>> jamie: keep it moving. >> eric: about the story with mr. bush, here's the web site. what an important, great cause that is for helping wounded warriors. www.w1 hundredk.com. >> the wounded warriors need your help. they are all over the country. please, please, help our veterans. >> eric: great cause. good inspiration. see you back next week. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> jamie: good morning to you. the race for the white house has shifted into high gear, firing new reaction from the romney camp to a new obama campaign ad. president obama, this is as the president hits the road with one of his predecessors. good morning, everybody.

>> eric: good morning, everybody, i'm eric shawn. this is a brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. former president bill clinton is hitting the road with president obama with several fund-raising events. steve centanni, live in washington with the latest. good morning, steve. >> reporter: yeah. former president bill clinton is planning three different events, fund-raising events with president obama, including the one tonight. this is the first one. tell take place in northern virginia. bill clinton is helping the president in other ways, too. in that campaign ad, he took part in that controversial ad highlighting the president's decision to bring down osama bin laden a year ago and questioning whether a president mitt romney would have made the same decision. republicans are slamming the president's campaign for politicizing the killing of osama bin laden. >> this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. he took a unifying event for op

all american, an event that governor romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts in our government for completing the mission in terms of killing osama bin laden. and he has managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack that former defense secretary frank carlucci called sad, john mccain called shameful. i think most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. >> eric: he was also criticized for campaigning on the taxpayers' dime, pushing for low student loans and targeting the important youth vote at the same time. but the defenders say this latest ad, touting the boldness of the president's decision on osama bin laden is appropriate. >> certainly, it is not over the line. just a few years ago, president obama, then a candidate said in a speech, if we had actionable intelligence of a high-value

target in pakistan, we would go in and get that high-value target. mitt romney said that was foolish. >> eric: the president has the fund-raiser tonight. mitt romney has no campaign events today. thank you. as steve was saying, president obama's re-election campaign taking heat for the ad, implying that mitt romney would not have had the courage to issue the order to kill osama bin laden. here's a clip. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> eric: the romney campaign slamming that ad, calling it sad, politicizing the death of osama bin laden and they brand

it hypocrital. but in 2008, then candidate obama -- well, his campaign criticized rival hillary clinton for a very similar commercial. >> it's the toughest job in the world. you need to be ready for anything, especially now with two war, oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis. harry truman said it best -- if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. who do you think has what it takes? >> eric: well, is the obama campaign trying to have it both ways? joining us for a fair and balanced debate, jemhu green and nancy flooderhaur. good to see you. nancy, let me start with you. senator mccain call this is shameless -- shameless! why can't the president make

political points by pointing out the killing of bin laden. >> the point is that this was an effort to spanned two presidencies, that it was supposed to be a unifying moment for the american people. and the president obama himself told us he wouldn't politicize it. this wasn't a time to spike the football, quote/unquote. yet, he has turned around and done it because he thinks it's politically expedient. from my perspective, it's a big swing and miss because they havetain a demonstrable achievement and so over politicized it that it's now an argument that republicans can make against them. >> eric: is there something crass about the obama administration doing this? >> absolutely not, eric. the reality is, the american people are not going to decide between these two candidates based on governor romney saying, oh, your ad is out of line.

this, as president obama has said, is going to be the starkest contrast between two candidates we have seen in a generation. we know as a commandener chief, you only get at times, one chance to make that right decision, actually interestingly, thinking of president bush, washing your previous segment, as he was with the wounded veterans and his book, "decision points," i think voters really need to understand they haven't gotten through the rhetoric of governor romney's campaign to details. he has no vision and lacks the foreign policy experience to lead. i think that's what this commercial highlights and really is going to continue to prove to the american people that when it comes to foreign policy governor romney has said, on serious questions, let me get back to you on that. i have to talk to my attorneys. decision points, that's what a commander in chief is responsible for and this proves president obama does have a lot

