especially with police, let's them know they are not above the law. >> herman says good for him. i'd like to know what my local cops are up to. >> have a great wednesday. we'll see you here at 5:00 tomorrow morning. >> "fox & friends" stars right now. bye. good morning. it's wednesday, january 8. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. former defense secretary robert gates taking a direct hit on president obama, and this morning the fallout is just getting started. >> did you know that unemployment benefits create jobs? >> voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs and voting against it does not. >> the president's trickle-up theory, it just doesn't add up. we'll tell you about it. >> remember when kanye compared being on stage to this. >> you never know. i think about it. i think about my family. i'm like wow, this is like,

you know, this is like being a police officer or something, like war or something. >> this morning the facts are in. the most stressful job is revealed and guess what? it is not being a rapper. sorry, eminem. i know you're watching. "fox & friends" starts now. >> i'm joe gibbs. you're watching "fox & friends" and i've got to tell you these guys have a tough job. how they get up this early and do this, i don't have a clue. >> thank you very much joe gibbs. famous nascar guy now. another tough day to start your car today. it's freezing outside. outside our world headquarters it is 7. >> so glad i got my butler with the last contract. >> you don't have to scrape your windshield? >> not anymore. >> how hard was it to get mr. french from buffy, jody and sissy? >> i actually used lurch for awhile. >> lurch was a butler? >> lurch was a butler.

thank you very much. >> houp cousin it? how about cousin it? >> came to make a lot of squeaky noises. we've got to talk about former secretary of defense's book. it is explosive. >> we've been talking a lot about the cold weather and snow. that resulted in a deadly avalanche in the state of colorado taking a tragic twist this morning. we're learning the 24-year-old killed outside the resort is the grandson of the resort founder. tony seebert and three others were skiing the back country when the avalanche occurred. his death is the fifth in the rocky mountain region in the past two weeks. and that can be so dangerous. we are learning new information this morning about a horrific crime. the former miss venezuela and her ex-husband were shot dead in front of their five-year-old daughter. police are saying a sharp object was placed in the road in venezuela and this caused her car to get a

flat tire. two tow trucks arrived and when the car was being lifted in the other truck robbers attacked. the families locked themselves in the car but were no match for the guns and bullets. their daughter was also shot but she survived. listen to this. >> she cares a lot about her daughter, which is now alone because her father, her mother were killed. >> five suspects are now in custody at this hour. spear was crowned miss venezuela in 2004. a smokey situation at los ange airport. an air canada plane grounded after reports of smoke in the cabin. one piece of good news we're hearing, there weren't any passengers on the plane at the time. the original manuscript to "the star-spangled banner" and the flag that inspired the song will be together for the first time. it is a handwritten manuscript on display at

the smithsonian starting on flag day in washington. it the normally on display in baltimore. they are getting together to mark the 200th anniversary of the national anthem. and those are your headlines. we have a lot weather from maria yesterday. >> it was chilly in the white house yesterday. the response was diplomatic except for defending vice president biden's track record. when secretary gates cut this book deal many people thought he is a calm guy who is even tempered. how skwhroe -- explosive can this book be? he may have looked calm on the outside, but he was seething on the inside especially during the obama years. >> he felt the president was taking credit and determined to do so.

he said -- quote -- "the controlling nature of the obama white house and its determination to take credit for every good thing that happened while giving none to the career folks in the trenches who had actually done the work offended secretary clinton as much as it did me." >> in fact, at one meeting in the oval office in 2010, gates with a so incensed as the white house micro managers, mr. gates writes that from day one it was all about getting reelected. so everything, whether it was domestic or international or national security issues, it all went through the white house. in fact, it all went through people like valerie jared. she was involved. axle rod was involved and also the press secretary robert gibbs. extraordinarily they all had a say in national affairs. meanwhile, here is one thing that he said about the president taking credit. the controlling nature of the president in the white house -- you already read

that, didn't you? >> yes. honestly, you have to read it again because it's shocking this is actually -- >> it is crazy. the controlling nature of the white house. >> bob woodward writes a review of the book in the "wall street journal," robert gates in "the washington post." robert gates writes his own review of his own book to give a synopsis in the "wall street journal." i would say the president of the united states, he seems to characterize somebody he is relatively ambivalent about. his leadership is lacking in many areas but has no trust in our military officers. in the men and women who fight? perhaps. in the strategy he endorses publicly? no way. here's something i thought is going to haunt secretary of state hillary clinton. when she was senator hillary clinton, she was pressing david petraeus. as you may recall, senator hillary clinton was not for the surge publicly. she says it would not work. here is her questioning and condescending comments to david petraeus as he talked

about the positive changes in iraq in 2007 as the surge is beginning to take root. listen. >> i think that the report that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief. >> really? meanwhile on the surface, it seemed that the senator was -- the surge in the war in iraq was a huge mistake, he thought. it turns out it was politics. >> he was giving a report and she was demanding an answer on behalf of. specifically asking petraeus in 2007, would you continue to hold troops there in this location if nothing seems to change? he then shot back at her saying you're asking a hypothetical question here. so there was obviously tension there in the report. and this is what he had to say about the relationship and what was revealed between senator clinton at the time and president obama. hillary told -- and senator

obama. hillary told the president her opposition to the 2007 surge in iraq had been political because she was facing him in the iowa primary. the president conceded theoretically the surge had been political. to hear the two of them making these admissions and in front of me was as surprising as it was dismaying. >> hash tag stunning, for gates to say the president sent american troops to war for political reasons without really having any confidence in the plan -- >> afghanistan. >> -- or the willingness to complete it is absolutely extraordinary. what's unusual about this particular memoir which is called "duty," it's extraordinary not only for a cabinet member, a former cabinet member, let alone a former defense secretary, but for a book like this to come out with a sitting president. it's extraordinary. when you talk about how controlling the white house, the fact that we are all talking about the

dysfunction at the white house, they've got to be growing a gray hair today. >> the national security team was calling military officers on policy and procedure. the secretary of defense, who by the way, served in every administration outside the clinton administration from various capacities to the c.i.a. to secretary of defense from both bushes to reagan to nixon, said listen, the next time somebody calls you like tom donelon, tell him to call my office. the vice president started telling him what to do. he said you're not even in my chain of command. it seems like chaos with an inexperienced staff trying to manage two wars to benefit somebody politically and a president who talked himself into a corner to get elected about the good war in afghanistan who did not believe in his fiber and his being in the strategy he endorsed, in the troops that he sent to war and the war that he actually thought he could win. and david petraeus actually

said i'm not comfortable with you guys having a pullout date of our troops. that's not the way you do the surge in afghanistan, at which time the president sits down with his officers and excoriates them and says how dare you sell me out to the press, i paraphrase secretary of defense gates' words and feelings. here's the deal. i cannot believe secretary gates who was begged to stay on for this administration did not speak up more to the president behind closed doors in his book. why did he wait till now? >> he worked for every president since nixon with the exception of clinton. we've seen a number of officials in the military moved around, demoted. there has been suspicion there is great divide between the commander in chief. not good timing for this book to come out with the approval ratings of the president matching the temperatures across the nation. it explains why he's going on this class warfare tour across the nation as well,

is explaining extending unemployment benefits will actually help the country, it will help the economy. this is what he was saying yesterday. >> independent economists have shown that extending emergency unemployment insurance actually helps the economy, actually creates new jobs. when folks like catherine have a little more to spend, to turn up the heat in her house or buy a few extra groceries, that means more spending with businesses in her local community which in turn may inspire that business to hire one more person, maybe kathy. voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs. and voting against it does not. >> that's the preview of exactly what the white house is going to be talking about throughout the coming year right up until the next election, and they're all concerned about the next election for so many members of congress

and the senate as well where they're talking about income inequality. right now they want to get this minimum -- also on the back burner is the minimum wage and they want to get the unemployment passed. it did pass an important hurdle yesterday in the senate. however -- and there's the unemployment rate now at 7%. rudy giuliani says you don't really create jobs with unemployment insurance, though. >> i'm getting really annoyed at this concept of progressive. there's actually nothing progressive in this class warfare stuff. it's retrogressive. every single policy they're talking about is a policy that has failed several times historically going back 130, 140 years. we're talking about basically marxist ideas. we saw them used in eastern europe. we saw them used in asia. we saw them used -- i took over a city that was a disaster. the first thing i did was lower taxes, not raise taxes. the next thing i did was require people on welfare to work and said if you want your welfare check, you have to work.

i said to them i'm doing it for your good. >> how many people got off welfare? >> the amount of people i took off welfare? about 500 to 600 thousand. >> why the president doesn't believe in trickle down economics, he can't understand but he understands if you tax people, take that money and give it to people who don't have a job, it is illogical, not the way our system works. that is not the tone he took yesterday, condescending to anyone who thought continuing unemployment benefits past 99 weeks is heartless. >> in other news, you saw what the i.r.s. did to conservatives and now they have a new plan to regulate political groups. wait until you hear this. it's next. >> does this guy look disabled to you? he's collecting money for it, money meant for the heroes of september 11. we'll tell you about that guy on the jet skis coming up.

