money should go to newlyweds. michael mailed if you can't have fun in life, what is the point? thanks to everyone who responded. >> everyone agreed with it. i think my mom would be disappointed if i did it. >> thanks for watching. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day. good morning. it's tuesday, february 25. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. devastating cuts to our military. could this move by the obama administration now put your security at risk? >> that's the troops,ed navy, the air force that has been protecting us since world war ii. they're just taken for granted, and enough is enough. >> the warning to all americans straight ahead. >> she is supposed to be promoting human rights as ambassador to the united nations. right now samantha power suggesting an american's brutal death at the hands

of a terrorist was the american's own fault? we're going to explain. >> kramer. they have to now hang up the phone for good. >> hello and welcome to movie 12. if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press 1. >> can i watch the rest of it? why movie phone may be hanging up on your show time. mornings are better with friends. >> hi. this is christie yama gucci and you're watching "fox & friends," the best show on ice. >> it is 25 degrees right now. it is icy on this tuesday. be careful, folks. >> that is the screams from the pentagon. their work has come out.

proposed cuts by the secretary of defense will cut our standing force from 522,000 to 450,000. the u-2 spy plane will be done and they're due to increase special ops by 6%, a little bit of good news. the good news i believe is that congressional support is needed and there's even some democrats that are upset by some of these proposals. >> you're right about that. governor fallon of oklahoma faced a wave of tornadoes, deadly in 2013. she said this could weaken the government's ability when it comes to the national guards. people on both sides of the aisle, veterans, politicians -- >> senator jillibrand from new york. >> those who step up to defend our nation every day. congressman buckman on the kelly file last night said these cuts do nothing but hurt those who put their lives on the line. >> we could eliminate the whole defense budget.

we could eliminate the whole discretionary budget, close down all of the buildings here in still be running a deficit of a half trillion dollars a year because of mandatory spending and that's where the problem is. the budgets they send up to us lay this all on the backs of our military. and the war funding has come out of separate funding that we voted for each year. this budget that we're talking about, that's our base budget. that's the troops, the navy, the air force that has been protecting us since world war ii. they've kept the ceilings open around the world. they're just taken for granted, and it's enough. enough is enough. >> enough is enough. and so the pentagon now, under the tutelage of chuck hagel, has taken a meat cleaver to their budget going forward. luckily the entire planet is nice and tranquil; right? there is no reason why we would need strong military

defense. if you take a look at what is happening, though, we're asking our american military to do all the sacrificing. there was some suggestion that the president might actually touch the third rail of politics and do something about entitlement funding. >> he promised it. >> he was right on that message until just a couple of days ago. when you look at the amount of money we spend on defense versus the run away train that is entitlements, it is an eye-opener. as you can see, back in 1990, for point of reference, about 25 years ago, $300 billion was spent on defense. about $568 billion was spent on entitlements. fast forward to 2010, about $700 billion on the defense of this nation while close to $200 -- rather -- that's a hard number to read right there. >> steve, i want to point out that first couple of bars should say 1990, as

you read. the second one you're talking about 2014. you see where we're at right now. you see the difference between defense cuts, defense spending and entitlement funding. as buck mckeon points out you can get rid of everything. it is not going to touch the deficit running through the road. it is the 17/18 trillion dollars, the entitlement programs that are automatic out of our accounts. >> he went on to say, buck mckeon, that we have to find cuts but there is no courage to touch these in washington. >> this is a hard number to say it is so gigantic. >> it is massive. >> in 25 years it has gone up four times. >> the defense spending, close to $85 billion decrease in the past five years, it is not as though we're in a peaceful time right now. it's staggering.

you have colonel oliver north quoted as saying we've backed into this budget. they're setting a budget where they want to cut not where they should be cutting, and they're backing into it and creating a plan nationally, globally to try to fit that. it's backwards. >> if you look at the strategic decision that barack obama made when he selected chuck hagel as secretary of defense, he knew all along he would one day ask military to get out a meat cleaver and do just this. >> and gates wouldn't have done it. he said in his book i would have resigned if he asked me to do that. and he did preemptive cuts on his own in the hopes congress would look at this and the president would reveal. in analyzing this they kind of did this, did a preemptive strike. i trust my secretary of defense on this. i'll leave it alone. instead they went back in again. he leaves to go back in again and they're doing a lot to the health care. pete hegseth coming up shortly to talk about how it is resonating. >> hitting their salaries, their pensions, where they get their groceries at the

commissary in terms of subsidies for that. this is something that those who sacrifice time and time again for our safety and the safety of others globally are now the ones needing the most defense in our own nation. where's the pen? is it out of ink? where's the phone? is it out of service? that's what i want to know today. >> good point. big chops coming to the department of defense. >> unless congress stops it. >> do you think it's all good? look, we need a leaner, smarter military, no doubt about it. but it just seems so indiscriminate. then if the sequester kicks in in another year or two, just take another machete and even more money. >> here's the facebook question, as dick cheney refers to, and you're going to hear from dick cheney who was on hannity last night. here's the question of the day. with two land wars coming to a close, is this the right time to cut back our defense again? go to our facebook page, weigh in. we'll read it out loud, we promise. >> in the meantime heather

is back with us on this tuesday. >> great to be back with you guys. got some news to bring you. listen to this story coming out of long island. he rubbed shoulders with the star but this morning he is very lucky to be alive. he was ambushed and shot in the face at his sprawling new york castle. look at this thing right there. here's what happened. there was a masked man who fired a bullet at a political heavyweight. his name is gary mealia as he was getting into his mercedes on long island. police say they don't have a motive for the shooting at this point but they say it is no accident. the 69-year-old has deep ties to officials in the democratic and -lts -- also republican parties. he is in stable condition. more than 120 people sick at sea and this typed it happened on board a holland america cruise ship in the caribbean. the culprit, the norovirus. the c.d.c. has a lot of questions about this outbreak. it is the same ship that

failed inspection in september and infected with e. coli last spring. a warning for pregnant ladies who take a popular over the counter drug. we're talking about as seat seat -- acetometaphin found in tylenol. moms have a greater risk of their kids being affected with adhd. remember this scene from seinfeld? >> hello, and welcome to movie phone. if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press 1. >> about a month from now kramer will never hear those words again. after 25 years of service, the movie phone line will be disconnected. an automated message is

urging people to download a free app instead. who would have known it is still around. >> it was sold to aol and they misguided it and made it more into an information site instead of a ticket site. it is being driven into the ground. they're still going to stay up and running perhaps but i do believe movie phones will still exist. >> the reruns of movie phone. it is a program you can get on the web. that's what i do. >> go to instagram or something like that. >> it is now ten minutes after the top of the hour on this tuesday. thanks for joining us. coming up, millions of vets waiting months for their benefits and then suddenly questions about what sort of care they're going to get because the government destroyed their records. pete hegseth will be joining us next. >> a major hole in security at one of our nation's busiest airports. international passengers just bypassed?

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defense secretary chuck hagel proposing billions of dollars in defense cuts including shrinking the army, closing military bases. and also delving into health care for our veterans. but aren't there other places in government that can be cut before taking away from our military? again? here to weigh in is the c.e.o. of concerned veterans for america, pete hegseth. pete, your reaction to what's been proposed, first off. >> you're absolutely right. aren't there other places? the defense department has been taking this from the very beginning and a long time and entitlement programs haven't seen a single overhaul. nothing. again we go to the

department of defense as if this is the one place because it is the largest part of the discretionary budget and for this administration it is an ideological approach, an attempt to shrink a department they want to shrink. they want it to decrease and that is what this does. if you handcuff yourself, you can't fight in the future. they don't want to fight a land war, but guess what? we don't guess to pick the next fight. it is shortsighted and foolish. >> in 1939 we had an army of 185,000. you know how big that army ended up getting because we had that thing called a world war. let's look at defense spending. look at today's dollars, people think it's going up but as you look at where entitlement spending has gone, you can see it's almost doubled. entitlement spending, go to automatic withdrawals out of our accounts and defense spending continues to shrink in proportion. pete, you do say there are some things about the

military, and you're seeing that graphic now. look at how close it was in 1990 and look at the big dis discrepancy now. when it comes to the pentagon there was redundancy and things that can be cut. >> sure, there are places the pentagon can be more efficient with the dollars they have. and concerned vets for america have been aggressive. let's find that and cut it because you're going to see costs within the pentagon start to push out war-fighting capabilities, the entitlements in the defense department can crowd out. that is one small piece. if you look at it in the larger picture it is amazing to watch how much we're spending on entitlement programs without being touched while the d.o.d. is somehow the place where we're going to balance our budget. it is not possible at all. >> i mentioned closing some bases, curtailing construction of a new class of navy ships cherished by top admirals and scrapping an air force plane used to protect forces in iraq and

afghanistan. you do point out too that there is the tension issue when it comes to administrations and their goals that you as a captain who has been in afghanistan twice gets the sense of what it's like on the tkpwroupb. tell me the -- like on the ground. tell me the difference. >> if president reagan or president george w. bush proposed cuts like this because while we're $17 trillion in debt and have strategic cuts we have to make you can get that because they want to maintain a robust military. but from this administration they couch a chopping of our military as strategy. you look at this document and there is no coherence. and i've talked to generals, officers who looked atd -- at this, there is no coherence. the a-10 being chopped on the ground and others being preserved for political reasons. >> the a-10, the tank killer, they were constructed to take out

soviet tanks. we can get rid of them now. that is just a line. i want to move on to health care and the veteran which really concerns you and should concern almost every american whether you're involved or not. there is a story today that they are so backlogged at the vet, they started destroying different cases. in fact, we have some audio from one of their los angeles bureaus. let's listen. canceling orders from 2001? [inaudible] >> canceled. it's a matter of getting in there and canceling them myself. >> getting in there and canceling themselves. let's cancel backlogged exam requests by destroying them. this is a los angeles office reported by "the daily caller." they've got medical requests for examination coming in, 3,000 coming in ago month. they can only handle 800.