more weight and carries a lot more weight in this area. >> eric: nancy, what about that? >> i think it's funny that -- that the obama campaign wants to talk about foreign policy. clearly, they want to do that because they can't talk about economic policy when there are a million jobs down in the private sector and 23 million americans are looking for jobs. but i do think a serious debate about the questions facing this country on foreign policy is warranted. unfortunately, this was not the first play to call. it was politicized something that shouldn't have been politicized and dignifies how nasty this election's going to be. i would distinguish it from the way obama conducted himself in 2008. >> eric: what is interesting, the election is basically starting, they are both tied. the latest poll shows 46-46, that's astounding for an

incumbent president. >> it's going to be a close race. i think we have heard all along throughout the extended republican primary, that they knew it was going to be a close race t. will come down to the battleground states. but where's your vision when it comes to foreign policy? where is your economic policy? when guto governor romney's web site and check the issues section to find out informs on where he stands for veterans, there is nothing there. he is only producing rhetoric right now. then at times, he shows us that he doesn't understand what century we are in when he says russia is our number 1 geo-politico foe. >> eric: why hasn't that gotten more traction? romney is leading independents by 16 points. >> i think the polls are going to vary from day to day, eric. but this comes down to the battleground states. as you look at where independents are in those states, if you look at where

clearly the huge gender gap we have seen that president obama has with women, the support he has from many latino voters in those important states, whether it is colorado, ohio, new mexico, florida. president obama is doing well. but as we continue to draw the stark comparisons between the two candidates and governor romney puts nothing on the table except for empty rhetoric, the numbers will change. >> eric: empty rhetoric, says jemhu. nancy? >> i say, bring it on. this is a debate that the country needs to have, the gender gap shrunk to half the size in march. so independent voters like mitt romney's message of opportunity and growth. and that will matter. i for one am anxiously awaiting the debates because i think romney will wipe the floor with the president on economic issues -- >> real quick, she says bring it on, but the commercial airs and

it's like, whoa. get over it. >> eric: it's starting. they are bringing it. we will see. great to see you. >> thank you. >> we have an update on a story we have been following, a potential key witness in the case of a missing arizona girl has come forward. six-year-old isabel vanished from her tucson home more than a week ago. we have the latest details from our new york newsroom. this is a big break in the case, hopefully? >> reporter: unfortunately, no major breakthrough, but law enforcement is saying that after posting new surveillance video, eight to 10 new leads began coming in each hour. one male has come forward, identifying himself as being on that video that was taken about 1:30 in the morning, the day isabel was reported missing from her bedroom by her father. this is outside a nightclub near

the home. detectives want to ask the man if he saw anything unusual, not calling any of them suspect, just witnesses. they are searching for any video from a baseball game that the family attended the night before isabel went missing. the parents are fully cooperating, but investigators are not ruling them out as suspects. we are told the ground search around the home, including bodies of water, is now complete. >> going canvassing five times in that three-mile radius. i think now we can say we are comfortable that we checked that entire area. that's a way of measuring the progress. i know there is quite a bit more to do. but that's what we are working at. >> reporter: because of tucson's close proximity to the mexican border, u.s. marshals are circulating a photo of the first grader in mexico and are working with authorities to

check bus terminals and other businesses. police are hoping a new $50,000 reward will lead to new information. and tonight, there is a benefit concert for isabel, called voices of hope in scottsdale, arizona. >> thank you for that. >> eric: well, are we ready to insure our financial security when retirement comes? up next, a weekly consumer production segment will give you tips that you won't want to miss. >> it's been brought-- the one liners are flying at the annual white house correspondence dinner. host jimmy kimmel and president obama both taking the mike. highlights up next. >> it's hard to be funny with the president of the united states looking at you. yet, somehow day in and day out, joe biden manages to do it. [ tom ] we invented the turbine business right here in schenectady.

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>> when it comes to saving for retirement, the earlier you start, the better. however nreality, most of us don't start building up our nesteggs until our 30s and even later. considering the state of the economy and social security, do americans need to begin saving earlier? in our take charge consumer

protection segment, we look at how you can best prepare for your golden years, whatever your age. dominic sevilla is from financial consultants. >> how are you? >> i'm well. let's say you are 23 years old, 42 years before you hit 65. you want to have by the time you retire, $1.5 million. how much does that mean a month? >> we look at this on an annual basis. starting in their early, mid-20s, they can have in excess $1 million, easily. the earlier you start, the better off you are. 35-year-old, before you start that, could be half that number. in other words, for every year you are putting off starting to put away dollars for retirement, for your future, it will cost you $40,000 in savings in retirement. >> it's about $5,000 a year we

