twinkle, twinkle little star blindfolded, among other things, so it went easy. jon: i would encourage my kid to text if it would win a scholarship. jenna: $50,000. jon: wow. jenna: i'll tech you. maybe we should get in on that. jon: right here in new york city. thank you for joining us today. jenna: "america live" starts right now. shannon: fox news alert, new fallout from the campaign ad controversy that will not go away. welcome to "america live," i'm shannon bream in for megyn kelly. president obama campaigning in the key battleground state of colorado today trying to turn the headlines back to his economic message. instead, the campaign story continuing to get all the attention is a pro-obama super pac ad that suggests governor romney may be responsible for a woman's death. here's part of the ad. >> and that's when they found the cancer, and by then it was stage iv. there was nothing they could do

for her. and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he's done to anyone. and i, furthermore, do not think mitt romney is concerned. shannon: critics are calling the attack ad despicable, deplorable and blatantly false, but so far the obama campaign is refusing to denounce it or ask that it be withdrawn. earlier today governor romney took to the radio accusing president obama of overstepping the bounds of acceptable campaign speech while also alluding to the president's 2008 campaign. >> whatever happened to a campaign of hope and change -- >> yeah. >> i thought he was a new kind of politician. shannon: chief white house correspondent ed henry is traveling with the president live in pueblo, colorado. hello, ed. >> reporter: good to see you, shannon. you can hear the president right behind me making his case to people here in pueblo, and he is hitting mitt romney hard on the issue of taxes and what not. but as you say, he has not yet spokessen out against this

democratic super pac ad that supports him. allies of his led by a former white house aide, he has not denounced it, the obama campaign has not denounced it. what the campaign has insisted is that they knew nothing about the details of this man's story even though we now know that the obama campaign, in fact, in may hosted a conference call with him, enabling him to tell his story about his wife dying of cancer, etc. so they at least knew some details of the story even though they've been insisting otherwise. and the bottom line is last night the president here in colorado was denouncing super pacs. take a listen. >> now, over the last, over the next three months, 89 days to be precise -- [laughter] [cheers and applause] the other side will be spending more money than we've ever seen. you've got these guys writing $10 million checks, you've got these super pacs that are just, just going crazy.

no! >> reporter: now, you mentioned mitt romney today on the radio blasting the president, basically saying that he does not want to talk about the economy and jobs because it's not a good narrative for him. mitt romney saying instead the president's allies are in attack mode. take a listen. >> his campaign and the people working with him have focused almost exclusively on personal attacks. you know, in the past when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, why, campaigns either pulled the ad, they were embarrassed. today they just blast ahead. you know, the various fact checkers look at some of these charges in the obama ads, and they say that they're wrong and inaccurate, and yet he keeps on just running them. >> reporter: now, another interesting detail is the democratic super pac priorities usa has had financial issues, they've not been able to raise as much as some of the republican super pacs. it's not been a paid ad, instead it's gotten all this media

attention. usually people like to get attention for their ads, but has this been all negative publicity that could end up backfiring on some of the president's allies, shannon? shannon: ed henry, live with the president in colorado, thank you so much. and the negative campaigning isn't limited to tv, the president's re-election team is using social media to dig up dirt on the opposition, most recently sending an e-mail to supporters asking for info on potential vice presidential picks. supporters in ohio got a message directing them to a web site asking for their thoughts on senator rob portman. floridians got a similar message asking for dirt on senator marco rubio. it's a form people can fill out with damaging stories or opinions they may have. it isn't the first time the administration or the obama campaign has asked americans to report back, essentially, with information on political opponents. chris stirewalt is the fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com. we talked a little bit about

these vp e-mails the other day, but we mentioned this isn't the first time the administration's reached out. you know, they had previous campaigns, if you see something that's not true about the health care laws or other issues, we want to know. is this just standard practice? >> well, it's certainly standard practice for team obama, and in this case something you get out of it is a sense of participation for the grassroots, the people feel like they're involved in the process. but this is something they started doing in 2008. they called it stop the smears. and when president obama was a senator and he was an underdog against hillary clinton and then maybe against john mccain, it was one thing to say, hey, look, we need your help, we're running this political insurgency to change washington and clean up politics, so help us out, stop the smears. now when you do this kind of stuff, and we certainly saw this reaction when it came to the white house asking for people to forward on e-mails to, essentially, report their neighbors who were spreading what democrats said were untruths about the president's

2010 health law, it gets a little creepy. there's a slight whiff of big brother in it in the sense that they're asking people to crowd source opposition research here, that they're saying tell us what you know, and then we will put it into the collective, and we'll use it against this person. there's nothing wrong with it, but it's hard for president obama always to understand the difference, it seems, between being an outsider looking for the help of your supporters to being the most powerful man in the world. and it's a fine line. shannon: well, and this campaign, though, seems to have done well with trying to personalize things. we've seen many, many ads dealing with bain, and this gentleman talking about losing his wife and after losing his job and eventually no health insurance and her passing away, um, these vp e-mails sound very similar and they're saying if you have a story about something that's gone wrong with one of these individuals who could be on the vp short list, we want to know. is that a different angle, making sure they can have personal stories, people they

can put in front of the camera to say you don't want to vote for this person because this is how they hurt me? >> oh, absolutely. and the goal would be there that somebody would say when rob portman voted for xyz, it caused this to happen, it hurt my life, it devastated me, and it's something the president likes to do, to personalize things. if we think back to 2008, one of the strongest moments of the night obama accepted the democratic nomination, they emphasized the stories, the personal narratives of people who said they had been hurt by republican policies and were looking for help from democrats. and so it's -- that's very good politics, and it's very good politics to engage people in this sort of participation. but, again, the danger is that it has a slight whiff of it when you have the president doing which is, please, report on what somebody else has done, it was worse when it was your neighbor in the health care law, but in this case there's still some of that there. shannon: all right. chs stirewalt, 11:30 a.m.

eastern every day on the interweb. thank you, sir. >> thank you, ma'am. shannon: it was only a few months ago that the president said it doesn't have to be this way. >> finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideologies instead of building consensus around common sense ideas. shannon: all right, so what happened? where did we change course? at the bottom of the hour, we're going to talk to our panel about what happens next or if what we're seeing this year is simply the new standard for presidential campaigning. developing story on capitol hill where members of congress are demanding answers after new report details widespread fraud at the irs. they want to know why so many applications for taxpayer id numbers were filed using the same addresses.

