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right there. a couple of hot sweet pickles. >> alisyn: there you go, give us the verdict. >> dave: that just became the imperfect sandwich. i gotta go. >> clayton: delicious, i'm sorry, dave. >> jamie: a "fox news alert," a pool party shooting near the campus of auburn university in alabama. there are reports three people are dead, and two injured after a gunman opened fire, during a fight over a woman last night. a witness saying four men came to blows when at least one of them pulled out a gun and started firing. police are keeping tight-lipped about the shooting as they continue the investigation and are not releasing much information about who was involved but we're following the developing story and we will bring you updates from the scene as we get them. and another "fox news alert," this morning, iran telling the west the only path to successful nuclear talks is for the world
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to accept tehran's position. iran's hardened tone of defiance comes after another round of talks with u.n. nuclear watchdog, the iaea, and we want to wish you a good morning, everyone, i'm jamie colby, great to have you here. hi, eric. >> eric: good morning, good morning, everyone and welcome to america's news headquarters for this sunday morning. iran is also again setting a pessimistic tone for separate nuclear talks that will start later this month in moscow. now they are telling the world to, quote, accept our demands. and tehran accuses the u.s. of bullying. more on the developing story, let's bring in fox news contributor and former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton who joins us from los angeles, good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, glad to be with you. >> eric: as you have said all along, every sunday morning it is going on and on and on and now, iran says, accept our demands. i mean, accept our demands or what? >> well, implicitly, what the
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iranian government wants is for release from the sanctions or, more importantly, acceptance that iran is a legitimate nuclear state. they would say it is for peaceful purposes, obviously, the rest of the world thinks it is for weapons purposes. but i think these statements, is the way they blew off the iaea, the latest round of discussions, looking forward to the next meeting, with the permanent 5 plus one in moscow next week after this, i think they are very confidently, i think they believe they've got the west on the run and i think these statements are a reflection of the confidence. >> eric: if the west is on the run, what does it mean for the yeeni i iranian nuclear program. >> it keeps them on track to build up a bigger stock of enriched uranium which makes them very close to weaponizing the uranium and shows their
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successful resistance politically and economically, has put them in a very advantageous position. when wrap it all together with the support they are giving the assad regime in syria along with russia, another assad ally, it goes that despite pressure from the west that iran continues to not only survive but to prosper, unfortunately. >> eric: when you talk about the successful resistance, in your view, have they been winning? >> i define winning by how close they are getting to a nuclear weapons capability. i don't doubt that the economic sanctions that have been put in place against iran have imposed some economic cost. but i think they've become expert over the years, in evading sanctions. i think they are doing the same thing now. they see weakness in the obama white house and weakness in europe's economic conditions. they are still supported by russia and china. so, from iran's point of view, this is either a defiant stance
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because they expect the west basically to back down0, they are preparing the ground to make some meaningless, trivial concession that president obama and our european friends will hail as a great triumph of diplomacy, thus buying iran even more time to make more progress on its nuclear weapons program. >> eric: when you talk about meaningless concession, what could they offer next week and the white house would say, look, it is working. it is great? >> for example, the delay in allowing the iaea to visit the parchan site where iaea officials think iran was working on high explosives critical to detonating a nuclear explosion, iran may have succeeded in cleaning that up to their satisfaction and when they reach that point, whenever it turns out to be, i think they will alou t allow the iaea to visit and they don't think the agency will find anything, if we are at that point or close to it. it could be the kind of
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quote-unquote concession iran could make that would cause rapture in the white house. >> eric: and you mentioned parchan, and, the satellite shows a waterspout that could have been part of a cooling operation, they believe of the nuclear facility. do you think the iranians have, indeed, gone through and cleaned that up? so that the u.n. inspectors wouldn't find anything? >> we have seen this many times before. in the iranian nuclear weapons program, as they try and remove evidence of radioactivity, or other activity associated with the nuclear weapons program. it is very hard to remove all of the radiation, that is why they have to tear done the buiwn the and excavate cubic yards of dirt and they are hard at work at that and, they'll see if they can clean it up enough to allow the iaea to come in and not find anything. >> eric: u.s. ambassador, john bolton from los angeles, thanks for joining us and next week
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we'll discuss the talks, whatever happens with them in moscow, thanks, ambassador, as always. >> see you next week. >> jamie: thank you, ambassador and, to egypt, hosni mubarak reportedly in critical condition in a prison hospital. the ousted leader said to be slipping in and out of consciousness and breathing with the help of a ventilator. the 82-year-old was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month for failing to stop the killing of protesters. during last year's up rising which forced him from power and that sentence sparked new protests with many demanding death sentences for hosni mubarak and other top security officials. and, to syria now, government forces pounding rebel positions in the central province of homs. witnesses describing mortars raining down by the dozens. with women and children huddling in basements of apartment buildings, for days now, way too frightened to come out and activists say at least 38 have been killed in the shelling there over the last 24 hours.
