crazy one from tommy, his puppy dues in his arms on top of a horse. >> thanks to everyone who responded. we appreciate it as always. >> have a great day. >> we'll see you later. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. >> hey there. it is monday, the 26th of august, 2013. i'm anna kooiman in for gretchen. the united states rolling in for a military response in syria as we learn an attack could come in days. we have the president's response fresh off the golf course. >>steve: talk about blurred lines. was the v.m.a.'s on mtv something from the red light district? the miley cyrus performance that has everybody talking this morning. wait until you see the reaction from the audience last night. >>brian: it's a new way to on-line date. n.s.a. employees using

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thicke. >>anna: robin thicke. >>steve: alan thicke's son. >>anna: what is she doing with the finger? >>steve: we're number one. thanks to all of you watching. let's get to a fox news alert. despite the alleged chemical attack in syria, the u.s. is edging closer to a military response of some sort. kelly wright live in washington with the latest. the conventional wisdom is we're about to do something, but the dim says hold your horses. >> it would appear so. they want to be sure the chemical weapons strike that took place actually took place as it's been said and alluded to, that the syrian government actually did it. meantime the syrian regime welcomes u.n. inspectors to investigate the area to determine if chemical weapons were used outside

the city of damascus but a senior administration official for the white house says the regime's delay tells officials they are intentionally postponing the inspection to hide the evidence of chemical weapons. they also wanted to say basically if the syrian government had nothing to hide and wanted to prove to the world it had not used chemical weapons in this incident, it would have ceased its attacks on the area and granted immediate access to the u.n. five days ago. members of congress say now is the time for the united states to take some decisive action. some lawmakers say the united states must work with its allies to take some limited military action against the syrian regime to degrade their power. >> i think we will respond in a surgical way and i hope the president, as soon as we get back to washington, will ask for authorization from congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with this kind of

activity. >> i certainly would do cruise missile skraoeubgs. i think you can do -- cruise missile strikes. you can do that without boots on the ground. you can destroy runways, assad's runways, destroy his munitions and destroy his fuel. there are lots and lots of things we could do. >> a white house senior official says based on the reported number of victims, there is very little doubt at this point that a chemical weapon was used by the syrian regime against civilians in this incident. the white house is still assessing the fact, however, so the president can make an informed decision about how to respond. steve? >>steve: thank you. >>brian: it is unbelievable we're actually describing the attack before we do the attack. this is the utter definition of telegravity same time iran and russia is threatening not to do the attack and we continue to evaluate. >>steve: who needs that element of surprise? >>anna: to your other

headlines. four minutes after the hour. it is the deadliest day in iraq in five years. a series of insurgent attacks across the country leaving at least 46 people dead. attacks happening at a coffee shop, a security check point and wedding party. more than 420 people have been killed this month alone. in just a few hours the sentencing phase of the fort hood shooter trial is getting underway. nidal hasan facing the death penalty for killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others. 13 senior officers must vote unanimously to give him the death penalty or he will get life in prison. under military law death sentence would trying tker an automatic appeal. school starts today at a high school in pennsylvania but a beloved teacher is missing. very few leads for matthew green who vanished in the mountains in california. the 39-year-old was there to hike the sierra, a region with steep terrain.

he reportedly stayed behind in a camp ground when he had car problems. the mtv video music awards were all about justin timberlake. ♪ ♪ >>anna: his montage of a bunch of hits a real hit with the viewers. timberlake took home the top five for video of the year and the michael jackson video vanguard award. >> after the moon man that i won, i won with those four guys right there. [applause] >> so above all else, i'm going to share -- we can keep it at my house but i'm going to share this award with them. >>anna: timberlake brought the crowd to its feet as the former boy

band, he got famous in in sync, its classic hit, bye, bye, bye. ♪ ♪ >>anna: the last time in sync sang together? 2003. kevin hart a comedian said they look like they have gained a little bit of weight, got a little slower but i'm a fan and i loved watching them. >>steve: they looked terrific. however miley cyrus, remember once upon a time she was every little girl's idol as hannah montana. >>brian: what happened to these disney stars? >>steve: they are so desperate to break out of the mold, they don't want to be little girls forever. last night you can see her. last year remember lady gaga showed up in a meat dress? miley cyrus beat her in the

crazy department. >>brian: no one was outflanking her steak. >>anna: the song is it's our party, a huge summer hit. later on she goes on to singing blurred lines, a huge summer hit. that's when the clothes start coming off, shaking her booty up and down him. you can only imagine what parents are thinking of miley cyrus after she used to be hannah montana. we do get it, miley. we know you're not the girl in the blonde wig anymore. here's the other thing. remember we just reported she was doing the protect the skin you're in campaign where she would strip down but that was kind of in the name of charity but that was okay? i don't think this was okay. >>steve: i would imagine if you were watching with your kids, most kids turned it off. >>brian: if you are watching with your kids after all these dry runs of what can happen, what are

you thinking? >>steve: after that part where she was twerking and the finger with robin thicke that was a little crazy. >>brian: some celebrity families are outraged and have tweeted their outrage. for example? >>steve: that's will smith's family and we don't know if they are reacting to miley or to lady gaga. nonetheless, they do look shocked, as you can see. will smith seems to be a little on the fence. >>anna: he's kind of enjoying it possibly. >>brian: a tweeter says i have to explain to my 11-year-old daughter why she can no longer follow your career. >>steve: we all know waiting lor than ever to get their disability claims processed. now there's an investigation and it shows that apparently the processers got gigantic bonuses to the tune of $5.5

million even though veterans waited longer than ever in recent years. apparently between -- here's what happened. between 2010 and 2012 the v.a. changed the processor's performance schedule and discouraged them from looking into more complicated claims. do the easy ones first. then you have a backlog of the more complicated ones. that's why right now so many people are waiting. about 14,000 vets have appeals of more than two years. >>brian: in 2011 the claims ballooned to 155%. they go on to say three of four appeals claims, turns out were wrong and based on incomplete information. if you have anybody underperforming it is those at the v.a. the system is bad, the management is terrible and the people that need help the most aren't getting it and it is outrageous you give out $5.5 million in bonuses when you actually

need money especially in time of sequester, to our veterans who have already served, who are trying to get their lives back on track. >>anna: what a p.r. nightmare for them. we saw the same thing happen during the bailout with the bank c.e.o.'s and high employees getting big bonuses and everybody was infuriated. this is worse because it is our veterans. they are coming home, having a hard time adjusting to civilian life. the unemployment rate is higher for them. they are dealing with physical injuries sometimes or post traumatic stress disorder and these guys are having a hard time getting their benefits, money that them and their families are counting on. while these guys and gals at the v.a. are getting extra cash in their pockets. >>steve: if they got the extra money to give people bonuses, they've got the extra money to hire more people. this is a national disgrace. mr. president, do something about it, would you? take a look at this. it looks like the i.r.s. could be targeting veterans. at least that's what it sounds like. remember lois lerner, the one who took the fifth for

targeting tea parties and what not. she headed up the exempt organization wing of the i.r.s. >>brian: she seems to be targeting the american legion. if the budget is not balancing and we don't have enough revenue coming in, let's focus on those who already served. they are saying listen, if you fill out an application for tax-exempt status and don't write down the years in which you served and the character in which you served, you'll be fined $1,000 per day. let's crack down on those people at the american legion. who is this lois lerner and why are we still paying her? >>anna: $1 thousand a day? -- $1,000 a day, doesn't this seem outlandish? some of these individuals are older and don't have access to the internet and don't have access to the information and that might slow them down. >>steve: a congressman is

deeply concerned. he needs to make sure the i.r.s. is not overstepping the bound of privacy which it looks like once again it is. >>brian: the first lady focuses on veterans' concerns and those who serve. this might be a good opportunity to get involved. the u.s. reportedly ready to take action in syria. from missiles to fighter planes, how would we actually fight this kind of war? what would a first strike look like? we scramble thomas mcinerny >>anna: donald trump getting an f. did he defraud thousands of students? coming up next. >>brian: he will answer to us exclusively first. ♪ ♪ ♪ady. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking.

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>> remember this morning from president obama to syria. it was about a year ago. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >>brian: after wednesday's alleged chemical attack it looks like the red line has been crossed again. for the u.s., it now seems to be preparing for a cruise missile launch perhaps. so what would an attack look like? joining us is fox news military analyst lieutenant general thomas mcinerny. general mcinerny, what do you think we should do? what's our best approach right now? >> well, i think we need to back the right team, and the supreme military council under general idr i s is the wrong team. they are muslim brotherhood booked by the kataras.

the team we want to back is under colonel riad. let's talk about an air campaign. fundamentally similar to if we back the right people. if we don't back the right people, don't do it. here's what i would do. lay a host of upward of 200 tom hawks and conventional air launch cruise missiles, one b-52 can carry up to 20. lay them in there, follow up by b-2's that can drop 20 or upwards of 80-some mark 1,000-pound jdam guyed bombs, g.p.s. guided bombs. then have f-22's flying cap. but they have a very formidable air defense system, brian. over 500 modern fighters, upwards of 135 sam missile brigades and very

sophisticated -- >>brian: there's much more risk here than libya? much more risk here than iraq. if we're going in, what are we targeting? who are we targeting? >> what i would do is target the airfields, the enemy seed, what we call suppression of the enemy air defense. that's got to be done initially. the sam sites, air defense bases for the fighters and then the ground-control intercept radar sites. so you blind them out and then you go for the barracks, for the chemical warfare m.o. storage sites. then i would go for hezbollah and the irgc, iranian revolutionary guard corps out of iron supporting them there. >>brian: you're saying they will be able to locate where hezbollah set up bases inside syria or go to lebanon? >> i'm talking syria. we have global hawks over

there that have sophisticated intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capability that can stay airborne for 24 to 32 hours so you've got continuous coverage with our i.r.s. intercepts so you can pinpoint and attack. let's make sure we're backing the right team. my coauthor or our book "end game: the blueprint for victory in the war on terror," he's been there in the past week, been all over. he's got the facts on the ground and who are the right people to back. >>brian: general idris with senator mccain and senator mccain is convinced he is the right guy. general mack, you're saying he is not. general mack, thanks so much.

