focusing their attacks on mitt romney at this point. how joe biden is joining after his foreign policy kraoe sepbgs always. we'll mare from the white house and the romney sroebgs on that. bill: a dangerous air lift after a hiker is stuck in a precarious position. dramatic new video just into "america's newsroom" of this daring rescue. you will see it as the camera moves closer in minutes. martha: a father suspects that his son, a little boy with autism is being harassed at school by his teachers, so he sends his son off to class with a tape recorder hidden in his backpack. what he found out is nothing short of shocking. [inaudible] [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice?

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bill: as promised, video just in of a dramatic rescue. state of california, around los angeles. crews spotting a 65-year-old hiker in trouble. details are not clear. but a helicopter was seen air lifting the woman out of the area. we are told she was take tone a locataken to a local hospital, expected to be okay. that was not an easy operation for that chopper. martha: there is shock and outrage, of course, after the father of a boy with autism exposes the teachers at a new jersey school for basically verbally abusing his ten-year-old little boy. stewart says he had a feeling something must be wrong at school, because his son's behavior completely changed after he started going to this class. he didn't know what to do, so he put a digital, audio recorder on his son to get some feedback about what was really going on in that classroom. he then posted those recordings on the internet, and here is one where he claims you can hear the teacher yelling at his little

boy, and you can hear his son crying and screaming in the background of this. just listen. martha: oh, my gosh, you can hear what she calls him at end of that tape. the school, which, by the way is supposed to be catering to the special need of these particular children, you would assume they would be even more sensitive to children who are in the situation, but that clearly was not the case, and the school

issued a statement, and they said, quote, this is a personnel matter, that the district took seriously and handled appropriately. security joins me now. i know it musstewart joins me now. it must be tough for you as a father to hear those taeufplt those tapes. >> each time hurts as much as the first time. knowing i continue be there to help him. knowing how cruelly and viciously they acted toward him. martha: the teacher that we hear on that tape was let go? >> no she wasn't. i took that audio right to the school. the aid was let go, but the teacher was moved to the high school. and, you know, they originally -- not originally, but a few days ago the district said this all the people you hear in that audio are no longer with the district but that was false. i produced a second video where i called that teacher's voice mail at the high school that evidence that all that happened is she was moved to another school, which is an outrage.

she should have been immediately fired. martha: just so we're clear, which teacher was moved to another school? what do we hear her saying on the tape? >> the one you hear talking about the wine. martha: that is coming later, just wait for that. in terms of that particular tape, where she calls him that word at end of it, who said that, and is that teacher stale in the district? >> yes, yes, that is the teacher. the aide who told him to shut his mouth that was an aid. the teacher who called him that vicious name was moved to a different school and still works for the district as far as we can tell. martha: unbelievable. what is the reasoning for that? >> there is no reasoning, there is no defense. martha: this is a tenured teacher i assume? >> yes, we are told she was tenured. that's why one of the things i'm asking for is that we need a strong law that says if you verbally or physically abuse a child as a teacher that you immediately lose your job,

tenure or no, it shouldn't matter. martha: if you call a child a bastard in a classroom it ought to get you fired. let's call it what it is. it's amazing to me that that's not what has happened in this situation. let's play another piece of sound here which is equally as shocking in a different kind of way. let's listen to this. martha: she was heaving all orange. this conversation was going on in the middle of the classroom in front of all the children. >> that bell had just rang. that was the first less oven the day. she talked about that and right into the days of the web. what that says is it shows the culture of cruelty and distain they had for those kids. there was no respect for the children. they treated them like robots who couldn't feel, who they knew won't be able to tell their parents what had happened.

