>> song called "that was a crazy game of poker." >> brian: that was great song. >> steve: and anna, great having you. next week our performer will be pat benatar! [ cheers and applause ] hit us with your best shot, huh? fox news alert. the economy has hit another brick wall. there are new signs of trouble out there. downgrades for five major u.s. banks. good morning, everybody. this is reverberatings all across the world. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." we'll find the silver lining. >> there is a little bit of good news. bill: martha is out. >> great to be with you. i'm jamie colby i'm in for martha today jamie: the jobs numbers are raising more concern. bill: the five ones involved you know well. bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs,

morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase. stuart varney does not work for any of them. he is the anchor of "varney & company" on fox business network. add it up. what does it mean? >> that news on the banks came at the end of the day. it was probably the worst economic news of the day. five big banks downgraded. what does that mean for the economy? it means it will be very tough for small businesses especially to go out and get loans. which means these downgrades of the big banks is going to hurt the future of the economy which is already weakening. it is bad news, bill. bill: home sales were down this week. manufacturing was down. almost significantly too on that measure. what does that mean? >> those are two very significant points there. when home sales actually decline, when you've got record low mortgage rates, that tells you something about the housing market and the overall economy. and yesterday's news that manufacturing contracted more than at any point in the past year that too points to a very weak economy going forward. weak in terms of job

creation and probably weak in terms of raising the accumulation of our national debt, bill. bill: let's get to the debt now then. you get the sense there is no incentive for anyone to move forward for these companies and businesses. you believe the debt ceiling could be debated sooner rather than later. why would that be significant then? >> you have a economy clearly weaking. it is virtually dead flat, that means, receipt, money coming into the government, will slow down. that speeds up our accumulation of debt. the debt gets bigger, faster. we have a ceiling of 16.3 trillion. we may hit the sealing before the election. that means we may have to have the debate about raising that debt ceiling in congress before the election. a very tricky thing to pull off. bill: you wonder which side or perhaps both sides would want that. bring it back to jobs quickly because the jobs picture continues to weaken, stuart. >> if you look at that manufacturing report, some people project onwards, it

is called the philly fed report, okay? project onwards and they're looking at job creation of less than 50,000 in the next report which comes out the first friday in, second friday actually in july. that could be a very bad report for president obama if it does indeed show virtually no job creation. it is public that the unemployment rate will go up again. bill: it is all serious stuff, stuart. i know you have a lot to talk about at fbn. good luck to italy and england. >> no question, bill, we'll win. bill: have a good weekend. jamie. jamie: i did promise some good news. there is a little bit for drivers. gas prices are falling big-time. average gallon of regular will cost you.45. down 50 cents from where we were in april. diesel also falling. it is 3.74 a gallon. 40 cents than april. at least one market watcher is saying we could drop all the way down to three bucks a gallon for regular gas by

this fall. right now we're hearing the strongest accusations yet aimed at the white house over "operation fast and furious". house speaker john boehner saying the president's decision to assert executive privilege, well it shows the white house he says is hiding something. >> the decision to invoke executive privilege is an admission that the white house officials were involved in decisions that misled the congress and have covered up the truth. why the white house would invoke executive privilege over department of justice documents raises, i think very serious questions. jamie: peter doocy is live in washington. a lot of people asking those questions. peter, good morning. what is the white house saying about these accusations? >> reporter: jamie, the white house's official position they have turned everything relating to "operation fast and furious" over to congressional investigators, about 7600

pages worth of stuff. but the inspector general at the justice department has about 10 times that many documents. and yesterday my colleague, ed henry, asked the press secretary jay carney why he keeps saying that smaller number totals everything? >> how many pages is -- >> i don't have a page count for you. >> well, why not? >> i just don't. >> you have given more information what is covered the president claimed is executive privilege beyond the broad protecting advisors. >> you, perhaps more than others given the interest in this at your network, nose the administration, principally the department of justice has cooperated extensively with congressional investigators. provided extensive documentation. >> reporter: and the press secretary also said that the president still has full confidence in his attorney general. jamie. jamie: interesting the reference to extensive, not necessarily in that part saying everything.

so what is the latest reaction from republicans that want answers? >> reporter: jamie the more republicans let this stew the more they think, at least they say they think the president exerted executive privilege to hide something or to protect someone. shoe doesn't take a smart lawyer to deduce something in these documents willing damaging for the white house, the department of justice or maybe both. >> reporter: but the press secretary says that republicans are only complaining for show. >> what this is about, after all this time, and all these documents and all the testimony is an attempt to score political points. it is this approach i think that explains at least in part why this congress has the lowest public approval ratings of any in memory if not history. so that is our view of the matter. >> reporter: carney also made clear, jamie, when it comes to the assertion of

executive privilege there is no cover-up involved. back to you in new york. jamie: peter, we report, our viewers decide. thank you very much. bill: the heart of this story is a border agent who lost his life. brian terry is his name. killed by mexican drug smugglers in a guns for "fast and furious" operation found at the scene. seems with the white house press secretary jay carney could not recall terry's name during somewhat of an awkward pause at yesterday's briefing. watch this exchange. >> we absolutely agree with the need to find out the truth about why "fast and furious" happened. why the tactic, again, was employed in the previous administration and different operations, and was stopped by this attorney general, why it came about. and that's why the attorney general referred it to the inspector general. that is why we provided congress every document that pertains to the operation itself that, is at issue

here when you talk about the family that you referred to. and -- >> terry family. >> the terry family. bill: the terry family of course has not forgotten. they talked to our own william la jeunesse what they think needs to be done to honor their son and allow them to move forward as a family. >> if everybody would come out and tell the truth and whoever is responsible face the consequences, this would all be over. he would have closure and i would have closure. we could, we could mourn for our son which we never have done. bill: we will hear more from the terry family in a live report next hour. it is something you will only see here on the fox news channel. jamie: such a compelling story. we're also keeping an eye on a terrifying siege in afghanistan after heavily armed taliban gunmen took dozens of hostages at this lakeside hotel near kabul. the gunmen bolted in armed with rockets, exchanging

fire with security forces in a 12-hour standoff. right now we know at least 18 people were killed. victims, including 14 civilians, three hotel guards and a police officer. the taliban militants also killed in the violence including at least three homicide bombers. bill: the results were target practice during the largest ever joint u.s.-south korean war games. south korean fighter jets blowing up a huge north korean flag. live fire drills are fairly routine using the north's flag though is not nuclear armed dictatorship in the north calling it direct provocation. the war games mark 62 years since the start of the korean war which continues today in a armistice. just getting started here. we'll look where the presidential candidates start with voters. new analysis says that the election will come down to one thing and one thing

only. we'll talk to governor mike huckabee about that. jamie: look at this dramatic rescue after a hiker false 500 feet down oregon's mount hood. >>. >> how bad it will get as millions of americans suffer, you know, you really have to be careful in this heat. >> dehydration only takes several hours to do you in. especially when you're frail and you're elderly. just last week i rescued two people. phone calls came from the home health aides saying that the home was 90 degrees inside. they were weak. they could barely make it down the steps.

