and king rock says, no matter how old they are as long as it's for the good of america and its people." some great thoughts there. thanks for sharing all of them. by the way, tomorrow on the show, david wise, olympian with his family. i'm grinch en. now here's shep. got you beat. today we have maria bartiromo. she has come to the promised land that is the fox news family. she left that place in new jersey and now she's here. started from the bottom. now she's here. we'll talk to her about all kinds of stuff. something about how bankers are accused of helping rich people of dodging taxes. maria, why did you come here? why do you hate cnbc? why? or something like that. plus there's real news today as well. have you seen this video? a school bus driver caught on camera smacking a student with a broom? unbelievable. the rest of the fight and the words from the bus company coming up. the biebs has just dropped a new video. the jailhouse sobriety test.

it's going to be great. it's our first look at these recordings, and we'll show them to you in this hour. it's bartiromo wednesday. so let's get to it. happy wednesday to you and first from the fox news des this can afternoon, the united states is telling russia stand down. and warning that it does not need a new cold war c confrontation. it came from the secretary of state john kerry as the russians prepare to show off their military might. a move that has western leaders warning we will be watching. the russian president vladimir putin ordered an urgent drill for troops in western russia. that's along the country's border with the ukraine where bloody protests drove the president into hiding after he cozied up to the kremlin. now we're seeing new demonstrations in ukraine. fist fights broke out in the streets in the south today. on one side folks who want the country to align with the russians, on the other side

those pushing to go the way of the west, who want nothing to do with their former russian rulers. russia's leaders have said publicly they will not interfere with ukraine. but the prime minister, said that the situation is putting russia's interests at risk. that's the same thing russian officials said right before invading the former soviet republic of georgia in 2008. now u.s. officials are warning russ russia, do not make a repeat in the ukraine. with us now the former defense secretary william cohen. he also served in congress during much of the cold war. secretary cohen, how serious is this situation? the development of it so far? >> well, the situation in ukraine is quite serious, because you have this great divide ideological divide within the country itself. the russians at this point appear to be engaged in some chest pounding. and i think they must take care. the united states is kind of warning them not to go to a cold war mentality. but that warning has to be with some caution as well. we don't want to give the

implication to the ukranian people we're about to commit military forces to the region. and i think the signal to the russians has to be, you just invested 50 or $60 billion in building some goodwill. that will dissipate immediately. you don't have to use your military. you certainly have controls over the economy of ukraine, gas, loans, credits. so you can flex muscle but do it in a way that tries to hold the country together. i think that's the message the united states and the e.u. has to send. let's say let's work with russia to provide a solution and not simply use a hammer to try and hammer the ukranian people into submission. >> it's no secret to diplomats and analysts putin has wanted to create an eastern alliance for countries if you will some parts of the old soviet union. part of his focus now seems to be -- correct me if i'm wrong -- with krimea that would give him access, another warm water port. it's important to him.

if you see moves in that area i'm sure we'd see that as a sign >> it is important to russia. and we should be sensitive to russia's interests in the region as well. it's not as if that this is going to be a move toward the united states and western democracy overnight. i think what our position is and has to be that we want to see ukraine which is an independent country have the ukranian people decide for themself what kind of future they want. they're free, they're independent. we want to see a free and independent europe that is whole and at peace. and russia should want that. they don't need to have a country that's destabilized. and by the way, the economy in the ukraine is very, very fragile. they're almost on the edge of bankruptcy now. and so it's not in russia's interests to contribute to the instability but rather to work with the e.u. and the united states to say, how can we have a transition to a government that's freely elected that is inclusive, that tries to heal the divide between the east and

the west within ukraine and promote that. that's in russia's interests and our interests and the e.u. so that's what the goal has to be. and for russia to threaten to use military force at this point i think is very contrary to their interests, not only in the region but globally. >> very short on time. but if the west sees a movement that the west doesn't trust, does the west have the capability even the wherewithal to do anything? >> the west should not be engaged military. i think that would be a mistake to raise the aspirations of the ukranian people to say that we're coming. we've been through this before. let's not raise false expectations. let's use our soft power. let's use our diplomatic power and economic initiative to try to bring a result about not military power. >> william cohen, former defense secretary live with us this afternoon from washington. what's your worry level quickly? >> it's pretty high in terms of what's taking place in ukraine. you have a country as i indicated on the verge of

