i could have told you that. >> alisyn: thank you. partridge... >> clayton: tomorrow, allen west will be here and rudy giuliani and country music star lee bryce, join us in the after the though show and we'll find out more about this... >> eric: we start with a "fox news alert," desperation in syria. government forces storming and shelling a suburb of the capital of damascus. as you can see, the new eassumption of violence one day after -- eruption of violence after the u.n. security council increased the number of monitors there to 300, good morning, i'm eric sean. >> jamie: i know you have been following it all week for us, eric, thank you so much, i'm jamie colby and we want to welcome to you america's news headquarters, a brand new hour, the truce monitors are losing credibility with the people they are supposed to protect and that is the reaction they received yesterday from protesters, take a look:

>> jamie: mostly in arabic but you can see, the discontent there, the cease-fire was put in place, more than a week ago. but, it is now hanging by a thread. and in danger of completely unraveling, the uprising in syria is this longest of the rebellions in the middle east and one of the deadliest. united nations estimates that at least 9,000 people have died since those protests began last march, activist groups say that number is actually much higher. >> eric: and another "fox news alert," to tell you about. this comes from one of syria's closest allies, iran. tehran now claiming that it has actually cracked the codes of our u.s. spy drone they captured last year and iran says it is beginning to build an exact camy

of the american drone. it is the sophisticated aircraft called the rq-170 sentinel and, iran says it shot down the drone last december and u.s. officials say that it now functions and it accidentally landed -- malfunctioned and accidentally landed automatically and since then, tehran has flaunted its capture and putting it out during a news conference, saying they are able to exploit the technology they've captured in that drone and they plan to use it against the united states. joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, a fox news contributor. and joins us every sunday, at this time. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, eric, glad to be here. >> eric: what will they do with the drone they are copying to use against us? >> well, i think everything that the regime in iran says with a grain of salt but, there is almost no doubt that they have made this drone available to russian and chinese scientists an technicians. who are looking both at the aerodynamics, the skin of the

drone, the way it flies and its capabilities, but, also, what is inside of it, both the hardware and intelligence, surveys and reconnaissance equipment and the software to the extent they are able to get into the innards of the thing. so when you hear an announcement like this from iran today i'm sure there is some grain of truth in it. and, that is very troubling, that we knew this was a problem when the drone went down. but, how much they've actually got, i think, only our most sensitive scientists and intelligence community decisionmakers know and i hope they've got discipline, not to be able to talk about it. so that it doesn't get out in broader public discussions. >> eric: the iranians are boasting what they've gotten out of the software and they say the drone was in california, in 2010, and the -- we were working on the sensors in los angeles with this thing and then, it was in kandahar and also in pakistan and they say two weeks before

usama bin laden was killed. so maybe this was one of the drones that we used to carry out that operation. what does it tell you, when they have boasted and are claiming that he have got all of this information? into well, it may well be they've been able to get that out of whatever limited memory capability is in the drone but in order to save weight among other things, most of the drone technology involves sending the communications out of the drone through satellites back to facilities in the u.s. or elsewhere. what would be really troubling is if the iranians or their russian and chinese helpers had been able to figure out ways to get into those computer systems back in the home bases, that would be really troubling. but as i say, i think most of this is going to be in the realm of speculation and propaganda. >> eric: the president, if you recall, asked for it back. that didn't happen. it is reminiscommend -- reminis

scent of gary powers and the soviet union, and why is the obama administration downplaying this? there is gary power, huge back in the 1960s. >> thank goodness we have drone technology that doesn't endanger our pilots or the propaganda the iranians have would be greater but a curiosity of the obama administration, is the president almost single-handedly is responsible for killing usama bin laden, but, he seems to have been away when the drone went down. i don't understand that disconnect, myself. >> eric: one would think, just a layman would say it could be a potentially huge intelligence failure. i mean, why didn't they have a button to push and we could blow it up before the iranians or the russians or the chinese or anybody else could get it and use it against us? >> well, that apparently was under consideration, but the weight of such a device would reduce the amount of utility the drone would have and actually