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been paid on the house in three years. the disgraced nfl great bought it in 2000. >>steve: two senseless acts in a week raising concerns over our young people. a young athlete shot dead just for fun because kids were bored and most recently a world war ii veteran brutally beaten to death for no good reason. what is happening to the culture of our youth in america? could it be because they don't have good role models? joining us is a panel of experts. radio talk show host david webbb. fox news contributor andre degraffe. and reverend michael. david, what's the problem here? >> moral decay. that's where i start with this. while we're focusing on certain issues in certain communities, we're not separated in america.

there is one big community, american community. when one goes down or one has serious issues it affects all of us. our youth, when it comes to role models are looking to not necessarily the wrong people but in the wrong areas. single parent birthrate means there isn't a father that's a role model. >> that's a big problem. even when there is a strong male influence there is a problem. losing a future for these youth because they see very little or don't understand what's ahead for them. >> jacque, you feel a lot of young people look to celebrities and think that's how i should grow up and a lot of celebrities are crapi role models. >> many roll models say i am not a role model. the question is who is a role model and until celebrities give back -- men in new york created

schools, young people any race and we mentor young people. we're open on saturday. we're opening doors. if you're not present, you can't make a difference. >>steve: to david's point, in the african-american community there are a lot of families where young men and women are growing up and there is no father in the families. >> without government, without the church, we can start to bring down the issue about crime in our community if we did one simple thing. if fathers would marry the mothers of their children. if we started a movement where black men married their baby's mama, if we could do that, we could start to begin to reverse it. it doesn't matter about stop and frisk. it doesn't matter about all these other actions. we could unilaterally take control of the situation. >> if i could interject, the women -- we have to educate the women on this issue too because they are the baby mama. >>steve: is it cultural? >> it's cultural. it's part of popular it's the ml

decay, moral decline. the things that we celebrate. it's not just the black community. the black community is the tip of the sphere. but understand as david said, it happens in all communities. what we're seeing happen and the crime rate we're talking about really could have happened anywhere in any community. >>steve: sure. you look at particularly the black community, this would be a great time for the president of the united states, our first african-american president, who was raised by grandparents to address this. >> the president has been addressing it. he spoke at morehouse. >>steve: he has talked about it a couple of times but hasn't really made it a priority. this is a desperate national situation. >> it shouldn't take two white people being killed for us to have this discussion because black kids are being killed over time because of guns, because of an out-of-control culture. we're concerned about this for a long time not just because of what happened -- >> one of the things i say that is the problem -- is the solution is the burdens

of the black underclass have to become the burden of the black middle class. we have got to go back. we have got to give back. it is my burden. it is on my watch. i accept responsibility for the young people and their outcomes in harlem because they are my children. i look at them, i talk to them, i interject. i work with them, just like 100 black men and the eye tkpwel academy and the things -- and the eagle academy and the thing they are doing, we have to give back. >>steve: jacque has been talking about this has been a problem for a very long time. you hear civil rights leaders like al sharp top, jesse jackson, they address other issues but don't really talk about this. >> what they really don't do and their failures in their mission -- first of all to the naacp, it worked, we got passed voting and civil rights, we have rights and protections as americans. what we don't have is continued engagement right now. they show up for the marches. they leave the neighborhood

and the neighborhoods are still in shambles. >> i'm with jacques, i'm with michael. we need to do that on a broader continuing basis. if we don't failure will continue. it took decades to get where we are. it's not going to be reversed with a march. >> it's not a government solution. we need a moral, a moral refocus of the black community accepting responsibilities for ourselves that we can be back engaged in our community and the outcome of our community. >> in my view, it's not a civil rights issue. it's a leadership issue and moral issue. >>steve: who is the leader? who do we need to hear from? >> i think we need to hear from churches and i think we need to hear from parents. parents bear some responsibility about the activities of their children. harry belafonte talks about the fact that one -- that we lost the goal in atlanta a number of years ago because we dropped the baton. that being the question for this generation, that is the issue before us today.

>>steve: let's hope this is a turning point and we pick that baton up and do something about it. great panel today, reverend, jacques and david. what do you think? e-mail us at friends@foxnews.com. 6:30 in the east coming up, enjoy the warm weather while it lasts because a new report says this winter will be a cold one. we've got icy details that could impact the super bowl. look at this. terrifying moments at the racetrack, and it's all caught on camera. ♪ [ male announcer ] even ragu users a.

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suspected terrorist or had ties to al qaeda. but now this is creating quite the buzz this morning and people have taken to twitter. how about this one? we've got pickup lines. >>brian: if it is going to help your personal life, why not really help your personal life. >>anna: here is one. i lost my number. can i have yours? just kidding. already have it. >>brian: hey baby, come here often? of course you do. we've been tracking you. >>steve: caleb says this: hey i just met you and this is crazy, but here's your s.s.n., phone calls for the past three years. any way those are actual things off of twitter using hash tag. >>anna: i've got one for you. you are made in heaven. i've heard that one. is your dad a baker? because you've got some nice buns. >>brian: that's a good

one. i don't think you need the n.s.a. for that. >>steve: who need the n.s.a. when you've got anna? >>anna: i've getting to be an old maid. i've been around awhile. >>steve: you've heard these before? >>anna: yeah. there's another one here that i like. i feel like i've known you before i ever even met you. >>brian: that's from the n.s.a. we have to find out later from you what works. we know they're out there. we've got to find out the ones that work. >>anna: i need to find out. >>steve: e-mail us with your suggestions to n.s.a. pickup lines or twitter us at "fox & friends." donald trump getting the grade of an "f." new york's attorney general sued mr. trump for $40 million. he says students were promised apprenticeships but instead paid thousands for expensive and useless

seminars. trump says the lawsuit is false and politically motivated. he just tweeted this. wow, i just found out sniderman met with president obama on thursday and sued me saturday. same as i.r.s., et cetera. did he defraud thousands of students? we're going to ask him. he'll be joining us 22 minutes from right now with an exclusive interview. >>brian: he's got a lot of pushback. police recovering the body of a man attacked by a crocodile in front of horrified friend. sean paul was at his birthday party when he decided to go for a swim in a well known crocodile infested swim. the nearly 15-foot animal grabbed him and took off. >>anna: colin powell giving a message to republicans. voter i.d. laws will backfire on you. >> these kinds of procedures being put in place to slow the process

down, make it likely that fewer hispanics and african-americans might vote, i think they're going to backfire because these people are going to come out and do what they have to do in order to vote. i encourage that. >>anna: supporters of voter i.d. law say they are a simple and legal way to fight voter fraud. some states are pushing for new laws after the supreme court ruled part of the voting rights act as unconstitutional. >>brian: frightening moments at the indy race. scott dixon there pulling out of the pit, a tire went flying hitting another crew member. a third was hit by an air gun. a drive-through penalty for dixon. he finished 15th. >> there goes the target car. >>anna: there goes his

knee. >>steve: for 197 years the old farmer's a almanac has been predicting with 80% accuracy the forecast a year in advance. maria molina is joining us. what do you make of the new forecast from the almanac which comes out today which says our winter is going to be cold? >> cold and snowy for many people as well. they claim to be right about 80% of the time and have been around since the year 1818. i want to bring back their forecast for last winter because they were correct with their temperature forecast in 15 out of the 16 regions they cover, meaning a 94% accuracy rate. they do have their brand-new outlook coming up for 2014 including the winter, upcoming winter and the upcoming summer months. now let's get to your forecast for this upcoming winter because they are claiming most of the nation could have below-average temperatures. expect a cold winter and some areas could be looking at snowy conditions. does that mean we could have a snowy super bowl?

remember it is going to be in new york city next winter, in february? brian, this could be a big story for many people in the northeast, the fact that it's going to be cold and also snowy. that is their prediction. there are exceptions. texas is forecast to be mild and dry this upcoming winter. then you have the upcoming summer forecast. they are predicting a year in advance and claiming much of the nation will see above-normal temperatures and spring for many people could be dryer than normal. we could have issues with summer drought. those areas would be anywhere from new england to the great lakes and also from texas to the desert southwest. you could have an issue with summer drought. the exception to that prediction is the east coast. remember this summer we've had a very wet summer across parts of the east coast including right here in new york city. they are predicting that yet again coming up next summer. >>steve: the scary part is the super bowl. it's very brave they would have it in an open stadium. >>brian: first time ever.

