out dumpster diving and headed into the bar to quench his thirst. probably wanted a coors lite. >> have a good day everybody. "fox & friends" starts now. >>gretchen: so the bear walks into a bar, the start of a joke? >>brian: right. and everyone ignores him. >>gretchen: i thought i heard that somewhere. as opposed to that ilene joke. thursday, july 25. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time. brand-new fox polls shows the president's approval plummeting to an all-time low. he apparently blaming phony scandals. could that be like benghazi and i.r.s.? we report, you decide. >>steve: there is more. the anthony weiner scandal growing this morning. new details about how long

carlos danger was in business and why carlos is now blaming mrs. danger, huma abedin. >>brian: forget the shoe bomber. check this out. someone tried to fly away with them. "fox & friends," which according to to my blackberry set for 6:01, starts now. >> hear ye, this is the town crier. you are watching "fox & friends." >>steve: he's back on tape. >>gretchen: he has to say anchor hello, gretch. >>brian: you can't make the town crier ad lib. it goes back centuries. >>steve: it was great. we were trying to re-create what they had in london a couple of days ago. as it tuns out, that town crier in london was not

official. he crashed the party, wasn't supposed to be there. then we thought we'd get one. he wasn't a real town crier either but he did a lovely job. >>gretchen: a convoluted way of saying even stu varney was fooled. when he comes out here, former brit, did you think think that town crier was the real one? everyone did. he wasn't the real town crier. >>steve: he was the town crier just not for london town. another town. >>brian: as a tribute to town criers everywhere, let's go visit the black smith and go totally back in time. can we? >>gretchen: okay. now we have to do some headlines. get out the yellow pages and look that up. live pictures in florida where at least 15 cars flipped over, three carrying highly flammable

ethanol. emergency crews sprayed foam there. authorities have not ordered homes be evacuated. >> a judge delaying a hearing to find out whether there is sufficient grounds to go ahead with the aaron her phapbdz murder trial. prosecutors asking for more time. hernandez pleaded not guilty to murdering 27-year-old odin lloyd. hours after hernandez' arrest he was cut from the new england patriots. coach bill bellacheck saying it is time for the team to move on. >> this case involves an individual who happened to be a new england patriot. we certainly do not condone unacceptable behavior, and this is not in any way representative of the way the new england patriots want to do things. >>gretchen: meantime prosecutors are reportedly showing a separate grand jury evidence that may link hernandez to a drive-by shooting last year that killed two men. the house rejects an

effort to cut off the n.s.a. phone surveillance program. it was offered as an amendment to a $600 billion defense spending bill. the bill passed by the amendment failed. it was pretty close. the amendment would have ended the agency's ability to collect phone records and met at that data unless it -- ph*et at meta data unless it identified to a specific person. >> it is important we keep fighting to protect civil liberties and the constitution. that is what the american people are asking for. >>gretchen: the top secret fights in courte programt week. this pair of killer heels, the replica shoes were confiscated at la guardia new york. the shoes could have been checked into luggage. an agent tweeted the photo

to warn other fliers about what not to wear. i can't see. >>steve: a little handgun. let's talk a little bit about the big news yesterday. the president of the united states went to galesburg, illinois, where he outdid himself. he has been known to give long speeches. yesterday that speech there was the next to longest speech he's ever givens president of the united states. >>brian: it was over an hour? >>steve: it was 80-something minutes. for the eighth, ninth, tenth time he talked about how he was pivoting to the economy, nothing new. we heard a lot about stimulus, and things that will never happen. really what is going on he was trying to position the democrats for the upcoming battle and the democrats for next year. >>gretchen: certain columnists who tend to like what he's saying in these speeches were saying things like if he's to break through the resistance,

obama will need bold new proposals. that's why his speech returning to the oldies would seem to say the white house has given up on big achievements. also you thought you could be forgiven if you heard obama talking about the economy before because you have. these are people on the left. >>brian: he said it is about the middle class. he said i'm going to spend my last days focusing on the middle class building from the middle out. economically it is a tough formula to fill. but he points out the c.e.o.'s making so much money and the average american, their pay has not gone up as much as he would like even though he has had the job for four and a half years. here is the story everyone is saying, it was about 2014 and not about 2013, 2014 the mid term elections because he talked about the endless distractions in washington, which is where he lives, and the phony scandals. that is dynamite to bring up. because when you have benghazi it doesn't seem

phony. when you talk about i.r.s. targeting, it seems pretty real. when you talk about the n.s.a. and what the program is, a lot of people are upset. the president really opened up. listen. >> with this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, washington has taken its eye off the ball. and i'm here to say this needs to stop. our focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you, the people we represent. >>steve: it was written in "politico" that phony scandals was going to be the new buzz term. that is what they're going to use to try to deflect. the economy is creeping along, job creation absolutely -- >>brian: doesn't it seem risky to say things like that? >>steve: it is how they did the campaign last year. take a look at congressman gowdy. he said when he heard the

phony scandal part, the antenna went up. he was angry. >> there is nothing phony about four murdered americans in benghazi. and if he thinks there is, i would encourage him to look at the autopsy photos. there is nothing photo about brian terry's murder at the border. there is nothing phony about an n.s.a. program that almost failed on the house floor because people don't trust his administration. there is nothing phony about bonuses being paid to i.r.s. employees. >>gretchen: back to what you were asking about -- and steve is right about -- how they campaigned, we talked a lot about dumbing down the message. if people are paying attention to all of these scandals going on, then they hear phony scandals. then they go they must be phony. it's worbd in the past. it remains to be seen if it works this time. >>brian: my problem is all of these are first-term scandals that have come up

now. you didn't have four of these things to talk about. fast and furious a pwhreult. benghazi was just emerging, mitt romney should back off. you look at the foreign policy it is imploding. look at the president's approval rating. people satisfied at how things are going right now in america, now 35% say it is great. 63% say no. in april it was up to 40%. in july it was around 40%. so this is not going in the right direction. i do think if i'm the president and they handed me this idea for a buzz term to bring me through the summer and into the fall, i would say come up with something else. you're not serving me well by saying phony scandals because that is not why the special forces was rallying out there on tuesday. >>steve: just remember, this stuff worked in the

campaign when barack obama was running. he's not running anymore. we'll find out. meanwhile somebody who is running is anthony weiner. >>brian: he is running for mayor? >>steve: yes. according to his latest victim/on-line mistress, the mother of the mistress says god help new york if he's mayor. and then of course the new york city post today, "what's wrong with you" talking about mrs. carlos danger. mr. weiner sent out an e-mail to supporters. and the reason he was sexting that woman was he was having a rough spot in his marriage. >>gretchen: even after they did these puff pieces in a lot of magazines and newspapers, weiner with his wife and their new baby, turns outs that is when he was starting this latest sexing relationship. i think it is clear he should never have thrown his hat in the ring for a place in politics again. it is disingenuous right

now because he wasn't over the problem he had obviously. it's just -- it's just beyond embarrassment now. >>brian: dirty.com, thedirty.com says more is coming out today and so is his woman whose nickname is something leathery. >>steve: sidney. >>brian: sidney leather, she is going to talk more about this relationship. can i recommend he get the camera function off his phone. number two, the guy needs a lot of work, a lot of therapy for him to sit out there and say i want to get back to work for the people of new york and try to think it's going to be business as usual, he's on another planet. >>gretchen: he's got his own party saying, obviously the people running against him to become mayor, but jerry nadler, new york congressman says he needs help. you have people in your own party saying it's probably not a good idea to stay in the race. >>steve: we should point out in "the new york post" today one of the columnists takes a shot at his wife

and says essentially that in the press conference the other day, she admitted that they had colluded on the lie. so she was -- she knew about, that he had been lying. but apparently she knew the truth and happened to lie along with him. why was she standing by her man? when you look at eliott spitzer who is running for comptroller here but will not release his taxes and of course still loves the hookers, his wife never actually -- she stood next to him during the scandal. never spoke. this woman actually spoke in his defense. >>gretchen: they are trying to make a joke about it and selling carlos danger -- >>brian: that is his handle. >>gretchen: they're known for poking fun at things. >>steve: in the small print critics say carlos

danger is nuts. spirit getting into the spirit of weiner palooza. >>brian: more coming out today. expect press conferences. one of the problems weiner had is i should have told people everyone i was doing it. i think this guy has the oddest denial. >>gretchen: as i go back to the original point, why would you go into politics when you knew this stuff was coming up. any way, the royal crier was a fake. kind of. >> the duke and duchess of cambridge, the third in line to the throne. >>gretchen: this morning he's going to join us live to explain why he did it. >>steve: we need to ask questions really loud. then the president says forget the scandal. he wants to talk economy. stuart varney saw something much different in yesterday's speech. he is entering studio e to

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to investing in these possibilities, imagine what it could do -- >>brian: you get the spirit of what we're discussing. look at where that has gotten us to date. over $16 trillion in debt. >>gretchen: stuart varney here to weigh in. what did you make of the speech? >> i have never seen such a big build-up to a big speech, campaign-style speech, with such a poor and negative reaction. >>brian: there is no plan. >> same old same old, more of the same, which is -- which has not produced growth. this morning the liberals are angry at the president. where are the job creation ideas? the left is angry. he's doing nothing about inequality. the center growing debate, where is the growth? democrats want growth. if that big speech yesterday was a prelude, a campaign-style speech moving towards the 2014 elections -- and it was -- and stamping the president's legacy on america, it was a failure.