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i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. >> poor service? i think that's kind of an understatement. the i.r.s. admitted to unfairly scrutinizing tea party nonprofits last year and conservative groups, but is history about to repeat itself? the agency is proposing new guidelines that may once again unfairly discriminate against conservative tkpwraoufplts joining us is the president and c.e.o. of the conservative nonprofit group freedom works. matt, good morning to you. at the conclusion of last year they came out with new

guidelines. how are they different than how they were trying to put the screws to you guys before? >> they're basically formalizing what they were doing to tea party groups on an ad hoc basis making it very tkeufl -- difficult to participate in the political process to do registration. for any tea party that participates in a 501c4, this makes it incredibly difficult. >> in what way? >> everything they would do from voter registration to talking about a voter record, talking about judicial nominees 90 days before an election, all of that would be deemed as political activity and go against the primary purpose of the organization. >> you mentioned political activities. we've got a graphic that shows them. it's the second one we've got in the rundown here. that would impact get out the vote drives, taoerlgs

taoerlgs -- materials that advocate for a specific candidate, making financial grants to other groups that specifically advocate for a candidate. what seems unfair to me is that on the right you've got groups, the small mom and pop organizations, tea party groups, conservative groups, things like that. on the left you've got union groups which are completely not covered by any of this stuff. >> they've decided politically that this grass roots movement on the right, this decentralized movement is their problem in 2014 and are literally going to try to change the rules in a rushed cloak fashion before the election and the unions are exempt from this kind of organization. >> it seems extraordinary they would do this during an election year, doesn't it? >> i think it's patently unfair and you want people to participate. you want people to know more about their candidates. this suppresses that kind

of activity and formalizes what they were doing during the 2012 election. >> speaking of the 2012 election, it looked like they were unfairly targeting conservative groups. has that gotten better? >> i don't think it has. think about these groups that spent years trying to get their 501-c-4 status and now they will be told after this 90 day comment period that they have to change their organization period, it is a way to keep people from focusing on what they should be doing. >> you would like to see as many people as possible write into the i.r.s. and complain about the new regulations; right? >> you have to raise public awareness on this. go to i.r.s.target.com and submit comments to the i.r.s. we need congress to get involved. we need to call for public hearing. >> sir, thank you very much for telling us what is going on with the i.r.s. great. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, he's the definition of an american hero injured during

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long island. jenny lauren is accused of misbehavior on an airplane. >> they fight for our freedom and when they come home they face another fight. getting the medical benefits they were promised. >> our next guest is a veteran of 21 years but waited for more than 9 years to get his claim processed by the v.a. retired master sergeant david lawrence joins us now. unfortunately you're not alone. we're talking about 685,000 vets are waiting right now for treatment, 395,000 over that of them waiting at least 125 days for some attention. what's going on? >> i really can't tell you. i've been at my wit's end about this v.a. claim since it started. i kind of went through you guys as a last resort. >> what's the status of your claim? 21 years as a pararescuer.

you've been waiting nine years. what happens when you reach out? >> i pretty much get a run-around. i retired back in 2006 and i filed my claim. i knew it was going to take awhile. i was expecting at least six months to two years. and recently i had to go through an appeal process because they denied me everything on my claim. i got my appeal process back right before christmas -- or right after christmas. it basically put me back at ground zero. i'll be starting the whole process over again. >> what are your claims? what do they surround? >> one of my claims is i have atr i al fib, i had surgery two years ago on my heart. my back from a fall out of a helicopter back in the 19 # -- 1990's. both of my knees from rock

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country. i can't imagine a respectable v.a. hospital system that would go through what you're going through and not want to do everything they can to help you. but you're experiencing exactly the opposite. do you feel like the country is letting you down? >> i don't want to say the country is letting me down. this is one of the greatest countries in the world. i stick to the process because i know eventually i feel that it will work. but our government has made it so complicated. i saw on the news the other day, 40,000 new laws were passed for the new year. i don't think our country needed change. we were fine before all these changes happened. i would just like to see us get our country back. >> the president brought in change. this is part of it. david lawrence, thanks for your service. i hope to have a good news story soon when you come back on the air and tell us you've been served by the v.a. thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> two minutes before the bottom of the hour.

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probably under a nice wooly blanket. >> what is the message you get from that? >> crime never pays. >> thank you. those people thinking about doing something illegal don't do it because it's cold outside. >> pay attention to the weather first. >> when you think about it, maybe it's the exact opposite of that. he's saying it's warmer in prison than the outside. brian, i think this backfired on you. i think you're saying what the message. the message is commit crime to go to jail. it's warm. >> we're not advocating that. not at all. >> let's talk more about the cop. >> the dallas police chief proudly announces firings guess where? not in a long letter. on twitter. did you see this? >> yeah, i did. >> he has one by one, david o. brown, chief right there, he would tweet this person is fired and here's why. here his tweets are. i have terminated sergeant rafael rodriguez for his

involvement in domestic disturbances that resulted in a police response. >> here's another one. i have termited 911 -- terminated 911 call taker for driving under the influence and not reporting his arrest to his supervisor. apparently what the chief did was at the end of last year he put out five of these, saying he canned five people. he also on facebook had much longer explanations of why he gave them the heave-ho, some people are going that's a little hard. you really shouldn't do that. what do you think? it sound like according to the chief, they had it coming. he was driving while intoxicated, some sort of domestic abuse. is it over the line or fine that you would do it on twitter, announce somebody got canned. >> i think he has 5,000 followers on twitter. i'm not sure on facebook. >> i don't know of any our

top cops who do that. >> i know people ask me to join them on linked in. i'm not sure what i would do there. >> i get that too. >> people don't ask you to join? >> i go through the group messages from my mom, my mom friends, wing moms. that's where i pay attention to my e-mails. >> a lot of people are on linked in looking for jobs, people in the corporate world. it is popular. who wants to join another thing? >> we have plenty. >> good morning. 36 minutes after the hour. we have brand-new developments to tell you about. in that deadly road rage case that took place in pennsylvania police are afraid that gun man could strike again. they are looking for the suspect who killed timothy davison. listen to what police had to say. >> due to the violent nature of this incident and

the fact that we did have a similar case, we feel there is a possibility this person could strike again. >> authorities are trying to figure out if the shooting is connected to a similar incident. it happened friday night about 30 miles away when apparently shots were fired at another person in pennsylvania. police want you to be on the lookout for that. a former gitmo detainee linked to the benghazi attacks could be leading a new terror organization. "the washington post" is reporting this morning that abu khuma and his goons in al sharia could be in a group linked to al qaeda. officials are saying they were linked to the attacks on benghazi in 2012. some new york city police and fire fighters hailed as heroes for their work in 9/11 are now accused of lying about alleged disabilities stemming from 9/11 so they could get millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

prosecutors say there were four ringleaders who coached as many as 1,000, possibly 100 to 1,000 of these men and women to act dysfunctionally and disoriented during psychological evaluation. look at the new york post. this guy got $175,000 over four years after saying he could not go outside. remember when kanye said this? >> if i slipped on my leg, you never know, i think about my family. i'm like wow, this is like, you know, this is like being a police officer or something, like war or something. >> well, this morning the facts are in. the most stressful job -- yeah, well it's not being a rapper. it is actually being in the military according to careercast.com. a tough job. those men and women sacrificed so much for us and to be away from their families for such extended periods of time. >> how about being a photographer at the

airport. >> if you're married to a kardashian, which you currently are not. >> i am not. i can't keep up with them. >> that would be extreme. much like the weather. maria molina, you can see all the skids here. a woman skids on an overpass in minnesota, her truck plummeting down more than 70 feet landing on a pond that was frozen solid. it didn't even crack. she walked away with minor injuries. maria has been bringing us stories on the weather. it has been extreme. you look entirely bundled up. >> i'm trying to keep my teeth warm out here. it is going to be getting better but today is still a pretty cold day across portions of the northeast and midwest. we're still seeing dangerously cold wind chill temperatures out there. in new york city it feels like 7 degrees below zero. feels like 20 below in minneapolis. we set record lows

yesterday. i believe the city of detroit got down to 14 degrees below zero for an actual temperature,wind chills. factor in the wind and it feels colder than that. high temples today getting above zero in minneapolis. 3 degrees. the teens in chicago. 21 over in cleveland and 25 for the high in new york city. that cold air over the great lakes has been producing significant lake-effect snow. we had blizzard warnings earlier across the city of buffalo. over 21 inches reported in the city of water town and we still expect more snow, maybe over a foot of additional snowfall. due to that, we have lake-effect snow warnings in effect out there. here's a look at that warmup coming up. thra*t, -- atlanta as we head into saturday, high expected to reach the 60's. the high temperature here in new york city forecasting it up into the 50's by this weekend. enjoy it but for now hang in there. >> maria, didn't i read one

of your tweets last night that said last night it was warmer in anchorage, alaska, than it was in alabama. >> yeah. the average temperatures, not the wind chills. earlier this morning the city of atlanta was colder than anchorage, alaska. >> okay. put that scarf back up. there you go. thank you. >> coming up, a warning for super bowl snackers. one of your favorite foods could be missing from your super bowl party. please say it's not a cheese-oriented item. >> parents, don't let your kid grow up to be like rodney danger field. our next guest knows how to prevent that. he has the fix for our educational system. not our next guest. >> when did you dream of going to college? >> when i used to fall asleep in high school.