they have had cold-weather super bowls but they have had domes. there is not going to be a dome here. there is other things called gloves and jackets. the championship games are played in bad weather and i believe they use thermal underwear as well. we're going to have to suck it half water and half beer which is even better. >> and frozen hot dogs. >>brian: coming up straight ahead, who needs

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>> hello. this is the pope speaking. pope francis apparently is making personal phone calls to unsuspecting strangers. >> what do you do if the pope calls you? >>anna: joining us now is fox news religious contributor father jonathan morris. i can't imagine this happening and everybody would be speechless but you have a few tips for us if you get a nice ringy ding. >> this is not a gimmick.

it is really happening. people who are getting these phone calls are telling the news. the pope just called me. what do i do? >>steve: some 19-year-old kid? >> yes. a journalist gave tips. first of all, say hello. the second thing you want to do is try to avoid controversial topics. just talking to him about, you know, basically be normal and talk as a friend would talk to another friend because that's what pope francis is trying to do. he's calling people who have written letters to him -- strangers -- and who are saying pray for this person in my life or i'm going through this difficult time. >>anna: someone who had a family member murdered, someone else who sent him a book and he wanted to say thank you. even right when he took the position, he called himself and canceled his newspaper subscriptions and called somebody to say don't worry about making certain shoes. he's very atypical. what can we take away from that? >> return phone calls,

return letters. what he's saying is a clericalism which i think can be present in all different professions. saying i have a position of authority, therefore, i don't have to do normal things. >>brian: a 19-year-old gets a call and says i called earlier and nobody was home. he called back again. what is the message? everybody matters? >> it is humility, service. if you have a position of responsibility, it is about responsibility and service. not about authority. for example, you're an anchor. throwing balls at little kids who are trying to catch it -- >>anna: bringing up titus. >>brian: you have to let some of that go. the priest now is holding on to this. >> you recognize you have a position of authority, and you use it as service, not to hurt people, not to cause trouble, stuff like that. >>steve: it's a wonderful thing he's doing and some people really love this particular pope because he does stuff hike this.

he calls to cancel his newspaper or the shoe order and he's calling some 19-year-old kid. i guess the key is if you're going to write to the pope put your phone number on the bottom because he might actually calling you. >> absolutely. this guy is mixing it up, doing it his own way and i think he's bringing us back to basics. >>brian: the pope said he had a mystical experience, god told him to step aside. is this the type of person he wanted to step aside. >> i think that's the report that he said in his own prayer life he felt god was calling him to step aside. now he's saying he's very happy that the next person -- pope francis -- is doing wonderful things and this is confirmation that he did the right thing. >>anna: father, thank you so much. a message for all of us, pick up the phone and call somebody that you love. 49 minutes after the hour now. the fort hood shooter faces life or death today. but will one or the other

make him a marytr? one of his victims will be here next on what he says needs to happen. >>brian: never get a bad deal on a rental car again? secrets the companies don't wa

>> anna: there you are. 35 minutes after the hour. justice served. major nidal hasan who opened fire on dozens of soldiers at fort hood nearly four years ago convicted of all 45 charges brought against him. he now faces a possible death sentence. that sentencing begins today.

our next guest says this is only a small victory for the survivors. he's calling for action from the white house. retired sergeant howard ray was a hero on that day, awarded for his actions. he's credited with saving the lives of nine people. he joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> anna: in order for nidal hasan to get the death penalty, it's going to have to be a unanimous decision by all the jurors. is he going to be a martyr either way? and what are you looking for from the white house? >> well, certainly he'll be a martyr either way. i mean, terrorists, once they get a victory, they're happy and they certainly don't care which way they get it. they either get it with his immediate execution or 50 years in jail. i think right now what's important is that government officials starting at the white house demand that this be, first of all, classified as it is, terrorism, number one. then number two, make sure that all of our men and women that

are suffering as victims and suffering as family members of those that lost individuals that day, that they get the compensation and things they deserve. it really is a slap in the face that with the department of defense called this something other than what it truly is, that is terrorism. >> anna: yeah. he basically says allah akbar and starts slaughtering people, yet somehow this is not terrorism and folks aren't able to get their combat-related disability benefits. how do you think this needs to change for this case and for anything that could possibly happen in the future? >> first of all, we really got to remove the ideals of political correctness. i think that's one of the things that got us to where we are today and certainly i believe there was enough evidence to support that. but it's important because if

this ever does happen again, honestly, victims of future events do not need to wait four years to be compensated and don't need to be waiting four years to get their real justice. >> anna: sergeant, thank you so much for your time today. you just announced your run for texas state house of representatives. we wish you well on that journey for you. >> i thank you so much and i do that because i want to support these troops and make sure that nobody else falls in this situation again. >> anna: absolutely. thank you so much for your time. enjoy your monday. 56 minutes after the hour. coming up on "fox & friends," a boy accused of shooting his care taker on purpose. some say video games are to blame. are they? do video games lead to violence? and donald trump getting the grade of an f for his trump university. did he really defraud thousands of students? donald trump is here top of the hour. it's his first interview on this topic

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>> anna: get up, it's back to work monday, the 26th of august, 2013. i'm anna kooiman in for gretchen carlson. a u.n. team rolls up at the site of an alleged chemical weapons site in syria. a united states attack could come in days. what's the president's response? it's on the golf course. >> brian: a popular teacher goes for a hike and never returns. the search is on right now. it's like finding a needle in a hay stack. we have brand-new details about what might have happened. >> steve: and donald trump university getting a failing grade and a $40 million lawsuit from the attorney general of new york state. donald himself here to react in just about 30 seconds. this is "fox & friends" live

from new york city on a monday morning. >> steve: i said 30 seconds. 15 seconds. >> brian: the singers went on and on. now it's time to bring in donald trump himself. it's got to be monday. hey, donald. >> good morning. >> brian: so how surprised were you to get this suit? how angry are you today? >> it's not a question of angry. it's really an unfair situation. we have this wonderful school. it did a terrific job. they were really fantastic. you have an attorney general, eric schneiderman, who really is a lightweight. he's not respected by anybody. he's got an approval rating. his high rating is about 4%. and by the way, our approval rating on the school is 98%. 98% of the people that took the courses give it a really great rating. so we have this fantastic school and he went after, for political reasons, and for other reasons.

i know the guy very well. he sits up in my office asking me for campaign contributions. he's been there numerous times. he's a political hack. he figures by going after trump, he can get some publicity, which he will get, but we'll try and make it uncomfortable as possible. >> steve: mr. trump, the headline is over the weekend that he has brought this $40 million lawsuit against you, says you ran a phony trump university, promised to make a bunch of people rich and that did not happen. >> you know, we have a school. the school is really a good school. they did a terrific job. we had wonderful instructors and everything and he brings a lawsuit. you can turn on television at 2:00 o'clock in the morning, you'll see everybody and his neighbor advertising to buy this school and buy this book and go into these courses and they have -- i've done really well in real estate. i'm really imparted a lot of my knowledge to other people and i really think that we have a great school. this school is a great school. they've done a fantastic job.

when you get 98% approval ratings from the people that took courses and then you get sued is rather shocking. >> anna: he said it's very different. this 98% approval rate something what he said, 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 and said they didn't get out of it what they expected to. but i understand you did make a contribution to him back in 2010. we have here for $12,500, where is the bad blood coming from? >> he was very unhappy because he wanted me to do much more than that. he wanted me to introduce him to a lot of my big business friends and i didn't have time for it. he'd come up to my office, unbeknownst and i actually gave him a contribution before he was elected. i think he was down in the polls, but it was never enough for him. he'd come up to my office, unbeknownst, just come up. i'd see him and sit with him. he'd tell me about obama, his feelings about obama, which by the way, were not good, i'll tell but that another day. he would talk about governor

cuomo in a very harsh tone. this is not a good guy. this is a real political hack and everybody knows it. the people that know him know it. and look, he's going after me for publicity. he'll get publicity. but let's see how it all works out. i think the case that we have is fantastic. i could have settled this case very, very ease will he and i chose not to. >> brian: wait a second. so he's suing you for $40 mill >> brian: the way you're outlining it, there is nothing here except more personal than anything else. are you going to sue the state back? >> we're looking into that. we're thinking about bringing a major lawsuit. think about how many schools you have all over the place and he picks trump? i mean, give me a break. >> brian: after golfing with president obama who clearly has not been fond of you? >> i'll tell you what, i've been a harsh critic of the president. and i don't want to be. if he was doing a great job, i don't care, i'm a republican. i'd say he's doing a great job, but he's not. they meet on thursday evening. i get sued by this a.g.

schneiderman, i get sued on saturday at 1:00 o'clock. think of it. what government agency in the history of this country has ever brought a suit on a saturday? i never heard of such a thing! so he meets with the president on thursday night. he sues me on saturday. it was a terribly drawn suit. incompetently drawn suit. they obviously did it very quickly, but probably obama, maybe this is a mini irs. maybe we have to get the tea party after these people because this could very well be a mini irs. >> steve: i tell you what, mr. trump, i've got two kids in college right now and neither one of those colleges guarantee that the kids will have job when is they get out. >> that's the other thing. you could go to harvard and the wharton school of finance, i guarantee you, they don't have a 98% approval rating. that's one thing i can tell you for sure. >> brian: one thing they write is the trump elite program which costs between 10 and $35,000 promises one on one time with you. is the promise valid?

