and america liveh a fox news al concerns of an al-qaeda terrorist attack triggering a worldwide travel alert and closure of two dozen embassies and consulates a round the globe. i am shannon in for megyn kelliy. it is serious and credible and could come at any time. the state department issued the warning after picking up signs of a al-qaeda plot against posts in the mideast and other countries. they are targeting public transportation systems and popular tourist attractions. there is 21 closed for sunday. including egypt and libya and afghanistan. >> the pentagon said security forces in the area are on heightened alert and actions are taken to protect personnel.

joining us next on this michael kay. thank you for your time. this seems like not your average warning. al-qaeda the notion of their mo. we don't know what the threat is or where it is coming from. as you alluded to in your program, the vastness of the area that is on heightened alert is significant. and something that is curious a lot of those embassies and consulate have operated in a fragile security environment. the last four months in baghdad have seen serious violence. heightened violence, which is increased and been a lot larger than what it has seen over the past now years and yet i am curious to understand just exactly what the threat is as

the days and hours move on. >> well, we have not only the worldwide travel alert. we have diplomatic places that are closed on sunday. that sounds like they have a very specific threat. and law makers have been briefed on this and support the movement and there is very specific information. how often do we get that. a lot of times the government will take action. it sounds like they pinpointed specific information in this case. >> i would agree with you on that analysis and the kind of paradoxes is specific and yet the region that is alerted is absolutely huge. it extends from sudan and africa all the way through asia. and i would question the specificity of the threats. i would be curious to know how it manifested its agencies. what they are doing is searching for a needle in the haystack

when they are doing this. they are listening in phone calls and answers e-mails and all high value targets and individuals that operate in the senior structures of al-qaeda. it is hard to pinpoint how the threat would manifest itself and the nature of the threat. >> to the average american who may be traveling overseas, one republican law maker telling our capitol hill producer, these are not normal and ordinary times. i am not telling people not to travel but i am saying it is not a normal time in history. >> no tis not. every since 9/11 occurred. we are getting used to operating in heightened threat environments. what is interesting about this, is that embassies and consulates are on a heightened state for many years now. what i would say, is that the state department is sensitive to the security of the

infrastructure and people post- benghazi. but benghazi was operate nothing a security vacouple and we still are having discussion and discourse about why ambassador stephens and his team was not pulled out early. but the nature of this threat in saudi arabia, there is a very firm and solid security infrastructure and good police force and army and good intelligence. if they are going to heightened it over and above what we have seen, i am absolutely curious to know what the intelligence is and as the situation develops. i would say my last thing as well, the state department do have a responsibility and you are absolutely right to u.s. citizens abroad as well. and i would be curious to hear the advice for the u.s. citizens and in the way they go about the

daily practices over this period. >> michael kay thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll have more from the live report from the white house about the specific threat and what security officials are doing before prayings are shut down in less than 72 hours. in benghazi, at least five ciowa a employees are kept silent about what happened in the september 11th 11th terrorist attack by having them sign confidentiality agreements. what do they know about the attack that killed ambassador stephens and three others. >> veterans of the intelligence community told fox news they have never seen the sensitivity of press leaks on the subject of benghazi. it is described to me as a nuclear blanket. fox news pentagon correspondent learned that the five ciowa a

employees who signed the disclosure and agreements signed it prior to the attack and new ones aimed at discouraging survivors from sharing stories with the news media. it is part of the standard process with employee or ex- employee who agrees to write a book. there is polygraph testing on employees in connection with benghazi. for month top officials are threatening to put anyone suspected of disclosure of lying about benghazi to a lie detector test. >> we are aware of the pattern of cordinating with the bosses before talking to congress. that is not consistent with the law. it leads to a belief not talking to congress and that is

obstruction and illegal. >> the cia afforded all officers to meet with congress. we are not aware of and cia employee who has experienced retaliation including nonroutine security procedures or preventing from concerns with congresses about the benghazi incident. the president said benghazi is a tragedy and thoroughly investigated and used by the republicans as a part of a phony scandal. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> new developments in the fight over the president's health care law as law makers prepare to head home for an august recess. they reached a deal for americans who are concerned about the cost. they happen to be congressional staffers. under the deal, the government will help staffers to pay for

the health care plan. it comes at a time when americans are foreful about the law's impact on their quality of care and taxes. when congressional job approval is hovering around 14.8 percent there are concerns. we'll have the answers, and host of power play. chris, i thought washington couldn't get anything done. >> absolutely, it took you being up in new york. you left town, i don't know what it was that you were doing. a bipartisan accord move worked out and president obama urged his administration to get involved and democrats and republicans came together to solve a problem. but wait, it was a problem about them. it was their staffs. this was not what the law intended to do. the law didn't intend chuck grassly, a conservative from iowa put in the provision, you

all if you want the law take the same health coverage it gives. democrats didn't want to do it then, but had to take it otherwise it would look bad. when they wrote the law, you remember when they did this. it was like trying to shoo in an octbuts. they hurry to pass this thing. and it didn't work out and as a result the people who work for the law makers were going to lose out on the same employer contribution to the health insurance that you and i and most americans receive. >> what i would understand it would be costly, the young staffers are saying i am not getting insurance altogether. we need them to pay in the system to help everybody else to cover the cost of insurance and the idea of union versal coveraging. maybe the experienced staffers left the hill altogether. it could be a mass exodus.

