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twitter. >> you just called him an old man. >> he's never seen a tattoo before? >>brian: listen, i did not know originally before i met gretchen that there was even a difference between miss u.s.a. and miss america. that's why. to see a tattoo on a miss america, because they also have to have talent. miss u.s.a. has to answer questions. miss america has got to juggle or play the violin. >>steve: you know a lot about pageantry. >> she's got nice abs, so it's a way to kind of show it. she probably tells a story. >>steve: the tattoo tells a story? >>brian: could someone read miss america's torso? >> i thinkmir vladimir putin's op-ed. >>steve: we have headlines on what it says because right there it is a little smeary. >> we've got headlines?

while you were sleeping overnight, flash flooding in the state of colorado leaving one person dead this morning. the female victim killed when a building collapsed and crushed her. you can see the force of the water as it rushes over the building at the university of colorado. at least 400 students were forced from their dorms. the campus remains shut down at this hour. the wife accused of killing her husband one week after their wedding could get out of jail today. a judge is expected to decide if the 22-year-old will stay behind bars or be put on house arrest. graham is accused of shoving her husband off a cliff while they were hocking in montana. one of her friends says she was having second thoughts about getting married. six flags will reopen. the texas giant roller coast, two months after a grandmother was thrown to her death. this morning her family is detailing what happened in a lawsuit.

they say she fell because there was a bar that was supposed to hold her in but it didn't work. she was 5'2" tall and weighed more than 200 pound. it is unclear if that bar was properly designed to hold someone of her size. six flags has never exactly said what happened but it does say it is adding new seat belts and placing a sample of the seat at the entrance so people can make sure it is safe before they go on that ride. it is a first for a miss america contestant. miss kansas -- >>steve: my home state! >> not anyone you're related to; right? >>steve: does not look familiar. >> miss kansas is showing off her tattoo during the swimsuit portion of tuesday's competition. she is a member of the army national guard. she has the serenity prayer. that is on the side of her. it is the insignia of the u.s. army dental corps on her shoulder. her platform is helping

women overcome stereotypes. she says covering the tattoo would make her a hypocrite. certificate rein ter prayer helps people -- the certificate religionty prayer helps people get through drug and alcohol addiction. >>brian: there is a reason to read her body. >>steve: i think the miss america pageant is coming up this weekend. >> i have no idea. >>steve: or coming up shortly. >> mrs. u.s.a., remember that one? >>brian: john kerry, if you're looking for -- check the whole country, you'll find he's not here. he is over in switzerland and geneva. he is meeting with his counterpart, mr. lavrov. they're meeting one on one for the next two days to try to hammer out an agreement to see if president presidentçó obama's wish, and that is to get

chemical weapons out of syria right now, promise not to use them again and allow weapons inspectors in. and, therefore, they would not get a military reprisal from the united states of america. vladimir putin, it was his idea, it was talked about with the president over the last g-20 but now we're going to see if the russians are going to put their money where their mouth is. >>steve: vladimir putin has been busy. on the op-ed page of the "new york times" this morning there is a well-crafted op-ed that makes it very clear that what the united states is doing in syria is not in the interest of the world community. here's something that he does write. he says that he watched mr. obama's speech on tuesday night and he takes exception to when the president referred to americans as exceptional. he said i would rather disagree with theñiçó case he made on american exceptionalism stating the u.s. policy is what makes

america different. it is what makes us exceptional. it is extremely dangerous, putinñi goes on to write, to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation. that's it. he also went on to say, we must not forget that god created us all equal. so, mr. putin's got a problem with american exceptionalism. well boo hoo. >> he invokes the pope. he also talks about children and how children would die if the united states strikes syria. and what's in part fascinating about that is that his country has helped the syrian country over the past few years so they're in part responsible for what has happened. >>brian: and the russians, for example, don't look at us as exceptional. they look at us as a rival.

vladimir putin is running this peace process, running this crisis from syria and to go to "the new york times" and write this editorial shows it is in your face america, in your face barack obama. take this as an affront as he gives us a lesson as being a part of the world community. what do we do with our ban to speak out against us? the dixie chicks. i don't think president bush jailed them. who does president bush look up to or who does president obama look up to? abraham lincoln. who does he look up to? josef stalin who killed probably 50 million russians throughout his career. >>steve: he's trying to school us on world history, and he says, look, you know, you cannot, united states, go to war without getting the okay of the united nations. what he doesn't say is, of course,ñi russia is on the security council and they can veto anything that we try to get through. >>brian: don't worry, china's there. >>steve: it is not going

to happen. major general bob scales dk'ight and heñr really took exception toçó that-9 american exceptionalismñiñi crack.ñi >> the lastñrçó point thatxd really sort of torqued me off was this idea of criticizing american exceptionalism. the russians have their own form of exceptionalism, and they get it by killing journalists and invading georgia. i've seen chutzpah before but never anything like this. >>brian: bob corker went out, we are sitting there taking our queues from vladimir putin and there is nobody to blame but president obama. he has allowed to russians to take over the lead in the country. i think bob corker put it best when he said there is something about the president. one on one he's fine. as a world leader, he has a problem with being the commander in chief. he doesn't want to be it. now we're stuck with vladimir putin telling us what to do in the middle east, telling us we better

not arm the rebels. this is back to the cold war. they are going to start upping arms toefr iran if we continue to threaten military action. with their view on chemical weapons is unbelievable. they are telling us the rebels gas their own women and children. >> now vladimir putin comes out, as you read this and hear all of what is coming out of russia now, coming out as a stateñi smith of sort which obviously isn't the case but that is how he's koufpg this politically -- couching this politically and seems to be winning at this point. >>steve: when he says that the rebels are the ones who gas their own people to get us involved, to turn us into al qaeda's air force, you look at the united nations weapons inspectors, and they haveñi got a wealth of circumstantial evidence that assad gassed his own people. what's interesting is the weapons inspectors are

authorized only to conclude whether or not chemical weapons were used, not who used them. community it sure looks like assad was gassing his own people. here's senator ayotte last night with greta. >> obviously i've been in classified briefings, i've seen the evidence, i'm convinced the assad regime did use the chemical weapons. i just saw a report as i was coming over here that the united nations report that's going to be coming forward is going to confirm that. again, for the russians to say somehow the assad regime didn't use the chemical weapons, that doesn't fly in the face of the evidence. >>steve: the evidence is at this point just circumstantial, but still you look at it, and you hear the evidence that the president of the united states was laying out the other night, it sureñr soukj likeñr assad.ñi >>brian: what isokñi astounding is that weapons inspectors in country when they gassedñiñi 1,400, killedñi

intercepts of them ordering the attack. for you to do an investigation and not conclude who did it, why do the investigation. there would not be an episode of quincy if at the end of quincy we didn't find out who was guilty. >> that weapons report should come out monday. >>steve: coming up, who thought it was a good idea to light a plane on fire on september 11? to make matters worse, it happened at one of the airports the terrorists hijacked an airliner from. >> also, 284çó billion dollars. here's the question. why does the president want to tax us to answer that question; >>steve: they're playing his theme song. "funky town." ♪ won't you take ♪ me to ♪ funky town

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>>steve: here's a key piece of budget information that the white house won't want you to know. >>heather: according to a new report, tax revenue is up $284 billion this year alone. can you believe that? taxes are booming. here's a question: why does the president keep pushing for higher taxes? stu varney is here with the details. how do you explain that? >> the president's priority is redistribute the wealth via the tax system. tax brings a lot more money. because that's fair. don't you understand? here's the story. the congressional budget office, the government's own bean counters, they announced monday that we've got an extra $284 billion coming into the treasury in the 11 months leading up to august. an extra $284 billion.

income tax up. corporate tax up. payroll tax up. it's flooding in all in the name of fairness. >>heather: cü= paid more as well. >> $30 billion more. it's all in the name of fairness. but it hasn't worked. this income redistribution through taxation has given us a lousy growth rate. it's given us a shrinking middle class and appalling rates of unemployment among young people and minorities. this fairness is in fact unfair. but hold on a second, there's more. the president wants another trillion -- but wait, there is more. it's not funny. there is an extra, another interest dollars -- another trillion dollars the president wants in revenue. his interesting is not growing the case but reslicing the case and it is fundamentally unfair. >>heather: the president talked about that for years and year about that being his goal. a couple of interesting

statistics. medicaid grew by 6.1% in the last year alone. defense spending has gone down 7.5%. >> defense spending down 7.5%. medicaid spending up 6%. we haven't got a grip on entitlements which are running away with the budget, but we have got a grip on defense spending. we're cutting it sharply. >>steve: you talked about this in the past. with tax and spend liberals, what they do is tax and spend what they take in and invariably they wind up spending more than they do take in and we wind up with a deficit. let's say there were a conservative government in action here, a conservative president. what would he do differently? >> i think it would be a different policy. it would be a policy to stimulate the private sector with tax rate cuts that individuals and corporations, which stimulates growth, which stimulate tax revenues coming from a totally different source. not from tax increases in rates on individuals but from taxes that are the

result of growth. that's the opposite of what we've got now. >>heather: conservatives a lot time when we talk about raising taxes always say if you raise taxes it's going to bring in a lot less revenue. that's not been the case here. how do you square that? >> raising taxes brings in less revenue over the long term. in the short term, you raise taxes you'll get the money flooding in. by the way, this raising of taxes only occurred in the last year. and it's in the last year we've had this $284 billion flooding in. >> you always explain things so clearly and simply. in the long term, that's the issue here. long term. >> at 6:20 a.m., that is incredible. >>steve: three hours now over in fox business you've got your television show that people love to watch as you explain the news and politics. >> thank you very much indeed, steve. >>steve: see you later. straight ahead, is this any way to honor an american hero? [chanting]