it's just stunning how they just didn't care about those kids. there was no compassion for them at all. martha: you know, i mean, you've gonna long way to draw attention to this situation, and clearly this is not the behavior of most teachers, and phoeb wants to suggesnobody wants to suggest that. all you care about as the parent of course is your child's experience. he's going into that classroom. what do you want to happen now? what do you hope happens from here? >> i'm hoping that the wonderful and beautiful subject support can be galvanized to create a law that says a line in the sand will be drawn if you verbally or physically abuse a child, if there is evidence of it you are immediately fired. you don't get to be moved to another class. that's when i'm looking for at this point, so that no other child has togo through this. martha to go through this. martha: we'd love to hear from the school as to why they decided to retain the teacher. they may think they have very good reasons for the. i'd love to hear what they are. we wish you and your boy all the

best. you feel in a better situation in a school and we are thankful for that. and you took all the actions that you could. thank you, sir. >> thank you. bill: hard to hear that. a young boy there and the father the way he says, i feel bad i wasn't there to help him, to defend him. martha: he did ultimately. bill: looking to buy a car are you? did you notice the sticker price is starting to spike? why regulations in the awe auto industry could take you away from the car you would like. martha: we'll talk to a man who runs the tsa about pat-downs. he says the solutio solutions are so easy if only they would do it. >> i went through the body scan machine. the sergeant stapd me there an stopped me there and he said, i'm going to path you down. i said fine. i lifted my arms up.

he starts on my leg. as he starts up on my leg he goes up very aggressively, he hurt me.

martha: it's 24 minutes past the hour on a thursday morning. a military judge is set to decide whether to dismiss some of the charges against and army private in the wikileaks case. bradley manning charged with causing hundreds of thousands of documents that consider classified to be published online. mexico's president felipe calderon meeting with business leaders in texas, but he did speak out on arizona's immigration law saying he believes that the measure unfairly goes after immigrants. and analysts saying that north korea's new missiles that were displayed at a parade in their belief, they say they are fake. the weapons, if we can call them

that part of a celebration mark, the 1100th anniversary of the founding fathers. bill: they were props and not even good props at that. we had our eye on it didn't we. martha: yeah, we had our eye on it. bill: the car parts on the launch pad. kidding. airport security accused of groping a united states congressman. he's a republican out of texas, his name is fra francisco conseco saying he was patted down in san francisco, saying it was comfortable and he had to move the agent's hands away. >> he touched me in my private parts, and it hurt. and it's a natural reaction to move the offensive hand away, not in a violent way, and to move back. but what was even more offensive was that he didn't recognize the reaction as being normal and claimed that i assaulted him when i was the one being

assaulted. bill: kiphauley is the former administrator who used to run the thing over there. this mother claims a 4-year-old daughter was considered a terrorist, other cases have popped up in the past week, what is going on? >> that intrusive pat down needs to go is the first thing. i can understand back in the end of 2010 if thought they had a bomber in the system that they couldn't detect it that you'd put it in as an emergency measure. it's been a year and a half and there is an implicit par began with the public that says we'll only put in security measures that we really need and when we don't need them any more we'll pull them back, and it's now time to do that. bill: let me get to pulling back in a moment here on that. this is what the tsa has said about the congressman's incident in san antonio. tsa has been contacted by the congressman's office and will respond to them directly, once a passenger enters the screening process they must complete it prior to continuing to a flight

over secure area. now, you have a five-step plan to fixing all this. i want to make it clear, you're not in favor of getting rid of the tsa agents, right? >> no. bill: you want to keep the workers in place, you just want to change the way they work now. here are five of your suggestions. no more ban banned items. that is a broad category. let me go back to that in a moment. allow all liquids, no exceptions. give the tsa officers more flexibility and rewards for initiatives and hold hem accountable. eliminate the baggage fees, which is interesting, and randomize security. can you summarize those suggestions? >> sure, let's get rid of the security measures that may have been necessary right after 9/11, now we have other things that can take care of it and weed those out and that will clear up the check-point and let the officers focus on explosives or guns, but not screwdrivers and swiss army knives and stuff like