are looking for. let's break it down for month, biweekly, weekly, when people get the paychecks because that's when you have to take charge and make it happen, even the daily stuff, not getting the extra, you know, bring your lunch to work, these types of things. >> two quick issues. the first is that we sit down and enroll 401(k) participants all the time. we first get, i can't afford t. you look at latte or what they spend for lunch and you are going, look being you can save $5, $10 a day. it's really not that difficult. it's a lifestyle change. issue number 2; get the moneytain out ever your paycheck buffer spend t. we are all human. if we get the dollar, we're going to find a way to get rid of it, whatever the case may be. get your employer to take that money out of your paycheck, it's a pre-tax basis. >> or you can have your savings account set up to go from your

account, automatically drft drafted to a savings account. >> great point. people say, my employer doesn't have a plan, doesn't have a 401(k), you can fund your own ira, or if you can't think about retirement, think about a mutual fund. $50, $100 a month, automatically out of your checking account. not thinking about tyou are not writing a check, going can i afford it? it's automatic, automatically invested for you. >> if you are in your 20s, do it now. but there are people who haven't been able to do that for various reasons. you are here, watching in your 40s, you are thinking, i am behind the curve ball. how can that person get on board and feel like they are going to have something socked away when it's time? >> we see this all the time. life interfere, you are paying the mortgage and college and all of that is done and you go, wow, i have a very short timeline. the guys in washington ain't

that dumb. no matter what we think. they have given us huge opportunities in a 401(k), 403b, $17,000. if you are over 54, they allow more $15,000. you can get up to $50,000 a year on a pre-tax basis. so there are huge opportunities, if you have the cash flow, get the dollars away on a pre-tax basis. get the tax savings that you would have given up to the federal/state government, get to the goal. >> the key word is cash. a lot of people don't have the cash. i would like you to help -- it's all mind-set, so i want someone in their 40s thinking, that's great, 401(k) -- i don't have it. break it down for them. give them a simple tip to make it more realistic for them to put that money away that they really need to. >> the biggest problem is that people are looking at a very

large number, the hypothetical million and it's not going to happen. i can't put away $10- or $15,000 a year. break it down to the weekly, monthly expenses. you realize, if i don't go to dinner that extra time, if i figure out a way to cut the cell phone bill by $50 a month, you can take that, have it automatically added to your checking account, put it away, forget about t. you would be amazed how that money grows. we have had participants after 3, 5 years and say, honestly, we would never have this money saved if you didn't get me to take it out of my paycheck on a regular basis. >> great advice. >> have a great day. >> eric: great advice. big night in washington. media, politics and hollywood get together in a black tie and fancy gowns and it makes for a fascinating and fun evening. the annual white house

correspondence dinner was held. and president obama taking crags at everybody from mitt romney to himself. and talk show host comedian jimmy kimmel threw out a slew of zingers. >> mr. president, i know you won't be able to laugh at any of my jokes about the secret service, so cover your ears, if that's physically possible. i do have a lotted of jokes about the secret service. you know, i told them for $800, i wouldn't tell them, but they only offered $30, so -- i want to thank the washington hilton for hosting us. president obama wanted to move it to the kennedy center, but the republicans wanted to keep it here at the hilton, so they compromised. and here we are at the hilton. >> eric: wow. what a night. everybody from donald rumsfeld -- >> and jamie colby, all in the same room. >> eric: jamie attended. we will have to get the scoop from her, if she talked to

lindsay lohan or anybody else. >> she looks amazing. >> eric: absolutely. coming up next, tweel talk about the voter fraud and fellons. you know, virginia is the latest state with more illegal voting in the 2008 election. how bad is it? the fox news voter fraud unit will be on it. >> the john edwards trial, off to a hot start with sordid details of his affair splashed all over the headline, butted star witness may not be such a clean character himself. how that could affect the case, coming up as well. aspirin is just old school. people will have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. now we're challenging you to put it to the test. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer.

