>> tough to see leg warmers when you're on the obstacle course today. >> we'll need more than leg warmers. >> climb the wall, dooce! >> there's a chance of electrocution. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. >> i ain't doing no wall, no way! >> never know. >> no way! >> absolutely not! >> she's thinking about it. >> you guys will show up the other people out there. good morning, everyone. tgif, it's friday, may 18th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for sharing your time with us today. abort mission, republicans choose not to use reverend wright in a series of campaign ads after mitt romney says take a high road. are republicans being held to a different standards than democrats would be? we report, you decide. >> meanwhile, president george w. bush is back with a reminder for all americans and people around the world as well, fighting for freedom ain't easy despite what washington wants

you to think. >> all right. and get ready -- for the dirtiest version of "fox & friends" that you'll ever see. >> ever! >> the guys from tough mudder are here and they're putting us to the ultimate test. it's the competition and course that's taken this world by storm. started in britain. went to australia and come to the good old u.s.a. and more important out to our verandah. it's a pool of ice, big wall all coming your way on "fox & friends" now! >> today, we're talking tough mudder. ladies and gentlemen, we've had a lot of events here on "fox & friends" but in the history of it going on 16 years, this is without a doubt the biggest thing we have ever staged. it is referred to on their web site as probably the toughest event on planet earth. >> what i love about it is it

was harvard guys who came up with this idea a few years ago. talk about making something of yourself and starting out and thinking hey, i'm going to start a company that might work in america! wow, what a novel concept and look at how important and big this thing has become now. >> designed by british special forces. if we do this, the next thing you know we'll be in a chopper diving into some terrorist's lair. >> we could being hang gliding off the building. that wall scares brian and i. >> that's mud and real barbed wire underneath. >> brian and i are going to go through the course. it's not a race, just a personal challenge to see if you want to get in a tub with 8,000 pounds of ice like they've got right there. >> we have a busy, busy friday. or should we call it mud day? >> let's do your headlines while we wait for that challenge. the fox news alert out of mississippi now. brand new reports, police have just arrested a suspect in those two fatal highway shootings. and he will be charged with murder today? police say 28-year-old james willie had not been posing as a

police officer as authorities previously thought. we're also told he's not the same man arrested yesterday in what also appeared to be a police impersonation scheme. we'll be sure to keep you posted as we learn more. a deadly attack overnight in afghanistan killing two nato service members. it happened in the eastern part of the country. no word yet on if they were american or not. so far, this year, more than 150 nato service members have been killed in the country. >> the fate of john edwards is now in the hands of a jury. deliberations begin this morning in his federal corruption case after a day of closing arguments, the defense asked jurors to separate his affair from the alleged campaign money cover-up. the former presidential candidate accused of using nearly a million dollars in donations to hide an affair with his mistress rielle hunter. this is what a world war ii memorial used to look like. it clearly listed the members of the state who lost the lives for

their country. now the names are barely visible. the department of accounting of general services say it got a fresh coat of paint and it's barely visible because of the sooted. they are sickened because of the lack of respect. >> if you erase it, it's disgraceful. >> the memorial was built back in 1944. scores of veterans naturally urging the state now to make the names more visible once again. and those are your headlines. hard to believe that the dirt actually made them more visible than cleaning up the wall, apparently. >> it was on the front page of "the new york times" yesterday, possibly strategy used by a super pac used by the rich guy that owns the cubs to push forward mitt romney's campaign by looking into president obama's past association with reverend wright. >> it came in the form of a 55-page proposal by a g.o.p. strategist by the name of fred davis. fred wanted them to spend $10

million for a bunch of ads to do this. essentially to redefine who our current president of the united states barack obama is and one of the ideas is to argue that barack obama is incapable of making good decisions not because he was misguided, but because his world view was shaped by reverend wright who taught him that america was the problem. of course, reverend wright in the news right now because he's featured in that new ed klein book that suggests he was offered $150,000 to shut up before the 2008 election. >> he talked to ed klein. he did. >> you have to wonder if this was a super pac situation again. keep in mind, the candidates always argue they have nothing to do with the super pacs and they can't stop them from putting out particular ads because it's individual money that goes towards those super pacs. well, now, mitt romney is on the record as asking that super pac to not do this particular kind of an ad because i think in a smart way, he does not want to be roped in to this situation where once again, people can come out and attack him

immediately with some sort of a racial situation. here's mitt romney. >> i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectfully be about the future and about issues. and about a vision for america. i -- i've been disappointed in the president's campaign to date which is focused on character assassination. >> and he's talking about really what he's talking about, too, is what joe biden is doing. that's attacking what mitt romney did at bain capital and what he didn't do in terms of investments. but this is an important standard. you were indicating this before, gretchen. we heard during the whole six months of the primary process that mitt romney, they were using tough ads against rick santorum and newt gingrich and they go back and forth and they say listen, i can't control it. if i say anything, you can't -- i'm violating the law and today, i thought he rightly -- yesterday, he rightly came out

and said, listen, don't bring it up about race. let's make it about the economy. there's going to be a push to accept or reject everything that the super pac does. >> is there a bigger picture here? there's so many other things. if you're on the republican side of the fence and you're mitt romney's campaign, there's so many other things to criticize president obama on. why would you go back to reverend wright? why do i say that? there was a lot of play about reverend wright in 2008 and the voters didn't seem to care. they didn't seem to care. right or wrong about reverend wright. why would you go back to that when there appears to be so many other things that you can focus on including the economy. >> and the president's record itself. charles krauthammer says ok, mitt romney, whatever you say but there is a double standard at play here. reverend wright is fair game. here's krauthammer. >> it will be completely legitimate but i think romney is wise not to do it. look, i think there is an appalling double standard here.

it's ok for "the washington post" to run a 5,000 word front page story on a prank that romney at the age of 15 committed and yet, it's somehow illegitimate, the low road or whatever for people to bring up the fact that the adult obama had a 20-year relationship with a racist, anti-american preacher whom he considered spoke about -- wrote about as his mentor and spiritual advisor. that is a double standard unlike any i've ever seen. now, john mccain accepted it in his campaign. >> he did. part of the other hypocrisy is the fact for a year, we've heard the mainstream media talk about, oh, mitt romney is a mormon. that's going to be a problem for him. so yesterday, simply for the insinuation that there were some ads talking about the current president's former preacher, that is stunning hypocrisy. >> well, all i say is this -- this is what's tempting. this guy davis said that if i was allowed to put out the ad in

2008 that john mccain would not let me put out, we would never have elected barack obama but meanwhile, let's talk about the former president who was president until 2008. that's president george w. bush who we have not heard anything from him. he has an editorial in today's "wall street journal" at which time, he talks about the theme of his eight years and that's freedom focusing on the middle east and north africa. >> i thought this was really intriguing and i'm wondering if we'll hear more from the former president because as brian mentioned he's stayed out of the spotlight. why now? why would he write this editorial about freedom? america does not get to choose if a freedom revolution will begin in the middle east or elsewhere. it only gets to choose which side it's on. that's a really simple statement but an incredibly important one. >> he also says in promoting freedom, we need to be flexible only when a government treats its nation with dignity. does the nation fulfill its greatness and when it violates

the rights of the citizens, it dishonors the entire nation. >> here's the best line of it. this indicates those -- this goes back to 2003 when people thought, you know, the people of the middle east are different. don't put western values on them. they don't necessarily want freedom. they live the government they're under. they say the idea that our peoples is somehow content with oppression has been discredited forever. so they came, fought for freedom when they got a chance for it and now they also know they can stand up to brutal dictators. we still don't know where the arab spring is going in the short term. >> read all about it in "the wall street journal" today. >> let us know why you think george w. bush would be writing the op ed right now. the world mourning the loss of donna summers. her anthems, the soundtrack of the disco era. >> ♪ talking about the bad girls ♪ ♪ the bad girls ♪ talking about bad, bad girls ♪ yeah >> now, for more on her life and legacy, let's go live to

anton lewis outside of studio 54 in new york city. prime spot where a lot of stuff happened. right? >> absolutely. you know you were dancing here, gretchen, at some point. >> no kidding. >> who wasn't? >> i'm coming down there right now! >> just a little bit quiet right now but "bad girls" "last dance" "hot stuff" any one of those hits could have been blaring out of this building back in the mid 1970's. donna summer's family announcing yesterday she passed away at her home in key west. a lot of people didn't know she was ill but the family according to wire reports was that it was cancer and they kept it private, all this information is starting to come out yesterday. now, donna summer was born in boston in 1948. she grew up on the music of motown in the 1960's. by the mid 70's, she was singing professionally and the blossoming disco era she found a connection in. it was a connection made in heaven. she had 19 number one hits on the billboard dance chart, a record recently broken in the last couple of years by madonna.

she held that record for a long time. that song right there "love to love you baby" was the one that putted her on the map. she became a born again christian later in life and she refused to sing that song because of the lyrics and the erotic undertones associateed with some of the verbal passages there but all the rest of the hits, no problem singing and no demand, no shortage of demands from fans wanting to hear that. so she's closely identified with the music that was coming out of here in the 1970's up until 1981 and then she, of course, transitioned into a more pop base with songs like "she worked hard for the money" and growing that audience that she built upon for those years there. 63 years old. she's survived by her husband and three daughters. and countless praises. a lot of accolades are coming in. a lot of icons talk, things like that and one thing that's starting to come up, the fact that she was nominated for induction into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame and she was passed over this year. there's a lot of messages on twitter and a lot of things out

there in cyberspace that are pointing some fingers not that the hall could have known this was going to happen certainly but saying that here, maybe we should start to look a little bit more broad at the artists that are going to be considered for such an honor. but we are in front of the old studio 54, gretchen, back to you inside, you bad girl there. >> you don't know how right you are! you have no idea, antoine! thank you so much for that great report. on such a sad day but she lives on on our ipads. >> absolutely. lot of great tunes. >> ipods. >> still ahead, vladimir putin still busy for president obama. he's skipping this weekend's summit in chicago. is our relationship with russia going backwards? a little rocky? dick morris, former advisor to president clinton weighs in coming up next. >> could have been president. >> could have been. just ask him. >> see this $1.5 million house, looks nice, right? why was the couple living inside collecting welfare payments too. >> a little more on the life and career of donna summer. wake up!