that. bill: if the terrorist knows no other liquids are being tested doesn't he find ways to put those things in boot else. >> no we have the technology to detect threat liquids. the reason they haven't deployed it is it alarms on insurance sent liquids as well and it will slow up the line. my theory is if you put up lines and say these are the lines that are for people who want to bring as much as they want. there is no reason the public can't decide that for themselves. bill: you've got a book coming out. i want to bring you back real soon. there is a lot to get to. keup hauley, thank you for your time today. out of washington there. martha: mitt romney has been very critical of president obama's foreign policy. >> this is of course president obama's greatest failing from the foreign policy standpoint, which is he recognized the

gravess threat that america and the world faced was a nuclear iran an did not do what was necessary to get iran to be dissuaded from their nuclear folly. martha: the white house is set to fire back in a big way today. we will hear from the white house and from the romney side on this. bill: forget about your road rage, the price at the pump nears 4 bucks a gallon. say hello to gas rage. >> you don't know what kind of gas you're going to get. you should know which one to press, the price is there, it's your choice. ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums

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martha: the white house going after presumptive nominee now, mitt romney. vice president joe biden will be giving a speech that far gets governor romney on foreign policy today. it will say that governor romney would basically take the united states back to the policies of president george w. bush. here is what rom my said that a romney administration would do. let's listen. >> we will stop the days of apologizing for success at home and never again apologize for america abroad. [cheering] martha: big reaction there. i'm joined now by ben labolt, the national press secretary to president obama's re-election campaign. good morning, ben, good to have you here. >> good morning, martha, thanks for having me. >> you heard that from mitt romney a moment ago. that with us a quote from the campaign trail, and that will clearly be one of the issues that comes up between these two men, the question of whether or

not president obama has apologized for the united states when he has traveled abroad and whether or not mitt romney believes that the white house and america must take the lead and be in front on a number of these issues. what say you? >> well on the apologizing front, every independent fact checker has rated that as absolutely false. that is what you've heard from governor romney on foreign policy, a lot of chest thumping, a lot of tough talk but not specific plans. the commander-in-chief only gets one chance to get it right, he's been all over the map on the key foreign policies of our time. he's been for and against setting a timetable for withdrawing troops from afghanistan. for and against trading with china. when the president authorized the mission to get osama bin laden he said any president would do so. martha: some of the excerpts coming out from the teach from vice president biden that he will say that governor romney's national security policy would

return to the past that we have worked so hard to move beyond. where does that come from? how would he do that? >> well, i think on several fronts. first of all governor romney certainly has a cold war mentality, as you heard in that discussion over russia. but the fact is that he's made clear that he would have left our troops indefinitely in iraq, 10 to 30,000 troops. while he's been all over the map on withdrawing our troops from afghanistan he certainly suggested that he would leave our troops there indefinitely when he hasn't outlined a mission for them. he's enlisted many of the same advisers that were the architects of the iraq war. and he's suggested that we should go-it-alone in the world, that the united states should act unilaterally other than rally the world around important international missions that are critical to american security and to global security. martha: i think -- looking at some of mitt romney's quotes on that he says the world is better off when america takes the

lead. and the president has made it clear that he likes to do things, you know, sort of in a more collective effort. you know, i mean that's a substantial debate between these two men, whether or not you want to see america out front as the lead super power and that is the position that the world expects us to take because we have done it so successfully in so many roles in history. is the president not comfortable with that position? >> the president believes that america is stronger when our alliances with our allies are secure, allies that were alienated during the bush administration, and governor romney has suggested he would go a similar unilateral route. martha: i want to show you a quick poll before we go, then we'll hear from the romney campaign and get their thoughts on all of this. a new job performance poll shows joe biden at 42% approval. hillary rodham clinton has 67% approval. there is always a lot of discussion over whether or not hillary rodham clinton would be potentially moved out of the

role and into the vp role on that ticket. that does make it any more likely? >> no, i think we need her serving as secretary of state. the fact is whether it's president obama or vice president biden the choice in november will be between an administration that brought you the back from the brink of another depression. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. we've created 4 million private sector jobs. the vice president will sum up the administration in one brief sentence, which is that gm is alive and osama bin laden is dead. martha: we'll see. you may have to convince her to stay a little bit longer if that's your plan. thank you so much. good to see you as always. >> thanks, martha. bill: for the other side, andrea saul is the president obama to mitt romney's campaign. welcome back here, what do you make of those charges? >> well, it's humerus to listen to the obama campaign. what we've seen with this administration is they've taken a naive view of the world constantly with all of their