and did you spend time with people in the elite program? >> i was very much involved with the school from the standpoint of i see instructors, i talk to instructors. i talked to people. i worked very hard with the people that run the school to make sure it's good. i check resumes. it was very important to me. obviously it's not my main business. it's a school business. it's the business, frankly, that i would give -- and i would have given the profits to charity. it was not very -- it was a business where i could help people. and by the way, with profits going to charity if there were any and the profits would have gone to charity. instead we tell people, we ultimately get a letter and we tell people we're going to have to at least close it up for a while and guess what happens? new york state loses lots of job attention. >> steve: right. so you will figure out how you're going to respond shortly. just to recap, you feel like you have been targeted politically? >> well, look, i think so. i'm not a very paranoid person. but when this lightweight

attorney general, who is not respected by anybody, when he meets with the president and then files a suit like 24 hours later, i think yes. i think i've been targeted and i think it's a big problem. and i think people ought to look into it. it's interesting also about this guy, a woman who brought down the new york state senate with bribes, she brought down malcolm smith and others, she said she gave schneiderman $25,000. why isn't he under investigation for that? i mean, she made a statement that she gave him $25,000. instead he talks to me about a school with a high rating? it's ridiculous. >> brian: also are you shutting down the university then? you're shutting the school then? >> i'm temporarily because you can't operate it. when i got a letter i closed it down. now, it's not closed, closed. but we would open it again. you know what happens, brian, we have to get rid of a lot of people. we fire people.

this is driving people out of new york. this is driving companies out of new york. what about all the other schools that are operating in new york and i guarantee you, they are not great schools. they don't get sued? why aren't they being sued? you got hundreds of schools operating in new york and they don't get sued? but trump gets sued. you tell me. the day after he meets with the president i get sued? >> steve: and the president hasn't liked you for a while. >> well, you know. it's one of those things, i guess. maybe it's a personality conflict. >> anna: your first time responding to this suit here. thank you so much. >> brian: listen, donald trump, we'll go to atreal donald trump. if you have any questions, go to your twitter account. and at "fox & friends." so this is big news today. >> thank you very much. my monday morning was a little different with you this morning. but i'm glad i could speak to you about it. i'm gog do other shows right now. >> brian: thank you very much. >> steve: we're glad you told us first. donald trump who joins us every monday. thank you.

>> anna: thank you. eight minutes after the hour. we have new developments in syria to tell you about. the cypress deliberately shot at the team investigating a chemical weapons attack. we are waiting for information about their condition. this as the white house shooting down reports a strike there is imminent. president obama is still weighing the option. experts say we should start by backing the right leader in syria. >> we need to back the right team and the supreme military council is the wrong team. they're muslim brotherhood backed by the saudis and at that caris. colonel riyadh el assad is the right one. >> anna: the obama administration released a statement yesterday, there is very little doubt syria did use chemical weapons on his people. president obama yesterday spent five hours on the golf course. deadliest day in iraq in five years. series of insurgent attacks across the country leaving at least 46 people dead.

the attacks happening at a coffee shop, security checkpoint, and a wedding party. more than 420 people have been killed this month alone. school starts today at a high school in pennsylvania, but a beloved teacher will be missing. a search for the missing teacher who was hiking the eastern sierra. its region was very steep terrain. he reportedly stayed behind at a camp ground when he had some car problems. it's being called a fruit for fertility. they are a good source of folates, important in female fertility. eat your berryies. >> brian: vitamin c is key, you can also have vitamin c, couldn't you? >> steve: well, she's saying that raspberries are perhaps even better in the folate and

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>> steve: another crime, a horrible one committed by one of america's teen-agers, rather an eight-year-old boy in louisiana shot and killed his 90-year-old care taker in the head as she watched tv. police say -- report the child had just finished playing the giddy game, grand theft auto. cops suspect the teen who killed an australian exchange student in oklahoma for the thrill of it spent their days playing these violent video games. so is this pastime to blame for these brutal acts by kids? joining us now is psychotherapist from california. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: so it's an interesting question, a lot of people, they hear okay, the kid was watching video games and the next thing you know, shoots the care taker in the head. we got to blame video games. it's not that easy, is it?

>> no, it's not. it's a complicated answer. video games are a simple, surfacey kind of answer. yes, there has been research out of canada that showed that chronic use of video games does increase aggressiveness in teens. but what creates chronic use of video games? absentee parents. but i'm not blaming the parents here. why are parents not on scene anymore? because our culture is forcing two parents to struggle, working at least 40, 50, sometimes 60 hours each a week just to survive. >> steve: so you're blaming the culture generally. but really, the problem with the culture is there aren't people at home. there aren't adults in the room with the kids helping them make good decisions? >> yes. if you look at cultures like sweden and iceland, who have an even lower marriage rate than we do, we have 44% of our american babies born out of wedlock. but in those countries, they understand that there may be a huge amount of single parents or

two parents that have to work a lot, so they provide important early childhood education. they provide quality daycare. they provide enriching after school programs. those kids are constantly stimulated by caring, loving adults. we know as psychologists that the first five years are everything. that's where you're teaching empathy. if a parent is not home, how can they do it? >> steve: you look at the story out of duncan, oklahoma, the so-called thrill kill where that australian 22-year-old man was shot in the back because the kids were bored, there is chris lane right there, the moms out of the picture in all three of those young people's lives. >> yes. you can not blame that mom because she could have been out punching a time clock somewhere, trying to make enough food to feed these children. it's really important to understand that we are not providing support to families. families do the heavy lifting, you know, of raising great employees, great entrepreneurs, wonderful athletes, awe inspiring artists. but at the end of the day, are you going to put your money,

america, on to early childhood education or going to put it into prisons? because in 2010 alone, we spent $39 billion just to incarcerate people when early childhood precare would be 7 billion a year. think about it. >> steve: sure. but wendy, in addition to that, a parent's got to be in the picture. there's got to be a good role model and somebody there to say no, turn that thing off. >> absolutely. but food comes first, steve. >> steve: i know. >> when i see sheryl sandburg, the mucky muck at facebook writing a book telling women to lean in before they have babies 'cause they like their jobs so much that maybe they won't want to stay home, i say don't talk to those high class women. talk to the mom standing at a bus stop at 6:00 o'clock in the morning, trying to make money. food comes first. we got to support families, steve. then there will be less video games. >> steve: amen.

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>> anna: 22 minutes after the hour. news by the numbers. big government edition. first, 6. that's the number of budget battles on capitol hill in just the last 2 1/2 years. second, 3 1/2 trillion dollars. that's how much the federal government is on track to spend

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make sure that this car has no damage 'cause if it does, you could get charged for it. >> brian: that is the doug browner move. >> you got to do it this way. you see what just fell out of my pocket? this is what once fell out from underneath a car that i was rent o'clock. a soda can. it came out from under the seat what if it had been a beer can and i had been stopped by law enforcement? you've got to check the car inside as well. get in the glove box, look under the seats. hundreds of people, brian, have rented this car before you. let me tell you something, they're not as thorough as you may think they are when they're cleaning. >> brian: doug, thanks so much. car czar in person. good luck with the stain on the seat. so embarrassing. coming up straight ahead, our nation's heros are waiting longer than ever for government help. so why are the people in charge actually getting massive incentives and bonuses? and we're bringing the u.s. open to our plaza. tracy austin is here.

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you ♪ >> anna: that's my baxter bear in front of the plaza. it's time for your shot of the morning. today is national dog day. we're celebrating our four-legged friends. he's not loose. that was taken when i used to live there. not at the plaza, by the way. >> steve: in that neighborhood. >> brian: that was a great deal you cut. >> anna: yeah. >> steve: we asked you for some of the pictures of your four-legged friends. take a look. this is from lohry who says this is her dog, annie, with her three favorite guys. very nice. thanks for sending them in on national dog day. >> brian: i got to wake my family and take a picture of the dog. >> anna: your dog was so poorly behaved when he was here last time. he went to the bathroom on the set. >> brian: no, he didn't. >> anna: he didn't? >> steve: you're smack talking his dog!

>> brian: all right. on a lighter note. >> steve: not exactly. but we are switching gears. the veterans affairs department, you know, we have told you over the last couple of years how -- how many disabled american veterans and heros have to wait almost two years to get their claims processed. now there has been an investigation. as it turns out, a whole bunch of these disability claims processors have gotten giant bonuses for just working the machine, getting them processed quickly, some of them, while other american heros simply are waiting for what is their due. >> brian: there are about $155 million -- they have $155 million in which has not been awarded to people that need it. 36 million in bonuses that have been handed out. you looking at people in the disability department. number one, maybe i'm -- i did not even know you had

incentives, you could get bonuses with the veterans administration. number two, i would think overall, one of the biggest disappointments for the last 4 1/2 years under president obama who wanted to focus on veterans issues has been the backlog of people who have not got the money or the benefits they need coming back from war. especially as iraq petered out. all these men and women have come back. >> anna: two-thirds of these claims processors apparently have been getting bonus, which is just a pr nightmare for the v.a., if you think about it. we saw this in the past with the bailouts and with the banks and the top brass there getting their big bonuses. and we understand part of somebody's pay scale sometimes is contingent upon these bonuses. but it certainly does not look good, especially when these people are coming back, our men and women who fought for our freedom and they're sitting there and they aren't getting their -- they're having a hard time finding a job, they have ptsd. this is that inflated.

