>> ed said people need to see what police see. this is a minor example of the living condition of a lot of children black and white. thanks to everyone who responded. >> have a great thursday. we'll see you tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. it is thursday, january 9. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. panic at the white house. the administration on damage control defending joe biden. do they have a case or was biden always wrong? >> chris christie, the governor of new jersey, in a traffic jam this morning over what is being called by some bridge-gate. today the new jersey governor defending himself. >> ellen degeneres ever so

humble. >> if anyone told me i was going to win 14 people's choice awards, i mean 12, yes, 13 maybe. but 14. >> we have the other hits and misses from the people's choice award. that was actually quite funny. "fox & friends" starts now. >> hi, this is brooklyn decker, and you are watching "fox & friends." >> all right, ladies and gentlemen, live from studio e where they put up a flag in front of our building. it is 22 degrees outside. it actually feels like it is about 50 compared to where we are. >> by comparison, i would have to agree. >> things are warming up. >> there is nothing waurpbg o -- there is nothing warming up at the white house. this is the problem when bob gates wrote his book. people said this guy is the perfect person at the right time to take over for

donald rumsfeld to bring peace and stability as president obama at 48 years old takes over the white house, a major job. he needs somebody with some experience like then 68-year-old secretary gates. so when he writes this book evidently the story is the white house caught blind sided. one person from the whaoeugd is reading -- one person from the white house is reading the book and -- they are defending joe biden. why defend joe biden? >> yesterday "the new york times" had an article saying this is the first time the lunch between the president and vice president was photographed. >> first time in five years. and jay carney says a complete coincidence with the book coming out. >> they were talking about this lunch photo for maybe

five years. they put on a full court press when it came to defending biden. take a listen. >> he's played a key role in every major national and fory debate and policy discussion in this administration, in this white house. he played an important role obviously in the policy discussion -gs and carrying out of the policy decisions the president made with regard to iraq and in the policy deliberations over afghanistan. >> there you have jay carney who interestingly enough yesterday opened his briefing by walking out and saying have you read any good books lately? that is the photo spray you see there in the private dining room, the president and joe biden, first time photographed having lunch together in five years; complete coincidence to the fact that the gates book came out yesterday. the reason they're pushing

back so hard is that in the gates book, mr. gates writes that joe biden has been wrong on nearly every major policy and national security issue for 40 years. >> for how long? >> 40 years, pretty much his entire time in public service. brit hume last night reviewed the president's tenure and said know what? there's something to that. >> there's a lot good in joe biden, he really was wrong about a lot of thing. go back to the 1980's. he wanted to keep the persian crews out of europe to support the nuclear freeze. when the first gulf war came along he was opposed to that. when the surge came along, he was against that. the list goes on up into this administration when the president was about to send the troops on the raid to kill bin laden, he was opposed to that. it's striking that they

would defend him so vigorously when he has clearly been wrong so very often. >> when dan quayle was ripped consistently during his bush years, bush 41, there was no massive defense of quayle's credibility. it seems the administration, tphefrg this book -- everything in this book, 600 pages and they talk about president obama's decision from tkhreub -- decision from libya to pull out in iraq. >> the legacy will be portrayed in years to come, someone who may be will be vocal in defense of the president after he's out of the white house. >> right now the conventional wisdom, it's hillary. hillary is going to run. what if hillary doesn't run? one thing yesterday jay

carney could not answer was the last time the president spoke to president karzai of afghanistan. remember in the book it said that the president ordered troops to afghanistan despite believing that the mission would work out. also mr. gates said that the president simply could not stand karzai. here's a quote from the book. the president doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting out. yesterday jay carney was asked about karzai, rather lengthy exchange between jay carney and ed henry but it is worth it. listen to this. you stressed the president's commitment to the mission in afghanistan. they spoke to president karzai. they claim president obama has not spoken to president karzai since june or july. how is it that the two leaders -- if he's committed to the mission, how could the two leaders as you're negotiating a status of forces agreement, how could the two leaders

not talk in months? >> when did we go to south africa? i was physically in the presence of both presidents when president karzai and president obama changed greetings. >> they had a substantive discussion about -- >> the president and president karzai have had discussions in the past. there's not a lot of mystery on this document made in good faith and the need to sign it on the part of the afghan government. we have robust and constant communication both from washington and from our embassy in kabul as well as through our military. >> when was the last time the president spoke to the lead u.s. commander in afghanistan? >> that is a good question. i don't know -- >> haour o -- you don't know the last time the president spoke to the -- >> that is why the book is

so devastating. president obama's first call to nouri maliki the year left was to say we're leaving. joe biden was supposed to handle t. it was september before we left in november. we're seeing the same pattern in afghanistan. we find out from the secretary of defense the president never believed in the strategy, felt like he boxed himself in. you factor all these things together, we're about to see possibly an announcement saying we would liked to have stayed in afghanistan and worked it out and make sure all the blood and money spent in that country wouldn't be turned over to the taliban but we couldn't work with their crazy president. >> there has been pressure to get this bilateral agreement done. carney said days ago this needs to speed up. to have this conversation again almost in a way that seems chronic as depicted from the gates book. to not have that communication in place

seems so disturbing to those in the military, i would guess, and their families -- 15,000 troops would remain. >> there is something about a president talking to a president that no susan rice or senator mccain, all due respect to those individuals, can't get done what the president can get done when he talks directly to another president. don't dupe us. say what you think. don't play the game. >> book comes out next week. >> at nine minutes after the hour governor chris christie responds to a payback scandal. did his staff shut down a famous bridge behind his back? >> we're live in fort lee with the latest. roeubt -- >> reporter: the g.w.

bridge is the busiest bridge in the wofrpltd you see these three access lanes, they were reduced to one. so it was, you had school buses and emergency vehicles out here stuck for hours. governor chris christie has denied having any involvement in purposefully shutting down the lanes, but according to several new jersey democrats they're saying the gridlock was intend as political pay back because the mayor here did not endorse christie's election. the governor canceled an event yesterday but he did release a statement. it reads what i've seen today for the time is unacceptable. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a member of my staff but this inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. when these allegations first surfaced, christie

made a joke about it and he said do you think i was out here moving the cones or something? clearly no one is laughing now. >> lydia, thank you very much. near the bridge that i go across twice a day. $13 to get on that bridge. >> the scandal is not that big as long as christie is not linked to it. it looks like a management issue but it is amazing when you're out in front how many people want to attack you. >> some news now to bring you. 911 calls revealing the frantic moment before a minivan sped off a california highway leaving six people hurt and a woman dead. >> do you know need help? >> we're on the side road. we've lost our brakes and there's eight of us -- >> are you going westbound? >> we don't know.

i don't know! >> that mini crashed into another car before it rolled down an embankment and burst into flames. a search underway for a missing sailor after a navy chopper goes down, the helicopter, a sea dragon and his crew had to make an emergency landing off virginia beach. four of the five were rescued but two had to go to the hospital. some of the i goest stars coming out for -- some of the biggest stars coming out for the people's choice awards. sandra bullock taking home four trophy and bring ni spears take home her first. picking up the most wins for a woman, ellen

degeneres. >> 14, this is incredible. as a young girl growing up in new orleans, if anybody told me i was going to win 14 people's choice awards. i mean 12, yes. 13, maybe. but 14. just yesterday i was talking to this lovely african-american woman and she told me she was single and she works 80 hours a week to get by and she looks forward to coming home every single night and watching me. and that woman's name is oprah winfrey. >> how did the big winners celebrate? they go to taco bell. justin timberlake posed for this picture. >> a principal said she was fired for protecting kids from humiliation. she fought against kids getting their hands stamped if they don't have money

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president the other day. unemployment creates jobs. and? >> it's hard to explain that one. the administration argument is there is something called a multiplier where when you put a dollar of unemployment into the kpwheu -- economy it creates $1.80 of economic security. if this is true, we should all stay home and the country will become wealthier by giving us unemployment benefits. >> the worry on the right is that right now at 99 weeks, that's two years. it's another entitlement. you're paying people not to work. make it a temporary thing so they can get on their feet and go out and get another job is what the right says. >> i think it is tough to say to people i understand you're not employed, but the truth is it's better if we give you benefits.

the right and center looked at this and it's very clear, when you raise benefits, make them more generous, people spend less time looking for work. what economists have found is it also hurts employers because payroll taxes pay for them. >> it does look to many on the right that the left is trying to make this a permanent entitlement. i believe it was yesterday representative sheila jackson lee was talking about how the term welfare, which is an entitlement, it's not p.c. enough. she would like to see a new term. this is her suggestion. >> maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of a transitional living fund for that is what it is, for people to be able to live. >> for a lot of people they don't use welfare as a transitional living fund. they are living on it long term. >> i guess some people might feel better to call

unemployment benefits a transitional nonworking fund but the truth is you're not helping anyone when you extend these benefits. even president obama's former chief economist, alan krueger, did a study. he looked around the county and where you had more benefits you had people spending less time looking for work. >> quick prediction. will this pass the congress? >> it won't unless it's offset by other budget cuts. depending on what they are, they might do more or less harm than this. >> all right, 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, shaquille o'neal calls her, quote, my head coach for happiness. the author of the best certainly a happy you, here with a prescription for a better life. did you see this video? the pope picking a man out