decisions. president obama thought it was a good idea to negotiate with north korea and what we see now is they are on the brink of a nuclear test. he said he would sit down with mahmoud ahmadinejad without preconditions. they've had three years now and are on the brink of a nuclear weapon. with russia the american people heard him say he's had more flexibility after the election. it's ridiculous that he tells the american people one thing and that he's going to give more behind close doors. bill: react to what you know is going to be a clear and obvious charge, and joe biden is going to make it in about two hours, and that is this. there is no difference between governor romney and president george bush. how would you react to that? >> first off, governor romney as scribes to what president ronald

reagan called peace through strength. if he wants to talk about policies of the past and peace through strength versus the weakness he's shown we are happy to talk about that. first off making sure our military is strong. governor romney wants it to be so strong that no one would even think about testing it. on the other hand, president obama has made almost a trillion dollars in cuts to our military, which is devastating. bill: they are claiming that your camp has no specifics, and that governor romney has been -- he's been not entirely all over the map but he's changed his view on iraq, and you just heard the charge from the obama team that he would keep us in iraq for ten to 20 years if not further. i imagine governor romney is going to respond to all of this. i guess the question is, what does he lay it out? >> well, governor romney has talked about his foreign policy. he did so at a speech in the primary. bill: that's been some time, though, as you know i'm just

curious, is there anything on the docket or the schedule for another significant address? >> yes, there is, but nothing that i'm willing to share on live television right now. but to the point on afghanistan, which you brought up before, governor romney has always said that we should judge, you know, our moves based on conditions on the ground, and advice from our generals. what he's also always said is we shouldn't broadcast those moves to our adversaries and enemies. what this president has done by broadcasting to the world what his plans are is just giving the taliban reason to sit on the sidelines until america leaves. and so a president romney would make sure that the united states comes at things from a position of strength and not weakness by showing all our cards to enemies, and, you know, anyone else around the world that wants to know what our plans are. bill: as you know it's still a dangerous world out there. even though a lot of the domestic issues have over shau

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martha: new questions this morning on government regulations against the auto industry, with washington's push

to boost autoefficiency car manufacturers are passing that along to the consumer, and that has a fox news contributor, droy murdoch thinking about all this. how are you this morning. >> i'm fine. martha: tell me what the regular lays are an regulations are and why they will lead to higher prices. >> this was started book in 1975 during the big 1907s energy crisis. this is supposed to increase slowly but surely the fuel-efficiency of cars. there is a recent study by the national autodealers association that indicates between now and 2025 when the standards keep going up the average cars, the cheapest car they studied, the chevy avoi is going to go from 7,700 to 15,700.

people will be unable to qualify for car loans and other people will see the sticker prices go up. you may have an increase in fuel-efficiency but the car prices will go up when the economy is weak and people are counting every penny. martha: let's put that back up again, that is the chevy aveo. it shows in 2,010 the car would cost $12,700. they anticipate in 2025, according to the standards and the rising costs that the companies would have to employ to build the cars it would go up to $15,700. that puts it out ever the range where you would be able to qualify for a car loan is that right? >> yeah, these are costs in $2,010, keeping the dollars evening. 7million people, because of the higher prices just won't be able to qualify for car loans of course if they are continuing to drive their old cars whatever benefit you get environmentally won't appear if they don't get into new cars. martha: you make an argument this it's more dangerous on the road. >> much more frightening than