>> steve: and one of the reasons there is this gigantic backlog where people are waiting two years or so is because back in 2010, what they did was changed the performance criteria. so what they said was the more -- it was in the best interest of the processor, the person who is actually processing the claim, if it's too complicated, i need a bunch of documents. i'm just going to put that on ice. now we've got this giant backlog of more complicated cases. they say they're going to do their best to get them resolved. but if they've got $5.5 million to give out as bonuses for some of these people who are keeping our american heros from getting their disability, you would think they could have used that money to hire more people. there is no reason any american military person should have to wait two years to get what is theirs. it's a disgrace. >> brian: also lois lerner in the news because it turns outside under her direction, it seems the american allegiance have been forced to talk about the character of their service, length of their service, both

those things must be in on their tax exempt applications. if not, they have to deal with a fine until they supply both those things. the american legion is the reason why our budget is not balancing, and the deficit continues to spiral. >> anna: lois lerner, who pleaded the fifth, and halfway admitted to and apologized to targeting tea party groups. this is just insane this is still going on. >> steve: a senator from kansas says the irs seems to be auditing veteran service organization by requiring private members' military service forms. he says he's deeply concerned and wants to make sure the irs is not overstepping the bounds of privacy. as we saw with the whole tea party things, they have in the past. they could be doing it here, too. >> anna: the fines are so hefty. $1,000. >> steve: the american legion can't afford that. $1,000 a day? great. >> brian: 26 minutes before the top of the hour. a fox news alert. brand-new developments out of

syria. moments ago we have learned snipers deliberately shot at the team investigating the chemical weapons attack of the first they were held at bay, told they couldn't go. now they get the green light and now they get shot at? the team was heading to the site of the alleged attack. we are waiting to hear if anyone -- how everyone is doing. was anyone hit. we do know their vehicle was destroyed and is now being replaced. this as the white house shooting down reports a strike there is imminent. president obama still weighing his options. >> steve: meanwhile, the story is insane. a teen-ager hides in the wheel well of an airliner and survives a 35-minute flight. it happened in nigeria. passengers and crew told the pilot they saw the boy running toward the plane as it was taking off. when the plane landed, the boy jumped out of the wheel well and was arrested. lucky to be alive. authorities say he survived because the flight was short and the plane did not fly above 25,000 feet.

>> brian: the story we have been following. department of homeland security employee who runs a hate-filled racist web site, we just learned he's on paid leave. paid leave again. the web site advocates a race war, warning of the inevitable clash with whites. many now asking why the government hired him in the first place. >> steve: mean while, a texas boy bravely calls 911 after intruders broke into his house. >> 911. what is the emergency? >> someone is trying to break into my house. my mom isn't home. >> stay on the phone with me. >> steve: 12-year-old deion murdoch was home alone at the time. he stayed on the line and followed the dispatcher's instructions to hide quietly in a closet. >> i think they're coming in. >> you're doing good. your mom will be so proud. >> steve: once police arrived,

the two men ran out and into the woods. they were later arrested. those are your headlines. >> brian: guess what? maria molina is out and about. she's reading from the farmer's almanac last hour. >> now we're going to talk about the current weather conditions and what we can expect for today. >> steve: all right. good. >> let's talk about the weather across the northeast because we're talking temperatures that are relatively close to where they should be at this time of year. as far as new york city, we're expecting to make it into basically the lower 80s as we head into this afternoon. so not too bad for month of august. as we head farther west, parts of the southwestern u.s. are expecting to see more areas of heavy rain. we've been dealing with the areas of rain over the last several days. this part of the country really does not need any additional rainfall as far as short-term weather forecast because one to two inches of rain could produce flooding here. we have a number of watches and warnings in effect. tropical moisture moving out here. we could be talking about an

additional one to two inches of rain forecast out there. across the center of the country, it's going to be another hot day. we're talking 100 degrees for your high temperature in minneapolis. the heat wave continuing. 94 in chicago. 96 in kansas city. you factor in humidity and it's going to feel even hotter than that. a number of heightries and -- heat advisories in effect. let's head over to annona we're starting to get drizzle here in new york city. >> anna: nothing is going to stop the fans at the u.s. open tennis champ. tracyist sun best remembered for winning the u.s. open as a 16-year-old to do gee, the youngest u.s. open champion in moment what does she think about the strongest contenders? here she is. >> good morning. >> anna: over the last 34 times, 33 have gone to the big four. what are you thinking, are we going to see a surprise this year? >> i don't. i think that i'd give a slight

edge to raphael nidal. an incredible comeback. he's won the two biggest hard core tournaments. >> anna: he did that for seven months? >> he was. so it's an amazing comeback. but it's so exciting because if the projected draw holds, then he would play roger federer in the quarters. roger federer is the 7th seed this year, which is crazy because he has 17 grand slams. the most ever. and very exciting. on the women's side, i give a slight edge to serena. >> anna: why do you think that about serena? she had a pretty good spring, right? >> she had a great spring where she won -- whoa, you can play, girl! she won 34 matches in a row, winning the french open. then lost at wimbledon, but she's had a great summer as well. but someone else to look out for is victoria azarenka from

belarus. >> anna: you're strong! >> i love it! she gets extra points. >> anna: we've got a fantastic partnership. fox business channel and the tennis channel over the last five years. >> last five years. >> anna: at 8:30 we'll have u.s. open updates on fox business. >> that's right. for five years, we're lucky to be partnered with fox at tennis channel. we'll have over 75 hours of live coverage. >> anna: all getting going at 10:30. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> anna: back to you. you're doing great! >> steve: for traction. remember that next time we play tennis, high heels. >> brian: right. i always have mine. i never put them on. i leave them in my bag. it's all great to see tracy austin. the u.s. open would not start unless she visited us. me the drug called molly? it's getting more popular and more popular with kids. parents, what you need to know.

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♪ turn around barbara ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ >> steve: fox news alert in a couple of hours, the sentencing phase of the fort hood shooter trial gets underway. major nidal hasan convicted on all 45 counts against him. so will he get the death penalty or life in prison? our reporter is live in fort hood, texas with the very latest. ann? >> good morning, steve. things will pick up in a couple of hours. the question is life or death for hasan if jurors give him the

death penalty, it's a decision they must reach unanimously. it's something the prosecutors here are pushing for. family members as well. something that hasan, through documents he's leaked to media outlets like fox news, that he even wants it. today will look like a mini trial, so to speak. we'll hear from 20 witnesses, some of them lost loved ones the day of the shooting. we'll also hear from three soldiers who survived the shooting. they are not allowed to talk about their feelings toward hasan or even what they think deserves as far as a sentence. hasan is expected to take the stand tomorrow if he chooses to talk. he's got a little more freedom about what he could talk about. the military executions are rare. but if he's given the death penalty, he'll be the sixth soldier on death row at fort leavenworth, kansas. >> steve: all right. ann reporting live from fort hood, texas. thank you very much. over to you and brian. >> anna: quarter 'til the hour.

molly, the name seems gentle and innocent enough. but this new drug comes with a dangerous and even deadly impact. >> brian: was it involved in the last two shootings we saw? it's being eyed in 2% of the murders. what is it? joining us, detective rod wheeler. what's molly? what's so challenging about it? >> molly is a very, very dangerous drug. i can tell you, brian, every parent listening right now and really seriously need to listen to what i'm about to say. molly is sweeping the country. you can ask police departments from the east coast to the west coast and you know what we've been seeing? a huge increase in the amount of crimes committed by juveniles and teen-agers. you know what the one constant is when you talk to the juveniles? they always say they popped a molly. now, we haven't really taken a close look at molly like we need to. molly is just a powder form of ecstasy. it's a very prudent form of ecstasy. here is the thing, when you mix molly with a beverage drink such

as 4 loco or energizer drinks what, it does is amps up the potency of molly and causes individuals to come out of their mind, body and soul, so to speak. rappers are the ones that's really pushing molly. not only rappers, but madonna mentioned it at some of her concerts. molly is a serious drug. >> anna: one of the other reasons you say it's becoming so prevalent is because of the cost of it. eight dollars to $15 for a pill. but also a powdery form, too. it can be one or the other. what do parents need to know? >> excellent question. there's a few things parents really need to know. molly, first of all, i can guarantee you, will be meeting and greeting kids as they go back to school starting today. on the playground and all at the school. here is things parents need to look for. when you talk to your teen-ager, don't ask your teen-ager if you're taking or doing molly. what you want to say specifically is, have you hung out with molly? do you know molly? then you want to look at the pupils, the eyes, because you'll notice that the pupils are

somewhat dilated. you'll see a lot of sweating. but the real give away is that the teen-ager will need to eat a loft candy because molly has a tendency to burn up the me tab lights in the body. these are some things you need to see. it's very important, guys, that parents have this discussion today with their kids. >> brian: look, when you drink, you lose your equilibrium after a while. someone could look at you and go, that person is drunk. with molly, can you function? can you function where people might just say you're acting a little strange, not very strange? >> yes. you can function. although like i said, there are some signs that you can look for. the thing with these two killings that recently happened with the australian guy and then the world war ii veteran, if you notice it was juveniles or teen-agers, i should say, that committed those crimes. if you really look at the one constant between them, and the police are look at this now, both of these groups of individuals said they were either bored or had a lot of

stress because the old guy was kind of beat, the veteran was beaten. with molly, you get the strength of about four to five people. in your mind, you think you're that strong. so there are things that you can look for and there are a number of warning signs. >> anna: we are not drawing any conclusions that this definitely is the case, but certainly it is becoming a real problem with our youth, especially when madonna and jay-z are putting it in their recent music. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> brian: straight ahead, janis dean is not only the weather machine, she's now an author? she's letting us put it to the test next. >> anna: first on this date back in 1995, you remember this song? seal's "kiss from a rose" was the number one song. we'll leave with you that and be right back with j.d. [ male announcer ] even ragu users a. chose prego traditional over ragu traditional.

