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i think that's proof of it right there. >> they never had time for the big stories. >> over at cbs. >> eric, thank you very much we'll watch you today at 5 with "the five." >> thanks. >> you've all welcome to come. >> brian is back tomorrow. monday. fox news alert. deadly violence in the heartland. three people are dead including a 14-year-old boy after a shooting spree police are investigate as a hate crime at a jewish community center. that is where we start on this monday. brand new weekend. bill hemmer live in "america's newsroom." martha: good morning. i'm martha maccallum. there is a suspect in custody. he is described as quote a raging anti-semite with a long history of violence. accused gunman is 73-year-old, frazier glenn cross who you see pictured here. the center in over land park, kansas, he opened fire screaming anti-semitic slurs. >> it was really scary.
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people are calling their loved ones and, i thought that it was fine and under control. when i called my mom and started crying and then i started crying. i kind of just, couldn't help but think about sandy hook. bill: start with mike tobin live out of chicago. mike, good morning, what do we know today? >> reporter: we know passover is beginning and a man with long history of ties to the kkk and ties to white supremacist organizations. in the process he shouted heil hitler. a female victim identified as an he will he derly woman killed at the village shalom retirement community. the two identified were grandfather and grandson. they were at the jewish community center to audition for a singing competition. >> he was just a kind spirit. so much talent every day that showed us all. the smile that he gave just every day and his devotion to
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others. >> reporter: mentioned the gunman. he has two identities. frazier glenn cross and frazier glenn miller. 73 years old. facing at least a charge of premeditated murder. despite his history with the kkk and a white supremacist organization called the white patriot party, police are reluctant in early stages to label this a hate great many. police chief john dug last will not confirm witness's claims that he shouted heil, hitler and other anti-semitic comments. bill: there have been a string of shootings in the air area recently. any connection we know of? >> there is series of 12 random highway shootings. there was another shooting, one dead, one critically wounded. what you can not do in the early stages right now connect this to the attacks at the jewish center. you can't connect the shooting from this morning to the other 12 but you have to examine all of it, bill. bill: mike, thanks. mike tobin out of chicago.
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when there are more developments we'll come back to you, mike. >> gruesome discovery in utah. police arresting a woman after finding dead bodies of seven babies in the garage of the home where she once lived. her ex-husband reportedly called police when he found body of appeared a full-term newborn infant. they found six more bodies in boxes. neighbors obviously stunned. >> i've had a few shocks in my life but, this certainly is a huge one. >> we just really loved her and her husband and family and thought they were really good people. martha: 389-year-old meagan huntsman is charged with murder. investigators think she gave birth to the babies between 1996 and 2006. the ex-husband, is their father. bill: teachers returning to franklin regional high school near pittsburgh after yesterday's mass stabbing that
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injured 21 and a security guard. classes resume on wednesday. four of the victims still in the hospital. all listed in critical condition. police say they still don't have a motive for the 16-year-old suspect. his name? alex rye ball. -- hribal. martha: pro-russian separatists seizing police building in eastern part of that country. [shouting] the mob defying a warning from the ukrainian government that it was preparing to take military action against the protesters. amy kellogg live in london. amy, this situation is clearly escalating in ukraine. what is the latest? >> reporter: martha, that's right, it is really escalating the last few days and what's happening more and more towns, municipal buildings are being taken over by these pro-russian activists.
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in all about 10 towns are partially under control by these, of these pro-russian men. this is in town in eastern ukraine. what is particularly worrying these bands are increasingly organized looking more and more like the unmarked troops who moved into crimea a month ago, i.e., sent by the kremlin and not ragtag group of protesters who originally occupied government buildings in eastern ukraine. martha, both the u.s. and western nations continue to accuse russia of fomenting violence and unrest and sending their agents into ukraine. russia denies this but russia still has 40,000 troops massed along the border of ukraine. russia called emergency session of the united nations security council last night, martha. martha: the deadline to leave the seized buildings passed. what can the ukraine government do at this point? >> well, we're waiting to see what they can or will do, martha. so far it is just the police who
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have been involved in trying to flush some of these pro-russian demonstrators out of government buildings but now ukraine's government is talking about the second phase of this antiterrorist operation is what they're calling it. that would mean sending in the army which clearly would be no match for russia's army if the kremlin decided to send its troops across-the-boarder. so far that has not happened. it become as big question. that could potentially lead to something unbelievably bloody. russia, martha, warned ukraine against sending its army into retake some of these administrative buildings in the center of eastern ukrainian cities. of course while most ukrainians don't want to see more bloodshed, clearly more and more want to see their new government in kiev put its money where its mouth is. martha. martha: amy, thank you. bill: here at home meanwhile, senator john mccain agrees with the white house that russia is behind the unrest in ukraine
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and pleading with president obama to do more about it. on sunday. >> we have to lead. where is the president of the united states? should the president of the united states speak forcefully and strongly? didn't the president say if they carried out further sanctions there would be further sanctions? so far we haven't heard anything. bill: we'll put that to kt mcfarland our national security analyst a little later this hour. martha: just in time for tax day tomorrow, new warnings on identity theft following an inspector general report that says that all it took was an internet connection and a few pieces of your information to steal $4 billion in american's tax refunds. this is unbelievable story. stuart varney, host of "varney & company." so, stuart, how did they uncover this? how are these folks doing it? >> reporter: this is a case of mass i.d. theft where people who know your name, your social security number and your birth date, flood the irs with