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>>steve: quick headlines on this thursday morning. new satellite photos of north korea show the country may be restarting its nuclear facility. the images which were taken in august show steam rising from a building that houses a plutonium reactor. great! another delay for obamacare, only this time

congress gets the short end of the stick. lawmakers and their staffs on capitol hill may not be able to enroll in exchanges when they open october 1 because the government has not finalized a list of eligible employees. you would have thought they'd put themselves on it, but no. brian, over to you. >>brian: diplomacy talks still underway as russia pulls the strings on a syrian handover. here's what the white house had to say yesterday. >> russia has not been helpful on this matter for the last two years, but there is an opportunity here, and they have laid it out pretty specifically, for russia to be helpful. it is absolutely the right thing to do and the responsible thing to do to explore this potential avenue. >>brian: but can russia be trusted? how does this impact america's credibility with our enemies? seething and anxious to talk to you is fox news military analyst colonel oliver north. how significant is the fact that russians are taking

the lead in the middle east? >> not taking the lead. it was handed to them by the obama administration. the o team has given putin, who, by the way, is going to be in office for nine more years. if you look at his entire tenure to include that brief interlude with medvedev as the president, will give vladimir putin the longest tenure since czar peter the great. he is running, manipulating from a dying country. consider this. russia is losing a million people a year. the only thing that they have up until now is they have oil and gas and nuclear weapons. and it is a dying country. they have no credibility in any part of the world. we now have handed them the middle east in the mediterranean. putin's goal has been to keep assad in power. now he has the entire middle east in his hands because he's the savior of the obama administration. this is a disaster of

unparallel magnitude in our foreign policy because of the flacid, irresolute -- the resolute desk sits in the oval office. i sat beside a president of the united states at that desk. they ought to pull it out of there with obama in office. >>brian: some say not since anwr sadat kicked them out of egypt have the russians had such a prominent roul. it is because president obama is about to fail in congress so he's basically gone to russia. >> and failed globally because he couldn't find an ally besides france. this is not a foreign policy. >>brian: do you see them continuing to play the role of a coy interloper in that? are they going to come out thugigsh and say disarm america? are they going to continue to drag us along? >> they're going to insist

america withdraw farther from the middle east as part of their deal to make peace break out in the middle east. next will be let's go after the israelis and make them disarm. that is where this is headed and putin is pulling the pept strings. >>brian: military colleges will be looking at david petraeus and what he learned. now he decides to be a professor at city college. look at this video and what are your thoughts? you served in vietnam heroically and have been serving this kubt -- country for decades. are you embarrassed by this? >> you scum bag. [chanting] [screaming] >> can you imagine general curtis le may after he retired in the 1960's taking a job at berkeley. i can't support what these students are doing. i think it is outrageous.

they've got the freedom of speech to do it. i think it is insulting to all of us who serve. that is not their problem. david petraeus should have known better. this is a guy everybody vested with enormous political prowess. look what he did to himself, first of all, with his affair and now walking for five blocks down a city street in new york when the students probably led by their professors are protesting. >>brian: what he did for his country, what he did for his family, what he did for us, eating sand for years and designing a winning strategy. >> look, in the 1960's and 1970's we were told don't wear your uniform off base because you will be subject to protest. this is vietnam 2. this is berkeley east. what do you expect. >>brian: david petraeus, if you're watching, they speak for us. all right. straight ahead, what happened to the much-hyped million muslim march on 9/11? bikers happened. we'll show you the

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game. virginia smith, a great-grandmother and who played softball for 39 years. and there she was out in the stands with the ball she caught. way to go. >>heather: good for her. >>steve: very, veryñr nice. >>brian: i also like the fact that shania twain agreed to play live for us. >>steve: you're just a little bitter that i did a sports story. >>brian: angry, hurt. not bitter. >>steve: he keeps track. >>heather: we've got headlines. in a controversial fight over arming teachers with guns, ends with a big win for 13 arkansas school districts. the school board there reversing itself and now giving licensed teachers the green light to carry guns in schools.ñrñr >> we need a system in our public schools to provide immediate response to armed intruders. >> we say licensed teachers. i assume we mean teachers who have a gun license.

not teachers who are licensed to teach. they can start carrying these weapons starting next week actually. >>brian: a tpas mask not -- a face mask not enough to disguise this california mcdonald's manager who got busted robbing his store. police say the man held his own employees at gunpoint, locking them in the freezer. they caught him shortly after he robbed another mcdonald's nearby. he pleaded not guilty. >>steve: i wonder if he used a mask. some incredible photos to showñi you. two dogs jumping from a balcony to escape a burning building. they were trapped on the second floor as the fire burned, and jumped to the ground off that deck. it happened in oregon. neither dog was hurt. >>heather: how frightening for those animals. who on earth thought this was a good idea? how stupid is this? the fire department at logan airport in boston

decided to hold a fire drill on the anniversary of 9/11. people there were obviouslyjf really scared by this. can you imagine you're a passenger at logan airport. you look out the window or you work at the airport and you see the flames and smoke rising on 9/11. they saw that there. it was on a mock plane on the runway. part of the reason they were so nervous about this is terrorists took off from logan airport on 9/11. listen to this. >> today when mass port decided to schedule this and looked at the calendar, it must not have clicked to them that 9/11 is not a great day to create a faux fire. it makes no sense. >>heather: a spokesperson for the massachusetts port authority said the fire drill had been previously scheduled. three hours later it apologized for the timing of the exercise saying sorry, it might have offended people. >>steve: it was announced awhile back that there would be something called

million muslim march on september 11 of this year. as soon as that was announced, then they realized, that's probably a bad name so we came up with something else. million american march against fear, would happen on september 11. and a number of bikers said okay, they're going to have one million. we're going to have two million bikers. we're going to have a rally in washington, d.c. they both occurred yesterday. ladies and gentlemen, that is -- they fell short of two million, but this you have thousands of bikers tying up traffic along the capital beltway. >>brian: they didn't have a permit because they didn't want to stop traffic in the middle of the day, they said. so they said we're doing it. we're going to stop at the stop signs, yield signs and the red lights but we're going to go through. the people lined up and they went through without a permit and didn't break laws, but they did send a message. >>heather: here's a picture on the right-hand side of your screen of the other march, the million muslim march.

just a hand full of people. >>brian: that guy looks motivated. >>heather: that thing fell flat. >>steve: that second photo where they had maybe two dozen people, they got the permit. the bikers did not get the permit. >>heather: the police department, didn't they say they didn't have the resources to be able to close down the streets to accommodate the bikers. the bikers said we'll follow the rules of the road and abide by the law. >>brian: some say there is a difference of opinion there. a former new york mets manager and boston red sox manager fired, bobby valentine, with choice words for the yankees on 9/11, 2001. he said the team was not around in the wake of the event. he said they could not be found on the streets of new york or by ground zero talking to the guys working to clear the scene. the yankees did reportedly make a team donation of one

million dollars to the relief effort. the mets set up a relief site at shea stadium. why did he call occupy the yankees -- call out the yankees? not sure. the marlins and braves almost come to blows after a home run hit by ryan fernandez. tper phapbdz taunting the braves as he rounded the bases, even spitting on third base. that was the final straw. fernandez said he was embarrassed by the way he acted. marlins won 5-2. coming up on "kilmeade & friends," john roberts whr-b -- will be there. colonel oliver north. steve doocy and charles dulfer will be joining us. i have a hunch, i have not asked him yet, did some of the iraqi chemicals, are

they in syria? >>heather: there was one general on fox news -- there may have been a couple, but i remember one say that he witnessed or saw something that indicated weapons were being moved across the border to syria. >>brian: have you talked to weather yet? >>heather: i have before. let's talk about -- colorado has had so much rain recently and there are some flash floods in colorado leaving at least one person dead this morning. let's go to miss maria molina. she is live outside with more on the extreme weather sweeping the country. and it is really hot here in the northeast. hi, maria. >> good morning, heather, steve and brian. a very dangerous situation across sections of colorado. it's been raining heavily throughout the overnight hours and the national weather service declared a flash flood emergency specifically across boulder county because we picked up more than six inches of rain in a short amount of time. if you look at the screen you can see flash flooding

that continues early this morning. classes have been canceled in some areas. we're talking about evacuations ongoing with several homes that have been reported to have collapsed. other areas as well. new mexico, parts of utah and even across arizona have been picking up significant rainfall, several inches. we have a number of watches in effect and flood warnings that go into even tomorrow for some of you because we're expected more heavy rain also into your friday. across the northeast severe weather possible because we have a cold front marching east. we have warm, humid conditions that will help fire up those storms. temperaturewise ahead of the storms, 90's. behind it much cooler. steve, heather, brian, i want to mention specifically to you, brian, i'm actually a miami marlins fan. >>brian: hang your head today. it was an embarrassment last night. thank you very much. >>heather: a whole lot of

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gallery rolled out the red carpet. we caught up with the cast and asked them the burning question, what everyone wants to know: what to expect thisçó season. >> i think the question is whether brody will be monitored and taken care of when he's on the run or whether he's put out in the cold. >> in our world the c.i.a. blew up, a lot of lives were lost. we need to be throughñi that, and we are. and the characters are quite raw -- spoeubg i -- >> i could tell you everything andñi then i'd have to take your cameras and then i'd have to kill you. and you both look young and healthy. >>steve: are you not wearing açó shirt? >> i am wearing a shirt. it is a shirt. color. >> for television apparently. you can catch interviews on inthefoxlight.com. >>steve: thanks for wearing a shirt.