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will save america. i think we look at the issues of education in this country and the numbers sometimes aren't good. what is the medication -- what is the main problem? >> costing too much. from kindergarten to grad school we're spending a fortune and the results are getting worse. >> what is the solution? >> our higher education and our k-12 model were imported from germany in the 19th century. it is time to look for something different. more of a customizable approach where your education has more to do with what you're good at and how you learn rather than trying to hammer square pegs into round holes. >> you say education is the key. >> it is not just giving every kid an ipad because ipads are cool. it is more about how you use the technology. we have these classroom models where the boring

lecture part usually would be done in the class raofplt it -- class raofplt it - classroom. it is now done at home. >> rankings aren't good. we're 29th in math, 22nd in science, 28th in reading. that stands to be improved. >> it's not hard. there's a lot low-hanging tpraoufplt >> -- low hanging fruit. >> the cost of education, the debt that follows and now without the hope of a job and the reality of a job waiting on the other end, many are considering whether to attend or not. if the kids are left at home with technology, this is assuming there is a parent there. that is assuming they get out of school at 2:30 and somebody is there to coach them through and monitor them in terms of safety. there has to be an approach to the whole of the student, correct, not just take them home with the tech and let them learn math that way? >> i'm not saying there is one magic solution where

every kid gets an ipad and there is on-line solutions. i think we're going to see smaller solutions that are different for different families, different kids and different needs. we live in an era where we have 900 kinds of shampoo. why should we have one kind of education? >> kids are interested in tech. are kids more apt to read and do math on a bit of technology than on paper now? >> if you look at the industry best at holding kids attention and getting them to learn arcane facts and master it, it is the video game industry; right? >> not a bad point. thank you so much, professor. enjoyed our conversation here. coming up, we've been following the story all week. al qaeda taking back part of iraq but is that the biggest threat facing america? former homeland security secretary tom ridge up next. look at this unbelievable picture. surfers riding monster waves in the most unlikely place. wait till you hear where this is happening.

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former defense secretary robert gates taking a direct hit at president obama this morning and the fallout is just getting started. joining us right now is former dhs secretary and form governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge. we're going to be talking about security. mr. secretary, it's all great to see you, governor. i'd like to get your take about a sitting president being criticized or a tell all book by his former secretary of defense while he's in office. do you have a problem with that? >> personally i don't. it's a decision that the secretary gates made. let's not forget, i think he's a remarkable public servant, transferred to a democrat

administration. i think initially he stayed for transition purposes and to continue the restructure where it began probably under secretary rumsfeld. he then resigns and this is an administration that talked about transparency and the secretary of defense made his views public in this transparent administration. i don't have any problem with that at all. >> governor, i remember, if i'm correct, you fought in vietnam and i also -- i think i remember the fact that you used to trust the fact you have officers who are following commands from their officers who are getting commands from the white house. does it disturb you that the former secretary of defense's conclusion was that this president didn't respect our military officers? >> i haven't read the book. i'm going to take your assessment as being consistent with what he said in the book. i've always been troubled by the fact that there have been many people in leadership in this country over the years who haven't really truly respected other than the rhetorical support, and frankly, this goes on both sides of the aisle.

the men and women in uniform. i think we give them a lot of public accolades, which we should. we've learned to distinguish between the war, but i don't think we take good enough care of them when they come back. that goes on both sides of the aisle. >> let's talk about one of your expertise. big conference. what should americans know about the threat? what about cyber security as it compares to al-qaeda? >> they're both threats and with us forever more. when it comes to cyber, i think wefully what i call the digital forever more. it's not as if there is a potential threat. the threat exists. it's a 24/7 threat. as we've seen over the holidays, it affects the commercial and government sector. you need to be prepared for and build a resilient infrastructure and the companies have to pay a lot more attention that they are prepared to deal with it because it's happening every day. the actors are smarter. the technology changes. it's a business risk to your brand, to your bottom line. as we well know, the actors from

nation states to organized crime and everybody else, big government. the digital forever more, that's a permanent condition of doing business. the flip side of al-qaeda. you look at what's going on in the middle east. what we know about al-qaeda when there is chaos and instability, they'll slide in. in the midst of the sunni, shia conflict, they've slid in. one of the things i find interesting is the public comments about the middle east, nobody is talking about iran. so if you want to know the basic source of the instability, it's iran. they helped destabilize iraq. iran has more of credibility in iraq than we do. they support hezbollah. al-qaeda slides into lebanon. they spend troops and arms to syria. al-qaeda slips in to syria. at the epicenter of this instability is iran and al-qaeda is taking advantage of it.

>> so -- right now from the outside of respect from what you see, which of the color -- what should the color code be? >> we've abandoned that. and so i'm not going to relate to a color. i'm going to simply say that there are two permanent conditions in the world today and that is the ongoing threat of radical islam in this country, elsewhere, and the digital forevermore where we don't even -- it's not a threat. it's with us all the time. we're getting attacked every day. those are two permanent conditions that the world will have to live with for a long, long time. >> i'm glad you're part of this conference, getting people together, for the best way to keep people safe in their households and as a nation. thank you for joining us. >> great being with you. thank you very much. >> coming up, in the next two hours, you're commenting about what tom ridge had to say about robert gates. we will read some of your comments next hour. and what's it like to be one of the few conservatives in hollywood? just ask superman, dean cain, out of princeton.

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good morning. it's wednesday, january 8. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. former defense secretary robert gates taking a direct hit on president obama, saying he does not trust our military leaders and this morning the fallout is growing. did you know unemployment benefits create jobs? >> voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs. voting against it does not. >> is the president's trickle up theory creating a nation of takers? think of that. >> what does this have to do with obamacare? ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪

>> believe it or not, there is the connection, although i don't know what that has to do with anything. >> we're getting a lot of shots i wasn't expecting. >> "fox & friends" hour two for wednesday starts right now. >> hi, you're watching "fox & friends". >> star of "big brother" in the u.k., making some headlines over there. >> speaking about heavy heavyweight fight, the white house can't be happy about a brand-new book that has been excerpted first yesterday by bob woodward, pages of the "washington post." essentially talks about -- robert gates always had a reputation as very even tempered, calm person while he's worked at the c.i.a., the national security council, and then secretary of defense for president bushes and obama as well. but then he's taken this book to

essentially throw the white house under the bus. talked about how the president -- this president doesn't like karzai, can't stand him. joe biden doesn't have any idea what he's doing and makes the allegation that this president, hillary clinton made political decisions -- made decisions based on politics over anything else. >> it's amazing. for example, the thing that sticks out and robert gates says the president likes the soldiers, likes the troops. does not trust leadership. an example, an excerpt from his book says, all too early in the obama administration suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior white house officials, including the president and vice president, became a big problem for me as i tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders. the president doesn't believe in own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him, it's all about getting out. now, we're not talking about iraq. we're talking about afghanistan. essentially the president got pinned to the mat by his own

statements to get elected in 2008. so that's a war that has to be focused on, we took our eye off the ball. he's saying the president ok'd 40,000 troops into afghanistan, not believing there would be success. how do you feel if you're the family of the soldier -- whenever you think of president bush, don't think for a second he put a soldier into battle that he didn't think was there for the right reason or to be successful. >> no. every person serving felt he was with them all the way. for the most part, here this trickle down effect to the troops is disheartening, to say the least. he also took sharp aim at the vice president, sparing no sharp words. listen to this. he said, i think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. >> that's going to be helpful if joe biden decides to run for president. how would dee as commander in chief? let's go to the bob gates book. he also accuses mr. biden of

poisoning the well against military leadership and refers to what joe biden wanted to do in afghanistan. he said he was wrong on that. he wanted to do the counterterrorism strikes from afar. mr. gates says the whackamole hits on taliban leaders were not a long-term strategy. he does not think joe biden has made good military decisions. >> when it came to libya, they were making military decisions without anyone from the defense department in the room at the time. he also went on to say when it came to defense spending and the elimination of don't ask, don't tell, they felt, admiral fullen and he felt like they were blind sided by the president's decision and were forced to react within one day. now, he's very complimentary to the former senator, former secretary of state hillary clinton in many ways. however, when it comes to the surge in iraq, he has a different take. it was astonishing what took place. first off, let's think back.

she's running for president. she's in the primary process. she sat on foreign relations. the question for general petraeus about conditions in iraq, that petraeus was portraying, and he would be correct, as getting better and grooving. listen -- improving. listen. >> i think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief. >> really? disbelief, the things -- that things were getting better, disbelief that the surge was getting better. she, like the secretary of state today, did not believe in the surge, did not vote for the surge. okay. that's understandable. unless, of course, you find out this about the troops. >> right. so many did suspect that and her stance was not supportive of the mission there, but this is what gates writes in the book. hillary told the president that her opposition to the 2007 surge in iraq had been political because she was facing him in the iowa primary. the president conceded vaguely

that opposition to the iraq surge had been political. to hear the two of them making these admissions in front of me was surprising -- >> he was secretary of defense at the time, trying to make the case that the surge could work, but he knew he had to get political favor and win over washington to do it. so to hear them talk like this, i didn't even believe it when i was against you, is outrageous! >> they were saying it out loud and admitting that the president made decisions based on politics and hillary was doing the same thing. charles krauthammer said this is really bad. >> i remember saying on the night of the president's speech in which he announced the surge and then immediately announced the withdrawal, and then for the four years ever since, he never spoke to explain to the american people why the war, why the surge was important. he now has the lowest public

approval of any war in modern history because it had no leadership. but i think is a shocking revelation. i assumed that he didn't believe in his war from his own actions, but here is from somebody sitting with the president three months in. and i do think this is an indictment of a president that rises above everything else he's done in his presidency. >> it shouldn't be surprising. mr. gates talks about how everything from the first day of the obama administration was geared toward getting reelected. so regardless of the topic, it would go through the political team. we're not just talking about the chief of staff. we're also saying that people like valerie jarrett, david axelrod, robert gibbs, press secretary all had a say in national security issues. he says, mr. gates says that he had never seen anything like that before, maybe it happened in other white houses, but he couldn't believe it. >> remember, the administration was calling to be a transparent