gather -- in gathering intelligence and another thing they've said is they try and minimize what could be lost when you put a drone over hostile territory and that is hard to credit as well, since the whole purpose of these drones is to put them over hostile territory, to gain intelligence. i think the basic conclusion is, that it is and significant loss for the u.s. in terms of both the technology of the stealth drone itself, but, also, the intelligence-gathering capability. it is a risk you take but i don't think we should casually minimize it. i think it is significant and we need to work to find ways to avoid this happening or at least minimize the chances of it happening going forward. >> eric: and finally you have been at the highest levels of the intelligence services of the country, i mean, publicly, it seems that the administration is, as you say, casually minimizing this, but, you know, behind the closed doors, they are going, oh, man, uh-oh. >> well, they should be, because i do think, again, not just with

the iranians but because of the chinese and russian involvement here, iran has gained a huge bargaining chip to give the russians and chinese access to this. will buy them political support, in the security -- in support of the nuclear weapons program and their activities in syria, supporting the assad regime, so, there is a lot of mischief that the iranians are able to cause with this drone and nobody should underestimate that. >> eric: good point, you want the drone, moscow? support us. >> exactly. >> eric: ambassador, thank you so much as always, see you next sunday. >> thank you, eric. >> jamie: breaking developments in the a decades-old missing child case in new york city. a 6-year-old disappeared while walking to a bus stop in manhattan's soho section, downtown and, 33 years later, investigators right now, digging up the concrete floor of a basement near etan patz's home

where the child's family still lives. a suspicious stain discovered on the wall and the police are questioning a handyman and his assistant, a convicted child molester, jose ramos was charged criminally in the case but never convicted and, we will talk to bo dietl to see if police are closer to finally solving the mystery. stay tuned for that. >> eric: that will be cup coming up with bo dietl. what an incredible case, another case unfolding in tucson, arizona. and, an intense search underway for a missing 6-year-old. a first grader last seen in her bed on friday night and discovered missing, saturday morning. police are calling her disappearance suspicious and they do say it's a possible

kidnapping. dues of officers from various agencies are helping with the search for her and, she is described as just under 4 feet tall, and weighs 44 pounds, and, she has brown hair and hazel eyes. and our hearts go out to her family and we certainly hope she will be fine. >> jamie: if you have any information give 911 a call and, the florida, new developments thinly tray v in the trayvon martin case, attorneys for george zimmerman are expressing serious concern for his safety. a judge released him on $150,000 bail, the neighborhood watch captain that admitted he shot an unarmed 17-year-old, apologizing to the family in court this week but zimmerman and his family say they have been threatened. they have had death threats, since the shooting and are now living in fear. the judge in the case indicating zimmerman could be allowed to leave the state as long as law enforcement is able to monitor his whereabouts until trial. >> eric: one time democratic presidential candidate john edwards prepares to face a

federal jury tomorrow. edwards as you may know is accused of misusing campaign funds to hide that affair with a former campaign videographer, reyale hunter and hiding the fact they had a child together, all while his wife, elizabeth, suffered from cancer that eventually took her life in 2010. if convicted john edwards faces up tow 30 years in prison. and fines of a million-and-a-half dollars. ♪ >> jamie: politics now, america's election headquarters. the tea party. yes, the tea party. forcing long time senator orrin hatch to fight for his political future. the utah republican must now face off against a former state senator, dan lilenquist after failing to win enough votes at this weekend's state convention and the group says hatch had not

shown enough loyalty when it comes to conservative values and, is the tea party muscling back and did it ever leave? what kind of role do we expect the movement to play in november? joining us now, washington times columnist, charlie hurt. always great to have you here. sunday morning. >> good to be with you. >> jamie: how is the tea party doing and what kind of influence do you expect them to have in this race as well as others? >> the tea party, the rodney dangerfield of political parties, they just can't seem to ever get any respect. and everybody is always trying to predict their demise and as we see, right now, they've kind of predicted it, a little early. they've forced a primary out in utah. and, they are giving dick luger a real run for his money. i think their influence, remains today, as strong as it has for a long time. you know, and, you know, people lunch to point to the cases like christina o'donnell and sharron