in one case nearly 24,000 tax refunds totaling more than $46 million went to a single address in atlanta. now irs employees say their bosses discouraged them from investigating. steve centanni is live in washington with this bizarre story. hello, steve. >> reporter: hi, shannon. that report from the treasury department found 154 mailing addresses that were each used a thousand times or more in filing applications for these individual taxpayer identification numbers. these are the id numbers that usually go to nonresident workers. the result, millions in fraudulent refunds were sent out. for example, the case you mentioned, from one single address in atlanta, georgia, 23,994 returns were filed, and refunds were issued totaling more than $46.3 million. in another case, an address in oxnard, california, was used and more than 2500 returns were mailed for refunds totaling

$10.4 million. now, this all came to light because of complaints to congress by irs employees. the report says the irs has not established adequate controls over questionable applications for these itins, and it says the agency needs better training, better documentation so they can spot these problems and prevent fraud that could cost taxpayers billions of dollars. the agency itself responded to the report by saying, quote: the irs has moved quickly and aggressively to address issues that were identified. we've already taken major steps to strengthen our documentation standards required in order to maintain an itin, and we have -- obtain an itin, and we've significantly increased our scrutiny of applications. now, congress, of course, looking into this. one key member of a house committee saying this kind of red flag ought to draw more scrutiny. congressman charles boustany saying we need to know why the irs is not catching this fraud, shannon? shannon: good question. thank you, steve.

>> reporter: you bet. shannon: we've got some breaking news, big news from overseas right now. a very high-level report that iran could be a whole lot closer to having a nuclear bomb than the u.s. previously thought. ambassador john bolton is on his way to our washington bureau to help us sort through this brand new report. into and a serious new controversy in one of the most important senate races of the year. a group, led in part by one candidate's daughter, gets voter registration sent to a specific group of targeted voters. the state's paying for it, and we're going to show you why the political questions get worse from there. plus, kleenex alert. the amazing story of just how far one man is willing to go to show how much he loves his sick dog. ♪ lean on me when you're not strong, and i'll be your friend, i'll help you carry on ♪

shannon: u.s. gymnast aly raisman paid tribute to the 11 israeli athletes massacred during the 1972 munich games. following her error-free floor exercises, she made a point of telling reporters how much it meant to her. she is jewish, even used the traditional hebrew folk song as the music accompanying her routine. congrats to her. troubling new questions in the neck and neck senate race in massachusetts. is liz warren's daughter using taxpayer money to help her mom beat scott brown? that's the question. amelia warren is the chair of the board of trustees for a group called denos. last week it was connect today a lawsuit claiming massachusetts violated federal laws by not offering people on welfare the chance to register to vote when they went and signed up for

public assistance. as part of the settlement reached last month, the state is now sending voter registration forms to nearly half a million welfare recipients, and it is the taxpayers picking up the tab. listen to a local reporter asking warren about the controversy. >> do you think these are dirty tricks at all, or, i mean, what about charges that, you know, this is just an attempt to get more democratic voters to support you? >> you know, this is about compliance with the law so that the laws are currently, the law should be enforced, and i think that's exactly -- >> no dirty tricks or anything? >> look, you know, no one likes to see a tax on their family. um, but this is about a law that's been in place for 20 years. and this organization was working on enforcement of this law before amelia ever even joined it. shannon: michael graham is with wtkk-fm and a columnist for the

boston herald. what do you make of this? what's the reaction like there? >> first of all, thank you for shouting out to aly, our local hero, the gymnast who did her routine on the 40th anniversary of the palestinian terror. my listeners love her, and they just saw that piece -- i apologize for taking up time. shannon: no, she was flawless. >> oh, she's terrific, and we love aly in massachusetts. i don't want to preview my column too much, but the rest of the country naive people, wild-eyed and innocent believe in the tooth fairy and unicorns n. massachusetts people believe in coincidence. the sheer coincidence that these welfare recipients had never seen a stack of registration forms nearby, and she just by coincidence gets found by elizabeth warren's daughter's group just in time, by coincidence, for a may lawsuit before the election, that by coincidence the deval patrick administration immediately settles, they don't fight it, he

settles it and says by coincidence our solution's going to be to mail registration forms to 478,000 welfare recipients. what a coincidence for the democrats on the eve of a tight election. shannon: well, you mentioned, you know, the governor there did not challenge this. these suits are going on in a number of different states, but my understanding is this is costing roughly $275,000 of taxpayer money, they've also got to run tv and radio ads, and the secretary of state has to go out and do some public appearances where he explains the law in person to those who may be affected. do you think it'll sway folks at all? confusion for them about whether these voter registrations are connected to their benefits in any way? >> you mentioned the governor, the law firm that brought the lawsuit against the patrick administration, one of the partners is the governor's wife. so once again, oh, what a coincidence that the governor got a lawsuit that he loved right when he wanted it that gave him permission to send out these voter registrations.

secondly, who sent them out? our secretary of state, as you pointed out, is the election official. but these 478,000 welfare recipients got registrations from the welfare department. so, yeah, maybe they don't follow politics, maybe they've never voted before, they get a letter that usually has their check in it, but all of a sudden instead there's a thing that says fill out this voter registration form, it's important. do you think they're going to wonder or say, hey, this is from the welfare office for some reason, i'd better send it in. shannon: well, as elizabeth warren, to be fair, mentioned the law does require this in a number of states, that authorities have to be sure people know these forms are available, they have to reach out to them, so isn't this merely just the state doing what it's supposed to be doing anyway, enforcing the law? >> no, the settlement is not necessary. in other words, it's kind of like a player who doesn't like the basketball team he's on, and he wants the hem to kick him off -- them to kick him off? i used to work for the secretary

of state in south carolina in my days as a political consultant. you can put the stacks of forms in. our voter registration doesn't close until october 17th. if they just went around with stacks of forms, that lady at the welfare office who complained would have one in front of her the next time she went in. they chose a solution that they didn't need for a problem that didn't exist to help elizabeth warren win an election, and her daughter led the effort, and almost everyone on the panel of this group, the demos group is a democrat. many of them have given money to elizabeth warren. this is how massachusetts plans to steal this seat from scott brown. that's the plan. shannon: it's going to be close. we'll be watching it, we know you will too. michael graham, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. shannon: we're just moments away from an important report on an obama super pac advertisement that's been called misleading, false and despicable. what are the real facts behind a steel company that had to close plants to save jobs at three other facilities? we'll look at what it's doing to