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>> all right. the united states relationship with russia going backwards? remember russian president vladimir putin decided to miss this weekend's nato summit in chicago? what is he trying to say to president obama? author of soon to be best selling -- actually best selling book "screwed" dick morris, welcome. what do you make of vladimir putin not coming here? >> first, "screwed" the book debuts at number three on "the new york times" bestseller list. so eileen and i have been having a little bit of a party. i think that what's going on now is a shadow game between putin and the united states over the issue of anti-missile missiles.

as you recall, during the cold war era, the whole approach was oh, don't have defensive missiles because it's only mad that will protect the world, mutually assured destruction and if anybody erects a missile shield, they might have a first strike against the other side. and that logic is continuing even though with iran and north korea a missile shield is about the only defense we could have. now, when -- when obama hinted to medvedev with that open mike a few weeks ago, i'll have a little more flexibility after the election, he was talking about this issue and putin boycotting nato summit is really a statement that he wants nato to turn away from deploring land based interceptors. what's going on, brian, there's a worry that i have and write about in "screwed." there's a thing called the code of conduct in space which is

being circulated by our european allies that would ban anything in outer space that might contribute to debris. literally littering in outer space. and they're using that as a method of foreclosing to the united states the option of a space-based missile interceptor which all the experts agree is the best way to go in deterring iranian and north korean aggression and i'm worried that's going to happen. because of putin's precedent. >> vladimir putin ran and got elected in the ridiculous race that he ran, being anti-american and he says he might have a pre-emptive strike if we have any capabilities in eastern europe and then he decides he's too busy forming a fake cabinet to come over here. that resetting of the relationship has been a flat out disaster and we're too focused on the economy to actually examine it but dick, i want you to stick around. we have to talk about president obama's opponent. >> i want to mention -- >> you will in a second. let me come back after this. real quick, we're up against a

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>> got some quick headlines for you on this friday morning. remember this story, a couple living in this million dollar waterfront house in seattle and receiving welfare. well, they could be heading to

prison. from that house to the big house. they pled guilty yesterday to defrauding benefit programs. they'll pay back over $500,000 but they pay up to 10 years behind bars and new numbers about how many mail carriers are attacked by dogs. this year alone, it was more than 1,000. the most troublesome city is houston, texas. >> my mailman doesn't deliver mine because my dog is so big. >> your fed ex guy will? >> my fed ex guy will do anything! he wraps himself in bubble wrap and gets to the door. >> a new gallup poll finds that romney's favorable rating has spiked. up 11 points since february to 50% now. >> back with dick morris and dick, did you expect this type of surge so quick from mitt romney up at 50% from gallup?

>> it's -- i did not and it's wonderful let me finish the point about the nato summit. they were going to have the g-8 meeting and the nato meeting in chicago. kind of a tribute to obama having it in his hometown. and then the occupy wall street types were going to demonstrate so they moved the g-8 summit to camp david where they couldn't go but kept the nato summit in chicago. the biggest thing about that summit might be international attention focusing on demonstrations. chicago is pretty famous for those and that could be very embarrassing for obama in his hometown. particularly because when occupy wall street acts up, people tend to say there goes the left and they identify obama with it. >> thanks for the back story. >> on the romney thing -- on the romney thing, i think what's interesting here is not just that romney is going up which i think is the consequence if you look at the internals of republicans and independents flocking to him now that he's the nominee but that obama is

going down in favorability. it used to be that obama was in the mid 60's in favorability even when his job approval was in the 40's. well, now his job approval is still in the 40's but in that gallup poll, his personal favorability is down to 52, one point above romney's or two points. and his unfavorables are much higher than romney's and i think that is the backlash against the platform style he's been having. that's increasingly strident and confront confrontative and sdissive. >> i find fascinating that the primary process was so cutting and mean spirited that whoever emerges would be so damaged they'd have no chance and within three weeks, now they're in a dead heat and head to head and you see favorability polls where he's over 50%. >> well, you actually see an

increasing number of polls that show romney ahead. there were just two published just yesterday and as i've told you, brian, i -- my polling shows romney not just ahead but way ahead. i have him at the 50% of the vote. and obama down in the mid and low 40's. and that's among likely voters. >> right. >> many other polls have registered voters. and about a third of that sample doesn't vote so it makes no sense to poll them. >> but things will just change -- >> go ahead, dick. >> romney has had an incredible month this last month and i think he may next month and i think you're really seeing him putting this race away. >> uh-huh. dick morris wrote "screwed" number three in the world. thanks so much, dick. >> thank you. >> want to be a billionaire? who doesn't? facebook promising to make investors big money on wall street today? should you believe the hype and

buy into it? ask that guy right there. he has a thumbs up over his head. >> i want to be a millionaire so fricking bad. >> not a billionaire? >> it's about to get real dirty here. guys are with us and they're putting us to the ultimate test. >> if that guy can't get over the wall, can you? >> stuart varney promised to push my butt over there. >> he got over. congratulations. how much coffee are you fellows going to need today?

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pay off? let's ask stuart varney because he's here. let's do a little bit of the back story. >> you want investment advice from me? >> i want to do a little bit of back story in case people have not followed it completely. some people are apprehensive now about getting into facebook now because general motors decided to pull their advertising from facebook and people then say if one of the biggest companies in america is doing that, is there something wrong with it? >> there's two sides to the fence. let's take the anti-side. those people who wouldn't touch facebook with a 10-foot pole. they say you can't make money out of it. no one has invented a way of making money and pulling in revenue. got it? other people say it's a passing fad. it's gone up, maybe it will go down in the future. >> like a.o.l. >> like a.o.l., for example and at $100 billion right from the get go, that's way out of line with its potential profits so the anti-s say don't buy it. on the other side of the coin, there are people who say what? you can't pull in money from 900

million users and 3.2 billion likes a day? it's a brand new all american platform with all kinds of potential. you can't make money out of that going down the line? buy the thing so there's two camps here and they're competing. >> is this called risk? and if something doesn't work out, it's part of the system nobody needs to go to jail. how much -- >> or have an investigation. >> exactly. >> you just described what american capitalism is all about! >> i'm taking a chance. >> take a chance. take a risk. innovate. get out there, work hard, make your coin for heavens sake. >> how much per share is it? >> $38 a share. now, mark zuckerberg has 503.6 million shares. at $38 a share, this man is instantly worth $19.1 billion and for every $2 that the stock goes up, if it goes up, for every $2, his net worth goes up $1 billion. >> my favorite part of the story is that another person who is going to benefit a lot, eduardo savarin who is one of the original founders wants to

denounce his u.s. citizenship so he doesn't have to pay more than $67 million in tax. guess what? now there are two democrats on capitol hill who want to enact a new law so that people can't do that anymore. >> so actually it's a new law specifically for him and other people who do it, who leave the country and denounce their citizenship for tax reasons, this new law would stop them ever coming back to america. how about that? >> yeah. i find it interesting and ironic. >> i'm just a poor immigrant. what can i say? i ain't leaving, all right? >> is this the beginning of apple, everybody said i wish i got in apple early. >> exactly. this is the biggest buzz surrounding any new company in a long, long time. it's at least as big as google. it's big. >> i bought apple the first day. and then i sold it about a month later. >> good. >> check out stuart varney, varney & company on the fox business at 9:20 eastern time, hour and 40 minutes before the

f.b. >> update you on what's happening. two nato service members killed in an attack overnight in afghanistan are americans. it happened in the eastern part of the nation. no other information has been realized at this time. so far this year, more than 150 nato service members have been killed in the country. >> supreme court justice stephen breyer, can you believe this, the target of another robbery. the second time in less than three months. this time, burglars hit his home in washington, d.c. stealing cutlerry and candlesticks worth about $3500. in february, you might recall, a gardner got away with $1,000 after threatening justice breyer and his houseguest with a machete at his vacation home in the caribbean. something is going on there. >> it's being called the ring of fire, almost total eclipse of the sun expected to happen this sunday. it's supposed to be much more complete than the eclipse from 2010 with more than 84% of the sun completely covered by the moon reportedly peak at 6:30

pacific time. unfortunately for the u.s. here on the east coast, unfortunately here on the east coast, it's expected to be the most visible from texas all the way to california. but be warned, you'll need special blackout glasses to view this thing without damaging your eyes. so you have to make a choice, look at the eclipse or drive. don't do both. >> thanks for the advice. terrified california teen hides under the bed as her house is broken into. as soon as she thought the robber was gone, the 13-year-old calls police giving a tearful plea for help. >> he broke in through the window. >> ok. >> how long ago? >> at lea -- i waited five mins to call. >> she was able to give cops a description of the man and cops were able to catch him a short distance from the home. he's facing two charges, one for burglary and one for violating parole. we've been talking about it all

morning and now it's time to go outside and see what all that mud and wall and water is all about. >> that's right, gretch! it's called the tough mudder. and it is one of the most difficult fitness challenges in the world. it's happening right there. take a look right there, ted. you have to have strength, stamina and mental grit while raising money for wounded warriors. will cain is the c.e.o. and co-founder of tough muders. this is a tough task that you have devised here. >> what you're looking is a sample of some of our main obstacles here. our main tough mudder is 10 to 12 miles. >> what you see here -- there's ice spraying everywhere. >> oh, man. >> this is a dumpster full of ice and what the guys are about to get to ahead of us here is electric shock therapy. 10,000 volt wires, each one of those. if it hits you, it will send your arm into orbit. round of applause for those guys. very nice. and then the part that brian and

i are worried about is this wall right here. this is not a race. this is a challenge not only to yourself but your biggest fears. >> that's right, yes. big thing about tough mudder is getting people outside of their comfort zone. it's not like a marathon. it's not just about aerobic fitness. it's about working together as a team to get around it and challenging yourself. >> right. >> i know that your organization has really helped out the wounded warriors. i saw on your web site you've donated over $3 million to the warriors. >> that's correct. very proud to be working with these guys and about honoring and empowering veterans that come back from iraq and afghanistan and we have a lot of them doing our events and we have half a million people doing our events that have raised money for the wun -- wounded warrior project. >> it's terrifying and exciting at the same time. >> that's what i wanted tough mudders to be. >> you have them all over the country. >> that's right. we have 35 around the world

actually. >> it's fantastic. brian is going to do it about an hour from now. and i'm going to do it two hours from now. >> good luck. >> do i need it? >> you'll be fine. you don't have a pacemaker do you? >> no, i don't have a pacemaker. >> when they get through, you can hear that zap. >> but look, it's all about the team work. >> it is, that's right. all about working together. >> that is awesome. this is going to be a big day on "fox & friends." >> we're excited to be here. >> look at that down there. >> fantastic. >> and by the way, thank you very much. you've been here at fox newschannel for three days setting this up. >> we have, building all this stuff and thanks to the wounded warriors who have come up to do it as well. >> that is inspiring. will, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a harvard guy who is now in the mud business. ladies and gentlemen, back to you. >> we got to talk to that soldier with one leg who made it through and keep in mind, too,

this is all around the country. they actually are hiring people. this is getting so big. they're hiring people. give you more information about that later. coming up straight ahead, here's a good idea and by good, we mean terrible. kids can't pass the standardized test, just lower the standards. one of the kids who took the test and is outraged and his outraged mom here next. >> did he know what a camel is? that's the question. plus, oh, shoot! this guy so desperate to get away from his girlfriend, he got stuck in a pretty bad place. >> the florida board of education has decided to lower the passing grade on standardized tests after noticing a drastic drop in student passing scores. in other words, if the students don't do well enough in the test, they don't teach them better. they just lower the bar. why didn't we think of this

