little bit right here. >> kick the shoes to the side. >> gretchen: what am i doing? >> brian: after kristy is lucky enough to steal the ball, you have to play it back. >> gretchen: all right! >> brian: play it back. play it back today, though! >> steve: it's not going well for me. wooo! >> gretchen: whoa, brian's got some moves! look at steve.

all right! >> brian: i had to shot at that. one more time, gretch. >> brian: what is it, 2-1? >> gretchen: 30 seconds left, guys! who is going to score? >> steve: she's going for it! >> brian: it's a great program. best of luck. when can we see you on television again? >> we'll be on tv -- not sure when. we play in may against philly. back in a moment is making lorenzo very snippy. oh! seriously?! ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? oh... [ male announcer ] grab a ritz crackerfuls. made with real peanut butter and whole grain. mmmm [ male announcer ] get hunger before it gets you.

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>> steve: tomorrow on our program, the guy who wrote the best seller "women are from venus, men are from mars" will be joining us live, along with geraldo rivera, who we're not sure where he's