>> great thanks to montgomery gentry. more on the after the show show. >> more barbecue on the plaza. fleet week all weekend long here on "fox & friends." much more of that this weekend. >> thanks to our great crowd. thanks so much for coming down! we'll see you all tomorrow! thanks so much! >> hemmer, take it away. looks like stomacher outside. almost there. u.s. government fires back at pakistan using money as a weapon to punish after a doctor that helped track down usama bin laden was given 33 years in jail. figure that one out. on a friday i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom". how are you feeling? a. martha: it is friday. ability louly right on a that measure. i'm martha maccallum. senate armed services committee cut $33 million to aid to our alley pakistan.

that is the million dollars every year that the doctor will spend behind bars. >> united states does not believe there is any basis r holding dr. afridi. we regret both the fact that he was convicted and severity of his sentence. bill: dominic di-natale streaming live from islamabad. >> reporter: dr. afridi is on suicide watch at this hour. we hear he is in a poor fiscal condition. suffering the physical symptoms of deep depression. that suicide watch to set to last for 24 hours. it is quite common for a 72-hour suicide watch after prisoners are given a long-term or hard time verdict or conviction. his family is currently in hiding and his supporters not speaking publicly. they're too scared of retaliation from the massive anti-american lobby here in pakistan. so much rage and vitriol pouring out from all sorts

of anti-american quarters against dr. afridi for his involvement in the cia vaccination program in an attempt to find out whether usama bin laden was hiding here. we hear from the pakistan government further rebuff from the shocked reaction from the united states over his sentencing. one official saying america needed to take a step back. take a breath. there has been an overreaction by the u.s. to the afridi case. he said look, you guys got usama bin laden. we're happy he got killed by the way but it was done in a way we're not happy with and we didn't like that is what they said. that's why we're hearing claims that in fact afridi is being punished on behalf of the united states due to pakistan's embarassment and anger one year on over the case. we heard however someone who wrote the constitution here in pakistan saying that actually afridi never should have been tried by a tribal court. he should have have been in federal courts. actually had he been done that he would have got off

on evidence that was presented. we'll see whether he get as presidential pardon. that is his only hope, bill. bill: we'll see if money talks. this more than a year later. dominic di-natale on the ground in islamabad. martha with more. martha: this is becoming a big diplomatic dispute between the united states and pakistan. that doctor is set to challenge the prison sentence. at that attorneys for afridi is appealing the system. archaic system that governs the pakistan's tribal belt is what put him away in the first place and likely will be rest of his life given that sentence. his fact vaccination program was designed to collect dna from the bin laden family and confirm the terror leaders location before the seals raided that compound on that unforgetable evening back in 2011. exactly 33 years to the day since the first boy to appear on a milk carton disappeared, that movement

has now been apparent on this case over the last 20 four hours the an arraignment is expect today for the man police say confessed to selling 6-year-old etan patz. new york city commissioner ray kelley here on that. >> hernandez described to the detectives how he lured young etan from the school bus stop at west broadway and prince street with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the basement of the bodega, choked him there and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. martha: this is just an incredible development in this case. the suspect, who you see pictured here, pedro hernandez. he is married and has a college-age child. he is 51 years old. so far investigators say they don't know what the motive would have been. rick leventhal is digging into the case once again for

us. he is live at the manhattan criminal courthouse in new york city. rick, this guy was never really a prime suspect in this case, right? >> reporter: right. despite the fact that pedro hernandez lived in etan's neighborhood and worked in a bodega store near the boy's bus stop and was apparently on a report issued by the a detective at the time he was never questioned until wednesday. that came after apparently he confessed to relatives years ago he had done a bad thing, in his words, killed a child in new york. it wasn't until last month when the nypd and fbi dug up a basement a block from etan's home that someone close to hernandez contacted nypd to report that pedro might be the real killer. he reportedly confessed luring eat town to the store with promise of a soda and check dhoked him and dumped his body in the trash.

he spoke our detectives. we have a written confession. a signed confession. he spoke for 3 1/2 hours, videotaped statements. so obviously we believe that this probable cause to go forward with this arrest. >> reporter: as for a motive, martha, hernandez reportedly told investigators, he simply had an urge to kill. he is expected to be arraigned sometime in manhattan criminal court later today. martha: what an unbelievable criminal. he worked on the block. think of the effort went to scouring every inch of that area on and off some of thee years, some people who know the man claim they're not surprised he made that confession. >> reporter: especially people knew him back in the day. they said he would walk around the neighborhood all by himself acting very strange. people who know him now, neighbors of his say he always keeps to himself. you really don't hear much from the guy except when he

would be out on a his front porch smoking cigarettes. you mentioned he lives in new jersey with his wife and 20-year-old daughter. police say he was remorseful during his confession. hernandez's brother-in-law hopes that this brings some closure to etan's family. martha: what a story. >> i think it will. now they will know what happened and they don't have to search anymore. they don't have to suffer anymore in waiting whether he is alive or what happened or who killed him. >> reporter: so now, martha, this is all over the front pages of the new york papers today but you know there is still no direct evidence of this boy's death. there are still some who remain skeptical that hernandez may actually be the killer. martha: yeah, that's absolutely right, rick. thank you very much. great reporting. we'll stay on top of this story. what a development. bill: we'll watch for it arraignment too. another tragic development involving this officer lead

detective for so many years, missing detectives, missing persons deck tifg william butler spent four years talking to everyone he met along the route etan took. in 1986 he told the "new york post" that he felt like etan was his own son. the case consumed his life. seven years after the boy vanished, detective butler took his own life. he did not leave a note but family said he was haunted by it all. last month's renewed search brought back a lot of memories and certainly did for that family. gas prices are down. hitting the road on the weekend. almost time for the summer driving season. down 27 cents since april. some industry watchers say it could drop another 13 cents by mid-june. falling prices could be sign of a many looking global economic crisis. stuart varney, host of "varney & company", fox business network. what do you see here, stuart?

>> don't dilute the good news. this is memorial day weekend. we're setting out to drive around the country with gas prices way down. probably will two down some more. bill, if it wasn't for the west coast, that national average of 3.66, 3.67 would be a lot lower. california, washington, oregon, the average price there is well above 4.20 for regular. if you took that out of the national average, we would well be below 3.60 for gas. probably coming down some more. bill: slightly lower on average from a year ago. remember all the headlines. you have trouble in europe, china, india, brazil. >> yeah. bill: if they're slowing down that could slow us down too. >> yes, that slows us down. this is the underlying reason for the decline in oil prices and gas prices. there is a worldwide slowdown. as you said, europe is, much of europe is in recession. china is slowing down from its break neck rate of

growth and america is likely to slow down from its 2% rate of growth. there is less demand for oil. less demand for gas. so down goes the price. the good news is, it is memorial day weekend the prices are down but the underlying reason for it is a negative, i gotcha. you think american companies remade them aeflsselves after 08. taking another hit it could come at a price in jobs. >> that is not good, not good. bill: have a good weekend. >> you too. martha: whoop at this do says stuart varney. that is -- he was living high life on the taxpayer's dime. now this man, can never get enough of photo in the bathtub with two glasses of wine. he is busy checking the want ads most likely this weekend. we'll talk to a lawmaker to find out who else on the government payroll might need a long holiday. bill: there could be a verdict in the john edwards