administration and certainly the curtain is pulled back at this point. we want to know from you. do you think it's okay to criticize a sitting president? does robert gates have a right to do it? every administration since nixon, minus clinton. does this seem okay with you? is this information that's helpful? >> from right inside the oval office onto the pages of this new book called "duty." >> meanwhile, it's our duty to toss to heather nauert and tell us what else is happening. >> howdy. >> good morning. the weather causing real problems out west right now. a deadly avalanche in colorado taking a tragic twist. the 24-year-old man who was killed skiing near the veil resort -- vail resort is a grand son of the founder. they were skiing when an avalanche occurred. on monday, the area's avalanche center had warned of dangerous conditions. his three friends made it out

alive. his death is the fifth in the rocky mountain region in just the past two weeks. we're learning new information about a horrific crime that took place in venezuela. the former miss venezuela and her former husband were shot dead in front of their five-year-old daughter. police say the family was driving together in a car when a sharp object was placed in the road. the sharp object causing a flat tire in monica spears' car. two tow trucks arrived. when the car was lifted onto the truck, the robbers attacked. the family locking themselves in the car, but no match for the gunmen's bullets. their daughter was also shot, but she survived. >> she cares a lot about her daughter, which is -- she's now alone because her father and her mother were killed. >> brutal. five suspects are now in custody at this hour. she was crowned miss venezuela in 2004. also developing this morning, the trial of egypt's

former president, delayed until february 1. the reason? the chopper that was supposed to take him from prison to court could not take off because of heavy fog in the area. morsi, along with 14 other members of the muslim brotherhood are accused of inciting murder of the protesters during his presidency. and incredible pictures to show you out of one of the most unlikely places. the storm here in the united states, combined with 110 mile-per-hour winds in europe merging together causing these massive waves in spain. so surfers there hanging ten, the waves were as big as 60 feet tall. imagine that. imagine the cold weather from here andth weather from there merging to cause that. i'll see you later. >> way up. >> i know. coming up, we told what you former defense secretary robert gates said about the current administration, so is this the worst indictment of the president's leadership yet? colonel tony schaefer on that

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♪ got quick headlines. the four men charged in the deadly carjacking in a new jersey mall just before christmas are due in court later today on murder charges. the four are accused of killing 30-year-old dustin freedland who was getting into his suv where his wife was after christmas shopping at the short hills mall in new jersey. an explosion in seattle is being linked to marijuana production.

cops say canisters of butane exploded in a freezer and the blast was so strong, it knocked a one-story building six inches off its foundation. butane can be used to turn pot plants into oil, they tell me. all right. brian? >> former secretary of defense robert gates slamming the white house's foreign policy in many respects, saying it's the worst indictment for the president's leadership yet. that's pretty much agreed upon because the respect that gates has coming in. joining us, lieutenant colonel tony schaefer, senior fellow with the london center for policy research, fresh off an exclusive trip to egypt to give us a up close and personal look. out comes excerpts from this book by former secretary of defense gates, eminently qualified to comment within the obama administration. what sticks out is when he says there is a suspicion and distrust of senior military advisors by senior white house officials, including the president and vice president. what's the big deal?

>> huge deal. i was speaking to a former commander who said during the time he was in command, if he had a problem with a policy the president put forth, i would call the secretary of defense, fly up and see the president the next day. i was told by this general, i won't mention who he was, he said that that access to the president by generals no longer exists. there is a complete disconnect between those who are leading the war and those who are making the decisions to embrace certain policies which a lot of us predicted would never work in the beginning. >> you know the stress and strife and danger of war.utely. >> up close and personal. what is it like knowing now if you're in afghanistan and hearing this show, knowing that the president doesn't believe in the surge strategy that he put forth? >> this is hugely disrespectful to the men and women who have not only given all to go serve, people have died. i've been to walter reed, people lost their limbs in this war. and those people are scarred for life. it is an indictment to me to think there was a cavalier attitude how we deploy forces,

and knowing they make political decisions knowing that people will die and they really don't care. that's a sad, sad state of affairs. >> you were against the war in iraq. >> i was. >> but the surge worked and that was a play in fallujah because the people of iraq stood up and fought with us and took their country back. was it irresponsible the way we left? >> the decision to leave, brian, was a political decision, not one based on strategy or the reality the intelligence was telling us. we knee that if we left, it would be like controlling rods out of a nuclear reactor going wild. that's what we're seeing now. in fallujah, we lost a lot of blood and treasure. my marine corps brothers lost a lot of lives there. they wanted it to win an election, not what's best for the region. now we have a real problem with that being a magnet, if you will, for al-qaeda to come in and do this. >> between the budget as well as don't ask, don't tell, these decisions were made without

gates and without admiral mullen. that shows a breakdown in leadership and a distrust that backs up what gates' testament was. you just got back from egypt. we know about the terrorists that are involved in the insurgency in syria and iraq. how does it relate to the muslim brotherhood and what's happening in egypt? >> i'm going to do a full debrief this month at the union club, information on london center.org. and i'm going to talk about everything i saw. i saw actual -- i met with the chief of their intelligence and brian, it's bad. as much as i think we don't want to talk about the muslim brotherhood in a bad way, they are now becoming a terrorist organization. they've been designated by the egyptians as a terrorist organization. they're doing everything they can to destabilize what right now looks to be a process of moving that whole nation to a democratic republican system of government. they have elections -- >> you like where they're heading? >> i do. they're doing a referendum on their new constitution, coming up with parliamentary over the next six months. they're going in the right

direction. it's being disrupted by the islamic extremists. >> as americans, are we losing influence within egypt and is russia gaining influence? >> oh, my goodness, that came up several times. it is very clear that the egyptian people are not upset with us, americans. they are upset with the policies. there is a great fascination, shock, if you will, of this overrow liians on the muslim brotherhood somehow thinking they as a quote, unquote, moderate organization, which they are not, would bring governance to egypt t. made it worse. we'll see in the upcoming trial of morsi, he was conspiring with members of hamas, of al-qaeda. he actually met with zawahiri in pakistan. if that's not cavorting with the enemy, i don't know what is. there is real problems with what's going on -- >> by the way, that's the first tylenol i'm hearing that. his brother was -- >> i learned this yesterday in a meeting. >> that's the first time that's ever been public. >> yep. there you go. so it's something that i think is very important to understand that this was not a bunch of good guys trying to bring good

governance to egypt. >> morsi might have won an election, if you believe the results, but he's meeting with our chief enemy and that's al-qaeda's current leadership? >> and the military had to pull him out because they could not meet the treaty obligations with the israelis based on what they were told to do. what congress told them to do and had to choose between morsey and doing what they were told to do to forget the people. >> thanks so much for coming out here with your report. >> thank you. 20 minutes after the hour. up next, a warning for super bowl snackers. one of your favorite foods could be missing from your super bowl party. why wasn't i told this sooner? and what does this ha have to do with he can -- have to do with obamacare? ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ ♪ . >> it's hannah montana. believe it or not, we can explain. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> so what was the real wrecking ball of 2013? our next guest says it wasn't miley. it was obamacare. what she says is smashing the hopes of america's youth. that's what obamacare is up to and she's going to explain. ashley pratt joining us from the young america's foundation. good morning. interesting op ed in the washington times there. so explain the wrecking ball theory. >> good morning, elisabeth. and thank you for having me on today. so essentially if you look at 2013 and miley cyrus' provocative wrecking ball charade, everyone paid attention to that in the meanstream media, but no one was focusing on the real wrecking ball policies of the obama administration. youth unemployment is extremely high at 16.3%.

students' debt loans at this point are the highest they've ever been. in the national debt, it's over $17 trillion. so when you add all of those things up, it just goes to show you that the policies under the obama administration are hurting youth nationwide and yet, miley cyrus is what we're focusing on. so the real wrecking ball at the young america's foundation, we believe to be obviously the policies of the obama administration. >> are those numbers behind what you call the misery index? >> that is. so annually we release a report called the youth misery index where we add up youth unemployment, student debt numbers, and the national debt per capita, which is everybody's share of the $17 trillion debt. so in 2013, the youth unemployment rate was 16.3%. the student loan average for anyone going to college and graduating was $29,400, the highest it has ever been. and national debt per capita was

$52,900. so you add all of those up and you get a total of 98.6, which is the youth misery index. that is the highest it has ever been. so it's a record high. under president obama, since 2009 when he took office, the ymi has gone up 18.1%, making that the highest increase under any president. therefore, making obama the worst president for youth economic opportunity, not quite the hope and change that i think young people were wishing for. >> no, but they are paying attention for sure. those are scorching numbers. let me ask you about the rolling stone issue here. they said the -- set the bar high when they gave the boston bomber the centerfold status. they're urging millenials to fight for communism. what's your thoughts? >> it's absolutely ridiculous. youth, we're all told we're living in this entitlement society and that's what it's become. youth are not willing or wanting to take responsibility for their actions and for some young

person in the rolling stones there to say that there should be national bank or republic bank and then social security should be given to everyone and everybody should have a job, i'm sorry, but it's called work ethic and you need to be working hard. that's something that really hasn't been promoted among young people. but i do think that given the recent harvard polling that was done in obama obamacare, which s been extremely a hardship, i would say for young people nationwide, they're honestly seeing that these broken promises that were kind of given out by the obama administration don't seem to be on their side anymore. the obama administration is perpetuating this idea of an entitlement society where they're saying young people deserve free health care, free social security, like all of this stuff, when in fact, it is not free and there was a huge sticker shock with obamacare. so i think young people are now kind of jaded and seeing that federal government in their daily lives is a bit intrusive

and we actually conducted a poll at the young america's foundation and we found that 60% of young americans between the ages of 16 and 24 don't agree with government intrusion in their daily lives. so it is reflecting what we're seeing. >> absolutely. we thank you for being with us this morning and bringing those numbers to us. >> thanks for having me. stay warm. >> you, too. coming up, it's one of the most popular sleep drugs on the market, but this morning, a warning, it could cause a heart attack. those details up next. and you need to know what this country really needs? we need superman. dean cain fly not guilty here next and -- flying in here next and he is talking politics. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announc ] your eyes. even at a distance of 10 mis...