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alert, we have roughly 90 minutes away from what could become a key hearing in the colorado movie theater massacre. media organizations, including fox news, are asking a judge to loosen a gag order and allow access to documents that could shed light on who knew james holmes was a threat ahead of the attack that killed a dozen people and injured many, many more. casey steegal is standing by in centennial, colorado, with the latest. hey, casey. >> reporter: hi, shannon. 21 different media organizations including the fox news channel fighting this because, as you know, typically, most court documents are a matter of public record. that's how members of the press are able to get information out to the public. but because this case is so heinous and because of the national attention it received, judge william sylvester not only sealed the files, but also the court docket which means we cannot even see what records or documents have been filed, and that is rare. the motion, filed by the press, states that this violates the

public's constitutional right of access, but the prosecution and defense see it a whole different way. >> there is a tension between the right of the public to know what's going on and the right of of the defendant to a fair trial. the judge needs to protect the defendant's right to a fair trial, and i expect the press not to get everything that they want. >> reporter: now, a lot of key components here, but one of the big items that would be revealed if these documents were unsealed, how the responding police officers identified james holmes as the shooter, and that would be included in the arrest affidavits, and it would also allow us to see public records from the university of colorado giving us some potential insight into his record there as a ph.d. student and treatment he was receiving from a university psychiatrist. so a lot is at stake here. we will in terms of moving forward on coverage of this story, also the notion of

allowing cameras inside the courtroom. that initial court appearance he made when he had the red hair and was kind of making the weird faces, obviously, cameras allowed inside the courtroom for that hearing, but the second one where he was formally charged, there were no cameras allowed inside. so a lot at stake here, and we're on top of it. we'll let you know how things turn out, shannon. shannon: casey, thank you very much. we're going to try to get past the outrage over an obama super pac ad that tries to tie mitt romney to a woman's death from cancer. we're going to show you what really happened with the shutdown of a steel company that is driving this claim. the facts. plus, a major square 25,000 feet in the air. what it was like onboard an alaska airlines plane when it lost pressure mid flight. you will hear from the passengers. and an incredible moment caught on camera. a sightseeing cruise to the glaciers nearly turns deadly. you will not believe the fallout from this.

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defend a tv ad that seems to tie governor mitt romney to a woman's death from cancer. critics have called the ad misleading, false and despicable, so we asked our own trace gallagher to review the events of more than ten years ago to learn why some fact checkers are saying this does not add up. trace, folks need to hear this. >> reporter: yeah. it's very important, shannon, when you talk about this story, to have the context. here it is. under various names, gst steel had been in kansas city for 113 years, but over the past, or its last three decades, the number of employees dropped dramatically as did profits. take a look at this. in 1970, they had 4,500 employees. by the time they closed in 2001, there were 750. in 1993 is when bain capital acquired gst. in '95 it acquired three other companies and merged all four, and many analysts believe without bain, gst would have closed much sooner than it did.

but critics say bain capital came in the as a vulture capitalist, bleeding the company of money. that is a charge the former ceo denied on "america live." listen. >> the facts are that bain was involved in that investment for over eight years, they pushed 100, $125 million of investment in there, and their thesis was that they could turn around a plant that had been slated for closure and, actually, almost pulled it off until the late '90s and early 2000s when we had a flood of cheap, imported steel that really closed the door on that plant. >> reporter: you heard him, right? the flood of cheap imported steel. in fact, the u.s. international trade commission says between 1999 and 2003 31 steel companies in the united states shut down. the primary reason is because of competition from asian steel

coming into this country. and by closing gst, bain was able to keep three other steel mills open, saving thousands of jobs. now, on to the claims about the man's wife. play this. >> when mitt romney and bain closed the plant, i lost my health care. and my family lost their health care. and a short time after that my wife became ill. >> reporter: here's the facts. in 1999 mitt romney stopped his day-to-day oversight of bain because he ran the olympics in salt lake city, but he was officially the ceo until 2002. bain shut down gst in 2001. joe's wife, renee, did not lose her health insurance then because she was employed by a thrift store called savers that she had health insurance through. in 2003, two years after bain -- after gst shut down -- renee injured her rotator cuff, and

she left her job. joe's new job as a janitor did not cover her, and in 2006 -- five full years after gst closed -- renee went to the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia and was diagnosed with stage iv cancer. she died 22 days later. and before gst went bankrupt, joe was offered a buyout by the company, a buyout that he turned down. all facts in this case that prove why many publications have given this four pinocchios, shannon. shannon: yeah. an across the board, you know, folks who are not of any particular ideology or party, so it's interesting. but both sides are getting in trouble for their ads lately, trace. thank you very much. you've heard why so many critics are saying this ad is neither accurate, nor fair, and still the obama campaign is making no move to denounce it. let's talk about it with kirsten powers, a fox news contributor, and marc thiessen, a fellow at

the american enterprise institute and former speech writer for president george w. bush. welcome to you both. >> thank hi, shannon. shannon: kirsten, as more and more comes to light, we get details about what did and didn't happen. do you think at some point it would be appropriate for the campaign or the white house to address this? >> well, it's a difficult situation because, of course, the white house isn't responsible for the ad per se, it's done by a super pac, um, you know, at the same time it is being run by bill burton, a former obama aide. and i think that if this had been factual, then that's a different story. i don't know that it would be crossing any boundaries of inappropriateness. but based on the report that was just done by trace, it's pretty concerning, especially if she died 22 days later, that would suggest health insurance wouldn't really have done anything to make any difference in this woman's life. so, um, this definitely crosses a line. i don't think, um, the president's probably going to denounce it because the candidates, as mitt romney did with newt gingrich complaining about super pac ads, they tend