jamie: well the video will tell the story. unbelievable rescue on oregon's mount hood. police say a climber from michigan fell some 500 feet on a popular route to the summit. he slid over steep ice unable to stop because he didn't have an ice axe. search-and-rescue teams found him roughly 10,000

feet near a steep drop-off. the climber suffering a serious hip injury but he is recovering. we're glad to hear it at a nearby hospital. bill: brand new polling numbers out there showing mitt many romney leading president obama in a head-to-head matchup. he has a 2% lead in head-to-head. "real clear politics", mr. romney trails president obama by two points. governor mike huckabee ran for the office four years ago. he is in studio. >> i'm doing very well. bill: where have you been hiding by the way? it has been some time. >> glad to be back. bill: grad to have you back. your sense where this race is now. >> as we say in the south this is as tight as a tick on a dog and it will stay that way in november. here is what is interesting. mitt romney is doing better what i thought most of us would do out of coming out of a primary battle.

his fund-raising is terrific. his discipline of message and of his team is very, very impressive. he has taken this game straight to obama. this is not the republican campaign of john mccain four years ago where mccain didn't not want to engage so much and become pew gillisic. he has sent people to counter heckle. bill: based on that answer you see only positives from his team suggesting they're making all the right moves? >> i think they are. that doesn't mean it is a lock. we have to remember this election is settled basically not by the country. it is settled by middle voters of about 10% of the voting population in six states. that is who really picks the next president. bill: what is that 500,000 voters? is that up 2.5 million? probably within that range? >> it could very well be. that's why every vote counts. people who say i'm just not going to go vote especially if they're in a swing state, that is stupid. they really could decide this. bill: flip this around and talk about team obama, how are they doing?

>> they have had a tough time. first of all, nothing is working for them. "fast and furious" has blown up in their face like an exploding cigar. the economy is in the toilet. every week the numbers are worse than expected. the economists always act surprised make you i think why do economists continue to get jobs. they're wrong 100% of the time and still get paid. there are two things obama done well. month of may was an interesting met at that for for his entire presidency. the two things he did, he raises more morn any than mitt romney did in that month although romney bested him in april. in may he raised a lot of money and spent more in his campaign than he raised. think about from romney's perspective, that is president obama as president. campaign fund-raising and deficit spending. bill: you would argue what karl rove would argue the burn rate within the obama team is somewhat significant? >> think it is very significant and they are not bringing in as much as everyone thought that they would bring in including

themselves. they're having some glitzy fund-raisers. they're doing great in hollywood. great in broadway. they're not doing great in middle america, and younger voters leaving them. bill: dan henninger, "wall street journal." this is substance election. it is not about whether one likes barack obama or can't warm to mitt romney. to win he will have to tell voters what it means. >> very good point. how to build jobs. how to get people where they're not scared to death of future. this week our show features millen krals. first time we've had a full total special what millenials think. for research for the show very shocking how millenials who were very favorable to obama four years ago and gone cold on him, many cases abandoned him completely. they're coming out of school big debt, no jobs, living back in mom's house. it is not a good situation for obama to get energy for

voters. bill: peggy noonan, people want higher and declared purpose. she concludes they want to know how america can come back because they're pretty sure down deep america has another comeback in her. has mitt romney captured and delivered on that message? >> not quite yet. i think he needs to revive the message he is the guy that took the olympics when it was in the tank, near bankruptcy after 9/11. huge costs. turned it around. made it not only a profit center but also made it the pride of america and a great moment of american celebration, having gone just a few months past 9/11. it was remarkable --. bill: i have to think we'll start hearing those stories. i will offer as evidence, 20 years ago this summer, at madison square garden when bill clinton was introduced to america on a 20-minute hollywood production roleout as the boy from hope. hope, arkansas. >> yeah. bill: i would venture people

outside of hardcore democratic circles did not know that about bill clinton. >> that's right. bill: whoa, who is this guy. >> it was remarkable film. i will be with harry thomason who produced film, the man from hope. but the thing that romney will do, and i believe stuart stevens who is his media guy is brilliant. i think he will put together something like that at the rnc it is not too late. plenty of time to get the narrative. most people aren't paying attention except the hardcore politicos. real voters don't think about it. bill: i'm not so sure about that. my sense, people say who will win? who is up? who is down. >> they're not looking at detailed issues and that won't happen until later in the game. bill: sieve you saturday night. don't be a stranger around here. see you gov. >> thanks. bill: tune in to huckabee, saturday night 8:00 eastern on the fox news channel. what is next. >> governor romney is saying

president obama's executive order on immigration is pandering to the latino vote. is he right? we'll have a fair and balanced debate. bill: serious allegations over "fast and furious." republicans say president obama seas executive privilege shows that the white house was involved from the beginning. is that true? we'll debate that. >> until yesterday it was just the department of justice that we were concerned about. clearly at the 11th hour and 50th minute of the white house decided to inject themselves into this where there have been no indication that the white house had been involved at all. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?

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bill: folks in cleveland will not like this, jamie. the nba crowning new champions last night, the miami heat are winners.

>> the miami heat are once again nba champions. lebron james captures that elusive title he so desperately coveted. bill: they beat the thunder, oklahoma city, 121-106. winning the title in five games. lebron james mvp and for good reason. final game james had 26 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists. after nine seasons what did lebron say after winning his first title? >> i made a difficult decision to leave cleveland but i understood what my future was about and i understood that coming to miami and being a part of this organization and being able to put together this change and i know we had a bright future. this a dream come true for me. been through a lot last couple years. this is a why it pays off. bill: third time in the finals. lebron james finally gets

his big ring. big deal bhe left his hometown, cleveland, ohio, to go down there they still do not like him. jamie: i know you're an ohio guy. bill: cincinnati. jamie: you have to give me this one. bill: absolutely. jamie: i'm apologizing to everyone. too proud. get over it. bill: great team in miami. jamie: they were super. to egypt now, which remains in crisis. tens of thousands have gathered again in tahrir square. becoming a very familiar picture following those controversial election results. the military move to dissolve parliament and limit the new president's power? leland vittert is streaming live from cairo with that. leland. what is the crowd like? >> reporter: probably in one word, jamie, large. in two words, large and angry. behind me atop tahrir square the whole square is full and as all the roads leading to it, packed shoulder to shoulder with people. this is a very different crowd than we've typically seen in egypt.