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the pope knew from his days as archbishop. >> it ended up good but security probably had a coronary as he grabs somebody and puts him in the car. it could be the miserably cold weather or that the holiday season is tkoplg a close but you're probably not the only one suffering from a happiness hangover. what are the tricks to get out of the happiness hangover rut? >> joining us is author of a happy you, your you will mat prescription to happiness. she's here from chicago. >> it is so warm here. happiness hangovers, that is a real thing? >> we anticipate events and we're so excited about it, the build-up is great and then they happen and it is like now what? >> you just described christmas. >> walk us through some of these and how to deal with it. >> the first is vacation. you're planning, you go on

vacation, it's great. you come home. now what? the thing to do is bring back mementos, whether it's music you listened to. anything that is going to queue you to remind you of a good time. research shows planning a vacation brings us more happiness. start to think about where you want to go next. >> instead of a last-minute trip, have something to look forward to. >> something you generally don't have another one after is a wedding. some people spend years planning a wedding and then you come back from a honeymoon, look at this empty apartment. >> you've been planning, you go on a honeymoon and now -- this is a time to focus on your marriage. good marriages take some work. start to implement strategies to make sure you

are a solid couple. maybe every sunday you're going to have dinner together, have a date night, that kind of thing >> the holidays, steve mentioned christmas. >> the holidays are about being with other people. friends and family, this is time to focus on yourself. i'm not saying resolutions. i'm saying what can you do for yourself? maybe it is read that book you wanted to or meditate or take a course. >> so few people actually set goals and achieve the goals which can double down on the depression or hangover? >> right. if i think i want to lose weight and i don't lose it, i'm a failure. i'm going to go back to eating my cookies. get rid of the imperfection. >> you have to think about what makes you happy.

>> absolutely. happiness is so individual. find out what are your values and strengths. >> because the weather has been so miserable over the last week or so, so many people have been beaten down by it, that's normal; right? >> it's okay. it is a great opportunity to think i'm inside. now what? so many people think i wish i had time to take care of this project. now is the time to do it. >> thank you for coming. next up on the rundown, have you ever been on a diet? some cold hard cash could be coming your way. >> then we've got a special guest here. steve, go ahead. >> she is the youngest woman on the lpga tour so can she teach some guy like brian how to get in obt --

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the white house is planning to air some ads for obamacare during the winter olympics next month. makes sense if you think about it.

obamacare went downhill fast, left people cold but then somehow it managed to skate by. >> and people aren't russian out to get it. >> no, not at all. >> it is 27 minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday. heather nauert is over here. >> don't you wish you could be that funny? >> he's got 75 writers. it's easy when you've got 75 writers. >> good morning. great to see you guys. a serious story to tell you about. there is a whole lot of outrage over one of president obama's nominees to a top spot at the department of justice. former naacp lawyer davill could soon head up the civil rights division but here is what is raising eyebrows, his high profile work defending a convicted cop killer.

the defended someone who murdered a police officer in 1981. the widow of the slain officer said this on the kelly file last night. take a listen. >> i was outraged by president obama to make this decision to have a man who defended a murderer, someone who murdered a police officer with premeditation and malice, is a radical, is a black panther, and to give him an appointment to nominate him to the department of justice, it's a disgrace. >> the fraternal offered police -- the fraternal order of police says it was a thumb in the eye to law enforcement. thomas gagnon was issued an arrest warrant after his ex-girlfriend said he violated her

restraining order by sending her request on google plus. he says the request was sent automatically by google not by him. he is out on bail. your miracle weight loss products may not live up to the hype. operation failed resolution is an effort to crack down on misleading claims that a company's products helps consumers lose weight. only three weight loss drugs are approved by the f.d.a. this elementary school principal fighting to get her job back. she claims her charter school canned her after she complained about a policy that requires kids to get their hand stamped if they didn't have money for lunch. she said the students felt humiliated. it is unethical and

disrespectful. in response the school board says the school does not condone unlawful retaliation. those are your headlines at this hour. >> every parent can probably relate to not having enough money on a kid's lunch card. >> sometimes that is the one meal they are guaranteed to get. >> today we've stkpwot somebody famous in the -- we've got somebody famous in the studio. maria molina yesterday her photograph was featured by the national weather service. >> they retweeted it. i was so excited. i went to the hudson river, snapped a shot of ice floating on the river outside of new york city. very cool stuff. >> how was the traffic on the g.w.b.? >> i saw a governor hanging out cones.

maria, so you know there is another flip side to the celebrity, you're going to lose your privacy. >> i think it started with your first snow angel outside. >> and then people doing the experiment with the boiling water and snow. >> let's look at some of these images because on tuesday we had something happen in the sun. the sun produced an energetic eruption where some of these particles are headed towards the earth and when the atoms collide with the energy you see northern lights. these pictures are not from last night but we could be seeing the northern lights across parts of the northeast, parts of the upper midwest and pacific northwest. you do get to see the northern lights and you snap a picture of it, please tweet it to us at "fox & friends" or tweet it

to me directly. we would love to have your picks coming -- your pictures coming up tomorrow morning. as far as the weather goes, we've had very cold weather in places across portions of the east but look at today's highs. making it into the teens in minneapolis, 20's in chicago, 30's in new york city. look at the forecast for saturday, 70's in the city of raleigh where on tuesday you saw temperatures in the single digits. the concern is we are going to have snow on the ground that will be melting rapidly across the northeast. a little rain forecast in the east over the weekend due to this moisture out here, freezing rain across places in arkansas and missouri. we have winter weather advisories in place. now let's head to you. >> thank you, maria. let me tell you what's

happening in the world of sports. let's not do the sports. let's just do an introduction. she qualified for the women's u.s. open when she was 12 years old. being the youngest member of the l.p.g. winner at the age of 16. >> what is next for the golfing phenom lexi thompson who joins us now. congratulations, you have had an outstanding career in this sport. you're 18 now? >> almost 19. >> the youngest to actually become winner. they waived the rules for you. you were 15 at the time to enter to play officially. >> i turned prowhen i was 15. >> you have a brother that is a pro, and you have a brother at l.s.u. your decision not to go to college a tough one? >> not really.

it is always been a dream of mine to play against the best in the world. i'm living a dream out there down the road. i can always take on-line course when i'm traveling. >> as people know the only thing i need in my game is a short game. can you give us an idea how you would teach someone with elisabeth's stature how to putt? >> in heels. >> you grip it like this. go ahead. >> what if she wants to make contact? >> you're going to be hitting a little bit up on it. you're just going to be going like that. >> that falls in my center. >> keep your eye on the ball and rock your shoulders. that's pretty good. >> you're here for a special reason; right?

the c.m.e. launch? >> yeah. c.m.e. group is putting on a season-long point break for the l.p.a. every point is worth 500 points. at the end of the year the top 72 players get to play in the c.m.e. group championship. the winner of the whole points race wins an extra million dollars. >> lexi, you seem to have it all. do you feel that special responsibility? >> i'm doing what i love out this and that is what i want to portray to all my fans that are watching. i'm having a blast out there. >> they love you on instagram and twitter? lexi, thank you so much.

>> and bringing a little summer to the winter. steve, tell us what's coming up. by the way, i hit two or three putts. >> coming up, if you don't like your plan, you don't have to keep it. one wireless company is doing something pretty awesome to lure you away there your current phone carrier. our next guest is all fired up this morning. captain pete hegseth, he's reporting to duty with something to say about president obama and how he treats our military according to the new gates book. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] it's simple physics...

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termination fee. the company offering up to five lines per family for consumers who leave the carrier. here's a new solution for iphone lovers who want a physical keyboard. the type-o keyboard slips over an iphone 5 or 5-s. you might want to order it soon because blackberry is suing accusing it of copying its signature keyboard. elisabeth? >> in his bombshell book, former defense secretary robert gates says the president doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting o.u. gate -- getting out. what do she is startling revelations say about our military and national

security? frustrating information coming out of this book, so we hear. what was your initial reaction when you heard about gates' comments? >> they're infewer -- infuriating. unfortunately they confirmed the worst fears many of us already had that for this president and this white house it was never about finishing the war in afghanistan properly. it was about ending it and getting out as quickly as possible. that's what it means when you surge and tell the enemy when you're going to leave at the same time and set a deadline. that is not about doing everything necessary to finish properly. it is about how can we extricate and leave as quickly as possible. it was about the exit from day one and he never fully believed in the strategy that he sent men and women to go fight and die for. >> you fought, your buddies were there. lives have been lost. what does it say to our troops who lay down their

lives willingly and now are hearing are not backed by the commander in chief? >> what it says is we've got a commander in chief who supports the troops but not their mission. that is not possible. if you want to be a pundit, okay but not the commander in chief. your job is to give them a mission and job to be successful. eisenhower wasn't president at the time but we sent waves in normandy beach knowing we would lose lives but in service of a mission we believed to be just. this president seemed to say i'm going to send a wave of 30,000 guys into afghanistan even though i don't fundamentally believe it is going to affect change. that to me is a shame. >> what is next? is it time to do something or is this an administration that is going to continue to separate themselves, commander in chief here,

president over here? >> i think it is going to continue to create a wedge between the military perception and this administration. we still have troops in harm's way and we've got threats around the world that need to be addressed. there's going to be more political fallout. we didn't talk about hillary clinton and the fact that she said her opposition to the iraq surge was about politics. what worse from someone who might want to be the next commander in chief. we need a renewal of that trust, a commander in chief who would say i've got your back because it is the best interest of this country, not because i'm worried about a poll or politics. >> the message being sent to our troops, a harsh one right now. captain, thank you for being with us. you haven't seen the end of ed henry. what he said about the president's photo op with joe biden is next. a fan suing the nfl because he says he paid too much