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>> quick headlines now. iran threatening to sue google. this comes after the company dropped the name of the persian gulf on google maps between iran and the arabian peninsula. iran claiming google will face "serious damages" if it doesn't restore the name. and some relationships go down the drain. this one went down the garbage chute. you're looking at a russian man who climbed into the chute in an effort to evade his angry girlfriend after sliding down three stories. he got stuck. emergency crews had to use the jaws of life to free him and now he's got to deal with her. hi, gretch. >> that's what you have to do to break up?

all right. moving on -- students in florida weren't making the grade when it came to a state writing exam. so the department of education decided on this solution this week. they decided to lower the bar. lower the standard. joining me now, mom jan and her son a fourth grader who took that exam. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> you're so polite. thank you so much, sir. let me start with you, hayden. what did you think of the exam sf what was the question and how did you answer it? >> well, i thought the exam was sort of in between. it was a prompt -- it was fairly difficult to write on. >> so it was an essay question. here, i'm going to give you a sample essay question. i think this is the one that most of the kids saw. here was the question. suppose you or someone else had a chance to ride a camel. imagine what happens on this camel ride, write a story about what happens on this camel ride. is that the question that you

had? >> yes. >> all right. how did you answer it? >> well, i answered it like my person and the camel went on this journey and a sandstorm came and they went in a cave and after the storm was done, they came out to a watering hole and then they decided to go back into the cave and they found out that there was like this whole mystery there. and -- and it was like king tut's curse and it was like adventure to save them. >> sounds like he would get a passing grade, right, mom? apparently only 27% of the kids in florida were actually going to pass this test and so they decided to lower the standards. what did you think about that? >> i was -- i was a little surprised when i heard that. we knew -- we were prepared and we were told that the expectations were going to be higher this year. so to maybe not be surprised if

the results weren't as high as some of the students from last year. but i didn't feel that lowering the bar would be the answer. hayden has always had -- he's had great teachers. his teacher this year really instilled in him a love of writing which he didn't have before. and if he wasn't able to pass, it would be something we would need to look at to work on with him at home and maybe during the summer but i don't think that he should, you know, we don't know what the scores are yet but i don't think he should be given a passing grade or somebody should get a passing grade, you know, lower the standards to make it pass if there's actual areas they should be improving on. >> let me read the statement from the florida department of education. we are asking more from our students and teachers than we ever have. i support the board's decision to recalibrate the grading scale while keeping the writing standards high. can you have it both ways? if they're going to lower the standards, are they really keeping the standards high? >> see, that's -- that's my perspective. if hayden, i expect them to -- i was happy they were going to increase the standards. i want him to perform to high

standards. and if writing or whatever the subject is is something that he likes, i want him to be able to compete outside of florida, any place to the best of his ability and i want him to be challenged and i think that the fact that 30% passed, it was an opportunity to see what those 30% are doing, that really works and maybe other people could look to them to see whether it's a curriculum or style of teaching, etc., rather than lowering the bar to, you know, increase the number passing. >> interestingly enough, you don't know yet whether or not hayden passed, do you? >> no, we don't. i think i read this morning they might release the scores today. as of yet, they haven't released the scores. >> it sounds like you did a wonderful job answering the question. seems like you're doing well in school. keep us -- keep us abreast as to what happens there and whether or not hayden actually has a passing grade. thanks so much for joining us. >> we will. thanks, gretchen. >> thanks. >> cute kid. well, liberals are all for free speech until they don't like it, apparently. one free popular company trying to silence anyone it disagrees

with. then he was rescued at sea by the u.s. coast guard, a young boy and graduated from that elite force. we'll talk to a man living his american dream by paying it forward. that's next.

>> this is quite a story. orlando was 6 years old when he and his mother boarded a rickety ship in haiti, the destination america and a new life. >> they had to be rescued by the u.s. coast guard.

to join his gratitude, orlando has joined the coast guard. thanks so much for joining us. >> congratulations, you graduated two days ago? >> two days ago. >> fantastic. >> incredible story. you were saved close to our shores and ended up coming to our shores. what do you remember from that journey? >> the one thing i remember most is being overcrowded, you know, being on the boat, they're just a sheer amount of people there, you know, it's uncomfortable, you know, and we're always, always hungry. >> right. and i understand you can vividly remember the taste of that sea water. >> yes, right. >> so the coast guard rescues you and you wind up. your mother was sick. she wound up going to the bethesda naval hospital outside of washington, d.c. they sent you to gitmo. what happened? guantanamo bay, cuba. >> i remember being at guantanamo bay, cuba and i was taken care of by a lady. >> you were 6. >> brought me in as her own.

she cared for me and provided me food and shelter and then when my mom was here, she talked to my adopted mom louise zak son. >> who was your mother's translator. >> who was my mama's translator in bethesda. >> your mother's translator wound up adopting you. >> yes. >> after your mother died. >> after my mother died. >> of cancer. >> that's incredible. you go through this and you feel as though you can't do enough for the people, the coast guard that saved you because you guys were lost. nothing but blue water all around you and they saved you. is that what spurred this move? >> yes, when i was there, my mom told me about it and she said the coast guard is the one that saved you. ok, i looked into it. and then i went through a weekend which is a weekend where minorities come and experience the coast guard and stay overnight. and i fell in love with it because of the mission, you know, they told me they could be

doing a drug intervention but as soon as someone falls into the water, it turns into a search and rescue mission. >> i understand you'll be based down in florida on a cutter, there's a possibility you could rescue other kids from haiti during your career at the coast guard. >> yes, yes. and i do have mixed feelings about that but the one thing i hold on to is the opportunity that i was given, you know, because of that rescue. and if i can do that for one person, you know, out of a million, i feel like it will all be worth it. >> you wanted to thank the coast guard and now you are the coast guard. >> yes. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> good luck to you. >> what a great story. >> that will be a good movie. >> great movie. >> let's bid on his movie rights. >> let's get jerry on the phone. >> he's getting red faced. vice president joe biden doubling down on his message on blaming the rich for everything. bill o'reilly is not buying it. he's taken on the v.p. at the top of the hour. >> why did we release a known

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>> tgif, everyone. i hope you're going to have a fantastic day and a better weekend. let's talk a little bit about vice president joe biden. he's doubling down on his message of blaming the rich but bill o'reilly ain't buying it. >> this is all a bunch of garbage! the class warfare the obama administration is bringing up is bogus. wealthy people are not responsible for the bad economy. >> so who's right? more from bill and biden. coming up. >> and get ready for this. one of the world's best boxers

being banned from a mall. they say he's being intolerant. who is being intolerant? can you say hypocrisy alert? ok, i just said it. >> take a look at this. four little kids riding in the back of a car in the trunk. when suddenly, this happens! watch out, kids. yeah, the driver probably couldn't see out the rearview because the trunk was up. we'll tell you more about that story. "fox & friends" for a muddy friday starts right now. >> ♪ just to keep them alive ♪ it's the eye of the tiger >> look at that barbed wire right there. >> this is the beginning of our

mini course here, the tough mudder course that's been around the world, no one thought it would be this successful and this inspiring but that's exactly what's happened. not only do we have a course outside, they're hiring somebody to bring that course to your town. >> brian and i are both going to do it and that 10-foot wall is the part that's most daunting for both of us. it's not the mud and the barbed wire and it's not the arctic enema that they're about to go through. >> the what? >> arctic enema. >> you aren't afraid of those three things at all. it's just the wall. >> you can't get over it by yourself. you have to rely on team work and that's what those guys and gals are doing. that's the arctic enema right there. >> there she goes. >> they put 8,000 pounds of ice in this and they dive in. >> oh, my goodness! >> then you have to go under that wall right there. the wall in the middle of that pool of water. >> i wasn't anticipating the jumping in to the ice. >> this is the important part of it. this is a personal challenge

course. it's usually 12 miles and here's the thing, let me just finish for you, steve. the most important thing is you're not racing anyone else. this is all about personally challenging yourself. what was that guy just doing? going through the electric shock after being just in a wet pool. >> 10,000 volts and apparently what happens is when you get shocked, you get shocked all the time and it goes through that, all your muscles contract so one of your inclinations is to fall down or contract. >> a lot of the soldiers are out there, wounded warriors are out there and they've got about $3 million towards the wounded warrior project where people who sign up, pay their money and chal -- challenge themselves. >> good day for me to be the referee. go at it, guys. >> we're both a little terrified but we hope to do it and the good news -- an ambulance is standing by. >> no, that's -- >> i mean, worst case scenario, let's say you sprain your ankle or something, there's an

ambulance. >> the good news is there's actually a shower so we can continue on with the show afterwards. >> very nice. >> you'll do it in about a half-hour. >> i'll televise the shower, by the way. >> you'll take a shower with your clothes on. that would be ok. >> ok. you never know. >> he starts the show without pants. what's the difference? >> we begin now -- >> that was a special day. >> we have a fox news alert to tell you about. overnight, two u.s. troops have been killed in afghanistan. the attack happened in the eastern part of the country. nato has not released any information at this time. so far this year, more than 150 nato service members have been killed in the country. now to another fox news alert, authorities in mississippi confirming they've just arrested a suspect in those two fatal highway shootings and that suspect will be charged with capital murder later today. police say 28-year-old james willie had not been posing as a police officer as authorities previously thought. they say they caught him after responding to unrelated reports of disturbances at his home. at that time, they found a gun and tested it. it turned out to be the perfect