to just say, you know, it's not my ad, i'm not going to take responsibility for it. shannon: marc, kirsten knows there is a lot of cross over, nothing wrong or illicit about that, but there are certainly connections here. >> well, sure. but, i mean, look, kirsten says that they're not responsible for the ad, but the fact is this line of attack came directly from the obama campaign. i mean, yesterday stephanie cutter said, and i'll quote: i don't know the facts of when joe's wife got sick or when she died. well, that's funny because on may 14, 2012, the obama campaign hosted a conference call featuring joe in which he told the story, accused -- made the same accusations that in the priorities usa ad, and do you know who hosted that conference call? stephanie cutter. this is a line of attack that originated with the obama campaign. they own it. all priorities usa did was take their talking points and turn it

into a second ad. and by the way, it's part of a larger pattern of mud slinging coming out of the obama and the democrats. this is just a couple of weeks after stephanie cutter, the same person who misled us about her knowledge of joe's accusations, she was the one who said mitt romney potentially committed a felony without any evidence whatsoever with his filings at the the sec. this is a week after harry reid went out on national television on the senate floor and accused mitt romney without any evidence of having not paid his taxes for ten years, and now we've got a new ad with opposition research from the obama campaign accusing mitt romney of killing a woman. shannon: all right. kirsten, we do have a little bit of the sound from the conference call that stephanie cutter took part in along with the gentleman featured in these ads. let's listen to that. >> after we lost our jobs, we found out we were going to lose our health insurance and that our pensions hadn't been funded like bain promised they would be.

shannon: okay. in light of that recording, kirsten, do you think it puts even more pressure on stephanie cutter and the campaign to answer? >> yeah. i mean, there is pressure. i'm just saying i don't think that they'll probably do it. look, if it was me, i wouldn't want to be associated with this ad. but at the same time i think they're probably looking at it saying this is an inside-the-beltway conversation, this is not what voters are paying attention to, and they also are going to -- they probably, um, want the benefit of this ad without their fingerprints on it. and i think that to pretend that it's just the obama campaign is doing this is ludicrous. why don't you have newt gingrich come on and talk about the super pac ads run against him by a former romney staffer. it's a little bit much to have to sit and listen to how it's

just the democrats that are slinging mud. shannon: there's no question it's gotten really nasty, and a lot of people on both sides of the aisle have stepped up to say that there is a nastiness -- >> yes, we have. and it's because of the citizens united decision. you know, the republicans were all in favor of this decision before, and then i think that that's where you have a problem with obama being such a hypocrite about the citizens united decision where now democrats are going out and doing exactly what all the concerns were which is making attacks where there's no blowback for the candidate necessarily because it's not being done by them. shannon: well. and in his state of the union earlier this year he said unless we lower the temperature in this town, we have to do that, we need to end the notion that the two parties must be lock inside a campaign of mutual destruction. marc, is there any other way in 2012? >> you know what they say, somehow this is all due to newt gingrich. i condemned him when he did the same kind of attack. this isn't about citizens united, this is about the fact

that the obama campaign has its fingerprints all over this line of attack. they put joe on a conference call with the press where he made these scurrilous accusations with stephanie cutter who is the deputy campaign manager of the obama campaign, and all of a sudden she's on television saying i've never heard of this story, we have nothing to do with priorities usa. well, they do have a lot to do with priorities usa. they came up with this opposition research, they fed this to the press, they flaked it, and all priorities usa did was take the opposition research and put it on the air. so this goes directly back to the obama campaign. shannon: all right. we've got to leave it there. kirsten and marc, thank you both very much, and we continue to reach out to the white house and the campaign for any further comments they'd like to make on the ad. thank you, both. new calls for an investigation after union workers got a gold-plaited benefits package and nonunion workers, well, they lost their pensions. now what we've learned about a top white house adviser's role in the whole thing. and new fallout over the chick-fil-a ceo voicing his support for traditional

marriage. what one city board is trying to do, and they admit it is for political reasons. and troubling new details about the night randy travis was found drunk, naked and threatening to hurt people. >> and i just found a -- [inaudible] in the road. >> okay. is he responding? >> i haven't got out of my vehicle yet.

shannon: police in texas just releasing the 911 call that led to the arrest of country music star, randy travis. he was discovered lying in the road naked after crashing his car tuesday night near dallas. cops say he reeked of booze and threatened to kill the officers. he was charged with dui and threatening an officer.

the singer was released earlier today in paper clothes since he was in the buff when officers took him in. a fan posted the $21,000 bail, and someone drove him home. travis had driven his transam off the road. he was passed out in the road when another driver spotted him and called 911. here's the call from that very flustered driver.

shannon: stormy warren is a country music insider, host of gac's headline country. thank you so much for joining us today. your reaction when you heard this news? >> well, it being, now, the third incident in less than a year involving randy travis, it's troubling. it's a sad situation. he collapses on stage last year, then in february he gets pulled -- he gets found in his car with an open bottle of wine in, basically, the same area in texas, and now this. all amidst a divorce, a very publicized and very nasty divorce with his manager of 30 years and wife of nearly 20. it's just a really, not a good time to be randy travis right now. shannon: yeah. he's been so successful over the years, but it sounds like he's

been fighting with some demons, some real problems along the way. what have you heard recently just about his health and his wellness? >> well, i think he's really excited to continue the career and get back to recording and do what he does best, and that's entertain and bring country music to the fans. this whole personal issue that he's dealing with, the dissolving of his business partnership and his personal life, it's a big chunk of your life to the suddenly change. anybody who's gone through a divorce knows how difficult this time can be. he's just doing it very much in the public eye. so i think he's going to rebound from this, it's just going to take some time just as anybody else fighting whatever demons they have to fight. shannon: has he been publicly open in the past with struggles whether with alcohol or other dependencies? has he been to rehab? what's his history on that front? >> as far as i know and my knowledge is concerned, nothing recently to do with his battles. it's very known that when he was coming up and when his wife,

ex-wife and manager discovered him at the nashville palace in nashville, he was hanging around some bad people then and hanging around a rough crowd, doing some things he shouldn't be doing, and she really helped clean up his act, and that was what created the superstar that we know as randy travis. now without her in his life, it seems like he's slipping back into those old ways. shannon: yeah. ens for -- concerns for those close to him reaching out to him at this point? >> i, for one, have reached out, a number of other people have reached out. we just want to see him get back on track. there's twails a song from oneof his albums called from your knees, and right now it looks like randy travis is definitely on his knees, and he's going to need some help to get back up. shannon: it's your estimation he can do it? >> absolutely, he's done it before. he's unstoppable. he's one of the cornerstones of country music history. hank williams, loretta lynn, the

