why they test it. here is anna. >> give me the again. there i misted it. surfboard. >> we hadn't done t yet. anna, nice job and happy friday. fox and friends starts right now. >> thru go and thank you so much for joining, i am anna filling in for gretchin karlson. week before the convention and president obama pulls ahead in the polls. can mitt romney pull ahead with picking the right vp. >> steve: did one of president obama's campaign advisors lie to the u.s.. blaming mitt romney for a

woman's death? >> brian: the department of homeland security run like a sorority. a bomb shell revelation against janet napolitano. fox and friends starts right now. ♪ ♪ what would i do? >> steve: i love these goys. >> brian: why they will playing three doors down. >> steve: they are one door down . they are doing a sound check right now. >> yesterday i was on youtube watching them . you don't know how many hits they have. >> brian: learning to the acoustic end.

the bad weather sidelined the drummer. we'll be in a situation where we do something this might end up big are than their recorded cuts. they will say exclusively for the summer concert series on fox and friends >> chris: three doors down. or one of us could volunteer to drum. >> brian: this might be an opportunity to bring ringo starr, back. >> steve: can you knowledge -- imagine how famous he would be. >> brian: ringo needs us. >> we begin with a fox news alert. three american troops were shot dead in afghanistan. a man wearing an afghan army uniform opened fire on them. this comes a day after another attack left four more

americans today. prosecutors in the george zimmerman case released information. among the photos, trayvon martin's body when he was shot in self defense. they are releasing zimmerman's high school and transscript like the photowas supposed to be confidential. zimmerman's lawyer announced his client will get a stand your ground hearing. the judge could dismiss all charges against zimmerman if the defense can prove he feared for his life. employee filed suit against janet napolitano. he said that napolitano demoted him as soon as she took office and replaced him

with a less qualified woman. she tormented them by trashing their office and made sexually explicit phone calls. napolitano's camp not commenting at this time. a liberal super pac tracking every move by new jersey governor chris christie. they're sending a representative to monitor every move christie makes. >> brian: brand new polls impact where we are fox news poll show that president obama is picking up support with voters against mitt romney. peter doocy has a look at those polls, peter.

>> in the last month or so he has doubled his lead among the registered voters. the president now leads the former massachusetts by nine. 49 to 40 even though in the middle of july he only up four percentage point and a lot of the growth in the over all numbers is voters who are independent. president obama has opened up an 11 point lead among the middle of the road voters. 41-30. and the president held that lead but back in june he was only up six and july up four and now up 11 and a third of the independents said they support another candidate and they are not sure who they support for the last three months it is interesting that the president is pulling away since more voters think mitt romney would do a better job 46-43 and an election that is all about the economy.

mitt romney was pick to do a better job. but tied with the president when it comes to small business and immigration policy. in july 101 plus million that mitt romney raised was 25 million more than the president's hall. but the president's favorability rating is on the rise. that is two points higher than last month. but keep in mind all of the numbers can move a lot. there are still 88 days and two conventions and one running mate to go before the voters cast the real ballot. >> steve: she was talking about likeability? in back to back weeks. first harry reid with the rumor that mitt romney never

paid taxes in 10 years. likeability kind of takes a hit there and questionability . now this week, the cancer adwhere joe tells a heart breaking story of how his wife died and that blames mitt romney. >> bain capitol bought the company and his wife died six years after the fact. and the romney campaign is asking the obama administration to denounce it from the pac. >> brian: the governor is disappoint knows it is not directly related, but if you call for something it will be taken down. here he is in the morning show. >> fact checkers look at the charges in the obama adand they say they are wrong and inaccurate. in the past when people point out when something inaccurate.

campaigns were embarrassed and today they just blast ahead. >> brian: this guy is four pinn ochios said yeah, there is nothing accurate about it. it is a huge stretch . what i thought was damming was the fact that the administration essentially yesterday final low had to admit they know who this guy is and hosted a conference call with him on it, but nothing to do with the fact that the adcame out. >> steve: right, exactly. and now we know the facts, it turns out i don't believe his wife was even covered on his insurance when he was at the steel company owned boy bain. she had her own yob and insurance that lasted a couple of years past what he had with his job. there is so much wrong with the story. we heard from robert gibbs.

and we heard from a woman named gen saki who is one of the campaign spokesperson and stephanie cutter who said we don't know the details. rudy guiliani saw her comment on that and former prosecutor in him kicked in and he said this last night on hannity. >> it is an accusation that a presidential candidate is responsible. she was laughing. she was laughing. i prosecuted a lot of people k. and i saw someone laugh at an allegation like that i would say she has a lot to hide. >> to say the president is surrounded by liars is an accurate charge and who the heck wants to be surrounded by liars. what will obama do? >> nothing, he will keep her on the campaign. >> that sounds something about the president and his own

integrity. i would ask her to be dismissed from the campaign. >> we'll take a blast from the past and look at candidate obama in 2008. he wouldn't like himself today, let's take a listen. >> we don't need the flash and burn do anything politics that tears us apart and bring us us together. you use steal tactics to scare voters . if you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone that people should run from and why they are 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 disturb those idea and maybe make them up. >> brian: seems like the president wants to have a campaign about small issues.

distractions and polls are right he seems to be getting a boost from it. what matters most is not the apology or the pulling down of the ad. what matters most people know that the president will lie . his campaign can will lie and his pack will lie and they should know that when they look at the ads. the danger with the ads staying up and no one admitting they are not true. no one will believe anything anymore. they go that can't possibly be true because the other ones were not true. >> steve: and the stand by mon tage anna introduces us into. it shows what the president was saying and how things are changed since then. it is all chicago politics. that was chicago politics and knock out your politician and destroy your and how he did it

in 1996 when he run for senate in illinois. that conflicts with the message of hope and change today. >> that admission by the obama campaign just came out yesterday. we haven't seen the polls in response to that and now we heard from the governor, governor romney saying it is a smear campaign and how can you believe anything the man is saying. we'll see the number. >> steve: bill burton that is behind the super pac said he it was wildly successful. are they going to take it down? >> brian: i don't think so. stewart varny has a big one coming your way. you spent a ton of money that is about to be turned over at this time chinese. >> they are accused of killing

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>> brian: more of your money going to benefit china. stimulus green fund battery maker . it could see 80 percent of the country with the patent that developed into taxpayer cash. >> american taxpayers have not lost money, but we have lost control of the patents and the chinese came in and bought them cheap. they are getting patents on battery technology that was subsidized by the american taxpayer. >> steve: tell us about a, one, two, 3. how much money we have given. >> it is a lithum battery

maker and makes the batteries that was going into the car. it was a wild success first and value of the company went straight up. they are not selling electric cars and so the chinese bail them out and take them over. >> steve: chinese have a good nose for business. we have a lot of money we'll put it in there. especially with thents. >> that's the point, chin heaven get the patents that the battery maker come up with. and the chinese got it probably very cheap. obama administration borrowed money from china and took that mon nethe stimulus plan and now the chinese buy it back dirt cheap. >> brian: chinese began the

capitalism and the innovation comes elsewhere>> they are buying 15 billion worth of oil because we refused to take canadian oil . buying out green energy cheap. >> steve: what do we get out of it other than the of some day. >> we get out of that company without a loss. that's whats's happened. >> brian: and the president criticized mitt romney for not supporting wind energy>> the gas spike hurting the west and california. >> steve: i am glad you are talking about it because no one else is in the media? >> brian: straight ahead.

infamous son of sam peeking out from prison. >> steve: the new york time attacking the u.s. hurtler lolajones and this morning she is firing back. ♪ won't back down. ♪ there ain't no easy way out.