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>> eric: and hamid karzai in afghanistan, saying nato forces will no longer conduct any more airstrikes in residential areas. the comments come four days after a raid there killed 18 civilians, david piper is streaming live from kabul with the latest. good morning, david. >> reporter: hi, eric, afghan president harmed karzai also warned the latest airstrike puts at risk the security between his country and the u.s. and he's also warning if there is any more attack on afghan homes it will be viewed as a path of aggression and the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general john allen apologized for the civilian deaths on friday and a nato investigation announced the coalition forces were responsible for the unintended deaths of civilians but a nato spokesman said afghan forces approved the large operation in the province and during the raid it has been established forces of the u.s. and afghanistan came under fire while hunting a local taliban
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leader holed up in a house nearby and the american forces called an airstrike, only later found out the blast killed women, children and old men who gathered there for a wedding party and a spokesman for president karzai said afghan investigators told him u.s. troops called the airstrike without consulting afghan units who surrounded the house and were given no chance to flush out the innocents and nato refuses to comments on the claim but says procedures were under review and the taliban ordered all the schools in the district, to close for three days to morn the dead and, forces in residential areas are an issue for the alliance of the karzai government because of danger to civilians and the alliance says it is key to capturing and killing taliban leaders and hope to resolve the differences by allowing the government to control the operations with afghan troops taking the lead and it seems something went terribly wrong this time.
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back to you. >> eric: david piper from kabul, thank you as always. ♪ >> jamie: fox is america's election head quarters and it has been a rough start of the month for president obama and his re-election bid and we're only ten days in. look at this. the continued fallout from the league of classified intelligence regarding anti-terror operations which some in congress believe came from someone inside the obama administration and then on friday the president backtracked on comments he made after saying the private sector is, quote, doing fine and the day before on thursday, former president bill clinton apologizing after veering off message by suggesting it might be good to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts. also on thursday the president getting bad news from may. campaign finance reports showing governor mitt romney for the first time raised more campaign dollars than he did. tuesday, the republicans got a
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boost in the battle ground state of wisconsin. and a big one. governor walker easily winning his recall election. and, the first friday of the month, we got a rough jobs report which sent the markets plunging. a lot to digest and bob cusack is here, managing editor for "the hill", here to sort through this. good morning. >> good morning. >> jamie: great to have you here, has it been a challenging month for the president? >> absolutely. i think this will go down as the toughest week for the president. and if it's not the toughest week he will not win re-election. he can't have the amount of distractions and the problem here is that on the economy, and on the leaks probe that is going to be continuing on, because, the investigation into the alleged leaks from the administration will be continuing and the fbi launched an investigation and the gaffe of saying the economy is doing just fine, that is going to linger and mitt romney, a few
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minutes ago, released the web video highlighting that and so we'll hear a lot about those things over the next five months. >> jamie: which is the toughest challenge for the president to overcome? >> i think the economy. the economy is one he has to be able to make the case that the economy is getting better. he has said repeatedly there is a lot of work to do but if voters think the economy is getting better, even marginally that will help the president and probably get him reelected but if we continue to see the job reports we saw last week he'll be in a lot of trouble. >> jamie: i think the president disagrees with you and he says the private sector in that quote is doing just fine. what do you think he is pointing to, to make the judgment? >> well the white house started to use the argument that if you count up the amount of jobs created over the last 6 months, over the last year, they have statistics that they say, well, look, there are signs of progress. but, if you look at polls, most people think the country is on the wrong track, so they don't