this is hardcore islamist crowd made up the muslim brothers who are angry their man is yet to be declared president. >> we're here to support mohammed morsi because he is someone who takes --. >> reporter: this is another one of the huge crowds. another cairo mosque down here in tahrir square. the imams there in all the mosques are giving out posters of morsi. you get a sense of really the power of the muslim brotherhood. massive crowds from the mosques. when you see how many people are marching into the square. >> we are angry. but we are very sure that the victory will be for the egyptian people. >> reporter: as it stands right now, we're expecting election results in the next couple of days. the big question is going to be, will the army back down not only from dissolving the parliament and essentially stripping all the presidential powers away. as it stands, jamie, the army is in charge very

firmly. jamie: leland we could hear the roar of the crowd. keep us posted. thank you. bill: it is a scorcher in parts of the country. heat' letters up and down the east coast. triple digits possible today. it feels like the hair is drag in your face in new york city. jamie: hydrate, bill, please hydrate. there are major develop maemts to tell you about in the "fast and furious" scandal. the white house says they turned over everything pertinent in the operation. one republican calling that, this is a quote, hogwash. >> you think categorically there is no cover-up. >> absolutely. the attorney general referred this matory the inspector general. the inspector general has full access to all documents we are discussing right now, full access. and he is investigating this matter. ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch?

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bill: 9:31 in new york. top republican senator firing back at the white house claims of those controversial fast and furious documents. here is press secretary jay carney just from yesterday. >> i'm not going to characterize documents related to this except to say that on the specific matter of white house, or anybody in the white house, and this refers, i know, if you cover this and i know some folks here have, you know because these documents were provided and are out there and have been, were provided back in the fall. they relate to anybody in the white house knowing about the so-called "fast

and furious" operation. >> but i think -- >> any documented related to the white house, anybody at the white house knowing about the "fast and furious" operation at the time was provided back in the fall. bill: senator grassley, chuck grassley out of iowa says, not so fast. his statement that the administration has provided congress every document that pertains to the operation itself is hogwash. through my investigation i know there are reams of documents related to the operation itself that the justice department has refused to turn over to congress. juan williams, fox news political analyst and brad blakeman former deputy assistant to president george w. bush. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. bill: the one is on mars and one is on venus on this. that is my hunch right now. brad, is it hogwash or not? >> no, we have a u.s. border patrol agent who was killed at the hands of the operations of the u.s. government. certainly if mexico were culpable for murdering our agent the president wouldn't have the same attitude as he

has now. obama who promised to be the most transparent president in our history has been the most clandestine president in our history. there is no reason to hide behind executive privilege if you have nothing to hide. i agree with the terry family, let's release the documents. let the chips fall where they may. like most political scandals is the cover-up is worse than the crime, that is not the case here. the crime is worse than the cover-up. a u.s. agent dead at the hands of the u.s. government deserves answers not only for the family but for america. bill: i don't know how much longer this is going to go on but, juan, it is quite apparent house republicans are not going to let it go. hogwash or more than that? >> no. i don't know exactly what grassley is talking about if he has some proof there are documents that directly relate to the operation that have not been released, then he should prove it. so far what we always see is rumor inendoand speculation. brad says that a u.s. agent is dead. that man is a hero and he is

dead. it is not the work of americans. americans didn't kill him. there was a gun-running operation to try to trace guns going to the big cartels in mexico from american gun shops on the border and that operation started during the bush administration, continued during the obama administration. everybody knows the facts. so this is long ceased to be a search for the truth and the facts of the case. >> i disagree. >> instead a pursuit of political vendetta against eric holder. bill: politics, brad? >> it is not politics. the fact the president is hiding behind the veil of executive privilege where even the president when he was a candidate said that this is exactly the way executive privilege shouldn't be used. juan, the american government facilitated our agent's death. but for their operation, agent terry would still be alive. that is plain fact that is not politics. no, it isn't. >> that is over the top. the guns that we're talking about was found at the scene. there is no evidence that the gun was used to kill the agent. and the agent was a brave

man -- >> maybe that is what they're hiding. >> that is not to say that any u.s. government official killed an agent. my gosh. >> this is exactly what we have to get to the bottom of. bill: juan has been talking about this for a couple days. juan, you think this is damaging to the republican brand in an election year. brad do you think there is any truth to that? >> absolutely not. truth is not damage. truth will set us free as the american people if we stay true to our constitutional principles. and this is exactly, not the case. the democrats are acting like the republicans did in the 1970s with richard nixon. blindly standing up for a political figure who does not deserve their support. they don't have the information. we need the information. guess what? we'll get the information sooner rather than later. bill: juan? >> well i think there is a deliberative process that every attorney general has said is covered by executive privilege. michael mukasey has said it. brad, let's get back to the "fast and furious" and the

fact. the fact is that the committee, darrell issa, the chairman of the committee, has refused to call the atf agent who gave bad information to justice who says, he didn't realize something. he gave them bad information. that is why the original letter that was misleading was sent from justice to the committee. that has been corrected. this whole operation has been stopped. people at atf have been fired. i don't understand why the republicans would let something like this distract them, pull them down and to really horrible polarized politics. bill: we'll find out whether it is a distraction or not. brad, do you see it that way? >> not at all. i think republicans are being tenacious and rightfully so. we need to get to the bottom of what happened. it is not enough to say it stopped. obviously the white house is trying to cover up something, juan, i will tell you this, if president bush were to blame for this. there wouldn't be executive privilege. documents would be released

and former administration officials would be held to account. the president is covering up for himself or others within the white house, political people or otherwise. like every cover-up, sooner rather than later the truth will come out and the president will be held to account. bill: to that point then, juan, is it damaging to democrats and a drag on this white house with 4 1/2 months before an election? >> you know they have released over 7,000 documents. the attorney general has testified more than eight times. the attorney general went up to capitol hill this week to offer an accommodation in which he would brief them on the political, deliberative memos and e-mails between the white house and justice so they could be assured there was nothing here that pertained directly to the "operation fast and furious". he was turned down. and as i said, they refused to call people before the committee who have additional information about the fact that nobody was intended to mislead them because they don't want to know the truth here. they prefer to kind of delight in fueling