match for the one used in the murders. never before seen evidence in the death of trayvon martin now public. these newly released pictures show cuts and bruises neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman got before he shot the unarmed teen in february. he also suffered a broken nose. zimmerman claims martin attacked him before he shot him. new surveillance video shows trayvon martin inside a 7-eleven buying a drink and skittles. that's where he was walking home from. he's hiding as he awaits trial, in hiding. we're learning that martin had htc, an ingredient in marijuana in his system when he died. the world mourning the shocking loss of disco queen donna summer. she lost her battle with lung cancer at 63 years old. this brand new video out of los angeles shows a memorial now growing at her star on the walk of fame. summer won five grammys and had 19 number one dance hits during

her nearly 40-year career including her breakout smash "love to love you baby." >> ♪ love to love you baby ♪ i ♪ love to love you baby >> summer's death, a huge shock especially since she never publicly revealed she even had lung cancer. we're now learning she thinks that she contracted the disease after inhaling toxic particles following the attacks on 9/11. a public memorial for her will be held wednesday in nashville. and those are your headlines. >> that particular song banned on a lot of radio stations back in the day. >> really? >> too hot for them to handle! >> wow, 6 minutes off the top of the hour, we've learned there's a big push in the white house to apologize to pakistan for the deadly air strike last year. this will not be the first time that president obama has apologized to a questionable friend in the united states. it's been a live debate since that date. live in washington with more, peter doocy. peter? >> brian, we've now learned

that secretary of state hillary clinton was on a plane to london back in december to meet with the pakistani foreign minister and say that we're sorry, for accidentally killing 24 pakistani soldiers. mid flight, she was told to stand down because president obama had just apologized to the president of afghanistan after our troops burned a quran and officials worried that two apologies in one day would make us look weak. now, a senior u.s. official tells us the pakistan just isn't going to get an apology. telling us late last night, there have been discussions over time, over whether to apologize and a decision has been made to express deep regret and try to move forward. after the incident, pakistan did close a border crossing with afghanistan and it now cost nato $38 million a month to work around it. and a u.s. official says because of that, the u.s. is disinclined to apologize and the source close to the pakistani government is quoted in "the wall street journal" saying if the apology would have occurred in the first or second day as it

should have, we could have moved on with another u.s. official saying in "the wall street journal" today, this goes to the fact that we don't know how to deal with the pakistanis but white house national security advisor tom donaldon said yesterday we had made real progress towards resolving the issues with the pakistanis and the key government groups in islamabad tell us they're ready to negotiate. that other u.s. official told us there will not be an apology. back to you. >> all right. peter, thanks. they want to skyrocket the amount that we pay to get across the border to get supplies into afghanistan which is basically, it seems like we're paying off a ransom. >> it does. if you look back in history, you see usually the vice president who is serving the president at the time is usually the hit guy. the person who goes out and says stuff that maybe the president doesn't feel he should say. well, it appears that that is going to be the role now of joe

biden as we move forward towards november. a the lot of people think he made a mistake when he talked about his views on gay marriage. some people think it was part of the strategy. now the class warfare dialogue, is this part of the strategy now? for the second day in a row, biden is doubling down on class warfare. listen to this. >> look, i said it yesterday and i'll say it more calmly today. i don't think these guys understand us and i'm including us because we come from the same kind of background and i wasn't joe biden coming out of the mines of scranton with a lunch bucket in my mind, i was a normal middle class kid with a father with a high school education that worked like hell. the thing that i resent, i have to tell you, is a lot of romney supporters say we're engaging in class envy. wealth envy.

like my mom and dad didn't dream? that one of their kids could be a millionaire? like my mama didn't dream that one of their kids could be president? my mom and dad didn't dream that one of their kids could invent the new thing? what do they think we think? what do they think we think in our houses? what do they think makes us tick? >> he said and i'll try to say it more calmly than i did the day before. i wonder when he was watching when we did the side-by-side comparison between him and the unhinged howard dean actually after the iowa primary back many years ago. bill o'reilly listened to the vice president and had this response. >> that's true, mr. biden. i don't get you. in fact, i don't know what you're talking about! you came from humble beginnings. you made it big. same with me. what's the problem?

by the way, i give millions to charity. but you, mr. president, give only nothing. very nearly nothing. i don't get that! bottom line. this is all a bunch of garbage. the class warfare the obama administration is peddling is bogus. wealthy people are not responsible for the bad economy. bad federal policies and corrupt financial green heads are responsible! rich people pay most of the income tax in this country. 50% of the population pays no federal income tax at all. wealthy people create jobs. the occupy wall street protesters break windows! >> it's unbelievable. i don't understand the message because it's almost as if he forgot that for the past three years, we've heard that the rich aren't paying their fair share. they have to do their fair share thing, they've had too good for too long. whatever you think of mitt romney and newt gingrich and rick santorum, they were never saying that.

>> i think it's disappointing because, you know, when i was growing up and probably all of you out there, my parents said to me almost every day, you can be whatever you want to be, i mean, isn't that the american dream? they never said to me, hey, by the way, politically speaking, if you're on this side of the fence, you can be whatever you want to be but if you're on this side of the fence, you can't. come on, it's just disappointing. it's every parent's dream that their child will grow up to be the best that they can be! and there's no politics involved in that. >> sure. >> nobody says -- no parent says to their kid, aim low. >> yeah. >> they say aim high. >> bill o'reilly did touch on joe biden's charitable donations a little bit there. and here is, according to their tax return by the bidens. they did donate $5540 which is 1.46% of their income. i think by comparison, mitt romney donated something like 10 times more than that. >> i don't understand them trying to qualify the american dream when they're the ones that

brought it up in the first place as if republicans were robbing them from it. that's the most illogical thing that i've heard of to date and he doubled down on it yesterday is unthinkable. did you notice he was looking straight ahead and his prompter was on the left and right? i don't know what he's supposed to be saying. when he's looking straight, turn out the lights. >> another illogical thing, apparently when i was talking about marijuana, it's thc. >> what did you call it? >> h -- whatever was in the teleprompter. i don't have a lot of knowledge on these types of things. don't e-mail me anymore. >> go for tlc. >> whatever. next on the rundown, abort mission. republicans choose not to use reverend wright after mitt romney says take the high road. are republicans being held to a different standard? fair and balanced debate next. >> one school cranking out not one, not two but 25 valedictorians, doesn't that dilute the honor? isn't the point to be number one to be the only number one? we'll talk about that. >> and brian? >> we're getting dirty all

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>> as we were just telling you, mitt romney choosing not to run a series of campaign ads highlighting the president's relationship with controversial pastor jeremiah wright. he's asking the pac not to run them. in all of his attacks on romney at the time of bain capital, are republicans being held to a different standard? here to debate is the editor of conservative white chick.com, crystal wright. i think it's conservative black chick. >> that's ok. >> all right. two errors in that lead-in. sorry about that, both of you. let me start with you, because of that. is there a double standard?

mitt romney calling off the pac, even though he doesn't have total control of it. is that the right thing not to focus on reverend wright and his relationship with president obama? >> i think you're absolutely right. i think romney made the wrong mistake just like mccain made the wrong mistake in 2008 and somehow this president and his white house advisors and his re-election team are intimidating republicans putting them on notice saying if you do anything or run any ad, we're going to immediately go for the jugular with the race card. it's ridiculous. the ad -- i don't think anything in the ad is race baiting. i think the president race baited in 2008 and jeremiah wright is a race baiter. he stood up there and gave sermons that president obama sat in and seemed to appreciate. and reverend wright said the u.s. -- he called the united states of the k.k.k., he said goddamn america and i think it would be an absolute mistake for

the romney pac headed by joe rickets or funded by joe rickets not to run the ad and remind people what kind of character that president obama has. >> mitt romney has come out and said he's not in favor of these ads. is he feeling pressure because of the element of race being involved there? do you think this would be an effective campaign against barack obama? >> well, he eventually came out and said it after a day of wavering back and forth. with mitt romney, if you don't like his position, wait 10 minutes. he finally did come out against it. what they did is they launched a trial balloon and it turned out to be the hindenberg. people don't want this. they want an actual plan. it would be nice if he could produce an actual plan rather than more tax cuts for the rich. >> i think he has a plan on the books. as far as flip-flops, the president does the same thing on gay marriage. >> that's the problem. here's the thing. >> where's the plan? >> obama has no record to run on. we have had unemployment above 8% for 3 1/2 years. we have a $16 trillion debt and

obama, you know what his solution is? more spending. more spending. mitt romney, on the other hand, does have a plan and all this president wants to talk about as gretchen mentioned earlier is class warfare, war on students, war on women. what war is next? >> why is it -- >> john, john, let me ask you this. wouldn't it benefit the democrats if in fact this ad did go up? because it wouldn't be talking about the economy. and that's what president obama and many argue doesn't want to talk about. >> we're happy to talk about the economy. last month of the bush administration, 741,000 jobs lost. if that trend had continued, we'd have 27% unemployment. it would be a great depression. we are happy to talk about the economy and we wish the republicans would. rather than wars on birth control, wars on -- >> gay marriage is not a conversation about the economy, john. >> that's about basic equality. i mean, that's important for all americans. >> 53% of americans are gay? >> all americans care about equality, i would hope. >> those two cultural issues were brought up this time by the democrats. john plinko and crystal wright,

i have to wrap it up there. four little kids riding in the back of a trunk and a very close call with a tractor-trailer. look at that! how silly. then why do we release a known terrorist responsible for killing five american soldiers? that's what congressman allen west wants to know. i'm a marathon runner,

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$1 that's what they are handing to drivers in maryland who are wearing a seat belt. they'll be giving a ticket for those who don't. why a buck? >> buck to buckle up. >> all right. a senior hezbollah leader tied to the killing of five american soldiers may soon walk free. i'm talking about that guy. the u.s. turned him over to iraqi courts. and then we left. and this week, a judge cleared him of all charges and released him. he's going back to iran. >> wait a minute, i thought he killed five americans. florida congressman colonel allen west joins us live from the capital. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, steve and brian, how are you doing? >> doing ok. i know you're outraged on letting this terrorist and murderer go. you're utterly outraged. >> not quite out yet, correct? >> no, he's not quite out yet but the problem is he is a lebanese citizen who should not have been turned over under the status of force agreement to the iraqis and the iraqis have dropped all charges and the question that i asked of the president when he came out after usama bin laden spoke in the first person singular, taking a

lot of credit for that, who is going to take responsibility for this action to make sure that he is given back to us and he should be properly tried in our military commissions because he did do the heinous act in planning of dressing individuals up in american uniforms, they stormed through the gates and killed a u.s. captain and then they captured four american soldiers, one lieutenant and threen listed and they tortured them and their bodies were found ritually executed. >> what could we do to stop this? we don't seem to have good relations with the current iraqi government and we know they're tied in with iran. what could we do? >> i think right now the ship may have passed and left the port. i don't know if there's anything that we can do but the most important thing, i'd like to see the president or the administration, you know, come forward to talk to the american people, talk to the families of those five soldiers and come up with some type of plan they're going to have to get him back

brought back into our custody. >> we're holding a lot of guys that have done terrible things and killed americans. who is to say this is the last guy? the last killer we'll let free. >> yeah, you're absolutely right. as you start to look at our draw down in afghanistan and the detention facility, you know i'm very concerned about individuals that we may be holding in afghanistan. they're not afghan nationals. what's going to be the plan to make sure these individuals do not walk free just the same as we've seen this man? we have to realize after al-qaida, it's hezbollah that has inflicted the most casualties on american citizens. >> colonel, in the big picture, this comes down to we have no -- we have nothing besides reading the army manual as to what to do with detainees. we don't want to deal with it so we hand everybody over or kill them from a drone! >> yeah, you're absolutely right. i think that when you look at this 21st century battlefield, we have to nld that we're going to be dealing with nonstate, nonuniform beligerents who even see the united states of america as part of that battleground.