democrats are very upset this morning. they're going into an election with no growth, a poor economy, and obamacare wrapped around their necks. they are not happy with that speech or where they're going. >>steve: plus the democrats and the republicans are girding for policy fights in the fall over debt ceiling and stuff like that. so the president using his great political skills once again trying to point the finger. i'm doing a good job but over there, those guys, those republicans, they're screwing it up. >> still the same story. the president wants to reslice the cake which is the same size as it's been for the last four years. conservatives want to grow the cake. that is lift everybody's boat. there is a fundamental difference between the two sides and it was very clear in the speech yesterday. >>steve: if you want to grow the cake you use confection. >>gretchen: before you go i have a bone to pick for

you. you said yesterday the name louie would never be a part of the baby's name. >> i said it should never. i know that it is. >>gretchen: it is the third name. are you upset? >> no. it is from the great-uncle of prince george, i think. he was in the late 1970's. >>brian: coming up on varney and company, an all royal show. nothing but royal, jackson kings and queens. >> i prefer to think of it as regal. >>brian: only go to the upper class. >>gretchen: 9:20. thank you. >>steve: is attorney general eric holder encouraging racism in america? our next guest says yes. the perspective you have not heard yet. coming up. >>gretchen: incredible new video. a woman was pushed off a huge bridge in her car and survived. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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injuries. >>brian: according to a brand-new fox poll, 36% of americans think race was not a factor in the shooting death of trayvon martin. the f.b.i. also ruling there is no evidence race played a role. yet attorney general eric holder is saying his department of justice might pursue civil rights charges. >> we are all mindful of the tragic and unnecessary haogt -- shooting death of trayvon martin last year. i believe this tragedy provides another opportunity for other nation to speak honestly, honestly and openly about the complicated and emotional issues this case has raised. >>brian: our next guest says he left something out of those comments. the truth. linda chavez joins us now. what is your problem with that message? >> i think he is increasing racial paranoia. it was a message to young black men they should all be worried there are going to be evil white racists out there trying to kill them. yet the facts of the case

don't bear that out. i mean there was just -- race did not appear to be a factor at all. it was really something that i think was driven by the mainstream media that sort of whipped this up into a racial frenzy. and unfortunately it's been exploited by not just eric holder but unfortunately by president obama. >>brian: you said the factor that eric holder was followed and had different issues with his son were mainly because he was on the jersey turnpike and was followed, mainly because he was african-american, you don't think those analogies work in this case? >> he talked about the frank conversations he had with his father and conversations he had with his own son in which he advised them what to do in an instance when he thought he was being unfairly singled out because of race. but i'm sure that his father did not tell eric holder that what he should do is to confront the person and then to begin pummeling that person to the ground. i'm certain that he

wouldn't say that to his own son. and yet the facts of the trayvon martin case suggest that that's exactly what happened. trayvon -- i mean it's unfortunate in my view that zimmerman got out of the car and followed him. i don't think that was appropriate. but once that happened, instead of calling the police himself and saying look i'm being followed by some guy or just going home, trayvon martin decided to confront george zimmerman. it got very ugly. punches were thrown and zimmerman ended up on the ground being pummeled. and that to me is not the kind of message that you want to send to any man, black, white or whatever color. you don't want to try to increase violence. you want to try to decrease it. >>brian: we don't know what the department of justice will do. we don't know the effect of the president's remarks and the attorney general's remarks last week.

a -- how do you feel as someone of hispanic descent of the family's decision not to bring up their hispanic background? they said it was already a black and white issue. we didn't want to make it worse. would that have made it worse? >> you know what's so interesting about it is that suddenly the media is differentiating between hispanics by race. usually the media treats hispanic as if they were a race. they're not. they can be of any race. they can be white, they can be black, they can be asian, they can be indian. and yet in this time this hispanic male who is at least half hispanic is described as a white and then later as a white hispanic. that was to try to increase the racial element to this story. i think it was wrong, and i'm pleased that the zimmermans themselves did not want to insinuate race into the discussion.

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♪ come and ♪ get your love >>steve: this is a great shot of the morning. president george herbert walker bush sporting a new look for a good cause. he shaved his head in support of the two-year-old boy on his lap. his name is patrick and he's undergoing treatment for leukemia. he's also the son of president bush's secret service detail many of whom also went under the razor. the president and his wife have a personal connection to patrick's fight. they lost their daughter to leukemia 60 years ago when she was four. and that is today's great shot of the morning. >>gretchen: overnight the death toll from a massive train derailment in spain rising. this morning investigators trying to determine why the

passenger train jumped the track sending eight cars into each other. this is thaeupb o'deadliest o'deadliest -- this is spain's deadliest accident since 1972. >>steve: the family rescued by george zimmerman backing out of their interview. they claim they are being targeted by hate groups. zimmerman and another guy helped the kids out of a flipped s.u.v. last week. it happened four days after zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martin. the family says they are grateful but do not want to get involved. and that's why they canceled press availability. >>brian: brand-new video showing a woman clinging to rocks moments after her car plunged 40 feet off the chesapeake bay bridge. >> you've got to hold on okay! can you come up a little bit more? >>brian: i spoke to

morgan. she was on "fox & friends" tuesday. that is her coming out of the water. she recalled the moment she broke free from her sinking car and scrambled on to the rocks. .i just felt like god touched my shoulder and pushed me back against my car. pushed my right hand on my seat belt as hard as i could, take my left arm and place it where my driver's side window was and grab both side of my window, swim out and push at an angle to get momentum to go up to the surface as fast as i could because i didn't think i could hold my breath any longer. >>brian: a nearby fisherman pulled her on to his bus. the ntsb is sending investigators to the scene to evaluate the safety of the bridge. how about the 18 wheeler that rammed her? >>gretchen: a farm-tastic proposal. a man used 42 different bed

sheets to write out would you marry me to rachel. he did this on a family farm. she luckily said yes. they plan to get married in march. how did they hold them down? >>steve: rocks maybe. >>brian: good question. that is a mystery. >>steve: maria molina joins us right now with a look from the streets of new york city and how the weather is going to be today coast to coast. >> good morning. a little bit on the chilly side. it feels like september. right now we're looking at a current temperature at about 66 degrees. a high temperature in new york city this afternoon, 70 degrees. well below average in the northeast. texas it still does feel like july, very much so like in san antonio where you're expecting a high temperature at 101.

factor in humidity and it will be feeling like triple digits for many of you across the state of texas. isolated tornadoes anywhere from the texas panhandle up into parts of wisconsin. >>brian: the kids got a name. the royal kid's got a name. the royal baby is not going to fly. time to call him something he'll respond to. >>gretchen: the king? >>brian: how close were we? >>steve: the odds maker said it was going to be george or james and the odds makers were right. his first name is george as an homage to william's great-grandfather. >>gretchen: i will say that my -- i picked a winner. >>brian: you got it right. he is george alexander --

what is his third name? george alexander louis. >>steve: gretchen, because you were able to pick one of the three names, we have gotten you a lovely gift -- >>gretchen: that you stole from? >>steve: we actually went out and bought it. it's a mug. >>gretchen: thank you. let's see what's inside here. like 79 cents. >>steve: it's the thought that counts. >>gretchen: this didn't come from when we went to cover the royal wedding? >>steve: may have. >>gretchen: he pilfered this from somebody's -- yes, it is the date of the royal wedding. >>brian: we did go out and buy it. >>steve: these were purchased yesterday in times square. >>gretchen: fantastic. thank you so much. >>brian: there is a big story. in the era before mega phones there was things

called town criers. >>steve: yes. and it was the cry heard around the world. [cheering] >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! on this date, the 22nd of july, the year 2013, we welcome our future king -- >>brian: hear ye, hear ye, it was all a joke. the royal crier announcing the birth of the future king of england, he was a fake. why did he do it even though he is a legitimate town crier? and how did he get away with it? guess who joins us? town crier tony appleton. for my money, you're the best town crier i've ever heard. but why did you think you could pull this off? >> i've been planning this for two weeks. two weeks like a military operation. i watched people sitting out this for four weeks.

i said there is no way the town crier is going to do that. i got myself suited up and booked into a hotel in london and then i had a little tipoff the baby was born. so then i got in a cab. i said to the driver take me to the hospital where the new prince has been born. they took me like i was an official. i got out the car. everybody clapped and i kept announcing. nobody said a word. >>gretchen: were you in front of the hospital? >> i was on the pavement originally. then i was told to get on the steps. >>steve: and absolutely no repercussions, right? even though you were not invited to be the town crier and you became the official town crier, no repercussions from the palace? >> i think they might send me to the tower. >>steve: where they used to chop people's heads off. >>brian: what is your background? you are a town crier, just not there? >> i'm a town crier for 25

years. i worked in london. but nobody invited me to the birth. i was at as a town crier. every time i turn up unannounced. >>gretchen: how does it make you feel that you were able to feel almost everyone including the world media that you actually had been sent over there ostensibly by the queen? >> i'm not sure i look the part. you've seen the picture of me. >>brian: you look great. tony, here's the thing. you should have been booked. you were perfect. you did it. we need a town crier. it brought us back to a time in which kings matter and had power. you fit perfect in this. but when you sat there and were reading the scroll, were there words on that u.s.s. scroll? >> yeah. we had the words typed out and stuck them on the scroll. >>steve: it was brilliant. everybody wanted to know

what the baby looked like and we didn't have pictures. instead they put the next best thing. you. you've been on newspapers all around the world. can we hear once again the town crier's laugh. >> i've got a proclamation for you. >>gretchen: you've got what? >> i've got another proclamation for you. >>gretchen: we need to wake up. >> i'm going to do it for you now. okay. hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! the duke and duchess of cambridge have announced their newborn son is to be called george alexander louis. he will be known as his royal highness, prince george of cambridge. god save the queen! >>brian: fantastic. good job. >>steve: are you out on the street right now or are you doing that in quiet room? tony, by the way, what town are you the town crier of? >> say that again.