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>> steve: you know -- yes. hi. you know janis dean as a fox news meteorologist, but adding to her list of accomplishments, she now has authored a new book for children that this young man is trying to sneak into the picture. it teaches kids a whole new way to learn about the weather and the environment around them. joining us right now, along with the children, is janis dean. good morning to you. >> hi, everybody. this is the best book ever! you have to buy it! you have to buy it! >> this charming child is melissa francis' young son. i didn't pay him, but he's an excellent spokesperson for freddy the frog. >> anna: you know what i love about this? you go around and speak to classes a lot, like a lot of local meteorologists do. this is a great teaching tool. it's an amazing story, but then there is definitions in the back and it's really a great learning

tool. >> as a parent, i've read a lot of books to my children. and a lot of them are pretty to look at. i wanted a book that obviously is nice to look at, but also brings messages to kids and the third thing is it's educational. we all love good -- a bowl full of mush is not that educational. that's what i wanted to do. kids at a young age show they are interested in weather. my three-year-old was in the tub one day and he took a face cloth and he squeezed it out and the water came out and he said, mama, a cloud. and i was like, wow! >> steve: that's my boy! >> that's my boy! so that's what i wanted to try to do with the book. the age group is five to eight years old. but kids young and old will get something out of it. it will teach them something. >> steve: it's got a great lesson in it. you say in the book, freddy was born to be a frogcaster. freddy is you, isn't it? you are freddy the frog.

>> i will speak for a lot of meteorologists that we have events that happen to us weather related that make us a little bit more interested in maybe science or meteorology. i grew up in canada. there were many snow storms. there were ice storms. i remember that as a kid. am don't miss it a great bunch. but a lot of forecasters will say the same thing that, a tornado moved through their area or hurricane and it just stuck in their brain. so that's what i wanted to try to do, gently ease kids into understanding the weather. there are some meteorology terms in there, but hopefully i've made it simpler to understand. >> anna: you made it fun for them. you also have sally croaker. give us more of the other little accusey names. >> sally croaker is the morning meteorologist that freddy like to look at and compare his forecast to. and then polly miswoggins doesn't know as much as she

should. she has a lot of events she goes to, so doesn't really focus on the weather. freddy has been studying weather instance he was a tadpole, so he kind of helps out to save the picnic. >> steve: it's a great book. it's a beautiful -- there is a lot of word play in there with freddy the frogcaster working. >> the frog news network. >> anna: i forgot about that one. >> oh, yeah! that one is so awesome! >> it's fantastic. >> steve: check it out by janis dean, the weather machine. >> buy the book! >> steve: say the book goes on sale today. >> the book goes on sale today! you have to buy it! >> steve: kids, shhh! good job. >> anna: we're going to be tweeting out a link on where you can get freddy the frogcaster. >> steve: we're going to switch

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explaining to do. you can't just put them to bed without explaining all this. that is ha ma montana, the performance that everyone is talking about. you will see the reaction from the celebrity audience as well as the audience in your couch. "fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: fox news alert out of syria. moments ago we learned snipers deliberately shot at the team investigating a chemical weapons attack. the team was heading to the site of the alleged attack. the team is meeting with victims of the alleged chemical attack right now. we also know their vehicle was destroyed and is being replaced. syria's government is blaming the rebels. this as the white house shooting down reports a strike there is imminent. president obama still weighing his option. yesterday an administration official said there is very

little doubt syria's government used chemical weapons. president obama, by the way yesterday during this crisis, spent five hours on the golf course. >> brian: joining us right now, bret baier from "special report" in a few hours. first, u.n. truck after being held at bay, now the convoy gets bombed enroute. now this is the same regime that said hey, about the chemical weapons, i know you warned me not to use them, i used them and i used them at least two times. what does that say about the regime? >> yeah. listen, good morning. the regime has said to bring in the u.n. weapons inspectors. the u.s. has said it's too little, too late by this time because they had been shelling that area constantly and a lot of the evidence from the attack on last wednesday, they believe was not there. but the weapons inspectors today making their way to the suburbs of damascus where that site was and came under heavy sniper

fire. one of the cars as you mentioned, essentially destroyed because it was hit multiple time and they're back at a government checkpoint. this escalates this to a different level again. even as the president is believed to be considering a number of targets inside syria for precision strike of some kind, possibly cruise missile strike as we've moved u.s. navy warships into the eastern mediterranean. >> anna: can we take syria at their word? they're pointing fingers and if they were serious about this, would they have let the u.n. in five days ago? >> sure. i think that's great question. and no, you can't take syria at its word because they've killed more than 100,000 of their citizens past this point. if you listen to doctors without borders, about 400 killed in this chemical weapons attack. 3600 injured. so you have this game playing going on between inviting weapons inspectors back in and

now this attack this morning. i think it will raise it to another level and it could get critical in the next couple of days. >> steve: sure, the big point is why didn't we do something a year ago? it seems like it's too late. in fact, we had on this program lieutenant general not too long ago. unfortunately, he says the united states backing the wrong side. listen. >> we need to back the right team and the supreme little tear council under general idris is the wrong team. they're backed by the saudis and qataris. we want to back colonel riyadh el assad. we have the global hawks over there that have very sophisticated intelligence surveillance and recon sense capabilities that can stay airborne from 24 to 32 hours. so you've got continuous coverage with our isr assets. so you can find out exactly where they are and then

pinpoint, attack them. let's make sure we're backing the right team. i'm not satisfied that they are. >> brian: what's amazing on top of that, bret, is that for the longest time, we've been hearing for the last month or so that the assad regime was winning, that they fine will he got a handle on it and beginning torot the rebels. does assad use chemical weapons if they're winning? >> right. it would seem like they're getting closer and closer to assad and that precipitated this use of chemical wes, at least that's the going bet. tonight on "special report," we'll have an expert break down all of these different rebel groups and the general is right. there are different groups of rebels inside syria. some of them are bad actors. others were working with directly and some are in between. we'll have an expert lay it all out really like you've never seen before on "special report" tonight. >> steve: we'll be watching for that. just crossing in, united nations team apparently is meeting with some of the people who were impacted by the

presumed chemical weapons. let's talk about this, yesterday governor mary fallon from the great state of oklahoma was on fox news sunday talking about how it would be nice if the president spoke about the thrill kill murder. of course, he famously talked about trayvon martin before that was adjudicated. here is the governor of oklahoma >> do you think the president should speak out on this as well? particularly given his involvement in the trayvon martin case? >> i think it would be a nice gesture for him to do that, and especially since the country of australia has expressed their sentiments as to the murder itself. i think it would be a nice gesture for them to be able to do that and i certainly know that's what i'm going to do. >> anna: so christopher lane, the college student shot dead, three people are behind bars. two on a million dollars bail. the other, no bond at all. bret, do we need to hear from the president on this?