eric holder and embarrassing -- >> eric holder is not to be believed. bill: brad, give you last word. as we know this will be a big topic next week because the house will vote unless there is accommodation reached and right now doesn't appear to be case. >> eric holder lied at least on four occasions to the house. he lost credibility. the fact of the matter you can't have a attorney general says one thing on under oath on the stand and a week later recounts his testimony. trust but verify as reagan said. that's exactly what we'll do here. we'll trust them as far as we can but verify everything. bill: remember what was said at the white house, jay carney, that relates to the operation itself. keep that phrase in mind. brad, thanks to you. juan, thanks to you as well, gentlemen. >> take care. jamie: here is something a lot of people are looking for, extreme relief for the extreme temperatures. there are heat alerts still in effect for parts of the east coast where folks in nearly a dozen states were

suffering yesterday. >> a lot of people are getting ice cream, so it is good for us but it's hard because we're out here and it is really humid. >> obviously on hot days like this we have an increase of patients that are becoming heatstroke. so we actually have an influx. >> to insure we have adequate generation available for the customer load and we also have a series of emergency operations type procedures we go through and drill to make sure that we're ready for anything that could go wrong on a day like today. jamie: that ice cream helps of course but relief also on site, on the way but in the way of severe storms. meteorologist janice dean live in the fox extreme weather center. will it break the humidity, jd? >> it will. our hairdoes will be intact this weekend, jamie. hats off to the hair and makeup crew here at the fox news weather channel, for the fox news channel and fox extreme weather center. there are the records

yesterday. we've seen records broken for much of the work week. the cold front will move in and spark some showers and thunderstorms and eventually some cooler temps. so 83 in new york. 85 in d.c. you see in cleveland it is 73. 76 in lou i will have. 73 in chicago. so they're feeling refreshing cool air. a quick look at averages. 78 for boston today. down to 77 saturday. looking at seasonal temperatures as we head into the weekend for much of the northeast. there is your showers and thunderstorms. along and ahead of that cold front of the as mentioned we could see severe weather including large hail, damaging winds, even isolated tornados in all of these big cities. keep an eye to the sky and an ear to the local weather forecast. bring up to date. next hour, jamie we'll talk about the tropics because things are starting to perk up in the gulf of mexico. jamie: hurricane season. got it. have a good weekend. bill: she is excited when

that happens. jamie: she is hoping j for janice. bill: good luck. food stamps, food stamp rolls rising. the costs soaring. one senator, jeff sessions out of alabama fighting to stop potential abuse of a taxpayer-funded program. we'll talk to him about that in a matter of moments. jamie? jamie: also a family that is in desperate need of closure. they're begging to know what happened to their murdered son, border patrol agent brian terry. they're speaking out about the president's decision to withhold documents that republicans say are key to the investigation. >> i think they know that brian was a hero. he was a warrior. he was a number one american. he loved his country and i think that if he could see all this he would not believe it. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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jamie: welcome back, everybody. trying to cut abuse in the

food stamp program. there was a new push in the senate but it was blocked despite support from both sides of the aisle. the program has ballooned last couple years and it may be going to the wrong people. check this out. a reported 46 million people get food stamps right now. that turns out to be one in seven americans. 27 million more than got them just a decade ago. and overall cost is skyrocketing too. it has doubled since 2008. quadrupled over the past decade. alabama senator jeff sessions is the republican ranking member of the senate budget committee. senator sessions, it is great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, jamie. it is good to be with you. jamie: can i start and ask you how big an issue this is for our country? >> it's really big for a whole lot of reasons. first of all the american people need to demand that this government examine every program and food stamps has been totally exempt from any cuts. this is one of the largest,

surging programs in the entire government. we need to tighten that up. and also, i really believe, jamie, we need to look again at your entire welfare system and welfare multiple programs to make sure that we are moving people from dependency to independence and work. that was the ninth six reform. we've lost its momentum. and go back and recapture that to help americans go from aid to productivity and prosperity. jamie: sure. so a hand-up instead of a handout, i get it. >> correct. jamie: what sort of abuse have you discovered? how many people are actually getting it that shouldn't? >> it is a huge number of people that are getting this that shouldn't. states are, have manipulated the program frankly because all the money comes from washington but the states administer it and set up a lot of the rules. so they have created rules that allow people to receive stamps far beyond what the

law basic law says they should get. and i had an amendment that would tighten it up. if you have two cars, a house and $30,000 in the bank but, you don't have high income, you don't get food stamps. that is what the law says. but states have rewritten the rules to do that. that would save 11 billion out of 800 billion expected to be spent over 10 years. and it didn't pass. i got to tell you i was disappointed at that. jamie: what can you do now about it? and given the fact that it would have saved so much money and you discovered that it is going to people that don't deserve it? i'm sure you admit it's a program that can help a lot of folks during these tough times. what can be your next step? >> well, we are beginning to educate people. people are talking about it. i felt on the floor of the senate a number of people saying, well, you know there are some problems in this program. so the house of representatives, they're going to have an ag bill.

and it is going to tighten up food stamps, i'm convinced and we need to work together to support them. the senate rejected any changes basically in food stamp program. and by the way, of the agriculture bill, 80% of the funding is food stamps. the farmers only get 20% out of this bill. so this a huge program. jamie: it was unique it was even part of the farm bill to that extent especially but one of the things is there are people who have income from odd sources in the research i read. gambling winnings. things like that. how are you going to track it to know really who in this country should get it and who really should have it taken away? >> well, one of the amendments i offered was to quit giving states incentives for how many people they sign up. because that encourages them to sign up anybody, regardless of their wealth. so they have eliminated in effect, in most of the states now, have eliminated

the requirement, your assets. that you can't get free food if you have substantial assets. >> senator sessions, before we go you're telling us that states actually get a bonus for signing people up for aid? >> absolutely they are. we are giving them bonuses for the more people they sign up. and we really need to be calling on them, as administrators of the program, to be making sure that it has integrity. that people who don't qualify don't get it. and instead the washington mentality is to see how much we can put out, frankly. jamie: all right. >> and it's wrong and we're in denial about our debt and we don't have the money. jamie: senator sessions, thank you so much, sir. have a great day. >> thank you. jamie: bill? bill: it was a pleasant walk in the woods that turned into a terrifying ordeal after a couple went tumbling over a massive waterfall. wait until you hear how they were rescued after this