>>steve: what town are you the town crier of? >> [inaudible] i'm on the front page. >>gretchen: tony, fantastic job. thank you so much for joining us today. >> i love the show. >>steve: all right. see you soon. 17 minutes before the top of the hour. is it the next big security threat? terrorists trying to control the weather. why the c.i.a. is investigating the weather. next. >>gretchen: huge update on what is going on behind the scenes of amanda bynes. brand-new psychological developments coming up developments coming up next. so then the little tiny chipmunks go all the way up... ♪ [ female announcer ] when your swapportunity comes,

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>>gretchen: 46 minutes after the top of the hour. actress amanda bynes showing signs of schizophrenia. tmz report doctors want her to stay in psychiatric care for two weeks. bynes is expected to head to court tomorrow to request temporary conservatorship of the 27-year-old. >>steve: tracking down terrorists no longer the c.i.a.'s only priority. the u.s. intel agency now investing in weather and ways to change it. why? we have the editor of "real clear science" and coauthor of"science left behind." alex, good morning. what is the c.i.a. spending $630,000 trying to do? >> well, they're looking

into something called climate engineering or geoengineering, which is a way to manipulate the climate to mitigate the effects of global warming. they're looking at a planet they think is warming up and they think maybe this might pose a national security threat in the form of exacerbating water shortages or causing more regional instabilities like places like darfur. they want to find ways of mitigating climate change and they're investigating are there possible ways of doing that. >>steve: okay. do you see a connection there between the c.i.a. and the sky? >> well, you know, i think that it's something certainly worth researching. scientists have been thinking about this for quite some time. there are two general ways for engineering the climate. one is solar radiation management. think of a volcano. it explodes and releases particles and cools down the planet. that is one way. you can put a balloon in

the atmosphere and spray particles. another way would be to bring down carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. they are going to be investigating both of those. they are basically funding research by the national academy of sciences. >>steve: the c.i.a. is not trying to control the weather? we've tried that before and it doesn't really work. but they're trying to impact climate change. so the c.i.a. is in the climate change business now? >> well, like i said, i think they're thinking of it from a national security standpoint. they want to have a lot of tools in the arsenal in case climate change is as bad as some scientists believe it is, they want to have a way of mitigating it. they're thinking if sea levels are going to rise, what national security implication does that have? if it exacerbates food shortages or water shortages will that cause instability around the world which might backfire on us? they are thinking about this in terms of long term national security. >>steve: you told one of our producers at this point it is pretty doubtful this is a viable terror threat

right now? >> i don't see the c.i.a. -- yeah, i don't think it is going to be an immediate threat. it's going to be a long-term, you know, decades down the line sort of thing. >>steve: there you go. interesting stuff. all right. alex joins us from washington state. alex, thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >>steve: all right. coming up, do you really need a doctor to tell you you're sick? or is the internet just as good? dr. marc siegel separates self-diagnosis fact from fiction coming up next. what was the white house creating more of? creating more of? coming up next hour.st any cold. i only use new thermacare® cold wraps. targettemp technology delivers a consistent, therapeutic cold to stop pain and start healing. new thermacare® cold wraps. a better way to treat pain.

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>> gretchen: so you're circumstance and you want to know what's ailing you. right? more than ever, people are reaching for their smart phones and computers to self-diagnose. is that really a good idea? here to separate fact from fiction, a member of our fox news medical a team, dr. mark siegle. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so people get these symptoms. they immediately go to the computer. what do i have? is that a good idea, symptom checkers can take the place of a doctor? >> that's a myth. do i look like i can be replaced by a robot or computer screen? the art of medicine is really important and worth saving. that's about that conversation you have with your physician, let's hope we can still have that under obamacare where you really get to say what's bothering you. actually this nuance full of nuance and it can't be replaced by a computer. you can't self-diagnose and you can't look it up and know your answers. >> gretchen: what about all on-line digital symptom checkers are unreliable? >> that's the flip side of the coin. that's also a myth because you

know what? there actually pretty accurate. what i'm saying here is you should go to the computer screen. you should go to a really good web site. something like the centers for disease control, nih, university web site. we physicians like something called up to date, which is really accurate and peer reviewed. you find out information you're looking for action check your symptoms, but then you bring it to your physician to say, what do i do? is this me? most of the time it isn't you. most of the time when you find a disease, you're shopping for a disease, you're overreaching. let your physician tell you that. >> gretchen: medical technology making self-help more accurate? >> that's a fact and very exciting. our new smart phone applications are enabling us to tell our heart rate, blood alcohol concentration, we have smart pills out that you can swallow, tell but your metabolic rate, there are things where your doctor can be in another country and tell you what's wrong with your heart. that's not self-diagnosis, but you can send more and morph your

information to your doctor on-line. very exciting. >> gretchen: a lot of people think they're doctors at home 'cause they go on the computer and say, i know what i have. and you say you can't diagnose your own disease. >> you can not. and you pointed this out, you should do your own breast exam, but don't decide what the problem is. don't decide it's nothing to worry about. don't decide it's breast cancer. don't decide that mole you have is a melanoma. but if you see something unusual, bring it to your doctor's attention. that's what you need to do. you need to be your own patrol, your own police. find something unusual, bring it in. >> brian: all right. technology changing medicine so dramatically. >> very exciting. >> gretchen: thanks. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >> gretchen: just when you thought you saw enough, the anthony wiener scandal grows. now he's blaming the scandalous ways on his wife and the relationship? and it's the awkward moment we saw yesterday a plane. falling into her neighbor's lap. excuse me. excuse me, i need my space. this morning that guy joins us

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. today it's thursday, july 25. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for spending part of your day with us today. brand-new fox news poll this morning showing the president's approval rating plummet to go an all-time low. what could be to blame? >> with this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, washington has taken its eye off the ball. >> gretchen: are scandals like benghazi and the irs phony in we report and you decide. >> brian: and there is more. the anthony wiener scandal growing this morning. new details about how long carlos danger wagon in business -- was in business and why he's blaming his wife. >> steve: and there is cubicle

guy behind him. yesterday we showed think -- you this video. a passenger who fell asleep on a passenger's lap. today we found that man. he will tell us who he thinks she is and why she fell asleep. "fox & friends" hour two for this thursday starts right now. >> hear ye, hear ye! that's the news! god save the queen and god save the county of queen! >> gretchen: the county of queen? >> brian: yeah. he's saying queens, the burrow. >> steve: he said that's the news brian style. toba wanted him to say it like brian style. >> brian: right. it's not easy being a town cryer screaming and putting the accent correctly. >> steve: it's not that easy having that much style. >> brian: that's true, steve. and we had the original town cryer who was not supposed to be there 30 minutes ago telling us

the inside story of how he got inside the queen's hospital. >> steve: the original who was a town cryer crasher. >> brian: yes. >> steve: the famous one. >> brian: and giggling about it. >> gretchen: let's do some news because we have a fox news. massive train derailment south of tampa and there was in spain that killed 77 people. in this case, 15 cars flipped over. three carrying highly flammable ethanol. you can see spraying crews to keep the fire hazard to a minimum. everything under control at this hour. but rain moving into the area could cause issues in their efforts. north nately, no -- fortunately north texas one hurt. troubling news that war records disappeared without a trace. almost all the records are from the 82nd airborne division deployed multiple times for the wars. there was confusion over what records must be stored or transferred home. the army is working to immediately correct the issue.

deadly lightning strikes in arizona leaving two people dead. police say a married couple was spending the day with a large group overlooking a scenic arizona cliff and that's when tragedy struck. police say the lightning bolt hit them while they were standing along the rock wall. teenage boy who was part of the group was also struck by lightning. police say he was not related to the other victims, and he is expected to be okay. eat your fruits and veggies, doctors orders. new program in new york city let's doctors prescribe fruits and vegetables to overweight kids. fdrx is being offered to lower income families at two hospitals in the city. kids with a prescription can buy produce at farmers marketses for a dollar a at this. >> brian: really? >> gretchen: parents say it's working. >> being that we eating more, now we know how to get fresh vegetable, how to cook it. >> gretchen: 12 states ran similar pilot programs in 2012. and those are your headlines. >> brian: i tell you what, i

know advertising works. do you remember popeye? i wanted spinach because i liked popeye. now everything is snuckers and reese's junk food and you want that. but i can be swayed by vegetables. >> steve: i remember those days asking my mom to go out and get a can of spinach and she did and i tasted it and i thought why did he like it. >> gretchen: the question is can voters be swayed by anthony wiener who had another sexting problem come up as of yesterday. >> brian: number one, that he was doing it. >> gretchen: apparently after they came out publicly, he and his wife and child and did some very soft pieces about a year ago, turns out that he was still involved in some of these sexting relationships and you're looking now at video of the press conference he held the other day with his wife where she also spoke to support him. now had a letter to his supporters, he's actually blaming his marriage, saying that they were going through a rough patch and that's why he

was going back to his sexting problem. >> steve: looking for an excuse to explain why he was lying to all of us and she was in on the lie as well. the dirty.com, where this new woman 22-year-old woman of indiana revealed she had had this relationship with him, apparently last summer, she wrote to him on facebook. he poked her back, that means just kind of a wink of an eye. >> brian: who poked first? >> steve: exactly. >> gretchen: both of our heads went like this. >> steve: it's facebook talk. anyway, they made a connection on-line and it got sexual on-line within a week. the editor of the dirty.com calls wiener a sexual predator who immediately lured the young woman into on-line sex. >> brian: by the way, that's the guy who runs dirty.com. >> steve: that's right. >> brian: calls him a predator. >> steve: also the democratic

consultant. >> brian: nyu professor. >> steve: he says he doesn't need to run for mayor, mr. wiener. he needs to go to counseling. white house insider says put a fork in wiener. enough already. and the "new york times" says mr. wiener has disqualified himself. >> gretchen: i don't understand why they would come out publicly and decide that this was the time for him to reenter politics. i don't know how you psychologically do that -- >> brian: there is no we. it's he. he had $4 million he had to give up and give back unless he wanted to use it. plus he raised 836,000 since he said i'm healed and i want to become mayor. on top of that, after facebook and he starts this relationship with her where they have this very explicit relationship, he promises her a job at politico and a con did he in chicago! where does he get this influence and money? >> steve: remember issues of it in the form kind of as a bribe because he said you got to delete all that stuff. we got to get rid of all the evidence. >> gretchen: that was after the fact. he wrote that when he decided to run for mayor, he wrote to her and said, do a hard delete of

all these other things that we had done months before. i mean, really, that doesn't matter as much as the fact that why would you put yourself back into the whole political scenario where you know people are going to be looking for this stuff? and furthermore, why would you continue to lie about it and get back into the public eye? it doesn't make sense. >> steve: one thing people seem to have forgotten about anthony wiener, remember when mr. wiener was a congressman, one of the reasons he had to resign was the fact that he was engaged in an inappropriate on-line relationship. >> brian: right. >> steve: with an underage teenage girl. remember that? a lot of people forget that. >> brian: here is what some of you are saying via e-mail. e-mailing us from georgia is michael. he says, i i think the public is

tired of sex scandals. unless there is criminal activity, i predict he will be mayor of new york city. gretchen, wake up. >> gretchen: i'm just listening to what people are saying today and is that good or bad that as a society, we've heard so much of this that we just go oh, well. >> steve: that's bad. >> gretchen: both sides of the aisle, let's be honest. e-mail from katherine. democrats behavior has to be egregious for his own party to turn on him. and it's a toss-up as to who needs therapy more, him or his wife. >> brian: like she said, it's both parties. mark sanford is in the middle of it. senator bitter for a while. but you don't have them going back. you also don't have them calling in every network for one on one interviews to tell them that he was hacked and that's not his body. it's not his picture and that's not his private part. that's deranged. >> steve: remember, if this were a republican, you know, the headlines would be on-line conservative pervert says he

will not quit. but in the meantime, you get a headline on politico like a couple days ago, it said houma and anthony, scenes from a marriage. [ laughter ] >> brian: sounds like a love story. >> steve: exactly right. welcome to the election 2014. the president kicked it off yesterday with an '80ish minute speech in illinois where he said a lot of things we have heard many, many -- >> brian: 69 minutes. >> steve: 69 minutes is how long it went. now listen to what the president is about to say and see if you can recognize this word which we've heard a lot of. >> gretchen: yep. >> the investments necessary to promote long-term growth and shared prosperity. rebuilding our manufacturing base, educating our work force, upgrading our transportation system, upgrading our information network. >> steve: yeah. so he talks a lot about investment and that's the word that democrats use.