>> it is always a mass exodus. big business and nonprofits and political groups and k street are there trying to entice people who have two brain cells to work together to come out and lobby congress. and keeping those folks as long as they go sellout is pretty difficult. if you say extra $6,000 bill on your health care more will go. my golly, the optics on this thing. it is heennous. congress can't work together. you have a president who is preaching radical inaction in the face of republicans on the big issues and on the health care law and debt and deficit and spending. suddenly they roached bipartisan award and before they leave up to for a month. and the complains from the union members and states are crying out and asking for delays in the

law because of unforeseen consequences of the shoddy construction. when it is their own staffs, they react urgently. >> to take care of themselves on the way out of town is just insulting to a nation that feels so slighted. chris, good to so you. >> it will be better when you are home. >> thank you. >> a newspaper editor takes on the president's policy and now he is out of a job. the former editor for the chattanooga free press joins america live. and does the white house have a war? it is not just coa l that the white white is gunning for. the policys that will cost jobs and cost us to pay more for energy. >> the officer who pulled zimmerman over. what he did is now in question.

no where in particular? why do you say that?

>> there are new questions over george zimmerman's traffic spot in texas. and listen to the exchanges when zimmerman mentioned he has a gun in his glove box.

>> the texas police department wants to talk to the officer over the claim that he took a picture of zimmerman's license. the sound of an iphone camera click can be heard and the officer could face disciplinary action if he violated department rules. turning now to what white house critics are calling president obama's war on coal. a bipartisan group of law makers from virginia meeting with the epa this weekend over tough new regulations could cost the mountain state thousands of jobs and livelihood and culture that goes back generation. steve forbes joinsitous talk about that. >> thank you.

>> and there is a lot of concern in west virginia and that state primarily because this is generations back for them. the epa has an interest in protecting the environment. the folks say a sixth of the coal plants aroid elbecause of regulation that go too far. >> they do go too far. coal production of electricity is cleaner than before. a lot of existing plants will shut down. a hundred or more and so there is a war against coal and west virginia and other states have a right to be worried about it. >> when you shut down plants you lose jobs and that erodes the tax base. these decisions are not without consequences when it comes to real- life jobs. >> absolutely. natural gas is ramping up. but marketplace should determine and the epa has it in for oil,

and natural gas and in terms of production of oil and natural gas on federal lands. you will not get a permit for that. >> the epa administrator and energy secretary say all the above approach and the administration is open to different idea and we have a focus on green and renewable sources and law makers is not a letter to the president saying given the accumulative impact of mining delays, epa regulation and proposed cuts to the department of energy to the fossil program. your administration is trying to eliminate carbon fuels particularly coal. >> if you look at countries that went to renewables like denmark and germany. electricity is three times as much as it does in the united states. it is headed to more expensive

electricity and putting thousands of people out of work and junk science and lethal combination. >> 40 percent of the u.s. electricity is generated pie coal. joe ma nchchin said it was productive and encouraging but he said what they are doing is hurting us. >> if you are worried about carbon dioxidine though we can't live without it. the outpit are at levels in the 1990s thanks to technology we are moving a head. the epa is standing in the way and an unnecessary war on coal hurts us all. and the electricity bill is going to be much higher if these people have their way. >> the administration said there is no such war on coal. >> indeed there is. >> thank you so much. >> and described as a citizen

bother you? it is potentially offensive and city government workers to stop using it. that's not the only word on the list. and bagged salad linked to dangerous bug spreading over the country. and high profile democrats and very bad behavior and growing criticism for the party's war on women. coming up, how the white house is or isn't responding. >> the president so often speaks about respect for woman and giving a society with women function. there is high levels and jub juication and harrassment of women with the democrat party

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>> new questions about the source of a parasite that has 400 people in our country very sick. stomach bugs reported in 16 states so far. officials from two of those states think that the outbreak is linked to a prepackaged salad mix. others say they are not sure it is to blame. doctor, good to so you. we all need to eat more salad. >> i don't want to stop that today. >> and you don't want to assign scare or blame. who is responsible for tracking it down. the cvc or how does it work? >> it is the problem and kind of in the gap. centers for disease and

presentation is involved when people get sick. fda is involved when it is food. but before it is food, it is a vegetable and then the usda is involved and there is a grap between the usda and fda. organizations are involved but there is a big gap. we are talking about a parasite and one cell organism that does it all itself. it doesn't band together like colonies of bacteria. but the problem is and the advantages it is not communeicable for person-to-person. if you had it on your hands i wouldn't get it. >> it has to be ingested? >> no, it is in the voirment and it is on fruits and vegetables and lives in the environment and it becomes infectious and lodges in your small intestine and get watery diarrhea and muscle aches

and get dehydrated. if a salad mix starts with carrots and lettuce and tomatoes and issues with food handlers. it could start at a plant where the salad is made and by the time it was tracked it was off of the shelves. so they can't go back in time. i don't want people to think that it is the centers for disease control fault. by the time they are involved it is hard to reverse. >> it could be in your symptom a week before you would get sick. >> we have 400 cases already. but you will not get it by shaking someone's hand. it rarely comes to the united states. last time we had a outbreak of cyclo spora in 200 foif. if i check a stool and someone gets sick.

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new allegations of sexual harrassment against san diego's democratic mayor. a ninth woman is accused the mayor of inappropriate behavior saying he groped her in a fundraiser. his attorney suggesting that taxpayers should pay the mayor's bills. here's more, trace? >> the san diego city council is not going to pay the mayor's bills and making sure the payouts because of sexual harrassment lawsuits are paid by the mayor. but the mayor and the lawyers

say the city is liable for his behavior because it never provided sexual harrassment training. in a letter to the city the city scheduled the training and it . some would argue that the same goes for an dult male. and goes on to say, having conducted sexual harrassment training scores of times over the years, i have learned that many, if not most people do not know what is illegal sexual harrassment under the california law. in other words, how would the mayor know it was wrong to kiss an employee and know she could do a better job without her panties or grope her back side. this is the latest alleged victim followed by a city council member. >> hugged me too closely and put

his arm around me like this. and then he proceeded to slide his arm down and give a grab to my derier. >> the mayor caused the issues and now the mayor is asking for tax dollars to go to his defense. there is no way the citizen should be on the hook for his personal behavior. >> yeah, by the way, the mayor is set to enter sexual rehab. and speaking of anthony weiner, he got an earful in queens from the rival forum. >> my values represent the people of the city of new york, not this self pleasuring freak. he is. he is. this is simple as that. he is eating up all of the oxygen in the room. >> and you heard the boos there.