outlaws, alabama, gatt brooks, randy travis' name is right in there. he changed the name of country music in the late '70s and early '80s and all through the '90s. six grammy awards, tens of dozens of major industry awards, and he's just, he's a legend. one of the things about my job and one of the things we do in this town of nashville is we root our people up this mountain, and one of the saddest things to see sometimes is that slide down the other side. we're just hoping we can lift him up. shannon: he now is facing serious legal issues as well. stormmy warren, thank you so much. >> thank you. shannon: we've got a developing story from the middle east. top israeli officials reportedly confirm that president obama has received new intelligence showing iran is a whole lot closer to having a nuke than the u.s. previously thought. we've got a live report from jerusalem and ambassador john bolton both at the top of the hour. and up next, a story of love and devotion that could well be the very best, kindest thing you see all day. trace has the story of this man

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shannon: a moving story of a man's love for his dog is going viral. the photo of their nightly ritual now touching hearts all around the world. and spurring kleenex sales. trace gallagher has more from our west coast newsroom. it just gets me, it's so sweet. >> reporter: don't you cry on me, shannon. shannon: i'm trying not to. i'm serious. [laughter] i'm a dog lover. >> reporter: yeah, we too. john unger is a dog lover, clearly, himself.

he rescued shep and named him of after a famous wisconsin ice cream. well, the dog is now 19 years old and has arthritis so bad that he cannot sleep, so john figured out that the water eases the art lites and allows shep to sleep. so every night he takes him into lake superior and then lulls him to sleep. the photographer, her name is hannah hudson, she captured this. it was not staged, and she says it tells an amazing story of trust. listen to her. >> the purpose for me actually going to take the photo is i just wanted to help a friend capture a moment or moments with his dog. i knew he loved shep very, very much, um, and i wanted to do that as a favor to a friend and a fellow dog lover. >> reporter: fellow dog lover, man, look at that. john unger gave an interview saying he's just paying shep back for saving his life years ago saying, and i'm quoting here: to be honest with you, i don't think i'd be here if i didn't have shep with me that

night. he just snapped me out of it. i just want to do whatever i can for this dog because he basically saved my back side. the picture, by the way, when hannah hudson posted it on facebook, it got 207,000 likes and 116,000 shares, and it spurred an outpouring of donations so that john unger has enough money, shannon, so that he can get laser surgery to treat shep's arthritis so, hopefully, he can sleep without bringing him into lake superior every night. what a great story. shannon: unconditional love is a beautiful thing. so sweet. >> reporter: it is. shannon: thank you, trace. >> reporter: sure. shannon: all right. tomorrow's big story early for you. in just three minutes, a prominent israeli newspaper is reporting president obama has some new intelligence showing iran is much closer to developing the nuclear bomb than america previously knew. ambassador john bolton joins us in just minutes to tell us how

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shannon: a fox news alert on a major game changer in the middle east. israel reporting president obama has information that iran is much closer to having a working nuke. iran's leaders remain defiant in the face of international pressure to end its nuclear ambitions. earlier an israeli newspaper reporting that president obama got an assessment that shows iran making significant

advancement towards a nuclear capability. and this being confirmed by ehud barak. >> reporter: we are seeing a go-no-go decision. barak has been in favor of an attack on iran which general consensus says if it happens it will take place sometime before the next presidential election. since iran has been enriching uranium there has been a split between the united states intelligence and israel intelligence with the israelis saying iran is much closer to getting a bomb. right now the israelis are saying publicly that the u.s. feels that iran is much closer to getting a bomb, meaning suddenly the israelis are right, the americans have been behind the times.

it points to an attack happening sooner than later. the israeli force is capable of hitting iran but the relationship dough for its operational attacks is closing. and it would be up to the americans and the interest national community to take action against iran. that's something israel says they don't want to wait for. we are reading everything from the tea leaves to the verbal expressions to what people are winking and nodding at in terms of finding out what the political leaders are thinking. then the military and intelligence community appears split on whether an attack on iran is a good idea and what iran's response in terms of retaliation would be. nevertheless, a couple days ago. members of mossad says if he was an iranian he would be very

nervous the next 12 weeks. we'll have to wait and see what israel does the next few weeks. shannon: just about an hour ago we asked the white house whether it could confirm this reporting from israel. while we wait on that former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and a fox news contributor joins us now. ambassador, are you surprised? >> i'm not surprised. it's been about a year since the last national intelligence estimate. it would not be unreasonable a new one was prepared. this time we are getting leaks from israel rather than the white house. the report has moved in a very substantial way in its assessment of where iran stands. this should not be surprising. u.s. intelligence has been off on a tangent ever since the famous 2007 national intelligence estimate which got the iran situation badly wrong. so one way or another we are catching up and it just

underlines the point that israeli prime minister netanyahu made when governor romney was in israel that the administration's diplomacy and sanctions have not slowed iran's nuclear program down one iota is the phrase he used. shannon: the iranian officials have openly mocked the sanctions saying they are not having an effect, they won't cause us to cave in, they won't work at all. yet we continue down that path. is there a time when you mist reassess and change course and what are the other options? >> i would have changed course 3 1/2 years ago. maybe even before that. the economic sanctions can have an economic impact but there is no evidence they affected the nuclear weapons program. if we are racing to see who crosses the finish line first and whether economic sanctions stop the program. there is very little doubt who is going to win that race. the iranians are close. and that's just based on what we

know, let alone what we don't know, which can't be good news. i think the implications are pretty clear that israel has to come closer and closer to a decision on whether to use military force since it has no faith in the obama administration carrying through on a military threat. shannon: we heard numerous times the past year that there has been pressure allegedly from the white house from the defense secretary and others cautioning israel and saying please don't take this approach. don't go for an all-out attack. there are questions what the u.s. would do:that did happen. but israel has publicly maintained all along we reserve the right to defend ourselves. as much as we are concerned about this, they are right there in the neighborhood and greater immediate concerns than we do. >> the implicit threat from the obama administration has been not to replace any airplanes or

other assets israel might lose in an attack against the iranian nuclear program which is a very, very grave threat because israel needs to be able to defend its air space from retaliatory attacks by hezbollah and lebanon. so the issue of what the u.s. response would be is very important in israel's calculations. if they thought they had a hostile white house it would make what is already a difficult decision far more difficult. shannon: there is a reporter this week from a paper based in tel aviv, they were quoting netanyahu as saying the u.s. is not going to back us with the way we are moving right now. if you think president obama doesn't care about us, essentially they claims he will care even less about us in a second term. do you think israel katle into their decision making, the u.s. presidential election? >> there is no question about it.