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believe that the economy is in any way in good shape and that is the toughest task for the administration, is to make a case it is better when a lot of people don't feel it is better. >> jamie: it is interesting, governor romney is raising the cash that he is for the campaign. and it was voted that he is raising even small donations. something that was a main stay of the obama campaign in 2008, those small donations of $5 and $10 an add up and the fact that governor romney did so well in terms of financing his campaign and it has been reported that the president has taken over 100 events trips for campaigning and fund-raisers so far, more than president bush senior and "w" and also president clinton, even. is he in trouble? >> well, he is in trouble in the fact that it will be a mainly strength for obama, the money he was going to be the so-called billion dollar candidate. and that is not going to happen. now, obama system has the edge
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among small donors but we are seeing progress from romney's side on that, because a lot of people in the conservative base are not enamored with north america but are driven to make sure obama doesn't get a second term and it will be telling to see what happens next month, if mitt romney goes back-to-back. >> jamie: we have to wait and see. i can't let you leave without asking about wisconsin. what is your take on that? before the recall race, many political watchers said this is -- you will learn a lot from the race. it will tell you a lot about november. did it? >> i think to some degree it did, more and more people are calling wisconsin a battleground state and it has not been a battle ground as much as the republicans have a realistic shot to win it in decades and republicans at least will make a play there and there is tension between unions and the white house because they wanted to -- wanted the president to be more
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engaged to go to wisconsin and that didn't happen and you see int intraparty bickering among democrats and that is good for republicans. >> jamie: bob as many things as the president had to deal with so much this month, i threw 'em all at you, you are great and i appreciate it. have a great, great sunday. >> you, too. >> eric: a "fox news alert" on wild weather around the country. fire crews, right now, battling a wind-fueled wildfire in northern colorado. flames in colorado have been consuming at least 8,000 acres, happening in the mountainous paradise park area. several evacuations have been ordered for areas nearby. the fire so far has damaged at least ten buildings and that is not the only place it is happening. look at new mexico. dry and windy conditions there, are fueling a lightning spark blaze, in lincoln national forest, and the fire burning so far 10,000 acres. at least 20 buildings, they say,
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have been destroyed or damaged in new mexico. >> jamie: eric, intense rainfall we are watching and it caused widespread flooding on the gulf coast, stretching from mobile, alabama to pensacola, florida. and, the areas are getting even more rain today. we are sorry to tell you. but we have to give you this report from rick reichmuth in the fox extreme weather center. rick? how bad is it today? >> rick: i tell you, a lot of flooding going on and more fire danger. let's start with the fire danger, burdanger '50 miles to the west of fort collins, colorado and the 8,000 acres burned yesterday and they said it was significant acreage that burned overnight and the number will climb, 0% contained and we have the threat today, windy and dry conditions continue there. the rain, yesterday we saw spots across the central gulf, up to 18 inches of rain and pensacola, the second rainiest day on record, over 13 inches of rain and look, it is still raining and pensacola, a break now and
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sunshine breaking through, more rain on the way and filling in, some areas again will be seeing an additional five inches of rain, flood warnings going on across the central gulf, flash flooding going on around slidell, louisiana and, lake ponchartrain, big problems going on here and there is a silver lining. look at the drought across areas of the south. these colors here, that is the worst of the drought, pensacola, drought towards the panhandle of florida, will be wiped out by this and look where the rain will fall the next couple of days, a lot of areas dealing with the drought. widespread area, maybe 3-4 inches of rain. could be talking about flooding by tomorrow, across parts of northern georgia and south carolina. and, continued flooding with that additional 5 inches of rain that will fall across parts of the central gulf. one last story, quickly, for you, jamie, a severe threat today, hail and strong winds we could see a tornado or two, across areas of minnesota by
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this afternoon. >> jamie: stay where you are and let us know. >> eric: how would you like to be in a plane sitting back and looking at the clouds or watching the fox news channel on the tv screen in front of you and the guy rushes the cockpit, scream, i've got to get up there and it happened. coming up next we'll tell you what flight and what the result was. >> jamie: i think i know the answer to that and if you find yourself constantly tired an craving more rest we have really important health news for you. on what could be wiping you out. sunday morning house call with the docs, next. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum.