they have a massive backlog going and rather than creating a process to do it, it is not just one or two employees deciding to destroy records. a committee got together and decided to destroy records of veterans waiting for medical exams. the audio goes on to talk about some of them have already died any way or they have already moved. so let's just cancel the requests. it is as low as it gets. we knew the department of veteran affairs is fudging these numbers. but to destroy records of veterans waiting for care, that is as bad as it gets. >> we hope general shinseki is watching this now because something should be streamlined there. things should have been corrected there. you don't go into the heart of it and gut out health insurance and start destroying the number of troops that we have on ready for action, now with 450,000, that is the proposal. my hope is democrats see the same problem that buck mckeon, republican saw as

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quick headlines now. new poll numbers show republican greg abbott with an 11 point lead over democrat wendy davis in the race to be the next governor of texas. the nation's longest serving congressman stepping down. michigan democrat john dingell's career spans nearly six decades, 29 terms in office. the 87-year-old was first elected to replace his late father in 1955. steve? >> thanks, brian. 25 kids in california left apparently paralyzed from a rare polio-like disease. state health officials began investigating the illness in 2012 when a doctor requesting testing for a child with what he thought was paralysis. >> since then similar cases have been reported, but could it really be polio and what do parents need to watch out for? here is infectious disease

specialist. thank you for being with us. what exactly is this? tell us the symptoms people are experiencing. is it 25 cases in california? >> so far this is what we have. it seems to be related to a popular circulating virus but what is unusual is the type of symptoms these kids manifested. they have had paralysis in one limb or another and so far it seems permanent. >> they have treatment for this? >> usually these viruses cause fever and respiratory illnesses. basically the body takes care of it and that's the end of that. in some cases it will progress to some sort of spine injury because a lot of viruses can infect the spine and produce things like meningitis or paralysis. >> when doctors in california started looking at the symptoms and thought it's polio. let's look at the seupl toplgs -- symptoms of this mystery illness.

respiratory problems, muscle paralysis. symptoms for polio are similar. virus illness like a sore throat, loose limbs on one side of the body, that is what these kids have suffered from. >> they belong to the same family of viruses. they're called non-polio viruses because that's the only distinction. some things do cross react and they are similar in some ways. >> is there anything down the road that would be available in terms of prevention. we talk about getting your flu shot, getting a polio vaccine. is that what we're going to be looking at for something like this? >> perhaps. as of now there is no ente entero vaccine. >> url telling us -- you were telling us millions of kids around the world end up with this entero virus. for some reason these kids in california it has

manifested itself where they are paralyzed on one side. put on your thinking cap and you think what is different about what is happening in california than what is happening at our house. >> usually mystery illnesses are the same viruses that are usually circulating either in a mutated form or some sort of more aggressive form but they are usually the usual suspects. here in the northeast we tend to see entero viruses more in the summer months and these are the causes of summer colds. this is why we see more viral meningitis at the end of summers because it is related to entero viruses. >> are you forecasting we may see this form of the virus making its way here in the warmer weather? >> it is possible. >> we should look for those symptoms. if they manifest themselves -- >> we urge parents to look, be vigilant about any paralysis or any clumsiness. it could start with something as simple as

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obamacare into law. turns out seven of the democrats in that photograph are either now out of congress or on their way out. those seven we just mentioned michigan congressman john dingell who is retiring. tom harkin. chris dodd. patrick kennedy. henry the wax man. george miller. and max baucus. all exiting the district of columbia. >> it's like that back to the future photo. >> kind of is. >> something happens and you ruin everything if you go back to the future. let's talk about somebody else. samantha power is somebody who had a very interesting confirmation hearing when she was going to become the next ambassador to the united nations, she is something who said controversial things in the past about our country and our intentions and many people speculating, including marco rubio in his questioning, was she the right person to represent our country in the united nations? there is a tweet that came out that made a lot of people wonder if she was the right selection but she ultimately got confirmed.

it revolved around danny pearl. she was asked to speak at a foundation named in danny pearl's honor. >> danny pearl was beheaded in 2002 by cleland -- by khalid sheik mohammed. this is her tweet. >> pearl, who was beheaded could have been prevented by individual accountability and reconciliation. what is she suggesting? that he reconcile himself with al qaeda? keep in mind, he was -- his head was cut off because he was jewish. and back in the day after he was kidnapped and he was made to make those videos where he talked about how he was jewish and he made a number of trips to israel. what she said is crazy talk and people are going what is she talking about. she took some heat. keep in mind before this job as ambassador to the united nations, she was a

far-left academic. she corrected it or clarified it and said daniel pearl's foundation work is a reminder that individual accountability and reconciliation are required to break the cycle of violence. so she's talking about the foundation. but still it doesn't make any sense. so she followed up with a another kind of clarification. as i said last night, the man who murdered daniel pearl did so because he was an american and most of all because he was a jew. >> she was chasing because there was a hash tag samantha power tweet. it did not make sense to a number of people so she was trying to make better on those. let's not forget, you noted, brian, there's been a past here in terms of a radical philosophy that she's had. and marco rubio questioned her on some of the past statements that she had

made regarding that. take a listen. >> i would categorize the rwanda situation as a crime. which ones did the united states commit or sponsor that you are referring to? >> again, sir, i think this is the greatest country on earth. we have nothing to apologize for. >> okay. you don't have any in mind now that we've committed 0 or sponsored? >> i will not apologize for america. i will stand proudly behind the u.s. placard if confirmed. >> do you believe the united states has committed or sponsored crimes? >> i believe the united states is the greatest country on earth. i really do. >> she will say anything at that confirmation hearing to get the job. keep in mind, rubio was asking her about her comments. she had accused the united states of genocide in rwanda. she had suggested that the united states of america spent billions of dollars to invade israel so that there would be peace between the palestinians

and the israelis. she said some crazy far-left things, and so he was trying to hold her accountable and essentially she said nothing to apologize about. i love america. >> she said what are you referring to? a new republican article from 2003, u.s. foreign policy has to be restocked. it needs not tweaking but overhauling. we need historical reckoning with crimes committed or sponsored or permitted by the united states. that justifies the questioning by marco rubio there in july. >> she is part of of the blame america first crowd. my hope is she'll see what we're up against in the united nations and realize we're not the problem. >> she tweeted out something crazy to start with and dug herself deeper and deeper. it does remind all of us that she is our ambassador to the united nations representing the united states of america. >> what do you think about that? >> what do you think about that? >> let us know. >> heather nauert is back

with us today. always delightful to have you on board. >> great to see you guys today. i have other news to bring you. passengers on an international flight landed one of the world's largest and busiest airports and listen to this. they skipped customs altogether. this happened at jfk in new york city. when passengers arrived on a delta flight from london, were let into an area where it's not required to clear customs or immigration. a statement now, delta saying, quote, delta is working with the port authority as well as customs and border protection and is looking into the matter. eventually the passengers were taken through customs, as we understand. we'll keep you posted on that. today two bills aimed at reforming scandals at the i.r.s. will hit the floor. one will ban i.r.s. employees from asking political or religious questions on tax forms. the bills are in response to the agency's targeting tea party groups. they need a two-thirds super majority in order to

pass. we'll watch that one as well. talk about divine intervention, an ohio bus driver is thanking the word of god for saving his life when his bus broke down and he was brutally attacked. listen to this. [screaming] >> that is -- he is 49 years old and he was screaming as he was shot. two bullets were blocked by his bible that he wore in the front chest pocket of his shirt. he was then able to fight off the attackers and called 911. listen. >> it seems like i've been hit with a sledgehammer. i've got the book in my pockets and i don't think they made it through this book. >> there was obviously some kind of intervention involved in this incident because he probably should not be here. >> isn't that just amazing? police are still searching for the suspects. jeopardy's so-called evil genius winning once again.