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a new jersey football fan who is also an attorney, is suing the nfl because he says he paid way too much for super bowl tickets in new jersey. >> he claims the nfl made just 1% of seats available to the public leading to sky high prices. so does he have a case? >> fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano, is with us to explain. >> the state of new jersey has a very unique law. i don't know if any other state has this. when you have a public event, a

concert, athletic contest, you have to distribute 95% of the tickets to the public. now, the nfl has distributed -- you ready -- 1% of the tickets to the public, according to this complaint. if you ask the nfl what is happening, they're saying we're holding on to the tickets until we finds out who the two teams are. then we're going to give 20% of the tickets to the afc team and they'll distribute it to their fans and 20% of the tickets to the nfc teams and they'll distribute it to their fans. by the time it goes through two or three levels like that, what happens to the price? up and up. yesterday i was looking at prices, the highest price i saw for a ticket -- this is not the face value, but this is what it will cost to you get it because of the various levels of distribution. $100,000 a pop. >> oh, my goodness. >> do you think the nfl saw this coming, because the first time they've had the super bowl in new jersey and new jersey has this unique law regarding -- they call it consumer fraud act.

>> honestly, i don't know if the nfl was aware of this law. look. >> four years ago. >> right. jets and giants play in new jersey. other teams play in new jersey. i don't know that this issue has ever -- >> i don't know that people are dying to get jets tickets. >> it's not an issue of distributing them. >> what is real is the average person can't afford to go. >> correct. >> that's why people care about this game. is there any merit to it? >> yes. there is merit to this case. however, these people in this case have asked for a jury trial. you have to get on-line to get a jury trial in new jersey. the line is from 18 months to three years long. the super bowl is in four weeks. so if they really want to resolve this, they should ask for an injunction, instant immediate relief from the court. let's face it, if the court will affect tickets to the super bowl t can't do it after the game or the day of the game. you got to do it a few weeks in advance of the game. that would be now. >> and you would assume that the nfl would have to comply with the law, right?

>> oh, yes. yes. i sat in the courthouse a couple of miles from that stadium where this will ultimately be resolved. of course they'll have to comply. >> or they would perhaps have to just give that guy a bunch of money. >> that might be how it will end up. it would be better -- and i know kilmeade agrees -- would end up with lower ticket price. >> how about this, you're going to be cold and that makes those boxes even more desirable. that's the luxury boxes up top. >> yes. and if you go to the super bowl, do not drive on the george washington bridge. i couldn't resist. only kidding! >> oh, no. >> they were doing a traffic study, judge. what's the problem? >> thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up on this thursday, are you tired of going to work every darn day? are you ready to call it quits? we're going to tell you the best age to say sayonara.

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able to live. >> right. like overseas contingency operations. what do you think about that? should we just change the term, not the program to be more sensitive? >> like "anchorman." i'm ron burgundy? new jersey governor chris christie hit by scandal. did his staff really shut down one of the -- actually the nation's busiest bridge behind his back for political pay back? what the governor is saying this morning. you're going to want to hear that and so much more. hour two for this frosty thursday starts right now. this is dean cain and you're watching "fox & friends" in the morning. >> dean cain is one of the best guests we have. >> he's nice. >> he can fly! >> i think personally, if i was charting his career and he has not asked me yet, but you always have hope -- he would either be on a couch like this or doing

sports. he is such a fen national athlete and a passionate guy. what's he doing in the pretend world? >> pays more. >> let's talk about bob gates. has a brand-new book out. comes out in another week. i was surprised to read that the administration, according to the daily mail of london, was blind sided by what was in this book and that the book was being released. according to these reports, this is one guy, or one person in the white house reading this now, summarizing it to get the talking points out. very interesting that no one pushed back and tried to diminish gates outside axelrod making an appearance and different tweets from former administration officials. for the most part, there was only one person who was defended on the early excerpts of bob gates' book. >> certainly everyone is looking for the president.

like where is president obama after all these comments come out from the book? i think we're searching for him, but there is no hiding biden. we saw him everywhere. they made sure he was in every photo. we knew what time he was eating lunch, brushing his teeth. >> he had five appearances with the president yesterday. >> yes. we knew about it because they let us know with it and the photograph was the first time in this administration's history that we've been able to see this lunch actually occur. so pass the bread and butter, i guess. i'm not sure what happened there. ed carney went in and -- sorry. jay carney was taking questions from ed henry yesterday, but i'm not sure he answered anything. take a listen. >> we let the photographers in. that's a great positive step, but we did not let any reporters in. we see this more and more that you seem to think giving more access is letting photographers in, which we support, but we can't have anybody shout a question. if the president wants to defend the vice president --

>> he doesn't. >> we let photographers in because he knows he doesn't need to. we let photographers in because we've had an ongoing discussion about access for photographer. >> we have an ongoing discussion -- you're leaving out we've had an. >> word for word, minute for minute, this president has answered more questions from the free and independent press or at least as many as his immediate predecessors. >> why not today? >> i don't know of any president in history who is taking questions every day. >> he hasn't taken any questions since december 20. >> that was tense because in the gates book, what bob gates' former defense secretary says regarding joe biden is they say that mr. biden was wrong on nearly every major policy and national security issue for the last 40 years. according to somebody inside the white house, the quotation is this is very, very bad. jay carney is spinning everyone,

but that's his job. the american troops were put in harm's way. a captain was talking to elisabeth an hour ago about what this book does to the troops. listen to this. >> to see the political nature of decisions being made in the white house when we have warriors losing their lives on the battlefield, they confirmed the suspicions that we had. it was never about finishing the war in afghanistan properly. it was about ending it and getting out as quickly as possible. if you want to be a politician or pundit and walk around and say i was for the troops but not for the mission, now the commander in chief. your job is support them and give them a job to be successful. >> by the way, he's current captain. >> yeah. he's still active in the reserves. here is what he's responding to, the fact that according to the secretary of defense, who has a chance to compare two presidents back to back, he said the

mission in afghanistan, the president did not believe in it. it took him forever to make the decision. he got the surge troops in place, and the problem, according to gates, was that he campaigned on that being the good worth. campaigned on taking that war -- taking it back from the taliban, and then when he sat down and looked at it, he wasn't into it. so he sends these troops in with a date to pull out, much to the dismay and anger of general petraeus and then says i don't believe in the mission. guys like that try to complete the mission that the person who sent them in doesn't believe in. and that's the outrage we're hearing from coast to coast. i imagine at walter reed today, as they read these excerpts in this book. >> imagine the commander in chief claiming that he supports you, but not your mission. how do you separate the two? how do you separate yourself as commander in chief from your troops and the mission you're putting forward? it just doesn't make sense, doesn't make sense on paper, doesn't make sense on air, doesn't make sense from the president of the united states

to hear any of that coming forward in this book. it's shocking. >> yeah. and i was watching one news channel yesterday, you would think that this would be a big story. all about the bridge thing with christie. we'll talk about that in a while. meanwhile, up on capitol hill, they're trying to do something about extending long-term unemployment i think back to two years. >> that was the scariest hand i've ever seen. >> i would agree. >> that one right there? >> yeah. that's a brother of thing. >> but you know what? that's a perfect transition because it's a handout. we're talking about handouts. there are some who say that welfare is a handout, that unemployment insurance, which they're debating now on capitol hill, is a handout. well, sheila jackson lee, it's not a handout. it's to try to get people on

their feet, you know, so they can get back into the work force and stuff like that. sheila jackson lee was talking about how the term "welfare" is just charged and it's too pc. she would like to see a new term for it and take away the stigma of welfare. she's even got a suggestion. >> maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of a transitional living fund, for that is what it is, for people to be able to live. >> what's wrong with the word welfare? >> it's fairing well. who likes the term of anything now? we pretty much hash tag and abbreviate anything. >> take a look at food stamps. they're no longer called food stamps. instead you have a snap card. 45 minutes ago, we had james freeman from the "wall street journal" editorial and he was thinking about what sheila jackson lee said regarding the

transitional living fund and he had this new term for unemployment. >> i guess some people might feel better to call unemployment benefits a transitional nonworking fund. but the truth is, you're really not helping anyone when you extend these benefits. economists have looked at this and it's very clear. when you raise the benefits, when you make them more generous and extend them, people spend less time looking for work. and what economists found lately is it also hurts employers because payroll taxes pay for this. they make hiring someone more expensive and where you have more unemployment benefits, you have fewer jobs created. >> they only tax it on $12,000. it seems this is one of those issues that you could have an intellectual debate on and say our goal is to get people back to work. let's come up with a plan, maybe extend it for the last time this time then it comes to a close. rather than if you don't do this, you don't like poor people. if do you this, you do like poor