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>>steve: as the president pushed congress for approval to strike syria, it became clear that he may become the first american president in history to have war-making authority denied if congress votes no. the outcome? congress delays a vote as russia emerges on top, all for the president to avoid being personally embarrassed perhaps? joining us is fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. tell me it's not about ego. >> presidents speak two ways. they speak as the head of state and they speak as a

candidate won in reelecti a year ago, la aus 2012 speaking as a candidate who wanted reelection, worried mitt romney was creeping up in the polls, the president decides i'm going to sound tough. what am i going to do about syria? if they use chemical weapons, that is a red line and we'll get involved. he wasn't speaking as commander in chief, wasn't speaking as the head of the federal government. also was visited with a problem a year later when it became apparently that somebody, either the rebels pretending to be government or the government itself used these chemical weapons. what is he going to do? mr. president, do you want americans to be involved in a war where we have no interest in the outcome? where our freedom and our security is t affected one iota by what happens over there? you can't go around being the world's police because under the treaties we signed and the international law to which we subscribed, if we are not affected, freedom or safety by the war, we have

no legal right to become involved. >>steve: excellent point. right now john kerry is trying to work things outs with the foreign minister of the former soviet union, of russia over in europe somewhere. and what they're doing is they're trying to figure out whether or not that ad libbed gaffe line kerry made up -- >> the one he made when he hadn't had sleep in about 47 hours. >>steve: i saw that in the washington, an excellent article. when what you talk a little bit about is the fact that here we are backed into a situation now where we're going to have to trust the russians. you know, and in fact, as the white house officially says, it is going to be up to russia to make sure that this deal is done effectively. the russians are playing us like a fiddle. >> look at the bitter irony here. vladimir putin is a trained killer, murderer and tortureer as a former k.g.b. agent. barack obama is a trained

lawyer, scholar and expert on the constitution, and he wins the nobel peace prize. which of the two of them this week sounds like a nobel peace laureate and which one sounds like a thug who wants to kill? not even a close kill. as ollie told brian a few minutes ago, this is going to have long-term effects in the diplomatic community and in relations in the middle east. and the russians right now are dominant because the president is incompetent. >>steve: real quickly, if kerry and the foreign minister can't work things out, we're back to ground zero. >> and he's going to lose that vote in the congress. that is the only reason they delayed the vote because he doesn't want to be the first american president to have a request for war-making power turned down even by large numbers of members of his own party. >>steve: that is where we started. good thing we've got you on retainer.

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>> heather: we're all guilty of eating fast food. it's easy. it tastes great and the price is usually right. but luckily there is some smart choices that you can make the next time you hit the drive through. joining us is author of "shape up short cuts," jen.

let's talk about some of these because you say instead of going to the most caloric options, there are good option, starting with chipotle. >> you can literally watch them making your order. so you can really cater to exactly what you want. starting with a salad is really the best bet. it will cut out a lot of extra calories. here we have the barbacoa, great protein. make you feeling full longer. salsa can take the place of high calorie dressing. >> heather: get rid of the guac? >> a short cut tip is just to get it on the side. 'cause a lot of times they have a heavy hand putting it on. use a little less and monitoring how much you're using. >> heather: that will cut calories. what about starbucks? >> this is great. protein starbucks. it has a little bit of everything. a hard boiled egg, some cheese, healthy fat, protein. sweet fruit. and it's really going to give you a nice balanced meal.

then adding a green juice like this to it, which is like loaded with ten different vegetables, really delicious. when you're on the go, this obviously doesn't replace eating your fruits and veggies. but it's really good. gives you those nutrients. >> heather: mcdonald's. you like to get a burger. but these are pretty good. >> really good. this is their premium southwest salad. a lot of people hear salad and immediately -- >> heather: it's awful. sorry starbucks. >> no, it's not awful. salads, most people hear them and say it's got to be healthy. you have to watch for the dressing. a great tip that i give in the book and a lot of times is swapping out the dressings for different things. if you're getting lime wedges. >> heather: also a restaurant you see in new york and big cities, not across the country. >> super healthy. wild salmon salad. everything on here is very

fresh. the wild salmon will give you protein, healthy fats. feeling fuller longer. >> heather: wendy's. you can get a potato. >> this is what the book is all about, is making the better option. maybe not the best option. so if you're a french fry person and you can't give them up, baked potato, sour cream and chive. it's a great option. it will keep you full and satisfied, give you lots of nutrients. >> heather: and other restaurants have good options? >> absolutely. it's looking at the menu and choosing like you see here. making the little changes that will make it a little healthier. >> heather: a lot of these places are starting to post their calorie counts as well. love your new book. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> heather: coming up, degree, check, interview, check. mom, check. now young adults are bring their parents to job interviews. it's happening all over the country and we'll tell you what employers have to say about it. and then bringing the faith back to the big screen. actor kirk cameron is behind a

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>> heather: good morning to you. today is thursday, september 12. i'm heather nauert in for gretchen carlton. we start with a fox news alert. secretary of state john kerry arriving for a meeting with the russians this morning. wait until he reads the "new york times" today. putin writing an op ed, but really insulting america. we'll tell you about it. >> steve: great. meanwhile, major backlash against at & t for its tribute to the twin towers on 9-11. but it was in honor of the victims or just a way to sell phones? >> brian: they're apologizing. hey, is this the key to fixing the economy? ♪ hot stuff baby this evening

♪ i need some hot stuff baby tonight ♪ >> brian: how donna summer saved this small italian town. those are my people. half of them. [ laughter ] >> steve: mama mia. >> brian: "fox & friends" starts now. >> heather: all righty, brian of the we'll get right to the headlines. new video -- >> brian: first, steve, you have a vote in this. >> steve: i'm on her side. >> heather: all right. >> steve: we heard about your people a minute ago. we'll hear more about your people. >> heather: dancing up a storm. we have new video to bring you. "fox & friends," heavy rain pounding colorado. flash flooding leaving one person dead. the victim is a female. she was killed when a building collapsed and then crushed her. you can see the force of the water right here as it rushes over a building at the university of colorado. at least 400 students were

forced from their dorms. how frightening. the campus shut down at this hour. the wife accused of killing her husband just one week after their wedding could get out of jail later today. a judge expected to decide if 22-year-old jordan graham will stay behind bars or be put on house arrest. graham is accused of shoving her husband off a cliff while they were hiking in montana. one of her friends says she was having second thoughts about getting married. six flags will reopen the texas giant roller coaster this weekend. this two months after a grandmother was thrown 75 feet to her death. this morning her family is now detailing what happened that day in a lawsuit. they say rosa fell because the bar that was supposed to hold her in obviously did not. she was 5' 2 and weighed more than 200 pounds. it's still unclear if that bar was properly designed to hold someone of her size. six flags has never said exactly what happened, but they do say

they are adding new seatbelts and they're placing a sample of the seat at the entrance of the ride so people can sit down ahead of time to make sure they fit. imagine acrossing the street and see this. a black bear taking a stroll through a town. this happened in gatlin burg, tennessee. people getting too close to snap a picture of the little bear. he looks more scared than the people did. the bear eventually made his way back to the woods. how cute is that? >> brian: why are so many bears running from the woods? what's happening? >> steve: because we're building condos in their crib. >> heather: in their territory. >> brian: why don't they just stay there by the condos? why are they running to the big cities? >> steve: one of the other things did -- we're encroachingn their territory. >> brian: why do you take the bear's side? >> steve: because i got bear in my backyard and some nights i'll hear something going on in the backyard. you turn on the light and there is a great big bear.

>> brian: speak of bears, what about the russian bear? i'm talking about the foreign minister meeting with our secretary of state. let's see if putin's pledge to be the peace broker in syria and get the chemical weapons out of there will actually come to fruition when it comes down to working things out in detail. >> steve: let's find out. there is john kerry. he is in geneva to talk to his counterpart. they're going to discuss this plan. keep in mind, what the russians want us to agree to is we will take the threat of force off the table. oh, come on. we can't do that, but russians want us to do that. in the meantime, a white house official has said that the world will note if russia can't get this chemical weons thing done. so if they say they're going to do their best and they can't do it, the world will take note, this white house official says, although i don't know exactly what that means.

>> heather: russiaoe't want the blame to be put on the syrians. it wants it to be shared between the rebels and the government of syria. >> brian: here is the other thing, they're starting to upgrade the amount of arms and heavy machinery and heavy material that is going into syria to support their army as is hezbollah and iran. for the first time, we understand the c.i.a. is escorting arms to the rebels. so things are upgrading in town because for one thing, i'm not sure what makes up the rebels, i haven't been there, but i will say this, there is russia, iran, and hezbollah all working for the syrian government, which has a standing army. >> steve: it's interesting you should mention the rebels because vladimir putin is writing an op ed in the pages of the "new york times." >> brian: why wouldn't he? >> steve: yeah. he says there is no doubt that poison gas was used, but, you know, there is not evidence that shows that the assad government used it and, in fact, as we know from the russians, they think perhaps the rebels were doing it to go ahead and frame mr. assad

so we would intervene. also mr. putin says that he watched very carefully our president, barak obama, give the speech from the cross hall a couple nights ago and there was one thing that he did not like. he disagreed with the president's point about how americans are exceptional. >> heather: he says, i would rather disagree with the case he made on american exceptionalism, saying the united states' policy, what makes america different, is what makes us exceptional. extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation is. when we ask for the lord's blessing, we must not forget god created us equal. >> brian: that's a great point as individuals. but as nations, there is no way we're equal. there is only one nation where they're sneaking in at night to get in, lined up around the block to get in. when is the last time someone said, i'm trying to get to russia. i just can't get my place yet on-line. by the way, we do this thing where we go into countries, rebuild them and leave. russia hasn't gotten that concept.

remember they had eastern europe for 50 years? that prompted the whole cold war. we go out and try to bring peace. we tried to do that in afghanistan. they tried to stream roll and murder people. we're trying to build an army, get elections and leave. there is a fundamental difference between what we try to do, what they try to do and most of the rest of the world tries to do. >> steve: what mr. putin talks about in the op ed, he says the united states got involved in afghanistan. that didn't work out very well. got involved in iraq. that didn't work out very well. his larger point is that the united states had been talking about doing -- intervening militarily in syria without the approval of united nations. that's his point. the united nations can't just be the bully of the country. what's interesting, though, is mr. putin stands between us and getting approval from the united nations because russia is on the security council and they can veto anything we want to do. that's why we haven't taken it up with the united nations and that's why the united nations moon has said don't do it, united states.

