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pat's granddaughter, showing her dog -- >> in the westminster. >> good luck. i feel like we all have personal news. you all were together when the beatles game, and you looked the same. >> bottom line. tonight on huckabee -- >> citizens just like me are being targeted by an administration willing to take any action necessary to silence opposition. >> the president denies it. >> not even a smidgen of corruption. >> but e-mails suggest the irs crackdown on conservatives waw orchestrated from the top. the attorney for some of the targeted groups joins the governor. and -- >> a song nominated for an oscar suddenly dropped. was it singled out for its christian message? the singer, johnny eriksson, in a huckabee exclusive. >> plus, why are more and more
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democrats keeping their distance from the president? ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. thank you. thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. i want to tell you something. i have been to a lot of places this week. earlier in the week, i spoke to a large nonprofit group in carney, nebraska. then i met with people in my own home church, part of the group going with me to israel in the upcoming weeks, i participated in a copference call. i spoke to the salina chamburse of commerce and addressed severaliritual leaders in carolina, and i have talked to leaders who have been
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harassed by the government in ways nothing short of political persecution. i have met several thousand people throughout the country, and i have come to the conclusion something is troubling to people, doesn't matter where they live. a lot of americans are genuinely concerned about their country. and many expressed an outright fear of their own government. now, in a government of the people by the people and for the people, there should never be a time when those people are afraid of their government. no, the government needs to be afraid of them. yeah. when people talk about the dangers of big government, most fail to explain why it's a problem. so let me try. when government is so big that it strikes fear in the people, it's simply too big. it means too much power has been kaun concentrated in too few, and a government that can frighten its citizens to a desires behavior
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or silence is corrupt. the fear that it might centralizing its power at the national level, so they intrekzally constructed it to be limited and local in nature, and to insure that there was no misunderstanding that the federal government was to be kept limited to just a few matters, such as protecting our borders and defending against military invasions and facilitating free commerce. they even amended the constitution to include the tenth amendment, and that solidified that anything that wads not specifically spelled out in the constitution, well, it was supposed to be left to the states to decide. by the way, democrats and republicans alike have acted with reckless disregard to this doctrine. and the result is a government so big that people really are afraid of it. a government that can destroy a person's livelihood by regulation so expensive to keep that staying in business isn't practical. a government that can and does
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spy on its citizens and monitor e-mails and phone calls and our whereabouts. a government that will use military-like force and battering rams to swoop in with weapons drawn on the unarmed workers at a guitar company because they suspected them of using the wrong kind of wood for the guitars. a government that can target a public official and ruin his or her life with indictments, accusations, and then leaked evidence to the media. and even if the charges are later dropped, that official is ruined. not only politically but sometimes financially. a government so big that it can openly lie to us about how or why four americans were murdered in a state department compound. a government that can attempt to crush a group of nuns whose sole purpose is to help poor elderly people, and a government that will use its power of its nonelected bureaucracies like the irs to crush political opponents. we must boldly declare as
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citizens we've had enough. we need to systematically begin the process to dismantle this gar gagantuan monster of power return it to the cities, the counties, and ultimately the families of america. the abuse of power must stop. we the people should not be afraid of our government. my friend, the government needs to be afraid of us. well, on super bowl sunday, the president told fox's bill o'reilly there's not even a smidgen of corruption when it comes to the irs targeting of krefrbative groups, but newly released e-mails shows lois lerner conspired with the treasury department to change rules to allow regulations that would place restrictions on
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conservative nonprofits. meantime, the department of justice attorney in charge of investigating the scandal, barbara boxerman, well, she's contributed nearly $7,000 to obama campaigns over the last ten years. on thursday, katherine ing inglebret, who appears on the show twice and become the face of the irs targeting scandal testified before the house reform subcommittee on regulatory affairs where she took questions from jim jordan. >> in your first 20 years of business, did they audit you? >> no, sir. >> then after? >> many times. >> in the first 20 years, did the fbi visit you? >> no, but once you filed the applicati application, they visited you? >> six times. >> but they want you to believe it's aquence dns? >> i'm joined now. it's a pleask on the show. thanks for being here to help
