was quickly escorted out by security. >> don't mess with mama bear. >> i used to go to my brother's wrestling matches. i felt the same way. i hated to watch it. thanks for watching. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> bye. >> good morning. it's wednesday, march 12. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with breaking news. victory for josh. the drug company denying this little boy his medicine now reversing its decision. how did they change their mind? the latest developments straight ahead. >> republican victory in florida. a district the president won twice now electing an obamacare opponent to congress. wait to see how the democrats are spinning this one this morning. >> we'll talk to him. remember when the president said this? >> in the coming weeks i will issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their federally funded employees a fair wage of at least

$10.10 an hour. >> wow. now his next move, more overtime pay for everyone. and it's all on your dime. in fact, after the animation we're in overtime. we're getting time and a half. so watch this and watch the money flow in. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> there's don king. clayton, you're in for steve today. >> good morning. >> the president promised to make some moves and he's already making some moves. we're going to talk about that shortly. >> he doesn't have to go through congress to do the overtime pay. you can use part of the labor fair jobs act. he can go around congress to do it. >> which is seemingly his new method. >> it is the year of action as he calls it. >> we're going to start with great news. victory for josh. in a grand reversal, drug companies are going to provide medication right now to a boy fighting for

his life. josh hardy, whose story has been spread through fox news on twitter, through the insrebl work and dill -- incredible work and diligence of his mom championing his chance to live. josh fought through many things. four bouts of cancer, heart failure. he actually went through an entire bone marrow transplant only to come up with an infection which could be treated with a drug. that company who had the drug to share it within two weeks and take that virus out of josh's body and give him the chance initially said we can't. it is not regulated. they came to an awesome agreement with the f.d.a. after hearing amy hardy, his mom, on "fox & friends" monday. take a listen. >> pray a little boy who has a very weak voice and has a hard time staying awake because he's in so much pain and to combat the pain he has to be on a lot of pain medication, so he's

drowsy. it's horrible for us as parents to see because he is a vibrant, strong little boy. and even though he is frail, he has a very strong will about him. >> the parents do what they had to do. they went public with it. they came out and told their story. they said something has got to break. the f.d.a. has not green lighted it. because it has been green lighted because of this extreme medication, the medicine is expected to be administered this morning. here's a statement. josh's story brought to the public's attention. the impact of the virus helped accelerate discussion between the f.d.a. and shimrex. the study is expected to begin with josh hardy as the first patient enrolled wednesday, march 12 -- today -- 2014. being unable to fulfill a request for a youth in pain that is excruciating is not

a choice any of us would like to have to make. >> this could throw off profits, bottom line for the company. having to roll this out there to 20 patients, josh being one of them. if something goes wrong with that in the initial stage of it that could derail the drug in the future from going to market. this is one of the concerns of drug companies concerning that compassionate use scenario. >> at least the chance for josh to live is there. there was relentless pursuit by peter johnson jr. yesterday and the day before. he spoke to the head of a charity willing to pay for josh's treatment. we're actually going to speak with josh's mom. she's coming up at 7:20 a.m. to react to this news. >> that is eastern time. we told you about this special election and with so much going on in the ukraine and we're trying to find out where that flight went down and the president doing those extraordinary interviews on the internet it was hard to focus on what was happening tuesday.

bill young, who is a legend in congress and has done so much for the military, passed away. even though he said he was going to retire, obviously no one forecast him passing away so they had to have a special election. when it happened in a district that is 50-50 democrat and republican, it was a tough race and great barometer to see what could be taking place in 2014. even though he was trailing by as many as six points with a week to go, the republican not very well known, dave jolly, defeated alex sink who just ran for statewide office, 49% to 47% and this sends tremors through the political process. >> this was seen as a must win for democrats. it was an area where president obama won twice both elections in florida. it was a referendum on obamacare low debbie wasserman schultz came out immediately after the election and said we're very proud of the race she

ran. we think republicans probably should have won more. this was a good sign for democrats. they closed the gap. it was a tight race. we think republicans probably should have won this by a landslide taking over for young's position. >> she is usually so bipartisan in her statements. alex sink outspent david jolly four to one. david jolly ran on a platform that said obamacare was bad and she didn't vote for it but she supports it. i would not be for these big government programs. that seemed to resonate. here is david jolly last night with megyn kelly. >> i think my new colleague nancy pelosi might be engaging in spin control this evening. megyn, i will tell you this, we can't draw a mandate from this race. this was a very closely run race, and i don't know the final percentages. but this was not an overwhelming victory. what is important, thoerbgs is that -- what is

important though is that a republican in a district where president obama won twice, a first-time candidate going up against a hand-picked candidate from out-of-town picked by the national democrats with all the money behind her from the very beginning, they were wrong with their message. wrong on the issues. the reason we won this race is because we stood on issues and for a message that is right for our community and right for the future of our country. >> certainly being honest about being a landslide. david jolly originally came on the program, he said this was a turnout race. it is going to matter who shows up and who gets the message right, obviously putting his chips on his own campaign there and coming out ahead. >> also paul begala i think had the best point when he saw everybody spinning and pretending it is not a big deal. he said no, this is a wakeup call, democrats have to redouble their efforts for 2014 or they are not only going to lose the house, they're going to

lose the senate. >> is this a scott brown moment? scott brown in massachusetts where he won. you look at the poll numbers now, more are less likely to vote for obamacare or an obama supporter in general. that is why they are not inviting president obama to campaign in certain districts. take a look at the numbers. 38% less likely to vote for an obama supporter. only 26% more likely. alex sink talked about immigration reform and said basically we need immigration reform because we need more hotel maids and landscapers. listen. >> we have a lot of employers that rely upon workers and especially in [inaudible] where are you going to get people to work to clean hotel rooms or do our

landscaping? >> i would think it is -- but not many team talked about it. keep in mind too they had a libertarian candidate it take 5% of the vote. that figured in. libertarians don't usually take votes from democrats. >> also to be noted, from the democratic party when they're looking forward to the mid term elections coming up, david jolly mentioned to megyn kelly that he will run again when asked. this is something the white house will be paying close attention to, as other states which may be set to have a change their way. >> he'll be joining us at 8:00 this morning. after a victory night, i don't think he went to bed at 10:00 p.m. but he'll be up early with us. >> at nine minutes after the hour, heather nauert is here. >> good morning. some of those new politicians do oversleep the morning after. >> we'll find out today. >> good morning. nine minutes after the hour. fighters finally have the upper hand on a massive fire burning in san francisco. look at this video. the tphraeuplgs -- flames

shooting at least 40 feet into the area. at one point the camera capturing a wall of a building collapsing in a fireball. that building is a high rise currently under construction, or at least was. many of the sprinklers had not been installed in that building yet. one fire fighter is hurt but is expected to be okay. he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money from the working class city of bell, california, and in just a few hours that disgraced politician will pay a higher price for his crime. former city manager robert rizzo will be sentenced today on 69 felony corruption charges. he illegally paid himself $1.5 million each year. he faces a maximum of eight years behind bars and a half a million dollars fine. president obama pledged to run the most transparent administration in history. we all remember that. but a new report is now revealing that nearly a dodd agencies are failing -- a dozen agencies are failing to meet transparency obligations. a government watchdog group rated 15 agencies handling

90% of the freedom of information act requests that those agencies get. they found not a single one was performing well. those receiving f grades include the national archives, the department of defense and also the state department. those grades were based on how well those agencies processed foia requests, established rules and create user friendly websites. >> one of the ten commandments was broken here. inside joel osteen's church in houston, a thief making off with $600,000 from the mega church. the suspect breaking into a safe filled with cash, checks and credit card numbers. those who attended the charge this past weekend and donated their money are being asked to check their accounts for suspicious activity. oh my. those are your headlines. >> joel osteen, he smiles all the time. this may be the one thing that made him frown.

>> you may be right about that. >> such a nice guy. >> coming up straight ahead at 11 minutes after the hour, the senate races in arkansas takes an you ugly turn when a democrat attacked the republican's military service. >> i think this sense of entitlement he gives off is almost like i served my country, therefore, let me into the senate. that is not how it works inarka. >> mark pryor refusing to explain himself. details ahead. >> one dog, two dogs. how many? hmmm... look at that as they crawl out. play close. good and close. ♪