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20 yearings. there are improved schedules. finally. and a hero's welcome home for a marine capitol in arizona. the 23 year old lost both legs sweeping for bombs in afghanistan. it was his third tour of duty and he plan to go back to school. welcome home. >> brian: welcome back. marine staff sergeant said he would come home and watch her to come walk down the aisle. he changed so many times and now his family want to honor him and the others that served. >> brian: staff sergeant and

brother in law are here and guests this morning. so sorry about your brother and brother in law. have you processed the thing. >> i think my family is in shock with it and hard to cope. >> anna: this happened on golf and you have a golf outing that you asked people to be a part of? you were in the middle of finishing the touches of your wed now making good on a funeral. is this making good on the promises? >> yeah, you talk to the guys on google chat. and all joey talked about was golf. try to get as many people involved with sponsorships. >> brian: you work at the course special a pro. >> yes. impts you can make them great if they come down. >> i try. >> brian: can you talk about

your brother's decision to go in? >> we didn't talk to him much. we assumed he didn't have brothers and he wanted brothers >> brian: you called him prince. >> rolled out the red car pet when he came home. >> brian: how did he characterize his stay. >> he loved it. loved the travel aspect and everything. >> anna: he was not the first one to serve. your grandfather did as well. >> anna: i know you are married and once you have kids, do you think they will continue his legacy. >> i hope not. but, that would be their decision. yeah. >> anna: mark tell us about the golf outing in alpine, new jersey. >> it is it on august 27th. and we are accepting sponsorships if you visit the website sign up for the golf

outing or sponsors and we are taking in everything we can and keep joe's memory alive. >> brian: they forget they have fighting going on and unfortunately you have that reality and taking action in his name. it is great to meet you and i would love to have met his brother. >> anna: good luck to you guys. >> brian: we'll have more on that on fox and friends.com. exclusive calling the president someone we used to know. ♪ because you want cut me off. ♪ now your speech is not >> but they may vote for him and we'll ask them why when we

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♪ >> brian: here it is. the shot of the morning. 360 degree of mars. the incredible image first pana ramic. you can see the rocky surface and the base part of the mount. we are naming mountains. >> steve: after television. >> brian: curiosity landed on sunday on a two year mission and no sick day. >> anna: it doesn't look as reddish. >> steve: more rusty than reddish. why bother going there? >> brian: when do we find out if well is life. >> steve: they will use a

cam's cam and camera that detect and beam it back. >> brian: they are going to look for people. you know what they are not going to find? people. >> anna: and song you were listening to was krypon tonic. >> brian: vh1 called. >> anna: 6:33 . we'll get to our headines on a finally friday morning. lawyers for shooter james holmes said their client is mentally ill and first indication of pursuing a insanity defense. the media asked the judge to unseal documents. that decision could come today. people inside. courtroom say he appeared sloppy and disinterested. >> steve: now got side burns, too.

a notorous serial killing is speaking out on the aurora. son of sam talked to the daily news from the jail cell on the anniversary. society has to take the glory out of guns. young people have no business carrying a i would love to speak bluntly to gang banging teens and tell them it is not what they think. you pack a gun you are making a big mistake. he terrorized new york . he was arrested exactly 35 years ago today. the day the son of sam kiming spree ended in new york. >> brian: lawmakers urging the house to investigate the possible bias. timothy githener led a term to

not pensions for a general motor's comny after the government bail out. unimembers allowed to cash in. the retirees spent their careers working along side one another and should not be treated differently in their retirement. obama said republicans are politicizing the issue. >> anna: terrorist love the fresh prince of bellaire. ♪ this is a story of how my life got twisted up side down. i will tell you how i was the prince of the town of bellaire. >> anna: he'sy had to order all 96 sit coms dubed in arabig. and he said the inmates went through a similar phase with

harry potter. they can watch it around the clock and maximum security prisoners can watch an hour a day from a recliner in the jail cells. >> steve: life in git mo. and what is coming up in the weather forecast. we have a lot of rain in portions of new england and down to the atlantic and gulf coast shower activity and some in south florida. the hurricane folks took a lookk at the season and said there could be a couple more hurricanes. temperatures coast to coast. 50s in the northern plains and 60s and cents . 80s down in portions of florida already . across texas tis another sunny day, 102 in san antonio along the river walk and 99 in dallas. same for el paso and phoenix, arizona at 11 80s in portions

of northeastern kansas. otherwise the drought will continue in the central plains state and back through dixie. and look at your saturday. hot one in texas and back in the desert in the 80s in florida. and up through the midatlantic. it should be 73. >> anna: at least it is a dry heat. >> steve: like a hair dryer. it is a bitter sweet time. we are not just talking about the lim - olympics. >> brian: closing ceremonthis w. and you probably know it is the end of your internship and back to the university of georgia. are you ready? what have you learned from being around us. >> i learned that steve doocy is a geus. [applause] >> steve: i gave her five dollars. >> brian: that is okay. and would you have to do the

sports. >> i have. >> brian: cue the music and begin with the olympics. >> it is a three peat for the u.s. soccer team. carly scoring not once but twice. she was not in the starting line ups. u.s. winning the gold against japan. they lost to yapan last year in the world cup final. team boxer clarissa shields making the history. shields is the country's first middle weight winner. she beat russia who is nearly twice her age in the finals . last, talk about never giving up. you wouldn't know from watching, but the united states manteo richard oke his leg and still missing the meter. mitchell said he never thought of stopping knowing the u.s. needed to qualify for the final. >> brian: that is good.

what do you want to do. >> i want to do international news. >> brian: she want to do international news and if you are a director of an international news company call you. and daruous will thoroughly review your olympics cast. good job. back to you guys. >> steve: brian, one big headline, the u.s. women's soccer team won gold. >> brian: yeah, they won gold again for the third straight medal and making their way back to the states and hope solo made the unbelievable saves you have seen. >> steve: hope solo to lo, lojones. she is accusing the new york times of doing a hitch up on her. it is heart breaking. >> anna: a lot of people say she is the anna kournekova of

tracks. she's been to the olympicses and merrence love rags to riches story and why she is getting media coverage. >> brian: what bothers. jones received far greater other publicity competing in the london games. based not on achievement but her exotic beauty. she miss. and jones will be whatever they want her to be. vixon and virgon and victim and draw attention to the many products she endorses. she got emotional and listen. >> they should be supporting the united states olympics athlete. they ripped me shreds. i worked six days for a 12

second race . they tore me apart it was heart breaking. i am not -- they do research and call me anna, i am a american record holder and hold two worlds. i shouldn't be ripped apart by the media. i laid it out there and fought hard for my country and it is a shame that i have to deal with so much back lash when i am brokenhearted as it is. >> brian: she missed medaling by a second and not just the finals and looked at public editor who looked at the columnist approach to lolo. this piece struck me. the piece struck me as harsh and let me alone with others why the tone was so strong. don't look for lolojones to have a sit down. one thing i disagree with.

it is not the new york times to root for the u.s. team. they shouldn't be advocating. but no reason to rip. she is the best of the best. and that is better than 99.9. >> anna: she is a sweetheart and her family was so poor they lived in the basement of her church and you can imagine putting food on the table when nutrition is important and trying to raise a girl like this. >> steve: so goig in. she could have been one of the top teen money earners for endorsements and now with this, she would have potential to make money for that family of hers. and now i understand the anger. >> brian: i think she will make a lot of money. what do you think? was she right taking on the new york times? and new york times reviewing?

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what it said and how to overturn it what did you discover? >> you hear in washington all of the time that this law will reduce the deficit and reducing the deficit is a shell game for increasing your taxings faster than washington spending. what this law does, creates two entitlements to cost trillions of dollars and raises your taxes half a trillion and goes over and takes a half trillion out of medicare and taking funds away from seniors. that pile of money is slightly big are than the cost of the law . repealing the law which they warn you to not do will lower taxs and give grandma back half trillion of health care. >> steve: i thought she was thrown off of the cliff. >> no, this l destroys medicare. repealing the law will replace

575 million in funds raided out of the medicare. >> brian: we are not repealing. >> no, we the people have the last word on the polls. if we elect a president and congress that repeal the law we have the final word. >> steve: when you look at the amount of money that the country spends on health care it is staggering. in 2010 it was almost 18 percent of the gross domestic product. look at 2021. close to 20 percent. >> those are the government's own figures and so when harry reid said it saves money. the government's own figures say it would cost more. >> steve: if harry reid said it you have to trust it. >> you mention the tax that is never going to happen. they rely for the cadillac tax to pay for it. it is so unpopular, obama and

democrats in congress said we will postpone that to 2018. you know if the name sack doesn't have the guts to impose the tax successors are not going to do it either. it is not paid for. >> brian: we don't know how long the waivers will carry over. there is hundreds of them. a family facing a $5000 because was a birthday party. >> steve: it is the spoof calling the president someone we used to know. ♪ ♪ because you want it and then you cut me off. ♪ and now your speeches never soar as high as unemploy: >> steve: but that guy might still vote for him. but we'll ask him coming up next . ste. but no way it's 80 calories, right? no way, right?