angle and say it was a big defeat for the tea party. i would actually argue that it really wasn't, and that it -- both of those races, while they ultimately lost, forced republicans -- changed republicans and made republicans cue to a more conservative line and i think, that they -- i think the only reason they sort of have gone away for a bit it is we have not had election and now we see they are still here and still making a difference. >> jamie: talking about orrin hatch, utah and you also have indiana, with luger. how conservative is conservative enough for someone who is a member and supporter of the tea party? >> well, you know, it is really tough, especially for a couple of long time veterans, like orrin hatch and dick luger who have been in office since the '70s and have been around a very long time. you don't remain in this town that long without cutting a lot

of deals, and making a lot of compromises. and, quite frankly, that in and of itself is a real problem for many tea partiers. they have been generally supportive of things like term limits, because -- simply because it means that you don't stick around here for that long and sort of lose the, you know, roots of -- from back home. so, it -- i think that even if orrin hatch -- and, let's not overstate the trouble that orrin hatch and dick luger are in, they are still incumbent and are in very good positions to fend these attacks off, but, they will have become changed politicians, themselves, just by running these campaigns, that you never would have seen them run a few years ago. >> jamie: has the demographic of a tea party member changed? how would you describe someone that is actively involved in the

tea party movement? >> that is a great point, jamie and i think, i think that the demographics very much have changed. and i think that as frustrations mount with washington, and the sort of out of control senseless spending, i think that for a lot of these tea party folks, have appealed to, you know, the platforms appealed to a lot of people that wouldn't necessarily have called themselves, you know, arch conservatives or republicans, a few years ago. but, you know, more mainstream folks or even people that are maybe on the other side of the spectrum, more libertarian types but have all sort of -- have found that, you know, this is our only hope, at this point, is to sort of get back to the very basic roots of you know -- the tea party tries to espouse, and, to find ways to get a grip on the massive out of control government.

>> jamie: only ten seconds. are they behind romney? >> i think they will be. i think they'll be just fine with it. he has done remarkably well with them considering the problems he had going in. >> jamie: charlie hurt who understands the hard rap, great to have you here today. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jamie: eric. >> eric: jamie, stealing your vote an stuffing the ballot box and faking absentee ballots, new election charges that touch this race for the white house, those alleged fake signatures on the 2008 presidential primary petitions, candidates obama and hillary clinton raising question in indiana, did the president legally qualify for the primary ballot, all in our special one hour on later today, fox news reporting, stealing your vote. do enough felons illegally vote in minnesota to hand senate democrats a super majority and did republican robocalls suppress the minority vote in maryland? we look at both sides of the political aisle from acorn to the explosive debate over voter

i.d. here's a look: >> voter registration officials hated acorn, because they felt the group was conducting illegal activities with all of these fake names. >> too bad they were never able to prove that. >> eric: wayne is the founder of acorn and ran the organization for 38 years. starting in 1970. and, claims it got a bad rap for the voter registration drives. >> you are talking to me about things after i left in 2008, but i think by law, virtually every place, we are required to turn in everything. >> eric: what do we do about the fake vote registration names? thousands of them on these forms handed in by acorn. >> well, the only really -- they are only a huge problem if they voted with the fake form. >> eric: we don't know someone did. >> we are pretty sure they didn't. >> eric: 50 workers were convicted and we know the legacy of that, "stealing our vote" is on this afternoon, 3:00 p.m. eastern and, friday, primetime, 9:00 p.m. on the fox news