it's just code for spending and more debt. >> brian: yep. and use that a lot yesterday. we don't have a plan to get there to raise more money. he chooses not to talk about growth enough. he also talked a little bit more -- in fact, these are some of the other cuts from other speeches that he's given throughout his four-plus years as president and prior to that as a candidate. >> steve: all right. >> new investments in education that will make our work force more skilled and competitive. we need to invest in high-tech manufacturing center, new investments in renewable energy and technology that will create new jobs and new industries. faster railroads and broad band. we committed ourselves to investing in these possibilities. just imagine what it could do. >> gretchen: i think the key is that even democrats this morning are wondering where the meat so-called is or the newness of these speeches because it sounds like, as we just played, the similar kind of speech that we've heard over the last couple of years. when you have people in your own party questioning where the

newness is, that's problematic. >> brian: steve, you're holding up those picture, he did get what he wanted because taxes went up. he wanted investment, which means more spending, which means taxes went up. >> steve: clearly what is going on is he's positioning himself and the party for the -- >> brian: do you have another example? >> steve: absolutely. yesterday the president was talking about taking executive action on the economy. people love action. so they love that phrase. but of course as we told you yesterday, executive action is really just the same as an executive order. people don't like to be ordered around. it sounds like somebody has too much power. so instead, they say executive action. he's a man of action. so that's what we're going to hear a lot of. action and investment. >> brian: what struck me is this is a political speech at a rare time which is probably only weeks and months now, where we're not in the political season. for the president to have that tone and that tenor for that

long and use the same buzz terms he used for four years and then call out those who see the irs, fast and furious, benghazi, nsa as manufactured scandals as if they are phony and don't exist, that is game on, let's diminish those that have legitimate concerns. for example -- >> with this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, washington's taken its eye off the ball. i'm here to say this needs to stop. our focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you. the people we represent. >> brian: the irs matters. >> gretchen: it's also a way of saying phony scandal social security a way of taking the attention off of the president and the people close to him because the heat is on with a lot of these scandals as to how close his close knit group of advisors were and are to these particular phony scandals. so i think it's a way of sort of

separating himself from them in the public's eye by saying hey, they're no big deal. >> steve: essentially what they're doing is the administration is using the same messages they used to get reelected last year because it worked last time. people bought it and they've got everything on the line right now. they're hoping people buy it again this time as well. >> brian: 13 minutes after the hour. coming up, break details on america's big bankruptcy. detroit's radical plan to down size the city. charles gasparino on deck. that's a complimentary coffee. another reason to be on our show. >> steve: it is. and 122,000 reasons not to go to the car wash. the story behind this busted up bentley !

>> steve: business alert and breaking new information about detroit's plan to come back from bankruptcy. it's going to try to make the city smaller. our next guest broke the story. he's the author of a book. talking about "fox business" network's charles gasparino. good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: the idea is, they've got limited option, the city of detroit. >> they don't have a lot of assets. >> steve: except land. >> right. it's one of the biggest cities by land mass in the country. i think it's 139 square miles. equity, private the land, sell investors and shrink the city into a much more manageable core. we should point out very early stage discussions by the state and their financial advisors. we're a ways off on this. but this is what they're envisioning post-bankruptcy to get detroit back. >> brian: the unfunded pensions make up what, about a billion dollars of debt? i know ten billion in overall pensions, but in terms of

unfunded? >> yeah. it's huge. it's a total debt that they're essentially defaulting on, of something like $18 billion, right? so that's got to come down. that gets dealt within bankruptcy. i think what they're thinking if we're done with the bankruptcy, we can stiff people. >> brian: they are. >> bond holders get stiffed probably 100%. pensioners are going to get stiff to do a certain ex tents. that will be worked out in bankruptcy. then there will be a point where they're out of bankruptcy. how does detroit look in the future? from everything i'm hearing, the logic is dictating you got to be smaller. people own land. a lot of people don't. a lot of that stuff is vacant. >> gretchen: when you say private equity firm, buying up parcels of lands currently undeveloped or buildings? >> both. and knocking it down. a lot of these buildings are vacant and they have to be knocked down anyway. so the theory is, and this is a theory and they're talk being it and don't -- i'm not a developer. it is definitely being talked about, if you could knock that down and maybe put something else there.

listen, around detroit, the economy is not too devastating throughout the entire state of michigan. it's just that city which is incredibly blighted and not just blighted, blighted to the point where everybody is out of it. now here is a way of getting -- starting from zero. >> steve: in some neighborhoods where people may have abandoned the properties, but in other places where there are a few holdouts, this is where eminent domain comes in. >> you've heard it before. they've done eminent domain for worst reasons. this is not a bad reason and you pay people, you get them out of there and start fresh. >> brian: he's the author of "circumstancele of friends." thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: 19 minutes after the hour. we forge ahead with something that you're not going to believe is coming our way. i don't even want to give it away yet. >> steve: more jobs or more food stamps? which have we had more of during this administration? >> brian: you gave it away. >> steve: i'm posing a question and we'll report on the other side of a time out. >> gretchen: my favorite story from yesterday, this guy who

took this video because yep, a woman is in his lap, that's on an airplane. what would you do with a woman sleeping and drooling on you? >> brian: the guy is a riot. >> gretchen: he's here next hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy.

>> brian: wake the kid. jostle the dogs, it's time for news by the numbers. are you ready? first, two. that's how many americans were added to food stamp programs for every job the obama administration created. there are 15 million more on food stamps than when the president took office. next, 820,725. that's how much this thief must pay to stay in a prison. he's 28 years old and pled

guilty to stealing one million from nicky hilton's ex-husband, creating a crowd funding web site. so far -- what should i have said? she's raised 275 bucks. finally, 122,000. that's how much a woman paid for this bentley that was wrecked at a car wash after a worker smashed it through a wall. steve? >> steve: no tip for that guy. thank you. it was a little too close for comfort for one guy on that last flight. a woman fell asleep right there in his lap. he says he tried to wake her up, but it didn't work, so he started filming and now this video is a viral hit. steve column is the guy trapped by that sleeping passenger. he joins us this morning from boston. good morning to you, steve. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: so you were gog take the short flight from baltimore up to new hampshire where you

live and looks like you're in the window seat and then a woman sits down in the middle seat. i take it she was a little sleepy. >> yes. just a bit. >> steve: tell us what happened. >> she immediately started falling asleep as soon as she sat down and started drifting my way right off the bat. i thought it was humorous. i kind of pushed her back in her spot and i thought that was going to be it, but it kept getting worse as the flight went on. >> steve: it seems a little odd. you're a youth minister, by the way, we should point out. did she start on your shoulder and then just eventually work her way down to your lap? >> yeah. so when we took off, the force of the gravity and everything threw her to my shoulder and as i was moving around trying to move her off of me, she slowly started moving down to my lap. >> steve: and we see her uprighting herself. at what point did you think i'm going to get off my phone and take a picture of this?

>> it was quite a ways into the flight. i think a lot of people don't understand that i had tried to wake her up several times and realized she was in a completely deep sleep. so it was probably maybe 30 minutes or so into the flight before i finally popped out my phone and film for my friends and family. >> steve: of course. but you decided to put it on-line. it's a viral hit. it is remarkable. by the way, you've got great facial expressions during this. >> thank you. >> steve: we should point out, at one point she uprighted herself and then did she head for the guy in the aisle seat? >> she did. yeah. i think we hit some turbulence and she started falling his way. >> steve: and you kind of looked over at him and there was a shared -- >> i did, yeah. i think he had seen the whole thing and so he looked at me and said something like, well, i guess she's really tired. and we just had a chuckle about it and that was it. >> steve: we've shown this on television yesterday. millions of people have seen it on-line as well.

you can pretty easily identify that woman. we asked earlier, our viewers if anybody knew her and a fellow named greg in michigan was the first to say, yeah, her name is eileen. he was making a joke. have you heard from that woman? >> i haven't, no. and i really -- i would like to because hindsight is 20/20. i would really like to meet her and talk with her and hopefully she's okay with everything because i really didn't mean any malicious intent or anything. >> steve: you don't think she'd be angry you posted that slobbering video on the internet, would you? >> i really hope she's not. i hope she has a sense of humor. it definitely was just a funny incident as a whole. >> steve: you clearly have a sense of humor. and let's hope she does, too. steve on land, up there in boston right now. thank you very much for joining us and sharing this story. >> thank you for having me. >> steve: now you know the story of eileen. not her real name. up next on the rundown, your