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put some light on this. >> thank you. >> amazing story. cleata, i want to begin with this. president obama made this statement, that there's not a smidgen of evidence indicating any corruption. now, where i come from, a smidgen means just a little bitty bit. but he said basically there is want any. is that the truth? >> it was not the truth. it is not the truth. remember, this is the same man who last summer declared the irs scandal to be a phony scandal. he's done everything he can to divert attention from what really has been going on, and it's still going on in the irs. and governor, i have to tell you, i think that the administration is afraid of the people. and i think that because they were afraid of the people rising up as they did in 2010, to fight obamacare, to fight spiraling out of control spending, i think that's exactly what they're afraid is going to happen in 2014 and that's why they have been trying to silence political
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opposition and philosophical opposition all over the country. >> you talked to the department of justice yesterday. did you get any indication that they're maybe beginning to see the light on any of this? could you tell us what they told you? >> well, we didn't talk about a lot of things. frankly, i asked a lot of questions. you know, they want to talk about the vote, and another couple of my clients. and you know, one of the things that is worrisome to me is that it's taken them so long, and i said to them, you know, i have been pretty publicly critical that you have just now gotten around to talking to me. and you talked to none of the witnesses in the groups around the country, and of course, their response is, well, we do things in our order. but one of the things that really worries me is that the civil rights division is involved in this investigation.
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the civil rights division of the justice department. and governor, i don't know if you're aware, but the person who has just been named as the nominee to head the civil rights division is somebody who led an international crusade to free a cop killer from philadelphia and have his sentence commuted. the person who was the former head of the justice department civil rights division was castigated by the justice department's own inspector general a year ago this month, which found that political ideology was forming the basis of many decisions in the division of civil rights, and that's who wants to talk to me. the office of public integrity is also involved, and i have never had a problem in my personal interactions with the office of public integrity on behalf of clients, but remember that there were lawyers from the office of public integrity who were sanctioned by the federal
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court when it was learned that the things that they had done against former senator ted stevens constituted prosecutorial misconduct. so i think maybe it's time for a special independent council to be appointed so that perhaps we can then begin to have some confidence that the criminal actions that have taken place are really going to be investigated and pursued. >> and cleta, i want to bring into focus that a lot of people assume that when this was exposed and it became obvious that they were targeting of conservative groups and pro-life groups and pro jewish groups, that it would stop. has the targeting stopped? has the harassment stops or is it still going on? >> it is still going on, governor. in fact, last august, remember the tigda report that confirmed that there was indeed philosophical and political
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targeting of conservative groups. that came out in may. in august, of 2013, the irs sent more letters to groups, conservative groups, two of my clients received even more letters asking further information, further questions, intrusive, burdensome questions, which i believe they had already asked and answered several times before. one of the groups i do represent did get a tax exempt status finally in november of 2013, three and a half years after applying. another group, the tea party patriots, still has not received its tax-exempt status after more than three years. >> what would it take to resolve this? what is going to finally bring this to a halt? and resolve it and satisfy it? >> i think we have to get the irs out of the process all together. number one. i think that we have to have -- i don't think you should have to
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go ask the federal government, mother may i, before you can function as a nonprofit exempt organization. so i think we ought to get them out of the process all together. number two, i think we need to make certain that the irs is never able to use political contribution information for purposes of defining who gets audited and who doesn't, because i think that's what they're doing. and number three, i think we should have organizations or we should repeal the law that makes them tell the irs who their donors are. i don't think the government has any business knowing that. >> i appreciate it. always a pleasure to talk to you and get your insight. thank you for being back with us. >> thank you so much. >> most politicians up for re-election in the midterms would normally seek the help of a sitting president in their own party, so why are many in the congressional democrats with their careers on the line breaking away from the president? well, we'll find out when i take the hot seat, next.