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>> eric: look, incredible new video of an explosion at a drive through in the california mcdonald's. [explosio [explosion]. >> jamie: wow. >> eric: a driver was checking on two propane tanks in the back of his truck and tried to stop a leak, static electricity sparked the explosion. rescuers were able to pull two kids from the truck, they were not hurt, thankfully but the driver was taken to the hospital with burns. >> jamie: many republicans are hoping that indiana governor mitch daniels would run for president this year and he hasn't, but some are hoping that

mitt romney will choose him as his running mate, this fall. if he gets the nomination. this morning, daniels says mitt romney has great ideas how to tackle the national debt and take care of our economy. but, he would like to see him tailor the message for a more specific crowd. listen. >> as things go on i want to encourage him to express the same principles, more often from the standpoint of the young, the poor, those who have yet to start up the ladder of life, the very same principles, but, aimed in a slightly different way and i know he'll do that. >> jamie: that interview done with the anchor of fox news sunday, our own chris wallace. chris, good morning. >> good morning, jamie. >> jamie: a lot of buzz about may say daniels and people wanted him to jump into the race and he didn't and what did he tell you about the possibility of accepting a vice presidential nomination? >> he ducked it and he said i don't think it will happen and there are a lot of better choices and i asked about the fact that his wife and daughters

had basically vetoed the idea of his running for president. i said, you know, this would be a shorter campaign, less intrusive campaign, and he said, that's a lot of hypotheticals. you know, i get the sense he is interested and i'll say in the course of the interview and i suggest -- recommend it to people to watch, he makes a very effective case for romney and also, against obama and, you know, fuptdz somebody out there as a running mate, to make the case and that is often times what the vice presidential candidate does against the other side, you could do a lot worse than mitch daniels. >> jamie: hee has a lot of rec and tell me what you think about this, former florida governor jeb bush gave an interview on friday, and was by some media outlets, misquoted as saying he would consider the vice presidential nomination. he clarified that, to fox. and actually named folks that he thought would be really good

choices. as i understand mitch daniels has done as well. why is it that none of the high-level republicans whose names have come up have said, if i'm asked, i'll do it? why is it they are all saying, no, it will not happen, i haven't been asked and i'm committed to the job i'm doing. >> first of all, i think a lot of them genuinely feel that way and in addition the worse thing you could do if you have interest in being the vice presidential running mate, is to seem eager for it and seem as if you are campaigning for it and, it is better to say, i love my job and i think he'll pick somebody else and it will be a long time for mitt romney and we'll play the parlor game but will be august, as mitt romney and his camp, having gone through thorough vetting of all the top candidates will look at the political lay of the land and what they need, do they need to focus on a stay or a demographic group, whether hispanics or blue-collar workers

or women. and, they'll make a decision at that point, of what they want, and, my guess is, whoever it is, no matter what any of these candidates, possible candidates, are saying right now, if romney comes to them and says, you are the person i need, to help me beat barack obama, they'll say yes. >> jamie: it is interesting, because when i talked to governor bush he had told me that even if president obama asked him to serve his country he would, each of them is dedicated to public service, but is the vice presidential post a job he'd want. >> oh, yeah. first of all, it is an interesting job, particularly now, there was a time when they said, it is, you know, not worth a bucket of spit, but, you have a history, starting i guess with mondale, gore, certainly cheney and biden, where the vice president is a real player and, if you have any ambitions to ever be president, it is the best job to have. now, there were very few vice presidents whether or not have been elected president, but, still, you wouldn't want to be

in any other position if you have the hope of someday being in the top job yourself. >> jamie: and we won't learn who it is today but we'll learn a lot in your interview and thanks for giving us a preview, we appreciate it. that's not all, if you tune in you will see connecticut senator joe lieberman who will join chris, have a great day, thanks and we will not miss the interview with -- >> quickly, jamie, joe lieberman, the head of the homeland security committee which oversees the secret service, a lot of interesting information and some news that he makes about the investigation of the secret service and also of the gsa. >> jamie: news making interviews, today and most days on fox news sunday. thanks, chris. >> thanks, jamie. >> jamie: we won't miss it, 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern, right here on fox. >> eric: just an hour from now on the fox news channel. a new york republican party chairman ed cox, as you may know, president richard nixon's son-in-law and will weigh in on the race an primaries that will

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