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>> anna: 6:52 . get ready for friday morning political twist of the summer hits someone i used to know. it is a internet sensation. ♪ got addicted to a certain kind of message. ♪ it is change we can believe in yes we can. >> anna: but the creators of the video were fans of the president in the last election. co-founders was just new production and creator of the victim. justin and ryan joins us. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> anna: three million hits and you have over 300,000 and what you are highlighting a loss of hope and change many

felt in 2008. did you vote for president obama then? >> you know, it is funny, we didn't vote in 2008. weboth supported bark obama but through a clerical error we were in cool in massachusetts and we were out of the students and we were not able to vote because of the clerical error. >> anna: but bottom line you supported before and now you aren't. what do you say about people who supported the president and how you feel now? >> as the makers of a parity video on youtube it is tough to speak for everybody. being very attracted to the message that he had because it was an amazing time and i just think that there are things he hasn't delivered on .

that's why people are feeling disillusioned. >> anna: you graduated in 2009 and college end had to pay my rent and change i got i had to move in with my mother. is it what young voters are feeling if they can't find anything? >> the economy is tough, graduating in 2009, i think that is sort of a funny line. first and foremost it is humorous and has a strain of truth to it because it was difficult to get the job in the aftermath of the political crisis. we didn't think that the stimulus did as much as it could of or misdirected. >> anna: most part guys, you are bashing the president. you make one reference. sometimes i think the peace

prize winner -- you thank him for taking down osama bin laden on his watch . what would it take for you to vote for him in 2012? >> what we are really looking for is one candidate to come out and support or just talk about the issues that we care about and we think that have not been addressed by either major candidate of both major political parties. mitt romney and barack obama have taken the same position now despite the fact that barack obama said he wasn't going to. in order for us to vote for somebody. wement the focus of the political debate to be on the issues and not political strategy and sound bites and gotcha moments. >> anna: look for the bum bottom you used to know. and just and i know ryan co-founder of just new production and we'll look forward to your videos.

>> thank you. >> anna: 6:56 is the time . you are watching fox and friend and this business owner fighting back with the president's you didn't build it. and now he's under attack. and you want to hear this one. most unreliable car just revealed. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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>> anna: 7:00 o'clock on the nose. nice to see you here. i'm anna kooiman, finally friday, the 10th of august. i'm filling in for gretchen. here is one big name you won't see at the republican national convention, donald trump not hired. this morning his reaction. >> brian: the pressure is on the white house to take action against the staffer who may have lied to the press. >> what's obama going to do about her? i would ask for her to be dismissed from the campaign. >> brian: will the white house denounce the ad that blames mitt romney for a woman's death? the latest straight ahead.

>> steve: meanwhile, all they wanted to do is throw a birthday party for their kid, like so many parents do. now that family facing a $5,000 fine for not having a birthday party permit in the united states of america. it's true. we'll tell but that and so much more. "fox & friends" for friday, hour 2 starts right now. ♪ >> brian: that empty stage will be packed shortly, as will the fans as they scurry down to be part of the concert series that no one can stop talking about, especially anna. because in a little while, they'll be on the turf with famous dave's and we'll be

eating and singing and taking in the music. >> steve: we're probably just going to be the eating. three doors down, singing right here "when i'm gone," they'll be doing the singing. and they're great. >> anna: they're also big supporters of the national guard. i've got on my facebook fan page a link they have done and they'll sing a song that will really get you reved up. >> brian: how do we get to your facebook page. >> anna: go to facebook and search for me. >> steve: on scrabble, that would be 75 points. great to have you. gretchen is on vacation this week and you got the news. >> anna: i do. we'll get to your headlines. the time is 7:02. fox news alert. another deadly attack on coalition troops in afghanistan. three american troops shot dead in the hellman province. military officials confirming a man wearing an afghan army

uniform opened fire, killing the service members. it's the third attack this week. the doping case against lance armstrong heats up. the lawyers set to go before a federal judge in texas asking to block the usda doping charges against him. the agency claims armstrong took steroids and blood boosters to win the tour defrance from 1999 to 2005. armstrong denies that claim. he could potentially be stripped of his titles and banned from the sport for life if found guilty. new reports donald trump turned down an offer to deliver a prime time speech at the republican national convention. he told the romney campaign he believes there are better ways to show support and still playing a major role in tampa. the rnc begins on the 2th of this month. >> brian: i heard it will be a big surprise. >> steve: it was. so you just spoiled it. >> anna: we'll talk about thinking on his feet. as you can see, this cat outfoxes a fox terrier, chasing

him around by leaping onto a surf board and coasting across the pool to safety. the james bond kitty caught on camera by what appeared to be a homeowner shooting his backyard. >> steve: i haven't seen something that evasive from the animal kingdom -- i was thinking along the road runner and the coyote. >> brian: yeah. this is live. this is a reality show. long sought after, all pet reality show. >> steve: that's why they got the animal planet. people love that stuff. it's a mixed bag this morning for president obama. fox new poll released show he's gained support, but more voters still say mitt romney is the best guy to fix the economy. peter doocy live in washington to take a look at the polls. good morning to you. >> good morning. in the time since the last fox news poll was taken, mitt romney had to deal with brutal campaign ads, a lot of negative reports

of his trip overseas and some of his tax returns and some of that is seen in the new numbers which show president obama's lead is now more than double what it was in july. the president is now up by nine. 49 to 40 among registered voters in the middle of july he was only up by four points. his new edge is with independents who gave the president an 11-point lead against the former massachusetts governor, 41-30. even though almost a third of all independent vote railroads supporting someone else or just aren't sure about these two, mr. obama's lead with middle of the road voters is larger than his four point july lead or his six-point june lead. it's interesting, the president is pulling away in these polls since more voters do think mitt romney would do a better job in improving the economy, 46-43. then election that is supposed to be all about the economy. mitt romney is also the voters' pick to do a better job reducing the deficit. but he ties the president when it comes to helping small

businesses and immigration policy. even though they've fallen behind in the polls. the romney campaign is behind in fundraising. their team raised more in july and has more cash on hand than president obama's organization. but the president's favorability rating is at 534% -- 54%. eight points higher than mitt romney's 46-point rating. now only 4 in ten voters say they are extremely interested in the race. mitt romney is tied with president obama among those voters. back to you in new york. >> steve: thank you very much. >> brian: three debates, two conventions, there is still a long way to go. maybe romney looks at that as a wake-up call. let's look at the ad that everyone is talking about. bill burton's group put it out. this is the same group that put out the horrible olympic ad that talked about how mitt romney outsourced everything when he ran the olympics back in the '90s. now this ad has come out and it turns out the man featured in

the ad that accuses mitt romney of killing his wife has come out to be somebody that the administration is quite familiar with because they hosted a conference call on may 14 where he was told to tell his story to the press. how did they get out of it? by essentially admitting, we knew the story. we had nothing to do with the ad. >> steve: that's the part that is illegal. when the campaign, the official campaign, if they coordinate with the super pac, that's against the law. but it clearly looks like they did. not only is hannity featured last night on his program was this guy wearing the same shirt in both the video clips for the campaign and also for the super pac, but when asked by members of the media, like gibbs and stephanie cutter, we don't know anything about this joe soptic story, even though cutter had hosted him on a conference call to reporters. so people were going, oh, come on. clearly she knows about him.

but she lied, according to rudy guiliani last night on hannity. she ought to get canned, he says. listen. >> which is an accusation that a presidential candidate responsible for the death of someone, she was laughing. i prosecuted a lot of people. i saw somebody laughing at an allegation like that, i'd say, this woman's got a lot to hide. to say that the president is surrounded by liars is a pretty accurate charge and who the heck wants to be surrounded by liars? what's obama going to do about her? nothing. you going to keep that liar on his campaign? >> obviously. >> well, then that says something about the president and his own integrity if that's the case. i would ask for her to be dismissed from the campaign. >> anna: this is going to be very tough for the president to disassociate himself from this ad when initially his campaign was saying, no, we had no idea and then they're backtracking

when reporters are pressing him saying, wait a minute, we were on a conference call with him. so now they're having to kind of fess up to it. the romney campaign is asking them to denounce the ad. they have yet to do so. one other point to make is that president obama is known for his likeability. that's a huge selling point for him. to be associated with such a smear attack like this could really hurt him. >> brian: so far it hasn't. >> anna: those are old numbers. those just came out a couple days ago. the admission came out yesterday. >> brian: there has been a trend. >> steve: it has. >> brian: i think it will get worse. if those numbers that are out there in august, if it was a dead heat or mitt romney pulled ahead, you would have seen a change in tone. i think it will reinforce. >> steve: last week we told you the story about chick-fil-a. remember that? it was big! i love chick-fil-a sandwiches. now we got a story to tell you about, another business. it is in lake oswego, oregon. a fellow, kevin kerwin, is

upset. >> brian: kevin the geek. >> steve: yeah. he was upset after the president said, if you got a president you didn't build it. look at the signs he put in his computer fix it shop window up there in oregon. just take a look at those. >> brian: it says, i built my business myself. thank you, clint eastwood. you made my day. obama 2012 because clint eastwood endorsed mitt romney. >> anna: nobama 2012. >> steve: the one in the upper right-hand corner says hey, obama, i built my business by myself. you had nothing to do with it. you incompetent, lousy excuse for a president. sincerely, kevin. >> brian: he got a lot of backlash because it's up there. >> anna: the always tolerant left is not so tolerant of this gentleman once he put up these multiple signs in the window. appearing on greta last night, let's taken a listen -- take a listen. >> i put my business at risk putting that sign up, but i was