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up. for the residents up here that is our first thing to go. our horses or anything like that. and then we take care of ourself. >> it scares me because the cedar fire. so, yeah, it is pretty scary. hopefully the wind stay going that way. >> we keep our fingers crossed it doesn't switch back and pray for the best. martha: you can see why the people -- the wind whipping around there. that has been fueling this massive wildfire. that pushed it further east that is problematic. helicopters and air tankers and more than 200 firefighters are out there battling that blaze this weekend. we wish them luck this weekend. bill: we certainly do. this story has heat this morning. people are losing their jobs this morning this after a federal agency spent almost a million dollars in taxpayer money in las vegas resulting in images like this one. the gsa official at the heart of the scandal left the agency. that is jeff neely seen here when he was living up up on the taxpayer dime.

california congressman jeff denham, good morning to you from california. >> thanks for having me back. bill: you have called for major reforms to put a stop to this kind of waste. where in the world do you begin? >> well i think the first thing you've got to do is create transparency. this is a agency that has a $10 billion slush fund that is outside of congress. it is outside of appropriations and we just want the american public to be able to see how this money is being spent so we know when these lavish vacations go on we're able to identify them and hold those accountable. bill: this gentleman worked out of california. so he was a regional director. and what "the washington times" reported this week there could have been about dozen other leading members of the agency out of washington who were also there in attendance. what's that tell you? >> not only in attendance but should be fired as well. the question really is, why is the administration keeping all of these individuals on? they're still collecting not only their paychecks but they're building their pensions.

we just feel like if you break the law, if you have this type of abuse ends if the taxpayers dollars, then you ought to be fired and fired immediately. we need to set some examples. bill: you're talking about first steps in this process. i'm not clear where you begin just yet. the federal government is so massive and so large and this agency itself, it was responsible for keeping an eye on how other government agencies spent money. >> yes. bill: the irony there is just insulting. >> it is. they are supposed to set the standard for every other agency. we have believed for some time there were many other agencies doing this same thing. in fact we've just recently found out that the ninth circuit court, the federal court have been holding an annual trip in maui. they did one in 2010 where they spent $1.1 million, snorkeling trips, yoga. a whole long list of things that they were extravagantly spending money on. now they're planning on doing it again august 13th

of this year. not only shows there is a culture of this type of wasteful abuse but the arrogance they will continue to do it after they have been caught. bill: seems that the vegas trip is the symbol and represents a much bigger issue here. and -- >> it does, definitely. bill: why was this not peeled back earlier? because if you start digging into this, who knows what you're going to find. >> well, absolutely. this went all the way up to the top. the administration, the president's hand-picked people knew about this. and they have let it go on for the last several years. and so we're, not only demanding the audits but we're going to continue to dig to find out how much more of these happened in gsa. how many happened outside of gsa and how many millions are being spent across the nation from many different agencies. bill: to that point you said the outrage just cycle of waste, fraud and abuse in gsa is not limited to any

one person. where does this lead again? >> gsa has to justify the existence. i would like to abolish gsa all together. private industry can do their jobs and do it cheaper and do it better. they set the standard for every other agency in government. we need to not only figure out how deep this goes but we need to put a stop to do it all together. stop all conferences. bill: almost like the gsa is the official auditor and you would have private industry handle that. we'll see how far you get on that. jeff denham thank you for your time out of the california. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. bill: you bet. 19 minutes past the hour, martha. martha: a high school is offering more than dinner and dancing at the senior prom. a little bit of protection in the deal as well, if you know what i mean. bill: yes. there are developments in the nypd counter surveillance of muslims. homeland security committee chairman peter king will update us on that. all energy development comes with some risk,

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bill: 22 minutes past the hour now. investigators looking at damage caused by a fire onboard a nuclear-powered submarine. that sub was undergoing renovations to determine whether or not the uss miami can be saved. federal investigation of fires in 2011 chevy cruze has been expanded to look at 2012 models. a focus on wiring and transmission in the cars. the spacex capsule is expected to dock with the international space station. this will be the first ever hook up to the space lab. if all goes well they hope it will replace the retired shuttle program. a live report coming up in the next hour. a whole new chapter in the space program, right? private companies are doing it. martha: so we've got early

results now coming in from egypt's first genuinely competitive presidential election in the its history. the first round of this historic vote was held over the past couple of days. and it now appears that the candidate from the egyptian muslim brotherhood has secured one spot in next month's runnoff elections that has some people very concerned. leland vittert joins us now. he is streaming live from cairo. leland? >> reporter: hi, martha. what a difference a year makes. the muslim brotherhood during the egyptian revolution said they wouldn't run anybody for president. now their man is in the lead for this round of presidential voting. we have video of morsi who is expected to take in about 25, 26% of the vote here and then, the number two spot is up for grabs. most likely going to a fellow by the name of shafik when he voted he got a rougher reception. a lot of people were

throwing shoes at him. he was member old regime. he was prime minister under president mubarak. this is the first time egyptians have gone to the polls and had a free and fair election. there are a about 25 million ballots to be counted over past two days. the top two vote-getters from all of that go to runnoff election. that is scheduled for june 16th, 17th. what this is setting up, martha, is a pretty interesting situation. you have the muslim brotherhood candidate who a lot of people have real concerns about because what he said about israel and egypt's relationship with the united states and what he said about bringing in sharia or islamic law here in egypt. on the other side you have old recommendnant of guard, very old guard under the mubarak regime. that will not go over very well with the young revolutionaris. the young kids in tahrir square who worked so hard to get president mubarak out. these are not the two choices they wanted to have

to come in june. martha: that raises an obvious question, leland? where is their candidate? why don't they have somebody in a prominent position in this race? >> reporter: it didn't work out so well for them, martha. they had a couple of candidates. a guy named fatuah and did not have the ability to get out the vote the muslim brotherhood which has a very powerful and long-standing political machine. on other side seems there was a lot more support for the establishment and a lot more support to go back to the way things were than you saw in the street. 24% for the old guard is a lot. back to you. martha: boy, a fascinating time in egypt. leland, thank you so much. leland vittert in cairo. bill: all right. a major ruling in a controversial matter. can police run counterterrorism operations and monitor muslims living in america? the head of the homeland security committee is peter king. he is here to make his case on that. martha: big story. the jury in the john edwards corruption trial is now into day six, folks.