>> heather: this editorial, real finger in the eye of the obama administration and the president as well. but you can't blame putin for doing this. >> steve: he's having a good week. >> heather: the president has really insulted him in the past. talking about how he seemed like a bored student. do you really say that to another world leader? whether you like him or not, is that really appropriate? >> brian: i don't think putin has shown this president respect. i think essentially we have given up the middle east temporarily, i hope, and leadership possibly in the world to the russians who haven't deserved it. economically they're not there, militarily they're not there. diplomatically they're not there. but we are actually giving this to them. essentially it's because president obama cannot convince the american people of this military action. he can not convince congress of the military action. it's now it turns out the only people he can work with are the russians. >> heather: john mccain saying to the "wall street journal" just yesterday evening that he wants to give it three days to see if the talks go anywhere between the united states and

russia. otherwise we should resume plans for a vote in congress to see where that goes. >> steve: let's see where this goes. weapons inspectors for the united nations are going to be send not guilty their formal report. they've been in syria trying to figure out what happened. no doubt poison gas was used. but the evidence to say it was mr. assad is apparently completely circumstantial. apparently what the weapons inspectors are authorized to do is only conclude whether or not chemical weapons were used. not exactly who used them. so we already know that chemical weapons were used. but if they're not going to say okay, we've got evidence, that assad did it or the rebel, i don't know how much that -- >> brian: by the way, they have intercepts of defense officials calling for the attack. they have biomedical and environmental samples. they have doctors and nurses there who say they did it. there is witnesses who saw it. even people who lined up against president obama have said, okay. they used it against women and

children for the u.n. to go in there and waste everyone's time while they were in country when they actually perpetrated this attack is incredible and shows a usele organization it is. >> heather: we should mention there is an exclusive report on our web site that the u.n. report will point to assad, the regime, as being responsible for the chemical attacks. that runs counter to what we've been talking about. take a look. >> brian: i'm fascinated by this new story. i heard of bring your kid to workday and pet to workday. but is there a new trend in america, bring your parents to work? >> steve: there is at google, bring your parents to workday was in may. apparently a number of employers are embracing the involvement of parents. let's face it, a lot of parents with their children these days, they're helicopter parents, they help them get into schools, with the sports teams. brian can tell you as a coach, he's gotten a million phone calls from parents who say, look, why didn't little billy start last week? he's not going to get into harvard if you don't start him! >> brian: believe me, do you want me to use the real name?

thanks for using a fake name. >> steve: there is no billies on your team. >> brian: thankfully. but you know who you are. but bring your parents to work is happening. it turns out even 30-year-olds want their parents over their shoulder? incredible. in google they're doing this. other major corporations, they think it builds a unity. >> heather: apparently 8% of them had them accompany them at a job interview. could you imagine bringing your mom or dad in for a job interview? >> steve: maybe that was just into the outer office. 3% the parents actually sit in -- across from the person doing the hiring, which is extraordinary. this is an article in the "wall street journal" today. it talks a little bit about how, what they've noticed a number of companies is suddenly at the social events rather than bringing a date or a spouse or something like that, these young employees, just out of high school or college, are bringing a parent with them. >> heather: that's kind of sweet. at a company social event. >> steve: if you're going to bring somebody -- >> heather: but to a job

interview? >> steve: that's nuts. >> heather: that's weird. >> brian: you remember my first few years here, my mom would load the prompter and you thought that was a little strange. >> steve: she was always -- >> brian: if we weren't doing a morning show, my mom and your dad would actually be here. but the hours don't work for them. >> steve: believe me, my dad is up early. what do you think about that? is that just crazy to have a parent sitting across the table from the negotiator? >> brian: who is going to make your lunch! >> steve: the problem is for the person who invites the parent in is if they don't give the kid a job, it's like why didn't you give the kid a job? they're also going to try to negotiate the salary. he can't work for that! what, are you kidding! >> brian: i don't want them in my house forever. >> steve: e-mail us. >> brian: they should be home doing your laundry. not at work. [ laughter ] >> heather: millions of americans watching the president's speech selling an attack on the country of syria. but are they buying what he's

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the test we did the night he spoke, they felt that there was too much politics relating to the children, that he was trying to use them as an emotional tool rather than speaking matter of factually. every time he mentions children, the lines went down. i was not expecting that to happen. let's watch. >> terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. but when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safe in the long run, i believe we should act. >> steve: frank, is that because people viewed the president as using the children politically to justify doing something in syria? >> exactly. and it's not that republicans, or democrats. it's not that republicans are anti-children. it's that they felt he was playing politics with the lives of these young people and that he mentioned the word child three times in a very short

speech and they just found it offensive. i want to give the president credit. he set up each one of those points throughout the speech, he articulated effectively what questions, what challenges the american people had and in that articulation, he was fantastic as far as our voters felt. but they were angry with him and disappointed with is that they felt his answers to those challenges were less effective. >> steve: all right. and we've got -- >> the answer is simple. i will not put american boots on the ground in syria. i will not pursue an open ended action like iraq or afghanistan. i will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like libya or kosovo. this would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective. >> steve: okay. so the democratic line was up higher. the republican or conservative line down much lower. frank, we both agreed the president helped his message out a lot.

but shouldn't the speech have come, i don't know, two or three weeks ago? >> it should have come two or three weeks ago and it's not just what he wouldn't do and it's not just what he would do. where the president failed is not to articulate exactly the consequences of inaction and the effectiveness if he had acted. it's not about looking backward. it's about look ahead. why is this going to succeed, how is the world going to look different, what is the impact on american safety and security? how can you guarantee that it will be effective? those are four critical points and the speech did not answer any of those four points. >> steve: also we had a fox news poll, what should the u.s. do? 68% say stay out. only 26% say help. >> by the way, tomorrow night on "hannity," we'll have the complete show, will be devoted to the focus group responses. i urge viewers to tune in because the dials are important. but what americans had to say, their actual reactions to the speech and to national security, it was fascinating.

>> steve: all right. frank, always a pleasure to watch the dials and you. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> steve: 20 minutes after the top of the hour. major backlash against at & t for its tribute to the twin towers yesterday on september 11. were they using the victims to sell phones, or is this just a bunch then bringing faith back to the big screen? >> god is good and he's a god of love and he's powerful enough to stop evil and pain and suffering. why doesn't he? >> steve: kirk cameron is behind that movie project. he's here in the studio. come on over, you're next, buddy ♪ ho ho ho [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. some are giant.

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>> brian: time for news by the numbers. one vote. that's how short a missouri proposal was that would have thrown out federal gun laws if it passed. state police could have been sued for trying to enforce the laws. next, 186,000. that's how many miles are on the pope mobile. he just got a 1984 renault 4 as a hands me down from a northern italian priest. i hate the hand me downs even though the priest was very careful. finally, 1360. that's how many calories are in a new pizza burger at a boston restaurant. it's a bacon cheeseburger wrapped in a pepperoni pizza and baked like a calzone. >> steve: can we get some of those now? >> brian: open your aorta with a plunger right after. >> heather: a lot better than the green shake i had to drink 20 minutes ago. >> steve: wash it down. meanwhile, the moment tragedy strikes, people are often faced with the same question. >> why does god let bad things happen to good people?

if god is good and he is a god of love and he is powerful enough to stop evil and pain and suffering, why doesn't he? >> heather: it is a new documentary called "unstoppable" and it aims to show how faith can make you stronger when you're faced with tough times. here now, kirk cameron to talk about that. hi. so this opens pretty soon, right? >> september 24. >> heather: what made you decide to do this? >> this is by far the most personal project i've ever made. it's a true story about my friend, matthew, who died of cancer this last year. and it's easy to get excited about faith in god when stuff is going great. but when you feel like your world comes crashing down, like a bullet in the dark has just hit you, you start asking the questions. i went on a journey to answer the question, where is god in the midst of tragedy and pain? >> brian: probably the most common question asked to a priest on a daily basis, especially to new yorkers with 9-11 just yesterday. >> and this is when we ask those questions.

if god is good, if god can heal, where is he when we need him most? and i was questioning the things that i have always believed and wanting to get answers other than what i've heard in the past. i made this movie. >> steve: so what's the answer? why do bad things happen to good people. >> brian: don't give away the ending. >> another great question, why do good things happen to bad people? that's another great question. so i'm trying to answer this not so much like here is a math problem and equation where evil and suffering doesn't seem to add up with a good god. but rather to understand that a story is being written from the very beginning of time until now. and tragedy and pain and suffering have always been there, but what i'm discovering is that god has never taken his hands off the wheel and that through this, something amazing is actually happening. >> steve: all part of something bigger. >> much bigger. >> heather: the hardest thing is like when it deals with children. parent losing a child, something like that makes it so much harder to grasp. >> i agree with you, and my wife and i have run a camp for very