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>> eric: the fbi is considering filing charges against a man accused of disrupting a cross-county flight. it happened on board u.s. airways flight 704. bound from charlotte, north carolina, to los angeles. witnesses say the 29-year-old suspect was apparently drunk. the crew refused to serve him more alcohol and they say he charged the cockpit door yelling, i gotta get up there and a female flight attendant took action pushing him back and passengers helped restrain him and restrained him with plastic handcuffs, authorities have not yet released the passenger's name and nobody was hurt. ♪ >> jamie: let's talk about the debate over public workers unions. it is now in the spotlight after
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wisconsin governor scott walker's recall election victory. and, today on fox news sunday republican indiana governor mitch daniels said there is a place for unions in the private sector but, organized labor in government should not mix. >> i think there is a fundamental problem with government becoming its own special interest group, forced dues, recycled into politics, to elect politicians in an unending circle and ultimately there is not really bargaining in those situations, because, government sits on both sides of the table. >> jamie: and joining me now as he does every sundays morning the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace. good to see you. >> good to be with you, jamie. >> jamie: does the governor make the case? >> well he certainly makes his case very strongly and i was surprised because, you know, he's been one of the guys long before scott walker took office,
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his first day in office, mitch daniels eliminated the collective bargaining rights for state workers and he has done a series of things since then and as he talked about it i said are you saying you don't think there should be public worker unions and he said that is exactly what i'm saying and, his basic point is that you get the public workers and their unions and they help elect people, who then are beholden to the unions and are negotiating with them for their benefits and that is why he said they are sitting on both sides of the table. we also spoke with two top union leaders, the head of the national education association, the biggest union in the country, obviously the teachers union as well as the top official of the afl/cio. and they say, look, these public workers do an awful lot, they provide great services, and you don't balance budgets on their backs. you know, obviously, people will have different sets of opinions, i said, but, you know, one of the cases i discussed with them is, for all the talk about
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wisconsin, san jose, california, the democratic mayor of san jose, california, jamie, supported a voter initiative and they voted to cut government worker pensions because they couldn't keep all of their fire houses open all the time. they had to close them on a rotating business and built four new libraries and couldn't open them because they didn't have the money to operate them, where do you get the revenue? and, the deputy chief of staff of the afl/cio said raise taxes on the wealthy. >> jamie: i don't want you to give away the whole show but it is great -- >> i'm sorry. i'm fired up. it was a good show. >> jamie: i agree and it is interesting governor daniels took the approach he did in this case and we saw the recall victory for governor walker. do you think before we wrap, other states will have to take that approach as they teeter on bankruptcy? >> well, that is the point. it isn't a matter of politics, let's go after the unions, it may have that effect but the problem is, this is something i learned this week in preparing
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for this. state governments owe $1 trillion. $1 trillion to public pension funds and health care obligations. so, you know, at a time when, because of the economy budgets are getting squeezed, they can't keep fire houses open and can't open libraries and owe $1 trillion in these obligations, yes. something has to give. >> jamie: at jackpot you hasomee to balance your budget, chris have a wonderful sunday and sounds like an awesome show. >> thanks. >> jamie: for more of chris's exclusive interview with indiana governor mitch daniels tune into fox news sunday, it airs at 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. right here on fox news. >> eric: we've had those days wants to wake up and stay right in bed but there is a big difference between feeling tired and what is known as chronic fatigue. coming up, the doctors will be here to tell us how to tell the difference. ♪ the one and only, cheerios f!
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