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north carolina, now. jury deliberations for a sixth day just now beginning in the john edwards trial. this is new video moments ago of john edwards arriving in the courthouse alongwith his parents as he has done every day for the past several weeks. doug mckelway is there now live. tough to read here, doug, but what do jurors appear to be focusing on as they go into a sixth day of deliberations? >> reporter: bill, they appear to be following the money trail. they also appear to be changing their focus away from the 3/4 of a million dollars provided by elderly heiress, bunny mellon to another money from deceased texas billionaire fred baron. yesterday jurors requested 20 exhibits among them a handwritten note baron sent in a fedex envelope with $1,000 in cash. sent to edwards' campaign aide andrew young while he

was hiding his pregnant mistress. it reads old chinese saying use cash, not credit cards. >> from what we know about fred baron he was here he probably tell the jury it was a joke. in the absence of fred baron to explain why he was doing what he was doing it is pretty ominous piece of evidence that might not bode well for john edwards. >> reporter: jurors also asked for a chart showing more than a million dollars in contributions from, to the deposits of andrew young from bunny mellon and fred baron. the defense claims that andrew young used most of that money to help fund the construction of his very large house in chapel hill, north carolina. bill? bill: interesting. the judge asked them what time they want to go home today. they said 3:30. have they given indication how long they it will be to reach a verdict? can we even say that? >> reporter: i don't think we can say that. the jurors appear to be moving at their own case. when asked the judge would

appear to standard schedule for friday which is recess 3:30 they nodded yes, sir. if they don't reach a verdict today they will resume deliberations tuesday after the long holiday weekend. one more thing real quick, bill. i covered a lot of trials over years on friday appear to be moving slowly you about on friday, holiday weekend i have seen a where jurors pick up the pace. they want to get out for the holiday weekend. i don't know if this case here but been true in the past. bill: doug mckelway in greens bore he continuing to read the tea leaves. martha: jurors take their responsibility very seriously. if you ever served on a jury which i have a couple times you feel that in the room. people understand the weight what they're doing. all indications are that they really want to reach the ride verdict and they want to put in the time and not trying to hightail out of there before noon for the memorial day weekend and they deserve credit. they're being very thorough.

here is look at what john edwards could face in guilty on all counts. he could face 30 years in prison. but the thinking is by most legal experts we've spoken to in this case it would be most likely the court would sentence him concurrently. the most effective time he would spend in prison would most likely be about five years. who knows if we will be convicted or not. we're on it. we'll let you know as soon as we get any indication from that courtroom that something is happening. new developments in the controversial battle surrounding nypd surveillance of muslim mosques, businesses, student groups across the river in the other state of new jersey. so the attorney general in the garden state has now ruled that the police's counterterrorism work was legal even though it crossed state lines. however the council on american islamic relations known as cair, not surprisingly they disagree with that finding. here is their quote. we're disappointed with the outcome of the review. we'll consider all legal

options with new appeals for action by the department of justice. kcair says this isn't over. let's check in with republican congressman peter king chair of homeland security committee. >> good to be with you. martha: the counter terrorism folks in new york were crossing the river, going into the new jersey, under cover surveillance in businesses and mosques. new jersey found out about it and they were a bit surprised this was going on without their knowledge. now it has been ruled they did nothing illegal, right? >> absolutely. in fact this is a tremendous vindication for the nypd. it is validation all they have been doing. actually, martha, many people in jersey did know what was happening. former governor cody told me signed an agreement with nypd when they came into new jersey originally. the police chief in newark knew about it and so did other police around the state. numerous meetings were held all the time between new york and new jersey.

now possible some people didn't know. martha: some people like governor christie? governor christie said he didn't know, right? that seems a little odd, doesn't it? >> well, don't be starting a fight with me and governor christie. we had words in the past. we love each other and getting along. we want to keep it that way. governor christie and the nypd are now in total sync. ray kelley said all along new jersey authorities knew he was there. in fact when the police, nypd went to newark the police chief in newark actually had newark police escort them around to take them to various locations they wanted to go to. bottom line terrorism doesn't stop at state lines. martha: no. >> it goes into new jersey. comes in from jersey to new york. so this is really a vindication of the in. ypd and a demonstration of the cooperation between new york and new jersey. martha: worth remembering of course that the '93 bomb plot was hatched in jersey city. >> right. martha: and newark airport was one of, you know, main 9/11 in terms of hijackers

where they took off from. very important to have that coordination between those huge metro areas. a couple quick questions for you about this. does this mean now that sort of, they have to do anything differently now? does any inquiry that they do or any investigating does it have to be justified by a lead and do they have to make sure everybody on both sides of the river knows what they are doing? has anything changed in that relationship? >> not really. i think it will probably be a little bit more notification and cooperation. that is really all been there. this will just refine that a bit. as far as following leads, this is good police work. and as far as these muslim groups like cair was unindicted coconspirator in major terrorist funding case, it always been, crime is coming from a particular community like when the justice department was going after the mafia, they went into the italian-american community. when it was coming from the westies they went into the irish-american community. this is common sense good police work.

unfortunately 99% of muslims are good american and islamic terrorist threat is coming from the muslim community. unfortunately not enough cooperation is coming from the muslim community. police are doing preemptive work and surveilance. this is what good police work is all about. that's why they have been able to stop 14 plots against new york city. martha: thank goodness that is big win for the counter terrorism folks in new york who you are a big fan of and doing a heck of a job. >> absolutely. martha: one more question about the pakistani doctor situation because i know it is something you've been working on as well. you suggested the other day there was some kind of connection between the white house and the sentencing of this pakistani doctor to 33 years. what did you mean by that? >> several things. one, after the killing of bin laden there was talk coming from the administration how dna was important. pakistani authorities started looking for medical people. they rounded up several health officials including this doctor. at that time we had

anonymous calls coming from the administration confirming that the fact we had use ad doctor to try to get dna samples. after that you had leon panetta going on national television confirming this doctor was cia asset working for u.s. intelligence. you combine those. too much talk, to too much indicators giving a pakistan what was done and who did it. i'm saying the administration bears responsibility for what happened to the doctor, especially the sentencing. >> we'll talk about that a later coming up in the show in terms of what is happening on capitol hill in terms of trying to protect this doctor. always great to see you. have a great memorial day. >> you too, martha. thanks a lot. bill: that is one angle of story no one predicted. you're almost 13 months later this is going on. martha: this man who helped us will be in a jail for a long time. bill: you watch. money talks especially when it comes from this side over there. prom season one school's gift to the students on prom night raising serious questions. should it be the party favor

of choice? we'll explain. martha: and there are some new developments today in the case of this little girl isabel celis from arizona. her parents were just spotted doing something that we haven't seen them doing for quite some time in terms of how they were appearing before the public. we're going to talk about that. the father has been told to stay away from the younger boys in that family. very mysterious development. what is happening now? we'll tell you. >> we are here today to plea for safe return of our baby girl.