>> eric: now to the fox news voter fraud unit t. claims voter i.d. would stop fell frons illegally voting. we have looked at claims that illegal votes may have tipped the minnesota senate race to al franken, after he beat norm coleman by a near 312 votes.

but the conservative group, minnesota majority, has claimed more than a thousand felons voted illegally and they may have made the difference. prosecutors have so far convicted 175 felons with more cases coming. but they claim not enough felons voted to sway the result and that voter i.d. would not have stopped the illegal voting. >> it really is a solution chase egg problem. it's going to disenfranchise a lot of people, as the federal judge said in ohio. there is only one reason for voter i.d., to disenfranchise people. that's what it does. >> eric: the next state facing this is virginia where a voter i.d. bill is bb about to be signed. dozens of people there, including fellons, have been charged with fraud from the 2008 election. joining us to talk more about that from richmond, republican senator tom garrett who has spoken out about voter fraud. how bad is voter fraud in

virginia? >> well, the simple answer is we don't know. what we have had are literally hundreds of cases investigated and confirmed by the virginia state police and in some instances, local police. but we don't know what the scale is. in 2008 alone, there have been hundreds of cases confirmed in the one election. you point to the franken race in minnesota, likewise, the 2005 virginia attorney general's race was decided by 300 votes. that's a statistically significant number. >> eric: when you talk about hundreds of cases and close races, minnesota, 2012, virginia, 2005, 30000 votes. >> any vote hais illegally cast, it waters down every legally cast ballot or cancels out every legally cast ballot. this is about protecting the sanctity and that one vote per person is the law of the land.

>> eric: 30 people have been charged, including felons with voter registration -- illegally registering to vote, including claims of third-party groups may have been involved. what's the latest? what is going on in terms of those cases? >> prior to my election to the state senate, our sheriff's office investigated two instances of this and we had convictions on the investigates. in one of those, women's voices/women's votes, part of the tide center had solicited registration, when the person who illegally registered queried as to whether this was a problem, they said, don't worryp about it, nobody will check and if they do, they won't do anything about it. it would appear that some groups are actively looking to exploit. we want to close the barn door before the horses get out. >> eric: comes to mind, a.c.o.r.n., you think they

personally solicited illegal votes? >> i don't have any sort of hards evidence that the group institutionally did so. but we do have very good anecdotal evidence that individuals within the group did. when we conducted our investigation, when i was a prosecutor, that's what we wanted to do, to walk this dog backwards to the individuals who were seeking to register people who they knew would not be allowed to vote under the law. the other instances in virginia are oftentimes university student who is might be registered in pennsylvania, but attend college at the university of virginia and vote in both places. those are the two primary illegal voting activities that we have been able to verify. >> eric: parents writes that you their kids voted at home and had an absentee ballot where they lived. you can't do that, can you? >> i would think, again, one vote should be for each voter and that protects the sanctity of the franchise. that's all we are trying to do. the help america vote act is the

virginia voter i.d. law. it passed the senate in 2002, 92-2. so when we got the virginia voter i.d. bill, which is more broadly constructed, it doesn't require a voter i.d., we thought this would be a bipartisan commonsense issue t. passed 20-20 tie. the only conclusion kireach is that there are entities that are interested in allowing the loopholes to continue, not allowing the sanctity of one person, one vote. that's very concerning? >> it's a hot and contentious issue. thank you for joining us to talk about what's going on in virginia. >> thank you. and thank you for bringing attention to this important issue. >> eric: absolutely. as folks know, voter fraud@fox news dot-com. thank you again.

>> a bleak new assessment on the housing market from a yale economics professor. professor schiller says it could take an entire generation or more to see a turnaround. could anything be done before that? let's bring in our anchor of bulls & bear, brenda buttner. brenda, good morning, first of all. >> hi. >> say it ain't so. 25 years. >> eric? can anything be done? >> well, yeah, that's a pretty dire prediction. however, he is quite well known in the housing industry and people are taking this very seriously. i think what he is saying is that it may be a while before we see the kind of prices that we did pre-- pre- bust, which is the boom that just went bust. but what has happened since we saw people flipping houses and using their houses as atms in