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he president obama invited unemployed americans to the white house for a discussion about income inequality. there is one way to show sympathy for the unemployed, it's to invite them to a big white mansion that you live in for free. >> joining us right now, a long-time friend of this program, you knew him first as superman. now he's got a new show we'll talk about called "looking for

bigfoot" where you can win big money. ladies and gentlemen, dean cain! >> welcome back. >> thank you. i have to admit, we're sitting this way because i asked steve if i could sit next to elisabeth. i'll be honest. >> there was another guy with black hair in my spot, i was a little bit jealous. >> he's superman. he was just talking about unemployment, the president was talking about the importance of unemployment. you know what it's like. you have been on unemployment as a struggling actor before. >> yes. the thing is, 99 weeks, that's two years. if i couldn't work for two years, first of all, i'd go insane. but just doesn't happen in hollywood. they forget who you are. i just think it's incredibly long period of time. 99 weeks. see some of the movies i've done? do you think i wanted to do all of those movies? be honest, sometimes you have to go to work. it's not the job you want, but you take the job. >> in your profession in particular, you do everything except what you want to do.

for example, you'll take an extra, you'll waiter at night. you'll clean out different offices, whatever it takes to keep your dream going because you need money to live. >> but that's the way it should be for everybody. i really think everybody -- i can find a job tomorrow if i wasn't an actor. i'd find something to do. i'd find it within a short period of time. i promise you it wouldn't take me 99 weeks and i wouldn't be living off the government. >> i want to get your reaction. the president said yesterday there were pros to extending unemployment benefits and listen to his math and then we'll ask you. >> this insurance helps keep food on the table while dad is sending out resumes. it helps mom pay the rent while she's learning new skills to earn that new job. it provides that extra bit of security so that losing your job doesn't mean you have to lose your house. where everything you worked so hard to build for years. >> saying that there is a safety net, that's great thing, when people need that, of course, to have that insurance.

but to say that it actually creates jobs, which is what he went on to say, seems peculiar. >> i go back to the whole thing, government doesn't create jobs. they just don't. that's not the government's business. they can create a climate where jobs can be created, but they don't create jobs. every time i hear that, i go deaf. >> how many times have we heard in the last year or two the democrats say, well, you know, the economy has recovered. we're in the recovery. actually i think we're 55 months into the recovery and then -- >> that's a long time. >> it is a long time. then last year the president said the private sector is doing fine. if we're in a recovery, the private sector is doing fine -- >> why extend unemployment benefits? >> there are some people who need it. >> agreed. but 26 weeks? that makes more sense. it's a safety net. not a free pass. somebody is paying for it. and it's me and you and people out there working. >> let's talk about something else you're in the middle of. being a parent. >> single parent.

>> there is things your son does very well and other things not very well. >> the things my son doesn't do well -- >> i apologize for that. >> brian, he's superman! are you crazy! >> they say one of the worst things you can do for your kid is praise them for things that they don't do well, because it diminishes their self-esteem. do you subscribe to this? >> i'm going to take that guy and pop him in the nose. listen, my son, i know the things does he well and things he doesn't. i'm pretty honest with him. but i encourage him. maybe i'm guilty of it because i do like to praise my son, but i do tell him, you're very good at this. this is someplace you need some work. if you want to get better at this, you have to work at it. i'm not going to -- you're the greatest artist i've ever seen, 'cause it might not be. but i'm pretty real with my son. he's 13 now. he's a man.

he's even a child -- he's not even a child. >> he's raising himself now. >> he's driving himself to school. >> in all seriousness in terms of tech and instagram, where do you draw the line? >> no facebook for him. i know the password to -- >> how do you do that? >> i beat him. no, i'm kidding. i worry about that because there is so much pressure with the kids and the things that are going on. instagram he can do. i know the password to every single device he has and the rule is if i grab one of his devices to look at something, if i can't get in, it flies. it's gone. it's mine now. it's over. he can not have snapchat. he can have instagram and text. i'll check his texts. what are you doing? do you have problem with that? >> do you worry a lot of kids are not socially adept because they text every time, they're not calling the house anymore. they're on different devices? >> he'll sit and play games or

talk to his friends on skype, and it's just different. i remember i always talked on the phone with my friends and my father would get mad. get off the friend! now adays, like my son can't run out and play all day and come in at dark. >> you used to be able to do that. >> it's more difficult for those guys. when he wrote i want to see you and used the letter u in a paper, i was like hey, let's write the words on your paper. >> let's see all the letters you've been given. >> yeah. >> the reason you're here officially -- >> to see elisabeth. >> and right behind that, from her to bigfoot. somebody could wind up with $10 million if they can find bigfoot. first of all, it's a brand-new show on spike tv. do you believe that there is a bigfoot out there? >> since i've already shot the show, i can't say definitively. but i started off as a major

skeptic and i'm much less keptcal now than i was. >> really? >> we shot this thing in four different states. we were in places where we would drive for five hours. >> like what states? >> washington state, oregon, northern california, i mean way northern california, and michigan. so much forest that you can't see anything else. no cell reception, nothing. we were places where i don't think people have been either ever or in decades. >> this is a competition. is it two research teams? >> there are nine teams of two. and we have -- it's a reality show. >> why didn't you call her? she's great out in the wild. >> she would have done well out there. >> let's watch a little. >> it's time for your first field test. field tests are designed to prove to us that you have the essential skills needed to track down bigfoot. today you'll need to show us that you can collect dna from wild animals because a dna sample from bigfoot could win

you $10 million. >> $10 million. >> i didn't win it and that makes me angry. >> how exciting. >> the thing about it, we have nine teams of two, they go out and look for -- we have field tests first and then a hunt. if they can find dna and proof proof -- >> who knows what bigfoot dna is? >> not human primate. >> what's monkey blood? >> he would know a heartbeat. >> i love the show already. >> do you think bigfoot, once we find him -- let's be honest issues there is one -- do you think they'll be friendly and want to live with us once they realize how much fun we are as people? >> probably not. >> i'm going to stay in the woods naked. >> so watch dean's new show fridays at 10:00 o'clock on spike tv. >> it's quite entertaining. >> very nicely done. would you like to introduce the

next person on our television show? >> absolutely. i see an extreme weather alert. you couldn't take the cold down south. look at the icicles hanging from the bumper of a car in florida. oh, my gosh! in florida? >> that's like you rehearsed this. >> i'm surprised. >> maria molina knows all about it. she's our super gal on the streets of new york city. >> that license plate is from fort walton beach in florida, in the panhandle where some places were actually colder in parts of panhandle of florida than in alaska. specifically pensacola, in the low 20s, a little warmer than that in anchorage, alaska. by the way, superman is from kansas. you can't escape the cold in kansas either. take a look at some of those current wind chills. kansas city, currently feels like 16 degrees as you head out the door. in atlanta, georgia, it feels like 9 degrees. so even portions of georgia, which earlier this week actually had reported snowfall out there. otherwise high temperatures a little better in minneapolis. you are going to make it above

zero degrees. the high temperature out there forecast to be 2 degrees. by the way, we do have some new winter weather advisories that were issued in portions of the mid south. we're expecting freezing rain and also some wintery mix to fall here in parts of arkansas, missouri, and eastern oklahoma. as we toss inside, i want to mention lake effect snow, another big issue. lake effect snow warning on the great lakes, another six to 12 inches expected, 24 inches all right nell in watertown -- fell in watertown, new york. >> we've had weather like your native planet of krypton. >> except in los angeles, it was 68 degrees and beautiful. i'm just saying. >> it escaped the cold. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> up next on our rundown, a warning for super bowl snackers. one of your favorite foods could be missing from your super bowl party. >> oh, no. >> from super bowl to superman. you want to read this?

>> then speaking of football, do you get so angry when your favorite team loses that it ruins your entire day? i do. dr. keith ablow is here to tell you if that is normal or nuts. i think it's normal. >> of course you do. ♪ ♪ when grow up i want to float around in my big pink bubble.

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america is facing a velveeta shortage. true. kraft says the cheese spread is running low at some grocery stores leading up to the super bowl. right now the shortage is mostly on the east coast. >> that's the worst because we always do the rotel dip, which is spicy and delicious. you got to have velveeta. >> that could be a crisis leading into the super bowl. >> we're going to have to work the weekend. it is now 13 minutes before the top of the hour. a dire warning for drivers. police urging you to be on the alert because the gunman in a deadly road rage shooting could kill again. >> ainsley earhart is here with why authorities have this warning out. >> hey. the reason is because he is still on the loose. police and the f.b.i. are looking for the driver that they say is responsible for killing a man who was on the road just trying to drive home to maine. they describe the incident as an act of road rage. this happened at 2:00 a.m. on saturday morning on i-81 in pen

opinion. here is a -- pennsylvania. here is picture of the victim of poland, maine. he made a desperate call to 911 telling police that he was being chased by a dark colored pick up truck. police say the angry driver rammed his car off the road, onto the median and then fired shots at him who later died at the hospital. just a few hours before that fatal shooting and only 30 miles away, a similar incident happened in near york, pennsylvania. the driver of a dark pick up truck there chasing another driver, pulling up next to him and firing several shots. >> due to the violent nature of this incident and the fact that we did have a similar case, we just feel that there is the possibility that this person could strike again. >> police are urging you to be careful and be aware of your surroundings when you're on the road. they say follow that gut instinct and if you feel threatened by a driver who is acting hostile, call 911.

back to you guys on the curvy couch. >> all right. thank you very much. what made this escaped prisoner turn himself in? well, we can tell you it wasn't about feeling guilty. the surprising reason that he went back behind bars. plus, are you and your spouse attached at the hip if do you do everything together? dr. keith ablow decides if that's normal or nuts, up next. >> i hope it's normal. >> i do, too.

some quick headlines. only 25% of young teens meet the u.s. fitness guidelines, according to the c d.c one in four kids ages 12 to 15 are getting the recommended hour or more of exercise every day. the results are based on a study of 800 kids. none of them are on my soccer team. and most of the people who have problems with drinking are not alcoholics. they're just binge drinkers. the new study revealing about 38 million people fall into that category. people are considered at risk if they're drinking more than 15 drinks a week on average for men and eight drinks a week for women. so if you have all those drinks in one sitting, you're not an alcoholic? >> you're a binge drinker. >> you're just having a binge, or really big item. >> or -- funnel. >> who is normal or nuts? it's a question we ask dr. keith ablow. good morning to you, keith. >> good morning. how are you? >> we're doing okay. are you ready?