americans are mourning over this. aussies are mourning over this. there are some of our closest allies and i heard there is a push to suspend travel and not come to visit and tour here in the united states. >> yeah. a phone call to the australians in the least. but possibly speaking out publicly. also this is a heinous crime in oklahoma and something that reaches national attention and oftentimes the president or other leaders speak out about something at that level. you also have the world war ii veteran beaten to death out in spokane, washington. that, again, an atrocity and something that gets to the violence in communities. so yeah, sure. it's possible that he weighs in in coming days. he's got a lot on his plate, though. >> steve: there is a lot going on. one of the things he's dealing with is the nsa revelations that apparently they've got -- they had all sorts of data,

collecting or monitoring or whatever. but did you hear about this? apparently diane feinstein revealed over about the last ten years, some people at the nsa who in the am orous department, spied somebody, thought that guy or gal is cute, and then used the nsa national security apparatus to actually spy on these people who could be potential lovers or things like that. that takes -- a lot of people are paranoid about the nsa having a lot of power. that takes it to a whole nother level, doesn't it? >> it does. every day we see another one of these stories, that sort of opens people's eyes to the extent at which the government could, if it wanted to, get into your personal life and see things about you that perhaps you don't want people to see. and i think as these stories continue to unfold, that this is going to continue to be a big

issue politically. look for the libertarian side of both parties to be speaking out pretty strongly. >> brian: it is about relationships now and we do know they were exploring personal relationships of others, we thought we would weigh in and ask the people -- people weighing in on a different type of pick up lines that you could use now that the nsa is involved. for example, disco granny, hey, baby, you must be from hulu 'cause you're exactly what i've been searching for. >> anna: this one, roses are red, violets are blue, your pin number is 6852. [ laughter ] >> steve: there is some good ones there. >> brian: tell charles krauthammer he can use them on the panel. >> steve: people want to twitter

you? >> at bret baier. >> brian: complicated. >> steve: thank you very much. >> anna: nine minutes after the hour. on to a fox news alert for you this morning. it's the deadliest day in iraq in five years. insurgent attacks across the country, leaving 46 people dead. the attacks happening at a coffee shop, security checkpoint and a wedding party. more than 420 people have been killed this month alone. class starts back this morning at a high school in pennsylvania. but a beloved teach service missing. a search surgeoning up very few leadser to matthew green. he vanished in the mountsens of california. the 39-year-old was there to hike the eastern sierra, it's region with steep terrain. he reportedly stayed behind at a camp ground when he had some car problems. donald trump getting the grade of an f for his trump university. new york's attorney general has sued trump for some $40 million. he said people were promised

apediatriciantiveships and instead got useless seminars. he said this earlier on "fox & friends." >> you have an attorney general, eric schneiderman, who really is a lightweight. he's not respected by anybody. he's got an approval rating, his high rating is about 4%. and by the way, our aroof rating on the school is 98%. 98% of the people that took the courses give it a really great rating. so we have this fantastic school and he went after, for political reasons. >> anna: trump says he will consider counter suing the state of new york. mtv video music awards were all about justin timberlake. ♪ >> anna: bringing more than sexy back. he took home the top prize for video of the year and the michael jackson video vanguard

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people are talking about. here she is. we got an image of her. there she is right there as she came out on stage at the parclay center. >> brian: out of a big teddy bear, right? >> steve: yeah. her signature crotch grabbing, leotard and then when she did blurred lines with robin thick, i think it's official. hawaii in a montana -- hannah montana the character is dead. >> anna: she's trying to prove it. we get the point already. but this is just raunchy. it wasn't sexy. there wasn't any talent. she can dance. all she was doing was gyrating and to being. >> brian: right. if you see some of the reaction, josh grayson said thanks, now i have to explain to my 11-year-old daughter why she no longer can follow your career. then you have this shot of will smith and his family. they're looking at her going, here we go.

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fueled this. i do know that the suspects did have some criminal records. i don't know. i can't imagine anybody having a problem with my great uncle. i don't know. >> anna: how do you feel this morning when you hear that these reports are that this second arrest and potentially more, have been made? does that give you any peace of mind at all? >> yeah, it does. our family has received a lot of threats and it makes me feel a little bit better. >> anna: what would you say to these guys? do you have harsh words for them? >> no. i don't understand. three lives were lost that night, you know. it's over for them. they have nothing now. you took a very special person away from our family and for that, i can't forgive you. god will have to forgive you for that. i can't. >> anna: i want to hear about him. a small man, shorty, his nickname.

>> yeah. >> anna: even more of a vulnerable target, being elderly. but tell us what you remember about him fondly. >> my most fondest memories are obviously in the garage. he's the reason why i'm a car guy today. turning wrenches, doing motor swaps. i remember him yelling at my grandpa because my grandpa yelled at me for picking up the crescent wrench. he never had a harsh word for anybody. if the kids would have asked him for something, he probably would have given it to them. i don't understand. it's senseless. >> anna: you say he didn't have a bad bone in his body. >> no. >> anna: how are you doing? how is the family coping with this? >> we're doing okay. his girlfriend -- or ex-girlfriend lives across the street. they're receiving death threats. they came and busted out her windows the other night. we're just trying to make it through. i don't understand like what's your problem with our family? he did this to us. we didn't do this to you. >> anna: do you think this comes

down to race? do you think it's the thug lifestyle? do you think it's the deterioration of the family in a collapsing culture? what's to blame for this? t at the risk of sounding like a terrible person, it all comes down to parents. i'm raising my children. my children aren't in trouble. one of my children is black. she doesn't act like that. she gets straight a's. everybody loves her. if i could say this to everybody, stop making this about race. this isn't about race. this is about two punk kids that had no parents, no family, no morals, no nothing. this has nothing to do with the color of their skin. >> anna: allall right. thank you. >> thank you. >> anna: it's the president's latest attack on the gop. >> defining principles in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> anna: governor mike huckabee

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>> steve: quick headlines. police recovering the body of a man attacked by a 16-foot crocodile in front of his friends. it happened in australia. sean coal was at a party when he decided to go swimming in a crocodile-infested river. it was well-known. he did it anyway. o. j. simpson won't have a home when he gets out of prison in many years. the bank foreclosing on his mansion in south florida. mortgage payments had not been paid on the house in three years.

now it's gone. brian? >> brian: president's latest attack against the gop. >> i think the really interesting question is why it is that my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. their number one priority. the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. >> brian: right. governor mike huckabee says that's not true. in fact, he's here to offer his solutions. governor, wasn't enough to see you all weekend. you have to help us out on monday, too? time and a half for you. you have a plan. you don't just have rhetoric. what's your plan? >> brian, the key things -- let me just say, the president was just moving beyond being disingenuous to being dishonest.

to say what republicans want is to deny people health care is nonsense. we've taken 15% of people who don't have insurance in and in an attempt to give it to them, we messed it up for the 85% of people who do. here is what we need to do. focus on a cure rather than just on a treatment. three stages in dealing with disease, preventing it, curing it, treating it. the idea is prevents it. the second ideal is to cure it. if all else fails, then treat it. our health care system is based on treatment. we spend most of the money on treating diseases and you know why? because there is money to be made in treating a disease. if you cure it, there is no money. if you prevent it, there is no money to be made. our health care system is upside down and it needs to be changed so that when people do have health care, insurance policy, it's personal to them, it's portable and it's premium based, which means they've got skin in the game. you give somebody something for nothing and they don't have co-pay, deductibles and no

investment and don't know what it cost, 90% of today's health care costs are third party pay, no wonder the system is screwed up. >> brian: you're saying make it personal. you also say pay for big cures. in biotech, for example, if they bring -- if they bring a medicine to market and it passes and get green lighted, they make a ton of money. that's not enough? >> no. here is what we ought to be doing. we ought to be focusing on a curative measure rather than a treatment 'cause most of what you're talking about -- that's important. don't get me wrong. i'm glad we have treatments and a lot of the pharmaceutical companies improved our lives with treatment. but what if you created within the national institutes of health, this is look like o'clock at the moon project of the we said in 1961 we were going to put a man on the moon and in a decade we did. we said we were going to cure polio and we did it. we said we were going to build an atom bomb and we did it. where is that kinds of focus, funding and fixing it? that's what we have to do.

focus on the issue, take four diseases, heart disease, cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes. diabetes costs $245 billion a year. alzheimer's, 200 billion. that's going to be a trillion dollars just in alzheimer's by the year 2050. if we found a way to cure or prevent alzheimer's, we're talking about a trillion dollars of savings to the american economy within the next 35 years. >> brian: you're talking about a many times project on the big diseases that are killing us and also bankrupting us? >> and that has to be largely government funded 'cause the government is the only entity that doesn't have to have a return on investment. you put it in the hands of the private sect or like a lot of people suggest, sounds good, doesn't make sense because there is no money long-term if you cure the disease, unless, unless you say you find a cure and you'll get a $100 billion prize for having cured it. now, that might turn the private sector on its head and get it

going. so that would make sense. but otherwise, only the government has a vested interest because it will bankrupt medicare and medicaid if we don't deal with these huge issues that are the cost outliers in health care. >> brian: not only do you look at the big picture, you know how it run a big state. balancing your checkbook is never easy at the huckabee house. governor, great show over the weekend. always great to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: coming up straight ahead, a veteran face eviction from his home. why? the answer will have you fuming. then it was a week on wall street. what we can -- what can we expect this week, lauren? >> brian, this is expected to be the slowest week of the year. but eventful it is. all this feds paper talk is sending rates up and stocks down. so we're going to find out today if that trend continues.