2005, housing prices have declined 25%. that's significant. we have seen some activity in some cities. however, we expect that prices will continue to decline. if they do, buyers will stay on the sidelines. why is that? it used to be said, one thing matter audio location, location, location. now the only thingna that matter, job, job, jobs. until we get unemployment down, people are not going to buy homes. they don't feel they have the wherewithal and banks are not willing to give mornings to people who don't have jobs. so people are not going to go out there and start buying and there is a whole inventory of foreclosed homes that haven't hit the market. they're going to bring the price of other homes down. 1.5 million are expected to hit the housing market this year alone. but there are predictions that this could be the first year where we see housing prices

stabilize, at least or maybe even go up. we do know that in some cities where unemployment is not that bad, houses are selling. so it's very -- you know, it various by city to city. you can't make a national prediction. >> quickly, what does that mean for current homeowners? they have lost so much value in their homes? >> you know, it's hard to say. many of them can't move because they have a job here so, you know, they -- they can't move to another job, so -- because they have their house here. they can try to put it on the market and -- but chances are, they are not going to get what they paid for it. that's a whole problem. we have, you know, millions of people who are under water, they owe more on their mortgage than the house is worth. until that turns around, we are likely going to be in the middle of a housing crisis. usually, it's the housing market that leads a country out of recession. now, we have a housing market

that -- [overlapping dialogue] >> brenda buttner, i wish we had better news. but it's good to see you. and let's keep our fingers crossed for a faster recovery. >> okay, thank you. >> eric: the trial of former senator john edwards. his former aide, andrew young, testified against his former boss this week. the revelations came out. what prosecutors plan for this week -- you know, john edwards wanted to sit in the oval office. will he end up in the slammer? .

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>> welcome back. week 2 of the john edwards corruption trial starting tomorrow. it's lards off to a hot start. former aide, andrew young, spilling details of the senator's affair, but this trial isn't about his love life, it is about the alleged misuse of campaign donations. in that area, young has already come under fire himself,

admitting to using donor funds to build a house and much more. we have a former prosecutor and a defense attorney. good to see you gentlemen this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. of course, andrew young did admit he built a pool in our home, we put in a home movie theater, we extended the house by a bedroom. does this discredit him as a witness altogether? >> i think it does discredit him. but i think that's just the beginning of. it i think there is a number of other items. he has immunity. there is also some emails that have come out that have shown animosity towards edwards. you have the inconsistent statements he has given during the trial. in addition to the motives of being opportunistic and catching himself on the coattails of edwards, have you other serious problems for his credibility.

but david, does that throw out everything you will hear from andrew young? what we have heard thus far, shocking testimony from last week that andrew young claims he was afraid that there might have been a possibility that he could have gotten shot, not necessarily by edwards himself, but by someone else? >> you know, there is no evidence of that. i think that's a sympathy ploy. andrew ying young is any defense attorney's dream in this case. the reality is he contacted three witnesses before the trial ever started to square his testimony with theirs. he built his dream home, as you indicated and he cashed in, writing a book, collecting $200,000 of proceeds from the book and engaging in negotiations for a movie deal. so the jury is going to ask, are we going to send a man, john edwards, to pritch for 30 years, based upon the testimony of a man who, but for his being given immunity, would be going to prison himself. if the jury does get past it and

gets into the substance of the case, they have to look at basically whether or not these funds were campaign funds or personal funds. bunny mellon, the rich donor, there is evidence that she wanted them to go towards covering up this personal issue, this affair, and did not want them to go to campaign issues. if the jury believes that and they believe that john edwards didn't have personal knowledge of how the funds were being switched around by his aides, they will acquit him. andrew young is a star witness. the case rests on him. so i don't think there is any chance at this point of a conviction. >> well, david mentioned the personal aspect of the trial. it is not about the personal aspect, but hunt hunt will take the stand, the mistress who had the baby for senator edwards, this is how this kicked off. there is an alleged sex tape between them. and rielle hunter's legal team requested that the tape not be presented as evidence. but they are saying they want to