people. they make it black and white and drill down to the common denominator for people that have 15 second attention spans. now if you don't sign on to give people 99 weeks, you don't care about other people. you're arrogant. >> we have some other news to bring you. heather nauert. >> good morning. i was following this chris christie story and we have new information. e-mails reveal ago top aide to governor kristy ordered a rush hour lane closure at the world's busiest bridge, causing a real traffic nightmare. the reason? to reportedly get back at the mayor of fort lee, new jersey, for refusing to back christie's reelection bid. he just released a statement saying what i've seen is unacceptable. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a member of my staff, but this completely inappropriately and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. we'll keep following this story for you. 911 calls just released that revealed a frantic moment before a mini van sped off a california

highway leaving six people hurt and a 90-year-old woman dead. listen. >> you need help? >> where are you at? >> 81, the side road. we lost our brakes. there is eight of us in a van. >> are you going westbound? >> i don't know! >> hang on one second. >> the mini van crashed into another car before it went down an embankment and burst into flames. investigators are trying to figure out what caused that crash. the search is underway for a missing sailor after a navy chopper goes down. the helicopter was on a training mission when they had to make an emergency water landing 20 miles off the coast of virginia beach. four of the five crew members were rescued, but two later died at the hospital. an investigation is underway to find out what caused that crash. we'll keep you posted. listen to this one coming out of washington. who better to lead the criminal investigation into the irs tea party targeting than a supporter of president obama? that's the allegation in a bombshell new report quoting top

republicans who say that barbara bosserman donated $6,000 to the president's 2008 and 2012 campaign. the doj saying it's not allowed to consider political leanings when it dolls out assignments. chairman of the house government reform and oversight committee, darrell issa, stays is a real conflict of interest and that's part of the problem with it. and the doj is stone walling their investigation. >> will there be outrage? >> we'll keep you posted. 12 minutes after the hour. we've been talking about it for the last two days. robert gates revealing the president's mistrust in our military. what do the veterans think about this? up next, hear from a man who went door to door in iraq, fighting for your freedom, fighting in fallujah. training is all part of the game, right? wait until you hear the stunt this basketball player pulled to get out of it. ♪

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16 minutes after the hour. excerpts from robert gates' memoir going public this week and causing major controversy for the white house. he also wrote an editorial in the "wall street journal" expanding and summarizing his book. they paint the picture of a president who did not trust his military leaders and often devised plans like the libyan operation without them present. joining us with his reaction, specifically to the fact that the president, according to gates, was not convinced was not convinced the surge in afghanistan that he was presiding over and signed off on would be successful is the marine corporal and iraq war veteran, ryan.

welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> what is your thought, number one, when you think about the troops and many of which you probably knew, the 32,000-plus that joined the 60-plus on the ground being sent into battle by a president, according to his secretary of defense, did not believe in the battle plan? >> that is a little concerning. why would you send them down range if you're not feeling that it's going to be a successful operation and why are you going to put more at risk if you don't believe that you actually is a chance of success? >> do you trust that your leaders know what they're doing? is that essential to serving like you did in place places like fallujah? >> absolutely essential. mission accomplishment is one of our objectives. if you're giving out the mission that you don't believe we can succeed, then what hope do we have? >> when you see the flag of al-qaeda planted hopefully temporarily in fallujah and ramadi and knowing you fought there and what you did there and what you did in bonding with the community to win their trust, what are your thoughts today?

>> well, it's disconcerting. definitely heart breaking to see a place where so much blood was shed by american service members and know that was all for naught right now, i, along with many of my fellow veterans are disheartened and are standing with the tribal leaders who are fighting very hard to try and repel those individuals from their homeland. >> you know them. they're not just people on video. these are people you got a chance to know and won them over. according to the book, the president no intention of keeping any force there to begin with. there was no legitimate negotiation going on to keep troops there to preserve what you guys have accomplished after the surge. how does that make you feel? >> that also is very disappointing. when we go into an impending mission, we hope for absolute success. our goal was to establish security and provide the necessary infrastructure for those tribal leaders and for the government to provide security for the population. and with no support whatsoever given to these individuals, they're now suffering.

>> right. we're showing video of fallujah. what should people at home know about the fighting that you and others did in 2005, 2006, 2007? >> well, all of our service members fought valiantly. they never stopped and i never will for a second think that they were unable to complete any mission they were given. >> they left -- when you guys left, iraq was settled. the province was calm, elections were taking place and what happened after you can't be responsible for doesn't diminish your sacrifice or accomplishment. thanks so much for the real world reaction to the president's and others' feelings in the white house. thank you. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> thanks for your service. coming up straight ahead, 19 minutes after the hour, a disturbing video that has everyone talking. adults encouraging a toddler to do this. you a (bleep).

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time for news by the numbers. the age edition. first, 38 years old, that's the best age to take a break from work. 38! the reason? a study says at age 38, you are financially secure and established enough in your

career that you can afford to take a sabbatical. i missed mine. next, 59 years old. not quite there. hard to believe, but 59, that's how old christie brinkley is right now. the model, with her son, rocking a bikini at the beach. nice. finally, 11 years old. that's the age of this guitar hero from nebraska. ♪ ♪ >> the 11-year-old challengest the guitarist to a dual at a concert. i challenge you to a dual. over there to that young elisabeth hasselbeck. >> i have a pretty mean air guitar. president obama has long been preoccupied with income inequality, insisting that america isn't a country where everyone gets a fair shot. >> you can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everybody should do their

fair share and everybody should play by the same rules and give everybody a fair shot. the way the system works isn't giving them a fair shot. if we refocus our energies on building an economy that grows for everybody and gives every child in this country a fair chance at success, then i remain confident that the future still looks brighter than the past. >> in fairness, that speech sounds pretty good. but the policies aren't seeming to work. here are the facts under the obama administration. america's richest 1% saw their income increase by 31.4%. everybody else? well, theirs increased by less than half of 1%. is this obsession with income inequality actually hurting america's poor middle class? joining us is "fox business" network's charlie gasparino. >> interesting bid at demagoguery. he ignores we spend trillions of dollars on the war on poverty since johnson made the speech 50

years ago and the anniversary is coming up. we spent a lot of money on this stuff and yet, if you really look at the statistics, the amount of people in the poverty level is about the same as when we started. we've tried to level the playing field with government programs and it's not working. >> let's take minimum wage, for example here. do you think raising it is a bad idea? >> at some point you are pushing it on a string. i'm for minimum wage. i think people deserve a few bucks when they work, washing dishes. the problem is when you start reaching levels like they're doing in the seattle area where it's $15 an hour of a minimum wage, that's when businesses, particularly small businesses, start saying, we've got to make our margins, let's lay people off. the harm is -- you get more harm than good when that happens. and i tell you, i think we're at that point now. there's a lot of good research on this stuff where you start raising the minimum wage from where it is now, people lose their jobs. >> interesting. is there also a theory that we want to make people comfortable, not actually help them get out

of their situation. is comfort a priority that is skewed? >> listen, my cousin grew up in a housing project. my mother grew up in a housing project. i grew up working class, so i had the comforts they didn't have. however, here is the thing. why did they get out of these situations? my mother wanted to be richer than poor. and i think at some point you got to give people some tough love. i think when there was the war on poverty, there were a few government programs. there are now something like 80 government programs. okay? 80 of them. i think when reagan started addressing the war on poverty in 1989, he talked about government failing at this, it was like 50. so we've actually increased the amount of programs that we're giving people, means tested welfare programs that we're giving people, yet the amount of people on welfare -- excuse me, in poverty, remains the same. let's put it this way, 50 years ago, being poor is different 50 years ago than today. you walk into an allegedly poor person's house, they got a dvd, cable tv, some of them have a

house. not just an apartment. a lot different. so you got to ask yourself, do we need a little more tough love? what are the root causes of poverty? "new york times" did an expose. it's gut wrenching what happened to this kid. we from the, the kid's parents were drug addicts. >> we put the cause aside? >> when two parents stay together, chances of kids growing up in poverty go down dramatically. they become working class. when people don't do drug, guess what? there is more money for food on the table for the kids. you take care of your kids better. that "new york times" story, if you read it, and i read it, it was devoid of any of this analysis. it's like it's the same obama theme, that the deck is never stacked against you. it's never anything else that affects that. you're more likely to be homeless if you're on drug. every research report shows that. >> the facts are there in the increasing of government as you indicated has not solved the problem. >> no. government can't stop you from