so fed up with obama, i was so fed up by not being able to tell the people how i feel 'cause everybody around here is too scared to talk if you're a conservative because of the liberal base. they're afraid your car will get keyed, your windows will get broken. some guy, had a republican sign on his front porch and they burnt it down, someone told me. >> steve: and apparently a member of the always tolerant left came into his shop and then berated him for exercising his freedom of expression and then slapped him in the face, ran out the door before the cops could catch him. >> brian: all right. >> steve: crazy. >> brian: now let's talk about a child's birthday party. it turns out there is a birthday party that martha threw and it turns out she did it without getting the proper permits. i guess you need a proper permit to throw a child's party. and in look back at this, she was forced to pay a fine because she did not have the proper

permits and there seems to be a triple standard here. >> steve: it happened in virginia. she has a permit to sell produce. she raises on her property and does just that. apparently they changed the law or something like that after she had this particular business license the following month, the status of farm sales and it had to do with the number of people on your property and stuff like that. so as it turns out, just by hosting a birthday party at her own property, she was in vials of the law. how did they find out? they looked on facebook. the local government nailed her by look on her personal facebook page. >> anna: it's the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law. we want you to be the judge. what do you think? weigh in and make sure you hit us up on twitter or our web site. >> steve: last time i mention add birthday party on this show. >> brian: coming up straight ahead, ever wond what are it would be like if your p

crashing to the ground? the terrifying plunge caught on camera. you'll see it. >> anna: wow. >> steve: everybody is okay. >> anna: then attack ads called him a killer and a felon. should mitt romney take off the gloves and fight back against those brutal attacks or should he take the high road? our political panel debates that topic up next hi, i'm phil mickelson.

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>> steve: well, political punches are being thrown in the form of attack ads from both sides. one ad is even blaming mitt romney for a woman's death from cancer. now some conservatives are calling on the former governor to take off the gloves and fight back. big.

listen. >> romney campaign has failed to capitalize and pivot. i mean, they were given a golden opportunity with this steelworker's wife, cancer ad to turn around and say, guess what? you know who the real murderers are in the white house if you want to talk about figurative murder? how about the obama jobs death toll. >> the president is talking straightforward to these issue, dismissing intelligently this ad, the most repeat ad. but there is no fire. there is no passion. there is no, well, stuff there, my god, where is the energy and the drive? >> steve: all right. so is it no longer just enough to be a qualified candidate. does romney also need to be a showman as well? here to weigh in is our political panel, bernard whitman, former pollster for president clinton and author of "52 reasons to vote for obama" and anthony holm a republican strategist and author of "52

reasons not to vote for obama." and jackie, author of "independence rising and president of independent voting." let's start with you, anthony. do you think -- clearly mitt romney is your candidate but does he have to step up his game and get tougher? >> i would like him tactically to be more aggressive. more important than that is linking the hypocrisy and the lies. it starts at the top. this is our president who went throughout and said, my health care is not a mandate. you get to keep your health insurance. lies. it's not shocking that they're continuing it with very little harm from the top. >> steve: but jackie, that's just the way the super pacs run. the dirtier, the better, it seems on the super pacs. >> what interested me about romney's response to the ad was that i thought that he was making a play now for independent voters, in critiquing what the ad did -- >> steve: in what way? >> he's trying to raise the

issue of culture change. >> which is an issue that independents feel strong about. i don't think did he a good job about it. and i think the backlash is that conservatives don't want romney talking to independents. they want romney talking only to conservatives and that sets off a set of fireworks. >> steve: do you think the independents, 'cause that's your expertise, do you think they prefer somebody who isn't bomb pastic and goes, that guy is a liar? >> i think independents recognize what it will take to make culture change in this country is going to be a long, hard process. you'll need structural reform that changes the climate and changes the way politics works. >> steve: bernard? >> i think it's sort of outrageous that romney's campaign is crying foul by the ad when his super pac destroyed gingrich and santorum. that's why he is the nominee. the real deficit in romney is being straight with the american people. they don't know who he is. he won't release his tax returns or explain -- >> steve: he released two years? >> his father released a decade

plus -- >> steve: john mccain released two years. >> he was a well-known public figure. romney is not. his wife isn't running for president. we don't know who romney is. his economic plan does not add up. if you are a multi-millionaire and want a tax cut, then vote for romney. but the middle class taxes are going to end up going up under his plan and adding $5 trillion to the deficit. >> steve: back to taxes. all right. now that we got things going. good first segment. these guys and gal are going to stick around because check out this ad showing congressman allen west punching an old white woman. >> vote to go end medicare as we know it. he's whacked women with his votes for huge cuts in women's health care funding. >> steve: what if that ad were the other way around? our panel sticking around to discuss that. then, check it out.

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>> anna: going to be a great day. 7:24 is the time. time for your news by the numbers. first, 3 1/2 days a year. that's how many bmw 3 series convertible spends getting it repaired, making it the most unreliable car on the market. the honda jazz is the most reliable. next, more than $42 million. that's how much the united states postal service is losing each day. finally, 100. how high up nick wallenda was

when he walked on a wire between two atlantic city casinos yesterday. apparently he took off one of his shoes 'cause he was worried there was too much sand getting caught in the grease on that wire. steve, over to you. >> steve: thank you. talk about hitting below the belt, a new political ad down in florida takes a jab at congressman allen west. take a look. >> allen west fancies himself a fighter. maybe so. west hits seniors. voting to end medicare as we know it. he's whacked women with his votes for huge cuts in women's health care funding and mauled middle class families by support ago budget plan that would have supported taxes on the rich. allen west is a fighter all right. but it's time for us to fight back and knock him out of congress once and for all. >> steve: okay. congressman west is going to join us next hour, says the ad is represencible. we're back with our political panel for reaction. jackie, so there is allen west

punching out an old white lady. can you imagine if it were the dynamic were turned around? >> you know, there is a solution to this kind of situation. specifically for florida, too, which is that florida is a closed primary state, which means that independents are not allowed to vote in the primary, which means that the atmosphere for partisanship is established right from the very beginning. they run these ads really to get the media talking about them. they're not geared toward the public. they're geared toward the media. here you are talking about it. but the real issue is if this is concerning to people, which i think it is, then we have to do something about the way campaigns are run and the way the whole political culture operates. >> steve: unfortunately, the problem is negative ads work. they do. you look at the president's numbers right now. he's been beating up mitt romney on bain capital and the latest fox news polls, they do seem like goatsing some benefit from it.

one of the things about this particular pac ad is apparently it is the pac that's being funded by allen west's opponent's father. >> that's true. and steve, you're right. negative ads do work when they have elements of truth in it like that ad does. allen west has been a complete disaster and he has socked seniors and he has socked kids. the ad is a cartoon, but i find it very hard to feel sorry for self-described part cuss allen west who says things like nazi leader joseph goebel would be proud of the democrat party. he told some they were communists and should get the hell out of the united states. he has been outrageous and over the top in his statements. so fair is fair. >> steve: anthony, he describes it as a cartoon. there you've got allen west punching an old white lady. if it were a white politician punching a -- >> one, reverse racism because

it's a different standard depending on the color of your skin. second, the senior, cartoon or not are woman beating that. is what is implied. he's harming women and punching them. third, i'll take you back to remember the bullet targets from sarah palin in the national outrage, even international outrage. totally different standard. now we want to reach out and say, oh, this is acceptable. it's not. it is totally unacceptable. his opponent needs to lose. we ultimately could beat him at the ballot box. >> i think it's very hard to inject moral standards into political things. those two things don't belong together. >> particularly about allen west who proved himself to be one of the most outrageous politician. >> steve: i get you don't like him. >> allen west, good-bye. >> steve: thank you. great debate today. by the way, the congressman is going to be coming up at 8:15 eastern time. bernard, you'll want to set your tivo. straight ahead on this friday, this is a real plane crash.