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bill: dramatic rescue in vermont as rescue teams pulling a couple from a raging river. after they were swept over a waterfall, they apparently lost their footing and plunged into the water and that water is rolling. the current pulling them both over the first set of false, about a 20 foot drop. fire officials say the

victims only walked away with minor injuries. thank goodness they were there. jamie: a water main break causing a massive sinkhole on a busy michigan street. it walled up an suv and shut down the road. good news the driver was able to get out safely. road repairs are expected to last all day. police are asking folks in the area to stay away until it's done. bill: there is a significant piece of american history going on the auction block today. george washington's personal copy of the u.s. constitution and the bill of rights. those documents bound in a book containing handwritten notes from our first president. laura ingle is live in new york city on this. hey, laura, good morning. >> reporter: hi, bill. think of the conversation piece this will be if you could afford to buy it. this book is one of rarest presidential documents ever put up for washington. it is expected to be one of most expensive as well. it could fetch between two and three million dollars right down the road at

christie's auction house and happening in about three hours. it was printed in 1789 and it is embossed with the words, president of the united states on the front. a book engraved with washington's name on the front paper and authenticated signature is on the title page. one of the most unique things in the book are george washington's annotations in the margins. according to christie's washington rarely wrote notes in the margins of his volumes which makes this book even more valuable. >> he has taken a very light pencil, a number of pages with the text of the constitution. he has made notations of articles that would be of interest to someone serving as president. so he has marked the passage that the commander-in-chief is the president. >> reporter: this copy of the constitution was one of a set of three. the other two copies went to president thomas jefferson and john jay, the first chief justice of the u.s. supreme court. the book is said to be in near pristine condition. it was kept in washington's house in mount vernon until

18767 when a member of washington's family told it alongwith other books. it has had a handful of owners since then. the book is up for sale from the current owner who says most of the proceeds will go to his children. the record for the most expensive presidential document to sell was manuscript of lincoln's second inaugural address which sewed at christie's for $3.4 million in 2009. we're keeping a close eye on this to see where the numbers fall. bill: let's beat it. come on, get your bids in. all right, jamie. jamie: we haven't heard her name for a while. the struggle for the mother of natalie holloway. she is suing her tabloid over her daughter's disappearance. >> searching for justice, the family of murdered border patrol agent brian terry speaking only here on fox. >> if brian had not got killed by illegal guns there would no story. there would be no investigation on fast an furious. it would still be going on.

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bill: fox news alert. there is new reaction from the family of murdered border control agent brian terry. this after the president used executive privilege to block the release of documents detailing white house discussions of operation fast and furious. and that's how we start a brand-new hour on a friday morning here on "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer, good morning to you at home. jamie: i'm steug fo i'm staying for the second hour. i'm in today for martha maccallum. i'm jaime colby. brian terry happens family believes the government is hiding something. >> i don't know anything more today than when he was first murdered. bill: william is live with us. >> this is brian he terry's

home down. they are speaking out because they don't want their son to be forgotten, or how he died to be buried in a political partisan fight on capitol hill or the stroke of a president's pen. >> the fact that you didn't get answers, how does that change how you feel? >> i feel sad that our government is like that, that they do this to people. how could they sit there with clear conscience and tell you the lies they are telling us? >> reporter: what kind of answers are you looking for? what happened to my son that night. something bad happened out there that night. i know what happened, i just got a gut feeling more than they are telling us. my son wasn't even supposed to be there that night. he wasn't even with his team. he was with four other -- or six others. >> reporter: the parents say they know no more da today than they did the night their season

was murdered with weapons obtained from fast were. guns provided to criminals in the hopes of identifying and stopping their networks. they eric holder hold responsibility and feel the president is invoking executive privilege not to protect internal deliberations as the administration claims but to protect themselves from damaging documents and hides facts behind brian's death and those responsible for it. >> he's our attorney general. he's supposed to be bringing justice to the people, the american people. he's not supposed to be holding, especially something that happened like brian. it wasn't -- brian didn't get run over by a car. brian got shot with a weapon. >> in the back. >> from fast and furious that walked. >> i think he knew about my son. i think it went all the way up the ladder to him and they are

protecting him and holder. >> reporter: they kno know his son is the face of this scandal. she knows it's a vehicle lawmakers use to personalize and let the public identify with what is pretty much a complex story. i will tell you that they are setting up a foundation similar to the pat tillman foundation to help individuals who want to enter law enforcement or the border patrol. bill: william la jeunesse thank you for that. jamie: mitt romney taking a shot at president obama's immigration policy while speaking at a convention of latino leaders, saying that the president's executive order, surely political. >> this president had huge majorities in the house and senate. he was free to pursue any policy he pleased. but he did nothing to advance a

permanent fix for our broken immigration system, nothing. instead he failed to act until facing a tough re-election, and trying to secure your vote. jamie: molly henneberg is joining us live in washington. governor romney had his chance. president obama will address the conference later today. what kind of welcome do you think he'll get. >> reporter: a pretty warm welcome, especially after this is announcement a week ago, that his administration will stop deporting some illegal immigrants and make them he will skwr-bl for wor eligible for work permits. the white house says the president will reiterate that congress needs to get going and fix the illegal immigration problem. >> what the president made clear in his statement in the rose garden on friday is that this is a temporary solution, this is not a permanent solution. congress nodes t needs to act so we have a permanent

solution. >> reporter: the president wants congress to pass the d.r.e.a.m. act. republicans oppose it because it gives a path to sit ten ship for some children who were brought here illegally. jamie: i understand that a rising hispanic star will also be joining them from the republican party today. >> reporter: yes, florida senator marco rubio will speak to the group a couple of hours before the president does. rubio has been critical of the president's announcement last week saying it doesn't really solve the problem in a quote, lasting way, and he shouldn't have gone congress around the matter. senator rubio will try to make headway for the g.o.p. for hispanics. governor romney pressed those at the convention yesterday to give republicans a shot. >> i believe he's taking your vote for granted. i've come here today with a very simple message, you do have an alternative. >> reporter: romney said he would address illegal immigration in a civil but resolute manner and would

overall the green card system. jamie: a lot of folks getting to meet senator rubio as well. thank you so much. governor romney saying the president is pan tkerg t panderig to latino. we will have a fox news debate on that. bill: they are demanding the country of jordan return the airplane this a pilot through in from syria. greg palkot is live in damascus where fairly journalists are allowed to enter and report. greg, what is happening today? >> reporter: bill, we have spent our first few hours on the ground here trying to get a sense what this months' long conflict is doing to the country. it is hitting home right here in the capitol of damascus. there was an antigovernment protest not far from where we were standing and small arms fire in a suburb not far from

here other. as we moved around the city there were signs of heightened security, uniformed military, police, plainclothes security, including right around the main mosque in the center of this city where we caught up with this scene. take a look at what we saw, what we heard. a very well organized show of support for syrian president bashar al-assad here in the center of damascus, one of the main mosques, on friday, prayer day to counter any feelings against the government from worshippers. north of here the opposition throng hold of homs there are heavy clashes between government artillery and rebel fighters. the international red cross has been trying to get in there to evaluate civilian families. they told me it was too dangerous to go in. the u.n. headquarters observer mission has been grounded because of the fighting. we have been told since then the

fighting has only got even worse. this is a very messy scene much as we moved around the city we tried to get a sense of attitude towards the united states as well. washington not officially involved in the conflict. they've certainly been speaking up in favor of the opposition. i can tell you in certain quarters that we've been talking to today it hasn't got even a lot of support, back to you. bill: it is rare when you are inside of syria, thank you, greg palkot, good luck to you and your reporting that we look forward to seeing in the coming days and hopefully weeks. jamie: jamie: a virginia man accused of bombing the u.s. capitol planning to plead guilty. he will appear in court this afternoon. he was charged in february after a year-long undercover investigation by the f.b.i. bill: there is a bold accusation from house minority leader nancy pelosi.