the israelis saw that open mike conversation between president obama and president medvedev of russia. he said let me get past the elections and it will give me more flexibility. that not good news for israel. i think it does ramp up the pressure on israeli decision makers. they are in a very intense period of trying to decide what to do and when to do it. shannon: ambassador john bolton, through, it's always good to have your insight. another fox alert on new heat in the controversy over an obama super pac ad that essentially blames governor romney's business practices for the death after steel worker's wife. the obama team claims they didn't know anything about the details of the attack on romney.

>> this ad accuses romney of practically killing her. is this the kind of rhetoric you want to hear from the president of the united states, a president who ran on raising the level of rhetoric? shannon: there is growing agreement on the right and left that this ad and others are quickly helping this to become one of the nastiest races in political history. we'll show you what it could mean for all of us just ahead. a new conflict in the controversy over a fast food chain chick-fil-a. a city review in santa barbara is refusing to sign off on a plan for a new chick-fil-a. what may be the first case we have seen since this protest. the city board tried to stop the chain for political reasons. and admitting why they are doing it. trace gallagher is check-in to this story from the west coast. >> reporter: this chick-fil-a in santa barbara has been in the planning and zoning stages for

months and months. finally chick-fil-a went to the architectural board of review and they got the approval. they got the final approval it's an all volunteer board. they gave help the thumbs up and this week chick-fil-a went back to the board to get some final sign-offs on landscaping and patio changes but the board decided to abstain from voting with one member saying for political reasons i cannot vote on that. so now after getting approval to build chick-fil-a suddenly can't get a building permit. so city hall was inundated with phone calls with people on both sides of the gay marriage issue. here is a city councilmember weighing in. >> what are these folks doing in the architectural board of review, not the political board of review. their politics should have nothing to do with it. >> reporter: the mayor of santa barbara jumped in and said

the city's approval process about chick-fil-a's building application is not about gay marriage, it's about the design of a building and the approval of the project should be based on those merits alone. so the mayor overrode the architectural board now chick-fil-a will get its final approval and building permit and will take the place of an old burger king. sometime in the next year chick-fil-a will be up in santa barbara. shannon: when g.m. shut down its delphi auto workers plant the union workers got the golden pension package. but non-union workers didn't. one lawmaker is demanding a new investigation. chilling new video of a routine traffic stop turned deadly. for the first time we are hearing a police officer plead

for his life. with a convicted killer. >> after he jumped my son and my son had been shot three times. he executed him.

shannon: new controversy over gm's shutdown of its delphi auto plant. retirees represented by the united auto workers union had their pensions pulled up and protected by gm. but non-union workers saw their pensions cut as much as 70%. valerie jared may have had a hand in picking winners and losers. that's sparking calls for an investigation.

chuck, thank you for joining us. new information coming out, the daily caller posted a number of e-mails that involve treasury secretary timothy geithner. administration officials testified on capitol hill that they did not pick winsers and losers. are you convinced that may not be the whole truth? >> we never believed was solely the pension benefit guarantee corp that made the decisions. we think the entire bankruptcy including what happened to our evenings and what happened to the union pensions were totally orchestrated by the auto task force of the president. shannon: the e-mail discussions by treasury officials kept them

out of meetings where they would have been discussing pensions. do you feel like a brand-new investigation is warranted? we know at least one member of congress is calling for that to happen. >> we would appreciate anything congress can do. we have been part of five hearings so far. we have bipartisan support in both the house and senate to get this resolved. but nothing has happened. we appreciate particularly representative turner's work in this. but again we have been fighting this lawsuit for three years. and during those three years we listened to, you know, continuous speeches on the part of this president talking about fairness and talking about transparency, talking about the middle class. yet 20,000 middle class people have not been treated fairly and there has been no transparency as to how their pensions were reduced. shannon: can you give us the reality of what happens there.

you give us the number of 20,000 people. but these are real people and real stories. for the 20,000 that usual connected to who were slashed up to 70%, what kind of impact has this had on people, including you? >> well, you know, i would rather talk about other people than me. but you are talking about somewhere in the 30% to 70% range for many of these people. they lost their homes, their children can't be in college anymore. they were in depressed communities already and there is no new jobs for them to get. so it's been devastating to a lot of our people, you know. healthwise, and just in every as expect. a lot of our people who work middle class now find themselves with wages that take them well below the poverty line. shannon: knowing that you have been going through that and so many other people, was it

exacerbated by looking across the parking lot and seeing workers who were union workers didn't deal with the same loss and the same pain? >> it's terribly frustrating. we are not saying those people didn't deserve what they earned. we would just like the same treatment. many of these workers worked side by side for years. their neighbors. they live in the same neighborhood. they are friends, they are family members. so blatantly unfair what was done. shannon: you mentioned a number of hearings that have been held. we know more are coming. you mentioned a lawsuit that's been going on for 3 1/2 years but you feel you haven't gotten fair treatment yet. what do you think it will take to get you to that point? >> i believe we'll get there through our lawsuit. but that in itself is a costly thing for our members. you are talking about people who lost their pensions that are have literally contributed their last dime to a lawsuit to restore those pensions.

do i think we'll win it in court? i think these kind of things we are seeing now will give us a court victory. but really as the judge in this case said. this makes for a political solution. it's about time for people to talk about, you know, taking care of the middle class and being transparent and doing right by eveningers to settle this. again, many members of congress on both sides of the aisle have asked this administration to step in and fix what they did. it's time to do it. shannon: what would you directly say to the president, valerie jared and those accused of shaping or directing the task of who got buyouts and who didn't? >> it's time to fix this. it was wrong what was done and there is time to fix it and now is the time. shannon: thank you for your time. we wish you the best. keep us updated.