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the fact is we have four dead americans. was it because of a protester was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they would go kill americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> the benghazi attack may negatively affect hillary rodham clinton's run in 2016 and now a book called the benghazi report, the review of the terrorist attacks in libya. joining us is the author of the benghazi report, roger stone. good morning. why did you decide to write this book? >> i didn't write the book as i took the bipartisan u.s. senate report of the senate intelligence committee and then write an outline of it in advance. kind of the cliff note version so people can see dramatically that these deaths could have been prevented, that there were adequate warnings that the other parts of our

government, the c.i.a., defense, intelligence increased their defenses at their annex but essentially americans were left as sitting ducks and that decision was made at the highest level of the state department. >> what was the most stunning development in this report? when you got your hands on this senate report what stood out to you? >> there is nothing about this attack that is related to an islamic sraor -- video inciting people. the attacks was a military coordinated style attack done in concert with those in al qaeda. fox news was on the forefront of breaking this immediately after attacks on our mission and we still haven't been told the truth by the federal government. >> the connection to al qaeda is important. "the new york times" months ago, excerpts from a book on the ground reporting said they found no connection to al qaeda. >> people on the ground

told fox news on the following day that ansar al sharia and his locals who were clearly connected to al qaeda were involved in this attack. we may have armed those people. >> did we ignore ambassador stevens? i want to put up an excerpt from your book. ambassador stevens made several requests for additional security. the clinton state department was confused over who ultimately was responsible for making decision and security concerns. were his concerns unmet? >> i think he made several requests because of the deteriorating situation in this part of libya. it's not clear -- they weren't ignored. they were denied at the highest level of the state department. it is inconceivable the number-three man at the state department would deny these requests. of course we specifically called our facility a mission so it wouldn't have mandatory security requirements. where just down the road the c.i.a. ascertained the threat and they beefed up

security. >> ascertained the threat. that is the next quote i want to bring up because there was a deteriorating situation there. there was ample warning that the situation in libya was deteriorating and the u.s. facilities and personnel were at risk in benghazi. clinton's incompetent management and ultra layered bureaucracy ignored all the warning. you say this lays squarely on hillary clinton. >> there is no question hillary lied and people died. and it speaks directly to her judgment and whether she has the capability to be president. it's 450 days now. no one has apprehended. no one has been arrested. nobody is being prosecuted. the f.b.i. is running an investigation. 15 people on the ground assisting that investigation have been murdered. we get no cooperation from the government that we install. this is the manifestation of removing a u.s. ally, the obama-clinton policy, qaddafi who had given up his nuclear arms program,

was giving his intelligence on al qaeda. we were selling him weapons three weeks before we decided to chop his head off and create this unstable situation. >> unbelievable. roger, greats to see you. coming up on the show, we told you about this veteran -- veterans waiting years to get their benefits from the government. now help is on the way. details about that next. 378 days. obamacare still missing the mark when it comes to enrollment numbers and this month's excuse? february was too short a month. now kathleen sebelius is pushing for more money. the leap year would give them 29 days. that would help. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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welcome back. now for quick headlines, today general joseph dunn ford top u.s. commander in afghanistan talks about pulling troops from the country by the end of this year. a man decided not to hijack a plane after september 11 because of his nagging mother. that is what an inspiring terrorist testified in court. he plotsed with shoe bomber richard reid revealing that at the trial of bin laden's son-in-law. brian? >> all right. they risked their lives to protect their freedoms. now veterans are waiting more than a year for the government to give them benefits they deserve and were promised. now this man is fed up and

fighting to get veterans's claims processed quicker. he joins us now. we understand it has been high as 600,000 outstanding claims. what roll is the american legion having in knocking this number down? >> first, thank you, brian, for bringing attention to this major issue. the american legion is very focused on reducing this backlog. you mentioned the reduction. a lot of reduction has to do with the fact that the american legion is focused on this issue. what we've done is send our trained staff, accredited legion staff out to regional offices to focus on where the wait occurs, why our veterans are waiting so long to receive their earned pweufrs. what we've done in the past year and a half is focus on a process called fully developed claims. that process is almost like an express lane for a v.a. claim. the veterans administration has gone out to make sure our service representatives clearly understand what v.

considers a fully developed claim. once we did that the numbers decreased. we've given v.a. what they have been asking for. those claims are moving faster and veterans are receiving their benefits because the american legion is out there doing something. >> that's great for you guys and it's good the numbers are down but it is still way too high, an embarrassment to the country. why are they still high? i understand too this is a quote, the legion is not impressed with the error rates they are seeing at these different places? >> you're exactly right. we're finding those error rates because we're devoting a full week at regional offices. our staff is pulling records, pulling claims, going through them and seeing what quality of work the v.a. is giving to these claims so they can be add adjudicated quickly. what we find is we attribute a lot of those error rates to v.a.'s poor system. i'm a claims processer for the v.a. i get accredited by moving that claim. it doesn't matter the quality of that claim. if that claim receives a successful decision and the

veteran receives their benefits it doesn't fall on me as adjudicater. >> here's the thing. they're waiting too long. the system is getting slightly better but it's an outdated system that dates back to world war ii. one of the things you guys say has to happen is the d.o.d. and the v.a. have to talk to each other, work together and use the electronic medical health record system so when someone gets in, when somebody gets out the records follow them oufplt there is not so much of rivalry dogging the individual. >> we could talk about v.a.'s attempt at creating a digital system so v.a. claims could be processed without paper. we want to see that success. that success is only going to occur if d.o.d. and v.a. create an electronic medical health record system that actually works. they started one about a year ago and they abandoned that process without

telling the veteran community they were going to or even why. we're in full support of it. we want to support v.a. we want to support d.o.d. because those individuals who were waiting have earned it. what we want to see is d.o.d. and v.a. come together, develop an electronic medical health record system that will allow us to produce an electronic based system that will keep veterans from waiting years for the benefits they've earned through service to this country. >> in 2009 the president promised to attack this and the stats don't lie. he hasn't. since 2011 there has been over 300,000 outstanding claims. the numbers now are 368. peter, thanks so much. and everyone at the legion for helping out. coming up, new details about the pilot in the malaysian airliner. he liked to party in the cockpit. then the president demanded a minimum-wage increase. now he's demanding more overtime pay for everybody. first, happy birthday to mitt romney. he is 67 today.

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did you guys do this -- hear this today? president obama appeared on an on-line comedy show between two friends. the president was there to talk about his on-line comedy show. obamacare. >> that was the whole point. at the end of it it was supposed to get people scurrying to sign up for obamacare. >> that is the question. i've been diving into some of the tech numbers on this. webtraffic.gov went way up. whether anybody signed up is the question. that is what they were hoping up. >> the thing is it went up with about 30,000 but they had about a million people afterwards go there and about, between 19,000 and 30,000 went to the website after that. that is a very low number. >> they put the risk on the demo they were trying to get. the young and healthy.

they are assuming they would watch and then click on. >> it is weird when the president injects himself into these cultural funny shows, seems to not play well. funnyordie.com, i don't know. >> i'm 120% with you. that is my show. i like that. but the president has to have better things to do than that. are you that desperate? >> tell us on facebook or e-mail. was it presidential? >> or get a piece of oak tag and press it against the window. that is my idea of social media. >> post-it notes. >> i like the actual post-it notes. >> we're going to say hello to heather nauert. >> remember last week the president did a story or did an interview with one of those youtubeers that's popular among young people

but none of us knew who the guy was. trying to sell obamacare. on that note let's talk about that. she bungled the obamacare rollout and now she wants more money for the agency. health and human services agency secretary kathleen sebelius is expected to testify on capitol hill to make her agency's massive $1 trillion budget. 1.8 million people are still needed to sign up for obamacare to reach the goal by the end of march. they need about 60,000 signups each day to hit the goal. right now there are only about 33,000 per day. >> senator dianne feinstein unleashing a barrage of public criticism against the c.i.a. this after allegations that the agency may have spied on members of congress and also their staff members. >> i have grave concerns that the c.i.a. search may

well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> as far as the allegations of c.i.a. hacking into senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. we wouldn't do that. >> the white house says that we'll let the c.i.a.'s inspector general handle that investigation. we'll watch that story as well. senate democrat mark pryor is not sorry about this controversial comments he made about his republican opponent military service. remember this? >> in the senate, we have all kinds of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all kinds of different background. i think part this sense of entitlement that he gives off is almost like i've served my country, therefore, let me into the senate. >> that was senator pryor talking about congressman tom cotton, a veteran of the wars in iraq and also afghanistan. when asked about those comments, pryor referred reporters back to his official statement which says -- quote -- "of course i'm grateful for

congressman cotton's service, but it's cotton's irresponsible votes against medicare and student loans that matter most to arkansas voters." take a look at this. how many dogs can you fit inside this dog house? >> oh my god! one, two, three, four, five! >> five bassett hounds somehow managed to squeeze inside that dog house. their amused owner uploaded that video to youtube. you would think they would all be puppies and then they look to be full-grown dogs. >> is there a hole in the back deck? >> they are in a secret compartment. >> meanwhile, elsewhere around the world, the mystery and the plot thickens. what happened to that

plane? >> ten countries are involved in the search now. a recovery effort for the missing malaysian yet. officials say it's just chaos. they are not sure where the plane went out or where to look for it. this morning the latest theories that the plane may have decompressed killing everyone immediately and then veering off course on auto pilot carrying the passengers' bodies. new details about the pilot's partying ways. a lot of mystery there including the transponder box that may have been shut off. elizabeth prann in d.c. with the latest. >> reporter: a press conference moments ago and much of the attention was focused on the jet's location which is still not exact. a military radar does show the aircraft much farther off course than originally thought. youit is difficult because as we know, the transponder signals were disabled which normally send data on altitude, direction and speed. experts say disabling those

transponders is not as easy as flipping a switch. >> you can't get in there and cut wires like hollywood. you have to know how to turn it off and have access to it and that's in the skobg -- cockpit. >> intelligence officials are keeping an open mind, and that's with the pilot. years ago pilots invited women into the cockpit. listen here. >> they were taking photos with us in the cockpit while they were flying. the whole time the plane was actually flying. >> we know there were two iranian men who used stolen passports on the flight. there have not been any red flags in data base searches. the c.i.a. is not ruling out terrorism but not one group has come forward to claim they took control or destroyed the plane.