>> i'm ready. >> we got three questions for you. >> so our first e-mail says, i'm always late to appointments, parties, et cetera. in school i only got important assignments done at the very last minute. the joke of my family is to tell me an event starts one hour earlier than it actually does. am i nuts? >> well, not nuts, but self-consumed. >> yes. >> and self-consumed is a tougher diagnosis to treat because this person obviously you, if you're watching now at home, you think of your schedule as more important than everybody else's. >> yes. >> and believe me, it's registering with them. they're getting the message that they don't count as much as you do and it's costing you in their eyes or the eyes of business associates. so cut it out. get there on time. >> strong message. >> all right. e-mail number two, since meeting in september of 2008, my husband and i have rarely been apart. we do everything together, except work together. we realize this type of

relationship is very rare. our question is, is it nuts? >> it's more than rare, it's crazy. it's nuts. >> really? >> yes, absolutely. >> why, if it's work for them? >> well, it's not working for them n they sound happy! how dare you! >> let him finish. >> happy isn't the end of the line. you can't be like two amoebas flowing into each other. you have to be individuals. when you go to ancient greece issues what's standing? archways. why? because each half would fall without the other half. they're incomplete. these are incomplete people who are using each other to become co-dependent. give each other space. love each other as individuals. one or the other is going to resent the other person for keeping them from becoming whole. >> at the ends of the day, you

should say to your spouse, how was your day and not know the answer. >> don't even know where they were. >> when watching football games, i get really depressed and angry at my people -- if my team is doing bad. if they lose, i get depressed. normal or nuts? >> okay. extremely depressed, the rest of your day is shot, you're nuts. >> even during playoffs? >> it's not real life! it's a game. it's not you. what are you using sports for? at that point as a defense to not think about the things that should bother you, the things that should exhilarate you. if you can't watch sports with some kind of distance, don't watch. >> do you give an exemption for the super bowl? >> no. i don't even exempt the super bowl. >> her husband works on a sports channel! cut us some slack. >> i know. but listen, people have heart attacks when their teams don't win the super bowl. they've done studies. it's a little over the top. but i am a big fan.

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good morning. today is wednesday, january 8. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. former defense secretary robert gates taking a direct hit on president obama, saying our commander in chief doesn't trust our military leaders and this morning that fallout is growing. and did you know that unemployment benefits create jobs? >> voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs. and voting against it does not. >> well, is the president's trickle up theory of creating a nation of takeers -- ann coulter here to react. >> does this guy looks disabled? he was collecting disability meant for the heros of

september 11 and he's just the tip of the iceberg. our new commissioner among the many outraged. "fox & friends" as far as i can tell starts now. float the picture. >> it's "fox & friends"! >> welcome aboard. we're going to start with a new book that isn't even out yet, but it's causing all sorts of trouble. i would imagine it's maalo it, moment kind of day at the white house. former secretary of defense robert gates has written a book, 594 pages, it's called "duty." extraordinarily, he writes, i did not enjoy being secretary of defense. people have no idea how much i detest this job. shots at the president of the united states. commander in chief, who he says did not respect the military leaders of this nation. >> not only did he serve multiple presidents and multiple position, including c.i.a.

director, including from bush to reagan to nixon, who missed clinton, went back to president bush, but straddles the last two administration. the last two years he replaced donald rumsfeld. and then president obama says stick around. they leave on good terms. but we never knew the real story. he kept his mouth shut, but he seethes on the inside. especially when it came to the staff in and around the president of the united states because they would not spread the credit around. their hands were in places they didn't belong, according to gates, and for example, this is a direct quote from his book. the controlling nature of the obama white house and its determination to take credit for every good thing that happens while giving none to the career folks in the trenches who had actually done the week offended secretary clinton as much as it did me. >> this is startling because we're talking about a sitting president, a president who is still here and can respond. talk about pulling back the curtain and transparency, which wassailed for by the administration, they're certainly getting it now. remember in 2007 when hillary

clinton was questioning general petraeus about his progress report on iraq. her stance was made known. she wasn't a supporter of the mission. she would oppose it and then held him to the fire over his report there. listen to what robert gates has to say about the relationship between hillary clinton and president obama and what they revealed in front of him. he said this, quote, hillary told the president that her opposition to the 2007 surge in iraq had been political because she was facing him in the iowa primary. the president conceded vaguely that opposition to iraq's surge had been political. to hear the two of them making these admissions and in front of me was as surprising as it was dismaying. >> this is terrible for hillary clinton as she goes forward trying to run for president of the united states in 2016, which she's going to do. when you think about, this is the sitting president of the united states. he's making military decisions

based on politics back home? charles krauthammer is stunned. >> i remember saying on the night of the president's speech in which he announced the surge and then immediately announced the withdrawal and then for the four years ever since, he never spoke to explain to the american people why the war, why the surge was important. he now has the lowest public approval of any president in modern history because they have no leadership. but i think is a shocking revelation. i assume that he didn't believe in his war from his own actions. but here is from somebody sitting with the president three months in. i do think this is an indictment of the president that rises above everything else he's done in his presidency. >> nobody on the couch here is naive to think people are going to make decisions for their political future. >> with lives in the balance? >> i am stunned to think that when it comes to war that you

actually making decisions because it's politically beneficial to to be for the iraq war because she was, because she looked at the intelligence, because her husband was there and she was first lady and then she was secretary of state on foreign relations comment. she saw all the intelligence president bush had. to say you're against the surge, all due respect, you have a lot of access, you've been there, that's your decision. to think that she made that decision because it was beneficial to win the caucus in iowa is flat out outrageous. it pulls into question her ability to lead this question. you talk about legitimate criticism from a would-be opponent or from anybody in the outside, you got something right there. i'll bring something else to this, they also bring out in this book, this is the secretary of defense who was lauded by this president, that he had a regular distrust of our military leadership, and as you brought up earlier, that does go into play on how many generals have been retired, moved out, and moved on. tony schaefer was asked to comment on that, lieutenant colonel who fought in war and

works in the intelligence today earlier this morning about the lack of respect for the military officers in our military today. >> this is hugely disrespectful to the men and women who have not only given all to go serve, people have died. i've been to walter reed, people have lost their limbs in this war. and those people are scarred for life. it is an indictment to me to think there is such a cavalier attitude about how we deploy forces globally or in essence then, knowing full well that they make political decisions on national security issues knowing people will die and they really just don't care. that's a sad, sad state of aparts. >> he weighed into the fact that the president of the united states was into the in belief that the surge would work, even though he signed off on it and ran on it. so he seguewayed into both answers. >> which perhaps if the title of the president were president of the united states and not also commander in chief, would not leave such a pit in everyone's stomach. but that isn't the case in our nation. we asked tom ridge whether it was okay to criticize a sitting

president. take a listen. >> frankly this is an administration that talked about transparency and the fact that secretary of defense has made his views public in this transparent administration, i don't have any problem with that at all. >> you know what? if you think about it, while it is rare that a sitting president is criticized by somebody from his form -- formerly from his cabinet, especially a secretary of defense, i mean, that's big. but it's actually pretty helpful to know what's going on inside the white house that currently is administering for this entire nation. we asked you what you thought, whether it was appropriate that somebody like mr. gates write a book about a sitting president. margaret wrote in on facebook. if the regular media will not criticize, then somebody does need to step up. mr. gates has stepped up and he's selling a book. >> billy sent us a message on facebook. do you think it's okay for a sitting president to criticize the republican party and the tea

party? >> here comes meghan on facebook says this: the president works for all of us and a performance evaluation is standard for the job. gates also has a right to free speech. and this tweet from rhonda. gates not only has the right, but also the duty to tell americans the truth about their leaders. should have done so sooner. yeah. the big question is, which is going to get if he comes here and if he goes anywhere is, why didn't you tell it to the president to his face? 'cause he says in the book, i didn't speak up on many different occasions. by the way, he says president bush, absolutely wrong. he said that the war in afghanistan did affect -- was affected by the war in iraq at the time. does not agree with president bush on everything. so he's equal opportunity analyst. >> not a one dimensional attack by any means. >> he calls president obama intellectually rigorous. he also very critical over afghanistan and believes barak obama made the correct decisions about what we did over there