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literally thousands of bogus tax returns looking for a couple refunds. when they get the refund and move on and go someplace else. it is sheer size of this theft. $4 billion. that is a real shocker. that is in just one year. there were 1500 investigations into this kind of i.d. theft and tax refund just last year. 1500 of them. that's up 66% from the year before and 200 investigations have been launched so far this year. nobody is i'm mine from this. attorney general eric holder was himself targeted. two men have been charged in georgia with sending in a fax tax return looking for a bogus refund from attorney general eric holder. that it was his name and social security number and knew his birthday. in went the return. they were hoping to get the refund back. in fact they have been charged. this is going on a mass scale. this is terrible publicity for the irs following lois lerner's
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refusal to answer questions, martha. martha: it sure is. one story i read this morning about a barber who was in for a 20 million-dollar scheme that he was pulling off. once again looks likes situation where the technology that these hackers have far outpaces the technology that the government has. >> reporter: yes. the government has not been able to keep up with the technological expertise of the hacker. in fact, it doesn't take much to put out one of those bogus tax returns. it is just name, social security number, and birth date. you know that and pretty much you can send in a whole raft of tax returns, waiting for a few refunds. but $4 billion, lost in one year. martha: unbelievable. >> reporter: that will make voters extremely unhappy. martha: it sure will. stuart, thank you very much. bill: 4/15, a glorious day. i have a niece born on 4/15. martha: every year can celebrate the birthday signing her tax form. bill: nobody will forget her birthday either.
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kathleen sebelius getting candid about obamacare and ad mitting things were done flat wrong. will this improve obamacare? we'll talk to marsha blackburn live out of tennessee. plus there is this. ♪ shouting] martha: here we go again. police in two college towns dealing with chaos after students poor into the streets after a national championship game. bill: wow. unusual punishment for a man convicted of harassing his own neighbors. >> do you feel you bullied this family? you do feel that your actions were that of a bully?
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police were prepared after making arrests earlier in the week following gophers win in north carolina in the frozen four semifinal. in new york, police say a crowd of nearly 500 students flowed into the street after union college's national hockey championship win. five students were arrested. police say the students attacked them. one officer was injured. but is expected to be okay. bill: rite of passage these days, isn't it? wrong stuff. outgoing secretary kathleen sebelius admitting now the administration made a big mistake with obamacare on the rollout. in her first interview since the resignation last week. she is defending the law but says the healthcare.gov should not have been launched when it was. >> there was a team in place with other people outside experts, coming in, kicking the tires, regular reports, regular dashboards on the tech side but clearly the estimate that it was ready to go october 1st was just flat-out wrong. bill: there is more on that. marsha blackburn is a tennessee
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congresswoman and she is with me now. how are you, good morning to you? >> good morning. bill: what did you hear from the exit interview? what did you take away from it? >> my take away was i wishing she told us the truth when she was in front of us. we would ask her if they were working on a timeline and if they were going to be ready. she continued to say yes. you know, about a year ago, you and i talked about my legislation that would have delayed all things obamacare for one year. because there was an uneasiness and uncertainty that we were getting from them and we didn't think it was ready to go and turned out we were right. bill: well, do you know if she was asked or did she say that she went to the president and said we have to delay this thing, it is not ready for prime time? >> we asked about that and she never said she had gone -- bill: i understand. in the exit interview from over the weekend, do we even know? >> no. that was not clear as to whether
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or not she ever went to him and said, listen, this thing is not on track? and we're not going to meet this, this deadline for the rollout. bill, they have delayed some components of the law it would have been appropriate to say, delay it and allow us to defund those portions that they were delaying and, not cause so much angst and hurt for the american people. bill: what she said the states gave them a bit after headache because everybody was not all-in and they were not sure what all the states were going to do. can you imagine if all the states were in on october 1? imagine what the web traffic would have been then. i guess this is point we're moving to. is obamacare better or better with without kathleen sebelius in charge. >> no. the sylvia burwell coming in shows they have a mass problem. the numbers are not going to work out like they said they
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were going to work out. they have spent all this mon money, $4.4 billion in grants to the states to stand up the websites. we're nearly a billion dollars on the cost of the federal website. it did not work. now the enrollees, what if we only have three million people that didn't have health insurance before that have enrolled? look what we've done to eviscerate the u.s. health insurance industry for, maybe, a new 3 million people that, that previously didn't not have health insurance? this is just such a debacle and, it is time that we begin to unravel that. bill: what are you going to do about it? >> i think the thing to do about it, begin to take it apart, which is what we're doing and replace it with reforms, that are going to work, that put the patient at the center of the health care system and allow individuals to make their choices. there were some things that needed to be addressed and fixed, absolutely. but you don't want to do it with