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the tactic that is used in campaigns. you know very well as a pro when you ran for priesident, you distanced yourself from president bush at times. i respected you for that, by the way. i think these races are going to be won on local issues. they're fought going to talk about washington and touting the culture of washington. they're going to quite frankly run against washington. i don't see that's being an issue. it's standard practice, by the way. republicans and democrats have done it alike for years. >> i don't remember when they didn't want to be photographed with the sitting president. even though there might be differences. no, i didn't mind that. the president would come in and raise funds for your re-election. that wasn't a problem. i don't see the democrats wanting him to come in and do a platform shot, walk down the rachbl of air force one with him. chris, let my weigh in on that. mary landrieu. quote, i stay focused on the
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issues that are important to louisiana. when the president is for louisiana, i'm for the president, when he's not, i'm n not. she lined up with him on obamacare, said it was going to be great. now she's distancing herself. is there a concerted effort by these folks to stay away from obama in their home state? >> it's a calculation every campaign has to make. when we were doing the west virginia race, west virginia is a tough state for the president. there were positions where then governor-manchin was with democrats, with the president on. there were others where he was obviously very different. you know, in terms of -- >> the gun issue i remember. which i thought was a great ad. >> shooting cap and trade. each campaign has to make their decision about how they're going to distinguish themselves, not only from the president or national democrats, but obviously with the republicans. and i think if we generalize too
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quickly or simplify this too easily, we miss the bigger picture. to me, virginia is a perfect example of what happened in the governor's race. terry mcauliffe showed up, did events with the president, and still won. i think it's a question of where you decide the president could be useful. in some states, he could definitely be useful. in michigan, there might be a tough senate race. he might be useful. in other states, listen, lose lose. he's probably not going to be as useful. >> mark begich, senator from alaska, makes this comment. if he wants to come up, i'm not really interested in campaigning. i want to convince him and show him some of his policies are not the right direction. that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement. if he does come by, i'm not going to be around. >> there's a six-year itch that happens in american politics that happened to president bush, happened to president obama. the incumbent president suffered a degree of losses.
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>> let me ask you this, if you were advicing, not your candidate, because new jersey is a different, you know, circumstance. but if you were advising one of these candidates. landri landrieu, begich, pryor, would you say, yeah, have the president frin the photo-op, or stay probably stay away from him? >> i tell you something -- >> i appreciate the honesty. >> this comes down to dollars and cents. the president is an enormous fund-raiser. he can be an important ally in the race to retain control of the senate and win back the house. so i think you can't discount that alone, but the president is a big boy. he also understands when he's welcome, where he's welcome, and he knows that one thing that is the most important to him, winning. so all this aside, all this talk about whether you want to be on the tarmac by air force one when the president arrives or not isn't relevant so much as how much money he can raise. >> i want to thank our panel of
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the opening ceremonies for the sochi olympics waw a sillbrasion of russian patriotism. they paid tribute to the space program, the creative artists like leo toll society, and a shoutout to the good old days of co communism, yes, a full rich recounting of russian history, except i think they left the part out about stalin murdering several million people. i think i could understand that, so another white-washed olympics and all we can do is hope the
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americans have a great time, do well, and everybody stays safe, and maybe by the time they're finished, they'll actually have their hotel rooms built. that would be nice. well, saying that cigarettes and providing that don't go together, one of the country's largest drugstore chains, cvs, announced it's going to stop selling all tobacco products by the end of the year. the president wants to make sure that credit is given where it's due. here's what the president said. cvs care mart sets a powerful example, and today's decision will help advance my administration's effort to reduce tobacco-related deaths, cancer, and heart disease as well as bring down health care costs. i'm glad cvs is making this decision and i'm glad the president applauded it. that's all fine. but you know what the president was doing. he was paying tribute to a private business for following their convictions. this is good news. now, maybe the president will also honor some other private businesses who pay honor to
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their convictions. like hobby lobby, who don't want to pay for abortafacient drugs and provide against things that are against their conscious. i can't wait to hear your speech for praising hobby lobby and the little sisters of the poor and the other whose convictions would also lead them to decisions that might be in keeping with what they believe. well, for nearly 40 years, saturday night live has been entertaining us with political satire. but according to the show's creator and executive producer, lorne michels. members of one party are more thin-skinned than the other. here's what lorne michels said. he said republicans are easier for us than democrats. democrats tend to take it personally. republicans think it's funny. i once appeared on saturday night live, and i had a great time. were they making fun of me? of course. that's the whole point. it's a comedy show. i want to say, i am very
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grateful for lorne michaels for telling the truth. the fact is most republicans have a pretty good sense of humor, even about ourselves. i find it's the democrats who typically get so overly sensitive about everything and anything, they can't take a joke, they can't take a punch. they're always offended. they always want someone to apologize for everything. so let me join lorne michaels and say to the democrats, lighten up. take god more seriously and take yourselves less seriously. that would be my advice. so why would the academy that originally nominated a song for an oscar all of a sudden drop it from consideration? is it religious discrimination? well, the story and the singer, johnny eriksson is next. hey linda!