and that was one of the interesting conversations we had last night is we were debating amendments for the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2013 because you actually have some of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle that believe that these terrorists should be given constitutional rights immediately and read their miranda rights and i think that's absolutely unconscionable. >> ok, colonel allen west joining us from our d.c. bureau. too bad you're not here in the big town today, outside we have the tough mudder, the obstacle course like none you've ever seen before. and i know you're an expert at those things. >> i'm retired. you don't like playing on those things anymore. i might hurt myself. >> that's inspiring because he's about to do it in about three minutes. >> thanks so much. >> thanks so much, guys. have a great day. >> all right, coming up straight ahead -- >> it may not be a warm reception for kathleen sebelius later today. what's expected to happen at georgetown university in washington as the health secretary delivers the commencement speech there? we are live with lauren green

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>> presidential race getting pretty nasty. in a new ad that just came out, president obama calls mitt romney's former firm bain capital a vampire! that's what he said. as a result, teenage girls are demanding a movie about bain capital. >> so sexy!

>> starring robert pattinson. >> maybe they'd learn something about business. maybe. >> health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius set to deliver a commencement speech at georgetown university today. this despite a whole lot of backlash from the catholic church. >> fox news chief religion correspondent lauren green live on the georgetown campus with more on this story. good morning to you, lauren. >> good morning, gretchen and steve. georgetown university is all decked out for the various commencement ceremonies and awards that are going on this weekend between now and sunday. but no ceremony has garnered as much controversy as the awards for the public policy institute where health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius will speak in a few hours. the catholic pro abortion sebelius is one of architects of the obama administration's health care bill and the mandate that is serving controversy among catholic bishops of things

that run counter to catholi earlier, the georgetown president defended the school's invitation to the secretary saying the secretary's presence on our campus should not be viewed as an endorsement of reviews as a catholic and jesuit university, we distance ourselves from teachings. the archbishop of washington, d.c. blasted back saying while the explanation of how this unfortunate decision was made is appreciated, it does not address the real issue for concern. the selection of a featured speaker whose actions as a public official presented the most direct challenge to religious liberty in recent history and the apparent lack of unity with and disregards for the bishops and so many others across the nation who are committed to the defense of the freedom of religion. and princeton university professor matthew frank, an expert on the area of religion and the constitution says this is a microcosm of a much larger issue. take a listen.

>> also very american story about liberty vs. government and freedom vs. coercion and sadly, i think georgetown university has taken the side of government in coercion against liberty and freedom. >> now, i want to mention also there were letters from the faculty and some of the students that actually supported the appearance here of kathleen sebelius. and we're told that the secretary will not address any of the controversy but she will speak to the sort of encourage the student as they embark on their various lives and careers. steve and gretchen? >> big day in many ways here in georgetown. thanks, lauren. auto wee begin with new details about the death of mary kennedy. we know her estranged husband robert f. kennedy jr. is the one who called police after a housekeeper found her body in a barn behind her new york home. housekeeper asked robert to stop by after she realized mary was missing. when he got there, he searched the main home and called mary's

a.a. group to see if they knew where she was. minutes later, the housekeeper entered the barn and found she was already hanging there. a funeral scheduled for tomorrow. extreme weather alert out of georgia. check this out. that's pea sized hail pounding down on homes and cars after a storm moved through the area. the storm brought down trees and left many homes without power. when a difference a day can make as forecasters say the destructive storm has luckily moved out of the area now. talk about a double standard, a mall being intolerant over intolerance? boxing champ and congressman manny was banned from l.a.'s the grove, the mall there, over comments he made about gay marriage. he had been scheduled to make an appearance at the mall but had to find a different location after saying he didn't support the lifestyles of gay people because it conflict with his beliefs. you're looking at four kids riding in the trunk of a car on a highway, it's in romainea.

the kids look like they're having a grand old time until this happens. >> that was a giant tractor-trailer nearly clipping the car full of kids. fortunately, no one was hurt. that's crazy. let's go out to brian and steve who will take on a challenge right now. >> i'm on? >> you're on. looks like i'm on. i can't hear anybody. >> thank you very much, steve. i need my clap board. it's called a tough mudder and it's one of the most difficult fitness challenges in the world. goal is to test strength, to test stamina and mental toughness. i swung and missed on all three. but joining us, three guys that have a lot of all that. alan is here, co-founder of the wounded warrior project. there's al. with me is bryan with a y went through 27 surgeries for this country and is still giving back and james o'leary right here, in

2003 a mortar attack put him on the sideline. he's working hard and credibili contributing to the nation. how does this link up to wounded warrior, i know you're a wounded veteran yourself. how does this link up with your project? >> this is phenomenal. not only does it add to our resources, we're very appreciative of that. it helps us run our programs. the warriors themselves get to come out and get that team work and comraderie that they miss from the military. >> british special forces helped set this thing up. we'll try it. there will be a handful of people that are interested. when did you serve? >> i serve from 2006 to 2009. >> what happened? >> i got blown up by a large i.e.d. after serving in baghdad. >> after 27 surgeries, you look fantastic. you did lose your leg. >> i gave my leg, instead of saying i lost it. i lost something, it's like i gave it. >> that's true. i and i apologize for not using the right terminology.

you know what bryan says before, i get sweet parking and real quick, here's james. james, you got hit in 2003. >> actually 2004 but it was a mortar attack on my base, lost part of my left lung and left shoulder. lost two guys that day. it was crazy day. here i am doing all right. i'm ready to hit this wall. >> the whole thing is team work. you going to help me out? i've never been more of my doubt of my ability to be successful than i am right now. >> get on the starting line. brian and the two fellas that will go through it. the tough mudder. that's real barbed wire. joining us right now, by the way, with commentary is colonel allen west. >> there's no way -- >> it's true. it's true. get ready, are you ready? and colonel, go ahead and start the commentary. >> yeah, good luck. it's team work. not a race. it's team work. >> going to be the first time brian ever got dirty, huh? >> first time brian gets dirty. guys, ready, set, go!

look out for the barbed wire. they're down. go! >> this brings back -- >> get your butt down, brian. >> it brings back fond memories, doesn't it, colonel? >> it does. look at -- oh, my god! look at -- >> he tried. >> it's all about the team work. >> come on, brian. >> get up there. come on, brian. >> holy cow. >> yes. yes! >> there you go. look at his strength. >> come on, brian! come on, brian! more pushups. >> yes! >> that's the part of the challenge where brian was most worried about. he'll wait for the other guys. that's what it's all about. it's about team work. oh, my goodness. right on the top. >> oh! >> one more! by the way, they've got these tough mudder competitions all over the country. and brian does a cannonball and he's -- on the wall. >> there he goes. >> by the way, colonel, what

he's in right now is called the arctic enema. and finally -- >> got to give your hats off to brian. >> finally -- oh, my goodness! >> oh, all right. >> way to go, brian. >> at the end of it, you get a beer and you get -- and you get a headband. >> all right. >> here's your microphone and -- >> the water was cold. the barbed wire was hot. >> your teammates. >> i would never have gotten over that wall without you guys. >> that was tough, huh? >> wake up in the morning. >> that's the second time you've done it, right? >> yeah. >> colonel west, what do you think? >> i'll tell you what, you got to give hats off to brian for doing that. that was absolutely fantastic. and , you know, hats off go out to our wounded warriors especially but congratulations, brian! >> hats off to the wounded warriors. from colonel allen west. >> thank you.

>> man, you guys are freezing! i'm going to do it just about an hour from now. that was really good. >> i'm going to do it! >> yeah, baby! >> there's no place to hide. all right, round of applause for brian and the guys! >> fantastic! that is awesome. >> thanks, guys. >> very, very nice. >> very nice. gretch, that was awesome, wasn't it? >> i got on that wall and couldn't stay up. >> that was amazing. true grit. out of all those guys. >> go back. >> wounded warriors and brian, congratulations. coming up next, latinos are the fastest growing population in the united states but our next guest says they are widely misunderstood and can be a big factor for the g.o.p. in 2012 and how would you like to check out sexy russian spy anna chapman's goods? well, now you can. we'll explain. coming up next. but first, the trivia question of the day -- [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are choosing advil®.