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live in the immediate area. what a shot. look at that. the costa rica the volcano is outside the capitol of san jose. both governments raised their alert levels but so far are not ordering any evacuations. bill: it is prom season. one high school offering more than special memories on this prom night. the high school making condoms available for students as they leave the big dance. what do you think about that? president of concerned women for america and dr. cathleen london, a family medicine physician at iris cantor lady's health center. welcome to both of. >> you good morning. bill: we were lucky to have a corsage. what do you think of this idea, penny? >> you know parents have the right, to the moral upbringing of their children. this is case where this school and other schools are overstepping their boundaries and reaching into an area that is parental responsibility and going beyond education, bill,

really into advocacy. we know the number one reason that kids abstain from sex is because of their moral values, their faith and because of the relationship with their parents. and when the school steps in between that relationship it he is very harmful and makes it much more difficult to abstain. bill: that could be. the parents are making the choice to send their kids to this school? prep school in brooklyn by the way. >> right. a school for children who have not been successful at other schools. go beyond that --. bill: regardless of that. take on penney's point. >> penny point is not proven by statistics. the states have abstinence only education highest teen birth rates. mississippi, 55 per 1000 girls. states that have comprehensive sex education including abstinence only and also con domes and birth control are lower. >> that is not true. >> this is true. cdc -- excuse me i'm not done. 16,000 per new hampshire. you got your point in. it is my turn.

bill: doctor, we'll give you a time. log off the fire. all cool. nobody is going anywhere. >> america we are embarassment. nine times the teen pregnancy rate of any other developed nation. that is really reprehensible. they're not saying go have sex. if you do, here's a condom please use it. be safe. do not get a disease of the do not get pregnant. that is all it is saying. bill: penny, gave her opportunity. >> okay. bill: those like yourself, penny, are afraid what this does, sends the signal to teenagers that, normalizes teen sex. >> bill, we know that children 17 and under, about a third of them are having sex. so the majority aren't. we want to advocate the position it is okay and it is normal to abstain and we want to help parents that are having troubling with with their kids. not let the schools get in between the parent and child relationship. that is the big nanney state cutting the parent out of the deal. if the kids are having trouble, if we know these

kids are getting into trouble, bring the parents into the situation and it is not just this one school. we know that the condom companies are offering to do this kind of thing for a number of schools. it is just a bad idea. parents are outraged when they find out it is happening and think continues --. bill: i understand the point you're making. doctor, why is that not valid. >> just disagree. doesn't obviate a parent can discuss it with a child. saying responsible thing to do to use a condom and prevent it. abstinence only education has failed over and over and over. we have statistics. you can shake your head all you want. cdc statis it beings are there. >> failure, 10 and 33% of condoms fail. you hand them a condom does that mean they will be safe? what about the next time they want to have sex and school is not there to hand them a condom. >> this school actually does. >> initiated into sex on prom night that's what you do. next time teenagers known

for so responsible are always going to have that condom ready. that is not the case. we got to teach them good decision-making skills. >> a condom is good decision-making school. thank you for making my point. bill: doctor, last word, her big point this is not the role for the school. can you defend that? >> it is absolutely the, school making it available. if the parent isn't teaching it and if you haven't taught your teenager really by 15 or whatever age, do you really think that not giving that information is going to make a difference? you have failed as a parent. at that point. >> peer pressure by the way. bill: i was thinking a bad band and rented tuxedo would probably make the night complete. >> teens will do what they are boeing to do. let them be safe. bill: thank you, ladies. >> thank you, bill. bill: martha. martha: kind of hot in here. bill: a little bit. hey now. hot dog. martha: yeah. prom, bad dress, maybe first limo ride of my life i think. bill: i think i have my

dad's big silver lincoln continental. martha: not first time for other things. bill: on we go. >> very interesting. all right. coming up we've dot this for you are amount senate committee sending a message to pakistan cutting millions of dollars in aid. how the white house is responding to all of this. plus --? >> [shouting] bill: you know in d.c. we just filibuster and call each other names on cable tv. this is not --. martha: not how they do it there.

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kiev. [shouting] and that was before happy hour. duking it out. martha: we don't know for sure. bill: that is a good point. vodka could have started before noon. fighting over bill allow use of russian language in russian speaking areas of country. opposition wants ukraine more independent from russia. in other corner the president's party backing the bill. one lawmaker went to the hospital. everybody else went to the bar. martha: that is hot topic. bill: sure is everywhere. martha: a lot of places do not want to have russian language spoken everywhere. they fought for independence. this is hot topic. maybe deal with things more that way. maybe things get done. bill: take that. yes. martha: so there's a new push on a controversial proposal to stop drunk drivers from becoming repeat offenders. road safety advocates demanding breatholyzers in cars of anyone convicted of

a dui. critics say that a multimillion-dollar overreaction. adam housley is live on this from los angeles. why this new push, adam? >> reporter: martha, the issue really is whether or not these alcohol testing devices should be in the cars of every single dui offender or just repeat oaf spenders. right now 16 states currently around the country require ignition interlocks for anyone convicted of driving under influence including first-time offenders. a handful of other states consider legislation that require for only hardcore repeat offenders. recent study by insurance institute having interlock law would reduce recidivism by 12% and high rate of installation of these devices the lower the chance of repeat offenders. >> ignition interlock laws could go even further if they were publicized broadly, so all drivers, not just people who have been

convicted of dui, know if they're caught one of the penalties they will receive is putting interlock on the vehicle. >> reporter: research finds that 75% of the people that are convicted of dui eventually reoffend. also 2/3 of those required to put interlocks in their car don't even put them in, martha. martha: not surprising i guess to some extent. is there opposition to this idea, adam? >> reporter: there is, people opposed to it, i will spit that out. american beverage institute is one group opposing it saying we represent 8,000 restaurants and should not be a one-size-fits-all type situation. you shouldn't require everybody because a few are causing the problems. in fact they say it should be up to the states and, should not be up to the states. should be up to judges to make the final decision. they also say costly. requiring all states to have these ignition interlocks would have a price tag of more than $430 million to supervise the offenders. >> our concern when it comes to the first offender mandate you're throwing out

judicial discretion when talking about dui offenders and also eliminated proportional response. as industry obviously we want to see that our laws work. and so right now these first offender mandates they don't work. they're too expensive. people aren't complying. >> reporter: this legislation is also being debated in congress, martha, trying to encourage states to put these in more cars. we'll keep you updated how this moves. right now 16 states requiring it for all dui offenders. martha: interesting. adam, thank you very much. bill: california leads the way in so many ways. we'll see. it is hot. it is superhot in parts of the country where august came very early. is this dangerous heat wave now heading your way? look at all the deep red. martha: she disappeared from her home more than a month ago. now revealing new clues about little isabel's parents. i love cash back.

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martha: we've got rising mercury across the midwest and the south as memorial day weekend arrives looking like straight out of middle of august. brand new hour of "america's newsroom." bill and i are happy to welcome you once again this friday. i'm martha maccallum. bill: not supposed to be this way. it is memorial day weekend. martha: we had snow on easter and now it is. bill: good luck keeping your grass green. deadly heat wave rolling from st. louis, into cincinnati and into memphis. martha: you know who knows

all about this? bill: i do. martha: janice dean. >> did you hear your partner? i know all about this stuff. these are unofficial meteorologists a the fox news channel. bill: but full respect to you. >> you're the best, bill hemmer. yes the unofficial beginning of summer starts memorial day weekend. man they are going to feel it across the ohio river valley and tennessee river valley. 98 in st. louis. 95 in louisville. 96 in nashville. that is saturday. it will be even warmer across portions of chicago. 97, 96. we'll feel humidity here. we'll feel temperatures well over 100 degrees in a lot of these areas t will last for several days as we head into next week, things will knock back a little bit. we'll get to more seasonal averages. but for monday, certainly 15, even some cases 20 degrees above what you should be for this time of year. take a look at chicago. there is 79. 88 on saturday. sunday we'll break a record if we get to 97.