>> 800. what do i stand for, 800. >> that 30-year-old was back on the show last night winning $20,000. owe used the controversial method choosing high amounts first hoping to find the daily double. some say that strategy is unfair. he pointed out he's not breaking the rules and says he is not the first contestant to use that method. fans of the show say the beauty of the show is it is so unpredictable. >> so far he's made $100,000. good for him. she did the fast thumb on her weather predictor. look how fast maria molina can go from nimbus to cirrus clouds. >> if you leave in the eastern two-thirds of the country you're going to notice temperatures plummeting. today cold across parts of the midwest and the great

lakes. tomorrow it gets colder through parts of texas and the southeast with many people expecting highs in the 40's. at night temperatures will be below freezing. keep that in mind. we have had talk about a storm system impacting parts of the northeast on this wednesday. but it is going to remain relatively weak. maybe an inch or two expected across the region. not a huge story out there. otherwise out west, drop conditions in place but finally a storm system arriving and we are going to be seeing lower elevation rain and mountain snow, maybe even up to a foot of snow expected. that is welcome news out west. >> they need it. >> coming up, a woman with cancer opening up about her obamacare nightmare. >> my insurance was canceled because of obamacare. now the out-of-pocket costs are so high, it's unaffordable. if i do not receive my medication, i will die. >> democrats launching an attack to silence her. up next, judge napolitano wants to know what happened

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a michigan mother battling cancer now fighting a democratic lawmaker after voicing her concerns about obamacare in an ad. but as julie boonster told us yesterday, she will not be intimidated by him. >> i lost my health care plan due to the implementation of obamacare. the president of the united states, he lied to me, he lied to everyone by telling us that if we had a health care plan that we liked, we could keep it. i had a health care plan

that i liked, and i lost it. i'm very upset with them for trying to stop my ad. i battle cancer every day. they're not going to intimidate me. i have my first amendment right, my freedom of speech, and i will stand behind that. >> lawyers for the congressman, a democrat, tried silencing the ad by strong arming tv stations, threatening to pull their broadcast license. what about free speech? is there recourse? here to weigh in, judge andrew napolitano. >> this is a new low, steve. i understand there are people that want obamacare, that believe that the government should redistribute wealth and micro manage the health care system. but here's a lady who lost her health insurance. "the washington post" called this the lie of the year, four pinocchios to the president. she gets on television and recites this and it is packaged against a democratic congressman who

supported obamacare and is now trying to run away from his support for it and his lawyers threaten the television station for running the ad. that is just not permissible under the first amendment. >> this congressman gary peters, he's in the house of representatives, he wants to move over to the u.s. senate. he wants to take levin's open senate seat in michigan. that goes to show you how potent this particular ad is. during the ad where she says that obamacare jeopardized my health and congressman peters' decision to support it, that's devastating. >> it is devastating. the reason i call this a new low is he is attempting to silence political speech. let's face it, the first amendment lets you say just about anything in the political realm. the remedy for it is not to silence someone but more speech. if you don't like what she's saying, congressman, get on the air and defend yourself or how about coming on fox news and

letting one of us question you. he's not going to do that. but for him to threaten the power of the government to silence her sounds more like vladimir putin in russia than a member of congress in the united states. >> you're right. we did reach out to congressman pea tears a couple of -- congressman peters a couple of times. they have not called us back. here is a letter they wrote to the tv station. the democrat congressman's lawyers say false and misleading advertising may be prohibitive of licensing responsible. blah, blah, blah. they're trying to scare them into doing it. i asked her are you lying? are you misrepresenting anything? she said absolutely not. i asked if she was afraid of what the democrat lawyers were trying to do to her. she said i'm not afraid of them. i'm afraid of cancer. >> this is a woman that has a very, very serious illness. she lost her health benefits as a result of the institution of obamacare. she has a lot of money she

has to spend every month. this guy supported obamacare. he's running from it and he's trying to silence her. >> did the tv stations take down the ad? >> absolutely not. if the tv stations take down the ad it is a body blow to the first amendment if this kind of a two-bit threat can impair the freedom of speech, the most protected speech we have, the right to challenge the government. >> all right, which is something you do every day. >> pleasure, steve. >> judge napolitano, thank you. coming up, a brother home from afghanistan gives his sister the surprise of her life. [screaming] >> they join us live next. ♪ ♪

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it was a most incredible moment on the court when a college basketball player realizes that her brother is home from afghanistan. specialist william boyle was deployed for a year but came home to surprise her sister for her final hoops game. please join me in welcoming they will. thank you for your service and for joining us today.

the surprise was this saturday. so you're watching that back. and i can hear you gasping listening to it. describe that moment for us. >> honestly, i don't think words can describe it. i watched it again and i didn't even realized i had screamed originally. and i noticed i screamed like four or five times. >> you're in your senior year p. and planned this for how long? how did you make this happen? >> it was close to five months actually. i actually got the idea when my sister asked me if i was going to be able to make to any of her basketball games. so being her senior year, i figured i'd ask my parents when her senior game was and it just happened to be right around the time when i was coming home. so we just made it happen. >> great timing there. you have been apart from one another for how long? >> about a year. >> and you're 14 months apart? >> right. >> specialist, what does your sister mean to you? you had to be missing her. >> she's something else. growing up with her, we've had

our rough patches, but she's probably the best friends that i'll ever have. so it means a the lot to me to be able to be there. >> and i'm sure that time apart, for anyone who didn't know, if you're able to describe what it's like to be without. you guys are best friends. you're connected in a way that many people rptd. what was it like to have that time away from your brother? >> well, ever since he could speak, he was like i'm going to be in the army, i'm going to serve our country. so we all knew it was coming. it's hard regardless, but he's a very special person and i think that the military is very lucky to have him. >> can you describe what it's like? i mean we talk about the sacrifice that our military makes all the tile. and in that moment, we see your reunion, but it's really a sacrifice that so many families make for the rest of our nation. did you realize that the crowded by the way was with you? did you hear them? i think we all rejoice with those reunions because we know and we feel when you're missing one another. >> yeah, you can hear my

teammates screaming my name at the beginning of the film. my basketball team is my second family. so they all know how much it meant to me. >> what are your plans now? you've had a couple days together. >> well, i have school, so i'm going home to spend the weekend with him and then he heads back to kentucky on monday. >> what was the best part about seeing your sister? >> the best part about seeing my sister was just seeing my sister, it's been so long. and i knew that it would be a very emotional time when she saw me. so just wanted to make the best of it, so i decided to make it a big event, i guess. >> it was a victory moment, i have to say. you have the record for your school in terms of rebounds. congratulations. >> thank you. >> we thank you for your service. our nation thanks you. coming up, a surfer living the high life while collecting

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people? >> a good time, man. >> see what happens when jesse waters catches up with him. >> and got milk? elizabeth and tim hasselbeck had the milk mustaches, but now this iconic slogan is being taken off the shelves. the replacement leaving a sour taste in people's mouths. we'll tell you what that is and so much more on this tuesday episode. fox and friends. mornings are always better with friends. >> imoge'm gene simmons and you on fox and friends. of course you are. >> but of course. and as it turns out, kiss will not be performing at the hall of fame induction ceremony because they can't decide who from the original band and the following incarnations should perform at the ceremony. i've never seen more friction in hall of fame events. rock and roll stars when asked to come back at this glorious

moment. either they show up very drunk or too many guys. how do the doobie brothers go? if the beatles go in, do you invite pete beck? >> if he would absolute absolutely. >> historical footnote. anyway, from kiss to the kissoff. defense department is making gigantic draconian cuts to the military. chuck hagel wants to shrink our army to the same levels we were at before the second world war. and of course that flies in the face of historical precedence. the pentagon has argued for years you always needed a military big enough so that you can fight two wars simultaneously. these days you want to be able to fight a war this europe and in asia. that's just the way we've always done it. but because this president will

not deal with the republicans and make some changes to entitlements to benefit all americans, just our military has to sacrifice. >> that's right. we talked to concerned veterans for america, he said why aren't we going after the entitlements, why is it coming off the backs of our military. listen. >> the defense department has been taking this from the very beginning and for a long time entitlement programs haven't seen a single overhaul. nothing. and again we go with the department of defense as if this is the one place. because it's the largest part of the discretionary budget. and for this administration, it is an attempt to shrink a department they want to shrink. they want the u.s. obligation in the world to decrease. and that is what this does. because if you handcuff yourself, you can't fight in the future. they don't want to fight a land war. but we don't get to pick the next fight. >> and he's a captain, still active. he can still being deployed.