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>> the obama administration admitted this week that under obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor. now they're saying you might be able to keep your doctor. today the president was forced to change his yes, we can, to perhaps we could try. [ laughter ] >> steve: the president didn't mention that yesterday in his big 70-some minute speech over in illinois. he also didn't talk about the fact that detroit has gone belly up and what the federal government intends to do there. that's probably smart politics because it's embarrassing. >> gretchen: in the meantime, did you know that $700 million is going to be spent to market obamacare? so here we go again. remember last week we were telling you how some celebrities aligned themselves with the president to try and get out the message to the young people because really for these

exchanges to work from state to state to state, you need young healthy people to buy into them, otherwise if you only have sick people going to them, the premiums will go higher than they are. >> brian: i heard in los angeles, they are teaching their kids in school the good things about obamacare to go and tell their parents to go on-line and register on the exchanges. >> steve: so what's extraordinary about this, though, $700 million to promote it, that's a lot of dough. it's a boat load of dough. here is the thing, it's not being spent in los angeles. it's not being spent in new york. it's being spent in the swing states. why? it's all political! karl rove explained last night with greta. >> they're buying a bunch of media markets like they're buying new orleans and charlotte, north carolina. they're not buying los angeles. they're not buying new york. they're not buying chicago. they're not buying boston or san francisco. they're not buying six of the ten largest markets in america, but they're going to buy tv ads

to sing the praises of obamacare in new orleans and charlotte, north carolina. what about those markets? why those? knows are in battle ground states with the u.s. senate races where the democratic incumbent voted for obamacare and it's defending their vote. they're buying a bunch of markets in states with republican governors who are up for election next year. they're not buying them in the biggest markets or los angeles or new york, but they're buying them in places where we'll have a political impact. >> steve: that's one of the reasons a lot of observers say that the speech yesterday that the president gave that really didn't say anything new was all about positioning for political purposes for the mid terms. >> gretchen: obamacare will obviously be a huge point of discussion for those midterm elections either good or bad. check out this new fox news poll. what should happen to obamacare? most americans say it should be repealed now and it's 53%. keep the law in place, 40%. pretty much stayed consistents since 2011 where it was up a

tick at 56% believed it should be repeeled. >> steve: a lot of people have questions as it is implemented. it was supposed to all be done by the end of this year, but now as we know, the administration is going to stretch it out at least one more year 'cause things, there are some bugs that need to be worked out. >> brian: all right. let's go over some headlines. >> gretchen: the irs learned how to line dance on your dime, singled out conservative groups for targeting. but they think they deserve a raise. the senate financial subcommittee recommending $275 million for the irs's budget. house republicans say not so fast and have a different approach. they want to cut the agency's funding by $3 billion. the current budget, about $12 billion. >> steve: brand-new video chesapeake bayan clinging to moments after her car crashed plunging 40 feet off the chesapeake bay bridge. >> hold on, okay!

>> hold on! >> come on, can you come up a little bit more? >> steve: morgan lake, right there, was on our program on tuesday recalling the moment she broke free from her sinking car and scrambled onto the rock to stay alive. >> i just felt as if god was to touch my shoulder and push me back against my car, my seat and to relax me to push my right hand onto my seatbelt as hard as i could, take my left arm and place it where my driver's side window was and grab both sides of my window, swim out and push at an angle to get momentum to go up to the surface as fast as i could because i didn't think i could hold my breath any longer. >> steve: a nearby fisherman pulled her onto his boat. she was air lifted to the hospital. the national transportation safety board says it's sending investigators to the bay bridge to investigate whether or not it's safe. >> brian: caught on camera, the moment a hot air balloon ride

goes horribly wrong. crashing into a lake. it happened in the netherlands. that's right. did my country report back in fifth grade. the basket hits the water and dragged by a tide before crashing into the bank of the water. 11 people were on board. two of them taken to the hospital with minor injuries. >> steve: they're lucky. >> gretchen: i thought you would have chosen italy or ireland. >> brian: no, i should have. i tried to zig when everyone else zag. >> gretchen: fans are going to get more of magic mike. ♪ >> gretchen: all right, ladies. the movie broadway bound. channing tatum confirms the news on twitter. no word if he'll make his broadway debut, but will serve as a producer. it's based on his life. it's hard to believe -- >> brian: he was a dancer first. >> gretchen: he was a

dancer/stripper before he became a huge movie star. >> steve: congratulations. good career track. worked for him. >> gretchen: how do we transition from pole dancing or prancercizing is a good way to transfer. >> steve: pole position. >> gretchen: yeah. >> brian: can i take -- >> steve: sports animation, that means it's time for sports. >> brian: thank you. is a rod hurt or isn't he hurt? it depends who you ask. alex rodriguez, the highest paid player is convinced the yankees don't want him on the field. he reached out to a second doctor about his quad injury. his reps say he's ready to play, but the doctor says he's never actually and minute did -- examined a rod, but judging by the mri, he thinks he's fine. he said i'm not hurt. they say by going to the second doctor not in the network with major league baseball, he

violated his contract. he also reportedly reach -- the doctor he reached out to treats patients for low testosterone with steroids. those reports a-rod may be banned for life from doping, the guy was going to his house and injecting him. that's pretty much airtight. donovan came on our show and then suddenly he's hot as a pistol. scoring two goals last night, adding an assist. the u.s. beat honduras to advance to the finals. donovan left team usa earlier this year to ponder his future as a professional athlete. he was burned out. this prompted the coach to leave him off the 2014 world cup roster originally, but he says donovan is enroute to earning his way back to the team. i don't think he could be stopped right now. the titans jonathan willard

breaking silence after a titanic-sized act of bravery. watch this. brand-new photos out just in to "fox & friends" of the burning car where he rescued a whole family with a woman, three children, and their dog. the car exploding moments after the titans rookie and another man pulled them to safety. >> a lot of people pass by and didn't help, so she was wanting to thank us and show how thankful she was for us helping her get the kids out. i give all the glory to god. i just feel like i was there for a reason. >> brian: he was driving to camp when he saw this. he was on his way to a with the team -- practice with the team. unbelievable. he says he wasn't thinking of fear, just to get the kids out. coming up on radio on kilmeade and friends, steve will be there. congressman mike kelly, josh wolf and donny brasco. go inside the mob. i was discovered.

>> steve: when you were in the mob, did you talk about your dutch paper in fifth grade? >> gretchen: that's why he -- now i'm making sense. hehe wanted to throw off anyone from thinking ump in the mob. it's time to go out to maria molina. do you remember writing a report in school. what country did you choose? >> nicaragua, where i'm from. that was an easy choice, and also when i talk about sports, i talk about roberto clemente, brian. he's a baseball player who died flying to nicaragua, sending aid over there. that was very generous. unfortunate situation. let's talk about the weather because we have a lot to talk about. we want to head to the tropics where we have tropical storm dorian, maximum sustained winds at 65 miles an hour. it will take several days, continuing on a west northwest track before eventually by early tuesday morning, it's going to

stay north of puerto rico and also the dominican republic. we could be looking at potential impacts to southeastern coast of the u.s. and why we're talk being this storm is that computer models are in well agreement here on the track toward the west northwest over the next several days. temperature wise, hot day in texas. 101 for your high in san antonio. the northeast, very chilly. 70 degrees for the high temperature in new york city and early this morning, parts of pennsylvania are actually waking up to temperatures as cold as the 40s. very unusual. not feeling like july, but yet it's the summer and we'll be heating up coming up in the next couple of days. >> steve: that's okay. we'll take it. sounds great. thank you. >> gretchen: still ahead, his private problems going very public. is the ant absent scandal grows, why aren't more democrats calling for him to throw in the towel? peter johnson, jr. joins us next. >> brian: then. >> steve: a bear walks into a bar. sounds like a joke. but it really happened. we've got the tape and we'll tell you the story.

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>> steve: quick headlines. some of you have heard this. a bear walks into a bar, no, it's not a joke. check it out. a bear strolling through a colorado bar with customers inside. the giant black bear started out dumpster diving, then headed into the bar to quench his thirst apparently. after a couple of minute, he had had enough. he wandsered out. boo boo. the winner of that $590 million powerball prize back in may putting her money to good use. she's donating it sounds like $2 million to a high school in maine. the school is in need of major roof repair. her daughter teaches at the school. that's very nice. >> brian: now let's talk about not so wonderful.

the anthony wiener scandal growing this morning. despite reports one of the women who received his dirty messages may speak out today, wiener insists he is not dropping out of the race. >> these are things i brought upon myself and i thought they were going to come out towards the end of the campaign and some of them have and so look, i'm pressing forward. i'm running a campaign based on issues and i'm going to keep doing that and getting a good response so far. >> brian: this is a brand-new poll showing him pulling ahead in the race with 26% of the vote. this was taken from the 18th. but as pressure mounts for him to ends his campaign, why aren't more democrats calling for him to quit? peter johnson, jr., does it surprise you there is not more outrage? >> it does. right at the beginning i support bill thompson who is former controller is running for mayor. it's a public issue in my mind and an issue that requires leadership in the democratic

party whether it's the governor of the state or the two united states senators to speak out and say listen, some things are more important than winning polls. a party -- and i'm a democrat -- needs to stand for some principles beyond electoral victory. here we have a case where we're defining deaf yancey down. we say, this is terrible. people laugh at it. it's a laughing stock. we say, anywhere else but new york, how would this fly and then a lot of democratic consultants and other democratic leaders say, well, this is private conduct. well, it's not private conduct. it's public conduct. we know what politicians do in public. they get up and make pronouncements and give speeches. what we should be concerned about is what they're doing in private and where the rubber meets the road and a mayor has to make a decision in the middle of the night to prevent civil unrest, to make a decision about a bond rating, to make a decision about layoffs, to make a decision that affect all new

yorkers and anyone in any say, is that person worthy of our trust and our confidence? when you see this kind of display and it's become a big, big joke, you say absolutely not. >> brian: those polls stay in place, next week, what does that say about new york? >> it says that politics is a craven sport and that our leaders are more concerned about winning elections than setting a tone for the electorate. >> brian: no interest. >> and for the public. he knew it's a problem. he said i want a second chance. he says, i want to talk about the real issues. well, the only real issues have become his sexual infidelity and perverted behavior. >> brian: after the scandal already broke! >> maybe i'm an old-fashioned guy about this, if you can't be loyal to the person that you pledge your entire life to, how can you be loyal to a principle, an oath or office, or to an anonymous public who are pulling the levers to elect you? this is kind of a sick if not

diabolical situation and will we be scammed by it in new york city? that becomes the issue. >> brian: it's hard to trust carlos danger anymore. >> carlos danger? incredible. >> brian: it's true. congressman nadler said step down. i'll see nut lobby. forget the shoe bomber. check out these armed and dangerous heels. yep, someone just tried to fly with them. then, she wasn't told she went fit enough for the navy. boy, did issue prove them wrong by shedding 30 pounds for pain and swelling? apply cold therapy in the first 24 hours. but not just any cold. i only use new thermacare® cold wraps. targettemp technology delivers a consistent, therapeutic cold

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squash, bacon soup. >> i use turkey bacon, but topped it with regular bacon on top. >> gretchen: we have squash -- >> it has curry in it. >> gretchen: it gives it a little bite. >> it gives it a little spice and has carrots and onions and celery and curry and tumeric and thyme in it. >> gretchen: people love go walk mowly. avocados are good for you, but high in calories. what do you add to it? >> i use sweet peas. it tastes great. and then i use some tomato, onions and jalapenos, mix it all up. add lemon. i put it in cute little cupcake tins that the little kids will eat with a pita chips. >> gretchen: all right. now, this to me looks like chocolate chip cookie dough, which i would love to eat. it looks great. what is it? n it's actually ground almonds and walnuts and pureed dates. use honey.