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♪ >> brian: time for your shot of the morning. what's in a name? for this hawaiian woman, too many letters. 36 of them. it's so long, it can't fit on a driver's license. so officials in hawaii told her she can not drive. kidding. she told her to shorten it in the meantime. they're trying to make room for letters. look at that name. >> heather: is that a real name? >> steve: yes, it's a real name. >> heather: look at that. i guess you have to bring your real name to the dmv. >> steve: it's a long one. >> heather: it took the three of us to put it together. >> brian: she better find the right guy named johnson or smith to get a license. >> steve: let's talk a little bit about this.

you know, if you called somebody and they're at the office, sometimes you feel guilty, look, i know i'm interrupting you, but i got a question. here is the thing, there has been a study to find out what exactly are the biggest interruptions at the office? a lot of people think it's got to be social media, people are twittering or facebooking. it's not. it's actually people who stop by the cubicle and interrupt for a moment or two because it takes close to, in some cases, takes 25 minutes after somebody interrupts you to get back to the same level of concentration. >> heather: 25 minutes just to get back on track? >> steve: look at this. >> heather: 12 minutes, 40 seconds, the average time that you're able to spend on a task before you actually get interrupted. you can do 12 minutes of work basically. >> brian: the average time elapsed before returning to work, 25 minutes and 26 seconds. the length of interruption that can cause two times the amount of errors, 2.8 seconds. all i need is look nice today, you destroyed my day. >> steve: 63% of tasks

interrupted in shared office setting. in other words, cubicle. 49% of the task interrupted while in a private office. more people are interrupted in a cubicle than in a private office. >> heather: or if you share an office. >> steve: one of the problems is if you're in a cube, somebody next door, they're playing some music, they're talking loud, on the phone, something like that. it's very distracting. >> heather: eat arrest liverwurst sandwich, it takes your mind off what you're doing. >> brian: it's not edible unless you have bagels. >> heather: mayonnaise. >> steve: i think a great big onion. >> brian: really? >> heather: i'm a mayonnaise girl. >> brian: that's why steve's got two friends. so we just -- tell us what you think the most annoying thing is that interrupts your workday. we also told you about people bringing their parents to interviews in this era of the parents being too involved in your lives. doesn't stop when kids become young adults. >> heather: john and virginia say, you've got to be kidding about this. if i'm a hiring manager, to

chance, meaning he wouldn't hire that kid. >> steve: doris says of this, what would be hysterical is if they offered the parent a job rather than the kid. >> heather: love it. >> brian: samantha says, i'm 22 and think it's startling that young adults don't have the independence to go on a job interview without mommy or daddy coming along. >> steve: you know what? it might be mommy or daddy who are insisting on going is the problem. >> heather: yeah. but the answer is say no. how embarrassing! >> steve: there are a lot of helicopter parents out there. >> brian: it seems like a lot of major corporations, from google on down, are embracing the parent method and also they want to get the parents involved because they want to feel like a family, therefore you're more productive. >> heather: that's more in a social setting. if you have a cocktail party or something and you invite your parent along, that's one thing. but bringing them o a job interview? that's a little weird. >> steve: yeah, i would take my dad with me to things simply to be the designated driver. [ laughter ] >> heather: love that idea. >> brian: you're in a job interview, you can't answer a question. so rather than phone a friend,

say, can i ask my mom? then you run outside and then you get the answer and run back in. she doesn't have to be in the room. >> steve: if you're the hiring manager, you realize you can't homeland security one person without the mom, too. so it's a twofer. >> brian: fantastic. >> heather: or they say you got to work on christmas and the mom says, oh, no, no, no. >> brian: i want you to write us, if you actually do bring your mom and dad to work, if they were there at the interview, if they are continuing to interact with you. >> steve: you think somebody is going to admit that? >> brian: they can change their name, like the billy soccer player. >> heather: we got headlines now. a dramatic rescue. a 92-year-old man clinging to a cable under a bridge in columbia. trying not to get swept away in the raging river. his screams were heard by people walking nearby and they pulled him to safety. the guy was reportedly taking a nap by the river when he got

caught up in the current. oh, boy. how lucky he is. >> steve: meanwhile, lois lerner, remember her -- got away with pleading the fifth about irs targeting of conservatives and tea party groups. now her own words are coming back to contradict the agency. the irs blames the scandal on two rogue agents, remember in the low level cincinnati office? now the "wall street journal" is reporting -- reports revealing her e-mails showed in 2001, she e-mailed a staffer, calling the tea party, quote, very dangerous and said something the irs council needs to handle. not the cincinnati office. by the way, lois lerner is still on a paid vacation! thanks to all of us. >> heather: remember she said she first heard about it in the newspaper? in the newspaper. now turns out she was e-mailing about this long ago. >> steve: whoops. >> brian: at & t is saying it's sorry after a fire storm of controversy with this ad on

september 11. the company posted this photo of a hand holding autopsy smart phone. the screen displaying the quote, tribute in light for the twin towers with the caption, never forget. thousands of people quickly took to twitter, accusing the company of shameless marketing. they deleted the tweet and posted this, quote, we apologize to anyone who felt our post was in poor taste. it was solely meant to pay respect to those affected by 9-11. >> heather: a small italian town turning to donna summer to try to attract tourists in order to save the economy. look at this. ♪ looking for some hot stuff baby this evening ♪ ♪ i need some hot stuff baby tonight ♪ >> heather: this town has 19 people who live there. i guess they're all in that video. they say the hot stuff video started, it was a lot of fun. but soon realized it could help bring in tourists. so far they've gotten more than 15,000 views ontube. the other people in the video? they say they were there

vacationing at the time. >> steve: imagine how many people will go there if the theme song was not the donna summer hit, but "love to love you baby." >> heather: right. they'd all go for another reason. >> brian: talk about a woman who hims that every morning. >> steve: love to love you baby? >> brian: yeah. >> heather: careful. >> brian: i shouldn't have said that? >> you're going to -- that is what the intro said to say, right? >> brian: exactly. >> steve: brian would never ad lib. >> no. brian is not one to do that. let's look at the weather conditions because we do actually have a very serious situation across colorado. the national weather service declaring it a life-threatening situation. flash flooding, multiple evacuations across the boulder, colorado area with several reports of houses collapsed. one person dead in james town and the university of colorado, boulder campus, has actually also closed down. so that's what we're looking at out here. water overtopping dams across

the area. the reason is that we picked up significant rainfall, some places, more than six inches of rain. we do have a number of warnings and watches in effect. we're expecting more rain not just today, but even as we head into tomorrow and also into the weekend. so several more inches of rain are possible out here. flash flooding continues to be a concern. otherwise very quickly, severe weather is possible across the northeast with a strong cold front that's headed eastbound. ahead of it, on the hot side. 90s in texas and memphis. 85 for the high in new york city. behind the system, much cooler. highs in the 70s. we'll be seeing some of that cooler weather coming up tomorrow and into the weekend in the northeast. >> steve: all is just around the corner. thank you. >> brian: up next, not sure about getting botox? john, our floor manager? what just happened that could put your mind and your wrinkles at ease, john kerry. >> steve: john kerry, botox? what are you talking about? >> brian: i'm not sure. >> heather: can raising one -- raising one child can be a real

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a woman in maryland was so distracted by texting, she drove into that lake. cops say she lost control of her car, smacked into a tree and ended up in a lake, about five feet of water. she was able to escape out a window, but she could face charges for distracted driving. speaking of distracted, heather? >> heather: can you hear this over here, guys? for the first time parents, the challenges of raising one kid, well, that's overwhelming enough, right? then you add six to it. oh, my goodness. take a look at this. >> elijah! >> our kids, if one is crying, the other one will start crying, then the other one will start crying. it's really contagious. >> even if you have a system, when it goes down, there is a lot of trouble. >> getting ready to make your hot dog special.

isaac, get out of the trash, boy. >> heather: joining us, the stars of the show called "the six little mcgees." six little kids right there and the parents as well. we have isaac, lazana -- well, a whole bunch. how do you keep track of six children? >> we're always challenged. >> heather: it's hard to count moving heads. i'm a parent of two toddlers myself, i can barely deal with two. how do you daniel it with six -- handle it with six? >> work together. >> i can't do it without my husband for sure. >> heather: do you have other help? do you have family around? >> we do. we have family and friends. >> heather: we've got the laptop going over the back of the couch there. >> libby, we can't have that. >> heather: it's okay. she's fine. >> most of all, it's me and my husband. >> heather: really? give us some advice. parents who want to know how to best handle discipline and all of that with a bunch of kids, how do you do it? >> you got to talk to yourself. every morning, i tell myself persevere, get through it.

you got another day. made it through. >> but the system that we have, we have to have it all the time. >> heather: what do you mean you have to have the system all the time? brian, are you going to harass another child? [ laughter ] >> he's touching my -- >> brian: he's touching my stuff. >> heather: i don't know how you do this. beautiful little children. all three years old. you love little kids. hi, sweety. but somebody is always beating up on one another. somebody always wants your attention. >> it's true. >> heather: how do you deal with it when they're all vying for your attention at the same time or all arguing over something. hi, sweety. >> first, we have to have structure. that's the foundation, the structure. we have a system in our household. they all eat at the same time. they all go to bed at the same time. it's just done like that on a daily basis. we can not do it without the system. within that system we sit in

time for one on one time and things like that. that permits one on one time. >> heather: you have time for one on one time? >> we do. with me and my husband. wants they go to bed, we have each other at night. >> boy, do we look forward to that. >> heather: and a few glass of wine, i bet, right? >> absolutely. >> heather: god bless you. you live in columbus, ohio. the show -- it's the second season and it's on own network. >> on saturday night. >> heather: give us your best parenting tip. >> i would say is let the kids be kids. >> let the kids be kids. >> they're three years old. >> heather: your house is just destroyed. >> well, we give them their space. we give them their space. >> heather: i want to see a picture of that space. >> well, saturday night. on own. >> heather: okay. i'm going to get your phone number. thanks a lot. bye, guys. great to have you here. >> thank you for having us. >> heather: in just a moment, the church's new movie about