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>> i just want to point out, no holes in the side. my grandmother would be proud. >> anna: that's a shot of the morning. president obama joking around about his socks at the u.s. olympic committee's training center in colorado springs. he had to take off his shoes to greet wrestlers on the mat. apparently his scheduler was trying to get him to go, but mr. obama thought the press would love the shot. and we do. >> steve: they wouldn't let him walk on the mats with your shoes? >> brian: you're not allowed to. >> steve: not even the president? >> brian: his daughters play soccer. so he's very tam with them. i'm sure there will be a lot of athlete goes to the white house. >> steve: you'll president-elect obama be talk being their win in a moment. right now we have headlines and president obama's controversial plan to grant young illegals safe harbor in the united states

causing internal struggles with homeland security. fox news obtained a draft document revealing the department is having issues with implementing this plan. dhs admitting those on the verge of deportation could use the new policy to stay in the united states. the document also appears to admit the program could protect criminals as well. republican senator jeff sessions is outraged, saying, quote, if this stays in effect, i'd say this ends the ability to have effective border security. >> anna: 7:34. california is suing one of the largest military charity claiming the director spent millions of dollars in donations on themselves. help hospitalize vice president rans charities rakes in $40 million a year. money that's supposed to provide injured vets with arts and craft kits. the problem? one watchdog group says charity leaders spent money on things like personal golf memberships

and a $2 million pension plan for the charity's former president. help hospitalize veterans, not responding at this time. >> steve: come to the tv. you have to see this. four friends survive a small plane crash in idaho. the entire thing caught on camera in the cockpit. watch. i've had that dream. the plane apparently hit an air pocket, lost altitude and that's when it started to descend quickly and lost control, slamming into the tree. the pilot was not hurt -- rather the pilot was hurt the worst, but he's expected to make a full recovery. the three other men survived with minor injuries. what a story. >> anna: this is another one if you're brushing your teeth, you want to come to the television. an airline fined because of this ♪ oh, so fun for the passengers.

the airplane hiring local beauty queens to do an in flight bikini show. they say they were trying to keep the passengers happy. but the vietnam aviation authority not amused and fined the company $1,000 for not getting the show first approved which is a violation of vietnamese law. we can't even get free soda and pillow on our flight? >> steve: they're not wearing much. i'm sure they went through the screener quickly. let's look at the weather. we'll start with extreme weather. more wind and rain from mention toe code brought on by tropical storm ernesto. it was a hurricane. two drowning deaths being blamed on the powerful storm. flooding remain has major concern despite forecasters saying ernesto is losing some of its strength and moving inland. the hurricane folks are saying we might wind up with more hurricanes this season than they earlier planned. let's go to the maps, find out where it is raining. throughout the northeast, through the mid atlantic, south florida, no rain in the drought

zone where they really need it. in kansas city now, 65. but as you look at the day ahead on this friday, they'll be frying across the desert. look at that. phoenix today, 115. that's your foxcast. >> anna: we are really hoping that we don't get any rain here 'cause we've got folks packing the plaza for barbecue and music as part of our summer concert series. >> brian: they gained world wide fine with crypt -- their first album. now 3 doors down is still going strong. 3 doors down came to our door again. you guys are back. welcome back to "fox & friends" and the summer concert series. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you for having us. >> brian: first off, before we get to the story of the band, let's talk about the story that got you here today. you're playing two men down. 3 doors down. you're going to be going on the drums for the first time in how long? >> this is the first time i've

played drums in seven years. >> brian: wow! >> a little bit of inexperience. >> brian: you were practicing this morning? >> i was. i played through twice. i have a blister. >> brian: he's got a blister. 'cause you're living the kushy life. >> i know. >> brian: the band starts in 1995. when did you realize you had something special? >> man, you know what? we always had so many friends around our area that supported us, you know. and we've always been very blessed to have all the support of our friends in our area. and being from mississippi, it always worked out to our advantage and i guess in the sense that there is nothing else to do besides see a band play on the weekends. we always had a great time. one thing just always led to another and here we stand. >> brian: so here we stap. a lot of times i feel like i have to apologize to the band because it's hot out. if you're from mississippi, this is the winter. >> this is all good. >> brian: we have a lot of fans watching from mississippi in particular. you also do something that's

pretty special. that is you have a foundation. you just started it. when people come out and they like the band, you say there's a way to show them. >> absolutely. we have the better life foundation and over the last few years we started that show. every year we do a show in mississippi that funds that foundation. and the money from that foundation goes to, from everything from special needs homes to children's charities, to veterans associations, and a lot of things. we've been able to do a lot of good things. we're just a catalyst for it. it comes from our fans. it allows us to do some things i'm really proud of. >> brian: a round of applause for a band that's given back! [ applause ] >> brian: we know your voice and love it. but the way you became a sing service a riot. you had thousand came down to brad arnold being the lead singer. >> nobody else would do it. >> brian: nobody else with do is it it! you might as well sing. >> might as well. >> brian: what will you be singing? >> we'll play classics for you.

the greatest hits record coming out. so we'll play a few songs from kind of like the line - up of records. >> brian: your greatest hits album is coming out? >> it is. should be around thanksgiving. >> brian: four new songs? >> four new songs. >> brian: he's getting set. the crowd is already here an hour early. brad, good job. they're playing two men down. you're going to see how versatile this group is. >> steve: and he's got a blister. that's the headline. thank you very much. >> anna: 20 minutes before the tower. coming up, murder or mercy? a husband charged with killing his wife. but his lawyers say he did it out of love. is that just enough to keep him out of prison? we have a fair and balanced debate coming up? of then, what does mitt romney have to do to woo women vote increase we'll talk to the chair of romney's women coalition. mary fallon is here next

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wreckage of a 2,000-year-old sunken ship just discovered off the coast of italy. divers found hundreds of clay pots, some still filled with food. the expert say it sank nearly 2,000 years ago during a trip to spain. wow! that's cool. >> anna: it would be cooler if you could still eat it. quarter 'til the hour. for years democrats have had a stronghold on single female voters. this year seems to be no different. take a look at this. in the latest fox news poll, president obama has a 33-point edge over mitt romney among unmarried women. with an economy still struggling to create jobs and unemployment now at 8.3%, can the economy help romney close that crucial gender gap? that's the new hope of the newly announced women for mitt coalition. joining us now, the coalition's co-chair, oklahoma governor mary fallon. thanks for being with us here. >> you're welcome. good morning to you. >> anna: good morning to you. so a lot of democrats are saying that single women are going to

head out to the polls and vote for president obama once again because they're worried about social issues, access to contraception as brought up by sandra fluke recently, or threats to abortion rights. somehow tie it to their bottom line. what do you make of that argument from the left? >> i just don't think that argument holds water. i think what women are concerned about is taking care of their families. it's a pocketbook issue, the economy, it's jobs, it's government and wasteful spending. it's more government interference in our lifement if you look at what's happened to women since president obama has been in office, you'll find there are record high number of women that are unemployed right now, poverty rate in our nation is up 14% over the last 17 years for women. if you look at just the debt on our nation and how that affects future generations of women and their children, it's remarkable that people could even say that president obama is for women and

for children. >> anna: governor fallon, how do you think governor romney really needs to reach this growing demographic? because there are now 1.1 million more unmarried women who could be coming out to the polls than just since 2010. how is he going to be reaching them? historically it hasn't worked for republicans in the past. >> well, if you look at the women that are involved in the women for romney campaign, you'll find moms and business women. you'll find other elected officials that are involved in his campaign all across the nation. we're telling the story that there are two different visions for our country. one is president obama, which is more dependency on the federal government, growing debt hasn't helped the unemployment rate. record highs. 42 months of over 8% unemployment rate in our nation versus what governor romney's plan is for our nation. he actually has a plan and a vision, different vision for our nation. and that is one that will restore our ability as a nation

to grow jobs, to start businesses, one that will help reduce our dependency on foreign oil, reform our tax code. we'll be raising taxes on business people and certainly not upon families. one vision that will help protect the life of our unborn. certainly of our children in our nation. there is a totally different vision between what president obama offers our nation and what governor romney will offer for the future of our -- not only our women, but also our children. >> anna: governor, i want to make sure we get to this. your co-chair is ann romney, the wife obviously of governor romney. what more do we need to see from her? a lot of people say she's a weapon that he doesn't use enough. >> ann romney is a super campaigner for governor romney. she's been out there on the campaign trail. i see her all the time. you watch the news, you'll see her talking to people, talking about his message, talking about his plan to restore america. she's a great campaigner. of course, governor romney had a

lot of women on his staff in the past years when he was governor, on his campaign right now. you look at the person heading up his choice for vp, it's a woman. so i think he's done a great job utilizing women. ann romney will be a wonderful person to be out there getting his message, talking from a woman's standpoint, as a mother, as a wife, and certainly as a person that knows the issues that are important to women in our nation. >> anna: we'll have to leave it thank you so much for your time. enjoy your weekend. >> thank you. you, too. >> anna: 7:49 is the time this friday. he's charged with shooting his elderly wife in the hospital. he says it was a mercy killing. can that defense keep him out of prison? the debate next. first on this day in 1983, "every breath you take "by the police was the number one song. i love it wake up!