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boat's owner has minor burns to his ear and neck. steve? >> thanks, gretch. they are the fastest growing population in the united states of america and yet, our next guest says hispanics are widely misunderstood. including the theory, the myth that they're free loaders. here to debunk a couple of myths about hispanics is a syndicated columnist ruben navarati. thanks for joining us from san diego. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm sure you've heard this a million times. this is a common myth that you hear a lot. hispanics in this country, they don't pay taxes. >> right. and specifically the idea that illegal immigrants don't pay taxes. i have news for you, they do pay taxes. illegal immigrants play a host of taxes. sales tax like everybody else when they buy something. payroll taxes that go into a social security fund they're never going to be able to collect from and keep the system alive there. property taxes whether they rent or own and they even pay income taxes because the government not to be outdone has this thing

called an individual taxpayer identification number that allows people without a social security number to actually pay taxes, bottom line is if you live in the united states, uncle sam will find a way to get your money. he doesn't discriminate and doesn't care if you're here legally or not. >> here's another myth for you. ruben, that latinos are a lost cause for the republicans and the conservatives. they'll never vote for the republican! >> right. they have voted for republicans. they do very well with republicans voting at the mayor level and the governor level in many cases. washington is often a different story. congress had a difficult time because of some of the messages and some of the positions they've taken on issues but this is a very conservative community. you wouldn't know it from the folks out there who pretend to lead us. we are conservative with regards to gay marriage, abortion, smaller taxes, less government, pro defense. this is a very integrated community that believes in the american dream and living it every day. they're ripe for the g.o.p. if the g.o.p. can get the messaging right. >> sure. and in fact, talk about conservatives, a pew poll asked

latinos if they considered themselves conservative, liberal, whatever. take a look. 35% consider themselves very conservative or conservative. 33%, about a third say moderate and only less than 30% say they're liberal or very liberal. here's another one that i want you to talk a little bit and that's about the president of the united states. that latinos and hispanics love him and they are going to re-elect him. >> right. >> yeah. they may well have a hand in re-electing him but they don't love him and the reason they don't love him is because his support in the latino community, president obama's support in the latino community is about a mile wide and an inch deep and most of it is because of his handling of the immigration issue. not just a question of president obama making a promise to hispanics that he would fix the immigration system and make this a priority and breaking the promise, worse than that. he did the one thing you don't want to do. he went after the families and divided hundreds of thousands of families and it's coming back to haunt him. >> all right, ruben, thank you very much. you just told us a lot of information that a lot of people

have never heard before. thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> all right. it's now 10 minutes before the top of the hour. next up on the rundown, she's a pro golfer at age 17. so she couldn't just take any old guy to the prom. >> my date, i'm looking for somebody special and somebody that i respect. and that's why i'm choosing a guy from the service. >> she found her guy, a decorated marine. they are both here next and they're waving. those crazy kids. but first on this day in 1975, number one song in america "shining star." wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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17-year-old pro golfer lexi thompson wanted to show her military appreciation. so last month, she posted a you tube video launching a search for a serviceman between the ages of 18 and 20 to be her prom date. >> for my date, i'm looking for somebody special and somebody that i respect. that's why i'm choosing a guy from the service. >> well, after getting over 100 responses, lexi picked the lucky guy and you're about to meet him. joining us on the eve of the big night, are pro golfer lexi thompson and her date, u.s. marine lance corporal mark scott. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> on eve, isn't it tonight? is the prom tonight, lexi? >> yeah, it's tonight. >> so i love this idea that you respect the military and you wanted to choose a member of the service, armed services for your date. you went on facebook. how did you pick the lucky guy sitting next to you? >> i read pretty much every

story about 10 times. it's the hardest decision but his story stood out to me. so i'm really happy. and honored to be taking him. >> so mark, why did you enter? why did you go on facebook and enter? >> well, i saw it as a once in a lifetime opportunity and really, you're not going to be able to go to -- no one seems to be able to go to prom twice so i'm lucky enough that i'm able to and i just want to be able to make this experience really special for lexi. so -- >> i understand that you guys first met only yesterday. right? >> yes. >> uh-huh. >> what did you do? >> yeah, well, i picked him up from the airport and then we had lunch and i went through my -- with my stylist the dresses and everything and then we got dinner and went go carting. >> fun. >> fun. >> today, since you're a pro golfer, i take it you might be teaching mark a few golf lessons today although he's a really avid golfer and you're going to

teach her how to shoot? >> yes. that's the plan. you know, i'll be in my comfort zone. and i'll show her a few things and then i'll be taking it out of my comfort zone and she's going to bring me into her neck of the woods. so -- >> i know that you say mark, a lot of times as a veteran, you feel forgotten. not tonight, right? >> not at all. a lot of times veterans feel like they're just skimmed over by the public but there are people who care out there and tonight it's just going to be a very special event and i can't wait to see lexi in her dress and i'm -- i don't know any of the specifics and i don't want to know and i want to see how beautiful she looks in it. >> wow. how fantastic. lexi and mark, have a fabulous time tonight. maybe you'll share the photos with us for early next week. congratulations. have a great time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> wow. that's fun, isn't it? remember when you went to prom, if you did? coming up on "fox & friends",

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is friday, may 18. so glad you spent some time with us today. i'm gretchen carlson. fox news alert. cops say they may have the man that gunned down two motorists leaving an entire state on edge for weeks. details on the new arrest straight ahead. >> steve: and why did we release at that man, a known terrorist responsible for killing five american soldiers? geraldo rivera weighing in on this in moments. he's live in l.a good morning to you. >> brian: he's got that l.a. look. ladies, want to get ahead at work? try zipping your mouth. that's not from me. that's from the experts. this story going to have a lot of people talking this morning, including some advice for men.

"fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: and they're off. you're looking at gavin hadden and brian tully getting set to go head to head in the tough mudder obstacle course outside. evidently according to reports, reporters we have working for us, they've been talking smack all week behind the scenes. >> gretchen: they're employees here at fox. >> brian: currently. >> gretchen: there they go! they're going through the mud with the barbed wire. >> steve: what was that like? signal that was so cold and gravelly. here is the thing -- is gavin trying to get over himself without any help? he got over quick.

>> gretchen: he's a form football player. >> steve: he's a monster! that's called the arctic enema. >> brian: gavin forgot he hadn't worked out in ten years. >> steve: and gavin forgot it's about helping each other. it's not a race. >> gretchen: now the electric shock. after you're in the water. >> steve: they made it! >> brian: good job! it's hard to believe this course goes on for miles. >> steve: ten to 12 miles. by the way, people are paying about 150 bucks to do this. they wind up getting the orange head band and a cold beer at the completion of it. >> steve: the thing is, brian just did this. i didn't know whether or not you were gog make it back because i just ran to use the restroom and in the restroom, the total mud pile, brian's jacket, one sock, and one shoe.

>> brian: right. >> gretchen: i was thinking, where is brian? >> brian: i was in the shower. they have a shower outside, but i couldn't completely -- >> brian: and the bigger story is brian tully and gavin went through this thing, they might get drafted. they did so well. >> steve: they just did it. brian did it a half hour ago. and i will be next to go through it. >> gretchen: you already have mud on your shoe. >> steve: yeah. i got it all. this is just from interviewing brian post electric shock therapy. we got a -- this is the biggest thing we've done stunt wise. they've been building it pour three days. >> brian: it's amazing that a lot of these wounded warriors are missing limbs and whatever it takes, they go through it. brian, the guy who helps me up, he has to help me up. how pathetic am i? >> steve: they helped raise over $3 million for wound warriors, which is great.

>> gretchen: now the headline force friday. two u.s. troops have been killed overnight in afghanistan. it happened in the eastern part of the country. nato has not reloosed any other information at this time. so far this year, more than 150 nato service members have been killed in the country. another fox news alert, authorities in mississippi confirming they've arrested a suspect now in two fatal highway shootings and that he will be charged with capital murder later today. police say 28-year-old james willie had not been posing as a police officer. remember, that's what authorities thought this person was doing to pull over people, rob them and then kill them. but they say after they caught him, they responded to an unrelated report of a disturbance at his home. they found a gun, tested it and it was the one used in the murders. jamie diamond agreed to testify before congress over the trading losses. a date has not been given. but he received an invitation that the bank says he will accept. officials say it will follow a set of hearings with regulators

on the efforts to implement wall street reforms that ends on june 6. diamond apologized to the bank's shareholders for the $2 billion plus training loss. fans around the world mourning the loss of donna summer. the queen of disco losing a battle with lung cancer at just 63 years old. a memorial now growing at her star on the hollywood walk of fame. summer won five grammys, 19 number one dance hits during her nearly 40-year career, including her breakout smash "love to love you baby." ♪ oh, love to love you baby ♪ oh, love to love you baby >> gretchen: summer never spoke about her cancer publicly. now we're learning she believed she may have contracted the disease after inhaling toxic particles following the attacks on 9-11. a public memorial for her will be held wednesday in nashville. those are your headlines.

>> steve: world leaders gathering today near washington, d.c. for the g 8 summit. ed henry is live at the white house with details. good morning to you. >> good morning. that's right. it be the g-8 summit at camp david that president obama is hosting. what's really urgent here is the situation with european debt crisis, david cameron, one of the leaders just yesterday put the stakes starkly, saying the euro zone is at a cross roads, it will either come together or break apart. what's interesting is president obama, the last time a large group of leaders like this got together the g-20 in november in france, president obama suggested that they had a plan and these european leaders were moving forward, about to turn the corner. yet, here we are six months later and they're still promising they're going to figure this out. the president's national security advisor yesterday, tom donnellan, said this will be issue number one at the summit. take a listen. >> the need for these conversations will be about coherent and common goal of

having the crisis in europe managed well and getting on a path towards sustainable recovery. >> in terms of a common goal, these european leaders clashing. the new french president meeting with german chancellor merkel, they are at odds over how it move forward. merkel wants to focus on austerity measures. the new french president wants to focus on jobs and growth. doesn't want to go along with those austerity measures. jay carney said they believe inside the white house that the european leaders should adopt the approach the president is moving forward with, which is what he calls a balanced approach. some tax increases, some spending to generate growth. the bottom line is, they're at odds with republican leaders like john boehner. take a listen. >> people are looking at me like i'm the guy carrying a sword around town and going to bludgeon someone. all i'm suggesting is it's time for us to talk about this. >> with the president at odds with the republican leaders here

at home over our own debt crisis, maybe it's difficult for him to try to navigate the european debt crisis. other challenge for the president in the months ahead is if this european debt crisis continues, it's something he has very little control over, which makes it a huge wild card in this election because we've seen an increase in our stock market and economy as this debt crisis drags on. >> steve: all right. ed henry live on the noisy north lawn of the white house. thank you. >> gretchen: time to bring in geraldo rivera who is in los angeles this morning. good morning to you. >> hi, gretchen. i'm actually in san diego doing a benefit for wounded navy seal warriors on saturday and their families. i'm very excited about that. kind of segwaying to your obstacle course. i'm very sorry i missed that. >> brian: you would have been out there in your tank top, with your head band on. >> groovy. >> brian: let's talk about the hezbollah leader. you know about that very well rehearsed, very effective for them, their penetration into one

of our camps in 2007, killed a urge about of our guy, tortured them. we arrested them and turned them over to the iraqis when we left and he's on his way to getting out. what's your reaction? >> first, going back to the attack that you mention, brian, in january 2007, it came in the darkest days of iraq. it was a brilliant, ruthless attack. they came in dressed in u.s. uniforms. they came in to u.s. security checkpoints in a shiite town. they killed one of the gis on the spot. you could say that was brilliant military maneuverment but then they kidnapped four of the others and then as you suggest, they tortured and ultimately killed them. that was the criminal act. that was absolutely ruthless and disgusting how they did it, how they tormented them. we captured the guy shortly after that in basra, southern iraq. and he was in u.s. custody. then as i understand it, relying

on the 2008 bush administration agreement on the status of forces, when we pulled out in december 2011, we turned over all the prisoners to the iraqis on the assurance from the iraqi that they would try these people, that they would seek justice. well, it turns out just three days ago, actually on may 7, the guy was tried in the iraqi court and acquitted. you know, so that's the problem, the iraqis are refuseing to mete out fair justice. he's still in custody, but they have acquitted him. here is the rub, why did we turn this man over to the iraqis in the first place? this is why the republicans are so upset. well, the obama administration says because we agreed with the iraqis that we would turn over all prisoners and that we would leave their status up to iraqi justice. but this guy was not an iraqi. he's a hezbollah terrorist and

he's a lebanese citizen. so clearly it seems to me that this case fell between the cracks in our rush for the exit. i don't think anyone properly vetted the fact that this was not an iraqi to be tried in an iraqi court. this was a foreign terrorist, a lebanese terrorist, hezbollah terrorist who committed this hideous crime and he could very easily and we could have easily justified moving him, for example, to guantanamo bay. >> steve: right. we had lieutenant colonel allen west on about a half hour ago. >> brian: they don't want anybody in will! they want empty! >> steve: he said he felt like it was utter betrayal. we'll find out what does happen to you. you're on the west coast and halle barry, a big star there, she wants the president of the united states to crack down on the paparrazzi after they got way too close it her daughter. what do you think? >> talk about terrorists. >> steve: no kidding, with cameras? >> i think the paparrazzi out here particularly, they have a vicious streak.