the increase in price is that cafe standards clear. autocompanies have made cars thinner, lighter, used lighter materials and that is all well and good in terms of increasing mpg until you happen to get into a car crash or drive into a tree or something like this. the number of people injured and killed as a consequence are just enormous figures. a judge by the name of j.r. dunn wrote a terrific piece in the publication called american thinker. he looked at studies, and finds depending on which study you check out between 1975 and now about 42,000 to about 125 people have been killed, dead as a consequence of being in car crashes they otherwise would have surveyed were they not driving in these noncrash worthy vehicles. the injures i like 350,000 plus, people permanently crippled for life. these are not expensive standards but deadly regulations, created by congress and forced by the epa and the department of transportation and it's a policy of mayhem coming

right out of washington d.c. martha: a very interesting perspective and food for thought on this issue. thank you very much. thank you for joining us. bill: jenna lee is coming up in 12 short minutes, "happening now," what are you working on? jenna: the epa is under fire today over allegedly antibusiness by as. wait until you hear what one epa official had to say about the oil industry and hear his apology for that. joe biden on the attack, is the vice president a mixed blessing for the president this election season. larry sabato is here with his crystal ball and a closer look at swing states including new hampshire. in rhode island one group wants to take down a memorial that's been up for 90 years, plus we have a great legal panel coming up for you on "happening now." bill: we were just looking at sabato's crystal ball. looking forward to that.

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martha: one of the so-called white house party crashers running for public office, only in america, right, folks? tareq salahi and his wife michaela snuck into a state dinner in 2009 eventually meeting president obama. then michaela ran off with the guitarist for journey. tareq says he's going to run for governor of virginia. this is after they sued his wine remember saying they cheated the customers on the tours there. you can't make this stuff up bill. life is always stranger than

fix fiction, isn't it? bill: did you prefer the chores or the stores. martha: the stores of course, who won't. bill: taking liberties and buying local now. eating food grown locally is growing in popularity these days. what happens when it's your neighbors who has the chickens, the goats and pigs. douglas kennedy is live in our newsroom. tough assignment, what is up? >> reporter: it's not easy. everybody wants food from background farms. some towns are making it difficult, if not impossible. like many these days marlene believes the best food is local food. the question for you is how to grow locally when there are now so many regulations against it. >> it's tough to grow local when the regulations stop you from growing right in your own background. >> reporter: last year she was raising eight pigs on her

139-acre farm in massachusetts. then the local board of health stepped in. she says they put up so many road blocks she eventually had to get rid of her pigs, even though there's been livestock on this farm for over 200 years. she says local rules and regulations will eventually put an end to local farming. your family has been farming here for three generations. what is going to happen? >> well, unfortunately it's going to put us out of business. >> reporter: a municipal attorney calls that that hog wash, saying regulations necessary whenever you're raising animals. >> these are animals people are going to eat and people are living right next to. >> reporter: wait a second, these are eight pigs on 139 acres. aren't we over regulated when you can't raise eight pigs on 134 acres. >> no one is saying you can't raise the pigs. we want you to maintain certain standards so that everyone's health and safety is secure.

>> reporter: they say they are only concerned about maintaining people's health and safety, what do you say to that? >> pigs aren't a risk to anybody's health. the over regulation of our pigs is the health problem. we won't be able to grow food if they keep over regulating us. >> reporter: and she says when you're not eating local food you're simply not eating as healthy. that's it from here, bill, back to you. bill: in the meantime the rooster crows at the break of dawn. martha: for nearly a century it's honored hometown soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. atheists want this cross at a fire stationery moved. can they do that? we'll be back. [ male announcer ] this is genco services --

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it was yours. everybody is saying we're mean and heartless because we didn't give it to the little boy. bill: earlier his face matched with the shirt. martha: go from crying and red-faced to smile in two seconds. bill: we have had had a big night last night. we want to give shoutout to geraldo rivera and his lovely wife erica. he has been connected to a charity for 40 years, exposed misdoings at willowbrook. oh my gosh. it was bride and groom. martha: i thought it was james bond. you in a self-tied bow tie i might point out. you took that great picture of erica and geraldo. you should be available for weddings. that was a beautiful shot. bill: got nothing to do. opengateinc.org is the charity. they do great work for a lot of people. they changed as geraldo said,

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