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live from america's news headquarters, i'm harris faulkner. much-needed rain is causing a nightmare in parts of california tonight. they're in a bitter drought. now 3 to 11 inches hitting that city of rain. that's triggering flash flooding. and despite what you see, they need more to end the drought. it's the first significant storm to hit california in 14 months. in northern oregon, people are warned to stay indoors as an ice storm is taking hold. >> one of the best college basketball players in the nation has apologized for an incident at a game last night. they were playing texas tech. travis smart fell into the first row of seats. when he got up, he shoved a texas tech fan with both hands. smart claims that fan used a racial slur. oklahoma state has suspended him for the next three games. smart is considered to be the top five nba draft pick but decided to stay in school to finish his degree. now back to programming. the song alone yet not
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alone, from a small production christian film with the same name, was nominated for an oscar for best original song. ♪ alone yet not alone ♪ not forsaken when on my own ♪ i can lean upon his arm ♪ and be lifted up from harm >> well, last week, the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences rescinded the nomination. they claim the song writers unethically lobbied for the song. campaigning is nothing new. filmmakers, composers, song writers do it all the time. so why is this particular song singled out? could it maybe be because it's an original song from a faith-based film?
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johnny is the singer of the song. she's also an inspirational author and speaker who has been quadriplegic since she dove into shallow water when she was just a teenager. she's author of the book, joni and ken, untold love stories. thanks so much. great to have you back on our show. >> good to be with you, governor. >> you've got a lot of, i think, unexpected attention when you recorded this song because in your mind, okay, i'm going to record the song, and you did it. suddenly, it gets nominated for an oscar, and then they pull the nomination. what's this roller coaster ride been like? >> oh, my goodness. what a roller coaster ride it's been, because i'm not a professional singer. i'm a disability advocate. i run joni and friends. we take wheelchairs to disabled children around the world. i don't really sing professionally like taylor swift or amy grant. you can imagine when the
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producers asked me the sing the movie theme, i was blown away. but i filled my lungs with air and my husband was in the recording studio with me, pushing on my abdomin so i could hit the high notes, and i had a great time. >> that's amazing. your husband was helping to push your abdomen and diaphragm so you would have enough wind to sing the song. the behind the scenes records all that. the fact that this song, a miracle in itself, miraculously nominated for an oscar, then pulled. do you think that maybe the song was yanked from consideration because it was faith-based? do you have to wonder if that was the cause? >> well, first, let me say a lot of people in the academy must have liked the song because they nominated it over 75 other themes from other movies, and that's saying something.