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shannon: we are getting the first look at a controversial hollywood movie about the hunt for usama bin laden. it's the trailer for "zero dark thirty." republicans have accused the white house of giving film makers to classified information. and some conservatives are upset that this trail letter be running in the weeks before voters go to the polls. they call it a $30 million campaign ad. an arkansas police department releasing chilling video of a police officer killed on the job last year. the officer was conducting a routine traffic stop when things went terribly wrong. >> reporter: it's hard to watch. even though this video is 20 minutes long, it shows you how quickly a traffic stop can turn deadly. he was pulled over for a lack of insurance. that was the initial reason.

but you have got to take a look at this video. the officer goes up to the driver first. and he starts questioning the driver. at one point he asks the driver to get out and he handcuffs the driver oned side and behind the car. the drivers now handcuffed behind the car, and then he starts talking to the passengers in the back of the car. listen now. >> good evening, how you doing? what's your name, bud? what's your name, bud? >> jerry. there he has it. he's asking jerry hard, the man who was convicted of this crime. the officer charts checking out. his partner is on scene. you can see the driver in the front. then the officer starts going around the side of the car. he handcuffs this guy. he goes around to the back side of the car. as he gets around to the back you can see him in the end right hereby watch as he opens the door you will see the gun pop

out right there. that's when he shot the officer. then listen now as the chase consider the suspect gets out and starts going after police. he keeps shooting and you saw officer schmidt pick up his partner and carry him away. as they got to the back side of the car the suspect jerry lard kept shooting. the officer pleaded with him to stop, saying don't shoot me, please don't shoot me. that's when he pulled the officer's gun out of his holster and executed him with that gun. he has been convicted of murder. he's on death row in arkansas. the reason they are using this because the police chief said he

will be our greatest teacher and trainer. he pushed us forward so with that we'll be better for it. that's the reason they released this video is to use this as a teaching tool for nighttime traffic stops for arkansas police. very powerful stuff. shannon: we hope it will save other lives. trace, thank you. reports on the shooter in the sikh temple attack is increasingly focused on the fact that he was a member of the military in the past and possibly a white supremacist. but given he left the armed services 16 years ago after getting in trouble there is it fair to paint the military with this broad and stereotypical brush? the obama campaign asking help in drumming up dirt on possible v.p.s for romney. where is this presidential campaign going next.

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wife. the president's team claims they didn't know anything about the details of the attack on romney. >> this woman died in 2006 and this ad accuses mitt romney of practically killing her. is that the kind of rhetoric you want to hear in a campaign especially from the president of the united states, especially a president who ran four years ago and raising the level of rhetoric? shannon: the ad inseason what is governor romney is responsible for a woman's death from cancer. the romney got slammed for releasing an ad on welfare that they say is inaccurate. we also saw the obama campaign ask people to fish for dirt on vp running mates. where is this presidential race going next?

the former chairwoman of the republican party of virginia. well come you both. cory, this president said we were going to elevate the tone of washington. but this campaign is particularly nasty. do you think it's worse or par for the course? >> i think we are in a period that's clearly the preseason prior to the general election getting kicked off later this fall. we should see it begin in a couple weeks during the conventions. but when it comes to the ad that was put out by progress u.s.a., i think if anything that ad is subject to interpretation based on who is looking at it. when i looked eight, i saw it talking about the importance of access to healthcare, and the importance of affordability of healthcare. and quite frankly when you come down to it romney says if he becomes president he will rescind, he will repeal healthcare and repeal the affordable care act. so if you are looking eight from

that standpoint is a relevant ad and that's in contrast to what romney said earlier this week as far as welfare is concerned and once again running away from his previous positions just like he has on healthcare and abortion and gun control. so, you know, it's a very interesting time in the campaign. shannon: kate, you have seen the ad. what was your impression of the ad. >> i'm fascinated how the democrats are twisting themselves into pretzels to explain this ad away. this ad accuses mitt romney of murdering this man's wife. it's just a tragic ad. it's a tragic display of disingenuity. this president was elected saying he was going to enter into this post partisan era where petty politics would be a thing of the past, name calling, yet it's only when conservatives

overstep that he comes out on the bully pulpit and condemns them. this is the perfect time for the president to say this is shameful. we are going to have a debate based on ideas. but he won't do it because he loves the fact this is distracting from his performance on the economy. what republicans could turn around and do is have some ads on the 360,000 americans who have lost their jobs during the *'s tenure. but just talk about how their lives have been impacted. that would be a genuine commentary as opposed to saying mitt romney wasn't even at bane and was responsible for this precious woman's death. shannon: you mention he has called for a civil tone. here is a bit of what he has had to say. >> these negative ads, these negative attacks spending all this time talking about me and instead of talking about what he's going to do. that not going to lower your gas prices. it doesn't do a single thing to

help the american people. it's politics. we don't need the slash and burn say anything do anything politics that divides and distracts and tears us apart. if you don't have any fresh ideas and you use stale tactics to scare voters. if you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. that's why he's spending these last weeks calling me every name in the book. because that's how you play the game in washington. if you can't beat your opponent's ideas you distort those ideas and maybe make some up. shannon: those are from the 2008 presidential campaign. do you think the president is staying true to those words? >> i think i do. if you look at source of this ad it wasn't from the obama campaign, it was from the super pac. shannon: does he have a duty to

step up and say i think it goes too far? >> i think he has a duty to communicate his message, intent and vision to the american people about what he would do in a second term as president. you can look at what's happening on the otherside as well. what mr. romney said earlier this week didn't come from a third party or super pac. it came directly out of his own mouth. running away from his own position. another self-inflicted wound to his campaign. so, that's where you have to draw the line here. the super pac that put this ad out clearly did so on their own. mr. romney is saying these things himself. that's why he's been hit as hard as he has by the truth squad. slan * let's talk -- shannon: let's talk about polling and the negative and positives for these candidates. there has been an addition for the romney side not a positive way. they picked up points on the negative ratings for romney.

if these ads are going to working we blame either campaign for engaging in this? we know negative ads work. >> absolutely we can blame them. this is scare tactics and fear mongering and it's not true. of course, we should hold the obama campaign responsible. with it's clear there was coordination between the campaign and the super pac. i heard analysts say today it happens on both sides. that doesn't make it right. this is a clear case -- there was -- the conference call shows the campaign knew about this man, they knew about this so-called -- this story, and they promoted it. in fact it's just a stunning thing, particularly given the president's whole unity claim. he was going to be the most unifying president in history. he's ripping this country apart and it's working. people who have seen this ad of this nice man who talks about his wife dying.