ultimately. very critical about -- we're going to talk to ann coulter about this bombshell book in a couple of minutes right here on "fox & friends." we've got more news here with heather. it's weather related. >> that's right. i had to go change my dress. i spilled coffee all over the front of it. a little wardrobe change. all right. good morning to you all. hope you're off to a great day. we have sad news to bring you out of colorado. a deadly avalanche that occurred in colorado now taking a tragic twist. a 24-year-old man who was killed skiing near the vail resort is the grandson of the ski mountain's founder. tony seebert and three others were skiing when the avalanche occurred. he recently appeared in a documentary. his three friends made it out alive. justice will be severed. this morning venezuela's president promising justice after the former beauty queen

and her ex-husband were shot dead right in front of their five-year-old daughter. police say that spear and her family were driving in their car in their home country when a sharp object was placed on the road and it caused a flat tire. two tow trucks arrived and when that car was lifted onto the truck, the robbers started shooting at them. their daughter also shot, but she survived. >> she cares a lot about her daughter, which is now alone because her father and her mother were killed. >> five suspects are now in custody. some of them are younger than 18 years old. she was crowned back in 2004. developing this morning, the trial of egypt's former president, morsi, has been delayed until february 1. the reason? the chopper that was supposed to take him from the prison to the court couldn't take off because of heavy fog. morsi, along with 14 other members of the muslim

brotherhood, are accused of inciting murder of protesters during his presidency. is your job stressing you out? think about becoming a college professor. a new study found being a tenured professor is one of the least careers out there. the most stressful job is being in the military. those are your headlines. >> thanks to job security, you never get fired. >> coming up, what made the escaped prisoner turn himself in? this guy right here, it wasn't guilt. it was a freezing cold temperature. you've got to hear this. we just told you what former defense secretary robert gates said about the current administration. ann coulter here to weigh in. you can hear her yelling in the hallway. did you hear her? go ahead, let it out. ♪ ♪ too big.

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former defense secretary robert gates taking a direct hit on president obama's foreign policy leadership and his foreign policy team. what will the fallout be, if any? >> here to react, fox news contributor and author of "never trust a liberal over three," ann coulter. >> that's very nice of you, but i'm not a fox news contributor. >> oh, really? >> you're contributing today. >> the only network to employ me was msnbc. >> how did that work out? >> speaking of books, let's discuss robert gates. what will be the fallout here, in your opinion? >> it looks like a fun book. can't wait to get my hands on it. it's not good for biden. it's not good for hillary, so hopefully it will encourage our

governor, andrew cuomo and elizabeth warren and the governor of maryland to jump in. >> why do you think that's better? you think it's better if more democrats are in? >> yes, i do. i just want them to pick the best candidate. you know the way republicans do, the way they have 400 primariess and every idiot puts their hat in the ring, i think that's been helpful for the democrats and the republicans ought to take our lead. >> turns out the president and hillary in advance of the iowa caucuses both revealed that they oppose the iraqi surge for political reasons. >> that's shocking. >> that's war. >> but what about regarding joe biden? you mentioned this as well. here is a quote from the book. regarding joe biden, mr. gates writes, i think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. that's 40 years. that's not good if you're running for commander in chief, is it? >> throw in domestic policy and

i think you can't argue with that statement. >> why do you think the administration chose to just push back on defense of biden, not even themselves? >> well, i did see a tweet from david axelrod today saying everything in the book was a lie or something to that effect. but it looks like obama is favoring biden over hillary. i know the media keeps telling us that the whole country owes hillary clinton because the democrats ran off with their trophy wife, barak obama last time and we owe her. >> trophy wife? >> barak obama. they did. they ran off like it was a fling. she deserves it. i don't think the rest of the country feels that way to begin with. but she's not that likeable a person, apparently, because you have the far left trying to, well, maybe elizabeth warren will run. and you have obama who apparently prefers his own vice president, who is secretary of state, which makes some sense. but it's curious that you say

they're only defending biden. >> that's what came out yesterday. we have differing opinions in the administration. so let's talk about what's happening with the president's little speech yesterday about 12:00 o'clock. he was 20 minutes late. comes out with a bunch of unemployed people behind him. it's class warfare all over him. is it going to work? >> i like the visual demonstration of the job juggernaut is the obama administration. who has been president all this time? >> five years. >> also, the democrats and the audience are the press, but i repeat myself -- were snickering when obama was attacking republicans for saying oh, unemployment, if you extend the benefits, if you subsidize something you'll get law. but in fact, that's what their job numbers are, right, because the reason they falsely claim unemployment is fallen from 10 to 7% is they're excluding all the people who are no longer looking for jobs.

so their own job numbers incorporate millions of people who have given up looking for a job under the obama administration, so how can you say that people will never give up looking for a job? that's what their job numbers say. >> it reflects that. i'm gog ask but rolling stone. not that the bar is really high. the cover girl is the boston bomber. expectations are low. but they had this article in there which is calling millenials to support communism and fight for communism. your thoughts? >> i'm dying to get my hands on a copy so i can get my marching orders -- >> you just want it for free. that's code for hand me one. >> they are fulfilling the common description of rolling stone as a magazine written by people ho can't write for people who can't read. but i especially like this coming from young -- he's, according to all these forbes lists, he's supposed to be worth something like $700 million by putting out a piece of trash like us magazine. he is the dirtiest, sleaziest

capitalist, and it was written by an occupy wall street guy, right? probably didn't pay him. the working conditions are famously crappy. they underpay their employees. here you have -- >> how do you really feel about it? >> but he's going to push communism. >> should we go out and get your book? >> oh, definitely you should get my book. when you go and get it, get bill gates' book. not bill gates. bob gates. >> we will. >> we buy a lot of books. we buy the bill gates book, too. >> it's nice to see you on this side, too. >> ann coulter, thank you very much. >> you used to see her on "the view." >> it's now 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, is this -- does this guy look disabled to you? he was collecting disability at the time. for the heros of september 11. his story the tip of the iceberg

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quick headlines for you. just how cold is it in kentucky? cold enough for this escaped prisoner to turn himself in. robert vick escaped from a minimum security facility in lexington, but it was so cold out, he walked into a motel and asked the clerk to call police. he wanted to turn himself in to escape the freezing temperatures. he's back in custody facing even more charges. but warm. and cold not going to stop a baby from making her grand entrance. this woman gave birth at home by herself in the middle of a

blizzard. the ambulance couldn't get to her because of the snow. >> her due date was the 21st. i think she wanted to see the blizzard. she didn't want to miss out. once the water broke and i realized this was it, all fear went away. >> sweet baby. she went into labor a few weeks early. both mom and baby are doing fine thankfully. >> great. who needs doctors? >> speaking of new moms, our next guest is nine months pregnant. it could happen at any moment right now. so joining us is musician and reality show star kevin jonas and his wife, danielle. are you okay? >> i'm okay. i'm ready. >> there is no chance it could be right now? >> i don't know. she was walk not guilty here she said, i don't know what this is, but i'm hurting. >> shepard smith would have to handle the breaking news. >> get some ripped sheets! >> how do you announce this?

use social media? >> on our app, we announced we were having a girl. we told everyone we were having a baby and it was kind of cool. then when we found out we were having a girl, we were like let's do something fun. question a live stream -- we did a live stream straight into the app. we did amazing days app. it's a full purpose app for mothers to put everything they're doing with the baby. all the photo, all of the memories. it makes a book at the end. >> it's a great app. i checked it out last night. so that's how the world found out that you were going to have a baby. how did you find out that she was going to have a baby? >> it's amazing. she put a bunch of diapers in my sock drawer. i came home from the gym and i was starving and i come home -- i was so mad 'cause all i wanted to do was eat. she said, can you put your socks away, they're all on the counter. i walk down, there is a bunch of

diapers in my sock drawer and a pregnancy test that says, meet you in nine months. it was amazing. she didn't believe it. she took like 17 tests? >> something like that. >> you didn't believe it yourself? >> no, not at all. my mom got me one that said yes-no and it came up yes and she said, you have to believe this now. >> how much time between when you found out and when you told him? >> two days, three days? >> maybe three days. just to make sure. >> i don't know how you can hold that in. >> it was hard. >> after seeing that last story, will you have the baby alone? >> no. >> our wedding, we had like that massive snow storm in 2009 where it was like three feet of snow. i hire snowplows to get people back to their car. so hopefully if i have to do that again, i will hire a snowplow to get us to the hospital. >> you actually -- did you take -- you guys went on a trip back in history, right, to where you grew up? >> yeah, dallas. we did a bunch of different

things. we've gone back to dallas. we've had the whole -- we're back in new jersey. i kind of wanted to take her home -- back after all these years of her being on the road with me. i thought it was the right time for us to live back in new jersey. >> and i know your house 'cause it's right down the street from where i live near the dairy queen. >> that's right. >> but with the new child, i know the both of you want to keep the baby grounded. when you we want back to his boyhood home, it was pretty humble because the jonass back then were on food stamps. >> it definitely touched me. i think i started crying when i saw everything. i feel so blessed. >> made me realize that i'm definitely -- i definitely chose the right girl. there is a lot of people that wouldn't understand that. she's a keeper. >> is that one of the reasons why you're grounded, 'cause you remember exactly where you came from? >> absolutely. i think it has to do with the

way we were raised and hopefully that will be the way we help this little baby girl grow and we were taught how to appreciate what we have and where we come from and family. >> and me, come on. >> exactly. >> you're a great couple. i have a feeling that i don't doubt anyone doubts you'll be great parents. >> i might be wrong, but i think it might have been rocky 4 when he went back to his beginnings in philadelphia and discovered his love for adrien. might you go back? >> i don't know about that. we're actually building a home, a new house, about a mile from our home we live in now. it's dream house. i'm really excited about it. i'm trying to finish it so we can move in before the baby comes. >> you're doing the man nest. >> five months and -- >> get an app for that. >> exactly. >> kevin, jonas brother, danielle, jonas mother. >> best to you both. we're here if anything happens. >> we'll handle any emergency.