back to you guys. >> it's a fascinating story, tragic too of course, but a lot of people's theory is this is like the payne stewart crash. payne stewart was supposed to be heading one way, headed the other way. what was he doing. it turns out they were all dead, the plane was flying on auto pilot. >> turns out it happened on assent, flipped to auto pilot until it ran out of gas. >> they have nine nations searching in the wrong area. no one thought it might be a good idea to tell them the plane might have turned. now they are searching elsewhere. meanwhile, no reason to search for maria. if i had to, i could touch her. >> maria, thank goodness there is no snow. it's spring; right? >> thank goodness; right? take a look at chicago. this is what chicago looks like. we have a winter storm warning in effect out there and they could see up to a

half a foot of snow. you can see at the airport that snow coming down. that's the story as well for many people across parts of the midwest today and even into the interior northeast. by the way, the interior northeast can see as much as a foot of snow, locally some areas will see even more than that. we have widespread winter storm warnings in effect. and in buffalo, a blizzard warning was issued because we're talking wind gusts over 30 miles an hour and a lot of snow as well. whiteout conditions are a concern. how beautiful is it ahead of system? we have temperatures that are very mild but unfortunately those warm temperatures will be sparking the threat for severe weather. cities like roanoke, d.c. and parts of southern pennsylvania we can see severe weather with large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes possible today. this is a very spring like storm system. it has some winter weather and a severe weather element with it. >> maria thank you. we get a little reprieve. one day.

look at this. have you seen this picture? it's gone viral. a grounds keeper dropping everything to pay tribute to this country. he is going to join us next with the story behind this photo. >> first, the president pushed the minimum-wage increase and now he's demanding overtime pay for private employees. and it's all on your dime. stuart varney heard about this, quickly got dressed and came in. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] it's simple phics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mcelebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for ny with arthritis pain d inflammation. plus, in clinical studies,

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overtime pay for everyone. is it all on your dime? here to break down the numbers, stuart varney from the fox news network. the increase will affect salaried workers. their pay will double under this. >> not exactly double because we don't know exactly how much more and to whom this applies. i would say this is unprecedented. for the first time in a major way the president of the united states, the government, is by command saying all you salaried people, you're going to get paid more. we've never done that before, to my knowledge. maybe we've done it in very limited areas with salaried people. but this is unprecedented. it breaks really new ground. you're raising the cost of hiring to all businesses and you're changing the way we set wages and salaries. we're now saying the government will command this. >> to voters, financially this may not be wise, in terms of where the money comes from?

but politically it is probably the smartest thing that could happen. >> this is buying votes. businesses will have to pay for this. it's not -- the government is saying you will pay more. >> you know what they're ratings. look at the victory of mr. jolly last night in florida. he needs to buy votes and he's doing it. >> what the president doesn't seem to understand is there is a reaction to everything. the reaction of business to these new rules will be they're in the profit making business, so what is that going to mean for hiring? what is it going to mean for employees an the number of hours they work? >> it is going to depress hiring. this is why the president is doing it. the president is doing this to buy votes because he knows that many, many people think we are still in recession. i think the latest poll shows 57% of americans believe we are still in recession. four or five years after we actually left recession. the president is saying come on, i'll give you this. by my command i will give you this. now vote for me. >> supporters of the president say this. they say this will actually increase hiring. they say because companies

will not in fact want to increase this overtime pay, there may be a spike in hiring. they also say that companies over the past few years have doubled their profits while wages have declined. they say there's wage stagnation out there. we've got to help these people. >> there is wage stagnation out there, that is correct. but by simply commanding higher salaries, you do not increase hiring. if the cost of something goes up, you tend to use less of it. if you raise the cost of hiring, this will raise the cost of hiring significantly, you hire less. that's the bottom line here. >> we'll see how this goes over because there's a lot more workers out there than they are owners and there is a sense businesses have a hrolt more money and -- have a lot more money and they should give it to people who work for them. >> it sounds but you're saying buyer beware. >> i don't know if there is support by voters. the president hopes so. >> i hope everyone watching us now watches you from 11 to 1 the whole time because you'll probably give a prize.

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welcome back. this patriotic picture going viral on-line and for a very good reason. the school groundskeeper is caught on camera putting down

his tools and placing his hand over his heart, paying his respects during the pledge of allegiance. the moving photo was captured by a teacher and both of those gentlemen join us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> garrett, you're a teacher, 7th grade at smith middle school. i know the kids are watching right now. so everyone in your class, you guys want to give them a sweet hello? >> hi, guys. see you a soon. >> i have to say, everyone reacted to this photo. garrett, describe what you saw and why it was important for you to capture this moment. >> my and he samantha a partner teacher, after the announcements every morning at 7:30, we do the american pledge and the texas pledge and have a moment of silence. we usually stand right at our doorways and our classrooms face each other. we have a window to the outside.

we turned to do the pledge in our respective classrooms and samantha said, hartman, look outside really quick. so i glance back and i saw clayton with his hand over his heart and i continued to do the pledges with my students and at the moment of silence, i turned around and i looked and he was -- that's what you see in the photo. that's when i snapped the picture with his hand behind his back. the moment spoke volumes for his character and just kind of that shining example of the patriotic attitude at the time. i told samantha, i got to take this picture. so i snapped the photo and we went down and met him during second period to find out that he was 21, that really brought home the moment for both of us. then it started spreading like wildfire. >> it sure did. clayton, how does it feel to you to know that that moment that

you take means so much to our nation, really, and to so many who have seen this picture on-line? what does that mean to you? >> first off t means a lot to me. i can thank the lord above first off and i can thank my parents for my upbringing. if it wasn't for my parents, for all the respect i give for our nation, and to think about what afghanistan and different other countries go through, we got to be thankful. the blessings we have each and every day, we have to be thankful for. >> you're 21-years-old. to have a heart with such thankfulness, clearly your parents really nurtured that. what do you want people to know about why you pay your respects to this nation? >> what i want people to know, just everything about me and the stuff i showed on tv, that's one thing about me to know that i

have respect and right now i'm kind of nervous. i wish things flow out. >> isn't it amazing that our flag, this great nation and a fantastic tool brought the two of you together in a moment that's shared with all. garrett, why is it important four share with your students and really the rest of the nation? >> i think we live in such a fast-paced world, obviously. it shows to take a moment and flect on what we do have in america and the blessings that we can reflect upon on our day-to-day life and just stop, slow down for a little bit. i've been telling my kids in that moment n that picture, you can see the character of clayton and you can see the -- it's a perfect photo. so it's sharing that idea. >> we are so glad you did, garrett. clayton, thank you for being a patriot in this nation and hello to your students. no homework today maybe.

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good morning. today is wednesday, march 12. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. victory for josh. the drug company denying this little boy's life-saving medicine now reversing its decision. so why the change of heart? josh's mom is here live this hour. and more breaking news. republicans take the win in the special election in florida. a district the president won twice. >> the reason we won this race is because we stood on issues and for a message that is right for our community and right for the future of our country. >> that man will be joining us and a new poll making this morning's race and the results even more scary for democrats. don't keep fido waiting.

>> no patience. >> the most impatient dog you'll ever meet. "fox & friends" hour two starts right now. >> this is boon pickens, watching "fox & friends." great show, watch it every morning. >> boon pickens got some gas. >> how do you know? >> he's big into natural gas. >> he is. >> pipeline. >> i saw him in the building yesterday. by the way, we're going to have an interview with that dog coming up, aren't we? >> yeah. but he's really impatient. >> trying to get a car service to show up. steve is off this morning and i'm sitting in. thanks for having me. >> we have a lot going on this morning. victory, a big reversal. this drug company will now provide medication to josh hardy who has been fighting for his life. josh's mom, his story was brought to you on monday describing his bat well now a

virus. he's already battled cancer four times, transplants, his heart failure. he came down with his virus and one medication could save his life. the company initially denied it. amy hardy joined us monday to tell us about josh. >> frail little boy who has a very weak voice and has a hard time staying awake because he's in so much pain and to combat the pain, he has to be on a lot of pain medication. so he's drowsy. it's horrible for us as parents to see because he is a vibrant, strong little boy. even though he is frail, he has a very strong will about him. >> and because of "fox & friends," the attention from "fox & friends," twitter lit up with the #savejosh, going crazy for it. protests showed outside of the drug's headquarters and finally forced the drug company to release this statement and change course. josh hardy's story brought the public attention of the often

devastating impact of the virus infection and helped accelerate discussion between the f.d.a. and the company. this study is expected to begin with josh hardy as the first patient enrolled today, march 12, 2014, being unable to fulfill requests for compassionate use is excruciating and not a decision any of us have to want to make. he'll be part of 20 total patients who will get this drug. >> so on tuesday night, they get the green light. wednesday morning, could be now. could be shortly, he'll start getting the drug and hopefully on his way to recovery. so more on josh. we'll continue to follow this story because hopefully this will work and get him back up on his feet in virginia. >> a chance today at life and his mom is going to join us at 7:20 a.m. eastern time with her reaction. >> she begins to exhale, we hope. on a lesser note, but politically very impactful note, there was a special election when bill young died a few months ago. he was a long-time congressman, does a lot for the military and

going to retire, but he passed away, causing this special election on tuesday. why should you care about this? the district is really 50/50. republicans and democrats. the first time we're getting a chance to see the after election effects of obamacare. if it was going well, the democrats could be soaring towards the midterm election, prepared to take the house, enroute to retaining the (if it's not going well, like it has rolled out horrendous complete trying to right its ship now without this -- there is 4.2 million people joined, but without much turn around, you have to wonder how a republican would do against a democrat in that situation. now we know. despite being outspent four to one and lightly known dave jolly defeated a woman that almost was the last governor from florida. >> arguably she was hand picked to be there, had some backing behind her with money, and this is also a district that was won by obama, both in 2008 and 2012. so it seems as though the favor

would yield to sync. it was close. when david jolly came on the program not too long ago before this election, he said look, this is going to be about turnout. he wasn't expecting a landslide by any means, but it certainly sends a message, if not a referendum. >> the message this morning coming out from democrats is, hey, he should have won by more, that we really closed the gap and the amount of money that republicans spent in this district, he should have won by a landslide. we were really proud of alex sync that she put on that, coming from debbie wasserman schultz. she withstood the head winds in florida against jolly and that it should have been much worse. here was jolly responding last night on the kelly file what nancy pelosi and debbie wasserman schultz said yesterday. listen. >> i think my new colleague, nancy pelosi, might be engaging in some spin control this evening.