i am remind of princess diana's tragic death in paris by similarly aggressive, take no prisoners paparrazzi and they got in halle barry's face. she was with her child. she felt extremely threatened by it. she was really offended by it and she made a pledge to seek out president obama's help to get some kind of federal legislation to protect star celebrities like it from this pack, this mob of paparrazzi. >> brian: do you think this will break up the g-8 summit, the president will be forced out of it to handle the complaints about people with cameras? >> if halle called me, i would have told her there were plenty much laws to protect her civilly and there are criminal charges she could have resorted to. all she had to too was pick up the phone and call 911. >> gretchen: trust me, everybody at the g-8 is picking up halle

barry's phone call. >> brian: stop acting! >> come on. they offended her. they really did. >> gretchen: quickly, 'cause we're running out of time, what's on your show over the weekend? >> you are talking trayvon martin and george zimmerman, this breakthrough with the release of the document that seems to indicate he has a self-defense claim after all. on my show for only the second time, i did it the first time, for the second time, benjamin crumb, the attorney for the martin family and george zimmerman's attorney, will be on live together to debate the significance of those documents. 10:00 o'clock eastern time sunday night. >> steve: now, that's must see tv. have a great day out in san diego examine a great weekend with those guys you're benefitting. >> brian: enjoy the mud bath. >> gretchen: coming up, former president george w. bush dip ago toe back into politics. his strong message about freedom in an op ed. >> brian: do you want to be a billionaire so freaking bad? facebook promising to make investors big money on wall

street today. should you believe in the hype and buy in? >> gretchen: you saw brian do it. now it's steve's turn. doocy taking on the tough mudder, coming up later this hour. >> steve: how was that ice bath? >> brian: refreshing. how is that? >> steve: or the electricity? and down goes frazier ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8.

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>> brian: it may be the most anticipated ipo ever. today for the first time, facebook will sell stock in the company at an estimated $38 a share. if experts are correct, the site will tip its first day of trading valued at $104 billion. so is it worth the hype for you? let's ask that question of charles payne, seen all over this network and that network. charles, should we buy if we could? >> it's going to start the day at $104 billion. where it ends, we're not sure. i'm worried about people chasing this stock. i'm worried about the average investor, particularly the

person who gave up on the stock market ten years ago saying okay, now i'll get back in. stock opens up at 5:00 goes to 60 and then they end of the day, someone who buys it at 80, hypothetical, and it comes back down to 50, people will get burned. you got to be very, very careful with this one. >> brian: i can't get it. you need connections to get it. you got to be with institutions that have access. so you're concerned the average american will go to get in and it will be too high. but you're not upset with the price of this today? >> no, no. listen, they did a great job maximizing their potential. there hasn't been buzz like this in a decade on wall street for one particular issue. the people at facebook have done a great job. here are some red flag, a lot of insiders are selling their stock today. i don't like to buy someone else's stock. when they sell on the first day, it rubs me the wrong wait a minute the valuation, $100 billion, the traditional valuation metrics don't support

that. on the flip side, you got 900 billion, potential to do a lot with that. >> brian: you were saying better off going to mcdonald's or ibm? >> for an investor who shunned the market for a long time and says, you know what? this is what i'm gog jump on, you would be better off, apples down big time. i would ibm before facebook above $50. >> brian: direct advice from man who knows in the business world and tv world. charles, thanks so much. i resent the fact you outaddress me every day. >> it's hard. >> brian: not really. straight ahead a nightmare down south a. fake cop pulling people over and killing them. jeanine pirro is on the case. and listen up ladies. want to get ahead at work? try zipping up your mouth. that's not from me. that's from the experts. i'll redeem myself when i cover the rest of this story and

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>> brian: quick headlines. remember this story? a couple living in this million dollars home in seattle and receiving welfare? they could be heading to prison. they pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding benefit programs. they'll pay back over $500,000 and face up to ten years behind bars. and if you want to get ahead at work, women, you better keep your mouth shut. yep. a new study finds women -- i got two people on the couch angry -- women who talk too much in the office as less competent. talk about a double standard. men would speak up are viewed as being better at their jobs. what's going on in this world?

gretch? >> gretchen: jeanine and i have known about that double standard for about 20 years. >> you know what? we never stay silent. >> brian: i know! >> gretchen: we renamed a show about the two of us that will lead to your imagination. >> it begins with b. >> gretchen: but it has the word nice in front of it. >> brian: ladies, we're on time. you talk too much. >> gretchen: see you, brian. fox news alert. as we've been reporting for you, mississippi police arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings. 28-year-old james willie had not been posing as a police officer. joining me with the latest is the host of "justice," judge jeanine pirro. good to see you. so this guy is arrested. they thought he was posing as a police officer. that's how he was pulling people over. now they're saying that's not true. >> it was a nightmare for everyone in mississippi, including law enforcement because you find two people dead on the side of the road within three days and there was talk about someone in a crown vic and

someone using police lights. so automatically law enforcement says to everyone in mississippi, by the way, if someone is trying to pull you over, you don't have to get pulled over. you can just put your blinkers on and try to drive to a public place, call 911. we'll let you know if we've got a cruiser out there. while everyone is in frighten mode, we find out that the guy who is going to be charged this afternoon with two counts of capital murder for the shooting of a 74-year-old and a 48-year-old woman, had a call made because there was apparently a disturbance in his apartment. he is charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping and rape. when the police arrest him, they see he has a .9 millimeter lugar and they end up taking that in. they do the ballistics. he's the one who shot the two people. >> gretchen: amazing coincidence that they arrested him. >> incredible cooperation between law enforcement. >> gretchen: let's talk more about what people can do if they

are in this kind of a situation. i mean, what are your rights if somebody has flashing lights behind you and it's nighttime and you're on a highway? do you have to stop? >> it's a great question. when i was a d.a., we had someone in westchester along 684 who had lights, was pulling women over and then raping and sexually assaulting them. so the issue is this, are you protected if you don't pull over? if your instincts and antennas say there is something that's not right, do not pull over! call 911 right away. call the local police. drive to a public place. you will not be arrested as long as you can articulate i'm frightened. i'm alone. it's a public road. it didn't seem like a legitimate car. it didn't look like a car that law enforcement would drive. >> gretchen: i can sense that people would get in trouble for evading police. >> of course they would, gretchen. but then you've got the ability to say, i'm alone. this car didn't look like a police car. i'm not looking to get away. i called the police. i called 911.

i'm more than willing to account to a police officer as long as he's a police officer. make no mistake, the copy cats are out there. they're going to do this. how much does it cost it get a light? how much does it cost to find someone stranded on the road? how many good samaritans? you and i who might stop for someone. there are all kinds of scenario where people find themselves victimized by some predator looking to kill and steal. >> gretchen: all right. you have your show coming up this weekend? >> yes. we have a lot going on. we've got this case, of course, and the bride who was shot and killed in her own home, in her bathtub. we've got some stuff on travolta. we've got the missing girl in arizona. now we're finding out that cps is involved. father not allowed to see those kids. >> gretchen: we'll be watching four over the weekend. thanks. the obama campaign accusing mitt romney of not reacting strongly enough to a plan to play up the president's connection to reverend jeremiah wright burks it's okay for the "washington post" to publish 30 pages on mitt romney being a bully back

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>> the spokesperson for president obama's campaign says a new republican attack ad is, quote, bs. yeah. biden was like, i hate when you spell out words i can't understand you. [ laughter ] then an aide said i think it's time for someone to go to the b-e-d. put on your footy pajamas, joe. >> gretchen: i remember those, those were the best. i wonder if chris wallace had a pair of those growing up. >> steve: i bet he still has some. >> gretchen: hey,. >> hi, guys.

i missed at 6:00 o'clock, i was up and i saw that you were promoting this tough mudder obstacle course. but i have been busy doing other stuff. have you guys actually done it yet? >> steve: brian has done it. i'll do it in half an hour. take a look. here is your buddy, brian, going through the mud under the barbed wire. >> gretchen: he's on the far right. >> brian: this is how i train to get ready for our segment. it's usually combative. as you see, i failed miserably on the wall. it only took three guys to help me get over the wall. and the ice there, that's brian. he's got one leg. he was still able to get up and give me a hand up or else i'd still be trying to scale it. >> steve: he did this for a third time. >> brian: yeah, a second ago. >> steve: it's not a race, chris. it's a challenge. it takes a village. >> gretchen: you're not supposed to laugh. >> brian: it takes a village, that's right. >> gretchen: chris -- >> that must have been uncomfortable there.