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>> brian: was it mercy or murder? ohio man being charged with aggravated murder after police say he was shot -- he shot and killed his wife of 45 years at a hospital icu. friends of john wise claim he and his wife promised to not let each other end up disabled in a nursing home. his attorney says his client acted out of love. so can that defense keep him out of prison? for a fair and balanced debate, we're joined in this case by former prosecutor defense attorney, john, and criminal defense attorney, pilar. what kind of case are we looking at from your perspective? >> we're looking at a mercy killing case. there is room in our law for

compassion and kindness when you've got cases like this. when you have a situation and the facts have shown that you've got a man in a 45-year marriage where friends and neighbors say he was a good, loving, devoted husband, this is a man who gave to charity and loved animals, walks into a hospital room where the hospital staff said that he was a common visitor of his wife, that he had been sitting by her bedside and shoots her, we've got to stop and take a look at what's going on and show compassion to this man. this is not the type of person who should be treated as if he's a common murderer. it doesn't fit and we're looking at mercy killing. >> brian: do you recognize that, john? >> no. he may love animals, but you can't treat your spouse like one. even if they get gravely ill, you don't have the right to put her down like she's a lame horse. mercy may play a factor in mitigating this from murder to something else. but she was in the hospital. she was hooked up to -- i don't know if she was hooked up to life support, but being cared for and fed. it wasn't like she was at home where she couldn't feed herself

lying in her own filth. she was being cared for. you can't just shoot your wife in the head and call it a mercy killing. >> brian: you could say -- she was terminal, correct? >> she was -- they describe it as gravely disabled. maybe she was terminal. if she were on life support, he would have had every right to say, pull the plug and let her go. shooting her in the head is a whole different story. is he putting her out of her misery or was there some other motivating factor? did he not want to pay for a long hospital stay? there are more questions than answer. >> hold on a minute. there is not evidence that says that -- >> i said there are more questions than answers at this point. >> i do agree with you that. but so far the facts haven't borne out to say that. >> brian: pilar, in the big picture, what's the best he can hope for? >> he's going to be charged. there is no question about it. if you look at juries across the world have at times acquitted people like this. there could be a plea down to a lesser sentence. you can't look at this man as if he's the everyday criminal. i'm not suggesting that we can walk in and simply shoot people.

of course we can't. but anybody who has ever watched a loved one suffer and go through this -- my understanding is she had aneurysms in her brain, horrible, horrible situation for this man of 45 years to watch his wife. i think the sentence and the plea is going to reflect that. >> brian: and jonna, you have to worry about a trend here. everybody else would feels their spouse is trouble, that could be heading. >> yeah. when do they get to decide. >> brian: thanks so much. >> thank you. >> brian: up next in our fine hour, a new hearing could clear george zimmerman for the murder of trayvon martin. he might not have to go to trial. how does that work? geraldo here with the answer and so much more. we'll look at that with him. and 12 time olympic medalist dara torres back co-hosting the final hour. who cries more at the olympics, men or women? geraldo is a weeper

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>> steve: morning, folks. today, friday, august 10, i'm steve doocy. and they just served breakfast here. a new attack ad throwing political punches literally. watch. >> voting to end medicare as we know it. he's whacked women with his votes for huge cuts in women's health care funding. >> steve: showing a republican congressman punching an elderly white woman? what if this was the other way around? that congressman, colonel allen west, reporting for duty shortly. >> brian: is the department of homeland security run like a sorority? this morning a bombshell lawsuit against janet napolitano. >> steve: is there hazing? >> brian: i'm not sure. >> dara: i'm dara torres in for gretchen carlson.

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♪ ♪ . >> steve: you get a two fer today. the lead singer is usually out front. but today because of bad weather last night, the drummer didn't make it. so he for the first time in years, brian, is going to be drum along with singing. >> brian: he said he started drumming seven years ago issues wrote the song on the drums, so he's going back to it. sadly, he's dealing with a blister. but he's going to fight through the pain for us. >> steve: meanwhile, joining us back here on the curvy couch today on our friday with the summer concert series, dara torres. i was reading your twitter last night. you had bad weather in florida. >> i had bad weather. i'm going on 4 1/2 hours sleep right now. >> brian: that's like the weekend for us. >> steve: you were down in florida, going to fly into new york. but because of the bad weather -- >> i think la guardia was

closed. so a lot of flights got canceled and i was delayed four hours. >> steve: you were supposed to take off at 5:00 o'clock and you left when? >> dara: about 9:00 o'clock. >> brian: what are you her daily scheduler? >> steve: i follow her on twitter. >> brian: actually we're very excited because the olympics coming to a close. so many events and results we have to go over. geraldo rivera is here, who has taken off his shirt because he feels he has a better build than you. i find that surprising and somewhat disturbing. >> dara: as long as i don't have it take mine off. >> brian: believe me, i think you would kill him. right? >> steve: in the meantime, geraldo in two minutes. fir the headlines. >> dara: we begin with a fox news alert. three american troops shot and killed in afghanistan overnight. may have been part of the u.s. special forces, according to the military. the shooter was wearing an afghan uniform. today's attack was a third deadly attack on the coalition forces this week.

just a few hours, a controversial mosque will open the doors in tennessee. originally this mosque was supposed to stay closed because the public was never consulted over the construction project. the justice department got involved, clearing the way for the mosque to open for the muslim holiday, ramadan. people who live nearby say they won't give up the fight. they're accusing the mosque supporters of possible ties to extremism. high ranking immigration official is suing the department of homeland security. he claims security of homeland security officer janet napolitano allows humiliating and sexist behavior to run rampant and women are given promotions over men. the man filing lawsuit used to be an immigration officer, director of attention and removal. he claims napolitano demoted him after taking office and replaced him with a less qualified woman. the lawsuit also claims napolitano's chief of staff

trashed offices, sending fake messages from their blackberries and making prank phone calls. napolitano still hasn't commented on the report. the u.s. women's soccer team landing itself an olympic three peat. lloyd scoring twice in the finals against japan. get this, when the olympics started, lloyd wasn't even in the starting line - up. the u.s. women won 2-1. those are your headlines. >> steve: very nice. >> very nicely done. >> brian: she was at the olympics last week. >> she's a great athlete. >> steve: and a great newscaster. >> dara: thank you. >> brian: i don't really like her. i'm only kidding. >> today is our 9th anniversary. >> steve: congratulations. >> thank you. you were there at the launch.

>> steve: that's right. >> brian: how is it going? >> so far, so good. got a 7-year-old to go with the other four. we're doing great. >> steve: let's talk about george zimmerman. apparently the prosecutor let out some stuff she wasn't supposed to and this is a stand your ground hearing that could clear this guy. >> i think if it were anyone other than george zimmerman, i think there would be an excellent chance that his self-defense claim would stand up. certainly he has no duty to retreat. clearly he was in reasonable fear of his life. that's him screaming on the tape. i think he has an excellent claim for self-defense. however, he has to take the witness stand, 'cause he's the only witness to what happened. so what about his credibility? remember, he and his wife conspired to lie about their finances in the first bail hearing. this judge is very, very down on george zimmerman. so i start it by saying if it

were anyone but george zimmerman, i think this claim of self-defense would be recognized. but because he tarnished his own credibility, i think it's an extreme long shot that it will result in his being free. i think he will go to trial. >> steve: is it normal have a hearing like that before the trial? >> in this state, on that statute, yes. there's a stand your ground hearing. it's a full evidentiary hearing and in this case, the defendant takes the witness stand almost invariably because he's the only witness. >> brian: real quick -- >> he really screwed himself. >> brian: aside from the bail and accounts and not being forth coming, with the publicity anyway.his case, this thing was correct? >> i think you're probably right. it would have taken an act of courage, judicial courage to short circuit the trial and grant the motion for dismissal. however, i still think that on the evidence itself, if you could divorce yourself from the emotion involved, i think

zimmerman would have walked. that's my opinion. >> steve: saturday night you got a special show talking about hate in america. >> well, you had this awful crime in the oak creek outside milwaukee in wisconsin, the hate monger going, unleashing his violence on the sikhs in the temple, killing six innocent people before he was shot by the cops and ultimately took his own life. but wade michael phillips is someone known to the f.b.i he was former military. many people believe he picked up some of this hate mongering, the racist neonazi stuff in the military. i don't know. there are some dark corners in the military. though we love them. there is an allegation in certain quarters that the military in some aspects of it, this guy was at fort bragg sort of breed some of that. separation. clearly this area around wisconsin, as i know personally, has been a hot bed for neonazis. i had got in a couple of fights with them in the state of wisconsin myself and around