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welcome back. time for your shot of the morning. a woman skids right off an icy overpass in minnesota. her truck plunging more than 70 feet. she should have been killed, but she landed on a frozen pond and it saved her life. the ice didn't even crack under the weight of the vehicle. she walked away with just a few minor injuries. miraculous. >> there she goes, onto a frozen pond. >> a frozen pond. >> lucky to be alive. >> at least we wouldn't have shown it. now that we know they're okay. >> 25 minutes before the top of the hour. we don't know of any other chief of police who does that. the fellow's name in dallas is david o. brown. apparently what the chief likes to do when he's terminated some employees is he goes on twitter and he goes on facebook and

announces the firings. keep in mind, the terminated people do have the right to appeal them being canned, but it's so public, some people are going, that's too public. >> i didn't even think it was allowed, because here in new york there is unions here. listen to what the chief tweeted out. he says, i've terminated sergeant raphael rodriguez for his involvement in domestic involvement. >> that scrolled away and another one came in. i have terminated 911 call taker moses lehman for driving while under the influence and not reporting his arrest to his supervisor. >> so not only does the chief announce that they have been fired, but why he has canned them. we asked you what you thought about it. jenny wrote in on facebook: it's a message to his troops that he will not tolerate inappropriate police action. way better than covering it up. >> that's right. >> good point.

>> kennen said i was always taught you reprimand in private r ward in public. is he also posting the people he rewards for doing a good job? interesting. >> good question. and lynn says, are bad choices smear our name. good for this police chief. >> all right. joe says so he's posting job openings. what's the problem? another says, finally government official with transparency. >> what do you think? do you think it's appropriate or not? go ahead and continue to e-mail us or you could actually put it up on facebook. it's live throughout the day. we wind up with tense of thousands of comments. we'd love to have one from you. >> in the meantime, we'll visit with heather nauert for other headlines. >> hi. good morning to you. 36 minutes after the hour. listen to this story. a former gitmo detainee could be leading a new terrorist organization. according to the "washington

post", and he his pals in the lib ram arm of al-shariah will be designated as a foreign group separate from al-qaeda. fox news was the first to report that and he his group were linked to the benghazi terrorist attack. brand-new developments to tell you about in the deadly case of road rage in pennsylvania. police now warning that that gunman could strike once again. they're still looking for the suspect who killed 28-year-old timothy daveson. listen to police. >> due to the nature of this incident and the fact that we did have a similar case, we just feel that there is the possibility that this person could strike again. >> authorities are trying to figure out if the shoot something connected to a similar incident that happened on friday night. that occurred about 30 miles away. more than 100 former new york police and firefighters are now accused of using the 9-11 terrorist attacks to fund a lavish lifestyle on taxpayers' dime. they collected more than

$21 million in disability pension by pretending that they were at ground zero and that they suffered emotional trauma as a result. prosecutors say that four ring leaders allegedly coached them to act disoriented during psychological evaluations. listen. >> i can only express disgust at the actions of the individuals involved in this scheme. >> this guy on the jet ski got $175,000 over four years after he reported that he couldn't even go outside. we'll keep you posted on the details. who thought someone could upstage miley cyrus? look at this. ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cute little guy having really

a ball singing "wrecking ball." the video turned into an instant hit. i know what you're thinking. >> he gets right into it. >> the driver is holding the phone taking a picture of the kid in the back seat! >> i'm hoping there was somebody in the passenger seat who did that. >> no! you can tell it's the driver! >> you hear more and more about how that's happening. those seves while driving -- selfies while driving. >> he could have been parked. but the ground behind him was moving. >> you know how the ground does that. >> that kid obviously had a similar problem with his relationship because he was singing from the heart. >> he meant it. >> we have an extreme weather alert. look at this incredible picture. a two alarm fire in chicago. maria molina has been bringing us all sorts of information, science experiments and updates on the temperatures. what's the latest?

>> it's getting a little bit better. in minneapolis today you are going to make it above zero degrees with the high temperature forecast to reach 2. 13 in chicago. and here in new york city,, 20. southern california, forecast to be 71 in l.a and out there, you have been warm over the last several weeks with high temperatures in the 70s remaining in place. no changes forecast. still in the 70s today. also in phoenix. across the east where we've been talking about dangerously cold wind chill temperatures, we still are sub zero wind chill place temperatures in minneapolis, fargo, chicago. the forecast is for warming over the next several days. by this weekend many of you are actually going to be above average. otherwise in parts of missouri, arkansas and eastern oklahoma, we have winter weather advisories due to some freezing rain forecast here as we head into this evening and into the overnight hours. let's head back inside. >> all right. yesterday when you were out

there, it was 4. now it's 8. right direction. thank you. coming up, remember when president obama said this days before the 2012 election? >> the war in afghanistan is winding down. al-qaeda has been decimated. >> well, terror is making a comeback in iraq. up next, a mother of a navy seal who paid the ultimate price is here to put it all in perspective. then the ralph lauren family in the headlines this morning for all the wrong reasons. one of them accused of going berserk on a plane ending up in the big house. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] even ragu users a. chose prego homestyle alfredo over ragu classic alfredo.

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got quick headlines for you this morning. the four men charged in that deadly suv carjacking case at the new jersey shore hills mall before christmas are due in court later today on murder charges. the men are accused of killing that man, 30-year-old dustin freedland, who was getting into his car, or his wife was, after they had been shopping for christmas at the mall. also singer chris brown facing a judge. the reason? charges he attacked a man outside a washington, d.c. hotel in october. moments ago, the niece of fashion designer in a separate story, ralph lauren, plead guilty to charges of being drunk on an airplane. her behavior so abusive, the pilot had to make an emergency landing. she now has to shell out a $2,700 fine. thanks to the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in

iraq is over. the war in afghanistan is winding down. al-qaeda has been decimate deci. >> president obama made that statement november of 2012. just days before the election. and people believed it. he won another four years. >> right. the terror group now spilling over, news that's frustrating and heart breaking for debbie lee. her son was the first navy seal killed in operation iraqi freedom. she joins us now. good morning, debbie. >> good morning. >> thanks for being here. in light of the recent news, i know your son was the first who willingly sacrificed and laid down his life for this nation and future freedom in iraq. upon hearing the news, i'm sure you had to be as we just said, frustrated to hear about this resurgence. >> yeah. it's heart wrenching. it's disgusting to know that our sons, our daughters laid down

their life in that part of the country. but for me, it really was no surprise. when i heard the announcement that obama had made the choice to pull all of our troops out of iraq and not leave anybody there to provide stability to that country in the transition, to make the passover to continue the training, this is the consequences of those choices that were made. >> and part of the story of ramah dee and fallujah is the people of that area stood side by side with our soldiers and took their cities back. and when our troops were there, and just as they left, that area was quiet, settled. now little by little, al-qaeda is able to come back into that region and knowing that the president has called thisumb war when he was a candidate, how does that sit with the fact that you lost your son in ramadi in 2006? >> i've been over to iraq twice. i actually visited ramadi in 2007 and i went back in 2010, got to see the difference that our troops had made, the

successes over there. as you said, we're seeing it now turned back into the hands of the terrorists. it's disgusting to me that we have a man who sits in the white house, whose title is commander in chief. i can't call him a commander in chief because he doesn't act that way. he doesn't lead our troops. he doesn't support them. and it's just -- i'm sick and tired of our troops being used as a political pawn and it has to stop. this is ridiculous. we have so many amazing admirals and generals who are serving and have our troops, the value of who they are in their hearts when they make choices. but we do have some up there just like our commander in chief, who does not value them, who does not respect them. and it is time for them to step down. >> debbie, mark's name means mighty warrior and clearly he's your inspiration in many ways. since his great sacrifice, you started america's mighty warrior, which is an incredible foundation. his story really comes from his incredible service.

he went back into the line of fire after saving one of his brothers and tried to bring him to safety. really his wish came out of his last letter to pay it forward with kindness, live an honorable life. can you tell us about that? >> yeah. absolutely. amazing young man that i was blessed to be his mother. as you said, his name does mean mighty warrior. that letter was written about two weeks before he died. i think somehow he knew what laid ahead for him. that letter literally inspired millions and millions of people around the world. he ends that with, to my family and friends, do me a favor, pass on the kindness, the love, the precious gift of human life. and our men and women fight for us so that we can enjoy the freedoms that we have every single day. but there is someone that needs to be their voice. when they're in the military, they can't speak out. we need to do that for them. we need to make sure we're fighting in the halls of congress to make sure they have rules of engagement that let them be successful, that they

have the benefits, that they're not being cut like they are today. we need to stand for them and make sure we're there for our wounded warriors. one of the things we're working on currently is ptsd, tbi, physical needs. we're working with age spot treatments and there are so many amazing things. then our families of the fallen. they've given their very best for this nation. as a country, we owe it to them to stand beside them and behind them. we do retreats in texas and have a house in arizona called the hero's hope home where they can stay free and just let them know, we'll never forget the sacrifice that you made for our country. it's because of mark that i do this. god gives me the strength to do what i do, but mark is my passion. and these stories need to live on. they need to be told. i was just at a screening last night of "lone survivor" again and amazing movie. but the stories need to be on the screen. as a mother of a fallen, to see his name on a memorial wall or in a movie, it's heart

wrenching. >> got you. >> but -- >> you're doing that by coming on today and talking about mark who lost his life after a two-hour battle, talk being where it sits today. debbie lee, thanks so much. in that case a moment. >> you bet ♪ in the nation, we reward safe driving. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insuran and get $100 off your deductible for ery year of safe driving.

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