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president obama's form defense secretary, robert gates, has written a new memoir where he says joe biden has been wrong on almost every foreign policy issue in the last 40 years. yeah. says he's awful when it comes to foreign countries. then biden was like, hey, is this about the time i got lost at epcot? we going to bring that up again? it's confusing! >> handy you've got all those nations around that little pond. >> the lake. >> it's still a mystery, the administration, noncommittal on robert gates, nothing but nice things about robert gates. the only thing they really pushed back on was the joe biden element. >> it's curious. >> mysterious. >> full court press of defense when it came to protecting biden yesterday. heather nauert is here with

other headlines. >> hope you're all off to a good day. in washington now, here is a question: is president obama ready to stop spying on foreign leaders? the white house expected to announce next week that the government will provide more oversight on nsa surveillance programs. one of those announcements could include restrictions on spying on foreign leaders. we'll keep watching this storyrn protective custody this morning after incredibly shocking video leased showing people encouraging the child to say racist, have you have you gonea- vulgar and violent things. look at this. >> you a hoe. >> you a hoe (bleep) bleep). >> the omaha police department released this and that's controversial in itself. the police union says they want to see how innocent children are being indoctrinated into a cycle of violence. they put four children, including this little boy, into child protective services for

their well-being. lot of people talk being this story this morning. a former auburn basketball player revealing that she faked her own kidnapping back in 2008 to escape the college's intense training schedule. listen to this. >> i didn't want to disappoint my parents. i thought what better way to say that's kidnapped. that way i wouldn't have to quit and be known as a quitter. >> she says two months of intense training at the university drove her to binge drink and that she then disappeared. she was later found at a wal-mart actually. she said she was abducted by a man and a woman in a truck. she was just drinking at wal-mart miles away from the college for 18 hours straight. she is still trying to get back on her feet, she says. his goose was almost cooked, but thanks to rescue crews, the goose will make it. this happening in nashville, tennessee. the goose's belly became frozen

in the pond. crews used a kayak to get close enough to it and used a hammer to break up the ice. they brought the goose to shore and warmed him up. he's expected to be just fine. you ever try to feed them? >> you just did a story about what a nice guy, what a nice guy. and then what a nasty animal? what's the matter with you? >> you don't try to feed them. they come and take your snacks. >> they attack you. >> by the way, we're just about out of geese. that was one of the last ones we have left. very rare to see a white goose. >> we're going to get nasty e-mails -- >> no, no. just you. >> thank you, mother goose. >> their droppings -- >> very kind animals. >> not going to help. >> for more on this, let's go out to maria. you're anti-goose as well, right? >> i am anti-dropping of goose. so i agree 100% with elisabeth.

let's take a look at those current wind chill temperatures because we have some chilly ones again in place across parts of the midwest and also into portions of the great lakes. take a look at chicago. your current wind chill when you head out is 10 below zero. that's cold. when you keep in mind that to begin the week your high temperature on monday was 10 bee low zero for your actual temperature, this will feel much better. across the northeast, you're looking better. parts of texas, feeling like the 50s for some across southern parts of that state. otherwise high temperatures are going to make it into the 30s for new york city. just above freezing. 26 for your high temperature. in chicago, 19 over in minneapolis. we are going to continue to see things warming up across the east. i want to show you raleigh because to kick off the week, you actually were looking at temperatures in the single digits and by saturday, your highs could reach the 70s. this is going to be producing some issues in the northeast. we still do have snow on the ground, rapid melting will be a

concern, ice jamming on rivers is something else to keep an eye on. we're also expecting some rain along the east over the weekend. otherwise the storm across portions of arkansas, in missouri producing freezing rain early this morning. winter weather advisories in place. now let's head over to brian. >> you want to warm up? let's talk baseball. hot stove. cooperstown, no new class last year. nobody was worthy of going to the hall of fame. now we got three players going. the votes just came in. former braves pitcher greg mad did you say, no doubt. 355 wins. best pitcher i've ever seen. eight all-star appearances and a world series title. tom glavine, yes, same staff winning the world series in 1995. ten time all star. two cy youngs, 305 career wins. this i found surprising going in the first ballot. white sox slugger frank thomas, 521 homeruns. many much those came as a dh, two-time mvp. the big hurt goes in on the first time.

the ceremony will take place in july. here is the bigger story. players tainted with steroid allegations, the all-time homerun leader, at one time the single season homerun leader and one of the greatest pitchers of this generation, roger clemens, barry bonds and mark mcguire, all saw their voting percentages drop. so the writers are speaking out. you do steroids, i don't care about your numbers, you won't be going on their vote. i get to see my mom is the quote. those are the first words from a vietnam veteran. darryl waltrip presents him with a brand-new van. charlie harvey won first prize in operation independence star spangled salute contest. his name was pulled from 850 disabled vets. they donate add 2013 the special access chair and van for his transportation. finally, lebron james has a

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but he did not get the death penalty ultimately, thanks in part to the legal help from this man, former naacp lawyer. the same man president obama has just nominated to head the civil rights division at the department of justice. is a man who defended a cop killer really qualified for that job in the department of justice? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. has been looking into it. what do you think? >> that's a burning question and i've gotten some e maims on that already. there is two issues. let's break it down. is he qualified as a lawyer? yes. is he qualified by experience and training? nyu law school, connecticut, college, argued in the supreme court twice. yes. but is it a political position? yes. what kind of political decisions will he make? fraternal order of police says that it is unacceptable that he defended a convicted cop killer, a man who shot five or six times

a philadelphia police officer, mr. faulkner, back in 1981, executed him on the street. it's been up and down the state and federal courts, even to the supreme court with his assistance. a loft people are saying, no, he's not qualified. he made the wrong choices in terms of who he's defended, even though everyone is entitled to a defense in this country, and he should not be appointed to the top civil rights position. >> you know what? he was in a senate hearing, the confirmation hearing yesterday. here he is defending himself, saying he should get the job. >> it was about the legal process and it was years after the conviction had been entered by the lower court. several federal courts found that the jury had not been properly instructed and there was in fact a constitutional violation. it was on that basis that the death sentence was thrown out and he was resentenced to life without parole. >> so there he is defending himself yesterday in a

confirmation hearing. the guy we're talking about, the convicted cop killer, a number of people heard him confess to killing the cop! >> correct. correct. and it's a reasonable position for a lawyer to say listen, everyone is entitled to a defense. as a lawyer, i agree with that. would i represent that cop killer? no. i've represented the families of police officers who have died and police officers who are disabled, so i wouldn't. but the issue becomes, when you're appoints to do a government position that it is inherently political, he will make decisions about which cases to take on and which cases not to take on. he's also upset a lot of people in this country with regard to his position on the voting rights act and a lot of people in this country are concerned that the president, through this appointment, is going to overturn the united states supreme court decision that said don't hassle the states. if they want to enforce voter fraud laws or pass voter fraud

laws, you can not seek governmental control of that by the federal government first. so on the cop killing issue, on the voter fraud issue, on affirmative action issues, there is a lot of people in the united states who are saying this will be an activist assistant attorney general who will be enforcing the will and dictate of the president in a way that they don't view the constitution at all. this will be an interesting fight as it goes forward. there will be a committee vote and we will see what happens. but this is an extremely controversial and difficult appointment of a qualified lawyer, but is he qualified for this position? a lot of americans are upset about this. especially the fraternal order of police and the widow of officer faulkner. i think they have a right to be concerned at this point. >> all right. will the guy get the job? we will keep track of it. thank you very much. >> good to see you. coming up, so many of you are commenting on what the

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flood gates are open at the white house. the administration is going to defend and select everything coming to biden's way. we heard from robert gates' book, there was major information coming out there. this is what robert gates had to say about the vice president. quote, i think he has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy

nationally. national security issue over the past four decades. 40 years of wrongness there alleged by former secretary of defense there about the vice president. the white house was quick to defend. >> yeah. they were quick to defend not everybody. in the national security spokesperson, hayden, responded by saying the obama administration welcomes differences of view among the national security team. but defended vice president biden. defended him by saying the president disagrees with secretary gates' assessment, his leadership on the balkans, in his efforts to ends the war in iraq. he has been one of the leading statesmen of his time and help advanced america's leadership in the world. >> yeah. and yesterday at his press briefing, jay carney knew he was going to get pummeled with the questions about this. in fact, he started the briefing by walking out saying, hey, guys. read any good books lately? everybody was talking about gates' gate. it was jay carney's job, he's a

professional spinner. he's paid to prop up joe biden and the president and that's what he does his best in this 28 second sound bite. >> he's played a key role in every major national security and foreign policy debate and policy discussion in this administration, in this white house. he played important roles obviously in the policy discussions and carrying out of the policy decisions that the president made with regards to iraq and in the policy deliberations over afghanistan. >> he says he played important roles, but was he right? >> brit hume yesterday actually was breaking it down. he said this in a sensible way. take a listen. >> for all the good in the man, there is a lot of good in joe biden, he really was wrong about a lot of things. go back to the 1980s. he was wrong about -- he wanted

to keep the persian and crews missiles out to support the nuclear freeze. he was opposed to the gulf war. when the second gulf war came around, he voted for that. when the surge came along, he was against that. the list goes on, up into this administration when the president was about to send the troops on the raid to kill bin laden, he was opposed to that. so it's striking that they would defend him so vigorously when he has clearly been wrong so very often. >> i said it before, i just don't get it. out of everything they went after the president's leadership, the staff, about them going out of line, breaking the chain of command, out of everything in the book to defend and get defensive on, i cannot believe the vice president is the stake in the ground. he's bringing more attention to the slings and arrows that are going his way. yesterday the former chief of staff said he was surprised and called it a disservice for gates to publish the book while the president was still in office. david axelrod would say he's surprised about the book.

look for the administration to have a full offensive, as they are just now reading it. one person is reading it and now they're going to decide how to go out against it. >> apparently jay carney got the book on tuesday night, they handed it to somebody. they read it overnight. yesterday morning when people walked into work at the white house, there were excerpts and certain people got complete chapters so that they would know what was going on even though jay carney said, no, i haven't really read it yet. >> they're throwing it at biden, maybe this is part of the strategy. focus on that and he'll take the hit perhaps in the mind of many. coming up, a principal said she was fired for protecting kids from humiliation. she fought against a policy requiring kids to get their hands stamped if they don't have the money for school lunch. we have both sides of this very controversial story coming up. and looking to buy a home this year? the rules are changing. but don't worry. bob massi is on deck with everything you need to know and he looks like that.