bankruptcy. you have loans that have been offered and now withdrawn from russia. so the question is, what will the west do? how can we help economically short term and insist upon a reformation of the institutions which have really been corrupt and a kleptocracy in the country. how do we help reform that country, help theia ukranians reform their country. >> tall orders and a close watch. secretary cohen, great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. well, there's a new round of bitter cold air making its way into our winter misery. let's move over to the wall here and some of the current temperatures across the chill zones. not too bad in the deep south. i mean, 24 in momeemphis. it's cold. rebels playing baseball today. supposed to be a high of 36 in oxford. not going to be pleasant. northeast, though, caribou, maine, new york city, cleveland, chicago, minus 5 is your wind

chill. minneapolis you're used to it, you stay indoors. we've been following reaction on twitter. we asked you for comments about this. for me it's getting old. winter happens every year. but this level of winter and the every other day snow posts, i'm done. >> it's getting really old. we asked people what they thought of the cold and what they're doing to stay warm. one woman wrote us who has our spring and i want it back. it's cold in mississippi. >> it is cold in mississippi. the rebels are going to tee off at swazy field today and it's going to be about 32 degrees. that's too cold for baseball. it's just not right. >> pretty ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> another woman wrote actually leaving florida tomorrow for michigan. i miss snow. >> head on back there. >> she likes that, apparently. >> crazy lady writing in. kidding. >> one guy wrote us, he said he's making sure his propane heater is gassed up. >> propane expensive and in some cases hard to find this season. >> yes, it is. bermuda.com wrote us, the answer should be off to bermuda. it's 72.

>> 72 in #bermuda? bermuda is along the same line as the carolinas. i would have thought it would be colder than that there. >> apparently it's all right. >> thank you, sir. well, people are apparently upset over the cold. a weatherman at our station in minneapolis, kmsp, says folks have been taking it out on him. >> people hate me right now. you go into a coffee shop and they give you a sideways glance. usually people are like hey, how's it going? what's going on? now it's like, oh, yeah. hey, it's a tough place to be. >> our chief meteorologist live in the weather sent right now. rick, it's not getting better yet. >> it is not. you can't go anywhere right now. i get into the elevator it's the first thing anybody says. it's like part therapist, part life coach telling people how to handle it. here you go. you decide. temperatures right now actual air temperature as little bit better for now. watch what happens over the next five days shep. tomorrow's high in fargo minus

1. friday a tiny warmup back to 5. take a look at saturday this, cold air gets all the way down here by sunday back towards the south, amarillo looking for a high of 31. i got to tell you, go all the way out for about the next ten days, no big signs that this pattern changes. the only good news is, eventual lit sun angle is getting higher and higher. get into march and it does get warm and the snow doesn't stick around as long. but we're not done with it yet. >> i'm looking at the weather app over here. over the next ten days there are more days of snow in our neighborhoods than nonsnow. >> i'm going to tell you the positive side of this. for our storm track at least in the short term it's heading a little bit to the south. to california, a place that desperately desperately needs rain, here's one storm that's going to bring rain today into tonight. and that one back there is the bigger storm. this right here is the future radar. you see what happens here. we get a little bit of a break into. to and then take a look at this juicy storm right here. very heavy rain into southern california friday. probably the strongest storm that they have in maybe two years. that's the good news. head in towards sunday, shep,

we're talking about potentially a major ice storm across the ohio valley and more probably heavy snow across areas just north of it. missouri, illinois, indiana, ohio, pennsylvania, and new york. >> you know who escapes the frozen t froz froze frozen tundras of new jersey, maria bartiromo. she's here to talk about bankers accused of helping rich people dodge taxes in some of the most unbelievable ways. wait until you hear some of the tricks they reportedly used to help their clients hide cash from the irs. i'll ask maria about that. and i solicited your tweets for ms. bartiromo. you can tweet us @shepnewsteam. do so quickly. this is a short commercial break. the money honey herself, maria bartiromo, has joined the fox family. and i don't know, they're there are like 2,000 of us here. we're all celebrating. welcome to the friendly family. starts with back pain...