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>> no talking! nobody stands up! nobody tries anything! you try anything, i start shooting! does everybody understand? do you understand!

no talking! >> steve: that is a clip from the new movie "my son," given an r rating by the motion picture people. now the church behind it is speaking up and saying it was given that r because of the movie's faith message. >> brian: really? here to weigh in is the director of the movie. what makes you think it's about the message, not the language? >> well, first of all, there is no language in the film at all. when you compare the content that's in this film to even the mildest of pg-13 action movies that are out there, the content in our film comes in as much less graphic. it just doesn't go to the extremes that even those movies go to. so it raises questions about what was it in this film that got it the r rating? and the message of faith that is mixed in with a real world tragedy may have played a part in that. >> steve: why do you think the rating association would say okay.

that's got a strong faith message, let's give it an r rating so it's harder for people to watch? >> i don't know that they set out to do something bad towards our little movie. i think it's more a reflection of how hollywood views jesus in general. in an action flick or shooting up glom bees and you utter his word as a profanity, then that's pg-13. but if you're in a real world tragedy and you're talking about his love and forgiveness, well then, that deserves an r rating. the evidence speaks for itself. >> brian: is there anything you can do to the motion pictures association to convince them to change the rating? >> we had many talks with them about what we could change in the film. we're just a small country baptist church, doesn't have an endless budget. for us to fly out to hollywood and present our case or reshoot scenes was not an option. we had to run with it with this

r rating and hope our brothers and sisters in the faith are willing to support it. >> steve: the people behind the rating system told fox that they don't comment on why a film received a specific rating. but a spokesperson did say the r rating is for some violence and drug use. that's what they say. what is the movie about? >> well, the movie is about a young couple who loses custody of their son under some questionable circumstances. and they reach a point of desperation where they're willing to go outside the law in order to get their son back. and when the plan backfires on them, they end up in a life or death situation. that's a high level of it. >> steve: we just saw a gun go off. maybe it's the violence they object to. >> yeah, you know, in this film, it does portray a tragedy. there is a guy, unstable guy with an assault rifle that goes into a church and shoots people. on the surface level, that sounds horrific. but the way we portrayed it with

our limited means is one that was very sensitive to the topic matter and one that didn't go overboard. you have hollywood movies coming out this summer that are armed guys going into the white house, taking children and other people hostage and that was pg-13. but here again, when you throw in the message of faith, now we've got an r, so it doesn't add up. >> brian: if you think faith played a role in this, tweet us. congratulations on the project. sorry about the rating. the name is "my son." look for it everywhere. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: three minutes before the top of the hour. coming up next, before we head to syria to avenge the mass murder of children, how about we finish avenging ours? 12 years later and trials for the 9-11 plotters haven't even started. michelle malkin on top of that at the top of the hour. >> brian: you're about to hear stories you never knew about the man in black.

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"fox & friends" -- >> brian: stop yelling. >> steve: the kilmeade versus kids edition continues. >> brian: i want my stuff. >> heather: you don't like children in your stuff, do you? it's amazing you're even a parent. >> brian: i was drawing up a sign to see if anyone has seen our co-host. >> heather: i had to go potty. >> brian: you did? >> steve: are you happy, brian? >> brian: okay, fine. i want to know if anyone has seen her. >> heather: good picture. thank you. >> steve: folks, you had to take a time out because you did an extraordinary interview. she's interviewing a family with a bunch of kids. >> heather: six three-year-olds. >> steve: out of nowhere, brian comes in because they were touching his stuff. brian, you almost knocked over another child right there.

>> brian: but i didn't. >> steve: i know, but it's only because john sanson was right there to make sure the kid didn't fall over. brian, here is the problem, people are watching this and they're thinking of something else in your personal -- >> brian: they're not. >> steve: absolutely. it wasn't that long ago when it was brian versus titus. you remember how that worked out. >> brian: yeah, we're not doing the video. it's been banned. but i would say, this i was panicked and i had the courage to come out here. those kids are adorable. they were destroying everything. >> heather: they came out here -- >> beth: am i right? >> steve: they signed off all the computers. >> heather: they swooped down, they took the blackberries, they pulled up the cable. >> brian: how did oprah handle it? >> heather: they were throwing the laptops over the edge. they were great. that's what three-year-olds do. >> steve: already the e-mail advice is flowing in from barry, keep brian away from little people. >> brian: what is going on? >> heather: i love it. >> brian: i just want my stuff. >> steve: don't run overt kids, brian! they're people, too.

>> brian: but there are six of them. if you run over one -- >> heather: you still got five left? >> brian: yeah. it's a. >> show on oprah's network. but apparently she let's them play with the computers. at the fox network, we have to replace them. >> heather: ours are pretty crummy anyway. >> steve: we plugged them all back in. they're working now. >> heather: we get the headlines now? okay. new video coming in to "fox & friends." heavy rain pounding the state of colorado triggering flash floods that left one person dead. the female victim was killed when a building collapsed and then crushed her. you can see the incredible force of the water as it rushes over a building at the university of colorado. at least four students were forced from their dorms and the campus is now shut down at this hour. she's accused of killing her husband, pushing him off a cliff one week after they got married. this afternoon, she could go free from jail. a judge will decide if 22-year-old jordan graham will stay behind bars or be put under house arrest. she's accused of shoving her

husband off a cliff while they were hiking in montana. one of her friends says she was having second thoughts about getting married. the judge certainly didn't like this one. a murder conviction thrown out in tennessee because a juror friended one of the expert witnesses on facebook. the juror sent the expert a message complimenting her on her testimony. the on-line error helped the accused killer, william smith, get a new trial. how about that? who on earth thought this was good idea? this is the dumbest thing that happened all week. one of the airports where terrorists launched the 9-11 terrorist attack decide to go hold a fire drill yesterday. people could see the flames and the thick black smoke shooting from you a mock airplane on a runway at boston logan airport. >> when an airport decided to schedule this and they looked at the calendar, it must not have clicked that 9-11 is not a great day to create faux fire that might scare the living daylights

out of some people. it just makes no sense whatsoever. >> heather: you think? massachusetts governor called the drill, quote, just plain dumb. >> steve: i think that says it well. at this hour, secretary of state john kerry is meeting with his russian counterpart hoping to strike a deal for peace. this as putin insults the united states in a "new york times" op ed. >> brian: joining us right now with new details, molly henneberg. did you open your "new york times" today? >> with friends like vladimir putin, you know. golly. good morning. let's start with john kerry. can the u.s. trust russia and syria? what could and should this proposal look like? that's what secretary of state john kerry will be trying to figure out as he spends the next two days in geneva, switzerland, with his russian counterpart. would it work? that's what he's going to try to figure out to have syria

turnovers chemical weapons to the united nations to be destroyed. the white house says it's not interested in, quote, delaying tactics and holding syria's government accountable for the apparent chemical weapons attack, but said it would be irresponsible not to explore this possible diplomatic solution. >> each side, the american and the russian side will bring technical experts, bring a team, a delegation to evaluate the proposal and to assess paths forward. so i expect that this will take some time. >> meanwhile, putin, the president of russia, has been published in the "new york times." he wrote an op ed saying that recent events surrounding syria prompted him to, quote, speak directly to the american people. he contends it was a syrian opposition that launched the chemical attack. not the syrian government and pressed the obama administration not to strike syria without the approval of the united nations security council. he wrote, quote, the potential strike by the united states against syria despite strong opposition from many countries

and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond syria's borders. russia being one of the five permanent members on the united nations security council, giving them a nyet vote on any attempt by the u.s. to get the city council and the united states behind the military strike. as far as the white house response to the putin op ed, the white house says that putin has, quote, ingested his credibility in this russian proposal and now the american people will watch to see -- the world will watch to see if russia will follow through on its commitment. something that likely will come up in the cabinet meeting today here at the white house. back to you in new york. brian, i have to ask, what is up with you and traumatizing children? >> brian: someone had to get them out of control. they had my stuff, molly. >> steve: don't touch my stuff! >> maybe just ask for it back. say please.

molly henneberg down at the white house. >> brian: i'm sure you'll have the same question for jon scott later when you do his. >> steve: let's dial in fox news contributor michelle malkin. she joins us from colorado springs today as she does every day. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. i swam here today. >> heather: you have a lot of flooding there. >> we do. >> steve: if you go on-line, yoç read the "new york times," op ed button, you can see the vladimir putin is schooling the united states on history. yet, putin really has been schooling our president of the united states on how to be a leader, hasn't he? >> he certainly has. i'm not surprised that vladimir chose the "new york times" to transmit his information to the american people. and it is galling for this strong man to be wagging his finger at america about peace

and international law. they were the fabulous twitter rant that we featured at twitchy .com from gary gasparov, the famed russian chess player, who just went off just a rich diatribe against both putin and the "new york times" for their condescending propaganda. and what are we going to get in response from this white house? more unbelievably small spin. >> brian: yeah. unbelievably small attacks. this is a vladimir putin who arrests his opponents, sometimes has them skilled, who worshiped stalin who murdered millions. nobody is wanting to get in his country. he says we have no right to look at our country as exceptional. this is a man who two days ago called our secretary of state a liar. >> yeah. that's right. and as gary kasparov pointed out, there is no security

council vote on all the suppression and oppression going on in putin's country, and he even joked, i thought it was just perfect -- that now that putin is a journalist, he might be in fear of his life because russian journalists, of course, are huge targets for exercising their free speech there criticizing administrations. i would like to know what the russian translation for fish wrap of record is. [ laughter ] yeah. >> heather: i think we have to point out that russians have been providing syria with a heck of a lot of support for that government over the past 2 1/2 years. financial support, they've got a base down there. on the mediterranean that they don't want to lose. this is a lot about what that's about. >> steve: we know whose side they're on. meanwhile, the president of the united states is going to hold his third cabinet meeting this year -- third. we're in september. the white house correspondent

did math. so far this president has 22 cabinet meetings. mr. george w. bush had almost 50 in eight years. so who do you think, if he's not calling in his cabinet for advice, who is our president getting advice from? >> boners. bundlers, and obviously bunglers, not just bundlers. but yeah. i think it's a fascinating chronicle. i love that mark knoller does this chronicling and you compare that with all of his golf outings and it really does give you just a stark indication of where this man's priorities are. >> heather: michelle, you have a new column up on your web site. it's a really good topic and timely one. you said before we head to syria to avenge the mass murders of their children, how about we finish the deal with ours? of course, this coming the day after 9-11 and you talk about gitmo, these guys getting out, waiting and waiting for the trials.