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good morning. it's thursday, january 9. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. panic at the white house. the administration on damage control defending joe biden against claims by former defense secretary robert gates. do they have a case? senator marco rubio on that. always wrong? meanwhile, the president says he's committed to the mission in afghanistan. so why hasn't he met with president karzai since the last summer? ed henry had an exchange with jay carney, you're not going to want to miss that. >> it's no joke, ellen degeneres is a very funny person. >> someone told me i was going to win 14 people's choice

awards, i mean 12, yes. 13 maybe. but 14? >> the other big winners from last night's people's choice awards are coming your way because "fox & friends" final hour starts now, float our pictures. >> good morning, "fox & friends" >> "fox & friends," good morning. >> you're listening to our call center down in the basement. we used to take calls all the time. now it's so much more efficient. you're following us on facebook and twitter and e-mail. >> you can write us individually about the other two. >> you could. >> you could. >> should we keep a secret? >> it's all public. so we could all look at all that stuff. >> oh, really? >> unless it's a direct tweet. i think the beauty of social messaging is not everyone gets it, so sometimes you're broadcasting to everyone when you think it's private and sometimes you're not. >> you think you're directly sending someone a message.

>> what happened to anthony wiener? bob gates got a book that will be coming out next tuesday. he is the former secretary of defense for bush w. and also president obama. he also worked for the c.i.a. his new book "duty," bombshell allegations, among other things. the president ordered troops to afghanistan despite not believing that the mission would work out. also he said that he's quoted as -- >> this is the most damning quote. >> he thought that hamid karzai -- take a look. the president doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him, it's ball getting out -- all about getting out. regarding karzai, he couldn't stand the guy. >> right. so you hear this, which is in the book, and you understand that lives are at risk here. we're talking afghanistan. we're talking a president which we would hope has some

communication. get on twitter, maybe something. and in his defense, ed henry had interesting questions for jay carney on whether these leaders have actually communicated. >> because, for a very good reason. we're either going to pull out or talk about a residual force by the year's end. >> yes. >> now i've seen this movie before. we suddenly can't come up with a deal, like with iraq. we suddenly decide it's not a good idea to keep any of our troops because the leadership over there wants to be on their own. so we had no choice. that's exactly the script we had last time as president obama never picked up the phone and talked to al-maliki and never helped out when they had -- while they were at logger heads to the election. now we're looking at hamid karzai and the president not speaking. just like with iraq. >> this is the same distance that was alluded to in the book that we've been discussing. listen to this exchange. >> you stressed the president's

commitment to the mission in afghanistan. senators graham and mccain came back from afghanistan, they spoke to president karzai. they claim that president obama has not spoken to president karzai since june or july. how did -- the two leaders, if he's committed to the mission, how could the two leaders, as you're negotiating a status of forces agreement, how could the two leaders not talk in months? >> when did we go to south africa? i was in the -- i was physically in the presence of both presidents when they exchanged greetings. >> they had a substantive discussion? >> president and president karzai have had discussions in the past. there is not a lot of mystery about our views on this document that was negotiated in good faith and the need to sign it on the part of the afghan government. so we have a robust and constant communication with the afghan government, both from washington

and from our embassy in kabul, as well as through our military commanders. >> when was the last time the president spoke to the lead u.s. commander in afghanistan? >> i'll have to take a question -- >> we're in a war right now and you don't know the last time he spoke to the commanding general? >> i'll have to take the question. thank you. >> stunning. >> there is something about a president talking to another president no matter how big or small the country is, things get done or they don't get done. you need that one on one time. is that how senator marco rubio feels? let's ask him. he joins us now from washington. senator, as we get these revelations about the president and his leadership style from his former secretary of defense, do you think he could accomplish more if he picked up the phone and talked to a leader like karzai? >> first of all, thank you for having me on and happy new year. i think it's revealing because i think it gives us a lot of insight into why this white house lacks the strategic foreign and a clear view of ha they're trying to accomplish. particularly damning was this notion that the president didn't see afghanistan as his war and really was just looking for a

way out of it, didn't even believe in his own strategy. i think that's reflective and the results we've gotten out of this. as far as not talking to president karzai, look, i'm not telling you that president karzai is the most -- easiest person to work with here and i think they're making some unreasonable requests on the afghan side from president karzai. that being said, i do think it's concerning that the president has not engaged personally more often on an issue of such magnitude. >> you have read excerpts of the gates book called "duty." what's the headline for you? >> i haven't read even the excerpts. i've just seen the media reports. i think the headline is that there is a confirmation here that the president, in terms of making foreign policy decisions from a strategic points of view has little trust in military commanders and is looking to disengage the united states from the world as much as possible. the afghan war, which is the one he campaigned on, by the way, successfully completing, at least according to former secretary gates, he didn't believe in that war. as a result, i think you've seen that from the minute that we engaged in a surge, we started talking about getting out.

i think that sent a message to the taliban that all they had to do was wait us out. >> senator, the president -- shifting gears here. unemployment benefits and their extension on the table here. he says -- listen to this -- that they create jobs. >> well, then they wouldn't be long-term unemployed. that doesn't make any sense. obviously there is a utility to long-term unemployment benefits. you're trying to help people that cannot find a job deal with the cost of daily living. but the only solution to long-term unemployment is employment. and so i want us to make reforms to that program that don't just give people a check, but give them access to training so they can become employed again. long-term unemployment is a problem. it's usually by people who don't have the skills to access jobs that may be available. we have to help them bridge that gap. all we're doing now is continuing the same broken program. some states, like utah, mississippi, kentucky, have made those kinds of reforms and have had tremendous success.

>> let's just move to something else you're talking about and kind of leading the way. the president's talking about promise zones and the war on poverty. he's going to informalize it on the state of the union address. you have your own war on poverty. you have a different approach to it. what is it? >> the president's focused on income inequality. the difference between the rich and the poor and the gap that's grown. that's the wrong focus. it doesn't give you a complete picture. the issue is not whether the cashier at burger king makes less than the ceo. the issue is whether that cashier gets stuck being a cashier for five, ten, 15, 20 years and can't move up. that's what we should be focused on. the fact that many people are not getting ahead and there is a loft different factors behind that. my proposal was this, the current government programs that are designed to address poverty, they help alleviate some of the pain of poverty, but they do not help people emerge from it. they do not help people rise above it. we've got to deal with that and with opportunity inequality, not just income inequality. the president has the wrong

focus. we should turn these programs over to states so that they can come up with innovations about how to deal with this. that's really where i think we'll get the innovation, like we did with welfare reform in the '90s. >> regarding income inequality, and we heard a bust of this out of nowhere in the last week or two because it looks like that's going to be the focus of the people across the aisle, democrats, there in washington because they think this is something they can win with in november. meanwhile, your side says, let's keep reminding people about obamacare. this has been a gigantic mess and they should be held accountable. is that accurate? >> i think they desperately are looking for ways to change the conversation away from obamacare. they will not be able to do that because everyday people are dealing with everyday consequences of obamacare. so it's just happening in the real world. there is no way to avoid it. i do think the issue of opportunity inequality is a real issue in america and it's something we need to gap. income inequality may give us an opportunity to talk about what the real problem is. but if the president's proposal

for dealing with this problem is raising the minimum wage and taxing rich people, that's a solution to what he called the defining issue of our time? that's not a solution. that's the same tired, stale rhetoric and policies that have failed for 50 years. >> you have something out there and it's in detail and it's out on your web site to talk about the conservative approach to poverty and inequality. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> it is now ten minutes after the top of the hour. heather nauert has been working for hours on the headlines and she has compiled a thorough report. >> good morning to you. a lot going on. 911 calls have just been released revealing the moments before a mini van sped off the highway in california, leaving six people hurt and a 90-year-old woman dead. listen. >> we need help. >> where are you at? >> coming off of 80, on the side road. we lost our brakes and there is eight of us in a van. >> are you going westbound? >> i don't know!