we could break a record, at least tie it for monday. look at tuesday. back to 81. just a really quick, short lived heat wave. certainly something people will be outdoors and barbecuing, so be extra extra cautious. martha: open up the pool. >> i'm in. does hemmer have a pool? >> we're all going to his house. >> let's go. martha: it is inflatable. >> i want pictures, i will tweet you a shot in speedo. >> speedo? bill: just a joke. thank you, janice. violent storms moving across the upper midwest and keep eye out for things like this. those are warning sirens for a possible tornado. the storms took down trees and knocked out power to thousands of homes. people say the storm blew through so fast there was no time to react. that was wisconsin. >> i heard wind coming. got up to close the window. then the tree went down slow. it was over so fast you don't have time to, i didn't

couldn't even run to the basement because there was no time. it's over. >> the wind blew over a radio transmission tower, knocking several radio stations off the air which is what you do not want. martha: there's a large wildfire that is burning in new mexico. two wildfires just americanning and of course firefighters having a tough time with that making very little progress at moment. flames are tearing through the hila national forest and a dozen homes. plumes of smoke making it up 200 miles away from that site. firefighters expect dangerous concerns there to continue through tomorrow. they're hoping for a change in the wind and some --. bill: new reaction to the senate slashing aid in pakistan, a punishment for the sentencing of a pakistani doctor who helped the u.s. track down usama bin laden. senator carl levin says the anger over this is widespread on the hill. listen. >> the fact that so many places on the hill that are reacting this way shows not

coordination. i wish frankly it did have more coordination but what it shows is a common outrage, a common response in just about every place you can look. bill: so from capitol hill to the white house top administration officials joining that level of outrage. peter doocy is on the north lawn there on the white house on this. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. we still haven't found anybody, the pakistanis haven't found anybody who helped hide usama bin laden but pakistanis found this doctor who helped us bring bin laden to justice. secretary of state hillary clinton is strongly con emcanning his 33 year prison sentence. >> we regret both the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence. his help after all was instrumental in taking down one of the world's most notorious murders. >> reporter: the white house press secretary jay carney

said the doctor wasn't working against pakistan. he was working against al qaeda and that there's a senate committee up the street, up on capitol hill yesterday who voted to withhold $33 million in aide from pakistan. that is one million dollars for every year of his sentence. they will withhold it, bill, until he is is freed. bill: i'm not sure this next mart matters or not, there are allegations that the u.s. outed the doctor. are those true? >> reporter: too soon to tell but the chairman of the house homeland security committee peter king thinks he was outed by some people in our government by some loose talk. he is basically saying he thinks someone in the administration gave the pakistanis just enough intel to figure out who was helping us out. >> in the immediate days after the killing of bin laden you have sources in the government talking about dna samples, how we wanted to compare dna the soon after that the pakistanis started locking up various health officials.

there was a story in the british papers and mcclatchy news how the officials in our government were off the record confirming that there was a doctor. >> reporter: and a senior administration official telling us there were some efforts made to try to help the doctor out before he was captured, before his arrest but it is not clear why we were not able to get him out of the country before it was too late. congressman king says this will definitely hurt us when it comes to recruiting foreign assets in the future. bill: whether outed or not, 33 years in jail, makings you shake your head. peter doocy on the north lawn. thank you, peter. martha. martha: a cease-fire existing in name only in syria. take a look at this. [gunfire] hear massive amounts of gunfire there with amateur video we've seen a lot of these over the last several months. there is a scene of smoke

rising over the trees. purported to show the syrian government shelling opposition strong hold of homs. that city has been devastated by this violence. plumes of black smoke drifting up over the city. what a story that has been and continues to be. bill: coming up now year-and-a-half there? all right in this country now on the election front they are back where it all begins now. president obama on the offense in the swing state of iowa going after mitt romney's economic ideas. he said romney quote, is distorting details how he plans to pay for the proposed tax cuts. >> something else he didn't tell you. he hasn't told you how he paid for a new $5 trillion tax cut, which includes a 25% tax cut for nearly every millionaire in the country. [booing] 5 trillion in new tax cuts. that is like trying to put

out a prairie fire with some gasoline. bill: president obama also hitting this note again saying that bain capital is a good job but it does not qualify mitt romney for the job of president. that from iowa. martha: well they were arch rivals on the campaign trail but now newt gingrich says mitt romney would be quote, a surprisingly good president. watch. >> can't afford four more years. now when you see young people who have been told by their tenured faculty members of left who have not yet faced unemployment that having a true-blue left-winger who is totally committed to really stupid policies is wonderfully noble and enlightening, you need to start with the very simple question? is it easier to find a job when you graduate or harder to find a job? do you like the fact that barack obama is proud that he is going to give you insurance on your parents till your 26, or would you like somebody like romney to get you a job so you can buy

insurance for yourself? martha: how about that. newt gingrich. still insists though that romney lied about him during the gop primary race but he chalks it all up to politics. he says mitt romney did what he had to do to win. interesting back and forth there from newt gingrich. bill: about nine minutes past the hour. there has been a bizarre twist in the disappearance of this 6-year-old girl, isabel celis now missing for more than a month. last week child protective services banned her father sergio from seeing his two other children. they are both boys. sergio was spotted with his wife rebecca yesterday near a mall in tucson, arizona. that's where the couple lives. first time they have been seen together in public that was since the order of protection. this as police release more than 500 pages of documents showing the intensity of their search for isabel and the price tag topping a million dollars already. police taking dna samples from both parents and isabel's two properties. documents also show they

found footprints on the electrical box near the cell list home. they stopped and question everybody walking or driving near that home. it was more than a month ago where the father reported his daughter missing. we listen to the 911 calls. martha: no leads. bill: rips your heart out. martha: it does. they need some answers in that. president obama says that his administration believes, he believes has made history. >> federal spending sense i took office has risen at the slowest pace of any president in almost 60 years. [cheers and applause] martha: is that true? why conservative columnist charles krauthamer is quote, the whopper of the year in his opinion. bill: also the american catholic leader, timothy cardinal dolan sounding off

yet again over and against the obama administration's contraception decision. why he says the church is not giving up on this fight. we'll have that interview for you. martha: plus, this is an unbelievable story. a stunning reversal in a rape conviction of a california man after a very emotional day in court. there were no dry eyes in that courtroom. >> my only dream in the world was to just be free. [ male announcer ] this is corporate caterers, miami, florida.