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i was like yeah, but that doesn't sound right. she's been over there for 20 years. why would she leave the beautiful thriving metropolitan that is new jersey. why would she do that to come to rockefeller center and the most successful news operation in the city. she's done it now. the fox business network's maria bartiromo is here for the first time. new host of "opening bell with maria bartiromo" on the fox business network. bienvenidos. >> thanks for having me. you've been so wonderful. i can't thank you enough for your graciousness. he is so gracious, this person. >> not true. don't ruin my image. >> you are and it is true. welcome. it's always great to have another great journalist in the building. >> thank you. >> you are. we've been watching. i'm going to ask her about this scandal with all the rich people and bankers. what are you doing here? why did this happen? you were there for 20 years, the face of that network. you were the money honey. >> well, i just felt that after 20 years, audiences had changed and it really just was more than just the stock market. we were doing such a focus on

the stock market and sort of quick trades and short-termism. i felt like i wanted to give perspective, i wanted longer interviews. and i just -- roger ailes came with this amazing of for come here with the daily show and a sunday morning show on fox news channel. and it was just an offer i couldn't refuse. so i said, you know what, stick my neck out, take a risk. why not? >> the history says what happens around here tends to work out. look at the picture of her from her last day at the new jersey channel on the store of the new york stock exchange. tears that day. >> i walked onto the floor. i was walking onto my set. all of a sudden they gave me a clap off. they call it a clap off. everybody gets away from their computers, stops what they're doing and just claps. they do that only for members of the new york stock exchange and they did it for me. i was so emotional about it. >> you're getting a little misty now. >> the new york stock exchange traders and nyc security guards, i love those security guards. hi, guys. they are my buddies for 20 years. so i was very emotional.

>> there's a clip from steve jobs i think from 2005 that was a memorable one that some of the producers were looking at and thought it was worth putting up on the screen. though i don't see it popping up on the screen at the moment. >> can i ask you about the battery. i only ask because i know that in the past there was some concern about the ipod battery thought wasn't as strong as some would have liked. i have my own anecdotal story actually. my ipad stopped working on me. >> and then there's tiger woods. we won't conflate the two. go on. >> you played very well this year. i know our viewers have been tweeting and writing in. but you didn't win any majors. you still think you have a shot at beating jack nicklaus's record of 18? >> oh, my god. i can't believe you have those clips. >> well, youtube is a wonderful thing. >> actually one day i made the mistake of going to a conference, going onstage and singing "we are family." it was on youtube that night. >> what are the relations like

with all our former colleagues over there and stuff? >> i do have a lot of friends there. >> sure. >> i think they were surprised that i would leave. i was in a safe place. i was sort of at the top of my game. but you have to change or you have to take a risk sometimes. and it does require courage. and it was a hard decision. but i'm really happy i did, because i feel like this is an opportunity for me to start anew and ensure we are doing a show that i think audiences want. so i'm happy about >> it more approachable. more for regular people, not rich billionaires? >> it's both. i think today people are more informed about their money than ever before. and i think they are looking for ways to be wise in long-term investing, not necessary lit short term. and that's really what i want to do. i want to look at the market long term, look at investing how to save and invest wisely over the long term. because that's one of the secrets in business. people do not save enough. we're living longer, we need to outlive our money. and not the other way around. so i hope to help people with that. >> all right. if they were to coin the phrase

"money honey" today it would probably be tossed off the air for political incorrectness. but joey ramon among others has a crush on you. you've been living that way in a man's world for a long time. >> when i first started broadcasting from the floor of the new york stock ex change it had not been done before. it was a little tough on some of the guys down there. some people didn't want me there. i had to rub elbows and alligator skin. joey ramon. oh, my god. joey ramon, quick story. he used to e-mail me all the time saying maria, what do you think about aol, amazon. i didn't realize it was the real joey ramon. i was answering him back. he was a viewer. i was giving him my take on things. he called me and said i want you to come down i wrote a song about you. i said joey i have to be up tomorrow morning at 4:00 in the morning. i'm so mad i didn't go that night. when he sent me the video of singing that song, most people don't know what a savvy investor joey ramon was. he knew what he was doing. >> all right.

i want to get to tweets about you in a minute. there's a story today out there that a bunch of rich people were dealing with credit suisse and they rolled out the red carpet. the allegation is they broke a lot of rule. >> yeah. it looks that way. the end of the day it really is about are they going to be able to prove that in fact management was aware of this. management brady dugan ceo testifying we had no idea of this. a small group of bankers in switzerland. the worth worst case scenario is a 5 to $6 million fine. there is a rule that a company can pay restitution up to half of your assets under management. they have 12 billion in accounts for u.s. citizens. >> that's not going to happen. >> i don't think it will be $5 billion. we know looking at other firms, ubs paid $780 million. so we'll probably talk about at least 1.5 to $2 billionsuisse. >> there's one woman who supposedly strapped $250,000 into her panty hose?