khalid sheikh mohammed and others. >> yeah, that's right. i think it's worth reminding people, especially after the september 11 anniversary yesterday, that it has been 12 long years in this endless journey to provide some sort of quote, unquote, justice for the 9-11 plotters and ksm and his crew at gitmo have been sitting there pretty, availing themselves of fresh halal meals every day, enjoying movie nights, art classes, language classes, hardly languishing while this terror coddling administration drags its feet on military tribunals. the reason why it's taking so long is because the department of social justice, certain generic holder, along with president obama, had initially tried to shove civilian trials down the throats of new yorkers and it was because of the 9-11

families who raised such a huge protest against it that those were -- those had the plug pulled on them. but this administration is rife with these transnationallist panderers who do not have american interests at heart and certainly the children who died on 9-11 who should be a priority over syrian children, in my opinion. >> brian: we'll see what russia's next move with our foreign policy is. it should be exciting. michelle malkin, we'll follow you on michellemalkin.com and twitchy.com. >> thanks. >> stay away from the children, brian. >> brian: i just want my stuff back, michelle. come on. [ laughter ] >> take care. >> heather: have you checked your credit report lately? there has been a huge glitch that could be hurting your credit score. bob massy is here with what you need to know next. >> brian: then. >> steve: a controversial fight over arming teachers with guns come to an end. who came out the big winner?

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we've given them between 150 and $200 billion. >> heather: a lot of people have done short sales. so what happened? >> well, what happened was, is that instead of them putting it as a short sale on the credit, they put it as a foreclosure on the credit. now, they've known about this and did nothing about it. it's another example of homeowners having literally no recourse. so they said oh, jeez, we have a glitch in the software and we're going to fix it and it's taken almost four years for them to do this and fix it. >> heather: how widespread is this problem? are we talk being a couple people who had this mistake or hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people? >> hundreds of thousands of people that had fannie mae loans have been impacted by this. so those people, heather, who may have become eligible after a period of time that elapses for a new loan, when their credit report was pulled, it showed as a foreclosure. so they were denied loans. >> heather: so you've got to pull your credit report to find

out if you've been victim of this. when will this be fixed? >> well, they say by november 16 of this year. good luck with the over and under on that, trust me, because if -- what's funny about that is they're saying they're going to fix it on two months and it's been that way for that many years. but to the credit of the senator down in florida, he's the one that actually pushed this through. it wasn't as if fannie mae had this epiphany and said hey, we're going to fix it. >> heather: is fannie mae going to then work to help people amend their credit reports to get their rate back up to where it should be? >> no. here is the best part. you and i as consumers have to go to the consumer finance business bureau web site, which you can go to and it's actually information that's very easy to find. you can file a complaint with them. i encourage our viewers to do that, to put a complaint in if they had a short sale and it showed as a foreclosure. the other thing is that you can get the letter from the lender

that approved your short sale. but if you don't have that letter now, heather, you will never get that letter from the lender, believe me. so if you can't find it, ask your realtor who did the short sale, they'll probably have it as part of their file. >> heather: you'll have to go about collecting a lot of documentation and fight it out. this is obviously a very serious issue because then people couldn't get mortgages for years and years as a result of foreclosure being on their credit report, even though it's erroneous. also can affect someone's ability to get a job, too, because that affects their credit report and all these companies going through background checks. we have to leave it there. >> okay. >> heather: thanks a lot. >> take care. >> heather: tired of getting taxed to the max? governor rick perry has a message for you. >> when you grow tired of maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think texas. >> heather: the governor here next with his plan to create jobs. you know what? it is working. and it is a big thing for

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>> steve: 24 minutes after the top of the hour. a prominent american born islamist militant killed in a raid in somalia this morning. he was born in alabama and moved to somalia when he was 22 years old. he was on the f.b.i.'s most wanted terror list. he's off it now. and a royal career change for prince william. he just retired from the military after more than seven years as a rescue pilot. he says he wants to spend more time with his family. we know why.

all right. over to you, brian, and the governor. >> brian: don't mess with texas. setting its sights on maryland, one of the most heavily taxed states in the nation with a governor that probably wants to run for president and a radio and tv ad blitz texas is turning heads, touting business friendly, no personal income tax and the fact it's texas. >> when you grow tired of maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think texas. >> we created more jobs than all other states combined, where you'll find limited government, low taxes and a fair legal system. that's why "forbes" magazine says texas is home to seven out of the ten top cities in america to do business. maybe it's time to move your business to texas. >> brian: that's an all-out push. maryland isn't the first state to see ads like this. california, new york, connecticut, illinois and missouri have also been past targets of texas governor rick perry. is he playing fair? is his job pitch working?

the governor joins us right now. are you playing fair, governor? >> competition is quite fair, i believe. i'm pretty sure the maryland terrapins want to win games and the country wants to create an environment that allows people to take care of their families. that's really what this is about when you get down to it. who is out there that's going to help create the most competitive environment where those entrepreneurs know they can risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on their investment, hire people in the states and create jobs. it's a blue state, red state policy discussion that we're hoping to help lead across the country and getting people to talk about it and talk when it in a civil, thoughtful way, what are the best policies, whether it's in maryland or whether it's in connecticut or whether it's in texas or oklahoma, and that's what this is really all about. >> brian: you got a democratic governor there who wants to be

president, i think. he says this, instead of engaging in pr stunts, governor perry should come to maryland to see firsthand the better choices that have led to these better results. your reaction? >> well, certainly maryland is a state is they say is doing a good job. but when it comes to tax and job creation, that's what this discussion is going to be about. day before yesterday, we were in fort worth, texas, announcing the first smart phone assembled in the united states, 2500 jobs created there because we created a tax and a regulatory and a legal climate and a skilled work force that a big company like motorola and google together would come to. it's those individuals who have jobs there, being able to take care of their family, was really at the heart of this whole discussion. >> brian: governor you, you are kind of affecting policy by what did you in missouri. urging the legislature to lower taxes. you're going to come for their

businesses. >> listen, this is all about competition. if you're afraid of competition, then maybe you shouldn't be in the game. but i truly believe that the states are where the real environment is going to be created. washington, d.c. has jobs that they need to do, like cutting back on the spending and having cogent foreign policy and a tax policy that helps bring offshore dollars back into the state. but the real policies in this country that are going to drive job creation are in the states. it's the personal income tax.te. it's regulatory climate. that's what we're trying to have a good civil conversation about. not turning this into some political public relations battle between two governors, but having a thoughtful conversation across this country about which one of these policies really help the people in our communities and our homes and our states? >> brian: what you're saying essentially, if you don't like the competition, you picked the wrong country.

there is plenty other countries where no one competes and no one excels. there is a net there. governor, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, brian. thank you. >> brian: one minute before the bottom of the hour. bikers denied a permit to drive. that didn't stop thousands of them from honoring the victims of september 11. so what happened to the million muslim march down the street? we'll explain. and a big change at the daily beast. right, nicole? >> oh, big change. tina brown was known as the biggest deal maker, wheeler dealer, one of the best magazine editors in the country. i'll tell you why she's not going to be with the daily beast anymore and what she plans on doing going forward. my mantra?

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however, they're not true. you know why? the labor department is actually saying there was some computer problems in at least two states. so faulty computers now led to the numbers that appear to be better than what they really are. and that in turn moves the four-week moving average to the best level since october 2007. so what we're waiting to see is what the labor department really has to say. what happened to the computers? why are we getting these numbers a are skewed today? >> brian: i think i know why. the sextuplets had our computers. they were just on our set. i think they have affected the labor force. >> maybe they can help me, too. i don't know. >> steve: so the number sounds better, but there is small print with it. tell us about this, tina brown, famous editor from great britain, been here in the united states for many years t sounds like she's out. >> yeah. it certainly does. when you talk about $20 million in losses, five years in a row.