so as pete brought up, let's look at the comparison. in 1990, spending in defense is in red. in blue is entitlements. pretty close in terms of proportion. the numbers go up that we spend on defense, but look at the difference between the entitlement spending and defense. then in 2012, look at the difference. and again it shrinks again in comparison. the president made a statement and the administration makes it clear the age of austerity is over. spending is going to i guess come back. but the only thing that is okay to cut is -- monday's announcement, chuck hagel saying i'm cutting defense. you're cutting defense at the same time we're watching what is happening in north korea, anything but stable. seeing what's happening in the ukraine. we don't even know if tensions will be rolling in to there tomorrow. the middle east. the definition of instability. we have an obligation in that

area pnd area. do you think it's important to have an army that isn't as small as it was dating back to 1939? i think it's vitally important. in terms of numbers, we're going from 522,000 standing army to 450,000. in terms of national guard, we're slippinging oig down active duty 13%. and when they put up their hands yesterday, governors, and said you're shrinking our national guard? the president bit back and said you're trying to cut budgets. don't complain to me when i tell you where to cut. only thing he wants to cut is the military. >> you have maryland, bipartisan questioning here when it comes to reduction -- >> democrats. >> right. 5% when it comes to national guard. this is backwards. why are they using the means to justify -- the end to justify the means here. when you're reducing the bunch the here in our military where we're not peaceful. this is not a peaceful global issue that we're dealing with. >> a lot of people want to kill

us. >> and compared to the frivolous it seems spending elsewhere, it isn't making sense to the american people and to our military. when you look at this week, 175,000 to swimming abilities of fish? i think they can swim. 100,000 to promote a book club for the labor department centennial celebration? 356,000 to study social influences of risky cycling? i've been hit by a bike. i'm okay if you don't spend the money researching that. i can tell you it hurt. that's for free. >> you're the research project right there. so keep in mind hethey're talki big cut to the military and in two years, more sequester cuts could be coming down the pike. so they could go even deeper and hitting the bone in the next round. and yet are they making changes elsewhere when we're spending money on whether or not fish can swim? does this make sense to you? >> i just wonder why the president of the krund united states, his chief obligation is

to keep us safe and secure. why would he want a smaller army, why wouldn't he be fighting tooth and nail. >> he wants to at that time money that we're spending on the military and spend it on entitlements. there is only a finite amount of cash out there. he won't raise taxes again because he knows he can't. so he has to take what he's got from somewhere. >> it makes you question drawdown and what the intent is behind that. is to justify a reduction in fpd i funding. >> and heather wants to inform us on what else is break management woring in the world. >> good morning. he rubbed shoulders with the stars, but this morning this guy is lucky to be alive. he was ambushed and shot in the face. look at this, this sprawling new york cass is he. there was a masked man who fired a bullet at this man, gary milia, just as he was getting in to his mercedes.

police say they don't have a motive, but they say it was certainly no accident. the 69-year-old has deep ties to officials in the democratic and republican parties. and he's now in stable condition at the hospital this hour. and here we go once again, more than 120 people sick at sea. and this time it happened on board a holland america cruise ship in the caribbean.culprit once again appears to be the norovirus. the cdc has a lot of questions about this outbreak this morning. it is the same ship that failed its hygiene infection in september and that was infected with e. coli last spring. and this is a serious warning for those who take over the counter drug acetaminophen. it could put your unborn child at risk for developing adhd. in fact moms who use it according to this study saw a 37% increased risk in their kids being diagnosed with adhd,

especially for moms who took it in the second and third trimester. and then a texas sized surprise for a teacher returning home from a tour in afghanistan. look at this. >> you are our hero in our lives. >> isn't that right? yes, indeed. that is air force sergeant troy harvey, he thought the middle school where he's a teacher and coach was celebrating the start of the track season, but this entire pep rally was organized all for him while he was deployed. students at the school sent cards and letters to harvey and his air force unit. >> he brings happiness wherever he comes. >> loss of words in that situation, but the emotions, just heartfelt. >> he brought a souvenir with him to that rally, an american flag that had flown over his base in afghanistan. and those are your headlines at this hour. nice story. nice that they all just rooted him all like that.

>> good kids and a good guy. for more than 20 year, celebrities have supported a milk mustache including this gal right next to me and her husband. you really need a bib or something. >> all we need each other is milk. >> that's what keeps us together. real milk is out now, though, right? >> it's crazy. even though it is a fantastic campaign, they have decided time for something new. so they're getting rid of got milk and now their new slogan is milk life. >> which makes that photo vintage. >> milk-lying. remember the days when got milk was the slogan? >> i don't even know what milk-like means. >> i don't either. instead of milk? >> milk could pay off begguinne

to get that slogan. >> it works, so change it? >> what would you make of the slogan? they wanted to get rid of got milk and instead milk-like. i think it should be get moo-ving. but then it's also about exercise. that's just me. >> i asked my kids and they said if you give me cookie, i will dripping mi drink milk. >> bribery. the question is it real milk on the mustache that you don't have? >> i cannot reveal that. >> i'll call john. he also was in the ad. >> it's a secret. meanwhile, coming up, it's been 18 months and still nobody is taking responsibility for benghazi, but we're staying on the case because this morning there are shocking allegations against this guy, former cia top guy, mike morell. colonel tony schaffer joins us live next. . >> and file this under the dumb

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new developments in the investigation in to the bep gaz zi attack michael morell now under fire. he's accused of giving misleading testimony to congress regarding the white house's role in crafting the flawed talking points. is this the reason no one has been brought to justice for killing four americans? colonel tony schaffer, senior fellow with the london center for policy research, joins you us now. >> goodmorning.

>> so we've been talking about how susan rice went out and lied to the american public because she presented a scenario that was not true. it was known in the government, known at the cia that it was not that stupid video, it was terrorism. >> right. and i think what is worse here, what we're coming to find the out, is that not only was she deceived according to her, she used the points given to her and she didn't check them, what is worse mike morell has been accused of lying to congress. what is much worse, that is severe. what is intolerable is apparently now it's information i have and others have been able to tell me about is that morell lied to his own people. he played the jedi mind trick. basically he was so excited to the lie, he said these are not the terrorists you're looking for. so when you do that, when you actually the guy inside, you become essentially a co-p conspirator with al qaeda redirecting the search in the wrong direction. so that's why we're 18 months down the road, not one person

has been held accountable. nor anyone will captured. >> so our people on the ground, state department, cia, they were calling back washington. it is not the video. they all knew. so mike morell, who was in charge at that point of the talking points, he pushed the story. and was he pushing the story to get barack obama rye elected? >> that is the question we don't know. or was he trying to help hillary clinton. we don't know. he's been rewarded. he sits at a global strategies company -- >> beacon global strategies. >> as everything i can see, he's been rewarded time and time again. let's remember, this is an intelligence officer with no hard background. he was analyzing economic data in the philippines. so he's been able to work his way through the system, be rewarded essentially for being a middle man and when the time came to do the right thing, he actually threw operatives under the bus.

and what is much worse is he redirected things away from where they should have been focused. he reinforced the false narrative on the inside. and by doing that, made it easier for al qaeda to avoid accountability. >> susan rice, does she have any regret about this? no. >> the notion that somehow i or anybody else in theed a hin strags misled the american people is patently false and i think that has been demonstrated. >> okay. you told me in the commercial break that you feel that mike morell, who should be called up before congress, right? >> minimum. mr. absolutely. to testify and clarify because he sat there stoney faced. >> if he had covered up for example the aldridge ames investigation who was working for the soviets and he became a co-conspirator, he would be prosecuted. i don't see how it's any

different here. if you're on the inside and you know because your feel are telling you al qaeda did it as a terrorist attack and you're saying no, it's not, and you're redirecting, not simply saying false things, you're the guy on the inside redirecting, that makes you part of the problem and part of the fact is no accountability for the death of ambassador stevens and three others. >> so at the very least, he needs to be called up before congress and answer the hard questions. we had lindsay gram on thham on program and he said he said who was responsible and morell said the fbi. fbi says what? and then morell changed the talking points. >> and i talked to former attorney general under bush recently about this, and he said flat out congress has to pull this guy in, question him. if he lies again, if there ises can discrepancies, go after him. >> you think from people inside the cia, is it your