>> sounds like in rubies, really. extraordinary. that elevator? that's the thing. >> tell us about the elevator. >> the elevator apparently they had this secret elevator that was done by remote control so people didn't see these wealthy individuals going up and dealing with their bankers. that's the kind of stuff that could get the company in trouble. because if you have this whole structure where everything is very secretive and you are able to know that you have this structure then how did management not know what was going on. but i would tend to believe because i know a lot of people at credit suisse, i would tend to believe it is true that management did not realize what this small group of bankers were doing in switzerland. it remains to be seen. any dealings i've had with credit suisse has been very on the level and strong and they have integrity. we'll see what happens. >> they have a lot of questions to answer. >> they do. >> how big is this investigation going to be? >> this investigation is ongoing. that's the thing. you don't have any timeline on it. we know they settled at the s.e.c. it's the department of justice that really is the issue. that's where a very large substantial fine could come in.

and some analysts are saying it could go as high as 5 or $6 billion. >> we got some tweets on you. we asked people to tweet us @shepnewsteam. maria bartiromo, i would like to ask how does it feel to be the smarter than all the men combined in financial news? >> not true but thank you for that. >> what else? what's the biggest threat to the economy now and in the future? >> well, i think the biggest threat is no growth or slow growth. we need to get back to growth. and for some reason we're not focused on growth not focused on job creation. if we were we would be having fiscal policies in place like tax reform, like immigration reform, that actually helps the economy grow. so far it's been all about the federal reserve and monetary policy. we need to see fiscal policy. >> those things get in the way of politics, yes. >> would rerather gamble at casinos on on the new york stock exchange? >> easy question there. blackjack. just kidding. you have to invest in equities.

that's the way to create long-term wealth. i think equities is the way to go. if you're looking at this market long term. >> maria bartiromo, welcome to the fox family. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> the news continues on the fox news desk right after this. comcast brought millions of people closer

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told our indianapolis affiliate that the driver had been disciplining another student and that she then started arguing with her and that the driver basically told her to put down her phone. she said no. and that's when things got heated. you can see and hear the intensity. then it appears it becomes physical. the student says the driver hit her in the head with that broomstick. she also admits she instigated the whole thing. >> completely 100% admit that i started it. and i'm not going to sit here and lie to you. i did start it. but that don't give a grown woman a reason to put her hands on me at all. >> well, the student says that she has a fractured bone in her nose from this fight. and shep, her mother says she just can't believe it an adult would hit a student like that. >> she's the one who said, your mother is a [ mute ]. i heard that. it came out of her mouth, didn't it? >> yeah. that's what apparently the driver said to the student. >> she didn't seem nearly as nice as maria bartiromo.

i don't know her well so i'll let it go. but the bus driver talking about this or no? >> in all fairness, we did reach out to the bus driver today. while she did not respond to our calls, she did tell our affiliate that her attorney advised her not to comment on this story as you can imagine. now, she works for a private company, not for the school system. and that company released a statement to us that basically said they do train drivers on how to handle confrontations. >> they train them do not hit kids with broom sticks over the face. great. needed training for that. >> to be exact, they said in situations our policy directs the bus driver to call dispatch and request assistance. well, shep, that company says the driver is now suspended pending this investigation. but you and i both know that all bus drivers aren't bad. >> of course not. most bus drivers are awesome. >> i'm sure you ride buses all the time and i'm sure they're good to you as long as you're good voice. >> i suppose. i remember coach gun with the board of education just whacking that butt over and over. i was not a quiet child. >> i'm guessing you deserved it.