>> diversionary tactics instead let us tie the hands of the person who was assigned to make sure that the american people had the right to vote. bill: why she argues the push to hold attorney general holder in contempt is really about voter rights. makes you say aye does it? jamie: a proposed ally failing to fight. the u.s. military may take more aggressive measures. bill: rains needing to catastrophic situation, all that water has to go somewhere eventually. >> it's insane, it's unbelievable. it's amazing that a little bit of rain can do something like this. if you have copd like i do,

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looking like one giant lake. they had epic flooding. hundreds of residents in northern minnesota running for higher ground as the water was rising. they had torrential rain and it turned the creeks and streams into raging rivers, swaoepl sweeping away roads, buildings and livestock, even i'm sad to tell you a zoo. >> this is horrific. i mean to see the wipe outs of whole roads this i've been traveling on for years, and to hear from the commissioner, you know, that 3,000 miles of the scene -- the vastness of the impact here. jamie: they have taken steps to get a disaster declaration that will bring in money. no deaths or serious injuries. bill: we treed to dry that state out. house minority leader nancy pelosi saying republicans fighting to eric holder hold in

contempt is a plot to crush voter rights at the state level, listen. >> it is no accident, it is no coincidence that the attorney general of the united states is the person responsible for making sure that voter suppression does not happen in our country, that issues that relate to the civil liberties of the american people are upheld. these very same people are holding him in contempt are part of a nation-wide scheme to suppress the vote. bill: john fund is a column admonition for the national review. and byron york chief correspondent, and a fox news contributor. what did you make of what the house minority leader said there. >> when she says there a national scheme that is one step away from a conspiracy theory. this is truly bizarre, because

it's eric holder's justice department that is not following federal law. julie fernandez, one of eric holder's deputies told a one head a couple years ago, we are not going to enforce federal law for states to cleanup voter roles. even places have more voters than people over age 18. this is a complete inversion of what the facts are. i find this as stopb i shalling. 80% of the people support this law. i guess 80% of the people in nancy pelosi apartments view are supporting voter suppression, which is shaeupbg. bill: she says it's part of a plan on behalf of republicans, a shameful display of abuse of power. it's no accident, it's no coincidence. what about that. >> representative treygowdy was

on greta's show last night and called pelosi's statements mind- numbing lee stupid. republicans started inquiring about this in january of 2011. it's hard to make the argument when it's an election-year tack take when they've been going at it that long. it might say more about nancy pelosi than the republicans here. we in that democrats are trying to make voter id and other voter surrounding issues a major part of this campaign. bill: she called it frivolous. i want to get to the heart of what her comment is all about, john, because you have studied this and reported on it for several years. voter laws are changing in the state level. is there evidence to suggest that when those laws change the vote changes? >> no. ever since the supreme court decision saying photo id laws were constitutional. by the way it was leading by the court's leading liberal at the time, john paul stevens, we've

seen a lot of elections. in a 2010 election, a midterm election barack obama was not on the ballot, indiana and georgia, turn out went up for everyone, including minority turn out. i don't understand where this is coming from. this is a completely fact-free argument. bill: byron. >> in fact the only explanation i can come up with is there are some people that must know there are some shenanigans behind the curtain and they believe photo id could be a problem in preventing them from doing that. bill: she called this frivolous, all right. she is making the point that republicans are trying to occupy eric holder's time. i think the words she used was m ma tphop replies his time and undermine his name. that is a heavy charge. >> it is, eric holder is charged with enforcing the nation's laws. i mean are republicans trying to

interfere with his enforcement of the antitrust laws or some other laws? it's not the case. we do know this is a big issue for democrats. they will be pushing this a lot, making accusation of voter suppression. it kind of -- if there is a close election, if there is a problem at election they have laid the groundwork for suggesting that there were irregularities and voter suppression going on. this is something that you'll see not only nancy pelosi but a lot of other leading democrats raise in a lot of other context far removed from fast and furious. bill: do you agree with what john says that there is no evidence to support this claim? >> he's right about that. people were looking quite closely at the 2010 election because there were new voter id laws in place, and they were looking to see if there was some dip or some suppression of voter turn out especially among minorities and it just didn't happen. bill: there is a handful of states where all this is being tkhal edged. we'll see what comes of that.

thanks to you and john fund. thanks to you as well. jamie: it was the case that captivated the nation back in 2005. >> i'm asking this in the name of my beautiful, intelligent and outstanding daughter who i haven't seen for 36 days, and for whom i will continue to search until i find her. >> and she is still. natalee holloway still never found. now her mother is taking legal action against a tabloid. bill: someone made more than a million bucks to buy this skeleton of a dinosaur, looks like a t-rex. why is that sparking an international incident we wonder?

bill: 22 minutes past the hour now. today is the deadline for lance armstrong to respond to allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. armstrong won a record seven tour de france titles. if found guilty he could be stripped of all the titles. a tropical storm heads towards the gulf of mexico. that system still developing. it could change. for now the entire region bracing for heavy rainfall. and the million dollar sale of a dinosaur skeleton hit ago road block after new questions about the artifact's origin. some believe the skeleton was smuggled out of mongolia. the government in that country apparently demanding it to be returned. jamie: i wouldn't want to pay the shipping on that one. ♪ [singing] bill: i just like the song. jamie: you've been getting all your favorites today.