and most of the crowd, african-americans didn't approve for the slams against anthony weiner. >> is this life 7 or 8 or 9? i am not sure. we'll see. trace, thank you. >> okay. >> some folks are asking where is the president on the filener story and the anthony we upper sexting scandal. >> the president so often speaks about respect for women and creating a society where people function at the highest level. doesn't the fact that there is high level controversy and harrassment of women in the democratec party doesn't the president's silence say something in and of itself? >> the president is focused on what we can do for the middle-class in the country. i understand the allure of

issues like this in the media, but it is not what and i do understand it. and i am not critical of it. but the president believes that his job is not to comment on those issues, but focus on what he can do to get the economy growing faster. >> let's debate it. sally cone is a fox news contributor. and taylor is founder and political prospect. welcome to you both. >> to give credit where it is due. house minority leaker nancy pelosi spoke out weeks ago and thought the behavior was unacceptable and weiner and filener need to think about how they treat women. the debbie waszar- man shutwheredidn't say anything until after the press conference. you think the democrats so tough

on the gop's war on women. >> there is a lot in your question there. two things, first of all, i would like to see politicians in general comes out against sexual abuse and sexual harrassment and unfortunately we are seeing it as a bipartisan issue. it is republicans doing this and democrats doing it out of office. that is no brainer. i want to draw a distinction with that and war on women which is public policy that is advanced and limiting women's access to contraception and restricting the ability of women to make decisions of over their own bodies with their doctors. that is a war on women. and that is part of the bipartisan sexism. >> with all due respect. limit on contraception deciding to pay for it or get it for free. there is no limit to contraception.

it is whether you are going to pay for it. >> there was a discussion about that. >> no amount of contraception can speak up for what is happening in the democratic party. there is an epidemic plaguing your party. elliott spitxer and anthony weiner and the second most powerful democratic paid hush up for the democratic colleagues. there is an epidemic plaguing your party and everyone noft just nancy pelosi should stand up and condemn the men for the action. >> i agree with you. i have come out against weiner the first time and came out against him on the second time and people can read that and other democrats are doing so. but casting it as a democratic issue ignores viter and sanford who retains position.

i am not trying to make it a partisan issue. i think men and women are fed up with men in leadership positions treating women this way. and not make it partisan ship. >> if we are decrying it across the board, yeah, we should be united in that. but because there was such a slam on republicans for the way they have treated women and they have done things inappropriately. it crosses party lines. is it time for the top democrats, the president to stand up and say it is not okay. these guys can't operate this way? >> absolutely. shannon, and sally, when todd a iken said when someone hinted at mason-in-lawingency funding was withdrew. we haven't seen the president call for anthony wein to drop

out of the race or elliott spitxer out of the race. the republican party -- rejects these men who do that. >> mark sanford and david viter and there is a lot of examples. >> but talk about where we are now with these two, right now 2013, we are talking about two democrats, dow think it is appropriate for the president to weigh in and say. >> i love the second guessing of the president, i know there is plenty of instances when he speaks out on a number of issues and my friends on the right accuse him of exploiting an issue and trying to ride the moment. the guy can't win with his critics, the larger issue. voters want two political parties in this country that respect their rights and medical

choices and respect economic choices and economic opportunity and really that is what people care about and everything else -- >> but respect their rights and not be harassed in the work place. we'll have to leave it there. saly and kayly, thank you both. >> thank you. >> using the word "citizen" can get you in hot water if you work in one major city. we'll tell you where. he critized and now out of a job. he joins america live to tell you the story. and the u.s. embassies set to close. there is the spreading of the al-qaeda alert and warning for an american traveling abroad right now. being sixteen, alex thinks he's invincible. his dad knows he's not.

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>> since when is the word citizen offensive right here in america? seattle city government citizen and brown bag. we have reported now new york department of education banned down saurs and birthdays and halloween and other banned topics. we welcome to all of you. >> and what do you make of this. >> i am in austin and i know it is a complicated issue and i have to borrow karl rove's white board to make it clear. >> you can't say white board. >> this is ridiculous. >> she's holding up the word crazy written on the white board. >> it is crazy. what do these folks in seattle

have. how much time do they have to come up with these types of bans and i appreciate we all need to use language that is uplifting and even if you are not an american citizen. you are an aspiring citizen. and the fact that they would try to ban brown bag? come on, do they not like sandwiches or balonnie sandwiches. there is language to work on to use more positive and not sexist or racist, but this is outrageous and crosses the line. >> seattle's office for civil rights said the word citizen should be avoided because many people are residents and not citizens. >> any time a government agencies trying to make the public perception of how the. os act by what they say and do is a good thing. office of civil right system

protecting people and they are not trying to have censorship and limit what people can say, they just want the employees, while on the job, not during their free time or not working and in their private lives, they can say or do whatever they want. they want on the job employees can conduct in a certain matter. the way they dress or speak to the public. and if you are trying to put restrictions to to address in a respectful way and not offend anybody, how is that a bad thing? >> how is using the word citizen offensive? are we so teleicate that we can't use the word citizen? >> i feel like i am sandwiched in the middle here. as an expert. i write a lot about the importance of language and there are reasons to choose your words correctly. to get the accurate word.

resident versus citizens are two different words that mean two different things and the seattle commissioner wants resident because that refers to everyone in the municipality. when i say weather service bulluttin. resident of did your ham and not citizens which is a subset. that is the accurate term resident. when you get to brown bag, i am between both parties here. if people are feeling that it is a disrespectful term listen to that. manners is based on respect and si vif ilit. but the brown bag in term was lunch and the way it used to be used is very far apart and so intent and context are co to our use of language. >> ja jehmu. this is very thought police.