no time line, no frame reference or mention of the fact that romney was at bain at the time or this wife had health insurance before she lost it. it was long after her husband lost his job at bain. there are so many problems with this. but what republicans need to realize is they need to shift the focus back to the economy, back to the fact that we are at 42 straight months with the unemployment numbers over 8%. and this is a wonderful opportunity as horrible as it is to say let's look at the impact on working americans from the obama policies of raising tax and regulations, coming down on the middle class, the working class and let's look at the examples of favoring unions such as the kansas city auto manufacturers plants where they took away the pensions of the salaried employees while protecting unions. there are plenty of opportunity for the romney campaign to hit

hard on the facts how obama's policies have undermined this economy and hard-working americans. shannon: is that where it is, lobbing missiles at each other. do you think there will be a change in american politics after this particular election season where there will be more civil discourse? if you want to be in the game, this is how you have to play. >> like we said before. negative ads work. the american people don't like to admits they work, but the fact is they do. it's how they are interpreted. progress usa was talking about the importance of having access to healthcare and the affordability of that care. we are talking about what romney would do as president romney to roll back the affordable care act. >> it's not even mentioned in the ad. how about negative ads have to

be faced on ideas. >> i didn't interrupt you when you were talking. all i'm saying is we have to look at what president romney would do if he became president and that is to roll back affordable care act. access to care, reducing the ability to move your healthcare from one employee to another. that's absolutely important. and absolutely relevant to this campaign. again, the ad is subject to interpretation. shannon: clearly you two interpret it differently. we'll have to agree to disagree. we'll see what voters say. priorities u.s.a., so we properly credit that ad. new developments in the sikh temple massacre.

we are going to take a closer look at that three minutes. what a sight. a massive chunk of ice breaks off in front after sightseer with a camera. a fantastic thing to see until you notice a huge wave coming right at you. that story, even incredible video is minutes away.

shannon: an alaska airlines plane forced to land after a terrifying episode onboard. it was on its way from seattle when an electrical problem cause the a loss of cabin pressure. children starting screaming from pain.

>> it was horrible. i never had anything like that in my whole life. >> the side wall of the plane pulled away from my leg. it just expanded inside. shannon: the airlines pulled the plane from service and will do a thorough inspection before it ever goes back into the air. there are new questions in the shooter of the sikh temple attack. a number of media reports have been increasingly focused on the fact that he was a member of the military and possibly a white you presentist. it seems to suggest that the armed forces has a problem with soldiers who share these kinds of views. i know that you probably felt this way and i have got and lot of e-mail, twitter, facebook from folks in the military, good people who are upset there has been a focus on this man's background in the military. from what we understand he got in trouble there and was less

than honorably discharged. what is your reaction? >> this is like saying the guide ate ham burgers and that made him do it. the idea to remotely tie a tattooed neo-nazi murderer of people of color to the u.s. military is an orgasmic fantasy for the left. the mainstream media's approach to this has been shameful. he served for a few years in the u.s. military. they gave hip the boot and barred him from reeven liftment. it was 14-16 years ago. a long time ago. since then he has lost job after job. he had a dysfunctional dating history. he's a screw ball nut case. it has nothing to do weather u.s. army. you never hear any reports about the millions of success story the army generated or the

military. people lifted out of go toes and barrios and poor white america. by remote hint there is a military factor in a mass shooting crime, the mainstream media goes positively orgasmic. i served in the military before i chose to become a writer. in those 22 years i never ran across a neo-nazi or white wing hate group of any kind. but if you want to see a hate group just check out the pac that's accusing governor romney of causing a woman's cancer. shannon: there have been investigations into whether there is a problem with extremists in the military and whether they founding each other and are supporting each other. is it fair to take a lether thes

whether the military would want to get rid of these folks and whether there exists a problem within our current force. >> there is no problem within our current force be none. of course, the military investigates it. across the last decade there have been a couple dozen who have been put out of the military. several million people have served in our military over the last decade. i mean, the military on the whole does a much better job of weeding out trouble makers than civilian society. the crime rate fear active duty and people in veterans is much, much lower than average. and by the way, we have had problems in the military with gang members coming in and you get rid of those, too. one of my personal heroes, general barry mccalf are you. when he speaks to young officers, he tells them the primary duty of a company commander will be to weed out

sociopaths who will slip through and make it into the line company. we in the military take that seriously. we don't want dysfunctional types. inevitably some will slip through because we are a reflection of society and we have to deal with the people society sends to us or gives to us. but on the whole, there is no problem with right-wing extremism in the military but there is a deep problem, political correctness. where was the media outrage that allowed the fort hood shooter the terrorist hassan to slip through the cracks. where is the political correctness that killed our soldiers in afghanistan with non-sensical policies. but you can count on the media to leap to leap on it when it comes to a crime or massacre.

the media hates our military, they pretend to reexpect because the american people make them. shannon: i hope they do. for all of our men and women serving as well. a trip to see a natural wonder takes an unsuspected turn when a placer begins to crack.

shannon: a belgian olympian gets the boot after his drunken night out. the belgian olympic committee making the decision to send him home after consulting with the cycling team leader. he says he regrets what happened but he was letting off steam after completing his event.

some incredible video after 3 people in the waters off greenland are nearly crushed when a massive chunk of a glacier breaks off before their very eyes. watch this. >> oh! shannon: the man behind that camera was acting as a translator for an australian citizen. he accelerated away from the wave but it did actually hit them. incredibly no one was injured. as scary as it was. one of the men said almost dying next to a glacier is something i would like to do again. listen in for a second. that's what i would i saying, maybe worse. investigators releasing police

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>> governor romney could be expensing the rockstar status that president obama got leading to the election in 2008. a wedding party in new jersey posing for photos, abandonedded bride and groom to chase governor romney's motorcade. he was in town on way to a campaign event and a man trying to scale a wooden fence trying to get a closer look at the candidate. of course, secret service agents stepped in to break up the crowd. there is the bride. they if get some pictures. thank you for watching, i am