milwaukee. >> brian: but the f.b.i. was following him and they had him on their radar screen. the songs he wrote were hate filled. that guy was trouble! >> the interesting thing, i think, and the big picture is that there is this subculture, this neonazi sub culture. since 9-11, we haven't looked at all at our own hate-filled groups, our own domestic terrorists. they have their own concerts. they have their own festivals and own media. they're very widespread. the sub and poverty law center suggests they're up 69% since the year 2000 and that no one knows specifically what set him offment no one knows why he targeted the sikhs. i think he's not only evil but stupid and thought they were muslim. but it deserves examination. the subculture is something we will probe. how extensive is it? does it represent a threat? i spoke to congressman peter king, our dear friend, head of the house intelligence sub

committee. congressman king says, i better pay more attention now to some of these guys. i've been concentrating on the islamic terrorists 'cause they're a threat to the national security. but these folks are also dangerous. >> steve: we'll be watching on saturday. >> saturday night, yes. >> dara: the temple opens today? >> yeah. theñ?ñ big media celebrity. she posed nude in 2009 in espn

magazine, in outdoor magazine she posed with just the ribbon strategically placed. she's 30 years old. she claims to be a virgin. she has a crush on tim tebow, the virgin jets quarterback. so when you put yourself out there that way, you attract an awful lot of attention. >> brian: she's a great rags to riches story. >> she has an amazing story. i have think she's very admirable and in 2008, she had that awful tragedy where she was bleeding in the hurdles and hit the 9th of the tenth hurdle, she fell down. there was a lot of pressure, a lot of attention paid to her and she came in fourth by a whisker and people tore her apart. the "new york times" did a savage job and really ripping her. i feel awful for her and i hope she can pick up the pieces. >> brian: i got your reaction to this, do you think she's right to show this type of emotion. let's listen to lolo. >> we should be supporting our olympic athletes and instead, they rip me to shreds and i thought that was crazy because i work six days a weekvery day for four years for a 12 second

race. the fact that they tore me apart was just heart breaking. i'm not, like, you know, they call me the anna kournikova of track. i hold two world titles and just because i don't boast about these things, i don't think i should be ripped apart by media. i laid it out there. it's a shame that i have to deal with so much backlash when i'm already so broken hearted as it is. >> i feel for her. >> dara: she's very emotional after getting fourth place anyway. it adds fuel to the fire, seeing an article like this about her and then coming in fourth. you're just emotional talking about it. >> you had a great back story action i remember. didn't you come back after a layoff? >> dara: i did. then got fourth in trials. >> brian: you got fourth. but you raced better than you did before. >> dara: i did. but people think oh, she's old. but i missed the team by nine

100th of a second. >> brian: but by showing that emotion taking on the press, it's hard to win that battle. >> dara: it is hard. the press is probably going to come back and talk about her emotions and stuff. but it's deservedly so. she got fourth place at the olympic games. >> what about the whole sex appeal stuff? you are gorgeous. >> dara: i try to stay away. >> how do you stop from falling into being exploited? >> steve: geraldo, it's your anniversary. let's not talk about that on tv! >> i'm an investigative reporter. >> brian: we'll talk at the break. >> steve: straight ahead, new political ad shows congressman allen west punching an old white woman. >> west hits seniors, voting to end medicare as we know it. >> steve: what if the ad was the other way around? the congressman here live to

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>> steve: a new attack ad throwing political punches literally. >> west hits seniors, voting to end medicare as we know it. he's whacked women with his votes for huge cuts in women's health care funding. >> steve: did you see where he just punched in that ad an elderly white woman? what if this ad were the other way around? congressman colonel allen west, who is depicted in that ad, is here to react. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning, steve. how are you doing is this. >> steve: good. can you imagine if a white politician were in a commercial

punching a woman of color, there would be national outrage. >> of course there would be national outrage. that's part of the hypocrisy that comes about with the liberal left. they believe that they can do anything, especially if you're a black conservative. think about this, if the republican party or if some conservative pac ran a picture of a black democrat politician hitting white women and white seniors, i'm sure msnbc, nbc, huffington post and everyone would be going apoplectic right now. but once again, there are different rules. we see that in the ad against governor romney. there is lying, cheating, everything they can possibly do to continue to get this election to sway on their side. to mention also the fact that this whole thing about ending medicare as we know it, perhaps our poe opponents should read the report that says medicare goes bankrupt in 12 years.

without any viable solutions, which is what i voted for, it's going to end any highway. >> steve: so you're saying the double standard on -- there should be national outrage over this kind of thing. double standard is because you're a conservative? >> yeah, absolutely right. i think that on the left, they believe that when you look at black conservatives especially, they feel that they have an open game. where is the outrage from jesse jackson and al sharpton and the naacp about this? they're not going to say anything because they're nothing but an effective wing of the democrat party whatsoever and they have effectively kept them well placed so that they can continue to make sure that they have a black electorate voting block. that's okay. i think that the desperation shows through and we've got the bad guys right where we want them. >> steve: well, this particular ad is being funded by a super pac and the interesting thing about this is the super pac is being funded in part by your general election opponent's father. now, that looks like

coordination within a family, doesn't it, which is against the law. >> it is against the law. i will presume so. i would find it hard to believe that the son does not know that the dad is running this super pac and what the dad is doing. so again, if this was something happening on the republican side or the conservative side, you would see the liberal media just going crazy. but there are different rules that apply to them. there is different rules as far as integrity and character. >> steve: all right. it's always a pleasure chatting with you. we know off primary election on tuesday. thank you for dropping in on this friday. >> a pleasure. thanks a lot. >> steve: next up on the rundown, chris christie being followed? somebody sending spies to trail the new jersey governor. find out who. then so many memorable moments at this year's olympics, like the women's soccer threepeat last night. but what were kara torres' favorites? she shares with us. first, here is 3 doors down

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>> brian: quick headlines. jessica simpson's father, joe simpson, just arrested for drunk driving. tmz says he spent the night in jail and will likely just face a fine since it's his first offense. chris christy being followed by democratic operatives from a liberal super pac. it comes amid talk that he is still under consideration to become mitt's vp. which we should find out about in about a week.

>> steve: you know that music, the london olympics have been full of exciting victories, shocking defeats and some very memorable moments. lucky for us, we have our own 12-time olympian, dara torres here. >> brian: right. have you whittled it down? you were given an assignment, whittle down your moments from this year's games? >> let me tell you one of the -- i've been in five olympics. >> steve: the on gold medal i have at my house is the flower. >> brian: good. you've whittled it down to four. the four moments you'll walk away if the olympics end today. >> number 4, calling for a moment of silence when the athletes walked out. the ioc did not acknowledge them when they get killed in the 72 olympics. i thought that was cool of co of silence. >> brian: i can't believe the ioc never bent on that.

it was not appropriate -- what do you mean? it happened at the olympics? >> dara: exactly. >> steve: what about your next one? >> dara: number 3 is usain bolt winning. and last night the 200. he was the second person to win the 100 in two consecutive olympics. as brian and i were talking, it seems like he does not want to come back. >> brian: at 26, you can't even relate to this, he says, i don't think i'm going to be fast enough for rio. he feels like everyone is going to catch up to him. he's looking backwards when he finishes these short sprint races. >> dara: i wish he would run through the finish line for once. he could have the world record if he did that. >> brian: listen, as you know better than anyone else, it's not that you win a lot of times. it's also how you win. the flam boyians, the charisma he shows, makes everybody want to be part of it. >> dara: i don't like that. >> brian: see, steve likes that. >> steve: you also like michael phelps? >> dara: i do. that's my number two pick. he is the all-time greatest olympian.