megyn, i will tell you this, we can't draw a mandate from this race. this was a very closely-run race. i don't know the final percentages, but this was not an overwhelming victory. what is important, though, is that a republican in a district that president obama had won twice, a first-time candidate going up against a hand picked candidate from out of town, picked by the national party, the national democrats with all of the money behind her from the very beginning, they were wrong with their message. they were wrong on the issues. the reason we won this race is because we stood on issues and for a message that is right for our community and right for the future our country. >> sync's strategy was with obamacare, fix it. don't repeal it. dems should not try to respin this law. >> it could be a whole host of issues for democrats, not just obamacare,

issues. obviously what's going on in ukraine right now. we had a recent fox news poll that just showed really how across the board, even in areas where president obama used to be strong in foreign policy and security, his numbers dropped significantly. take a look at a recent poll, if you would vote for a supporter of obama, would you vote for? less likely. so it will be interesting to see how many representatives and congressmen running across the country will invite president obama to come speak on his or her behalf during the midterm election. >> it seems as though just indicating from the poll you pointed out that almost half of the people less likely to align with the candidate who aligns with obama, then we're looking at something that becomes a negative effect. the president is negatively affecting the campaign of those in his party, it sure is going to be a conversation piece in the white house. >> which is not atypical. george bush was told to stay home and bill clinton was told to stay home. >> it happens. we flashback to debbie wasserman

schultz who came back in support and tried to spin this as a good thing for alex sync. she said we support you. we're proud of you. was she proud when alex said this about immigration, that without it, who would do the work of the -- the dirty work. listen to this. >> immigration reform is important in our country. we have a lot of employers that rely upon workers and especially in this environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean up, do our landscaping? >> really painting those jobs as a brush of disdain and sort of dismissing it. really? possibly something that worked against her. >> that comment may have sunk sink. >> you can't teach that. >> jolly is going to join us in the 8:00 a.m. hour. we'll get his response to see if he's been up all night. >> you seem obsessed with how late he was up.

>> i am. >> can you sleep after an election like that? >> a lot of tossing and turning. >> maybe it's a happy all nighter. >> that will be my first question. heather, let's check in with heather nauert. >> hi. at this hour we're all obsessed with sleep. but we have new information on that malaysian airliner. first, let me tell you about this. firefighters are finally getting an upper hand on that massive fire that's been burning in san francisco. take a look at this. this massive wall of a building collapses in a fire ball and you can see it. we just saw it right there. the flames shooting at least 40 feet into the air. the plumes of black smoke seen all across the bay area. that building is a high-rise that was under construction. many of the sprinklers in that building had not been installed just yet. listen to this, half of the on duty firefighters in san francisco were on the scene battling that blaze. then breaking news to bring you. in the case of that missing malaysian jet, we just learned

that the last words spoken by those pilots to air traffic controllers were, quote, all right. good night. well, this as officials in malaysia say they don't even know which direction the mystery flight was headed when it vanished. the most recent report suggests that the plane changed course and flew hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. according to one e-mail going around on social media this morning, it may have crashed off the coast of vietnam where an oil rig worker reported seeing an explosion in the sky. we're also learning new details about one of the pilots' partying ways. an australian woman speaking out, saying that he invited her into the cockpit during an international flight in 2011. listen to this. >> throughout the whole flight, they were talking to us. they were actually smoking. they were taking photos with us in the cockpit while they were flying. the whole time they weren't facing the plane.

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listen to this. new york city fire department taking a page out of the nsa play book. female firefighter is blowing the whistle blower after the fdny searched her phone and they have deny -- phone records and may have denied her a promotion, all because she talked to the new york post anonymously about a female recruit last year. so is this fair? let's get to the bottom of this. joining us is elizabeth ozgood and the president of the

firefighters association. it's a two-part story. one we have this nsa style part of the story. the other side is whether or not they have a right to actually jump into your phone and see whether or not this woman was able to get this promotion ahead of you. to be clear, new york post, you didn't reach out to them. they called you to get information about this story, right? >> right. they called me. >> so what happened? >> they called and asked for my opinion about what was going on and i gave them my opinion. i talked about standards on this job and the fact that the standards are there for a very specific reason, which have to do with safety, life and death. >> so you should have been given this promotion, but another female recruit managed to get this promotion ahead of you? >> no. the female recruit had nothing to do with the promotion. my promotion is being withheld because i spoke about standards on this job.

i didn't even speak necessarily about the recruit herself. i spoke about what was happening, about somebody getting unlimited chances to pass something that other people get one chance. >> the standards are in place for a reason. >> exactly. exactly. they're there for a very specific reason? >> why would there be a double standard for another individual and not you? >> i don't know. i don't know why there are double standards for anybody, male or female. there shouldn't be double standards at all. this is an important job, what we do. we protect each other. we protect the citizens of the city. it's life and death. there should never be double standards ever. the standards that are there, physical standards that are in place should be met by everybody. my being kept back from promotion is secondary to the fact that i spoke about those standards to the "new york post," giving them my opinion,

much like i'm doing today. >> so the "new york post" reaches out to elizabeth to get this information and the fdny subpoenas her phone records to find out if she actually made this phone call. is that legal? >> i don't think it's legal. and our lawyers are looking at it and having conversations. they haven't been able to give us a conversation why they did this. the truth is the commissioner was unhappy with any criticism of him and his administration. so his answer was to subpoena the phone records of not just liz, but other female firefighters because the post said a female firefighter said. where do they get off doing that? are they going to subpoena the phone records of every firefighter that says a brooklyn firefighter said something? do they have the right to go in and subpoena the phone records of every brooklyn firefighter? it's chilling in terms of their impact on the media. they knew the post reporter's phone number. that's how they determined she spoke to the post. >> what was your response when you found out they knew what --

who you called? >> i was totally put off. i couldn't believe it. i didn't understand how they legally had the right to do that. it's an invasion of my privacy. it's an invasion of the privacy of everybody that i have spoken to. who knows how long a period they took my phone records from. it's insane. >> verizon says they were just following the order of the subpoena. we don't know whether it was a legal subpoena or not. >> we haven't determined that. my attorneys have spoken to verizon as late as yesterday afternoon. we've asked for a copy of the subpoena. they have told us they're not going to give it to us just yet. we will get copy and we're going to get to the bottom of it. rest assured, it's not criminal. verizon did nothing wrong and if they think they have the right to subpoena phone records to find out who is talking to the media, maybe the commissioner doesn't think we're in the united states of america. >> you're waiting to find out if you got the promotion? >> right. >> thank you for joining us this

morning. >> thank you so much. coming up, we're following breaking news. the drug company reversing its decision. the mom is next. is this the bacon and cheese diet? this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. iz they're light. 100-calorie progresso light soups.

time now for news by the numbers. first, $1.8 billion. that's how much men's warehouse will pay for a maryland-based joseph a. banks. the two companies will merge to been the country's fourth largest men's retailer. next, $5,000. a month. that's how much carnival cruise passengers want for a disastrous voyage after a fire on the ship left them stranded at sea for days. finally, $5 million. that's how much a new york man won from a scratch-off ticket. he says it was a spur of the moment purchase when he stopped to avoid a traffic jam. now let's listen to elizabeth with a great story.

>> that's right. fox news alert for you now. it is a story we have been telling you about all week. 7-year-old josh hardy fighting for his life, battling a curable virus. but the drug he needed to survive had been him until late last night when the manufacturer under intense pressure from a grassroots and social media campaign announced that josh could finally receive the critical drug he so desperately needs. josh's mom is with us now. amy hardy. it has to be truly a good morning for you. >> indeed it is. it is a glorious morning. we're so grateful that we got the great news last night and we're just looking forward to the great success of the drug and the great success of the company to help other people. just tremendously excited. >> amy, i'm looking at you now and i can see a mom's face who has been through battle for her baby. you truly have. you brought america with you.

certainly our family here at fox news. today there is a new hope, i think, in your face. what does it mean to your family that this decision was made to offer josh this treatment? >> it was a tremendous thing. we were very worried that this simple virus that just about anybody -- your immune system will suppress this virus usually when you're healthy. and just for him to have this really go his way, we felt like during his treatment in the last couple weeks that if there was one way it could go, it's kind of broke against him. this is a huge relief. it's a great momentum boost. morale boost is what i was trying to say. we're super excited and i think our joy is going to come out to him and hopefully give him more motivation to heal and to just

fully recover. that's been our whole goal the whole time. as hard as i was on the company, we're just going to keep -- as hard as we were as a group on the company, we're going to push josh to do his best, continue to do his best so that he can make that full recovery that we're so excited to get. >> absolutely. tell us how is josh today? when exactly will he begin treatment with this drug? >> i was told the medicine was going to arrive either last night or this morning. but he's supposed to get it this morning, as far as i know. he's still in a little fragile state. still kind of weak. but i really am optimistic about the focus of this drug -- potential of this drug. i really feel like within a couple weeks that we're going to really see a turn around and get him really going in the right direction. >> i know that your family had a

joyful reaction today together. amy, we can't say enough. peter johnson, jr. is coming up soon. he walked in this office yesterday with purpose on his face and so many americans have stepped up. we appreciate your trust to fox news with your story. please keep us posted and our prayers are with josh. we are all for you and so thank you for being with us this morning. we'll let you run to him now and be with your family. >> thank you so much. thank you very much. >> go, josh. victory for humanity really. coming up, one of the ten commandments is broken inside joel osteen's church. the outrageous story ahead. might have that smiley guy frowning. and you know his dance moves from "lone "lone survivor."