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you want to customize your children? the feds are debating whether to let you parents combine the dna of not one or two but three people to make one baby. stir it all up and see what happens. dna from man donor, a woman donor and a woman or a man who's a donor. it's part of a procedure that supporters say could help eliminate certain genetic diseases in newborns. scientists say they've already done it in monkeys. now the food and drug

administration is considering whether to allow human beings testing. the fda is now holding meetings to discuss the scientific issues around this whole procedure. of course, it's also raising many ethical questions. and some critics say it could lead to so-called designer babies. faith gallagher with more on that age em live from our west coast news hub. how does this procedure work exactly? >> reporter: the jean they're talking about is mitochondrial dna if it's defective can lead to blindness and other diseases. it's carried by the moms. they take the mom's egg but take out the mitochondrial dna and replace it with a donor's mitochondrial so the baby still gets mom and dad's traits but a donor's healthy dna. supporters call it gene correction that could eradicate a lot of disease. dr. art kaplan who's a medical ethicist says he's in favor of the technique within reason. listen. >> if we want to draw the line we have to draw anytime a different place.

not to say never jeanetgenetica engineer an embryo or a baby, but we have to say only use it for diseases. if that's what we're going to say, i'm comfortable with that. but to say we're not going to do it at all and leave kids impaired or dying, that seems to me not the right ethical course. >> so far the fda is not hipping its hand on which way it will lean. but experts believe they will allow this in small-scale trials. shep. >> there are some fierce critics of this thing, trace. what's their point? >> well, their point is they call this gene modification. and they're saying that what happens is it's the first step toward parents actually picking their child's eye color and height and iq. they say there are a lot of religious and social and ethical concerns when scientists decide to start playing god. they also believe that the technique could lead to unintended disease and mutation and they point out the fda would be the first government agency in the world to approve this. saying i'm quoting here, this is

a biologically extreme procedure that puts any resulting children at serious risk. and that breaks a long-standing international consensus against producing genetically engineered humans. so far the fda has not given us a timeline of exactly when they will rule on this. >> trace gallagher in l.a. trace, thank you. the food and drug administration may have broken federal law when it spied on whistle blowers within its own agency. that's according to a brand-new report from two republican lawmakers. it shows that for two years the fda monitored the personal e-mails of some of its own scientists. that's after they went public with safety concerns about medical devices that the agency was approving. federal law protects whistle blowers. and the report suggests that monitoring was part of an effort to retaliate against the scientists. fda officials have said they were simply trying to stop people from leaking corporate information. and agency spokewoman also says

this report only paints part of the picture. our senior judiciary analyst is live on the fox news desk this afternoon. trying to prevent leaks. you can only go so far. >> of course. let me tell you what they did. they put software into the personal and fda computer of these scientists which took a photograph of their screen, their computer screen, every seven seconds for a couple of years. >> wow. >> so it's almost inconceivable that there was something on the screen that the fda didn't capture. the fda plays two roles here. it is their employer. so it does have some opportunity to make sure that the corporate assets, government assets, are being used for a proper function. but they're also the government. so they're regulat fourth amendment. now, what can they do? they can look at the workplace computer for a specific problem. can't be a fishing expedition. they have to know what the problem is and they can look for

it. but every seven seconds? absolutely prohibited by the fourth amendment which regulates government, prohibited by workplace which regulates all employers. they were trying to find whistle blowers. and whistle blowers were looking to reveal to the world that the fda was not permitting safe, reliable drugs to come out in a reasonable and responsible time. >> you've used some harsh language on this. you said it's an egregious breach of privacy and an illegal search and seizure >> yes. because they're the government. look, if fox did this to you or me it wouldn't be an illegal search and seizure. >> we have an agreement. i allow them to do that by contract. >> corrects. and they're not the government so they're not constrained by the fourth amendment. the fda is the government so it's constrained by the fourth amendment. if they want to see their employees' computer screens every seven seconds they have to go to a judge and get a search warrant. they didn't do it, they did it on their own. it's aen exquisite violation of

fourth amendment rights. to silence whistle blowers the people who did it should be fired and prosecuted. i don't know if they'll ever figure out who did this. the software didn't appear by itself. >> recent history tells me nothing will happen. >> you're probably right. republicans may have a political angle here but they're on the right path. >> there's always a political angle but i hear you. thank you, judge. a startling new report is out on childhood obesity from the united states. from this dex or one of them in this room over a dozen years i've been reporting about how childhood obesity is our biggest problem. it is getting worse and worse and it's killing our kids. no mas. we've taken an enormous turn in a good direction. and then there's that krispy kreme unveiled, kriezy new doughnut. big doughnuts and coffee together. of course what we were thinking -- there it is. look at the spokes lady. she's so vanna white. we're shooting this or an ipad from the green room. because we can. that krispy kreme, it's a coffee-flavored thing. we'll give you all the details on that. hang on.