>> okay. hang on one second. >> that mini van then crashed into another car before it went down an embankment and burst into flames. investigators are now trying to figure out why the brakes apparently failed. is the obama administration going to curtail spying on foreign leaders? the white house expected to announce next week that the government will provide more oversight of nsa surveillance programs. one of those announce ams could include restrictions on spying on foreign leaders. we'll keep you posted on that. some of the biggest stars came out for the 40th annual people's choice awards. sandra bullock the big winner, taking home four trophies. and after three previous nomination, britney spears walked away very carefully with her first award. also making awards show history was ellen degeneres, named favorite daytime host, picking up the most wins for a woman. listen to this. >> 14. this is incredible. i mean really. as a young girl growing up in new orleans, if anyone told me i was going to win 14 people's

choice awards -- i mean, 12, yes. 13 maybe. but 14. just yesterday i was talking to this lovely african-american woman and she told me she was single and she works 80 hours a week to get by and she looked forward to coming home every single night and watching me and that woman's name is oprah winfrey. >> very funny. how did the big winners celebrate? look at this. this is justin timberlake. he went to taco bell and he posed for this picture after he took home three awards. those are your headlines. >> 12 minutes after the hour. coming up, if you're looking to buy a house or a home right now, the rules are changing. our man in real estate and law, bob massi, next with everything you need to know. then congresswoman sheila jackson lee wants to ditch the word "welfare." >> maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of a

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are you looking to buy a home? this year the rules are changing. fox news legal analyst bob massi is here to break them down for us. good morning, bob. >> good morning, elisabeth. >> so fill us in here. some new rules, fha, their

financing limits, what are the new changes and how are we affected? >> yeah. it's really -- fha, again for our viewers, they just insure the loan. so they're the ones that insure the loans and we pay for it. we pay premiums for that insurance. fha has lowered the limits. for example, in clark county, nevada, it's now $287,000. so in other words, if you buy home up to $287,000, they will insure that. that lowered the limit from 400,000. it varies from state to state and county to county based on the median size homes and the values in that area. that basically impacts a prospective homeowner having the ability to buy a home. >> sure. depending on where they live especially. so how is this going to impact across america and state to state? is this basically equalizer? >> well, look, it's going to force people to go to a conventional loan, which you could do a 5% conventional loan

and obviously you could -- in the old days -- excuse me, i don't know why that's happening. >> that's brian kilmeade calling you right now. >> why wouldn't i be surprised that would happen? i apologize for that. but the bottom line is, what's going to happen is more people are going to go conventional. 5% down or 20% down. here is the thing, about a year ago i talked about how with an fm a loan, now the insurance is for the life of the loan. so it will force more people to go conventional, which is okay. but in addition to that, i think what we're going to be dealing with is the private sector is going to get back in action. wall street. they're going to get back in action on lending money to people in america. >> other options for the homeowner, what are they looking at here? >> well, i think first of all, i cannot tell homeowners more than ever before, they really need to study the loans that are out there. they got to go to a good learnedder -- lender and good

mortgage broker and have them explain look, in is how much money i have. this is how much money i believe i could put into the home. what's the best loan for me? it's very, very important to understand the nature of the loan that you have. but understand that the feds cannot handle all the loans anymore. they can't do 90%. they want the private sector to get back in action again even though there is a lot of nightmares from that. but wall street is going to look at it and say we want 15, 20% down on these loans. not any more stated income like there was years ago. and i bring this to the attention of our viewers today because fha moves this around quite a bit. when george bush was in office, he set it at 400,000 national. that's the way it was. it's vacillated now. so homeowners in america, those of you who are going to buy, study this and understand what the consequences are going to be and understand the nature of the loan that you're taking out. >> great message. bob massi, thank you. good morning. we're glad you're with us with that advice for all. >> tell brian i hope he left me

a nice message. >> i don't think he does that. >> thank you. >> we want you to e-mail bob your questions at www.foxandfriends.com. just look for this, quote, rebuilding dreams section at the bottom of our page. coming up, governor chris christie hit by scandal? did his staff really shut down one of the nation's busiest bridges for political pay back? what the governor is saying this morning. and he picked every sunday. who does he pick to win this weekend's playoffs? he's joining us live, walking in right now [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of.

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celebrity gas bag! >> we're a hoot! >> yeah, us! us! us! ♪ that's a super bowl in new york york ♪ new york! >> joining us now, celebrity gas bag, rob rigells. >> great season on fox nfl sunday. >> thank you. >> they embraced you. >> they brought me in. the first year was a little, you know, stand-offish. but this year we're all good. >> i thought it was really good. first, standing in front of new york in met life stadium, do you think new york is ready? >> they're ready for anything. i lived there for ten years. i know new york very well. yeah. it's going to be a blast. the city is going -- it's going to be interesting. >> the problem with -- what we just saw, talking about new york -- >> emergency. yeah, i know.

>> governor kristy walked in and said hey, rob, the super bowl is in jersey. >> were there any lane closures there? >> bada bing. >> i got something going on about the lane closing down there. >> yeah. evidently. >> by the way, i did think you said colt super bowl -- >> no, i did not say colt super bowl! >> you are a chiefs fan. the colts reached out and ripped my heart out. i blame them. i do blame them. it wasn't the chiefs' fault at all. >> where is the accountability? come on. >> they did everything right technically. i think it was some sort of referee problem. i don't know. >> no way. >> the whole blame game. i know you can't pick the playoffs this week. could i ask you this, what intrigued you most about this week? you want to pass on that question?

>> no. i want to see what the chargers can do. a lot of teams come into the playoffs and they're peek at the right time. it seems like the chargers are that team. if they can get past manning and the broncos, there is no stopping them. i think they go all the way. >> manning in the playoffs is something to be reckoned with, i think. >> oh, yeah. this is his year. >> if we can get past the bouncer, we could wind up at the bud lite party because you're the official bud lite party afish i -- afficionado. >> the bud lite takes over a hotel in whatever the host city is. they have decided to bring their own hotel. a cruise ship is coming in, park it right next to the intrepid. >> that's awesome! >> i know. 4,000 people will be on the ship. it's going to be a huge nonstop party. starting thursday night, friday night, saturday night, leaderring up to the super bowl. concerts. you got the roots. you got zach brown band.

>> how do we get tickets to this thing? >> go to budlitehotel.com. go there and get information. also a fan zone application you can go to and get on it there. your little whiz ding thing. but yeah, go there and there is a chance you could win the lucky key. you can actually get tickets to the game and you can get into the parties. >> i'm going to call it a flotel. throwing it out there. >> i like that. >> what is it about you and the way you approach your profession that they said, this is the party guy i got to go with? i got to go rigell. >> it's either they look at me and go responsible drinking, rigell. >> yeah right. >> yeah. >> what's next? >> i don't think that was it. i think they just said this guys knows how to party and we want to get in business with him. >> thousands of people will, with you, at the bud lite hotel. >> i know why i'm going to be. at pier 88 having a good to be g

concerts. it will be a really found time. four nights in a row of nonstop parties. >> the super bowl is on fox, do you know this year? >> yeah. fox nfl has the super bowl. it will be a blast. everybody will be out here. i'll be on the side lines. >> doing some reporting or laughs? >> i wouldn't call it reporting. i'm not qualified. just commenting how silly people look. >> you might have the hats with the two straws. >> yes. >> and rather scary hot. >> i think the first time i became aware of you, the daley show and you served in the military. >> that's right. >> what are you wearing on your shirt? >> this is the boot campaign, which is a grassroots organization created by some women in texas to help veteran high school they get back home. >> it's a great foundation. >> yeah. >> rob, have fun. >> i will. i'm going to see you guys, right? >> are we invited? >> of course you're invited.

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we are back with a fox news business alert. labor department releasing brand-new weekly jobless numbers. 330,000 first-time unemployment claims were filed last week. that's less than the experts expected and 9,000 fewer than last week. >> they will have analysis of that throughout the day. we turn to heather nauert who has been settling the said lines. >> remember we talked about manmade disasters, and how that was the politically correct term? >> and cause. >> man caused disasters. there is a new one that's being talked about right now. it's about welfare. could the word welfare be too controversial? one democrat member of congress

thinks that she may have a better term. listen to this. >> maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of a transitional living fund. for that is what it is, for people to be able to live. >> congresswoman sheila jackson lee says programs like welfare help raise the standard of living for all americans and says sometimes americans just need help. the house is in the middle of looking at plans to address unemployment benefits. we'll keep watching this one. networks landed some people in hot water, but got one massachusetts guy arrested. listen to this. he was issued an arrest warrant after an ex-girlfriend said he violated her restraining order by sending her a request on google plus. he says the request was sent automatically by google and not by him. he's now out on bail. your miracle weight loss products may not live up to the hype. the ftc is now charging these companyies with deceptive

advertising practices related to their products. each company is shelling out tens of millions of dollars because apparently the science behind their products is simply not there. just three weight loss drugs are currently approved by the f.d.a. this elementary school principal is fighting to get her job back. she claims the colorado charter school that she worked for canned her after she complained about its policy that required students to get their hands stamped if they didn't have enough money for school lunch on their school lunch tickets. she said, quote, the students felt humiliated, like they had done something wrong. they didn't want to go into the lunchroom anymore. it's unethical and disrespectful. when asked about her allegations, the board of directorses said that the school does not condone or tolerate unlawful retaliation. this is a story a lot of people are talking about. pretty controversial. we're continuing to watch it. >> thank you very much. that story getting many of

you fired up on facebook. here are some of your comments. alicia said absolutely she did the right thing. why should children be humiliated over something they have no control over? >> danielle said this, why do they need a stamp? in our school, the kids have cards that are coded whether they pay or have free or reduced lunches. no one knows. everyone is happy. >> andrea writes, you shouldn't be labeled for how much money you have in your pocket. so wrong. what do you think? e-mail us, or facebook us or tweet us. >> let's go out to maria now with the latest on the weather. >> not bad here in new york city. currently feels like 22 degrees. after you have wind chills below zero, it feels like a significant warm-up across portions of the northeast. we're expecting the warm-up to continue over the next several days. here is a look at some of the other current wind chill temperatures across the country. in chicago, feels like zero. in minneapolis, it feels like 10