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but looking at all that's happened, governor, i feel that hollywood thinks that a low-budget, limited-release small christian film might not be, perhaps shouldn't be, elevated to the status of the global stage of the oscars. but is that shunning christ? i really can't say. but i know one thing, it sends a very sad message to christian filmmakers and to independent filmmakers as well. >> you know, when i think about this song, it's getting attention it never would have received otherwise. the film is getting attention it never would have received. is this a moment, joni, kind of like when joseph's brothers threw him into the well, and they intended it for harm, but in genesis 15, he says, but god used it for good. is that what is happening with the song and the film as well? >> oh, i think so. you know, when i think of my own experience in recording it, it's a little like all those other
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examples in the bible of how god delighted in picking the ill equipped, untrained, nonprofessional to get a job done so the whole world would know that god had done it and not by the strength and ability of man. so i think this controversy has perhaps focused much more attention on the song than if it had remained in nomination. and i think that's pretty awesome. over 750,000 hits on the youtube video that shows me praying on the front end, asking god for strength. that's a great witness. >> that is a great witness. it's also a great song, and thank you very much for being here. to tell us about it. i want to tell our audience something. you know what i want them to do. i want them to go to itunes and download the song. because i think it would be nothing more powerful than if everyone who watched this show would call their friends and say, everybody, let's go download joni's song. let's make it the number one
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download in itunes this week. if that happened, it would cause some people to sit up and take notice. i think that's the first thing. and the second, if you think joni's song should be reconsidered for an oscar, let me suggest that you go to the website on our screen and you let the academy know what you think. tell them what you think. go to the website. two things. download the song. go to the website that we put on the screen. let's make some noise about this. and tell them, we appreciate what joni has done. thanks again. god bless you for being here to share this great story with us. >> absolutely. god bless you, governor. >> thank you. and coming up, how a muslim iraqi citizen earned the unwavering trust of our navy s.e.a.l.s and became a legend in the u.s. splsh ecial operations community. stay with us. this is for you.
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with queen mattresses as low as $599.99 know better sleewith sleep number. >> hear my daily commentary and it is the huckabee report onro. and go to mikehuckabee.com. my next guest my next guest conducted more than 1,000 missions in the war in iraq. he risked his own life to save the lives of navy s.e.a.l.s. his work was so dangerous they couldn't use his own name. he's an iraqi interpreter, a muslim. his remarkable story is told in a new book "code name jonny
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walker. jaets jonny walker whose real name we're going to keep a secret. and the author of the book joins me now. great to have you here. johnny, i find your story, it's like something that someone would write for fiction. but it's a true story. you were recruited to be an interpreter and help american troops. and i just wonder, as an iraq eand as a muslim, was that a little unnerving for you at the beginning? if some of your fellow citizens found out, they might decide to turn on you? >> at the beginning, there is no kind of normal things when you work with americans. like a huge honor, huge proud to work with them in the beginning. after a few years, things became changed and anyone who worked with america became a target. >> how did you learn english? one of the reasons they wanted you, you could speak english, the language in iraq, and they wanted to make sure when they
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were talking to iraqis, that the right things were being said. how did you learn how to understand and speak english? >> what is cool and cowboy movies. >> big john wayne. >> you learned to talk like john wayne. no wonder they liked you. did you ever say saddle up, pilgrim? just cu know, in all seriousnes you were out there putting your life on the line. did it ever occur to you you might die if some american soldiers that you had to wonder, do they like me? do they trust me? it had to cross your mind. >> you know, maybe at the beginning, like first five, four months, but after that time, we became family. they are my family, so we have no option. just each other, you know. >> you trusted them, didn't you? >> with my life, yes. >> and they trusted you. >> yes.