>> brian: you're never prepared to straddle a wall. that's one thing you learn in life as a wall. >> gretchen: one thing men don't do as well. hey, chris, one thing you did really well was that you won in jeopardy! >> i know. how great was that? >> gretchen: fantastic. >> brian: you said it was the highlight of your life. >> just about. you know. some people talk about the birth of children or getting married. no. winning jeopardy. >> steve: $50,000 now goes to your charity, which is? >> hope for the warriors. wonderful charity, started by some military wives for the families of wounded and fallen soldiers and for the wounded soldiers themselves. amazing services. one of the things i love about it, about 90 plus% of all the money that goes in goes to the services. not to overhead. so i'm really hope for the warriors. >> steve: congratulations. i had a family member in attendance at the taping down there with alex trebek and they said you were scary smart when it came to answering the

questions. >> brian: under pressure. >> gretchen: congratulations. >> i have to say, the opportunity so that we could hit here and bask is wonderful. but on the other hand, i could have humiliated myself and who knows how it's going to turn out? it's high risk, high reward. >> gretchen: you and wine and steve did challenges today. let's move back to politics because mitt romney is now saying that he will not endorse his super pac doing these reverend wright ads, whatever they were going to be. and at the same time, some people are asking, is there a double standard, because some newspapers have been able to write stories about mitt romney that some people don't think are fair either. what do you think? >> well, of course, there is a double standard. as far as reverend wright is concerned, i think it had a lot of relevance and i think that when you look back on it, mccain was crazy not to bring it up and -- not a matter of exploiting t. it's a legitimate issue. that's the church that barak obama prayed in, worshiped in

for 20 years. he's been president for four years now, so i don't know that it is as relevant as it used to be. i guess the argument in terms of the double standard would be it wasn't the obama campaign that did the story about the 15-year-old mitt romney. it was the "washington post." so there is a difference between an independent newspaper and a campaign itself. having said that, look, in a sense, romney had the both of both worlds. the story gets out there, reminds everybody about reverend wright and he can sit there and say i took the high road. >> steve: good point. i don't know if you've seen the wire, but a second senior u.s. official now telling fox news a apparently the administration has definitely decided not to apologize to pakistan. this is news this morning despite the months of high level u.s. consideration of what would have been a completely controversial move. what do you think about that? >> well, this is about the fact that we fired missiles and ended up killing several pakinstani soldiers. it was clearly a mistake.

it clearly -- they were firing on us and it was the fog of war kind of thing. on the one hand, you want to -- look, they're able to block our supply line, so you want to smooth over relations. on the other hand, it certainly was not an intentional act and again, this is a country that harbored, whether knowingly or not, osama bin laden for a decade. so it's -- look, it's a very complicated relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. >> brian: i don't think we should apologize. i'm so glad the administration came around to that because a month later action the haqqani network sponsored an attack where our guys were killed and we didn't hear an apology from pakistan. so we can't decide to apologize for something in which they were equally at fault. so i'm so glad they didn't. >> brian, you are a one tough mudder. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: you know who else is coming back into the public eye, which i was surprised to see an op ed, by former

president george w. bush, about foreign policy and the arab spring and what role america have in fighting for freedom in the middle east. i guess if you had to come up with a thesis of this article, it would than the former president believes that fighting for and achieving that kind of freedom is not an easy road. what do you make of the president coming back into the spotlight? >> look, it's something he deeply cares b. there has been a few issues he's come out on. one was defending the so-called bush tax cuts and the second one is this. remember, this was the theme of his 2005 second inaugural speech. he cares deeply about it. i don't think you're going to see him get involved in day-to-day politics. yes, he said as elevator doors were closing, he's for mitt romney. but i don't think you'll see him as bill clinton has. there is nothing wrong with it. but i don't think you're going to see him out there slashing and attacking obama. as much as we try and as often as we ask, i don't think you'll see him on a sunday talk show.

>> steve: speak of sunday talk shows, mr. trebek, who are your guests on fox news sunday this week? >> the big issue this week has been the economy. obama going after romney on bain capital and showing how insensitive he is. romney going after obama on the budget and as you can see and the deficit, you can see we'll have debate live in studio, fighting with each other. paul ryan, the intellectual driving force here in congress for the republicans and austan goolsbee, former chairman of economic advisors. i think it will be an interesting show. >> brian: high level debate and chris wallace, you're up to the task. you've already proven that. >> i'm a tough mudder. >> brian: you absolutely are. thanks so much. >> bye, guys. >> gretchen: let's get to the rest of the headlines. the fate of john edwards in the hands of a jury, deliberations begin today. during closing arguments, the defense asked him to separate

his affair from the alleged campaign money cover-up. the former presidential candidate is accused of using nearly a million dollars in donations to hide an affair and pregnancy with rielle hunter. >> steve: new details about the death of mary kennedy. her estranged husband, robert f. kennedy, junior, is the one who called the police after a housekeeper found her body in a barn behind her new york home. the housekeeper asked robert to stop by after she realized that mary was missing. when he got there, he reportedly called mary -- a group to see ddaa group to see if they had any knowledge where she might be. her friends say she was depressed after robert filed for divorce and was afraid he'd get custody of their children. that's where she was living. >> brian: wow. what would do you if a burglar broke into your home while you were on the inside? a 13-year-old teen-ager did what most people would do. she hid under the bed. when he left, she dialed 911.

>> he broke in through the window. >> okay. how long ago? >> i believe five minutes. >> brian: she gave cop has description of the man. officers nabbed him just a short distance from the home in california. on him? the family's belongs. >> steve: good. crazy. >> gretchen: coming up, brand-new details in the trayvon martin case in florida. will have a major effect on the case. peter johnson, jr. analyzes next. >> brian: first, here is dave and clayton with a look at what happens this weekend. >> we are surrounded by tough mudders and clayton. >> that's right. >> we're going to see if we can get him to do it this weekend. first, you want a better flying experience? how to get better service from flight attendants, front desk agents and everyone in between. >> on the heels of the biggest tech ipo ever today, we're talking back to facebook. how to raise your kids in a digital age and navigate the way

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it will hurt your retina. gretch? >> gretchen: never before seen evidence in the case surrounding trayvon mart machine florida has gone public. so how will this affect the case? here to break it all down, peter johnson, jr. good morning to you. we see a couple new piece of evidence. this surveillance video of trayvon martin, the teenger in a 7-11 buying skittles and something else before this attack happened. and now we're seeing more injuries and information about george zimmerman. >> you're right. this is interesting and revealing. we now know that trayvon martin had trace amounts of thc, which is the active ingredients in cannabis, marijuana, in his system. we also know that there is a witness statement that says that trayvon martin was on top of george zimmerman and punching him repeatedly in, quote, mixed martial arts style, unquote.

we also know the gunshot wound occurred between one and 18 inches away from the victim, trayvon martin, by mr. zimmerman. finally we know that there were calls for help apparently 14 times by george zimmerman that was overherd on a 911 call bay passer-by calling about the incident. so that combined with the fact we now know mr. zimmerman had a fractured nose, abrasions on his forehead, one inch laceration on the bask his head, two black eyes, and other bruises, it paints a different picture in terms of self-defense, perhaps who was the aggressor, who was winning the fight at the time the fatal shot was made by george zimmerman. >> gretchen: except i'm not a lawyer, but it would seem -- >> you could be one. >> gretchen: thank you. it would seem in the case, what would be the most crucial aspect of it will be the fact that they have those 911 calls where george zimmerman is told not to follow trayvon martin and he still does. and number two, who actually

started the assault? >> that's an interesting point. the state's theory was this he was told to stay away. he reported it and he should back off. mr. zimmerman's factual defense is that he says yeah, he did get out of the car, but he was returning to the car after he had gotten out of the car and he was retreating when, in fact, he was attacked by trayvon martin. so that becomes a factual issue for a jury. but under florida's law, the stand your ground law, if you have a reasonable fear for your life, then you have the capacity to act. and you can be vindicated both in a civil court and a criminal court and face no liability or no culpability for wrongdoing whatsoever. these are the issues coming out. 200 pages of documents and photos, a lot of this stuff we never heard before and a lot of it giving credence in many respects to setting up doubt, reasonable doubt about these

charges in terms of who was fighting whom and how and what was going on before the shot was fired. >> gretchen: all right. very interesting case. we'll have a loft coverage on it as it continues. thank you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: don't miss the end of the dirtiest fox and "friends" ever. doocy takes on the tough mudder next. let's check in with martha. we can do that, right? >> i'm nervous about that. thanks. what a morning that's been. coming up here on "america's newsroom," we're going to talk to -- we have been talking rather to former attorney general mike mukasey who says a vote that will happen today in the house could signal the end of the war on terror on the homeland and he says that that is to treat terrorists like street criminals. we'll talk with the congressman who wrote that. lots coming up when bill and i see you at the top of the hour

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>> gretchen: we've been showing you all morning the tough mudder. earlier brian took the test. he did a fantastic job with the help of some wounded warrioring. >> brian: if it wasn't for them, i'd still be trying to get over that wall. that was an hour ago. i was a kid then. we're not naive anymore. >> steve: i'm wearing the white shirt, about to go in the mud. this is the fellow who designed this course. >> brian: chief creative designer of tough mudder. >> tough mudder is a ten to 12-mile military style obstacle course designed to test mental and physical grit and team work. we have four obstacles that just give you a taste of what the full ten to 12-mile course will give you. >> gretchen: you have lobbied to go up against steve? >> that's right, you have to take your own medicine.

>> brian: steven? >> time tony. >> brian: they've already been through and going through again! steve, are you ready? >> steve: we start under the barbed wire. >> gretchen: go! >> brian: steve, keep your head down, steve! ♪ >> brian: this is not fun. it is also cold. the water is freezing. now he's to the wall. >> gretchen: keep going! >> brian: that is the team work aspect. it's not a race. if he can get his foot over there. he's doing it. he's through. now what you're watching is a man that's about to jump in a tub of ice water. you can not back out. cannon ball, big guy! cannon ball! then he's going to have to swim

underneath. no, no, no, you got to go underneath! you got one minute. >> gretchen: are you being serious? >> brian: steve is a little woozy because it is shocking to get in under there. let's go! he's through. he's back on the other side. the hard part is almost over except for the electric shock coming through. >> gretchen: i wouldn't want this part. >> steve: i should have been a dentist!

>> brian: how hard was that? >> steve: that was hard! >> brian: now you got to go out on a mission or something. >> steve: honey, i hope we have some tide at home. >> brian: you're a certified tough mudder. congratulations! [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: i thought i got a beer! >> brian: you get a coffee. >> steve: there are parts of me at that are so cold right now, i didn't know i had them. >> brian: maybe on twitter. good job on the course. >> thank you. even for these object stahl coos are a real bear to complete. a normal tough mudder course is ten to 12 miles. it's all about team work and comradery. >> brian: we're going to take a break and come back outside. congratulations. steve, you were awesome. great job, guys. [ cheers and applause ] this is an rc robotic cw.

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