the way you change language and the words you ban and phrases that you ban, that affects behavior and seems like it is shaping an under lying policy in places like sanctuary cities where people here not here legally are able to collect benefits. but back to law school in the egg shell plaintiff and someone so delicate and anything could destroy them, that's not america. >> it becomes a slippery slope. those resident in cities that may be sanctuary citizens are all aspiring citizens. that's what they are striving for and why not use the word to describe them broadly. and when it comes to the brown bag term, there were brown bags before african-american decided to have paper bag parties and test your skin color and there

is a real need to have a conversation about colorism and class within the african-american community, but banning the term "brown bag" doesn't come close to addressing it. it doesn't nothing but put critics on the other side of it. saying i will not listen to this. this is beyond the pale. this is out reasonablingous and ridiculous and too sensitive and that shuts down conversations and shuts down people from listening and that is the risk that these folks in seattle are going down. when they put the bans and have them to be so sensitive. you will have people reject it and say no, i can't go there. brown bag citizen. >> and adam you are shaking your head? >> no, i disagree. look at the zimmerman verdict and racial divides. if you can do things that are inclusive and not exclusive.

certain terms may make people feel awkward and go to the historical term bag" it has a very negative connotation for people of color. >> not me. not me. >> if you can use different terms. you are not everybody and there may be people of color who are offended by that. i think everyone's feelings should be taken into consideration and not just a limited segment. if there is a way to do it where it doesn't offend people, why not do it? who is it hurting? we're not censoring the use of it but just when they're working. if they want to say it when they're not working, that's one thing but if they can't say it when they are working, what can they lose by that. >> i promise you african-americans are more worried about other things than brown bag. they have other issues they're worried about. >> perhaps plastic bag may be the choice.

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a heart-warming moment humanity and humility. this is a corp staying to encourage a 9-year-old falling from the group. he encouraged him and was responded to with praise and humbly responded i was just doing what any man would do, but thank you. in the wake of newtown, connecticut, one school district in arkansas made national

headlines with the controversial decision to armor than 20 teachers in an effort to make their schools more safe.te's at shutting down the plan. trace gallagher with more. >> to illustrate the problem the school districts are having around the company trying to secure their campuses, we have seven states in this country that passed laws allowing teachers and administrators to carry weapons but implementing those policy is very difficult. there is a school district in colorado allowing couple to carry weapons and arkansas was trying to do that one better by actually giving 20 teachers and staff members guns to carry on campus. all of those who carry guns would have received 50 hours of police training and all would have remained unidentified. the superintendent of one arkansas school district says the previous policy was to lock the door and turn out the lights. he says that's no longer good enough. liste

listen. >> the world we live in now, you have to protect them and you can't throw rocks when they have weapons. >> rocks don't do the trick. but now the democratic state attorney general in arkansas has decided the state law that allows security guards on campus to be armed does not allowed teachers to be armed so the plan is out. the other problem the school districts around the country are having, they can't get insurance to cover teachers to carry guns. even if they can in some cases, get the insurance, it's too expensive for them to afford so the problem goes on. getting these policies in place becomes difficult at best. shannon. >> sure does. trace, thank you very much. a newspaper edditor fired days after writing a scathiing article on the president's jobs plan, and he will be live with his story just ahead. a new threat forces the u.s. to issue a worldwide travel alert and shut down embassies

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this is a fox news alert. the white house now monitoring security threats overseas forcing u.s. embassies and consulates to close down this weekend and expanding warnings for americans traveling abroad. it is a brand new hour of american live. i'm shannon bream in for kelly. they have credible information al qaeda may be planning attacks in the days and weeks to come. at least 21 embassies and consulates say they will close in sunday including egypt, afghanistan, iraq, libya and kuwait du toe to a threat they' calling serious and credible. our diplomatic agencies may be

closed longer. wendell. >> reporter: they're closing 21 embassies and consulates in 17 countries across the middle east and asia on sunday and possibly longer. lawmakers who are briefed on it say it's serious and while it's historically been the responsibility of the host country for embassy security. the chairman of house security says he has just put in better qualified high police. >> we saw what happened in benghazi. we saw what happened when the local militia absolutely evaporated before the attack. instead we changed that process for contracting. no longer does it have to be lowest bid. it will be on best value, not lowest price. >> reporter: state department officials don't directly tie last year's attacks in benghazi to sunday's closings but say

they are taking the action out of an abundance of caution. those in the middle east have been repositioned to better respond to attacks and threats elsewhere. with the contract iing of the national security agency data mi mining drawing criticism from both democrats and republicans says sometimes this early warning is what it produces. >> this is what american intelligence is supposed to do. we spy on foreigners. the greatest criticism one can make of our foreign intelligence gathering is there's not enough of it. >> reporter: bolton says what concerns him is that the travel warning could extend through the end of the month. shanno shannon. >> wendell, live at the white house. thank you so much. the state department says it is taking these threats out of an abundance of caution and what kind of attack could they become? we will look at this new terror threat a little later in the

hour. major developments on capitol hill today. house lawmakers turning the heat up on acting irs commissioner daniel wuerffer werfel and thosg americans' identities to pull in billions of american tax dollars and reports drug dealers are giving up trafficking to get in on this scam because it's so easy and can pull in so much cash. mike emanuel has details from washingto washington. >> it didn't take long for tempers to flare in the acting investigation of the irs. daniel werfel was one of those brought in to talk about the problem of identity theft and emotions erupted over how cooperative he's been over the current investigation. >> you've delivered less than