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>> jim, tell me about the story, just fascinated you, and made you want to put it into a book. >> to be honest with you, when i first heard about johnny, i was working on american sniper with chris kyle, and it was the end of a long day. and we just -- we just kind of laid back a little bit, and we started looking at some videos that chris had of people that he knew in iraq. and all of a sudden, this video, this picture came up of a really tall, odd looking fellow. dressed in a different uniform than the rest of the field. i hadn't recognized him. i said, chris, who is that? chris, big texan, well, i tell you who that is. that's the only iraqi i ever trusted with a gun. after american sniper came out, chris happened to run into him, and chris got a hold of the publisher and said you have to write this book because jonny
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walker saved more americans than any s.e.a.l. did. >> wow. >> and that's -- >> johnny, that's a remarkable thing. you saved a lot of american lives. they loved you for that. trusted you for that. honored you for that. but you were still there. how did you end up getting to america and tell me, were you afraid not to come to america? >> no, i love america because, you know, my background, i played basketball when i'm young and high jump and they have this kind of dream in my mind. i want to live in an area in front of the lake. so in 2006, you know, we have big war. and they asked me to move to america. and i told them, i would like to stay. 2007, i started thinking about my family more, and it looked like my family called, my wife
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and my kids. i told them, yeah, i want to move. and 2009, i came to america. >> now, you're even in the process of becoming an american citizen, is that right? >> yes. >> tell me why you like america and why you want to be a citizen of this country. >> because i have my dream now, and my kids are safe. and they can do whatever they like to do, whatever they believe. >> well, i hope that your story will remind america of what you need to be grateful for. it's a wonderful book, a great story, and i want to say thank you, not just for telling the story. you know what most of all, thank you for caring about some of those navy s.e.a.l.s and making sure they came home to their families. god bless you. >> well, get ready to do the twist. chubby checker is going to join me with his timeless hit. that's coming up. stay with us. ss hit. stay with us. [ male announcer ] introducing new fast acting advil. with an ultra-thin coating and fast absorbing advil ion core™ technology,
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it was a song that sparked a >> it was a song that sparkeded a dance craze. billboard magazines named "the twist" the biggest chart of all times. joining us the man who made it a hit, chubby checker. >> i didn't know that you played the base. >> i don't. but i am going to play with your band today anyway. just because i get to. you know, you have even said the twist, even though it is now the biggest charted song of all time, is that right? >> number one song in the world. >> and it was nominated 1958 to 2008 number one song in the world, and the next time this event takes place will be in
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2058. until that time "the twist" will be the number one song for 100 years. >> i think we should do the song. what do you think? >> we are going to do the twist and it goes like this... ♪ come on baby let's do the twist ♪ ♪ come on baby let's do the twist ♪ ♪ take me by my little hand and go like this ♪ ♪ twist baby twist ♪ oh yeah ♪ just like this ♪ come on and do the twist ♪ my daddy is sleeping and mama ain't right ♪ ♪ daddy is sleeping and mama ain't around ♪
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call an allstate agent and get a quote now. wow, this hoh no.s amazing. who are you? who are you? wrong answer. wait, daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. yeah, i didn't have to bid i got everything i wanted. oh good i always do. oh good he seemed nice. express deals. priceline savings without the bidding. but with less ergy, moodiness, i had to do something. i saw mdoctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the onlynderarm low t treaent that can restore t vels to normal in about two weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especlly those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoidt where axirons applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or incased acne in women may occur. report these symptoms to your doctor. tell your doctorbout all
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black-and-white tv that got our signal off of our house top antenna all of the way from shreveport, louisiana. wh that night when i saw those four guys from liverpool, i thought, i need to get a guitar and i will become the fifth beatle. it would be three years begging my parents for an electric guitar before i would ever get one. it was a sacrifice. they got one from the j.c. penney catalog. paid for a year until they covered the $99 that guitar cost. the beatles changed the world. they came at the time the nation was in a funk after the young president riots turning major cities into battle grounds as horrible things were happening to civil rights leaders who rightfully demanded all americans be given justice and freedom. there was a war in southeast
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asia looming on the horizon. america needed hope and a diversion. the energy and the freshness of those four young men from liverpool ignited something that could not be quenched. as our parents screamed, turn that noise down, we turned it up. who would have thought that 50 years later we would tell our grandchildren, turn that music up, it's the beatles. if you want to learn more about the beatle's early days let me add vise you to check out a wonderful book called "when they were boys" by larry king. it's an amazing book especially if you are a beatles fan. larry had unprecedented access to the beatles during their first u.s. tour. "when they were boys" is available at amazon.com. a little secret. everybody in the audience will go home with a copy of larry cane's wonderful book about the beatles. from new york this is mike
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huckabee. good night, god bless and stay tuned for judge jeanine. >> on fox files hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria are pouring into iraq to escape the civil war. >> see how franklin graham is bringing hem frlp from his chrin organization fr organization. did they watch them be killed and do nothing? >> on the 50th anniversary of a notorious new york murder new questions. >> a reporter got carried away with the story. >> north to alaska for woar games. >> iran could have icbm capabilities as soon as 2015. >> we are inside
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