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let's see what's happening in washington. 30 democratic senators held an all night talkathon.

that sounds exciting, huh? yeah. on the floor of the senate last night to highlight the impact of climate change. 14 hours of climate change talk, or as al gore calls that, a first date. not as hot as the earth is getting. >> lock box. >> he's so funny. >> by the way, that's amazing that they did that. if a tree falls, does anybody hero. that got absolutely zero publicity. it was actually swamped by the fake interview with the real president. >> you were -- you had to order takeout. i'm going to keep watching. >> in a short time, we'll talk about the vikings in their hey day. >> that's right. >> we are, because kilmeade said it. heather nauert standing by with a peek at the latest headlines. >> we've been talking about the robbery at joel osteen's church and getting his reaction to what

happened there. 33 minutes after the hour. let me bring you that right now. one of the ten commandments broken inside the church. a thief making off with $600,000 from his church in houston. the suspects breaking into a safe that was filled with cash, checks and also parishioners' credit card information. those who attended services last week and gave money are being asked to check their bank accounts for suspicious activity. osteen tweeting, trust is saying god, i'm not going to let this upset me. i can't make it work out my way, but i know you are in control. positive as always. in washington now, she bungled the obamacare rollout, but now she wants more money. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is expected to testify to make her case for the agency's massive trillion dollars budget. this as the latest enrollment figures are still coming in and they're not looking too great. a total of 4.2 million people have signed up for obamacare.

1.8 million are needed just to reach the new goal of 6 million by the end of march. this means they need about 60,000 signing up each day to reach that goal. right now there are 33,000 people per day signing up. we'll keep you posted on this. president obama pledging to run the most transparent administration in history. but now there is a new report that reveals nearly a dozen agencies are not meeting those transparency obligations. a government watchdog group grading 15 agencies handling 90% of freedom of information act requests. it found that not a single agency was performing that task well. those receiving f grades include the national archives, department of defense and the state department. the grades are based on how the agency processes requests, establishes rules, and creates user friendly web sites. what do you think of that? it is the video you've got to see. you don't want to keep this dog

waiting. (horn honking). >> in case you can't see it too well, that is fern, the dog. she's leaning over to the driver's seat and honking the horn. she's not happy about being left in that car after her owner spent half an hour at an art gallery in scotland. the dog honking for 15 minutes until she finally got the driver's attention. we have a still shot of that and fern is a boxer and a good-sized dog as well. >> which means big drooler. >> my dog doesn't drool. just enough to keep it in his mouth. maybe he's drooling now. >> news you can use. >> 24 minutes before the top of the hour. quickly what some of the things happening in sports. former miami dolphins finds a

home in san francisco. he was traded where he'll be reunited with jim harbaugh. he left the dolphins after he cited bullying. other free agencyies are coming up later. another suing his own alma mater and coaches for running him too hard at practice. former iowa defensive back william lowe and 13 other players were hospitalized after an intense training session three years ago. he says the coaches did not properly supervise during the workout and an immediate investigation said the injuries were accidents. he says the school should pay for the physical pain he still suffers from the workout. now time for celebrity science trivia featuring maria molina. >> hey. >> good morning. alexander ludwig is here, one of the stars of the vikings, and "lone survivor," which i just

saw. welcome. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> we're talking vikings nfl football. >> i'm prepared for an entirely different segment. >> we're going to talk vikings. but maria is going to put us to the test. >> i hope all of you are ready early this morning and you had your breakfast. today's science trivia is about how many earthquakes does the southern california area have every year? is it a, ten. b, 100. c, 1,000. or d, 10,000. >> we do it family feud style and then come up with an answer. >> what do you think? >> i'll go c. >> c. >> we're going to go c. >> so that is a very good guess. unfortunately, the answer is actually d. 10,000. so the southern -- >> that means alex has to go. >> see you later. >> i apologize.

>> see you tomorrow. >> i'm living in los angeles. >> that's not good news for you. 10,000. >> thank you so much, maria. have you seen the hit show "vikings"? if you haven't, take a look at it. >> so tell me, what can i do? >> you can let me go live in a cabin in the mountains. >> by yourself and the mountains? >> yes. i'd like to test myself. get away from all this, all these servants and people doing everything for us and know what is essential to life. >> a second season is just kicking off and alexander ludwig from that show is joining us now. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> the history channel makes the call. what are your thoughts when they tell you about the series? >> i freaked out.

i'm a huge fan of that era and i think that's a part of history that a lot of people don't really know about. i'm excited to tell that story. >> where are you from? >> vancouver, canada originally. >> so you don't have a norwegian accents, you put it on to get the job. give us a little bit of bjorn. >> what would you like me to say? >> answer the next question. how difficult of a show is it to shoot physically? answer it in bjorn. >> the show is extremely difficult to film when you are fighting with the ax. it can be exhausting. >> right. >> absolutely. you did well there. also to your credit, "lone survivor" tells an outstanding version of a time in history that we've all been really so

moved by. brian, you've done the most incredible interviews when it comes to marcus lotrel's story. you play the role of shane patton who is called in a rescue helicopter on that day. your portrayal is outstanding. >> thank you so much. >> marcus and shane were incredibly close. he was really the apprentice to marcus. what was that like? it's got to be a huge responsibility to take that on. >> very much i think when i -- first of all, being included in that caliber of cast was a dream come true. but when you came on that set, you're a rookie in the movie, but kind of the rookie in real life, too. mark walburg, who i became very close with, and the director, definitely put me to the test immediately. they locked me in a locker and left me there for a while. >> what is a while? >> okay. so we basic -- he came up and said, i got this great idea. we're going to film more hazing stuff and it will be great for

the movie. and i was an idiot and i said, that will be great. and next thing i know, they left me in this locker. it was only five minutes. it seemed like five hours. i was claustrophobic. i was like, mark, i'm going to kill you. the whole crew was waiting outside laughing. >> you had to rethink that because he was in "the fighter" and learned to box. >> you bulked up to 225. what was it like doing the dance scene, part of the hazing scene for you in -- mar rosalio -- marcus was on set. how was that for you? was that a dance scripted or is that you? >> that dance was scripted. they said they want to do a version of the in napoleon dynae dance. >> you're very good. >> thank you so much. she really deserved 10%. >> congratulations on the success of that film and the

second season of "vikings." >> thank you so much. >> i loved you in "the mammoth" best. fantastic. good job. >> thank you so much. >> coming up here, a major blow to democrats. republican david jolly taking the win in florida last night. so can we expect more of this in the mid terms? governor scott walker of wisconsin joins us next. >> first, the aflac trivia question of the day. born on this day in actress is the first child of judy garland. who is she? be first and be right. ♪ ♪ salesperson #1: so again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card is really what makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with 42 highway miles per gallon makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #1: point is there's never been a better time to buy a jetta tdi clean diesel.

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democrats in florida's congressional district. he won a special election 49-47%. he was trailing a week ago. so what does this victory mean, if anything, for the future of the democratic party and how the republicans should run in the mid terms in a few months. let's ask wisconsin governor scott walk who are has a reelection fight of his own. welcome back. >> good to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> always great to have you on. let's talk about somebody else's election for a second. what do you take away, 'cause you're always studying, trying to learn. you're up for reelection. what do you take away from dave jolly's victory? >> this is a big deal. for anybody who thought obamacare wasn't going to be front and center in the 2014 election, this election a day ago in florida shows that's exactly what the election is going to be about and it's not just about obamacare. it's about the failure of big government. people, particularly young people, are seeing the failure, but it crosses the age spectrum out there. i think if you're in arkansas, louisiana, north carolina,

alaska, those democrat senators are probably looking at these election results and sweating bullets right now because they know the same thing is going to be true this november. >> dave jolly did not have the name recognition and was outspent four to one. i want to talk about your state for a second. like mitch daniels, came into a situation, was somewhat dubious. then you turned it around to the point where you guys are going to report a surplus this year. you came in with a $3 billion deficit. now off $1 billion surplus by 2015. you had to work with the legislature to do it. how did it happen? >> a combination of great economy, more people are working, more employers are hiring. personal income is up. some tough but prudent budget decisions that helped balance our state and local budgets. schools are doing better. our act scores continue to be far above the national average. graduation rates are up since i've been governor. third grade reading scores are up. so with this surplus, we're going to take a little bit of it , set it aside. our rainy day fund is 165 times

bigger than when i took office. the vast majority of the rest of it, tax relief for property tax and income tax, and another $300 million we're going to use to reform withholding so that a typical working family in our state, mom and dad working and two kids, will see an extra $522 in their paycheck yet this year. that's big money. >> like governor christie, you won in a place where democrats usually thrive. what does that say? >> people are hungry for leadership. in times of crisis, both of which our state has tackled the last couple of years, people more than anything don't want you to move to the center. they want you to lead. we took more than a $3 billion deficit and turned it into a surplus. we did it in a way that wasn't about austerity. it was about reform. we ultimately showed that the true side of success is not how many people are dependent on the government, but how many people are no longer dependent because we've empowered them to control their own lives and own destinies. we want to continue to do that

going forward. that's what these elections are going to be about and that's why excited about not only my election, but key elections for governors and house on november 4. >> right. and before you make a decision about running for president, you want to make sure you keep that job as governor. so it will be a tough fight coming up to the mid terms. always great to talk to you. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you guys. >> governor scott walker. ten minutes before the top of the hour. ever meet someone who fudges the facts about their job? >> house of learned doctors. >> you're not a doctor. >> it's funny in the movies. but in real life. >> normal or nuts? dr. keith ablow is here. first on this date in 1994, "ace of bass had the number one song in america. it was called "the sign." let's listen. ♪ ♪ is this the bacon and cheese diet?