1%, excuse me for standing because i kind have have to get over your stack. you've delivered less than 1% of the documents to the ways and means committee. >> i disfree with that conclusion. >> i issued subpoenas to treasury secretary jack lew to compel the irs to turn over all communications from key irs figures from january 2009 to now and communications from the irs to the white house from february 2010 until now. after the fireworks, werfel defended his team. >> the notion we're impeding or instructing is completely false. in fact, the opposite is true. we are involved in a thorough comprehensive effort to cooperate with all the congressional committees asking for questions and witnesses and asking for documents. there's substantial facts in d evidence that demonstrate our full cooperation. >> a key oversight democrat tried to shift the blame from werfel to inspector general j.

russell george. >> you were about to hand us document, the same kind of documents mr. issa just asked abo about, but then the i. dpchlt says no? the i.g. says no. >> the house voted 232 to 185 to eliminate the irs's role in implementing the president's health care law. the irs is due to review income eligibility and give out tax credits and many lawmakers say the agency should not be trusted. shannon. >> mike, thank you very much. >> new concerns about a government run cell phone program critics say is ripe for fraud and abuse. the so-called "lifeline" program was created to provide phones to individuals who had no other way to communicate. in recent years there have been plenty of reports that people receiving dozens of subsidized phones with many unable to prove

their eligibility for those phones. last year, the agency said they were taking steps to reduce the fraud and one reporter who was able to sign up for more said there are major problems. jillian joins us live. >> good afternoon. >> i see you have three phones with you. >> i do. right here. >> who's paying for those? >> it's the federal government. we know that means really taxpayers are. >> your piece, people really should read it. it would be funny if it weren't so disturbing because it is taxpayer money. >> exactly. >> you seem to have no problem going around -- you were actually approached by people who said, do you have your phone? can i help you get a phone. tell us what happened. >> that's correct. i was curious and i, too, heard the stories about fraud and abuse and people with 30 phones in their bag. i went to a food stamp office with vendors who approach you and say, have you got your obama phone yet? i'm a journalist and believe in the law.

i didn't want to lie. i said, no, i haven't gotten one yet. would you like one? are you 1 welfare? i'm not on welfare but boy would i like to be? they had me signed up in under five minutes, a picture id and my address and the phone arrives two weeks later. >> from what i understand there are supposed to be checks in the system so people can't sign up for four, five, 10 cell phones. >> that's correct. there are several problems i noticed. the first is this is supposed to be for people who couldn't afford a basic phone. i went up talking really loudly on my smartphone and they still signed me up. i managed to get eight different applications and got three phones even though you only are supposed to have one per household and only caught it was a duplicate once. pretty incredible. >> they say they have implemented comprehensive reform to combat waste and fraud and on track to save $200 billion by

the end of 2012. $2 billion. they want to preserve it. what some people may not know if you're lying on these forms federal forms saying you need assistance and eligible, you really could be looking at a perjury charge. you say that never came up. nobody ever asked you if you were telling the truth or prove you were eligible? >> no. i didn't have to submit anything proving my welfare status or income level. nobody mentioned perjury at all. it's incredibly easy to get ahold of these phones. that's a fundamental flaw in the program. phone companies get a huge sudsidy and get get new customers courtesy of the government. the problem began when the federal government got in the business and the cell phone companies got in the welfare business. that's convoluted and not the way it should be and problems are inevitable. >> there are good foundations behind this program and meant to make sure people had a phone and can call 911 and didn't have any

other way to do that, didn't have a landline. there are good foundations. the problem is where we end up now. there is an incentive for the wireless phone companies to make sure they get as many as they can out the door including your three. >> yes. there is a problem. you can't take a landline and sell it at a pawn shop for 40 bucks and you can do that with a cell phone. since 2008 when cell phones became available as part of the lifeline program costs more than doubled, 822 million, i think, in 2008, now it's up to nearly 2.2 billion. that's a huge increase. >> we do have those numbers. it didn't take long over 10, 11 years time it nearly quadrupled the spending going on with these. i understand one of your phones still works. we can make a phone call. >> one of them system works. i deactivated two of them yesterday. i didn't want to cheat the taxpayers. >> you're not on assistance. isn't that part of proving you

need the phone? >> you would think so. i am not on welfare of any kind. i could support a family of eight and still not meet their income eligibility requirements. it's insane. i'm horrified they didn't check. no du diligence done and no incentive to do due diligence. >> did you hear from the phone companies themselves? >> tracfone said they will launch an investigation into some of the problems i mentioned in my article. whether that ends up into anything, we'll see. i think the problem is integral in the program, that the incentives are in how the program runs. >> good goals in the program and the fcc says they're on it. >> thank you so much. concerns of an al qaeda attack and worldwide travel alert closing two dozen consulates all over the globe. we will explain the massive response and credibility of the threat. a local newspaper editor

finds himself out of a job after a scathing article on president obama and his job's plan. why he says his bosses bowed to political pressure. and a professional cheerleader now in hot water after being accused of beating up her boyfriend. the shocking 911 call coming up. >> we just got into a physical fight. we had never got into a physical fig fight. he smashed my head into tile. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein!

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across the country needs, like widening route 27 here in chattanooga. >> that was president obama laying out his vision for america's economic future at a warehouse in tennessee earlier this week. that prompted a chattanooga times editor to write a title and i quote take your jobs plan and shove it, mr. president, your jobs policy has harmed chattanooga enough. the "-times" has fired him and mr. johnson says his boss bowed to pressure. below johnson. and his side of the story. thanks for coming today. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> what the paper is essentially saying at some point that headline was edited. you were out of policy when you changed it. what is the policy? >> well, at the time i wrote the piece, it was not uncommon, perhaps once a week, we would have a place holder or a filler

headline and come up with something better at deadline. that is the case in this situation. i thought, you know what would be a good title for an editorial bashing his jobs plan. i thought of the johnnie paycheck song, "take this job and shove it." i put that title on there. the next day i was brought in and told that title may have offended a few people. in the future, if you will change a headline at the last second, run editor. i said, that was fine, i understood that and happy to abide by that policy. >> at that time, you still had a job? >> that's true. yesterday, fast forward two days, i spoke to the editor and brought in and i was fired because i violated that policy. again, that policy didn't exist until the day after i wrote the piece. i was fired for a policy that didn't exist. >> you say this is about the content. tell us a little bit about what you wrote about and why you think it was political pressure that ended your job there.