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bill: a man cleared of a rape conviction that cost him five years in jail, but it also cost him a future. leading to this emotional moment in court, have a look here: that is 26-year-old brian banks. the accuser, now admits she lied about being raped. made it all up. the judge, tossing out the charges, granting banks his freedom and he says his

initial guilty plea that he confessed was a huge mistake. >> it wasn't a choice that i made. i didn't choose to plead guilty. i didn't choose to plead no contest. i was forced into it. it was a decision that i was proposed with and i had ten minutes to make that decision without even being able to consult my parents. bill: he had a promising football career, too. banks says he's not bitter but it's time to move on. we wish him well. martha: back to politics now and president obama says that he has slowed the growth of federal spending to historic 60-year levels. conservative commontator charles krauthammer strongly disagreed last night on special report. here's that: >> here's what makes this the whopper of the year. this is an unbelievable distortion of the truth. it's really, if you compare it to what was spent in the bush years, particularly if you take out the emergency spending that the two

administrations agreed on at the end, the bailouts, then you've got an 8 percent increase, which is historic. you had in 2009 alone increases in the agencies of 20 percent, # 50 percent, some of the agencies, historically high and obama has increased them year after year, so what he's talking about really is a false impression. martha: so joined now by kristen sultis, communications adviser to crossroads generation, a new gop-backed superpac, and doug hon, former pollster for president bill clinton, also a fox news contributor. welcome to you both, good to have you here. doug, what do you make first of all of that back and forth between president obama and charles krauthammer? >> i think the president -- i think that president obama has put on the table a first step to reduce spending, reform entitlements, and raise revenue through tax increases, which is what we've got to do to balance the budget, and the

republicans have answered, as we heard in the sound bite, before with massive tax cuts, and i basically think that the republicans have been irresponsible. i think charles krauthammer overstates the case. martha: there's a lot of discussion out there, obviously, about the debt, the decifit, and the polls show us that people do care about bringing it down, they do want to see spending cuts, as well as some of these other idea that is are out there, christian, so is the president being genuine in what he's saying about his own record in his administration? >> no, not at all, unfortunately. if you look at 2009, which is the year they sort of talk about as this horrible year, it was an anomaly, we had to have the stimulus, we had to have the bailouts, and democrats want to blame this on republican, but then to answer -- that doesn't answer the question of why 2010 and 2011 all looked just as bad. so yeah, the rate of growth of the spending didn't really change that much, because they kept doing a terrible year, over and over again. i think that's what voters

are hoping to see a change in direction for when they're going to vote this november. martha: it's tough to get an apples and apples comparison on it. they went on about it in special report, it's about the -- where the benchmark is, what you're congress, not considering over the years, stimulus packages, bailout package, whether or not they should be in the mix in these administration to administration calculations. all that being said, some interesting polls from "the washington post" i want to take a look at. this first one that we're going to pull up is quite interesting, the question was who would do more to advance the economic interest of you and your family, and you take a look at that number, mitt romney is at a 5 percent and president obama is at 32 percent. this was among white voters, describing themselves as stroug ling to remain in a certain class. that's a rough number for the president, doug. >> oh, it absolutely is. and it's one of the reasons why i think the president has to and will talk about real decifit reduction, and make it clear that president

obama has taken a first step, and that governor romney, with his massive tax cuts and the ryan plan, which would eviscerate entitlements, will actually make it tougher for middle class families, not easier. martha: but i wonder -- and i want to put up the next number, this one is neck and neck, who would do more to advance the economic interests of you and your family. the question is, about these middle classes, struggling to stay in the middle class white voters who may well be folks on that bubble where they say do i want to keep the president i have or give someone else a try based on your own economic experience, troubling or not troubling for the president, kristen, in that number? >> i think it's very troubling. i think for folks looking the a the last three years and wondering is this the new normal, they want something new, they want a fresh start and these issues of debt and decifits, i don't think the president has a lof of -- lot of credibility on this him gallup did a poll earlier this month where they asked on a variety of economic issues, who do you trust more to handle unemployment,

cost of health care, debt and decifits, and debt and decifits was the issue on which romney had the biggest advantage over obama, 15-point advantage. i think that's why you're seeing obama try to make the case he's a fiscal conservative but i don't think it's believable. martha: doug, when break that down, you're a pollster, obviously, so when you look at it looks like mitt romney does well among white voters, middle class and above. it looks like he's having a very tough time with ethnic voters, latino voters, african-american voters. that -- he has that work cut out for him. >> he suitly does, martha. he's trailing on who can do more on -- more for you and your family, trailing on being in touch and while there are concerns on debt and decifit, this is by no means a slam dunk that economic issues are going to work for governor romney and i think it's fiscal polices have not been fleshed out other than massive cuts in entitlements and massive tax cuts for the rich and i think people are genuinely confused, and the election

will be about who do people think can really get a handle on our economic problems, create jobs and ultimately create economic growth and right now, it's a jump-all. -- a jump ball. martha: five months out and everybody is looking for someone to provide a vision for the next four years. >> that's absolutely right. martha: and some people think that's something that's very missing from this. >> couldn't agree more, martha. martha: good to have you here. bill: everything we've shown is right, it's jump ball, 50-50. martha: absolutely. bill: 5 1/2 month toss go. >> we are on verdict watch in the john edwards case. what the jury asked for that could give us a clue on the case. a former federal prosecutor will tell us what this shows us, in a moment. martha: if cows drink beer, will you get drunk on their milk? this is something i've never actually wondered in my whole life, how about you? some boozey bovines put to the test. i'm going to stick around for that story. i didn't know we were doing that today, but that's a good one! that's coming up.

martha: stuck around to hear this, right? party crashers of the bovine kind! some six cows with a taste for beer, crashed a house party in boxford, massachusetts. they drank whatever they could get their hands on or their hooves on! and the party goers said they were actually very nice drunks! the good things were that the cows were not carded, they didn't ask them for i.d. because their owner, a neighboring farmer, said they're about six months old. that's awfully young to be out drinking beer on a saturday night. they say the escape from the farm was like the running of the bulls! the cows, we're told, all had a good night's rest. bit of a headache, though, in the morning!

bill: drinking beer? martha: they were drinking beer, slopping up the suds! bill: do you buy that? martha: yeah! we'll investigate, bill! get right back to you. bill: i think i'd find something else i like! they are back at it in greensboro. at the moment, jurors deliberating for the sixth day in the john edwards case. they have requested every exhibit presented in court from both sides, prosecution and defense. mark mukasey is former federal prosecutor, and is with me in the studio. what's going on here, you had 19 exhibits in the prosecution, one from the defense, and they said they want to see them all. >> the jury can ask -- can ask for one exhibit, ask for three, i like the judge said take it all go in, -- take it in, go at it. they are being meticulous. bill: we're reading the tea leaves today. yesterday the judge said what time do you want to finish on friday and they

all said 3:30. to me that suggests this is a jury panel that's willing to take it through the week yen and come back next week. thart? >> let me give you -- is that right? >> let me give you a counter view. i think the winds of conviction blow through the courthouse on friday afternoon. i don't think this jury wants to come back next tuesday. i think they want to get the job done, they have probably worked their way through the indictment, they're probably pretty close. they've been at it six days, this are only six counts. bill: why do you ask for 20 exhibits on a thursday afternoon, then? >> you're working your way through them, you're working your way through the indictment, you probably have questions to answer, you york your way, 1-6, meticulously, thoroughly. i think we're going to see an ending today. bill: john edwards was at baseball game this week, on wednesday there was a picture of him at the greensboro acc tournament there, he went back again on thursday. we're told he is there at the end of court every day to look the jurors in the eyes if they look too if they choose to look his way.