breaking news now. fox urgent and a live look in st. paul, minnesota, don't ya know. president obama proposing a four-year, $300 billion program to repair america's road and bridges. could we begin with 15th street between 5th and 6th. the president making an announcement at a historic railroad station in st. paul. the white house says he will explain how to pay for this program. aides say they could raise about half the money by closing what they call quote unfair loopholes for businesses unquote. the white house says the president wants to work with congress to get it done, but lawmakers have not approved other transportation bills in the past. or anything else for that matter. if you'd like to watch this event you can do that. we're making it available at fox news.com and it's streaming live right now. there's a new government study that show as big drop in the obesity rate among young children over the past decade.

an enormous drop in the obesity rate. and researchers say the results surprised even them. according to the feds, about 14% of kids aged 2 to 5 were obese back in 2004. now a decade or so later it's nearly half that. but some analysts point out it was not a steady drop, so it's really not clear whether the number is permanently declining. but it's good news. let's not look good news and slap it around. still health experts say this could be very good news when it comes to the fight against obesity. some studies show children who are overweight or obese in their preschool years are five times as likely to be overweight as adults. a nutritionist with us who writes nutrition news at fox news.com. >> this is very significant. it marks the first broad decline in the trend of obesity. >> why is it happening? . there are a few factors they are attributing to perhaps why kids are now not gaining as much weight. one of them is more mothers are

breast feeding which tends to control weight better in those younger, formative years. two, less sugary drinks. there's been a lot of information, education, teaching moms that these sugary drinks are empty calories. and the last one is families are actually buying more low-calorie foods. >> and it seems as if some people are getting an education about this sort of thing that maybe they never had before. i'm sure there are plenty of people who didn't know that cheetos and doughnuts are really not the best thing for a 2-year-old. >> i think what the study really proves is education is key. because we know that these 2 to 5-year-olds which we've seen the decrease in the weight occurring, they're not the ones doing the food shopping, or actually making the meals. it's the parents. so the message is finally arriving to the parents and now they're making smarter choices. >> that's great news. good job, parents. hang on. speaking of doughnuts we heard about the new coffee-infused doughnuts from krispy kreme. which sounds like a green room dream come true. one newspaper here in new york

implied that the doughnuts had caffeine in them. so we called the company and requested a few dozen. and we didn't get these for free. we don't take free merchandise. we paid for these. a christ a krispy kreme spokesman said they are not caffeinated, just coffee flavored. you want one? >> of course. this proves why it's so hard. here we go discussing trends that we're seeing a decrease in obesity and now we have big business putting out these products that make it impossible for americans to stick to their resolve. >> it's not big business's job to keep us healthy. it's our job. >> that's why education is key. we are talking about 350 calories in these doughnuts. and obviously coffee infused or coffee flavored, they're trying to suggest this is a great breakfast option. >> no, it's not. >> let me tell you. two of these, it is the equivalent of four cheeseburgers from mcdonald's. >> oh, my gosh. >> that would be your breakfast. >> anybody? come on, sarah.

she has to have gluten-free. you're good. this is coffee infused. what's that? please give some out, why don't you. john glen? i know you like coffee. >> i do. >> it doesn't take that much for coffee for me. i don't know why we're doing a commercial for krispy kreme. >> all these people are hungry. we don't feed them until the end of the day. >> the point is, you don't give these to your children. you do if you want to. they're your kids. but they're going to be a lot better off if you don't feed them this stuff, right? >> of course. this is a calorie bomb. no fiber, no protein. you eat this, an hour later you're hungry. >> sugar is killing us. giving us type two diabetes and it is a killer. in fact they're going to start recommending only five what amounts to sugar packets per day of sugar. >> that's where standards are important. education, the government getting involved. the government can't censor what americans should be eating. it's up to the consumer. >> i love the idiots saying the

government should not tell us how many calories are in something at the local restaurant. we shouldn't know the calories. why not? knowledge is power. tell us what's in it. we've been getting that information in our fast food restaurants in new york for years. i tell you, you serve whatever you want. but when i see a burger has 1,000 calories and the chicken sandwich has 300 i go for the chicken sandwich. >> that's where education we talk about subsidies this. tough is cheap. you have a dollar you can afford this. a granola and yogurt parfait is costly for people. cheap food, cheap in calories but people can afford it. >> tanya, thank you. we are getting a look at bieber's latest video. we have video from him in all. he was the hit of the jail down in south florida. we have ten hours of it. because you do not have ten hours we have looked at it for you and we'll show you how he did on his sobriety test. that's next.