below zero. still chilly out there. that warm-up expected to continue into the next several days. your highs today in new york, expected to climb into the 30s and across the southeast in atlanta, you'll make it into the 40s coming up later this afternoon. in the east, the warm-up is going to be quite significant, like in the city of raleigh, north carolina. by saturday, you're expected to be up into the 70s. this could produce an issue across portions of the northeast in terms of some flooding. we're expecting rain, a lot of snow melt and possibly ice jams. keep that in mind. otherwise freezing rainfalling now across portions of arkansas. advisories are in effect. let's head over to brian. >> 22 minutes before the top of the hour now. the white house doing major damage control after former defense secretary robert gates' memoir revealed president obama's lack of commitment to the war in afghanistan. it's disturbing news for military families, like the ones we're about to be joined by. billy and karen vaughn who lost their son when his chopper was

shot down over afghanistan. they're author of the book "betrayed" and are our guests this morning. we thought of you right away because you were kind enough to join us before to talk about your son's death and the investigation of the chopper attack in 2011. that's one thing aside. when gates comes out and says the president wasn't committed to his own war plan that he campaigned on, what's your reaction, billy? >> it's outraging to families and to war fighters on the ground that their commander in chief does not have their back when he sends them into harm's way. i just want to point out, brian, that there is, according to congress, going to be an investigation early on in 2014. but we've received word from the inside that they're not going to talk about the foreign policies of this administration. this is exactly what needs to be talked about. american citizens and families of war fighters need to cry out to congress. he needs to be investigated for his foreign policies and the way

he wages war or refuses to wage war with american men and women on the ground. >> karen, he went on to say, according to gates, that president remains uncomfortsable with the inherited wars and disat this trustful of the military that is providing him options. your reaction? >> it comes straight from the mouth of my son who is now deceased, as you mentioned. aaron's reaction was don't you ever tell me you support the war fighter when you don't support the war. that's the biggest slap in the face that you can place on a war fighter because what you're saying is you've dedicated your life, young man or young woman, to this nation, to fight for this nation. your commander in chief is going to place you in circumstances where you need to defend this nation and then for anybody to say they don't believe in what you've been told to do is saying they don't believe in you. bar none. and to have the commander in chief say that is probably the biggest slap in the face a war fighter could ever experience. if you don't believe in the war,

you don't believe in the war fighter. >> billy -- >> it's a cruel thing to say. >> the president campaigned on afghanistan being the good war. he got his military people together and said this is going to be the surge. 42,000 troops. this is what we're going to do. now we find out that he never believed you could be successful. does that trickle down to the men and women who fight this war? >> well, let me just say, again back to aaron, aaron said, dad, president bush always had our back. he did not say this about this president. these war fighters know how their commander in chief feels and yes, it does trickle down to the men and women when they're not allowed to do their job, when they're not given the equipment to fight with. let me just say that up until 2009, all the years that we were in afghanistan, it took that long to reach the first 1,000 american deaths in afghanistan. from 2009 in the next 27 months after president obama

implemented the strategy in afghanistan, we reached the second 1,000 deaths of american deaths in the next 27 months. that says something about the strategy. that says something about winning the hearts and minds strategy and also as you pointed out, this president never intended to win this war. he has made that clear. and look at iraq. look what's happened in iraq. look at the blood and the treasure that was spent in iraq and look where we are. same thing in afghanistan. >> great points. karen, i know exactly where you and your husband are going to go when that book comes out, to the chapter about bin laden's death and the deal that they made not to talk in detail about how he was killed and to find out within minutes people were talking about seal team six essentially putting a target on your son's back. he would eventually die in that chopper crash. what's going to be your focus there? >> yeah. we do want to see what he has to say about that. but let me just say that i will give robert gates credit for coming out right after biden leaks that it was the navy seals and right after all that information came out that did put a target on our son's back

and on the families' back, by the way as we were told. but i do want to say to mr. gates, why didn't you come out then? why didn't you come out with all of this information then? billy and i have been looking for two years for one military, one high ranking leader to just come out and say what's going on in this administration because the cost of staying silent is lives. what i plan to do is go home and calculate how many men have died since mr. gates left that post and i'm not trying to be hard on him. i appreciate the things he did say and the way he did address joe biden's quote, gaffes. but i do want to know when is somebody going to step up inside this administration and shout from the mountain tops what's going on right now that is getting our young men and women killed. not to mention all the thousands that are being injured. >> thousands. thanks so much. that is one of the biggest criticisms with mr. gates, with all his experience and not needing a job, why didn't he

speak up when he had the job? thank you for joining us. we'll read the book. thanks again for your sacrifice and for what aaron did for this country. we'll pick up your book. >> thanks. >> tell us what's next. sacrifice indeed. in other news, a traffic nightmare everybody is talking about. did chris christie's staff really shut down one of the nation's busiest bridges for political payback? >> the governor telling his side of the story coming up as we roll on live from new york city. ♪ ♪ too big.

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new jersey governor chris christie set to face the cameras for the first time today over a major traffic scandal. did his staff close one of the busiest bridges in the world for

political payback? wnyw reporter lydia is live in fort lee, in new jersey with the very latest. good morning. what are we learning as of late? >> reporter: good morning to you. that's right. governor christie will be holding a news conference at 11:00 o'clock this morning. he had a press event yesterday and canceled it just a half hour before it was scheduled to begin when the scandal broke. where i am right now, this is at the george washington bridge. i want to show you this. you see these three lanes right here. two of them were shut down in september for four days. you could see there is already traffic here and there are no lane closures. can you just imagine how bad it was for those four days, literally people were stuck out here for hours and hours. we're talking school buses, emergency vehicles. this entire area where we are here in the town of fort lee was basically a parking lot. now we're also learning that a senior state senator says he will formally ask federal

prosecutors to investigate. these e-mails are pretty damaging, according to what's going on is christie's top aide actually e-mailed a port authority official asking him to shut down the lanes here at the george washington bridge and that port authority official actually went to high school with christie, so pretty scathing allegations here right now. of course, we will be at that news conference and will bring you the latest details. that's the latest here in. back to you in the studio. >> thank you for those updates. we certainly will be there and bring that to you at 11:00 a.m. here at fox news. coming up, president obama is fighting to close the income gap, but john stossel says we need an income gap. he joins us next to explain why we need that. walking in now. first, we'll check in with martha mccallum for what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> good morning. so the president promised to get to the bottom of the irs

scandal. but wait 'til you hear who he's appointed to take it on and why darrell issa says the investigation is now essentially ruined. bret baier will join us coming up on the chris christie news conference coming up this morning and the president makes another promise, but will he be able to keep it? steve forbes joins us on that. we'll see you at the top of the hour. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's ened, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former miliry members and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an au insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve.

this is a fox news alert out of afghanistan. moments ago, a spokesperson for president hamid karzai announcing that country will release 72 prisoners accused of willing -- killing or wounding u.s. and coalition troops. the reason? they don't have enough evidence to prosecute them. the move bound to cause controversy today with

u.s.-afghany near ago breaking point. we will keep you posted on that. >> it was 50 years ago that president johnson declared a war on poverty in the state of the union address and trillions of dollars in federal spending later, president obama remains focused on closing the growing gap between the rich and the poor. >> the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. >> actually cost trillions. >> so for 50 years, they spent trillions of dollars and now they want to spend more. john stossel, the host of "stossel." good morning to you. >> right. we want to reduce the difference, but this doesn't work. and for five years, it did work. they lifted people out of poverty, then progress just stopped. >> why? >> because they taught people to be dependent. they taught women better not have a man in your house because you'll get more money if there is no guy there. so people adjusted their

behavior. and now they want more handout. what didn't work, the handouts they want to do more of. and my point is that you're going to get income inequality when people are free. some people will do much better than others and that's okay because under that system, the poor do better, too. >> are you saying that that gap is important, necessary? >> it's just going to happen. i don't think it's necessary and it makes me uncomfortable that so people are absurdly rich when others suffer. but the remedies are always worse. it's interesting, you talk to people on the street, they don't mind that beyonce and robert downey, junior make $50 million. >> did you just talk to people on the street? >> they hate the ceo's, but we ask them about celebrities. tiger woods making $70 million, do they mind? >> do you mind that they make millions of dollars? >> no. i just like watching them. >> they have a talent and use it and they get paid for it. >> do is it bother that you tiger woods made $78 million last year?

>> it doesn't bother me. if he can make it, he needs to make it. >> that's real income inequality. >> but the ceo's, when i asked, oh, yeah. that's unfair, because they don't understand what the business people do. you can understand what tiger woods does. >> we understand you're going to be talk being this tonight on "fox business" network. >> we'll try to approach income inequality from a number of direction. >> so join john tonight at 9 eastern. >> always interesting. more "fox & friends" coming up moments away. ♪ ♪ welcome back. how is everything? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order.

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tomorrow's show will be exciting. billy baldwin, the first baldwin since i was globe off by alec last year. and marcus latrell will be with us. >> that is a big show. log on to www.foxandfriends.com for our after the show show. bye.