strictly limit how much talk we hear about the tape. will the jury be able to discern and hear all of these personal allegations and accounts of what happened in this whole affair here? and be able to make a fair decision and throw that out? and do you think in the end, this will get edwards off the hook and he won't see any jail time? >> this is part of the problem that the defense has because you take everything that we heard about young, for example. sure, he's got credibility issues. but the fact of the matter is, the prosecution knows that people go to prison every day in this country, based on the testimony of people who are considered to be dishonest and greedy. they are called cooperating witnesses. so this is nothing new. i think the prosecution can say, let's posit this -- can young be credibility compromised and edwards be guilty at the same time? and the answer is yes. tell boil down to this issue of whether or not the prosecution's

theory that edwards made his family, the cornerstone of his campaign -- did any of this money -- not necessarily all of it -- did any of this money go to keep the secret of the mistress and the child from the voters? if so, you can't separate the campaign from the family because edwards himself melded them together and it will be a campaign contribution. whether they show the tape or not, the more we hear about the salacious allegations, it is going to be very difficult for the jury to compartmentalize these things and they may return a reverse nullification, no-confidence vote. >> i have to jump in there. i do apologize. we could go on. but edwards facing six charges, combined possible 30 years in prison. we have to leave it there. >> count on an acquittal.

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>> fox extreme weather, straight-line winds send egg beer tent crashing down on people after a cardinals baseball game in st. louis. one man was killed, 17 were hospitalized and up to 100 were injured when the storm blew through yesterday. what's the outlook for today botomorrow? maria molina is live. >> good to see you. unfortunately, we are looking at more severe weather for today into tomorrow because we have a front across the center of the country and warm air to the south of it and it is very humid. and cooler, dryer air to the north. where the air masses clash is where we have the strong, severe storms from st. louis, further to the west and oklahoma city, as well as the texas panhandle and large hail and damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. we are not looking at a big

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commentary. good morning, liz. >> good morning. >> eric: what's the times saying? >> this morning, we have a piece entitled questions of bias and balance. these are letters in response to what the ombudsman wrote on sunday. the ombudsman, arthur briz bane is a sort of cop. he sort of patrols the inside of the newspaper to make sure it's on the straight and narrow, down the middle road. unfortunately, that's know the problem the times has. very surprisingly, the piece he wrote says that the people do think that there is a left-wing bias at the new york times. my goodness. it's taken him a long time to come to that conclusion. in the piece, he says that -- and this may be the reason why he wrote it -- that two famous media scholars have concluded in a study that president obama enjoyed more positive coverage

in his first year in office than any of his three predecessors and that this was cause for alarm. and then brisbane goes off on a tangent about who is barack obama, which he takes back in today's piece and said, maybe i shouldn't have branched out in that direction. nevertheless, whatever he meant, the very fact of the political editor says in this piece gives the game away. he went to the political editor and asked him, what gives here? we have people sighing that there is a strong liberal current of liberal bias in the newspaper. and richard stevenson, the political editor assured him that we take very seriously our responsibility to report without favoritism. well, you know, i thought about it again this morning when i looked at the op-ed page in the new york times and found two of their most celebrated columnist,

trystoff and dowd, attack the catholic church. now, they're in favor of nuns, but they are not in favor of the vatican. that's one of the blind spots of the times. it has angerad i lot of people and it is a left-wing bias because they support the way-outer far left people who are calling themselves catholics. just one example. another is how they they have treated romney. in fact, mr. brisbane himself makes particular notice at beginning of the piece about the investigation of anne romney's investments and how, well, that wasn't a good idea. do you believe it? >> eric: you know what is fascinating about the brisbane article. he wrotes that the times needs to offer an aggressive look at the president's record, campaign policies and campaign operation to answer the question: who is the real barack obama? do you think the times is up to

that? >> i assume he reads the newspaper every day. apparently, the paper's not answering that. this could be a planted piece. i don't mean to impugn mr. brisbane's integrity. but i think the times might be looking at their circulation numbers and making the connection with their bias. and that this was a kind of way of inching into -- well, we are going to watch ourselves because we know we are in trouble with anybody but the far left. >> eric: that's fascinating. i would urge anybody to go to their webbate and read the arguments. liz, always good to see you. >> thank you. >> eric: see you next week. that's it for us on this sunday. i'm eric shawn. >> stick around, america's news headquarters with shannon bream is starting in 30 seconds, live in washington, d.c. have a great sunday, everybody. >> eric: take care.