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>> it's a secret. we can't talk about it. in other news, shear panic is how the next guest describes the moment this happened. >> yep, a bird smashed into the cockpit window, but a pilot's quick thinking saved his life. that pilot, rob webber, joins us there beautiful naples, that. good morning. >> good morning. >> so we understand your family has a number of scrap yards throughout that region. you fly from spot to spot. so you're flying along, and tell us what happened. >> i reported into the tower, they instructure estructed me o direct in. i was already talking to the tower at that point. and about a minute or so after i checked in with them, that's when this bird smashed right through the wind shield. and kind of knocked me silly for

a few seconds. i got hit more by i believe the pieces of glass and sun viso rf r. i don't believe the bird actually got this where i was at. in we s >> we see your hand. and he said no matter what happen, when you're flying, do what? >> first thing i was always told, no matter what condition the plane is in, or what condition you're in, just fly the fing plane. a good philosophy to live by. once i realized i was okay and the plane wasn't falling out of the sky, go back to focus and navigate and get on the ground. >> but you're missing a wind shield, so it's really loud up there. you did apparently call mayday, second time in your flying career. how did you kind up flying the plane? it's so loud, you can't hear

them, they can't hear you. what happened? >> in my head set, i could hear real well. but the tower was having trouble hearing what i was saying because of the amount of wind. at the time another pilot that was ahead of me was able to understand better what i was saying, and he was able to relay to the tower. he relayed that i had had a bird strike, that the wind shield was missing and that i had sustained some head injuries. so they of course called the fire trucks and notified ems to have people there for me when i got on the ground about that. >> so here is how it sounded with air traffic control at the time. listen. >> checked in so calm. >> good flying. >> understatement of the year. thanks to jimmy kimmel, when i saw this, i thought could this be a hoax. but it isn't a hoax because

you're here and number two, we got that view because you keep a go pro right in the front of your cockpit? >> recently like two weeks prior, i had purchased that and had been playing with it. usually if something happens, it's going to happen during takeoff or landing. i forget to turn it on most of the time, but for some reason, i had turned it on and about a minute into the video is when the bird strike hit. the thing that would have been better, there is an attachment that could plug it right into the head set. >> for the next bird. u unfortunately, we'd probably have to bleep part of it out. and real quick, first thing your grandson said? >> he said did the tbird die. he was a big fan of angry birds.

so of course i had to have my t-shirt. you have to laugh about it. >> what a story. absolutely. luckily we can all laugh about it. good flying there, rob webber. >> thank you. >> glad you're okay. 31 of a before the top of the hour. >> coming up, we're gutting the military, but not cutting a dime from entitlements. stu bar thooe here with the numbers. >> and a surfer living the high life all while collecting food stamps. >> going for the strip club, free gear, what does it look like to most people is this. >> a good time, man. >> see what happens when jesse waters catches up with that guy. what does that first spoonful taste like?

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last year, the united states government spent $80 billion on food stamps. clearly a lot of people need them. but there are other people who you wonder whether or not they

are gaming tsystem. for instance a guy out in san diego. >> that's right. jesse waters went out to talk to him about his situation and how the food stamp program is actually -- >> you'd think he'd be embarrassed and reform his ways. but not the case. >> going to strip clubs on food stamps, free gear, what does it look like to most people? >> a good time, man. you can say what you want, but when it comes down to things that we're all just playing music -- >> playing music is a job, not a hobby? >> it's my job. >> you understand why people may not agree your situation? >> just because my job is a little cooper than your job and people are a little bit more jealous than anything. i think food stamps give me an

opportunity to focus more on my career. >> you're an able bodied guy. healthy. can work. do you think you're gaming the system? >> why would i be gaming the system? i fit in the qualifications. >> he fits the qualifications. and he does use the food stamps to buy loblobster. he does drive the case laid. he can buy the lobster because there are no -- who is to say you can't buy lobster? he chooses to spend his food stamp money that way. >> marine antoinette program on food stamps. >> who raised this guy? i'd like to know the parents. can they be jailed? >> not a this point. he's responsible sort of for his own life. >> what about from his point of view? why get a job when he has it so great? he's driving a cadillac, eating lobster, on food stamps? jackpot. >> i think self worth and pride are overrated. very good point. >> is he working the system or

trying to figure a way to work it out. >> and he seemed awfully happy. here is somebody that never games the system, speak works for everything that she has. >> we all do, don't we? >> we get up at 2:00 a.m. to game the system. >> not fair, that guy. boy. all right, news to bring you. passengers on an international flight landing at one of the largest airports and one of the busiest ones at that and they skip out on customs nearly. it happened at jfk. passengers were arriving on a flight from london when they were led in in to an area where it is not required for them to clear immigrations and customs. so when the mistake was realized, one of the passengers taken from baggage claim and then back through customs, but anyone with just a carry-on bag was able to walk right out of the airport without going through any screening whatsoever. and this one is for stupid criminal file.

a bank teller laughing in the face of a robber and it is all caught on camera. it happened in china. the wannabee thief stops to answer the telephone. see the meat cleaver? as he approaches the bulletproof glass. that is why the teller begins to laugh. security comes in and arrests the guy. and a warning for dog owners in california. someone is lacing meatballs with rat poison. it's happening in san francisco. >> the majority of the meatballs that we've been locating are pretty well concealed under the shrubbery very close to the curbside, so dogs would most likely notice them first and have access before the owners would ever see it. >> the same thing happened in this area last july. one dog was killed. police say they have no idea who is responsible. and talk about a whale of a tale. check this out.

oh, my gosh, a close call for this lady while whale watching. the not so gentle giant saying hello with a nice scoop to the face. the lady wasn't hurt. that was just off baja. >> never seen anything quite like that. 22 minutes before the stop the hour. outrage over the administration's massive military cuts. the government doing nothing to reform entitlements, but cutting the pentagon to pieces. are we talking about politics more important than our national security? stewart barney is the numbers guy. getting his to do his show on fox business network. is this something we should keep in mind and get a proportion on? >> yes, politics and money being at the very heart of this problem. we're being squeezed. and national finances are truly squeezed. and the president is making political choices as to how to get out of that squeeze box. first of all, the finances. we're spending money at an all-time high. we're borrowing a half trillion each and every year.

and the economy is not growing fast enough to bring in a whole bunch of extra money. result? we're squeezed. so the president has to make a choice. what am i going to cut, what am i going to do. and he makes the political choice to cut the military and not cut back on entitlements or welfare. >> i get it. we spend more on the military than anybody else, but we have a lot of responsibility, too. look at the proportions dating back to 1990. we were spending less then, but in proportion to entitlements, not that much less. >> the red bar right there, the entitlement programs, they're running away with the budget. >> we had an $800 billion stimulus that was put into the system five years ago. not the a penny went into the military. something else. when the military builds, they also buy. so it's not like we're throwing money in the street. >> that's very true. a lot of that hone is spent domestically, it is spent inside the united states of america on people, material and weapons systems.

it's spent here. but it might be worse than sect hague especially ohe will outlined yesterday. he'll cut the force. but you have to remember, sequester cuts are coming along. he'll cut the force. but you have to remember, sequester cuts are coming along. on top of that. you could be down to 420,000, 430,000 for the u.s. army because of those cuts. >> our former secretary of defense said he did his cuts preemptively, he said the cuts that were being proposed when he left would be catastrophic. he said he would resign in his book rather than deal with that. >> the president is saying not explicitly, but implicitly, he's saying we're retreating throughout the world, let's trim our military to fit that reduced role in the world. that is what he's doing. that is a political choice. >> the company has moved to 11:00 eastern right on the numbers. what do wi expee is expect on y show? >> a full two hours, i'll talk a

lot about the bitcoin. big developments overnight. an exchange collapsed overnight from the whole idea of the alternative currency. >> i'll watch. okay. while doing the radio. many people can't do it, but i can. stewart, thank you so much. coming up on fox and friends, michael sam becomes the first openly gay player in the nfl in he gets drafted and now one lobbyist is trying to ban gay players in the nfl. so what does russell wilson feel about this? how does he feel shall we'll ask him, hopefully he'll answer. he promised he would. plus, has robin thicke's wife finally had enough of his blurred ways? that story next. mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009.