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week. he's joining us now. we have some e-mails for you, doctor. >> good to hear that. >> okay. we're going to start with this one. my boyfriend won't finish his food or drinks. always leaving just a little bit of oj in his glass or cereal in his bowl. normal or nuts? >> he's not nuts, he's quirky. look there is a meaning to this behavior. it's not just a throw away symptom. so if you're not willing to commit, to finish things up, he should be looking at the bottom of the glass and saying, where else in my life am i leaving things undone? why can't i ever get to the finish line? so never take your symptoms just as they are. always look deeper at the bottom of the glass. >> or you just poured too much cereal every day and you never adjust. >> that's the other side of the story. >> here is another e-mail. my wife and i share a closet. but now that our kids are gone, we have several empty bedrooms. i've suggested moving my clothes into another closet to give us both space. she got upset, saying it's like

i'm moving out. what do you think? >> i think she's nutty. okay? so look, i understand, it's kind of a warm thing. i wish my wife would be that upset if i moved my clothes. but here is the thing, underneath that one thing, sensitivity to abandonment. she, too, has to look at the back of the closet for the real reason she's upset. it isn't his shirts and suits. >> my friend always fibs about his profession. he'll say his a doctor -- he's a doctor and give advice when really he's barely passing chiropractic school. is this nuts or normal? >> completely nuts. that can be a quick one. he has low self-esteem. if you like this guy, tell him, hey, look, you're going to be a great chiropractor. don't impersonate anybody else. if you want to go to med school, here is an application. >> thanks. we love your take on things. >> all right. >> it's normal that we're nuts about you. >> good seeing you. >> straight ahead. >> after a big win in florida,

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good morning. today is wednesday, march 12. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. a huge weight lifted off a family's chest. the drug company denying this little boy his medicine now reversing its decision. >> we're super excited and i think our joy is going to come out to him and hopefully give him the more motivation to heal. >> what's behind their change of heart? the latest developments ahead. breaking news, republicans take the win in a special election in florida, a district the president won twice. >> the reason we won this race is because we stood on issues and for a message that is right for our community and right for the future of our country. >> congressman-elect david jolly joins us live in moments. and you heard -- what if you

saw one in your cab? >> not everyone is laughing this morning. just clayton. that cab driver would be in a whole lot of trouble. mornings are better with friends. now watch this animation. >> hi, this is joel osteen. you're watching "fox & friends." good morning. he's in a good mood. did you hear the news? if you haven't heard the news, we'll tell you in moments. his church robbed. >> yeah. >> the breaking news we were telling you about, republican victory in florida. david jolly beating his democratic opponent in a district the president won twice. what does this mean for the upcoming mid terms? let's ask him, congressman-elect david jolly joins us now. nice to see you this morning of the the first question is did

you get any sleep last night after your victory rally? >> i was joking, i got a nap in between about 3 and 4. >> wow. you're primed and ready to answer tough questions this morning for us. because the president won this area twice in 2008 and 2012, is this a research dumb, do you believe, on president obama, your victory? >> i think it gives democrats reason to worry going into november. i don't want to take a mandate from this. this is a local race. but we do know the voters here injected a view of government that has been espoused by our president and by democrats in congress. i talked to a lot of folks on the trail and i said, if you like your republican majority in the house, you can keep it. and i think voters decided they want to keep a check on president obama. >> we want to wish you congratulations there, but also, let's talk about those midterms. if you're someone else in another state about to hit a midterm, what notes from your page can be taken here in terms of shifting or pivot in terms of

support? >> listen, tip o'neill is right, all politics are local. this was a local race, it's true. i think what we saw with the national party's interest in this race, particularly my opponent on the democratic side, was some message testing on obamacare. my opponent, her message on obamacare evolved over the past five months. i don't think they can ever get away from the fact that this president has put on the american people a change in the role of government and our individual lives and people rejected that last night. i think people are going to reject it across the country. >> i saw the libertarian candidate got 5%. listen to what debbie wasserman schultz says. she says republican special interest groups pour in millions to hold on to a district they held for 60 years. you have had that. bill young did that have for quite a while. is she right? >> no. i think my soon to be colleagues on the democratic side are engaging in a lot of spin

control today. we know the president of the united states took this district each race. it did go republican for many years in congress, but went democrat for the white house. this is a true purple district. the democrats are just spinning today because they know they lost on the message. their message is wrong. they are wrong on the issues for the american people. that's why we won this race. >> put on your political analyst hat for just a moment here. do you think that sink's comments on immigration a few short weeks ago, that was the reason that she lost, pushed you over the edge, or was it president obama and his approval ratings and the recent polls that came out about president obama? where do you think that falls? >> i think there are a lot of issues in this race and attracted a lot of national attention because of the president being in his sixth year in office. her comments, and i said this at the time, if our students came home espousing the same message that she espoused on immigration, that one's career track is tied to their

immigration status or the color of their skin, if our students said that, we would consider ourselves to have a crisis in education and we would demand accountability of our teachers. i'll leave it to alex to defend what she said. i think there are a lot of issues issues in this race that won if for us. but at the end of the day, it's the view of government. we represent a view of government that's right for our community and the future of our country. >> strategically, what's your advice for republicans running locally? >> one of the things that we had to talk about, we can not simply be a party of no. it is not good enough to say no to obamacare. one of the things we talked about on the campaign trail were specific solutions to help health coverage issues. we don't often hear about that in ads. substance matters. voters deserve answers and solutions. we had an opportunity to talk about this in this district. so i would encourage my colleagues to be prepared with solutions to the problems we face. >> by the way, we just got reports that 55 million

people -- 5 million people moved to fellow there by your backdrop. >> where are you? >> clearwater beach. nothing interrupt has good spring training season like a good campaign. >> you believe that when she said let's fix obamacare, that was what people didn't want to hear. when you talked about obamacare being an example of big government and that doesn't work, that was the message that resonated. am i correct? >> that's right. listen, obamacare has hurt people here with increased premiums, canceled policies and particularly our businesses. it's increased costs and it's weakened employment here in the district. here is what you saw in the democratic side. at the very beginning they embraced obamacare. they realized that that message was bad. so then they knocked the rollout. they disparaged the rollout. my nine-year-old niece knows it was bad. then they worked on this message of let's fix what's broken and keep what's working. again, no substance behind that. just rhetoric, just talking

points. they never wanted to talk about the substance of obamacare and why it was wrong. >> lastly, is this going to be a rematch in five months? are you going against her again? you got to win the seat for yourself. >> she will have to decide. but yes, we woke up this morning having to run reelection campaign in november. i joked last night. the benefit of this being nationalized is it gives me a bit of a leg up. we had support from across the country. folks that went to our web site, davidjolly.com, and supported us in that race. we're going to need that in november. this is just as competitive in november. the only benefit to the voters in november is we'll be spared $10 million in negative ads from the national democrats. but it's going to be a tight race in november. we're going to hold the seat in november, like so many other republicans in the house will. >> it was a great comeback story. you were the unknown. she was the known. but you have the seat. congratulations. >> thank you very much. i appreciate being here this morning. >> clearwater beach, florida. thanks. breaking news now. the case of that missing

malaysian plane. moments ago we learned the last words spoken by those pilots to the air traffic controllers. they said we're all right. good night. a brand-new possible clue from an oil rig worker in new zealand who reportedly saw an explosion live in the sky. elizabeth prann is following all these crazy details out of d.c what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning. we just heard from a press conference from authorities. they still have very little idea on the whereabouts of the aircraft. >> it is imperative that we find the aircraft. it is imperative that we find the black box. when that happens, then all these questions that you ask, we can be more definitive in our answers. >> reporter: this after reporters pressed about military radars reportedly showing the aircraft much further off the course than they thought. authorities continue to expand the search area to cover any possible leads, including a report that an oil rig worker off the coast of vietnam says he

saw something in the sky. the faa did warn in november that this airplane, however, the boeing 777, has cracking that could lead to decompression. that's what aviation experts speculated caused the aircraft carrying professional golfer payne stewart in 1999 to crash. remember, it stayed in flight for thousands of miles across the u.s., carrying the unconscious or perhaps dead passengers before crashing. speaking of pilots, there are also included in the malaysian investigation amid reports a few years ago one of the pilots, copilot, invited two australian women to sit inside the cockpit during the duration of the flight. >> throughout the whole flight they were talking to us. they were actually smoking. they were taking photos with us in the cockpit while they were flying. for the whole time they weren't facing the front of the plane. >> reporter: while we know there were two iranian men who used stolen passports on the flight,