>> sure. first of all, if i had written this piece eight years ago and been critical of president bush, if it had said president bush instead of president obama, i would have a job today, that's the fact of the matter. i was very critical of the president's new jobs plan based on his failures with the stimulus and his other plans to try to get the economy going. obviously he's been unsuccessful at creating jobs, especially here in chattanooga. to be honest, i was hired to be a conservative free market limited government editorial page writer. my page is one of the most conservative in america. i was upholding that tradition and ultimately i was fired for that. >> the paper says the free press page is often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies as an explanation for the fact it wasn't the content that got you fired. >> right. i think in this case, they caught some heat because it happened to be the day that the president was in town. i think that a lot of his

support supporters, you know, claim that racism was involved because the president is black, even though it didn't talk about his race whatsoever. i'm on the tennessee civil rights commission for goodness sakes. that didn't have anything to do with it. his followers applied a lot of pressure to the paper. rather than standing up and saying it may not have been the most tasteful headline ever but quoting a country song, just deal with it. this is the voice of a conservative editorial page. instead, they fired me. >> do you worry about the issue of freedom of speech, freedom of different viewpoints, sharing that with the readers there in character tho chattanooga? >> i worry about that across the media period. again, if this had criticized a republican, then i would still have my job today. that's just -- the problem with criticizing obama is that his fans, his supporters, his toties are so apt to call and apply

pressure to people. people in the media really wilt to that pressure whereas they don't necessarily listen when people call in and complain about republicans being slighted or criticized. >> any regrets or do you stand by this headline and all? >> no. i was hired to basically promote what i believe in, which is limited government, free market solutions, individual responsibility, you know, liberty. and what i wrote represented what i believe. so i was proud to call obama to task and i would do it again tomorrow. >> i understand this comes at not the best time for you. you're about to get married. >> yeah. my poor fiance, we're getting married in two weeks. there are better times to get fired, so hopefully i'll find another platform to advance my beliefs and liberty. >> i got fired from my first tv job. they told me i was the worst person they had ever seen, i would never make it. sometimes getting fired will

push you to another thing and you make it. we wish you all the best and it's a good story and let us know where you land. >> thank you, i appreciate it. coming down hard on the irs commissioner today and a slew of tough questions and trying to stop the embattled director and the health care law. a cheerleader makes an urgent call asking for help. now, she is the one facing charges. we'll explain. >> we got into a physical fight, got into a physical fight. my significant other, he smashed my head into tile. hey linda!

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if you thought politics on capitol hill was a contact sport, washington has got nothing on taiwan. check it out. a dispute in taiwan turning into an all out brawl, lawmakers exchanging punches, throwing water bottles, some merely pushing and shoving. the scuffle over a national referendum whether to build another nuclear power plant there. from the political battlefield to the football field, meghan seemed to be doing it all. she may have a new challenge on her hands, the nfl cheer leader and army veteran has been arrested and accused of assaulting her boyfriend. trace gallagher has more from the newsroom. >> it was the second time she made big news.

first, they did a local profile on her that she was a cardinals cheerleader and she served 16 months in iraq and kuwait, right? that was the big news. then the woman who cheers for her team and fought for her country. listen to a little bit of that. >> i had an awesome friend basically said, what do you have to lose? just do it. to be at this age and still be able to do this and do it after taking such a long break, it's been really exciting. >> so she's a cheerleader and turns out she's also a fighter. listen to the 911 call now where she tells the police dispatcher her boyfriend is hitting her. >> what's going on there? >> my boyfriend became abusive. we just got into a physical fight. i've never gotten into a physical fight. he smashed my head into tile. >> when the police arrived on scene, they noticed both the cheerleader and boyfriend were drunk. the boyfriend told police she

found a text message on his phone from a woman and she didn't approve. he says he didn't hit her and she went after him and he had the videotape to prove it. watch this. >> i want you to watch this, officer, please, if you would. [ screaming ]. >> stop it. >> kind of hard to understand there, but that was her screaming. she was arrested, charactered with three counts of assault. and, of course, there's the mugshot. not all that flattering. shannon. >> it's a tough story. all right, trace. thank you very much. the u.s. government issuing a global travel alert, closing nearly two dozen embassies and consulates all around the world because of an unspecified threat. we'll take a look at what's

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embassy embassy a disturbing look into the mind of the accused ft. hood shooter. major nidal hasan renouncing his u.s. citizenship on the eve of his court-martial. the army psychiatrist is charged in a 2009 rampage that left 13l others injured in a post. >> nadal hasan's own words make it all but crystal clear his shooting rampage was not an act of workplace violence as the government termed it but an act of jihad one hasan is proud to publicize. he is representing himself in his upcoming trial he asked his attorney to deliver these

handwritten hand typed correspondence to fox news. is there an inherent and irreconcilable conflict in american democracy. we the people govern according to what we the people think even if it is right or wrong and it specifically goes against what the almighty god commands and america's ban of cruel and unusual punishment bans flogging of a fornicator or severing the hand of a thief that is approved by allah. >> she's saying he's a homegrown extremist and somebody that identifies with al qaeda's ideology and doesn't necessarily mean he's following al qaeda's orders. >> one of the shooting victims reacted this way to hasan's writing. >> i think -- i'm obviously disgusted as to what he said. i think people need to understand and know what his motivations were, the fact this

was a terrorist attack. i think the fact the government has tried to down play this all alo along, hasan is openly admitting it, makes me angry, makes me disgusted. we have been fighting to have hasan's actions that day considered an act of terrorism. so that those killed and wounded could be recognized as somebody who was killed and wounded in combat. >> hasan may have another motivation, to appeal to an audience abroad, to inspire others to follow in his footsteps. the judge in his upcoming trial declined to impose a gag order on hasan so he was free to disseminate these writings. shannon. >> thank you very much. i can speak for myself. i prefer to stay with the current policy that i'm pleased with, rather than go through a change if i don't need go through that change.