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oscar nominee jennifer lawrence saying good-bye to hollywood for now. the star saying in a recent interview that she plans to take a year off. she's already signed on to for the hunew x-men movie and the hunger game series. so she'll be back eventually. and the blurred lines in robin thicke's marriage apparently have cleared. he and his wife are separating. patton was thick oig's high school sweetheart. they mayrried in 2005 and have 3-year-old son and then of course he made the disastrous appearance with miley cyrus. that unrelated we believe to the breakup. russell wilson's performance helped lead his team to super bowl victory over the broncos. he is here in our studios. >> that's right. joining us right now, we're so glad to have him, russell wi

wilson. why not you. that was your dad's advice. >> my dad always used to tell me russ, why not you. so i had a team meeting with the guys and said why not us. we have great player, great coaching staff. >> you were never supposed to get this far. everybody said you were too short to be an nfl quarterback. >> i'm basically the legal midget. i'm 5'11". not too many guys have done it before. but there are a handful of guys who have done it for me and i just believed in my talent. i believe my height doesn't define my skillset. to an great quarterback in the national football league, you have to have tremendous leadership and attention to detail and just relentless competitive nature. >> and you won the job in training camp when a guy was brought in with a huge signing bonus to have that job. what i don't understand is how does a first year player, now in his second year, become a

leader. i understand that you become a starter. how do you become a leader? >> i think more than anything will, they're looking for guys that will be consistent on a daily basis. so that was my thought process. for me, i played professional baseball, too, so i had been in professional locker rooms before. a transfer from nc state to wisconsin. so being in different locker rooms wasn't anything odd for me. but i think the biggest thing is just the attention to detail all the time. >> can i ask you something about the locker room and the field? the combine is going on. michael sam first openly gay player in the nfl. about to be in the nfl coming forward. how are the players receiving this, what is the general feeling? some legislators actually want to ban gay players in the nfl. what is your take? >> to be honest with you, when i step in the huddle for the seattle seahawks, my focus is on winning games. our goal is one goal and that is to win the super bowl. and every time we step on to the field, that is our mindset. so when i step into the huddle, i don't care if my lineman is

white, black, if my receiver is jewish or christian. >> so you're a good guy. what about guys that will use it against him on the field that may not be like you? >> i don't think so on our team. i think our ultimate goal is to have guys that work extremely hard all the time, that are focused on one common thing. >> and now you are also here not only to meet steve in person which i remember the first time was fantastic, but you're also here for the microsoft surface. i'm so jealous of elizabeth, shall he made teshe made me an adjustments to ipad. tell me about the surface. what do you like about it? >> it's so efficient for you. you can flip the screen, you can do so many different things. i can watch film. it has microsoft word and all that so you can also type. it's really a computer. you can get everything done that you need to. so with the national football

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today is tuesday, february 25. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. brand new pole shows americans trust our military above all else. better hope someone in washington is watching because they're about to slash budgets for our troops. >> meanwhile, she's supposed to be promoting human rights as our ambassador to the united nations. so why is samantha you power suggesting that one american's brutal death, danny pearl's, at the hands of terrorists was his own fault? we'll talk to laura ingram about that in about 30 seconds. >> and who can forget this, joe biden eyeing somebody in the audience at this year's state of the union. now we know who. and we know why. mornings are better with friends. welcome aboard. live from studio e here in

midtown manhattan, it's the tuesday fox and friends 8:00 eastern he had dedition. and you know what happens once a puig. we go down to our nation's capital, laura ingram joins us life. >> did you hear the trumpets? >> i love the trumpet. do you like the new colors on "usa today"? what are these big dots some i don't understand these dots. this is what fascinates me this morning. >> have you got an explanation for that? >> no. very strange. and then we move to the green dots for the money section. it's really strange. >> red dot is sports and you're not the a big sports fan. you're a big athlete. >> watch it. >> she loves sports. and obviously she stayed at a hotel last night if she has "usa today". laura, we want to talk to you about the new fox polls that came out two hours ago. it shows american's confidence

in the president and congress has plummeted over the last kid? >> that's right. but you know who we have a great deal of confidence in? u.s. military at 93%. back in 2003, about the same number. but look at the president. he has nose dived. he's about half the country has a great deal or some confidence in him. and congress just historically has stunk up the place. much better back in 2003. >> well, that's so typical of you. to highlight the president's drop in popularity. i mean remember when the president was talking to o'reilly? it was like, well, the cable networks are the ones who are -- networks like fox are the ones causing this trouble. so i expect if jay carney is asked about that, it will be the typical response. but look, you can only blame bush or the republicans on

capitol hill or fox for so long. >> or you. >> yeah, sorry, that's right, the radio complex. we're part of the problem. for several years now, probably more like 12 rears, most americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. 62% of americans think we're headed in the wrong way right now. that is staggering for that poll number to be where it is for so long. so when you look back over the last five years, what has president obama advocated, right, that has made our lives better and that has helped make our economy start humming again? and you can't really point to a lot. so they can try to blame shift on this and say, well, this is because this is the viciousness of the current public discourse, but the fact of the matter is the country can't going well for most people. it's going well for the upper income earners. if you want to be on the government dole, you have a bit of a cushion. i was in ohio last week. a lot of people suffering, really suffering badly. and the elite aren't in touch

with those people at all. >> a lot of people that will be pretty ticked when it comes to this cut in the military spending here. almost 100% of people feel confidence in our military. so here is an idea, chuck hagel, are don't we cut it by 40% at a time that puts us vulnerable in terms of global action. >> a couple things on that. number one, hagel is carrying out his boss' orders. the priorities here are not going to be to trim some of the entitlements or maybe it's really time to reform social security or talk about -- why are so many more people on disability or food stamps? maybe we need to get the economy going. maybe we need keystone, maybe we need to get the regs off the backs of business. no, we'll go to the heart of the u.s. military. and at the same time, this is what a power in decline looks like. we are a power in decline. we don't like to talk about it, it makes us uncomfortable, but when we're at the gdp levels

that we've been at and we have the debt that we have and we have a ballooning trade deficit with china which went up against last year, this is what happens. at some point, the u.s. military is going to feel a major, major pinch. and so for all these people who are cheer leading, all these trade agreements over the last couple of decades, we lost a lot of ground. >> george bush 41 and bill clinton who picked up the mantle. let's look at the proportion of what we're spending in terms of entitlements. take a look at this graph. 1990s, pretty close. disparity in 2010, 2012. and here we are in 2014. so that is what the president wants for do. we'll see if democrats rise up and there is a bipartisan push back on very popular organization on this midterm election year. i think that maybe congress will step up and stop this.

>> i think you might be right, but i would also caution this, that people need to see that we're getting a big bang for the buck with all the money that we're spending on the military. and i do a lot with military charities and o'reilly, so many of you do, as well. but people are also hurting at hole. so we have to grow the economy. if we want a strong powerful military, then we need a strong vibrant economy that spins off jobs and hikes up the gdp. without that, we can only support the level of military spending that we're supporting for so long. and that's what's going to happen. >> if we're not strong, they will come after us, you just watch. laura, we want you to talk a little bit about this situation on twitter. the united nations am baps door, a woman who once upon a time was a far left academic, she's changed a lot. samantha power tweeted this about daniel pearl. daniel pearl's story is a reminder that individual

accountability and reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. after she tweeted that, people go what are you talking about? he was beheaded by khalid shaikh mohammed himself because he was jewish. what is she talking about? >> remember power comes from a long line of left wing activists who believe that america is really the problem in the world. this view that america's past, as she has described before back in 2013, is something that we have to do basically a national mea culpa for. so her all approach to foreign policy has been america frankly on her news asking for forgiveness is a better america. that's not my view of america. her view is that america's past is so dark and so dismal that we have an enormous amount to account for on the world stage and the president apupon theed h appointed her because that's what he thought. remember what president obama

did with his apology tour and we'll be different, it will be a different playing field in the world with president obama. he and she are cut from the same cloth. they're not different. they believe that america has a lot to atone for and this atoning goes on today. her comments going back decades are even more outrageous. about you she's from the same mold. >> didn't she marry the -- >> yeah, the regulatory czar. he's on my hit list. >> there is a hash tag dedicated to her. she got in there with a correction, switched it to the foundation is a reminder for individual accountability and reckonciliation required. >> yeah, she said we need do a historical reckoning, a series

of mea culpas. that should define who we are. now, that is a very different america than the america that we grew up in where super power status meant something in our role in the word, not perfect, but overall a thoebl onoble one. she doesn't believe america's role was noble. that's where she breaks from the majority of the american people. >> and once upon a time in that job, u.s. ambassador to the united states for the united nations, used to have diplomats, and now a far lefty. >> right. this is your government. >> and as afternoon as i love seeing you, i did not like seeing the snow behind you. please make that go away. i've had enough. >> i'm going to -- they will cancel school if another flake falls. >> all right, laura. see you next time. it's now about ten minutes after. we've covered a lot of space, but there is even more and that is why we turn to health her

with t heather with the news. >> good morning.her heather with the news. >> good morning. this morning a man ambushed and shot in the face at his sprawling new york castle. a man fired a bullet at gary malia as he was getting into his mercedes on long island. police say they don't have any moistu motive, but it is certainly no accident. he is in stable condition at the hospital. and here we go again. another story to bring you with people sick at sea and this time it happened on a holland america cruise ship in the caribbean. the culprit again appears to be the norovirus. the cdc has a lot of questions about the outbreak. it is the same ship that failed either hygiene inspection in september and was infected with e. coli last spring. and pregnant moms, listen to this story. a warning for pregnant women who

take the popular over the counter drug, acetaminophen, which is found in tie la moylen other prescriptions. it could put your unborn child at risk for developing adhd. in fact moms who used it according to the study saw a 37% increased risk in their kids being diagnosed with adhd, especially the mothers who took it in their second and third trimester. and who can forget this one. joe biden eyeing somebody in the audience at the state of tfof t union address. seth meyers most pressing question -- >> as we're working over, a senior senator said, look, i know you and barack are friend, but don't stand up on every damn thing he says. and i said all right. and then i counted. 17 time this is peculiar senator

stood up. so he i went like this. talk about a suck up. >> well, the president didn't even get top billing on the show last night. that went to the star of parks and recreation, amy poehler. got to love biden. >> he's number two behind amy poehler. >> he faked like he was going to make a major announcementannoun. >> and he's counting the number of times a senator is standing up? >> he doesn't have much to do. >> absolutely true. 12 after the hour. why have our nation's heros been waiting years to collect their benefits? maybe this will help explain. >> i'm still cancelling orders from 2001. >> government workers throwing them away. we'll explain. and then no green card? no problem. there might be a much easier way for illegals to get into the united states. [announcer] a healthy dog is a playful dog.