there have not been any red flags and multiple database searches. the c.i.a. director, however, is not ruling out terrorism, but remember, no one group has come forward to claim they took control or destroyed the plane. clayton, elisabeth, brian, back to you. >> it gets stranger and stranger. thank you so much. >> thanks. do you realize, you know a story is changing when within an hour of our show, the update is totally different. >> right. >> more information. >> two new details. >> in the meantime, heather nauert, we're soul sitting -- all sitting here amazed by these updates. you have other breaking news. >> it's remarkable. certainly they still are a lot of work to do. but we'll keep you posted on these developments. other news we're following. chances are if you earn a salary, you don't get overtime pay. but there is another executive action by president obama that could change that significantly. fox news now confirming that the president will sign an executive order tomorrow to require private companies pay millions

and millions of salaried employees overtime. right now businesses don't have to pay overtime to workers who make more than $455 each week. earlier on the show, stuart varney said this has nothing to do with money. here is his take. >> the president is doing this to buy votes because he knows that many, many people think we are still in recession. businesses will have to pay for this. it's not -- the government is saying you will pay more. >> you know what they're saying -- >> that's a politically viable option. the president needs all the support he can get. >> this latest executive action is part of a broader election year effort by the white house to try to convince voters that democrats are looking out for the middle class. we'll keep watching this story. he stole thousands -- hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money from the working class city of bell, california. in a few hours, that disgraced politician will pay a higher

price for his crimes. former city manager robert rizo will be sentenced on 69 felony corruption charges. he illegally paid himself a million and a half dollars a year. he faces a maximum of eight years behind bars and a fine of half a million dollars. firefighters in california finally winding down that uphill battle on fighting this massive fire burning in san francisco. look at this right here. earlier the cameras were rolling when a wall of that building collapsed in a fire ball. the flames shooting at least 40 feet into the air. the plumes of black smoke seen all across the bay area. that building, a high-rise, currently under construction. many of the sprinklers in the building were not installed. half of the on duty firefighters in the city of san francisco were on the scene to put out that fire. listen to this one. this lawyer in an ad featuring criminals. it's really a stroke of marketing genius. but some are saying it's bad for business. look at this. what do you think?

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fox news alert on a story that we had been following for you. fighting for his life, 7-year-old cancer victim josh hardy battling a curable virus will now get the drug he needs to survive. but only after thousands and thousands of americans stepped up to help. certainly raises a question, do americans have the right to life-saving drugs? joining us, fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. peter, i have to say good morning to you and also a huge thanks for your pursuit in following this situation with sweet josh. you got to the heart of the matter here that this is about humanity. what do you think of this decision? >> i'm so delighted. this is the happiest news i had.

i told amy hardy last night, the happiest since the news of the birth of my second child. this is a great thing also for the american people. although there is no legal right, there is no constitutional right for a dying patient to get an unapproved drug, i think it's been shown here that corporate america, that the pharmaceutical industry is beginning to understand their ethical and moral obligations in cases like this. i think thousands of people, mostly fox fans who tweeted, who e-mailed, who stepped up and said, this is the right thing to do, please do it. and they did it. but it's a complicated, complicated issue. >> it certainly is. amy hardy joined us this morning. i know you're going to want to hear this. this is her response. >> the medicine was going to

arrive either last night or this morning. but he is supposed to get it this morning, as far as i know. he's still in a little fragile state. still kind of weak. but i really am optimistic about the focus of this drug and i really feel like within a couple weeks we're going to really see a turn around. >> we hope there is a turn around. some people said fox news, peter johnson, elisabeth hasselbeck, brian kilmeade, why are you focusing on this story? there are so many people in need. well, we came on this story through jennifer griffin and through some viewer e-mail, a woman named mary wrote to me and said, this is a story that we need to look hard at. and we did look hard at it. but the issue is what can you do in terms much our lives of americans to help americans? here i think we were able to point out a deficiency at the company. they stepped up with the f.d.a.

and they changed their policy. now there is a new trial. it's going to help josh and 19 other people across the united states. that's a great, great thing. they should be congratulated today for what they've done. lots to do and we'll be talking about this issue going forward. what obligations, ethically and morally do drug companies have to americans to provide drugs when they know that they can save young americans, especially like josh hardy. that's the issue going forward. >> peter, pursuit johnson junior is what i'm going to call you there. thanks. >> thank you so much. up next, an education check, a sex change operation check? a public university now covering the cost. is this a good idea? and some of the world's most powerful women uniting to ban the b word. >> bossy, bossy.

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24 minutes past the hour. quick headlines for you. dr. conrad murray is back in the medical business. tmz reporting the man who spent nearly two years in prison for michael jackson's death now treating young children with heart problems in trinidad. it's a volunteer gig, we're told. and one of the ten commandments broken inside joel osteen's church. a thief made off with $600,000 from his mega church in houston. the suspect broke into a safe fill with cash, checks and parishioners' credit card information. he tweeted, trust is saying god, i'm not going to let this upset me. i can't make it work out my way.

but i know you're in control. wise words there. brian? >> i agree. could banning the b word change the way young women feel about being leaders? that's the idea hyped a brand-new campaign we talked about it yesterday, launched by facebook's coo, sheryl sandberg. listen. >> girls are less interested in leadership than boys because they worry about being called bossy. >> we need to tell them it's okay to be ambitious. >> we need to help them lean in. >> words matter. let's just ban the word bossy. >> and encourage girls to be. >> no more bossy. >> no. so is this just feminist propaganda masked as empowerment? here is the founder of women for men and the author of "the war on men." good morning. what are they getting wrong here? >> oh, my gosh, bossy is a character flaw, not a political movement. bossy is not something that is

specific to girls. boys can be bossy, too, and they are corrected when they are. i've done it many times myself. and i think associating bossiness with leadership in any way is a mistake, number one, because there is a lot of different ways to be a leader. i would say if you are a bossy person, then just stop being bossy. >> but it's leadership -- you might want to see that character and rein it in a little bit. but i like the fact that you might have a daughter or sister or somebody in your family that has that leadership tendency and maybe can hone that a little. i wouldn't push that away. >> no, i wouldn't push it away either. there is a way to do that very carefully. but again, you have to understand, people don't realize that these movements, these little sub movements, full, the lean in has a much greater

mission. it's not as simple as it seems. her ultimate goal is -- there is several things. number one, she wants 50% of men to run the home and 50% of women to run the country and the companies. that's the bigger mission. then her argument is why are there more women? why are there not more women at the top? obviously gender stereo types. it can't be anything else but that. so here is an example, this ban bossy campaign, that's saying, here is an example of how gender stereotypes are fostered. and the reality is, there are sound reasons why there are not more women at the top. this is just a silly way of trying to focus on something that is not a real issue. >> you also say that sandberg claims these studies have determined teachers call on boys more frequently. you have problems with these studies she's citing. >> absolutely. i taught for years and i'm not sure she has. i can tell you it's boys who need our attention. not girls. we do not hear that on any kind

of major media. they drop out at far greater rates. they do much more poorly in terms of their behavior and their grades. they're dealing with issues and they're disengaged in a way girls are not. why are we not addressing that issue? why are focusing on that thing when we should be focusing on boys? >> i said it before, we're out of time, but i think she's one of the most wise women in this country, suzanne. i love what you write and i think -- no men talk about this. we got suzanne defending men. >> i don't like suzanne at all. we're really under disagreement. i'm only kidding. >> i like you, suzanne. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> i'm going to be bossy and say good-bye. >> so bossy. >> i thought that was showing leadership. that's where we're different. >> i do like suzanne and her book was great. the senate race in arkansas takes an ugly turn when a democratic opponent attacks military service. >> that's part of this sense of

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>> what is he famous for? >> he has a high five. good boy. you can call him trip. he's butler blue iii. crawl. >> he's cheating. >> sit. lay down. crawl, crawl, crawl. good boy. sit. catch. >> he's drooling his way in now. >> can you speak? speak. speak. >> that was good. >> down, down. dead dog. good boy. >> he actually lives with you, right? >> he does. i take him to campus, butler university, every day. he hangs out. students come see him. he leads a pampered life. >> he's getting reved up for the big east. >> butler plays at 7:00 p.m. tonight against seton hall. he gets to hold court.

>> who gets more nervous, the players or the dog? >> i think the players. this guy is all business all the time. he loves it. he loves his job for sure. >> can he play basketball? >> he plays a mean basketball. >> does he? >> yeah. >> unlike soccer. >> oh, yeah. >> let's see it. >> do we have a basketball? >> we do. >> i want to see your game, trip. >> trip, trip. watch your legs. >> i'm going to throw some defense in there. >> you just blew our basketball budget for the year. >> what am i going to hit titus with? >> what's butler going to do? >> our last two games we won by 50 points. i think we're going to take care of seton hall tonight. >> he's going to score. and he's taking over the studio. he'll be back. all good dogs come home. butler blue just turned two. >> wow. that is so cool.