>> that was the head of the irs. the agency that's going to be charged with enforcing obamacare saying he'd rather not get his own health insurance system from the company charged with the overhaul one day before house republican voted for the 40th time to derail obamacare and pass a bill cushing the irs's role implementing the overhaul. a republican strategist and blogger, alan colmes, we know him and love him, host of the al alan colmes show. we know you and also love you. the head of the irs enforcing this says i prefer to stay on my current plan as i'm sure millions of americans would like to but may not get to. >> you know that poll that said 77% don't want that individual mandate. 82% of the people -- i have the numbers here don't deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. 61% like the fact they can stay in thei insurance.

and 76% like the idea more than 1 in 15 workers are are required to give insurance to their workers. no lifetime or yearly limit, individually, people love the parts of this plan. >> but i would also like to have my own private island and that's not going to happen because somebody has to pay for this stuff. >> that's all fine and good what you're saying. that's not fair. they're getting a cadillac of health care. we get a pinto. we don't even get to pick. >> alan. >> and people die. what's worse is we are paying for 75% of their cadillac. >> you know what you're doing now, you are now paying for all people who don't have insurance. without an individual mandate mitt romney, this is the argument he used in massachusetts, this is socialism the way he used it prior -- let me finish that thought. the states -- you know, the idea of it being socialism now we are paying those who have insurance for those because of increased

premiums that don't have, we are subsidizing those people. in terms of states, the states have done exchanges like maryland and new york are actually lowering premiums. those states that actually followed the law, the premiums are lower than they were. >> if it was so good, why wouldn't congress take this deal? >> you have a bunch of republicans in congress. >> the democrats voted this through, they should be the ones setting the example of all people. >> i agree. fine with me. >> it's terrible. they're out in august, so busy with their vacations in all of august. >> that's your republican congress with a 10% approval rating. >> and the senate is controlled by democrats. >> you just said the house voted for the 40th time. maybe the 40th time is the charm. >> people should be outraged. it's not fair to the rest of americans. >> the fact there are now a number of major union groups getting together taking a full page ad, lobbying the white house and nancy pelosi and harry reid saying this is not going to be good. our folks will lose plans we

like and decimating the idea of a 40 hour work week from the union. >> i'm so happy to hear the right wing is now in line with unions. unions have traditionally been against this. >> no, no, they helped those get passed. >> at the time. >> at the time. different now. >> one of the reasons unions oppose this because they offer health care, that's one of the inducements to get people in the union. >> better health care just like government workers. >> you approve it? >> no. >> make up your mind. which is it. >> that's the whole point. unions want to make their choice and government workers wanted to make our choice and we want to make our own choice. >> you want to remove unions from -- >> they were instrumental getting it passed and were lobbying. they have concerns, maybe that's worth listening to. >> my key point, if you go item by item the elements in the affordable care act, people support them. >> of course, they do. they aren't free and somebody has to pay for them.

>> the whole thing certainly elements maybe you don't support, mostly no punishment for pre-existing conditions, portability, no lifetime limit, stay until you're 26. lower premiums in those states which have followed the law. >> in a perfect world, yes, everybody would be able to get these things. we know there are price tags attached to all of these things. i want to ask you about a lot has been made of senator max baucus a democrat and said if it is implemented the wait is now it could be a train wreck. just days ago senator harry reid agreed with that. do you think democrats will move on any of the key sticking points. congress got it done making sure with the help of office of personal management congressional staffers forced to be under this will still get a federal subsidy, do you think democrats admitting there are problems with it are open to changing portions of it? >> i think they will be. that was always the case and there are problems because there

are implementing stopping it. >> wait -- >> no problems where they couldn't go as quickly as they like with certain portions of the law. >> dede, the supreme court did uphold it. >> that's unfortunate. it was wrong. americans want to have a forced. guess what. congress won't be forced. they will be able to take whatever they want, have this great health care and most average americans don't get a choice. it's not right or fair. >> do you support a plan to make sure everybody have the same health care? >> i think everybody should have a choice. this removes choice. it's not right to have a class system. that's what's happening. members of congress can get whatever they want and we cabincan't. we can't. it's not fair in america. >> i'm all about pro-choice republicans. >> choice for health care. >> only for health care. >> choices for all kinds. >> but making responsible choices and choices that will be

made along the spectrum before, during and amp. there are all different kinds of choices, whether talking health care or otherwise. what about young people, we need them to buy into this if the law is self-sustaining, workable. a lot of them will say, i can't afford to get in the exchanges and don't want to do these things and better to take a chance. >> that's what they did in massachusetts and mitt romney ran away from it when he was running for president because it worked in massachusetts, getting away from the system that's the kind of socialism republicans decry because we won't be supporting those who have insurance and those who don't. >> if young people don't buy in, they say i will take the emergency room route where is the funding going to come from. >> eventually, you will still have a lot fewer people -- does that make sense, a lot fewer, people's first line of care is the emergency room costs much more money and you have less of that in the affordable care act. >> people can't afford it right now. that's the concern, businesses,