what do you think about that 1234. >> the conventional wisdom is when the jurors leave the courtroom and with their eyes down they don't want to look the defendant in the face and make it personal that there's going to be a conviction. bill: he's getting a sense of where they are. >> i think he's probably -- he's an experienced trial lawyer. i he's trying to feel the body language, the visceral feeling in the courtroom. on the other hand, jurors do their job, jurors are not intimidated. the combined wisdom of the 12 always exceeds the sum of the parts. they'll get the answer right. bill: does he walk or does he go to jail? >> i think john edwards, if he's convicted, has one of the greatest appeals arguments out there. even if he's convicted -- i mean, this is a very tough case. it is very doubtful that there's going to be a clear verdict, a clear conviction that stands up on appeal. it's a really tough case for the prosecution. bill: we've talked to so man legal analysts and they run the gamut when it comes to

possibilities. thank you mark, good to see you. mark mukasey in the studio. martha, what's next? martha: dozens of catholic institutions have filed suit against the obama administration. >> the catholic church has served everybody, the exemptions say we'll define as church as only serving your own people, only hiring your own people and only doing what you do to get people into your own faith. that's against our faith. martha: colonel -- cardinal dolan has not held out and he is peg again on the legal maneuver to block mandatory contraception coverage and why some say there's a lack of coverage of this story. bill: also martha, making history, 250 miles above sea level, the hottest new spacecraft in the galaxy, pulling into the garage at the international space station. it is breaking news, and that's next on "america's newsroom". ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind.

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martha: well, this is history in the making right now and it's happening 250 miles above the earth, the unmanned space x dragon making its historic docking with the international space station, the first time ever for a privately built ship, and phil keating is watching all of this, he's beating the bush phos news on this, though. hello phil! as we've seen this morning, this kind of docking not such an easy process. >> reporter: not at all. it is incredibly complex. everything has got to be done extremely precisely, down to the micro mili

meter. both vehicle, the space station and capsule, traveling at 17,500 miles an hour, had the robotic arm done anything wrong that capsule could have tumbled out of control. it was absolutely high drama in low earth moment and here is the moment of space history. >> capture is confirmed! >> [applause] >> congratulations on a wonderful capture. you've made a lot of folks happy in hawthorne and here in houston. great job, guys. >> houston, looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail! >> reporter: the announcer's commentary getting chuckles in houston at the johnson space center, a day of elation -- elation but it's not over. we have the arm to attach to the dragon cap tul. --ical soup. it's going to take about three hours to birth it with the space station and at that moment this very, very

long day will finally be done. it will be a 13, one four-hour day and perhaps quite fitting here, this is the first american company with entrepreneur spirit. it has successfully put its first capsule in space at the space station and it was an american astronaut, nasa's don pettitte, operating the arm. martha: wow, that is just fascinating. look at that, that's live shot that we're looking at there. thank you so much, phil. really beautiful. bill: america's top catholic leader now, cardinal dolan, not backing down, slamming the administration for its decision on contraception: >> what hhs did, what health and human services says is, oh, by by the way, we'll define church for you, we'll tell you what you have to do to earn these exemptions, so to be a church, you've got to only serve your own people, you've got to only hire your own people, and you've only going to teach your own people.

if you do that, then we'll give ut exemptions. we're saying whoa, we thought the wisdom of america is that you didn't define a church, you gave freedom to a church to define itself, and see what's happened, guess what, soup lines, dap -- >> bill: that was yesterday afternoon, and here in new york state, stephen hayes, weekly standard and fox nice contributor, stephen, good morning to you on a friday. he said a lot in that enter view with the fox news channel. we figured this was going to be a strong struggle talking about exempt from conscience. he's not giving up. what's the impact of that? >> i think there could be a pretty significant impact. if you look back at the history of these discussions that the catholic church had with the administration, they tried to work -- church tried to work with the administration to come to some kind of a compromise repeatedly, and was unable to. in the final compromise that the obama administration offered, the church ended up rejecting. so i think you've got, in timothy cardinal dolan somebody he thought he was

given personal assurances by the president that these exemptions would be taken under consideration, and who feels that that word wasn't kept. so you know, with the announcement, with the lawsuits, i think you've seen the catholic church decide that they have got to fight. they have no other option. bill: can they win this case in court? >> i think they can win this case in court. when you look at the -- take a step back and look at the big picture, go back to the foundingsing, the country was founded on religious liberty and here you have a federal government team to go tell the church what it can and cannot do in the most specific and sensitive areas of what a church does on a day-to-day basis. and you know, his definition of church, i mean, i think the cardinal is right about, the definition of a church is not just people going to the church on sunday and sitting in pews. bill let me get back to that point in a moment. you've been trying to make a point that this topic itself is *s has gotten little media coverage. >> yeah.

>> bill we talked to dolan on monday, the cardinal, and our producer in new york caught up to him yesterday afternoon, as well. , and now this story has gotten coverage here, but what are you finding elsewhere, what's your broad point on that? >> i mean, if you look back the a the coverage on monday night, you know, you had two of the networks that decided that it wasn't worth covering at all, and one network that spent 19 seconds on the story, and since then, you had scant attention paid to what i think is a pretty significant story when you have the leadership of the catholic church challenging the mandates from the federal government. bill: why would -- >> it is a classic -- >> bill: why would other media outlets stay away from it? >> i think for a couple of things. it's not a simple story. this really does go back -- you have to look at the founding, the country, you have to look at the framing of the constitution, you have to look at the first amendment and i think most often, in today's media environment, you have networks or correspondents or people who are discussing this, who want to frame it

as contraception, not contraception. it's much bigger than that. it's a lingous liberty issue. and you get into all sorts of complicated, difficult issues that don't lend themselves to short coverage on the nightly newscast. that's not a reason not to cover the story, however. bill: what the cardinal argues is pretty much what you just said, it's not about contraception, it's about religious freedom and if the government, he would argue, wins on this case, well, where does it stop, whether it's the catholic church or anything else in america. he says our objective is the bureau is attempting to define what a church is. he's making the case that you're telling us who we can administrator to and who we cannot and that is protected by the constitution. that's what they would tell a judge, would they not? >> yeah. well, look, those are precisely the kind of incursions that the founders sought to guard against. this is the reason in some respects that the united states was founded. it's not at all a stretch for the cardinal to make that argument and i think he's likely to find a sympathetic -- sympathetic ear, even for people that do

not come from where he does ideologically or thee logically. -- thee logically. bill: i think 35 million voted, catholics, in 2008. what's the effect of that possibly in november if you still have this ongoing matter? >> well, president obama won 47 percent of the white catholic vote, according to "the new york times" exit poll in 2008. that's a significant vote. and for him, i think the concern would be that those votes are clustered in places he needs to do well, those persuadable votes, independent votes in places like michigan, ohio, the rural midwest. bill: wisconsin. >> he's going to need those votes. wisconsin as well. bill: steve, thanks. martha: well, a senate committee is sending a message to pakistan, voting unanimously to pull millions of u.s. aid from pakistan after the supposed american ally has arrested a doctor who was responsible for

being part of the hunt for usama bin laden. >> we have fenced the money but we are more than willing to discuss with the administration and with the prop occupations committee -- appropriations committee the proper way that we can most express america's displeasure a the relationship as it exists today. martha: this is a big deal. why senator john mccain says throwing this doctor in jail is essentially giving him a, quote, life sentence. bill: also this morning, a special story of how a military mother is honoring our men and women in a unique way, and she has a special family to do it. wait for her story, coming up. [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing

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bill: 16 minutes before the hour, lights out in parts of detroit. money is tight there and instead of fixing thousands of street lights the focus will be on fixing the lights in more populated areas. that could save about

$10 million a year. new jersey, unanimously vote to go ban unsolicited text messages. advertisers anywhere in the world sending the unwanted ad messages will face a $10,000 fine for the first offense. and the force is with this guy, on the lookout for a man who robbed a bank while wearing a darth vader mask. but he got away on a dmx bike! martha: look at that! bill: i predict he'll be back out. martha: but that man was a good force in the world, darth vader. bill: i predict he will be back out on halloween! martha: we are waiting for reaction now from the white house to the fact that the senate has slashed millionses from an estimated $2 billion that we give in aid to pakistan. a slap on the wrist for a

doctor, critical in finding bin laden, john mccain, saying this amounts to a death penalty. >> all of us are outraged at the imprisonment and sentence of some 33 years, virtually a death sentence, to the doctor in pakistan who was instrumental not on purpose, but was instrumental in completely -- and completely innocent of any wrongdoing, was instrumental in the removal of usama bin laden. that has, strafrpbgly, outraged awfully us. martha: well now his anger grows in washington, and some are asking if the white house needs to take strong action on all of this. joining me now is fox news political analyst juan williams, good morning. nice so have -- to have you on this. this story is fascinating, the man was working for the cia, he's a doctor, and told to basically go around the neighborhood where we now know bin laden was hiding and get dna samples from as many people as he could. he didn't know where he was

asked to do that but he knew that it was intelligence gathering of some sort, so he was instrumental, and now the tribal government in that region of pakistan, they're going to put him away for 33 years. what should we do? >> you know what, we saw yesterday on capitol hill was, it was interesting from the political perspective, martha, a unanimous republicans, democrat, all said we've got to cut pakistan's budget, the foreign aid budget to pakistan. already it's down 58 percent from what the obama administration had requested. now the panel says we're going to cut another million dollars a year, it will be $33 million over the time that dr. afridi is imprisoned, if he does go to jail. martha: the aid budget is $2 billion, though, so when you look at it that way, it could be sort of a drop in the bucket or slap on the wrist, as we said in the introduction, and i think this story has a lot of people shaking their heads saying so if pakistan is supposedly our ally, why

would they imprison a man who helped us to get bin laden, they said they were on our side in that fight and that's a huge question mark. why are we giving them $2 billion if we're not getting better cooperation? >> you know, this is an interesting point, because senator dianne feinstein on the intelligence committee said yesterday, this is interesting, she said so this means that the pakistanis think that they are the same as al-qaeda, because she said al-qaeda has decimated much of pakistan. they are no ally to pakistan, no friend to pakistan, but now it seems like any action that the u.s. takes to somehow dismantle al-qaeda is seen as an attack on pakistan and that's the basis in which they have put mr. afridi into the category of spy and trader to pakistan. his actions helped to take apart al-qaeda. that's why i think you're seeing here outrage. i mean, you heard lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina, say that, you know, pakistan is a schizophrenic ally. martha: exactly.

>> they don't make sense. they're supposed to be helping us. even -- and another issue that came up yesterday, martha, was supply routes for american and nato troops going into afghanistan, where, before the attack that took out bin laden, it would cost like $250 for american trucks to go through. now they are trying to raise and extort money, i think, by jacking up that rate to $5000 per truck. so on capitol hill right now, this is one of the rare places where it doesn't matter if you're a democrat or republican. people are just angry. martha: i mean, there are at least two pakistans -- two pakistan, probably more, that we deal with. you've got the tribal regions, of course, then elements of the government that say they do really want to work with us and help us but it's a very mixed picture, as was clearly seen here. i guess one of the big questions, though, you've got all of these folks on capitol hill outraged and where is the president on this? should he be doing what he can to protect this doctor, or can he do anything? >> well, he can't do much.

but what we're doing is makeing it very clear -- what the united states is doing is makeing it very clear that they think this is inappropriate, that this is wrong-headed, the state department, and the spokeswoman, hillary clinton , secretary, they all have been very clear they think this is over the top and the doctor, afridi, was not a spy and as you point out in the very open, he wasn't aware of how this informs and this immunization program, how it would be used. it's not as if he was complicit in a specific action, aimed at bin laden, even though that is the charge. martha: and no doubt, there was embarrassment, really, on the part of the pakistanis about us finding bin laden in that spot, that they hadn't told us, and that may be an element here as with. juan, thank you very much, good to see you as always. >> you're welcome, martha. take care. bill in a moment here a military mother with a way to give america's bravest an

extra arm in battle, and we have her story, coming up. those years were crazy. so, as we go into this next phase, you know, a big part of it for us is that there isn't anything on the schedule.

bill: there is a military mother you need to hear about. her story is amazing, honoring and protecting our service members with a lot of help from above. this is a battle brace lent, made up of pictures of various saints who have a connection to the u.s. military, they're all featured there, 16 of them and cynthia le may is founder of battle saint.com in new york and good morning to you. >> good morning to you bill. >> bill bill you have an amazing history with family ties to the military and that's where you get your interest but what is on your hand and wrist? >> in my hand and on my wrist are the battle saint bracelets, they are meant to provide protection and a connection to those serving and show your outward

support. bill: give me a saint. >> saint barbara is one of my favorite, she protects those that work with explosives and artillery men. she was beheaded and the moment she was behead dollars the person who executed her was struck and killed by lightning so she is known to protect those that work with explosives, so important for today. bill: how did you come up with the 16? what did you do to figure that out? >> i literally at my kitchen counter for months researching different saints throughout history that have relevance to the military, calling monsteries and churches and researching all around to find the right individuals to put on this to provide the protection. bill: i think some of the e-mails that you've received from our men and women in iraq and afghanistan, they're so touching. as soon as i put it on, i felt comfort and love, i don't feel as much panic as i did before. what does that say to you? >> right. i think the bracelet gives hope and courage and strength, it lets our servicemen and women that are sacrificing so much for our freedom. my son gave, my nephews and

nieces are all involved and it lets them know we're thinking about them, we stay connected to them in our hearts and minds and more importantly when they come back, it provides a donation to the trepid -- intrepid heroes fund. so it's important to hope those at the intrepid fund. bill: it's battle saints.com, it's a tremendous grassroots program you have started with seven active family members serving right now, cynthia. good luck to you okay in cool cause. have a great week yen and enjoy your time in new york. >> thank you very much. bill: cynthia le may. martha: great story, thank you cynthia for coming in. on the attack, president obama firing on all cylinders against governor romney but is it too early to be in full campaign mode? i don't know. we'll find out. we'll be right back. look at you and just see a policy.

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