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♪ >> steve: what other shows have a chorus? we're pretty lucky. >> brian: a lot of people have a band, maybe we could be the first to have a chorus to sing us in and out of breaks. how would you feel about that? >> gretchen: sounds like a lot of overhead. >> brian: it does. we got plenty of money. >> gretchen: really? >> steve: a lot of people are look for jobs in this economy. we might not be able to pay so much, but still. >> brian: experience. >> steve: put people to work. >> brian: we have laptops. i'll cash mine in for a chorus. >> steve: because you've got a tablet on top of your laptop. you're redundant. >> brian: yes, i do. >> gretchen: let's start off with hour with a fox news alert. new video shows the moments of a train crash in spain. >> steve: oh, my goodness! >> gretchen: take a look. overnight the death toll

continuing to rise. it's now up to 78 people. it could go even higher. this morning investigators trying to determine why the passenger train jumped the tracks, sending eight cars crashing into each other. this is spain's deadliest train accident since 1972 when a train collided with a bus leaving 86 people dead. the family rescued by george zimmerman down in florida who planned on sharing their story now backing out of their planned interview. they claim they're being targeted by hate groups. zimmerman and another man helped the couple and their two kids out of a flipped suv last week. it happened just four days after zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martin and the first time he had been seen in public since the trial. the family says they're grateful, but don't want to get involved. this pair of killer high heels brought to heel by the ts tsa. the replica were confiscated at la guardia airport in new york.

mock weapons aren't permitted on planes. the shoes right out of a james bond movie, could have been checked into luggage. an agent tweeted the photo to warn other flyers about what not to wear. it's official, the royal baby's name is george alexander louis. yesterday we told you our picks for the baby's name. it turns out, i don't know, i just had dumb luck because i like the name alexander. that's why i put it as the middle name. that's what it turned out to be. sorry, guys. chutney and randy did not make it. >> steve: they were close. >> brian: might be their nickname. >> gretchen: this morning there is one man stealing the spotlight from the prince and that's the town cryer. turns out the man who announced the birth of the baby -- and i thought was doing this wonderful traditional thing and i was showing my kids about british history, this guy wasn't even invited! >> brian: he showed up in a cab. >> gretchen: he planned it two weeks in advance. he got access and got up there and did this whole thing and joined us by phone earlier.

>> i booked into a hotel in london and i had a little tipoff the baby was born. so then i got in a cab, i said to the driver, take me to the hospital where the new prince has been born. he took me up there like i was an official. i got out of the car. everybody clapped and i announced it. nobody said a word. >> gretchen: the 76-year-old actually is a town cryer. he's just not the buckingham palace one. >> brian: he's good, though. >> steve: he's a birth crasher. >> gretchen: the funny thing was, my mom said, mom what, did he say? they couldn't understand him his accent. but i think i'm just going to leave it as is. i'm not even going to tell him he's not the official one. it sound official, right? >> steve: it's a great story. all right. the president of the united states went to illinois yesterday. he spoke for over an hour. he outdid himself. it was the next to longest speech he has given as president of the united states. >> brian: hour and nine minutes. >> steve: yeah. it was very, very long.

what's interesting is -- >> brian: don't you find yourself staring at the guys in the background on long speeches? >> steve: absolutely. the woman behind him does do a lot. >> brian: really? >> steve: she's listening to the others. probably close to dozing off. the president really didn't say anything new, per say. but we did hear him say a lot of stuff we've heard many, many times. how many times have we heard him talk about investment? many. every time he talks about investment, he's really talking about spending and debt. so we've got a montage of what he said yesterday and what he has said through the years regarding investment. and we'll just hold up the investment sign every time he does it because that -- to remind you, investment equals spending. >> america has to make the investments necessary to promote long-term growth and shared prosperity. rebuilding our manufacturing base, educating our work force, upgrading our transportation system, upgrading our information network. new investments in education that will make our work force

more skilled and competitive. we need to invest in high-tech manufacturing centers, new investments in renewable energy and technology that create new jobs and new industries. laying down faster railroads and body band. we committed ourselves to investing in these possibilities. just imagine what it could do -- >> gretchen: so that's the word that's being used. but the greater message is that there was really nothing new in this speech. so if people were holding out hope or holding their breath to hear about new economic policies, then they really didn't get any of that yesterday. keep in mind, this is a span of a lot of speeches that he's going to be doing across the country and a lot of these swing states where the midterm elections will be very important for the make-up of congress in the senate and house. when you have your own people in your own party saying there is nothing new in these speeches, you know that there is a problem. >> steve: yeah. also he made it clear yesterday if the darn republicans don't help him out in the congress, then he's going to use executive action. this is one of those words they use because people like the idea

of action rather than what it really is, which is an executive order, because people don't like to be ordered around. >> brian: to add something else, that's going around congress. >> steve: absolutely. >> brian: they're saying the people you put in office, i'm going to go around them to do what i want. >> steve: absolutely. historically, it's kind of like what emperors used to do. i'm going to by pass the people you elected. i'm going to do what i want. so whenever they talk about executive action, it's really an order. it's really doing whatever he wants. >> gretchen: one of the ways to figure out the temperature of the public is to do polls and we have some new polls that have just come out now. one of the questions asked was, are you satisfied with how things are going today? 35%, only 35% of the american people say they're satisfied right now. 63% say no, they're not. that if you compare this back to april of this year and july of last year, you can see it was -- >> brian: an open ended question though. >> gretchen: yeah. >> brian: satisfied with what? the weather?

>> steve: let's focus in -- these are the people who determine who is going to be president. the independents: right now the president's job performance with independents is 25%. a year ago, it was 20 higher. you got to figure the independents are disappointed in the job growth, also disappointed in what the president referred to yesterday as phony scandals because they don't feel that the irs, the targeting of reporters and benghazi are phony scandals. >> brian: so let's talk about the economy. 1276 days left for the president to finish it out. >> steve: you're counting now? >> brian: the countdown clock. listen, we know unemployment seems stuck at 7.6%. it's high traditionally for a recovery, but it's a lot better than close to over 10% where we are. the question is, if you talk to economists and the people who do this for a living, the president's principles of building from the middle out don't make sense. he wants people to say, well, ceo's make too much. you don't make enough.

therefore, salaries are stuck. blame the rich people. but how are you supposed to build from the middle out? are you supposed to build plans, hire people? are you supposed to get a whole bunch of people who make $50,000, make them buy a big restaurant and hire people? you got to find some way to get the people investing in these situations and then get people to work there. and you got to do that by incentivizing people to start expanding and spending the money they have. >> steve: and that's just it because at this point, the economy is chugging along. the people who have money in the stock market are doing okay and housing is getting a little better. but when you look at job growth, it simply stinks. >> brian: let me quote the "wall street journal" because i think a lot of people find that a turn on. it says, if only mr. obama understood that before a government can redistribute wealth, the private economy has to create it. and they say the thing that is missing from the president's speech is the word growth. >> gretchen: also what was miss something what happened to detroit. that was a stark omission.

many people would say some of the policies that the president agrees with are what got detroit in trouble. but that was not in the speech yesterday. in the meantime, there is a big story going on in new york and i think it emanates throughout the country about anthony wiener, former congressman. remember he resigned in disgrace when it was revealed that he had a sexting problem. then they came out as a family, he and his wife and baby and said we revived our marriage. all has been forgiven. it's all over. turns out when they were doing the interview, he had started up new sexting relationships and that led to this press conference the other day where both he and his wife spoke and said look, now it really is over. so what is the latest way in which he's blaming his behavior? turns out in a letter to some of his supporters, he is actually blaming it kind of on his wife, saying that it's because of their rocky marriage. who wouldn't be in a rocky marriage after that? that because of that, that's why he continued to sext.