>> steve: at the daily beast. >> right. at the daily beast. she was making a million dollars a year. she had a great relationship with barry diller. now enough is enough. this is supposed to be ala ariana huffington and have it blow up and be the greatest thing ever and sell to aol for $315 million. that's what didn't happen here. i mean, tina brown is known for some of the great things she's done in the past many, many years, from vanity fair, 1984, demi moore and her years atop newsweek. she's had some flubs. she was running talk. and you know what happened with that one? that didn't go very well. she had teamed up with hearst as well, 1999. by 2002, they were done. it was a complete failure and lost $80 million. so but she will continue because that is her personality or her future or her fortune, i'm not sure which one. but she will continue until the end of the year most likely. we'll see if that actually

happens. and also with her -- she does a women's issue that she continues. women of the world summit, which will -- the daily beast will continue. this is big news and big money loss. >> brian: big merger with newsweek was a bust. >> right. >> steve: that was a dumb idea. >> heather: haven't you two been invite to do host that? the women's something? >> steve: many times. nicole, thank you very much, live report from down at broad and wall. my name isn't george gallup, i've been looking at our e-mail. brian, in relation to having the six kids running crazy on the set, overwhelmingly our viewers are supporting you. they agree with you! the kids were doing stuff, they didn't seem to be under control. so they feel as if you were in the right to try to rescue the equipment. >> brian: a lot of people are coming down on joe namath for pulling me out before i could

get control. i don't agree with what you did. >> heather: they were three-year-olds. how soon you forget what life is like in a home filled with toddlers. it's crazy. it's chaos. >> brian: i will definitely watch the show. they're the cutest, nicest kids and the nicest parents. one of the things i do as a parent is i try to get them under control. we had chaos on the set. >> heather: they were trying to do a tv interview. >> brian: it was wonderful. >> heather: cut them some slack. >> steve: thank you for the e-mail. >> heather: let's get to some headlines. our controversial fight over whether to arm teachers with guns ends with a really big win. 13 arkansas school districts can let teachers carry guns in class. the panel had initially voted to suspend the licenses last month. >> we need a fail safe system in our public schools to provide an immediate response to armed intruders. >> heather: staff can begin carrying their weapons beginning next week. the state panel says it will not accept any more applications

from other school districts. >> steve: meanwhile, despite being denied a permit, thousands of bikers rode through washington, d.c. to honor those who lost their lives on september 11, 2001. organizers planned the event to protest another group that was granted a permit. that group, the american muslim political action committee. so what happened to their much hyped march? looks like just a couple of guys showed up to theirs. thousands of bikers showed up yesterday in washington. >> brian: some incredible photos to show you. two dogs jumping from a balcony to escape a burning building. they were trapped there on the second floor as the fire burned and then instinct took over. they jumped to the ground. it happened in oregon. neither dog was hurt nor available for interviews. >> heather: it is a first for miss america contestants. miss kansas showing off two tattoos during the first round of the contest. look at that right there. she is a 22-year-old member of the army national guard. on her left shoulder is the insignia, the army dental corp.

she apparently wants to be a dentist. and on her side, the serenity prayer. she says that helped her get through her teenage years when she was belayed. she says covering up the tattoo would go against what she stands pour and make her a hypocrite. good for you. >> steve: that's a good reason to get up real close to your television to look. >> brian: when in doubt, read your oblique. >> heather: i want to mention something to you. it says assad says syria agreed to give control of chemical weapons because of the russian proposal. not because they were afraid of any u.s. threats. this runs counter to what the president asserted over the past couple days. the president said well, you know, we threatened these strikes and now they're backing down. >> steve: mr. assad read that just the same way that mr. putin wrote it for him. >> brian: yes. >> steve: 21 minutes before the top of the hour. extreme weather alert. flood not guilty colorado led to a second person dead this morning. maria molina has been tracking the storm and is here at 48th and 6th avenue in

new york. >> dangerous situation across parts of colorado with extreme flooding. we picked up four to seven inches of rain, locally heavier amounts throughout the overnight hours and that rain still falling in section of colorado and it is forecast for the next five days. so very dangerous situation again ongoing in parts of colorado. classes have been canceled and we have a second death confirmed in parts of colorado due to the extreme flooding ongoing out there. we picked up four to seven inches also in sections of new mexico, parts of utah. really it's the southwest that's continuing to get pummeled by very heavy rain. a number of watches continuing. and also several flash flood warnings. flooding has been occurring very rapidly. the storm continues to train over the same area. otherwise i want to mention that we have the threat for severe storms in the northeast, but have a way to -- may get them in the afternoon and evening hours. temperatures ahead of the front, still on the hot side.

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>> steve: fox news alert. syria has reportedly agreed to hand over its chemical weapons this morning at the russians' request. this hours after russian president putin declared a war of words on the united states in an editorial on the pages of the "new york times." part of it reads, it is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace fort u.s. millions around the world increasingly see america not as a model of dem cutaneous anthrax but relying solely on brute force, coddling coalitions together under the slogan, you're either with us or against us. peter johnson, jr. has been reading the paper this morning and has some thoughts. >> i think the president should read it very quickly, the kgb, this information campaign has become big-time against president obama and the united states of america and its people. josef stalin is smiling from the grave this morning. what happened was the president reached out to this tissue paper

safety line and now they pulled it back. so putin has the nerve to go to the "new york times" this morning to try and break off the american left and embarrass the president in new york city in the liberal newspaper of record. >> steve: what do you mean try to break off the liberal left? >> what he's saying is that i really stand for international law. i stand for equality under god. he has the nerve to invoke god in one of the most godless persecuting countries in the history of the world. >> steve: he says the pope is on his side. >> the pope is on his side and if the president goes forward, then israeli-palestinian relations are at risk, iran nuclear proliferation is at risk, the whole middle e at risk, africa is at risk. the president's popularity is at risk. he says there is no relationship between him and the president and he has the nerve to say, i'm going directly to the american people.

the president needs to go directly to the american people today to rebuff this. the president had the smarts and we talked about it the other morning -- to talk about american exceptionalism. american exceptionalism is alive and well and it's vivid and demonstrated by our history of helping people around the world. our moral superiority in reaching out to those who are oppressed. but now we have this full throated attack on our president and on our country in the pages of the new york times. the "new york times" has the nerve to call a plea for caution. what it is, it's a plea for american instability throughout the world and americans will be looking to our president to stand up and respond to this in the same fashion. we're not talking about declaration of war. but we're talking about the voice of america. will president obama be the voice of america or will we skulk away in the same fashion we've been skulking away on this

situation in syria. don't bomb syria, but don't let putin bomb america in a war of words that does not be responded to. >> steve: whether you agree with what putin wrote or not, you've got to agree he has played this whole political game brilliantly this week. >> this is for the world to embarrass america. will we be embarrassed? that's up to our president today. >> steve: all right. peter johnson, jr., thank you very much. >> good to see you. >> steve: see you tomorrow. meanwhile, how much do you know about the man in black? johnny cash. ♪ ♪ a good boy, don't ever play with guns ♪ ♪ i shot a man in reno just to watch him die ♪ >> steve: there he is live at san quentin. johnny cash's son is here with stories you've never heard before. first let's check in with bill hemmer with a preview of what happens on this channel in about ten minutes. >> big morning of news and good morning to you. republicans meeting with the president on syria today. how will this thing go? vladimir putin slamming american policy, how is the white house

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>> heather: eight minutes before the hour. a quick look at the headlines. lois lerner getting away with pleading the fifth about the irs targeting conservatives. now her own words are coming back to contradict what she had said and also the agency. the "wall street journal" reporting this morning about her e-mails. in 2011, she e-mailed a staffer, calling the tea party, quote, very dangerous, and something that the irs counsel needs to

handle in washington and not the cincinnati office. she's still on paid leave. fascinating to hear about that now. matt lauer blaming the media for the controversy surrounding ann occurries' exit from the today show. in the new issue the magazine esquire, he said outlet reported rumors as facts led to the fallout and that can explain his declining popularity. >> brian: he's known for songs like "ring of fire," but also for one of music's greatest love stories. ♪ we've been talking about jackson ♪ ♪ i'm going to jackson and that's a fact ♪ yeah we're going to jackson ♪ ♪ ain't never coming back >> steve: johnny cash died just four months after his wife, june carter cash. many say it was due to a broken heart and that was ten years ago today. joining us to remember the man

in black is their son, john carter cash, joining us today from nashville. good morning to you. >> thank you for having me, guys. my father's spirit lives on in so many ways. >> brian: i saw you shaking your head as you came to you. were you watching the clip? >> no, but actually i know the clip. hearing the music, it's deep in my spirit and my soul. my mother's love affair for my father was something that endured. there was great struggle in their love many times. but it's not that it was happily ever after, but it was happy after it all. >> steve: we saw the movie "walk the line." we know there were highs and there were lows. tell us, john, tell us the story about your father in particular. we know him as the man in black. you know him as your dad, something we haven't heard before about him. >> you know, my dad was full of laughter and joy in his spirit. people know him as the man in black, but there was so much more to him, you know. he would rather tell a joke than he would a deep tale.

but my father, for one thing, he was -- he studied the bible his entire life. he was a biblical scholar. i have anotated versions of josephus that he marked up. he studied nonstop. he was a scholar. he had a great depth of character also. it was forgiving, gentle, always loving. those who knew him knew him as this laughing, joyful person. so the darkness, the man in black, it was there. it was part of who he was, but there was so much more about the man. >> heather: it's neat to hear about the two sides to your father. certainly the tough guy image and all the struggles that he and your mom had been through, but also how important his faith was to him. as you mentioned, so many of us have seen the movie "walk the line," loved that, love your dad's music. what did that film miss? >> you know, i mean, it does one

thing beautifully. it tells this amazing love story. it's very successful in that. but there are certain aspects, my dad's character that aren't there. because you can only do so much in two hours. but it does some things beautifully. so i give it credit on merit for what it does. but these things about my father's faith in god, it doesn't go deep into that. you know. that he was such a tender man, that he was very loving. these things may be missing. but the movie does catch your attention. >> steve: it certainly does. >> you'll find so much more. >> steve: it's hard to believe it was ten years ago today that johnny cash died. john carter cash, we thank you very much for joining us live today from nashville. >> heather: i'm sorry for your family's loss. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> steve: we're going to be right back i could quit smoking but chantix helped me do it. i told my doctor i think i'm... i'm ready. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke.

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