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no green card? no problem. one illegal immigrant from el salvador claiming he was trying to escape a violent gang. used to be a member. now he stays. two gop congressmen are appealing the decision saying we're concerned based on this decision, gang members will be able to receive asylum or withholding in the u.s. simply by telling immigration authorities that they have renounced their membership in the gang.

kris kobach is the immigration lawyer and helped draft arizona address alabama's immigration laws. chris, first off, does this concern you at all,arizonaaddre immigration laws. chris, first off, does this concern you at all, this case with julio martinez? >> yeah, this case really concerns me. this is a bad decision and you don't have to have a law degree to see why. this guy was going to be deported and if you get withholding a removal that's a get out of jail free card. you can stay in america as long as you like. and his lawyer said he'll be persecuted because he's a member of a particular social group. what it means is you're a member of a certain ethnic tribe and that group is being persecuted in the home country. but here is the catch. his lawyer said his particular social group is former gang members. so all he had to do to join this social group is say i hereby renounce my membership in the ms 13 gang. and what it creates is a huge loophole. any gang member that we're

trying to deport, and this is a bad gang, they can say i hereby renounce my gang hmembership, i have to stay. >> and that also could go to terror groups. mr. secretary, this is not just about julio martinez, this is a growing trend. asylum applications have gone up there 5,000 to 36,000. so word is out amongst gang members. a lot are quitting the gapping when they realize the dental plan wasn't what they thought it would be. >> and the other thing problematic, one case like this emerges where an illegal alien is able to avoid deportation, particularly a criminal one, and word spreads that to avoid being september ho

sent home, renounce your membership. i feel we'll see a lot of gang members doing what this guy did and saying you can't deport me now. >> is it up to a judge's disdress di discretion or just in this case? >> no, first it goes to the immigration judge, then board of immigration appeals and then court of appeals. here the immigration judge and court of appeals said he has no claim, deport him. but the court of appeals overturned them. so, yeah, the court of appeals can make a bad decision as happened here. and this is really problematic for the rest of the country. >> i just hope people understand that this a problem for all americans. not democrats or republicans. and the safe act gets out of the blocks in washington. kris kobach, thanks so much for joining us. you certainly have your hands full. also co-author of arizona and alabama immigration laws. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. coming up, a major hole in security at one of our nation's busiest airports. international passengers walking past customs and they open their

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made famous by cat continptain . and passengers almost skip out on customs. passengers arriving on a delta flight to jfk were led into the area where it was not required to clear customs. carry-on passengers could just walk right out. meanwhile, for more than 15 years, rusty and julie bullock have opened their hearts and their florida home to at risk kids who need help and have no place else to go. >> in a new season of their reality show, julie's spontaneous decision to take in a pregnant 21-year-old with a 3-year-old causes unexpected friction. >> hey. >> you didn't tell me she was

pregnant. how can you not think about that? >> joining us julie and rusty. the work you to as we saw in season one is so great. tell every what do you and why you do it.dto as we saw in season one is so great. tell every what do you and why you do it.o as we saw in season one is so great. tell every what do you and why you do it. >> we take in young people that either just need help continuing their path or getting on the right path. target age group is like 18 to 24 where you're an adult, but really not. >> so not foster kids. you call them ranch kids. >> actually most are young adults, but i still call them kids. and we started doing it about 18 years ago. and we've had about 33 live with us. and we started doing it i don't know why. somebody asked me why do i do it and my answer is why not. >> 30 kid it is that you've taken in. and there is a moment that i think caught everybody's heart where you sort of explain the juxtaposition of you taking in

some of the kids you have. take a listen. >> it's hard for people to understand that a red neck can take in a street gang member and he actually becomes one of your kids. >> julie, that's hard for you to watch. why? >> because we have our lives and then we have the show. so when we watch everything that is on the show, we're reliving those moments all over again. >> you have a lot of moments in the new season. you decided to take in sierra. tell us about what you knew about sierra going in and what you know about her now. >> well, what a lot of people don't realize is her 3-year-old is actually the daughter of one of our former ranch kids. the young man, this is his daughter, the 3-year-old. so i was looking for her and she

was not in a good state at the time in her life. and we talked and i said why don't you just come stay with us for a while. she said i think there is something that i need to tell you. and i looked at her and she goes i'm pregnant. and i said that doesn't change. you can still come. >> so you invited her in. you did not talk to rusty ahead of time. >> yes, i broke the rules. and i'm not usually a rule breaker. we usually sit down as a family and talk it over. we did not do that. so my daughter and high son and my husband were a little mad at first. >> sure. well, trying to make everybody's problems at least go away temporarily doesn't exempt you from having struggles of your own. the premiere is tomorrow, right? 9:00 eastern, 8:00 p.m. central. i could talk to you all day. >> it's a great show. >> really great work that you do. >> thank you very much. >> special place in heaven for people like you.

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a lot more show to go. but first things first. heather now according to a report is poised -- why do you keep holding your head, do you still have the sinus infection? yep, it's true. heather now. >> aliens are talking to him.

okay. i do have a disturbing story to bring you. it is an important one that every veteran will want to listen to. why have our nation's hero been waiting years and years to collect some of hatheir benefit some this may help explain. >> i'm still canceling orders from 2001. >> anything over a year old should be canceled. >> should be canceled or scheduled? >> canceled. because they would not let us do a mass purge, so it's just a matter of canceling. >> a story in today's daily caller reports that thousands of veterans medical records were destroyed all together inned to on-to-eliminate a backlog of requests at the department of veterans affairs. there is a committee called system redesign. it reportedly deleted years of records even if they were still waiting for treatment. >> we knew the department was fudging these numbers. we've known that for a long time. but to destroy records of

veterans waiting for care? that is as bad as it gets. >> also waiting for essential medical tests. well, this process goes back as far as 2008. we'll keep watching the story for you. this girl scout making headlines for selling cookies outside of a california pot shop. now colorado wants to make sure that no one tries it there. the girl scouts in colorado releasing a statement saying pot shops are not appropriate places for girls to sell cookies. bars, casinos and liquor stores are all off-limits, too. after two decades of the milk mustaches, the famous got milk advertising campaign is now being put on the shelf. instead they're rolling out a new campaign called milk life and that is supposed to highlight milk's nutritional benefits. the new ads feature regular americans instead of celebrities such as these lovely people right here. they look very familiar. >> did you ruin it for

everybody? >> yes, i did. we asked you what you would use as the new slogan. peter says everybody's milking it. >> and marg says milk, utterly delicious. >> and craig says milk, it does chocolate syrup good. >> my kids will vote for that. >> from here to madison avenue. and from the couch right to maria. >> so let's moove outside. >> you're also clever. let's take a look at the weather conditions across the country. if you live in the eastern two thirds of the country and you head out the door this morning, you will start to notice the temperatures getting a lot cooler out there. temperaturesthe midwest and northeast. and tomorrow, temperatures dropping in texas and parts of the southeast.

you won't make it out of the 40s in cities like dallas, atlanta and even in raleigh, north carolina. we do have a quick moving clipper system swinging through part of the midwest and northeast today. it's not expected to produce a lot of snow, but you will see the snow showers and flurries around in cities like d.c. and even up into new york city possible. again, not a lot of accumulation expected and that will be the case as well tomorrow with another light round of snow. out west, dry conditions, but good news, a storm system has arrived. expected to move in tomorrow into thursday. reducing lower elevation rain and snow and another one just in time for the weekend. let's head over to steve. >> thank you very much. since medical marijuana is legal in many places, do you know who the drug dealers are? >> can you use the clippings that come directly around the

bud that are loaded with thc, or you can use just the bud itself. both are very, very effective. >> the weird thing the person that taught us how to do it was an illegal. >> that was 63-year-old ellen smith, a medical mayor hair caregiver who can legally grow and sell pot. the mother of four started using and selling to help her with her own debilitating disease. it's happening in 20 states. and the district of columbia. for some, the only requirement is you have to be at least 18 years old. ellen follows the law, but many don't. so how do we know it's not being sold for correrecreational use? two heads are better than one, so we brought in arthur idey id and dr. ablo. this is a serious issue.