people going to part-time jobs, they can't afford the obamacare, it's not the affordable act unaffordable. >> that's the reason for the delay of the implementation. >> if they're going to delay the employer mandate why not delay the individual mandate. if everybody involved with this from the top down is saying, it's not ready. >> the key the supreme court upheld those who pay in mean all of us get lower premiums, that's what's already happening with the exchanges implemented. >> if everybody gets in the program. >> they will, just like what happened in massachusetts. >> members of congress are not taking obamacare because it's not a good program. they have a better program. why shouldn't all americans be able to -- >> i agree. >> they will be forced to the exchanges and still get a federal subsidy. >> americans, we have to pay 75% of congress's health plan. it's absolutely outrageous. >> and do single pair like congress has. >> we know what alan wants all

along. >> i just said it let's do single payer like congress is on you're supporting. >> i think everyone should have a fair shake and congress should not be able to have their own health care where americans cannot have that option. y >> you agree on the underlying principle but not implementation and how it works in reality. >> thank you both. potential terror threat to u.s. embassies and the consulate and where may be coming from. a popular halftime and a bitter battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. ♪ bitter battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. bitter battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. r battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. time and a battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. atime and bitter battle breaking out between an air show and the faa. bitter battle breaking out

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embas embassies and consulates to close this weekend, calling it credible and serious. and they will close on sunday including egypt, libya, afghanistan, also issuing a global travel warning for all americans. a journalist and fox news contributor joins us to talk about this. good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> what do you make of this? it seems like there's a very specific warning and serious threat behind this. >> it's specific and broad at the same time. we know the state department has a credible threat and have every reason to do what they're doing. they might know more than they're telling the public but they're telling them. it's not just consulate employees, they're telling all americans whether traveling or studying or living abroad to sign up to get alerts from the state department and consulate

and it's a credible threat everyone should be taking seriously. >> a number of lawmakers are saying we can't tell you all the details but doing a much better job connecting the dots than we have in the past. how much do you think what happened in benghazi where we lost four americans is influencing this decision? >> i wouldn't say the state department is overreacting seeing what happened in benghazi. i think benghazi had much to do with this in terms of al qaeda or the other threats, looking at the u.s. and considering that a huge victory where the u.s. did not really retaliate towards the people that perpetrated those attacks. >> they're still on the run. >> still on the run and giving interviews and becoming celebrities and giving interviews. check one for our team. at the same time, our slow reaction to terrorism globally, our sitting in our offices in washington d.c. and saying that the war on terror is over has not really served us. that's the bottom line here. the take home message for us americans is the war on terror

is not over. i hate to be sitting here kind of trying to be a fear monger on a friday afternoon. this is a very credible threat, much larker than what we know about it because they don't want to be specific but there is specific target here, but they're closing ing 21 embassie be sure. copycat attacks coming up on 9/11, whether you want to say the anniversary of 2001 or 2011, coming up on the end of ramadan, a time of celebrations. you wouldn't know it looking at egypt or syria, during ramadan, the holy month of fasting there shouldn't be war or fighting and there has been in these countries with a lot of political turmoil. wednesday ends the holiday and thinking sunday might be the beginnings, hopefully not, of other planned plots. >> i notice in a lot of these countries we do have a very robust diplomatic core in a

number of these countries and we send a lot of foreign aid, billions of dollars to these places. >> we see a lot of influences of al qaeda and others anti-west. we said this before on this network, if you want to hate us, you can hate us for free. we need to know where these elements are and eradicate them and especially a threat such as this one we need to be ahead of the game and not behind it as we have been in the past. >> better safe than sorry. the government gets, we know, volumes of potential threat material every single day. for whatever reason, and there have been briefs on the hill, everybody agree there's a legitimate issue. we know the embassy are being closed on sunday and a travelhe continue past sunday based on what we learned. >> the threat has now been extended to the end of the month and we only know that because of the travel issued to those traveling and working abroad. this has to be so inextricably

serious and not an overreaction. look how much tourism will be lost when you look at it. lost when you look at it. about this and they wouldn't put out such a serious and stern warning for -- until the end of august. if that was not the case. >> do you think we'll learn anymore about the threat or just something that the government has to keep close to the vest? >> if they have to keep it klose, we'll understand and know that was for the best, but i believe they are giving out information as is needed by the american public, and those traveling and working abroad, to stay safe. so we'll have to just see what develops. but it has been moving slowly. we have not fund out much more sense yesterday. >> thank you very much. >> government budget cuts making it hard for air shows to get off the ground and now a battle between the organizers in wisconsin and the faa. they say they're being held hostage. is loaded with protein!

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high-flying adventure in wisconsin this weekend but the show, deemed the world's greatest aviation celebration, almost didn't happen. organizes say two months before the event the faa demanded they pay nearly half a million dollar to cover the cost of air traffic controllers or they would have to cancel the show. reporter: for pilots and aviation enthusiasts, this is mecca, the oshkosh air show to which they sojourn every year, and when the private planes come in the stunt planes, antique planes, military planes that

show up, this airfield is the busiest airport in the world for the duration of the show. but this year, due to the sequester, the faa told organizers they government would no longer be able to put air traffic controllers in the tower, and to the experimental air craft associating was forced to come up with nearly half a million dollars. >> with the provisos if you don't pay for the -- the services we won't be there and you can't have the event, and we have already contracted, sold, had in place this event. so that's -- you can't define being held hostage more accurately than that. i don't know what else you would say. >> the faa administrator responded sag the faa values the role of general aviation and understands its importance to our nation. the the current budget environment is requiring us to make difficult budget decisions. pilots say the faa is making

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overseas and embassies and consulates in middle east some north african countries are closing this sunday. this appears to be a huge response given howl -- how the u.s. already ramped up embassy security after 9/11. >> more irs drama on capitol hill today. g.o.p. lawmakers accusing the agency of trying to block their investigation about the targeting of consecutive -- differtive consecutive groups. >> more important news for patients with diabetes. one company just recalled tens of millions of glucose test strips. that's all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." >> but first from fox at 3:00, new and widespread warnings of an al qaeda rr