bill: digging it. jamie: growing tensions with the supposed ally in the fight against tere tere terror. the u.s. is reaching the end of it's rope with syria. the u.s. now said to be considering new covert commando raids against militant groups in pakistan. joining us live captain chuck nash, a former captain and fox news analyst . nice to see you. >> nice to be back with you, jaime. jamie: when we trained the afghan forces, which the u.s. has done with success, was it not in the back of our minds that we might need them to cross the border on ours and their behalf? >> possibly on our behalf, and possibly to secure the border, but i don't know that we ever contemplated doing combined raids inside pakistan, because

probably back then we were looking at that being really an outlying operation, because we trying to build a sustainable relationship with pakistan and respect the sovereign nature of the pakistani state. jamie: we are paying a price for that, though. so is the doctor that helped us find osama bin laden. >> yeah, if you look up duplicitous in the dictionary there is a map of pakistan right next to it. it's really a problem. some say that our relationship is worse than it's ever been. it's never really been that great to start with. jamie: the hakani network is growing, it's there, they have sanctuaries. we really have to be concerned about it, that is a given. what do we do about the government? >> well, we've tried the incentives, jaime, we've tried literally paying people. we call it foreign aid, we do things, but, you know, money goes to all kind of different

places. we've tried the incentives. it's probably time to look at disincentives. jamie: what are the covert ops then, what is different about them. >> this is just rumored. whether it came from yet another leak out of washington or not, and if so i really go with secretary gates' new strategic policy, which is shut the. [bleep] up. too many people are talking about too many things n. a general sens. in a general sense of this if we were to continue phreu contemplate and perform military operations in pakistan. this is turning into such a mess that the only way we can get the government's attention is to tell them it's in your interest. when we pull out in a year or so this will all be on your back, because you're staying and we are leaving the neighborhood. jamie: you would think you

wouldn't have to make that argument. >> the hakani people are a bigger threat to pakistan than they are to us. jamie: thank you for giving us insight on that. bill: presiden president obama being accused of pandering to latino voters. our panel, they are fired up and ready to go. they will debate that in moments. jamie: they are going to duke it out. new questions half five top u.s. banks get downgraded. they are names you know. is the economy hitting that brick wall? ♪

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s.w.a.t. team make their move on this home. not a lot of information as to what he was wanted for, but apparently there is a crew with the police department calling for a man by the name of eduardo rodriguez to come out of the home that they believe he is inside. so we're going to watch this situation and bring you updates when we get them. that is baldwin park, california. it's happening right now here on "america's newsroom." 10:30 in new york. governor mitt romney accusing president obama of pandering to latino voters, slamming his decision to stop deporting young people whose parents brought them here illegally calling it purely politics. all this coming ahead of the president's address today to the same group of people at the nation's largest latino convention in florida. >> he called it a stopgap measure that he seems to think will be just enough to get him through the election. i won't settle for stopgap measures. i'll work with republicans and democrats to build a long-term solution. bill: julie myers wood former

head of immigration and customs enforcement now president of immigration and custom solutions. and immigration attorney francisco hernandez back with us. good morning to both of you. julie is if more than politics? how does mitt romney win this argument, or does he? >> i tell you, immigration reform is a serious issue. a lot of these kids have very sympathetic arguments and something needs to be done. what causes concern and mitt romney is rightly pointing out is president obama has not taken leadership on this issue over the past four years. now right before the election they make an unprecedented grab of executive power without a lot of thought of implementation and there is tons of potential for tpraoud. it's a stopgap, its not a long term solution and we need to do better for people of all backgrounds. bill: let me ask francisco. do hispanics see it that way? do they see it all wrapped ph politics? >> it obviously is wrapped in

politics, but, you know, it's kind of the pot calling the kettle black by romney saying he's pandering to hispanics. of course president obama is pandering to the hispanics. bill: do the voters see it that way, that's the question. >> i believe it is, it's all about politics to get some legislation passed you have to get the votes, that's what politics is all b. and that's what presidential candidates do. the flaw, what is missing in the piece of romney's speech is what is his long-term propose a. let's put it out here for examination. you can't criticize what one president is doing and say i'll do it better but not saying what you're going to do. bill: part of what julie's point is, i'll let you jump back in here. if immigration is so important to this administration why wait three and a half years to get it done. >> that's exactly right. immigration is a tough issue. presidents are reluctant to bring it up as a topic. it's got to be. if romney is elected he owes it to the country to britt up as a

top-tier issue. and president obama owes it to people of all backgrounds to use it as a top-tier issue. to say he'll implement in it 60 days and we'll get back to you that is troublesome. for those who commit fraud it's a big problem, and i'm not sure this administration has focused on that and high school a plan to deal with that. bill: francisco to that point, do latinos feel that this president has failed them? no, i believe that the congress has failed. i think everybody believes that the congress has failed. how can we criticize president obama when senator bird and -- even democrats insisted that he focus on the deportation first. now that he's got the record number of deportation, and i don't know why we have to brag that number. a record number of deportations he's turning the focus in it's timely at a campaign time.

president bush tried to pass the d.r.e.a.m. act twice and it got on the verge of passing. president obama tried to get it passed a couple of years ago but the votes weren't there because you needed a super majority. bill: with regard to the current policy, though, legal immigrants, do they necessarily agree with this? i mean they are out there saying, hey, man, we obeyed the laws, we did it the right way, we worked for it, we earned it, why reward someone else? >> there is a misimpression out there that there is a line to be formed by these folks where they can go and apply for their residency, or green card or work permit. these folks that are here, don't you think they would have already applied if they could have? they can't even get driver's licenses in most states because they don't have any papers to be here, and most of the people that we're dealing with are people that were brought here by their parents at a young age. they have broken no laws. they just want to be able to work. bill: that still doesn't answer the question what the legal

immigrants feel about that. >> i think legal immigrants -- bill: whether you're hispanic or african-american or white or irish, whatever you are. >> that's exactly right. i think it's troublesome to see, you know, huge numbers of new work permits when there are legal residents and legal foreign nationals here of all types that aren't employed. some of those kids really dearly need a fix, but we need a broader push to immigration reform and president obama owes it to the country to work through congress, and not just make a fix on his own that has no implementation plan and will create a ton of fraud. bill: if you can do technology jobs we'll keep you here which sounds a lot like marco rubio. thanks to both of you. we'll talk to you son. jamie: pretty big story today the nation's big banks once again in the spotlight after moody's big banks downgrades.

there are names you know. there are new questions whether the rating agencies even matter. the banks downgraded yesterday say they don't. still will borrowing costs rising with these banks what will it mean for you. elizabeth mcdonald joining us now. i'm curious what the banks are saying. if you have money in the bank you don't want to hear their name as having been downgraded. >> that is important point. the government says if you have a deposit in any of these banks they are fdic insured, you have no worries there. this has to do with bank profitability and whether it is going to crimp loans in any way. the banks say no bank lending will not be harmed by the downgrades. what moody is essentially saying is u.s. problems with the economy and europe is weighing heavily on the banks, and the banks are sort of looking like they were after the latin-american debt crisis in