>> good luck tonight. >> no more syracuse and st. john. there thank is a new biggest. >> lot of great schools. we're proud to be part of it. >> he's going to be scared of new york city rats? >> no, no. he's a seasoned vet. >> because they're outside. >> we're going to hang with butler for a little bit. >> we got to go to headlines. the dog can stay. >> thanks for bringing him in. >> heather? >> allall right. a fox news alert. republican victory in florida. david jolly beating his democratic opponent in a special election. it went down in a district that the president won twice. jolly won 49% to 47%. so what does this mean for the upcoming midterm elections? the congressman-elect joined us a short while ago on "fox & friends." shear what he had to say. >> here is what you saw in the democratic side. at the very beginning they

embraced obamacare. they realized that that message was bad, so then they knocked the rollout and disparaged the rollout. my nine-year-old niece knows that was bad. that wasn't working for them either. then they worked on this message of let's fix what's broken and keep what's working. again, no substance behind that. just rhetoric, just talking points. they never wants to do talk about the substance of obamacare and why it was wrong. >> jolly will get right back on the campaign trail because he faces reelection in five months. listen to this, university of illinois is now covering sex change operations under a new student health insurance policy. trustees of champagne-you are bana, voting to add the controversial coverage as part of a larger revamp of the students health insurance plan. it will increase costs by 15%. mostly due to changes required by obamacare. can you hear all the racket going on back here? they're having a good time. senate democrat mark pryor is not sorry about these controversial comments he made

about his republican opponent's military service. do you remember this? >> in the senate, we have all kinds of different kinds of different folks that have come from all kinds of different backgrounds and i think that's part of this sense of entitlement that he gives off is that almost i served my country, therefore, let me into the senate. >> wow. pryor was talking about congressman tom cotton, a veteran of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he was just asked about those comments and he referred reporters back to his original official statement. and here that is. quote, of course, i'm grateful for congressman cotton's service, but it's cotton's irresponsible votes against medicare, social security, ask affordable student loans that matter most to arkansas voters. what do you think of that? the latest poll shows congressman cotton leading with 51% to pryor's 42%. you've heard us make fun, but what about a python in a taxicab?

>> (bleep) (screams). >> what kind of cab is this? >> you see it slithering through that window? new york city is investigating the comedian pulling that stunt, terrifying passengers and posting the video on youtube. jimmy falia is a licensed cab driver in new york city. the city may revoke his license. he says he won't mind if they do. he thinks it is the worst job in the world. and how about that? no match for this dog, though. >> right. we shouldn't have brought the basketball in. we've lost two basketballs and he lost a gallon of saliva. >> maria molina is standing by with the forecast. >> he has a bit of an overbite. >> that dog is adorable. we want to look at the high temperatures across the country because along parts of the east coast, today it's going to be

very mild. highs in the upper 50s in new york city. 70s across the mid-atlantic. cold air is on the way. look at some of these highs. teens for buffalo and only in the 20s in boston. also in new york city. we also have winter weather across parts of the midwest and also into the northeast. it's across interior portions of the northeast that many areas could see a foot of snow and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour. we have blizzard warnings in effect across the city of buffalo and severe weather is another concern today across the mid-atlantic. we'll keep an eye on all of it. let's head back inside. >> thanks. >> all that panting. >> i know. >> coming up, the president has been dragging his feet when it comes to approving the keystone pipeline. now six senate seats at stake. will he make a move? butler the dog is. then one of the most recognized courtroom scenes in the movies

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welcome back. 44 minutes past the hour. quick headlines. cvs coming under investigation after 37,000 pain pills went missing. several stores in california. the dea says employee theft is

one factor. cvs could have to pay nearly $30 million for possible record keeping violations. the f.d.a. approves a new head band that could help prevent migraines. it uses electric currents to stimulate the nerves that cause headaches. a study found head band reduced the number of migraines and lessened the intensity. also, brian it will be used in the new wonder woman. >> right. meanwhile, it has been over five years since the keystone pipeline plan was first proposed. but the decision has yet to be made. this despite the fact that 65% of our country support the project. and the estimated to create at least 42,000 jobs. but now it looks like six senate seats could rest on a decision, will the president decide to help out some democratic senators? fox news contributor joins us right now. listen, many people think, wait a second. that's going to heparins, but not really. a lot of democrats are for this. a lot of unions are for this.

>> the unions are in support of this, the teamsters are in support of this. we're talking about blue collar manufacturing jobs which democrats often say are in short supply. this would be a good thing, broadly speaking. the thing for the president is a lot of people in the president's base are against this, they threatened to come out and demonstrate. >> the president should visualize the next two years with a senate that's republican dominated. look at the six senators. we saw them briefly. you're seeing where the pipeline would go. we have millions of pipelines in this country and without problems. this is in a way, it's a fool's errand. look at these democrats up for senate seats who the building of the xl pipeline would help. so why would the president not say i'm going to make this cagey move? >> it's a lot easier for him to do what he's done up until now, which is study, study. five years and five weeks of study on the pipeline. fdr built the pentagon in two

years. in the same period, we could have had two pentagons built in the time obama has been studying the pipeline. >> what do you project he will do? >> i think what he's done so far, rest himself in a very balanced position on the fence. he's going to give a few speeches where he says positive things about it and then continue to study it and that puts number a position where he doesn't have to decide. the union also think, well, maybe after the election he'll approve it and others think after the election he'll kill it. >> but, it is one on one meetings with a lot of these senators who will not appear with him because many presidents are not popular by year six, will that sway him at all? will the ukraine crisis sway him? >> i don't know what's going to sway him. he has a tremendous opportunity. if he said we're going to engage in pipe drive down the price of oil, you could bankrupt putin and the saudis and also bring manufacturing back into this country. he could turn around his presidency and be a huge success if he decided to turn the u.s. into a massive energy powerhouse.

i don't think he wants to do that. instead, we'll crawl along on the floor economically. >> you described the base of the democratic party as full of environmentalists and that's fine. having said that, will they have any place to go if you do go ahead and build the pipeline? are they suddenly going to go, i'm going to go visit mirin candidates? >> no. what they can do is stay home. if it's going to be a low turnout election and the republicans are upset about obamacare and everything else and they show up and the democrat environmentalist base says we're sick of this guyment we're going to take it easy and not knock on doors or hand out bumper stickers, that makes life difficult for democrats in the midterm elections. >> on some level, i think republicans hope he continues to punts because it would make their job harder. >> if he approves this, it really allows a lot of democrats to say, he's not as unreasonable as you think. >> and a lot of democrats will be helped in those states. thanks so much. we'll look to see if anything gets done because the studies are virtually complete.

coming up, he looks like jack. just a little bit younger. take a listen. >> i want the truth! >> you can't handle the truth! >> that five-year-old knows the entire scene from "a few good men" and so much more. he'll be joining us live. but first let's check in with a man who continues to watch. you can try book him. if he's good enough, bring him on. >> we'll try. thank you. good morning to you. what does this republican victory in florida mean for mid terms and control of congress? there was a lot of reaction analysis on that today. mystery at sea. what we're learning about the last known contact with the pilots of that missing airliner. and the evidence against lois lerner. how strong is it? we're about to find out when martha and i see new tenar s minutes. ed. see you in ten minutes. and get you some of the good 'ol midas touch. hey you know what? i'll drive!

i really didn't think this through. brakes, tires, oil, everything. (whistling)

it's about 7 minutes to the top of the hour. a lot happening today. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is set to testify about the planned transition out of afghanistan at the end of this year. this as canada pulls its troops from the country this week. and ukraine prime minister is in washington today meeting with president obama. the white house says the visit will emphasize the strong support from the united states to the people of ukraine. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius expected to testify on capitol hill today to make her case for the agency's massive trillion dollars budget. good luck with that. here is clayton with a five-year-old you're not going to want to miss. >> who can forget tom cruise, jack nicholson in this famous scene "a few good men"? >> i want the truth!

>> you can't handle the truth! has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. >> this florida five-year-old became a viral sensation when he showed his amazing memory skills in recreating the infamous speech. watch. >> you can't handle the truth! now we live if a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. >> we're joined by the tyke and his father, ben. nice to see you this morning, guys. >> good morning. nice to be here. >> good morning. >> so ben, how did you -- when did you know your son had this skill? >> in terms of the skill for memory, he's been surprising us for a long time with his ability to remember things and retain information. but we never really thought he could handle a speech like this, sort of happened by accident. i wanted to teach him one line, you can't handle the truth. and then i knew the whole speech. i ended up teaching it to him

line by line. >> that's amazing. ben, how long did it take to you learn these movie scenes? >> me or him? >> i'm sorry. how long did it take to you learn these scenes? it took him two or three days each time. >> wow. compared to you and your wife, probably many, many weeks, right? >> it was surprising, to say the least. he took it on very quickly. >> can we get to you do the movie scene from "a few good men"? can you handle it? >> yes! >> go ahead. >> you don't have to answer the question. >> i'll answer the question! you want answers? >> i think i'm entitled to them. >> you want answers? >> i want the truth! >> you can't handle the truth! we live if a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. who's going to do it? you? you, lieutenant wineberg? i have a great responsibility that you could possibly fathom. you weep for san santiago and ce

the marines. you have the luxury of not knowing what i know. and santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. you don't want truth because deep down in places we don't talk about, you want me on that line! you need me on that wall! >> wow. that was the greatest speech i've seen in weeks on television. thank you so much. more "fox & friends" just moments away. i don't know that i've laugh that had hard in a while. >> you can't handle the truth! son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.amy you, lieutenant --

we got good news. the after the show show has been booked by a bulldog. fox news alert. republican victory in a race that might be a sign of things to come. david jolly firing up supporters after pulling the upset over the democratic challengers. >> i am honored and humbled to receive the support of the community and have the opportunity to serve as your next representative from florida's 13th congressional district. >> good morning, everybody. i am bill hemmer. and welcome