my favorite was when he won his last olympic medal. number 22 in the nedly real estate -- medley relay. i was on the olympic team with him when he was 15 in 2000. he called me mom. >> brian: you have a bet with him. >> dara: i do. i tweeted that -- i said, anyone care to bet that michael phelps will be back swimming in rio? and he tweeted back and said, i'll bet you. i don't know. maybe i'm going to lose. >> brian: listen to this, who is the guy, thorpe. he and thorpe recommended to him, now that he's retired, he said, don't stop your workouts even though you're done because the transition to retirement is brutal for somebody who has achieved what you have. >> dara: it's brutal. and also if you decide to come back, it's better to stay in shape during that time. >> brian: you think he's coming back? >> dara: i kind of do think so. but i don't know. he's pretty adamant he's not. >> brian: he's doing "dancing with the stars." >> dara: no, he said -- >> steve: maybe. >> dara: he might do it. >> steve: now, ladies and

gentlemen, dara torres' number one moment from these olympics. >> dara: so far is the women's gymnastic, winning the team title am it had been 16 years since they had won of the it was wonderful to see and the big tear jerker. >> brian: and you also have a lot of stories, hopefully going to have mileage out of that performance. >> dara: yes. >> steve: dara, during the commercial revealed to us that every time she got one of her 12 medals, she would shed a tear. somebody went out and figured out who cries the most at the olympics, men or women. and as it turns out, take a look at some of the stats right here. 26% of women, gold medal winners cried, versus 8.3% of mangold medal winners cried. >> brian: why cry, dara? >> dara: it's not like i say, i'm going to cry now. it just happened. you're very emotional. you've up on the stand. it didn't matter if it was gold, silver or bronze, i was always crying. >> steve: i would too! >> dara: the interesting thing is, you talk about how the british cried the most. i tend to think that's because

they're in their home country. everyone is behind them. there is a little more pressure on them. they get more emotional. >> steve: absolutely. >> brian: what about the shock, i can't believe i won? is that why the brits are crying? >> dara: you're so mean. >> brian: no, i'm just saying, they did fantastic. >> dara: they were predicted to do well. >> brian: this good? >> dara: i don't know this good. >> steve: don't they say the host country generally does a little better because they've got everybody in the stands on their stand? >> dara: it's a little bit of pressure. so i think the athletes thrive on the pressure. >> steve: very good. >> brian: now you got the inside i perspective on the olymp games. straight ahead, serial killer son of sam speak out from prison. >> steve: the latest polls have mitt romney falling further behind president obama, putting pressure on the governor to pick paul ryan perhaps as his vp. would that make a difference? john roberts joins us live from washington next. >> dara: first, another live performance from 3 doors down. here is "loser."

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>> brian: the splash is in tribute to dara. >> dara: i like that. >> steve: actually maybe it's for john roberts. chris wallace is trying to squeeze in one more vacation before the conventions. good morning to you. >> good morning. it is going to be a long run between now and november. chris is taking well deserved time off. >> steve: you've been observing politics for a very long time. have you ever seen an ad like the one that has come out from the super pac on the obama side that essentially side mitt romney killed my wife? >> i've seen an awful lot of nasty ads. if you want to go back to 1994, the days of the ad against goldwater, the willie horton ad back in 1988, but i've not seen one that compress has time line to the degree that it gives you an impression that actually was not part of reality. this ad, i think, is something that goes above and beyond anything that many people who

have been involved in the political scene for a long time have ever witnessed. >> steve: sure. >> dara: you know, should obama condemn it? >> you know, i think that's up to the campaign. it's pretty clear at this point, again, that they took this time line, all out of context and jumbled it together in an ad in which joe soptic seems to indicate that mitt romney is somehow responsible for his wife's terrible tragic passing and whether or not the white house wants to just stay in the shadows and say, no, we didn't have anything to do with this ad, or this is a super pac. even after it's been proven that back in may, they had mr. soptic on a conference call talk being the same thing. that is up to them. but i think there was a lot of pressure that is building on the white house now to come out and at least say something about this ad. >> dara: unfortunately, too, everyone thinks what they see on tv is true. >> you see, that's the thing with these negative ads.

any campaign person, any person who is involved in making ads will tell you that true or not, these things work. so even though this ad has been proven by so many fact checkers, including the factcheck.org as false, for some people, this will reinforce the narrative about mitt romney that he's a cold and uncaring finance wizard who is just simply interested in making money. that's the thing that mitt romney is having a real tough time countering. he doesn't have much longer to do it. when you look at the results of the latest poll, you've been looking at all morning, if you want to become president, your numbers can't be going in that direction inside of 100 days. he's got to hope for some big move during the convention. >> brian: you got to think with all this money flowing in, the vp to be named examine three debates straight ahead that his strategy is coming forward. but if there is a degree of panic, it shows you maybe it is

relatively surprising to them that the negative ads are effective and they seem to be so far. i'm very curious to see what happens over the weekend. what guests have you lined up? i know you insist on book them yourself. >> absolutely. that's the only way to do it. reach out and personal contact. the terrific team of fox news sunday here has put together a good line - up so far and we're still working hard on it. an exclusive with senator john mccain. we'll be talking about the ads in in campaign versus the ads in 2008. and debbie wasserman schultz, chair woman of the dnc will answer questions about it and whether or not this ad with joe soptic goes beyond all bounds of reason. and you talk about that old saying, when you look at the ad campaigns, there has to be honor even among thieves. so how far do they go in these negative ads? how far do you stretch the truth? >> brian: how far do you go? >> steve: i was four years old.

john, i'm sure you're going to be talking as well with john mccain about the decision mitt romney has got to make and that is -- you were talking about how if he's going to turn his trend around, he has to do something big between now and the election. perhaps this is the vice president thing. and a lot of people on the right are suddenly saying, paul ryan. he would be a game changer. >> there are a lot of conservatives, at least inside the beltway are saying he's the guy you got to pick if you want to make a big move. you got to make us believe in you and that paul ryan would be a great choice. in the same breath, paul ryan would give the obama campaign and all of the organizations that are lined up behind him some pretty good ammunition to go at golf knee with as well because of the ryan budget and his lifetime in washington. >> steve: grandma off cliff ad. >> it's not over for mitt romney. in 1992, bill clinton got a 16-point bounce out of his convention. so if you put something together

big here to where the end of august in tampa, he's got a chance to make a rocket out of the convention. but he's got it make an improvement. no question. >> steve: john, we'll be watching you sitting in chris' chair this sunday. thank you for joining us. >> dara, nice to meet you. >> brian: via satellite. >> dara: now your headlines. lawyers for the colorado movie theater shooting suspect, james holmes, say their client is mentally ill. and that he did seek psychiatric treatment before last month's massacre. this is the first indication that holmes' attorney may pursue an insanity defense. the claims coming out in a court hearing yesterday where he appeared for the second time in public. his hair was still dyed orange and people inside the court said he appeared sloppy and distracted. during that hearing, media outlets asked a judge to unseal more evidence. he promised a decision by monday. >> brian: one of the country's most notorious serial killers speaking out about the aurora shooting shooting and other killing

sprees. david berkowitz talked to the daily news from his jail cell saying, quote, society has to take the glory out of guns. young people have no business carrying guns. i would love to speak bluntly to those kids and say prison is nothing like what you think. if you are packing a gun, you're making a big mistake and you'll regret it. he terrorized new york city for more than a year, killing at least six people, wounding several others. he was arrested exactly 35 years ago today. >> steve: meanwhile pay attention, dara, becausevida.ga to 17 storms. five to eight could become hurricanes. that's your travelcast.

all right. 20 minutes now before the top of the hour. >> brian: we'll find out in the break if dara recognized any of those palm therese. straight ahead, tell us what's coming up next. >> dara: take a good look at this picture. how did this man fall asleep on the airport scanner? too many cocktails? >> steve: i'd say so. >> brian: then drama in the courtroom. drew peterson trial. judge jeanine was there and she'll break it down for us. first, here is dave with what's on tap this weekend. eight hours of fun, we know that, dave. >> all by myself, brian. i'll see if i can carry the load. courting the with the fare vote -- welfare vote. millions of people receiving federal welfare. one state sending voter registration forms to recipients. and battling government red tape to produce a maternity pillow? we'll meet a mom behind the invention and find out how she's fighting back. plus, bankruptcy, foreclosure, are your kids, olympic dreams worth the risks?

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kill his wife and make her disappear. >> dara: host of "justice" on fox news, jeanine pirro, has been following this case since the beginning. jeanine, welcome. what are your thoughts on this? >> yesterday was a powerful day when a woman came into court, someone who went to school with kathleen savio and said she actually saw injuries on her neck from her saying that drew grabbed her around her neck and said that i wish you would just die. she had warn a police jacket with a zipper to hide it and this witness talked about the fact that they we want to nursing school together, that she was frightened of drew peterson, that she actually had to walk kathleen to her car from class. of course, the cross-examination of this witness was very much like anderson the day before who lived with kathleen. it was basically, did you tell the police? did you do anything about it? like it's all your fault, you know, that this happened to kathleen savio. this is powerful testimony. this is evidence of hearsay that

was really in question for two years in the appellate courts. will the judge in the trial court allow people to say what drew said to kathleen? so will she essentially be able to speak from the grave? the answer is yes. this is the second witness who talked about it. i don't think there is any question in this jury's mind of these women. they're not connected. they don't have any ax to grind with drew peterson. these are women at different points in her life. >> brian: by the judge saying you're allowed to say this, this hearsay is allowed in, are they essentially telling the jury they're credible. >> the judge isn't saying anyone is credible. but he's saying i'm going to allow her to speak from the grave to what drew said to her. remember, this started out very rocky for the prosecution and at the beginning of the week when i was in the courtroom, we had these state troopers being panned as incompetent or corrupt, allowing drew peterson to sit in on the interview of

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