1980. for some time we've known the financial sector has been below investment game. moody's is late to the game six most after s&p downgraded 15 local banks. the banks are coming back swinging, they have been using withering language attack being mood dees. they say it's as arbitrary, unwarranted, because their balance sheets are stronger. mood dees is saying we have a rocky neck recovery coming. citigroup is saying that they are asking for alternatives to the rating agencies, basically they are saying that our customers and investors are more sophisticated, you don't need the rating agencies any more. jamie: interesting to hear that they are still going to be lending. i wonder what the impact is any way of those ratings. we'll talk more about that next time. thanks elizabeth. bill: you wonder where all these ratings agencies were back in 2007 when you needed them. jamie: if they are late to the game. bill: when you really needed them. why would a u.s. tabloid face a

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holloway is suing the national inquire the tab employed saying they published stories to profit from her daughter's 2005 disappearance. two carl's claim prime suspect joran vandersloot had a secret hand-drawn map to to holloway's grave in aruba. joining us now, joey jackson, defense attorney. and keith also a dense attorney. we have two headlines that say it was not two, one with the grave map, and the other one was that natalee ways buried alive. we don't really know what happened to natalee holiday. does she have a case? >> i think she could. there is something to be said for skwrourpb list particular integrity. you may say, consider the source. it is the national inquirer

after all. they are being considered for a pulitzer prize in reference t to their covering of john edwards. the point is that if you publish something, even if you argue she with us a public figure. the case in "the new york times" versus sullivan, no relation to keith that says that you have to stab that it's a public figure that it was published with knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard as to its truth, they have some obligation to check out the sources an even sur insure that they are truthful. they didn't do so, so a defamation case may law. jamie: what are the damages? >> that's the problem, here, jaime there rile are no damages. i suspect this lawsuit was filed simply to get to the inquirer to back off away from this family.

certain lie it's a hard-breaking case, in the court of law i don't see the claims succeeding. as joey pointed out in a deaf tp defamation case she was declared deceased back in january. you didn't defame someone who is no longer with us. jamie: the mother doesn't believe it. >> the father went to a court in alabama and had her declared dead, so she can't pursue those claims. the real problem is the formula that they use. how salacious is the story, how big of a sale is it. and how much will we sell it for. they are simply saying, so-and-so has told us x, y and z and that's the problem, that's where joey -- jamie: that's not good enough you're saying. joey let me read enthusiasm headline. i mean i'm a parent, you're a parent, new bone evidence, natalee was buried alive.

joran's secret graveyard with five more bodies. killer's sickening confession caught on tape. imagine, emotional stress doesn't apply? what is the burden of proof? >> it's really tough, jaime, you're talking about a parent who has lost a daughter, what could be more traumatic than that and not have any knowledge where the body maybe, whether she is dead, holding out hope that she is alive. jamie: keith says no remedy either. >> there will be an argument whether she is dead and whether or not the claim dies with a person who is dead. emotional infliction of distress that is a problem. this is outrageous and it's outrageous because think about the infliction of stress that it would cause upon someone in reporting this story, particularly when have knowledge that it may not be true. jamie: we don't even have to imagine, keith, quickly do they have to have malice? does it rise to malice. >> there are two types of emotional distress, intentional,

that they tonight have there, you have to say the inquirer is intentionally putting this out there to hurt her, and they say they are putting it out there to sell magazines. negligence infliction of emotional distress you might have to get. how do you separate the last from what the inquirer did. very difficult to decipher those damages. jamie: have to leave it there. not to mention the emotional upheaval of going through a case like this again. bill: rick folbaum is working for jon scott today. rick: brand-new developments to talk about in the fast and furious investigation as we wait for congress to act. house minority leader nancy pelosi, are you hearing what she is saying? she calls the whole thing a way to district the attorney general from going after voters. we'll discuss the media's reaction to this week's news. the surge in annoying junk

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jamie: we love the space stories, and it's not moon river but it may be the closes thing we have discovered so far. scientists say a huge crater are on the moon may be filled with ice. it's the schakelton crater.

it sits on the moon's south pole and is 12 miles wide and as deep as the atlantic ocean. it's in darkness making it a candidate to collect frozen water. scientists warn they could be totally wrong. bill: listening to voters and who could be the decisive factor in the race for the white house. there is little mystery that president obama and governor romney are working hard to reach out to hispanic voters. alicia acuna is live in denver on this story. traditionally these voters are democrats are they not? >> reporter: good morning, bill, yes in the past couple of years, depending on the state you're talking about hispanics are becoming more of a swing vote. take a look at this map. the four states of florida, new mexico, colorado and nevada are places that the hispanic demographic could prove to be a deciding factor, places where polls show close races between president obama and governor

romney, which is why those states are seeing a number of ads in english and spanish by both camps and both parties targeting latinos. this is a web ad by the rnc on the economy [speaking spanish. >> every single vote is important, whether that be among asian community.unity, among among business leaders and suburban house moms. >> reporter: this morning the romney camp announced 15 states leadership teams to help them get more of that hispanic vote. bill. bill: so democrats are not exactly going to allow this demographic to go without a fight, are they? >> reporter: no, not a chance which is why you're also seeing a lot of democratic-backed, obama-backed spanish ads in the key states, including here in colorado. we talked to a coldemocratic leader in the advantage he sees

in the battle over minority voters. >> someone who shares the last name or looks like the same person as the door they are knocking on, that resonates with people because it says it's in the just about someone in washington trying to push issues it's about the local folks who look and act like me and are facing the same issue as i do. >> reporter: now in 2008 president obama won the hispanic vote by a two-thirds majority. however, bill, analysts are saying if hispanic voters are apathetic in november the president could be in trouble. bill: listening to voters in colorado, thank you. jamie: iran making a bold claim over their nuclear program. they are hanging what could be a major set back to the united states and israel. what iran is boasting about now. pwap pwap no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore.

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bill: when times get tough people go looking for money. when they go looking for money they look tore things they can steal. police are looking for a man

who swipe ad six-figure painting in broad daylight from a new york city gallery. the man walking into a gallery on madison avenue, swiping the painting and walking out the door. it is valued at $150,000 and the perp seems to have just thrown it into a plastic bag before leaving? it was that easy? the work is from the surrealist spanish painter, salvadore dali. he did the painting in 1949. jenna: bill sounds like an inside job. bill: could be. >> you can't just walk out with that. a similar version. bill: jamie, good to be with you. >> hope you have a great weekend. nice to see you. bill: is it hot out there enough for you? >> we'll stay here. do another hour even though people are watching "happening now.". bill: v a great weekend. enjoy your summer weekend. see you on monday. rick: happening now,