>> brian: i would say she's going to be more tolerant. >> gretchen: i would say she's probably looked up that word in the dictionary. >> brian: they're going through a rough time. so what do you do? go back to the thing that forced from you office and congress. >> steve: on the cover of the new york post, i went behind the curvy couch to get it and a columnist asked, houma, what's wrong with you? why does she not only stand by him, but defend him with words in public at that press conference the other day? what they write is that you've got carlos danger, screen left there. and then sonora danger, his wife. she admitted during that press conference essentially that they had colluded in a new lie at that press conference and so she sat there with anthony wiener when he said he had changed. she knew the truth. she was happy to lie. the question is, why would she do that to herself? >> brian: yeah. the thing is, i can't judge her. >> gretchen: i'm not going to judge her either 'cause they've got a small child in the ways

which complicates things. >> brian: i think when you're in that position, he's the one you should make an opinion on. how she react, i don't think you can judge. >> steve: there is so much public humiliation he has brought to the family. some day their child is going to grow up and might say hey,did y? he was a dog. >> gretchen: i'm never going to -- everyone has made mistake in life and i'm not going to judge whether or not they stayed together. i think that for me, it's why would you put yourself back into the political fray when you know that these types of things are still going on and they are going to be -- >> brian: here is what you guys are saying. ginny in florida says this, don't be surprised -- what happened to good leadership, characteristics like honesty, integrity and high moral standards? huh? >> steve: that's right. sue in virginia says, appears hillary has provided advice to mrs. wiener, possibly for hillary's future plans? read between the lines. houma did work for hillary for a very long time. you got to figure that the hillary team has been advising

the houma team. >> brian: she's a key advisor, but houma is gone, amentsored wiener. you don't see president clinton around. they don't want people linking that to -- this scandal with this scandal. i don't know how he's doing it. i guess with the money he had for congress and he's using it for the 895,000 he raised prior. who is writing a check to anthony wiener today? >> steve: good question. >> gretchen: we'll see how his candidacy continues to go. coming up, her car plunged off a bridge and she survives. amazing story. now this incredible new video. there she is on the rocks after she got out of her car under water. >> steve: how would you like to lower your mortgage payment and take home more money each and every months? legal expert bob massi next with your options. get out some paper and a pencil, bob is up hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow.

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>> steve: the statistics are grim. back in 2012, one out of every 72 houses in the united states fell into foreclosure and with many homeowners still struggling to pay their mortgages, is there anything they can do to stay afloat? the answer is yes. fox news legal analyst bob massi joins us every week to answer your questions. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: there is a way people can see relief, with loan modifications. first question is, what are loan modifications and how do they really work, because we hear the term and don't know what it is. >> well, we've talked about over the last couple of years with this mortgage issue and the reason i'm bringing it up today is to let the people know some things i wanted to look for. as in essence, this is what it means, it means that the original note that we signed when we bought our home, the mortgage, we're asking that lender to modify the terms so that we can stay in the home. and most of the time in the past, people had to be behind in their payments pretty much that

right now, and if you qualify for certain programs, you could become eligible for a loan modification, showing financial hardships and things like that. it's been a frustrating process for people, but there is a couple of things i want them to know and understand and that's what we'll get into next. >> steve: okay. in particular, you want us to highlight the most misunderstood concept with loan modifications is what? >> here is the thing, let's assume, steve, that your payment was $2,000 a month and based on your present financial condition and the hardship, the lender, the mortgage company, reduces it to 1,000 a month. they reduce the interest rate over a period of years and then it fixes for 30 years. here is the problem, most people never really read the contract. they're so excited that they can stay in their home, steve, that the difference in what you were paying and what you are paying based on a modification is tacked on with interest to the end of the loan.

so it becomes a balloon payment. so let's say you save 1,000 a month. that's 12,000 a year. but say you have a 30-year loan. figure out. so that is deferred and so many times people get the loan modification agreement, they don't read it. nobody explains it to them. they sign it, they send it back. they're excited. when they go sell their home when the values go up because some values are going up, they say, where did this balloon payment came from? i thought that was forgiven, when in fact, it is not per say, forgiven. >> steve: i'm glad you brought that up because a lot of people did not know about that. what about reducing principle? >> that's happening. that is happening. there are some lenders saying this, they say, hey, bob massi, if you make these modified payments for three years, every year we will reduce your principle by let's say 75,000. we'll reduce it 25,000 a year. but more often than not, steve, that's what our viewers -- that's the message today, please understand, more often than not,

that is not forgiven. it is not a principle reduction. please get somebody to explain it to you before you sign it. >> steve: you've got to read the fine print. that's why we have bob massi as our phone a friends when it comes to real estate stuff. today he's in san diego. thank you. >> thanks. >> steve: 20 minutes after the top of the hour. still to come, an urgents warning about sunscreen. it can catch fire? and it's the last place you would expect to see injustice, at the department of justice. an inside story on its involvement at those trayvon martin rallies when we come back $

>> brian: hi. quick headlines. deadly lightning strike in arizona has left two people dead. police say a married couple was overlooking the scenic arizona cliff when two lightning bolts hit them. a teenage boy struck and is expected to be okay. remember the guy who got burned when a grill set his sunscreen on fire? me either, but i'm going to start to remember as i read the story. now the f.d.a. is issuing a warning that five people have suffered similar burns after using sprays and getting too close to open flames. the reason many of the sprays contain alcohol which, of course, is very flammable. gretch? >> gretchen: when racial protests spill into american streets, the department of justice sends special agents to keep the situation calm to mediate. but we saw it happen in 2012 when george zimmerman was arrested down in florida and again this month when the jury found him not guilty. this community relations service is supposed to mediate

situations between both sides, but my next guest says they're actually more like advocates, potentially for one side. joining me is andre harris, former director for the department of justice's community relations service union. that exact unit we're talking about. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? >> gretchen: i'm doing just fine. so in a situation like the george zimmerman trial and the shooting of trayvon martin, this would be a typical kind of situation where this particular unit, the crs unit would be sent from the department of justice? >> it would be. crs was created in 1964 under the civil rights act to help the country at that time was -- there was a lot of racial upheaval. that's sort of the origins of the agency. and the agency, let me start by saying, there are some great workers at the agency and it has a great mission, but any agency's mission is only as good as the people implementing that

mission. >> gretchen: and you have a problem, i understand. so you ran that unit under george bush and were appointed by him. you left when president obama came into office. you have a problem with the gentleman or the person that they sent down to the zimmerman situation. who was it and why do you have a problem with it? >> well, yes, i was nominated by president bush and confirmed by the senate and i left under the obama administration. i had worked with many people at crs and the person, tommy battle, is 9 regional director in region 4, which would oversee that region. -- i don't have personal knowledge of what happened in this case, but i can tell you from my interaction with some people at crs, including mr. battles, is he has a very pro-minority perspective and

him, like other people, headquarters would have to remind some of these individuals that they are mediators. they're not advocates. >> gretchen: okay. so there is a difference obviously in many people's minds, most people, between mediation, where you're listening to both sides of the situation and trying to find calm, and advocating for one particular side. are you making the accusation that you believe that that advocacy happened in these mediation sessions in the zimmerman situation? >> as i said, i don't have personal knowledge 'cause i'm not at the agency anymore. what happened in the zimmerman situation, what i can tell you is people who are drawn to agencies like crs or any civil rights agency is that you get some good people and you get zealots and some of the people who come to these agencies bring their own bias or prejudice and many times that bias and prejudice is against anti-the

establishment or what they view as the white establishment, anti-law enforcement and antigovernment. >> gretchen: all right. former director of that particular mediation group, the crs, as it's known, thank you so much for your thoughts this morning. >> all right. >> gretchen: coming up, grab the tissues. the story behind this picture of a bald bush 41? i got to hear that one. and nicole petallides live for us with a fox business alert. >> good morning. coming up after the break, we'll have the weekly jobless numbers. the jobless claims coming out. we'll find out how our economy is doing, plus a little different kind of look at the royal baby and what it means about money, money, money. that's all coming up after the break she's still the one for you -

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do come into play in these weekly numbers and as i'm reading through as this is all breaking, that has affected our numbers for this week. how does it affect the markets in turn and what our fed does? when you talk about a weaker economy, the fed keeps pumping and building that liquidity and that keeps everybody happy and the stock market happy, et cetera, et cetera. so we did get mixed data. good news on durable goods and not so good news on jobless numbers. >> gretchen: we know the effect of the royal baby, what that has on the economy, at least in great britain. does it also have an effect on the u.s. economy? >> i think ultimately when you look -- first of all, the economists you talk to definitely feel that there is an economic impact that's a positive one from the royal baby. we all feel good, everybody loves to see young love and obviously see the future king. what's not to love about that? this is not anthony wiener texting and showing us naked pictures. >> brian: we prefer the baby. >> i prefer the baby. ultimately it does.

let's take a look at how the wedding versus the kate and will baby effect. ultimately start off here with the kate effect, then the royal baby. $400 million. that's the estimate that they're predicting. souvenirs and toys. gretchen, i know you got a souvenir. $121 million. the feel good factor, consumer confidence, and the betting market. the royal betting market, nearly $2 million. that's big bucks. as far as the wedding to compare that, obviously that was declared a public holiday. street parties, businesses were closed, and the boost in tourism. the one other thing i will note is that on the day that the royal baby was born, hear ye, a royal market high, 15,604. we did have a record high this week on wall street as well. >> steve: by george, it was a record. all right. nicole petallides down at the floor, thank you very much. >> brian: she usually walks right over to starbucks. today she'll have to walk off camera to starbucks.

>> gretchen: get her exercise another way. let's do some headlines. a massive trail derailment closing the port of tampa. 15 cars flipped over. three carrying high will he flammablest knoll. you can see -- flammable ethanol. they say everything is under control, but the biggest issue now is the rain. it will likely take them all day to clean up the mess. no one hurt. the cause is still under investigation. >> brian: new video showing a woman clinging to rocks moments after her car plunged 40 feet off the chesapeake bay bridge. >> hold on, okay! >> hold on! can you come up with little bit? >> brian: i spoke to morgan lake on tuesday. she recalled the moment she broke free from her sinking car after she went over the side and scrambled onto the rocks you see her at right now. >> i just felt as if god was to touch my shoulder and push me back against my car, my seat and

to relax me to push my right hand onto my seatbelt as hard as i could, take my left arm and place it where my driver's side window was and grab both sides of my window, swim out and push at an angle to get momentum to go up to the surface as fast as i could because i didn't think i could hold my breath any longer. >> brian: even though she's there on the rocks by herself, she says nearby fisherman pulled her onto the boat. she was then air lifted to the hospital. the ntsb says it's sending investigators to the scene to evaluate the safety of the bridge and it's tough for any bridge to withstand a truck plowing a car over the edge. >> steve: over the jersey barrier. meanwhile, president george herbert walker bush sporting a new look for a good cause. former president shaved his head in support of that two-year-old boy sitting on his lap. it's patrick and he's undergoing treatment for leukemia. he is also the son of a member