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around on the floor of the new york stock exchange before the action starts. >> before the action starts. a minute ago we got a report that these are items that brian and steve, you guys know nothing about. washing machines, dishwashers, you don't use those things. they're called durable goods. they plummeted in the month of july. you add that to new home sales on friday coming in at a nine-month low and you're setting the table, you're setting the stage for a weaker economy than some might hope. what that does is tell the fed, all right. maybe a higher interest rate is not in the cards. so we're focusing on all the data that comes in this week. so durable goods today, we get home prices tomorrow. we get gdp. that's like the mother of all economic reports on thursday. so the data is important. everybody is watching. it's all about the fed and paper talk and i have to say, this is like one of the slowest weeks ahead of a three-day weekend. not a lot of traders are here. that makes volatility really

high because volume is super light. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much. by the way, i know plenty about durable goods. >> it's television! >> steve: when the lint trap or garbage trap at the bottom of the dishwasher is full, i'm the one who gets the call. all right? >> all right, all right. i got it. i'll know that for next time. >> steve: lauren down at wall street, thank you very much. we got headlines for you and a fox news alert. we just learned a second suspect in the beating death a world war ii hero, delbert belton. 16-year-old keenen adams was caught in a basement apartment in spokane, washington. he's now facing murder and robbery charges. we broke the news to belton's great nephew just moments ago. >> our family has received a lot of threats and it makes me feel a little bit better. i don't understand. like three lives were lost that

night, you know. and it's over for them. they have nothing now. and you took a very special person away from our family and for that, i can't forgive you. god will have to forgive you for that. i can't. >> steve: the two african-american teen-agers are accused of savagely beating belton with flashlights and then leaving him behind for dead. he died later. another fox news alert. this one out of syria. snipers deliberately shooting at the united nations team investigating a chemical weapons attack. they are testing victims and taking samples of the site right now. we also know their vehicle, pictured there, was destroyed, one of them was, and being replaced. syria's government is blaming the rebels. this as the white house shooting down reports a strike there is imminent. president obama is still weighing his options. >> if the united states stands by and doesn't take very serious

action, not just launching some cruise missiles, then again, our credibility in the world is diminished even more if there is any left. >> steve: meanwhile, an administration official says there is very little doubt that syria's government used chemical weapons. so now what? in about an hour, the sentencing phase of the fort hood shooter trial gets underway. nidal hasan faces the death penalty for killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others. retired sergeant howard ray was a hero the day of the shooting. he said this earlier on "fox & friends". >> certainly he'll be a martyr either way. i mean, terrorists, once they get a victory, they're happy and they certainly don't care which way they get it. they either get it with his immediate execution or 50 years in jail. >> steve: 13 senior army officials must vote unanimously

to give him the death penalty or he winds up with life in prison. a world war ii veteran and his wife facing eviction from the apartment they've called home for over 20 years. the reason? the 90-year-old who can barely walk is smoking in his building's breezeway instead of the required ten feet away from the building. >> why has it gotten to this point where they want to evict you? is it simply you just don't want to change your habits? >> no. it's all on her part. she wants to do what she wants to do. >> steve: he is talking about the housing authority chairman. she says any exception to the new nonsmoking policy is out of the question. those are your headlines for monday. let's go outside. let's talk tennis! >> brian: he is one of the great all-time american tennis players. jim courier, now an outstanding broadcaster.

with four grand slams under his belt, french and australian, jim courier to talk about the u.s. open. welcome to the court. >> it's great to be here. are we going to play, too? >> anna: yeah, girls against guys. >> brian: we're gonna play. first give us an idea of what we can expect on the men's side? >> the men's side really, it's a lot about nidal. this time last year he was injured. he didn't even play the u.s. open. he was out for seven months. but he's coming up. he's playing great so far this summer. of course, you got joe murray. >> brian: he stole the hearts. he was one of the great sports stories of the year at wimbledon. >> he's coming in with a whole lot of confidence as well based on wimbledon and last year's open. and roger federer, slipped down to number 7 in the rankings. he's in the quarter final are nidal, which has been our great rivalry for the past seven, eight years. i think they'll get to the quarters. >> anna: the last 33 of the 34

have gone to the big four. no big surprise. for women you say serena williams and tracy austin. let's play girls against guys. let's do it. >> absolutely. >> serena is the overwhelming favorite, but just lost to the number two seed a week ago in cincinnati. so a little bit of intrigue there. not as much as in this match right here. >> brian: i look like a woosy, i took my jacket off. >> anna: are you scared? >> we got em. >> we're going to be on tennis channel at 10:30. some tennis will look a little different than this. >> brian: jim, tell me about the relationship with the business channel. >> fox and tennis channel are combining forces here. we'll be

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>> brian: it's happening today. in a few hours, president obama will award army staff sergeant ty carter with the medal of honor, america's highest military honor for his heroic actions in afghanistan. among those actions, carrying an injured friend off the battlefield. that friend later passed away in surgery. his name was stepman mace and

his mom joins us now. i can just imagine what you're thinking about today. when you heard that this man was getting the medal of honor for what he tried to do for your son, behalves your reaction? >> -- what was your reaction? >> absolute pride and just so grateful that ty is receiving the recognition that he so deserves today. i will be there today when he actually receives the medal of honor and just a lot of pride. of course, it brings sadness back to me because every time as the healing process that i've been going through over the last four years, you kind of feel like you're getting in a good place and then something brings back the memories. it will be painful today, but i also will be just very grateful that i will be able to attend the ceremony today. >> brian: is it better for you to hear the details of what happened that day or would you rather think about your son the

way he lived? >> i know a lot of people don't like to hear the details, but we were very close and i think just for part of my grieving process, i needed to understand what happened that day. hearing the details, although painful, it helps me to understand everything that happened that day and in some sort of way it helps me bring the closeness to stefan when i couldn't be there. >> brian: what were your conversations like with ty carter? >> ty and i, we haven't spoken too much over the last few years, just on occasion. a lot of these soldiers that were in this battle, and if people don't know what happened in this battle, about 400 taliban attacked a small outpost of about 53 soldiers and eight

were killed that day. the soldiers obviously, although they shouldn't carry a lot of guilt. a lot of them have a difficult time being able to speak with the relatives of the fallen because they just have that guilt. i think ty suffered from ptsd terribly, so we've kind of kept our contact at a minimum for the last few years because i just needed him to be in a place where he was comfortable speaking to me. i wanted to respect that he needed to go through this grieving process. and recently we've been speaking more. i think ty is doing great and he's being able to face and speak to me. when we speak, i just let him know that i am just so amazingly -- i'm grateful is such a simple word to be able to use. i don't think anything in the

english dictionary could describe my feelings for what he did for stefan that day. >> brian: you'll get a chance to see him today as he gets his medal later on this morning. >> yes, i will. >> brian: vanessa, sorry for your loss. thanks so much for joining us and coming forward to talk about stefan and to be there when ty gets his medal. thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> brian: 12 minutes before the top of the hour. she lost two of her sons to gun violence and says stop and frisk could have prevented their deaths. >> walking the street already saying, oh, i can carry my gun now because i'm not going to be stopped and frisked, or i could sue the police department, that's not good. >> brian: that mom here next. first, let's check in with bill hemmer for what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> top of the morning to you. we have breaking news on this fire in the west. this could be historic. we're on the fire lines for that. what to do about alleged

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>> steve: anthony and tyrone were brother, but shared more than just a mother. sadly, they also shared the same fate. both were shot dead on some of america's most violent streets. it has been years since anthony and tyrone's deaths and crime has gone down thanks, many say, mostly to stop and frisk policies, giving police the right to search suspects without a warrant. policies that were just recently, as you know here in new york city, overturned.

that's a decision that is disappointing the mother of those two young men, co-founder of harlem mothers joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> steve: you say stop and frisk is necessary. >> yes. >> steve: why? >> stop and frisk is very necessary, but necessary when you're doing it correctly. you have kids and just to get to the point, stop and frisk is so needed. yeah, they stop and frisk and they haven't had a lot of guns. but let's talk about the kid, the 14-year-old that was running around in the bronks at 2:00 o'clock in the morning and and shooting at people and the shoot at the. cop, the cop shoots and kills him. this same kid at 14 a month ago was shooting at someone again and he was arrested.

what was he doing back on the street with a hand gun? a .9 millimeter. yes, stop and frisk is very necessary. and you know what's sad? it's because people don't understand. they say stop and frisk, stop and frisk, oh, they mistreat me and stop -- but stop and frisk is needed and if we stop it, we're going to be in trouble. >> steve: jackie, you look at the stats, crime has gone down here in new york city with stop and frisk and people say look, you can thank that. but there are critics who say it's racial profiling, clearly. >> well, the reason they say it's -- we do have racial profiling. it's no doubt. we do. we have a couple of knuckle heads that do racial profiling. but on the other hand, i have to say in harlem, let me talk about harlem right now. our kids are killing each other. so it brings attention to harlem because every other day a

15-year-old, a 14-year-old, a 16-year-old have a gun and killing each other. so i wouldn't say so much about racial profileing when you're killing each other. but it brings attention to us in harlem. >> steve: absolutely. do you think your sons would be alive today if stop and frisk would have been instituted in your neighborhood back then when they were alive? >> in my heart i really feel if they had stop and frisk, my kids would still be alive. i want to be clear, when you say unconstitutional, we want stop and frisk to be done correctly. we want the community to sit together and work together. but we need stop and frisk and they might still be alive and all the other mothers in my

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here. laura ingraham will be here and cheryl casone will be here separately because we know they don't get along. >> steve: that is going to be a fantastic show. >> brian: right. we're going to take a shower and come back. >> steve: allall right. see you tomorrow. dill * this has become an out of control monster. the fire burning through yosemite national park is the size of the city of chicago with no end in sight. i'm bill hemmer. the team is back together this morning. martha: did you have a great week? bill: when is it not a great week in august? martha: the fire is a huge story. 3,000 firefighters are on t