with 20 states having medical marijuana, what is extraordinary about this is who the people who are growing it, and so many people who are not sanctioned are just breaking the law. >> right. let me back track. regarding the medical marijuana, one of the most prestigious judges in new york who died of pancreatic cancer, he wrote a half page article in the "new york times" saying medical marijuana that is smoked needs to be legalized because that was the only they think that helped him with his pancreatic cancer. so we agree i think that medical marijuana needs to be there. but it needs to go on the federal law books. right now it is just on the state law books. so that every is clear, a new president can come in, a new administration can come in and say no, no, no, no. not when i'm president of the united states. and he can shut the whole place down. >> because right now what the federal government is doing is they're just looking the other way. >> 100%. i couldn't say it any better than that. >> they're allowing -- it's a

policy decision by the administration to allow this to happen and i've very rarely seen it, but this is an and occasion we need more government regulation. these are people wonderful who aren't breaking the law, but the implication is huge to deal it out the back window of the house. >> you have to figure many people do. however the couple we just profiled, they admit nobody has ever checked up on them before. watch this. >> you hear about a lot of abuse. police say their position is that there is too much abuse going on. and there probably is. there haare no checks on it. nobody has come to the house to check us out. >> it will always be that kind of abuse whether it's alcohol, whatever the issue might be. we'll have that in society. and we have to deal with those people. but it doesn't mean you punish the people that really need the medication. >> all right. medical marijuana is a joke. caregivers are a joke. these seem like nice people, but the bottom line --

>> their heart is in the right place. >> medical marijuana, there are prescription mills, they will give prescriptions to anybody. headaches, back pain, depression, anything you say you have, you get a prescription. you take your prescription over to one of these medical marijuana caregivers and they're your dealer. many were drug dealers and now they're making a couple hundred grand growing the crop up in maine in a mobile home. >> it looks like this couple that we just met, they're doing it because they is very ill, right? >> and they're making money. god bless them for making money. but the bottom line is this is no control. this is the wild west. they don't even have a label on it that says it wasn't grown in horrible conditions. >> in rhode island the law is you have to be a caregiver and you can service up to five patients. it's very odd, i'll tell you, i know the laws in a lot of states and this is a very odd law. five people you can service. but one of them has to be someone who is your primary

patient so to speak. but the person who is growing it can't be the doctor or a direct directive. i don't know. it's -- this is an evolving area of the law that needs to be looked at. the bottom line is we don't want kids, we don't want 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds to get their hands on marijuana. not at that age. if they're 25 and making their own decisions, that's one thing. >> i like intellectual honesty. legalize it. because lying and saying this is for medical purposes when the basic reason is to get the care give is to get the drug on the side because they're addicts. >> there is a difference, doctor, between people like the judge who had pancreatic cancer who was smoking it because they needed to and the 20-year-old who is smoking it because i don't really want to deal with school, man. >> what they have in common is that this crop is out of control. lots of people will get addicted. >> it's legal in-is ansais an s.

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fallon. i'd love to be in some of your me meetings. first off, when you asked the president about the keystone pipeline, being that we now have a positive report from the state department, how soon until it gets built? >> well, that is the first question i asked him as national chair of the governors association. first of all, thanked him on comments me recently that are encouraging about natural gas. but then i said what about the keystone pipeline. we've been waiting since basically 2008 for approval. can you use your executive powers as that he's been doing to get the keystone pipeline done. and he hedged a little bit. he talked a little bit about natural gas, talked about climate change. and finally in the meeting a little later on, he came back and said over the next couple of months. and i actually had my white house note pad here and i wrote down next couple months. so that was his comment to us. >> so we're talking about a 1179

mile pipeline, $7 billion it would cost creating up to possibly 42,000 jobs or more in the u.s.. and we hear a lot about the executive action that he said he was going to use and the pen and the phone. but why not now? why two months? >> that was my question. i said why not use your executive orders right now because you can do that. in the state of oklahoma, we have what is called the pipeline capital cross roads of the united states where the pipelines come together. and it was opened up, keystone pipeline trans canada opened up. i said let's do it through the rest of the nation. it's important for national and economic security. we know we're having an energy renaissance that is creating jobs and revenue, certainly helps us be able to produce the energy that we need to in our nation. >> and so we have to wait a couple months to find out about key season. governor, it does seem like what we have heard is a lot of the

jobs are being created at the state level. and i know you guys asked the president many different questions to get his answer. but did he have an open ear to listen to how you're growing jobs in the state of oklahoma and elsewhere? >> well, absolutely. one of the things i told him is that we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation right now and we're certainly raising our per capita income. there has been a lot of discussion about the minimum wage in our nation. but if you look at oklahoma income growth since 2011 when i took office, per capita income growth has grown by 44% for a family of four. making it number two in the nation in job growth. and so the best way to raise up all americans is to create good paying jobs. and what i've been talking to him about is job skills, being able to have the educational attainment level we need in america to be able to produce good paying jobs in our nation so we can alleviate poverty, we can grow our economy.

and so we can raise americans up and give them a better quality of life. >> let's hope he was listening and he wasn't just turning it into a big photo-op. mary fallon, thank you very much. glad you're back home. >> thank you. appreciate it. 12 before the top of the hour. liberals claim to be champion for the middle class, but our next guest says it's not the case. >> let's check in with what is coming up at the top of the hour. >> another shoe drops. news that millions of small business employees are going to see their insurance rates go up. and a tense showdown happening in arizona over religious liberties. eric holder tells state ags that they don't have to defend a certain law if they don't want to. that has a lot of people asking questions this morning. we'll see you right here at the top of the hour.

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president obama promised to do something about income inequality during the state of the union address last month. >> what i believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple profound belief in opportunity for all. the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead in america. >> but is the president truly a champion for the poor and the middle class or have his policies moved too far left and

taken the country way off course? fred siegel is the author of the revolt against the masses. he joins us right now. good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being here. so what happened? we hear this support for middle class, but you say liberalism is not supporting all middle class workers. >> public sector middle class, people who work for government unions. but obama has a hard time with private sector middle class people, small business. and you can see this with our interest rate policies, the kind of fed policies he supports. wall street has done wonderfully under obama, main street has done terribly. wall street has gotten higher profit, main street has gotten part-time jobs. >> he promised to go after wall street. >> he's extraordinarily good president rhetorically, but after 2008, much of what we used to call the mainstream media,

will is no such thing anymore. it attached itself to the president and to support the president. so the fact that wall street has done so well as main street has done so badly you think would be a matter of headlines. >> or fact. >> or fact. just imagine if a republican was president and the country was creating more part-time than full-time jobs, the "new york times" would be running a 36 part series on this, on the failure to create, a nation of hamburger flippers. >> is it irreversible? >> no, i don't think it's irreversible, but it will be difficult to reverse until there is a different president. >> you actually have strong liberal philosophy yourself in terms of identifying with that side of politics. now it's not the case for you anymore. but what is it about the open mindedness that some liberals claim to have sort of stops the door when it comes to someone who might have an opposing view. >> i think that idea of open minded liberalism dates to the

50s. in the 50s, when the cold war made it clear that communism was unacceptable, liberals were different. but that really ends with the kennedy assassination. in the wake of the the kennedy assassination, liberals never come to grips with the fact who lee harvey oswald is. he's a communist. and still all these years later, still talking about the city of dallas. the city of dallas pulled the trigger to kill kennedy. so liberalism lost its bearings in the wake of the kennedy assassination. it's never really regained them. what it has regained is patr patronage. >> i have to say, it's an excellent book. >> thank you. >> and we're thrilled to have you here. more fox and friends moments away. play close. good and close. help keep teeth clean and breath fresh with beneful healthy smile snacks. with soft, meaty centers and teeth cleaning texture ...it's dental that tastes so good.

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should very with dr. an bel ablow on the show too many? you can stick around in. >> sure. martha: all right. thanks, you guys. fox news alert as we get started this morning. proposed new reaction to proposed cuts to our armed forces. vice president dick cheney says the cuts are more than irresponsible and down right dangerous in his view. >> i think the whole thing is not driven by any change in world circumstances. it is driven by budget considerations. would much rather spend "money" on food stamps than a strong military than money for our troops. martha: that is strong reaction. we'll bet much more than that. and more reaction from colonel ralph peters who joins as you couple minutes away. we begin this morning with another damaging report for