of president bush's secret service detail. many members of that detail also underwent the razor. the president and his wife have a personal connection to patrick's fight. they lost their daughter to leukemia 60 years ago when she was four years old. that is a beautiful picture. >> brian: great picture. it shows how tight and special the secret service is with the president. >> steve: sure. the president's affection for the people who work with him. >> brian: absolutely. let me tell you what's happening in sports. it involves the yankees. is a rod hurt or isn't he? it depends who you ask. he claims to have approval to play from another doctor. but that doctor says he never actually examined a rod. he just looked at his mri. the yankees say he may have violated policy by consulting another doctor on his own because the yankees said he has a bad thigh and can't play. he says my thigh is fine and i can play. this all happening as mlb weighs banning him from baseball for

life for doping. by the way, his second doctor that i rad reached out it treats patients suffering with low testosterone with steroids. fantastic. watch this dramatic video just released of a football player surviving a horrific crash. he ends up being okay. his motorcycle isn't. he only had minor injuries. he also amazingly happens to be the grandson of golfing legend jack nicholas. >> gretchen: he's lucky to be alive. time to get a weather forecast now for our thursday, friday and the weekend. hey, maria. >> good morning. and we're starting out in the northeast because out here it is a pretty chilly morning. a little unusual for the month of july. it feels more like september. some people waking up to temperatures only in the 50s across the interior sections of the northeast. we'll warm up to the 77 degrees the high temperature in new york city. now the tropics. we are so in hurricane season ask we have now tropical storm

dorian. it's over the open atlantic ocean, eventually it will head to the west northwest, moving at 17 miles per hour and the track will eventually take it just north of the caribbean. so north of puerto rico, north of the dominican republic, and the big question is, what is it going to do after that coming up early on tuesday morning? what we do know is that the computer models are in agreement that this is the direction the storm will be heading towards. otherwise taking a quick look at high temperatures across the country, texas, as usual, on the hot side. 101 for your high in san antonio. 98 will be the high temperature in the city of dallas. let's head inside. >> steve: beautiful day here in new york. we'll take it. thank you. >> brian: moments ago we showed you the new jobless claims. they took a jump. so what does that mean for our economy? senator joe manchin, a democrat, senator richard we are, a republican, react together next. >> gretchen: 122,000 reasons not to go to the car wash.

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>> gretchen: 43 minutes after the top of the hour. caught on camera, the moment a hot air balloon ride goes horribly wrong, cashing into a lake in the netherlands. it was dragged by a tide. two of the 11 people were injured. she left her $122,000 bentley at a car wash and returned to find it like this. the fancy car busted after a work accidentally drove it through a wall. he stepped on the gas instead of the brake. oops. >> brian: fox business alert. brand-new jobs numbers taking a jump from last week, up to

343,000 people filing for first-time unemployment claims. so what does it mean for our economy? it's been higher and it's been lower. joining us now, senator manchin and richard burr who have a bipartisan announcement to make. senator manchin, what do you think of the jobless numbers? you comfortable with that number? >> never comfortable with those numbers, no. when you have the energy cost and energy prices as low as they are in america, you have interest rates historical lows and we can't jump start and get this economy moving in a consistents way, we've got to work together. i think that richard and i have showed we can do that very well. and i think that's what you need to see more of. you need a financial plan and energy plan. we need to get our financial house in order. that's the big thing we have right now, to put confidence back in the market. >> brian: senator burr, are you seeing that plan from the president's series of economic speeches? >> brian, we're not. this is a rehash of 12 campaign. we don't need a campaign anymore. we need for people like joe and i to get together to bring new

ideas to the table to find a nonpartisan approach where everybody wins and the american people are the ones that win in the student loan deal. we haven't singled out a single group. we've applied it to everybody and brought down rates. i think that drives economic growth. >> brian: you guys entered into the plan, you pushed it forward and it passed. so where are we at now? for the kids about to enter college, concerned about the jump they experienced, where are the rates at? what's the compromise? >> it goes back to july 1. any student going to college, any undergraduate who needs to borrow money, whether they get a subsidized stafford or unsubsidized will pay 3.86%. a lot of our colleagues wanted to leave it up thinking that would be better in the long run. we didn't. the president basically started out with a market plan, market driven plan. once he started out in that direction, the republicans put theirs together. we put ours. we all got together, richard and i and made it work. so with that type of leadership

of the president can get some good solid financial plans and how we turn this country around to get a good basically fair tax plan, i think we can take it and run with it. >> brian: senator burr, you did also do that, pass your version of the immigration plan. so the senate on a bit of a roll after 4 1/2 years of staring each other down. back to real quick, what you're talking about, the president's speech yesterday, it went for an hour and nine minutes. i want to bring you to one area in which i think you both can weigh in on and see if you have the same reaction i did. here is the president. >> with this endless parade of distractions and political postures and phony scandals, washington has taken its eye off the ball. >> brian: phony scandals. when you look at the irs, benghazi, fast and furious, the nsa, do you think, senator burr, it's the right tact to call them phony scandals? >> brian, i'm involved in all but one of the investigations on committees. they're not phony. that's what congress is here to do, to provide oversight to the

executive branch and to the programs that we put into law. the realities are that we need to continue to find the answers to the questions of what went wrong. clearly the irs scandal continues to grow in washington and not in cincinnati. and i think joe is as concerned that we get the trust of the american people back in government as i am. what we need right now is not speeches. we need leadership. and i can assure you that growing this economy, putting the american people back to work, bringing in more revenue is going to enhance what joe and i and others can do in washington. student loans i hope is just the first step and i hope the house will pass it today or tomorrow or first of next week and students will put their minds at rest, but more importantly, their parents as well. >> brian: senator manchin, you're the type of person that republicans seem to reach for if they want a bipartisan agreement. does a line like phony scandals make it harder for you to do that? >> it makes it hard.

you know, human nature is that you want to work with your friends. it's hard to say no to your friends. richard and i have built a friendship and relationship. we have differences of opinions on things. we might have different beliefs, but we come together and put the country first, how does it really help something? we build these relationships. if i call him phony, if i start talking about him, if i go out and try to campaign against him, if i raise money against him, it's going to be hard for richard to sit down on monday and say okay, what can we do together now? that's just human nature and i'm not going to do that, he's not going to. we're working together and we want to get things done. that's what we were sent here to do. >> brian: do you it with the loans and with immigration, which sits in the house. th we appreciate it. have a great weekend. >> thanks for having us. >> brian: straight ahead, it went electric one of the country's richest cities to bankrupt. so what happened to detroit? john stossel will be here and he promises to talk out loud. but first let's check in with martha who is unbelievably hasn't slept since arriving from

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>> steve: it was once one of the richest cities in america. and now detroit is broke.

for the past 50 years, as you can see right there, while detroit's debt continued to balloon out of control, there was one thing in common. democratic leaders. joining the show, too time for that trend to change, john stossel from stossel on fox business joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. you trust the republicans so much more? >> steve: i'm just asking the question. what do you think? >> brian: don't attack steve. >> when you said that, i'm thinking george bush hired 90,000 new regulators and so much more. but i think republicans today are more fiscally responsible. and it's true, for year after year, the democrats said, we can promise you all these great things and -- >> steve: just vote for us. >> just vote for us. and yeah, the pension will come due, but i'll be out of office by then and this is true of a lot of other cities. and because the big three haven't done so well, it happened first in detroit. it's happening in other cities and in the united states. >> gretchen: what do you think should happen now? do you agree with this

bankruptcy situation? >> yeah, that at least allows a manager to say we can't pay for all this. and let go of some of the stuff. they still have a horseshoer in the water department. they don't have horses. the private sector, you fire people sometimes. 100,000 people were fired by ge and ibm when they got in trouble. then they recovered. detroit has twice as many government workers per citizen as other cities. >> gretchen: how do they rebuild, because even if they filed for bankruptcy, then they have to fire those workers? they have half the population that they once had. >> it's not the government workers that allow them to rebuild. they get in the way of rebuilding by overregulating. right now you can buy a house in diet and i'll show that tonight, for $1,500. some people want to come in and say, we have a -- they've woken up, it's cheaper here. >> brian: the question is, a lot of these people, gretch v retired. so they're on fixed incomes at 62, 68 years old and thinking, this is my retirement.

i go to florida for two weeks, and now all of a sudden, you tell me i can't count on that. >> it's tough for them. it their fault. but they went along with all these promises. the assumption oh, yeah, we aren't funding the pension plan that much, but we're going to make 8% a year. >> steve: if that only could hold true. what about the suggestion some of the president's critics say that what has happened in detroit essentially is what the president of the united states is trying to do with the u.s. economy? >> well, he wants to micromanage and punish business, regulate it. that's certainly what they did in detroit. they're even now, they're promising to close 20 unlicensed businesses a week, like this is a good thing. >> steve: there goes the tax base. >> and the government's going to spend more for all these wonderful liberal promises. >> brian: the one thing it does, if you're a leader and running that state, running that city, you say you can honestly say it's not my fault, i inherited this, so you could make the tough decisions and not feel the fallout legitimately because

you're correcting somebody else's mistake if you have courage. >> all true. but i want to challenge your language 'cause when politicians say, i'm running the city, or when is going to run america, we run america, free individuals. politicians preside over the government. sets some rules. we run the country. >> steve: we're supposed to. but they're the deciders, unfortunately. >> gretchen: they're elected by us, though. >> brian: we're going to watch stossel tonight at 9 whether you like it or not on the "fox business" network. >> i like it. >> steve: we like you. >> gretchen: we'll be right back, just three minutes away hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy.

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was started when the car hit an electrical box. we're going to keep an eye on that. in the meantime, that's going to wrap it up for today. tomorrow bret michael's performs in our all american concert series. >> brian: and the gator boys live. bill: morning, everyone. we want to start with a fox news alert because there is new video of this massive train derailment. we caution what you're about to see is something we rarely view, but on this train dozens were killed. a security camera catching the shocking moment when the train comes around a sharp corner, literally flies off the tracks. 78 dead, more than 100 injured. police have put the driver of that train under a formal investigation, which means the driver survived. so many others did not. i'm bill hemmer. welcome here to america's newsroom. that is tough to watch. martha: indeed it is. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. we watch