nine minutes before the hour. we have just gotten new surveillance video of justin bieber in jail. back in january the biebs spent hours in custody in south florida after cops said they caught him illegal he drag racing a lambo. here he is trying to pass the sobriety test. this is quite a thing. you will see a few stumbles now and then, but they say he was not drunk. they did not release sensitive parts of the video, whoever that means. they do strip searches there. and the judge will decide next week if we get to seeha stuff. here at the fox news desk, we'll pass, thank you. biebs pleaded not guilty for driving under the influence and resisting arrest. don't you wish he were your client, arthur? he has a lot of money. >> it will be 4:00 when you get

off the air and get the donuts. me and bartiromo, we can watch it. we can watch it in the precinct, him doing this kind of test, and the one thing the judge rules is we can't watch him pee in the cup, that's not allowed. why this video is out, i don't know. >> i can tell you, because it's florida. in florida they have terrific sunshine laws. the best sanitizer, the best disinfectant is sunshine, and in florida they release things, but it is not always pretty. i know from firsthand it is not always pretty. >> i thought it was a lemon that was -- >> that's what you get for thinking. so go on now. >> the bottom line is they made a motion, his lawyers made a motion to the judge, please don't release this. it is just all prejudicial if it

goes to trial, but the judge said everybody can see this. he's already pleaded not guilty. he wants to pursue these -- fighting these charges. why it's out there, i don't know. >> it's because it's florida, that's it. different states have different laws. i understand the ones here and the ones there, at least they didn't put -- whatever. one of his security guys got arrested today. >> yeah, it's an empire spiraling out of control. >> they were the paparazzi taking picture, and they weren't happy about it. look at bieber all over -- they weren't happy about it, so the security guy, as the allegation goes, took the camera from him, a $10,000 camera, and they have charged him with theft. >> they got caught red-handed with the cameras in their hand and now they are in trouble. >> i think we need to take up a collection. arthur's ipad is wrapped in duct tape. >> it's electrical tape. i got it from the tech guys. >> you are a high-profile defense attorney in the largest

city in the country. >> with a 7-year-old. although, she deserves -- >> whatever. should we take up a fund? >> yeah, i would go for that. it's a thousand bucks. a new one, the light ones, a thousand bucks. >> get a mini, arthur. >> my child has the mini. i don't like it. my eyes are already going bad. >> we are officially off the rails. there's a new app that will supposedly help you read faster. we'll put it to the test, once we learn to read. [ woman #1 ] why do i cook? because an empty pan is a blank canvas. [ woman #2 ] to share a moment. [ woman #3 ] to travel the world without leaving home. [ male announcer ] whatever the reason. whatever the dish. ma

well, a start-up out of boston is trying to change the way people read. instead of staring at text in a book or on websites, you read one word at a time. developers say it will help people read a lot faster. we'll go to our producer jonathan who can read so fast. how does it work?

>> instead of all the text on the screen at once, you have one word at a time. and you focus on the center of it so you don't move your eyes around the page. this is 250 words per minute, which is about the average speed people read. you can crank it all the way up. well, you've taught me prepositions. you can crank it up to 300. and it goes a little faster. and you can go all the way up to i think around 500. >> which is slower than you read already. >> yes, i read quickly. >> i do not, for i am from mississippi. >> i am from brooklyn, i read slower. >> i don't read at all. >> we hire people to do the reading. >> the average person reads 200 to 300 words a minute. honestly, i think it works. even as you see the words zip by, just about anybody can keep up with them, even while you're speaking. >> does it make you nauseous -- >> i like this. how do people get this? >> it is just an app in

development. they are working on it for the kindle and for e-readers. it will come out soon. we'll keep you posted when it does. >> i see a lot of smiley faces. jonathan, good to see you. cavuto is coming up. bartiromo wednesday! all aboard, indeed, because the spending train is leaving the station. little did that guy know he would be on this show. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. the debt ceiling hike with the president moving full steam ahead. union depot in st. paul, minnesota, looking to heighten spending on roads and railroads. the president says only half will come from the federal government, but there's no word where the other half will come. chuck is with the center for national center of policy, chuck, good to