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government control. you want to do it with patient-centered, free market control where individuals are in charge, not the federal government. bill: but none of that happens, right, until president obama finishes his second term. do you see concessions anywhere on that until then? >> i think we'll begin to see brick by brick pulling apart because of the number of delays. you can look at the things that they have delayed, the ways they have pulled back on it. the components that they're looking to do. just think of it like this. the deductibles are so high right now, what if we went in and expanded health savings accounts which obamacare wanted to eliminate? rook what would happen if we were to expand these networks? so many areas have. they don't have access to hospitals and individuals will have to travel great distances. we're looking at impact on our hospitals of having an increase in medicaid enrollees and also
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continuing to have those that have no insurance at all coming into the hospital. bill: all of that may play out now because the website is behind you. can only use that excuse for so long. but what she said, i will give you the last word, people have competitive choice now and real information for the first time ever in the insurance market. is that true or not? is not true. people right now have access to information that has been tweaked by the government on approved plans that the federal bought wants you, the individual to have a choice of having. it is not a competitive, open marketplace. if you want to do that, open it up and let people buy whatever health insurance they want from whomever in the country. something that fits their needs at price they can afford. bill: marsha blackburn, thank you out of tennessee. appreciate your time. more reaction throughout the day here on that. thanks. martha? martha: former network reporter is speaking out now about what she says is the white house's
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stifling effect on reporting and why she says benghazi has played a big role in it. bill: also this guy is not such a big bully anymore. the judge's punishment puts him on the sidewalk for a sign with something that is simply not cool. >> disagrees, to humanity. >> he deserved some punishment and public humiliation is a good one. [ cellphones beeping ] ♪ [ cellphone rings ] hello? [ male announcer ] over 12,000 financial advisors. good, good. good over $700 billion dollars in assets under care. let me just put this away. [ male announcer ] how did edward jones get so big? could you teach kids that trick? [ male announcer ] by not acting that way. ok, st quarter... [ male announcer ] it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. ♪
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bill: rather unusual punishment for a man in ohio accuse of being a bully. the man ordered by a judge to sit here an intersection in cleveland wearing a sign around his neck that says, i am a bull lift the sign describes how he picked on his neighbor's adopted disabled children. the man 62 says the punishment is not fair but the neighbors
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disagree. >> i am glad the judge made an example out of him. the people like him that use words that shouldn't be used and stereotypes that shouldn't be used. and you know, it hurts. bill: in addition he has to serve 15 days in jail. perform 100 hours of community service and go to anger management. that will teach him. martha: like the modern stock aid. out there with his hands, you were bad. bill: yeah. martha: it works. bill: how about the reporter on one knee? martha: sir, you have to feel for him, right her. bill: lesson learned out of cleveland, ohio. martha: beer brewers are slamming by proposal by the fda to fix a problem they say doesn't exist. garrett tenney is in chicago. what are they proposing? >> reporter: this proposal is part of the food modernization safety act passed by president obama in 2011. for centuries brewers have taken spent grains they used here and they have been passing them
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along to cow farmers who then use them as cattle feed. it's a synergistic relationship that saves both parties hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in costs to get rid of spent grain as well as costs to feed the cattle. now with this proposed rule it is threatening to end that relationship by requiring the spent grain to be treated the same as pet food. meaning it would have to be dried out, packaged, and costs a whole lot more to get rid of. >> we're trading, giving something of value to each other and working it out. that is one the great things here. people really hate to see the government getting involved in something where they can just as easily stay out of this. >> reporter: those in the beer and dairy industry say those increased costs would eventually be passed along to all of us customers. martha? martha: wow, sound like a pretty good arrangement in the past. so how likely is this proposed rule is going to get passed?
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>> reporter: when this proposed rule was announced the fda was flooded by comments of those in the dairy industry and beer breweries and distillers as well. so something they have been looking at. members of congress also weighed in now as well, asking the administration to reconsider this proposed rule. the fda on their part, they have said they are hopeful they can be able to reach an agreement that is agreeable for everyone, but, final ruling on this isn't expected to come for at least another year. martha. martha: all right. garrett, thank you very much. bill: another good reason to give up booze for lent. protesters in an armed faceoff with the feds. update for a family of ranchers who shea they are trying to protect their livelihood. plus there is this, have a look. martha: storm sirens blaring. some wicked weather, even twisters hitting some areas. who is in for the worst of it,
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until later tonight in oklahoma. we'll keep an eye on that throughout the day. parts of the midwest will get snow today. martha: seriously? bill: snow. martha: my gosh. bill: complete forecast minutes away with maria molina watching all of that. martha: 12 states have snow today. ridiculous. big story over the weekend as new accusations that the white house strong arms reporters who are critical of this administration. a former award-winning cbs news investigative reporter sat down with howard kurtz and said that she resigned the because the network would not air her reporting on benghazi due to pushback she believes from the white house. >> they're always been tensions. they're have always been calls from the white house under any administration i assume when they don't like a particular story but it is particularly aggressive under the obama administration and i think it is a campaign that is very well-organized, that is designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful getting
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broadcast producers who don't really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we'll have to fight people on, when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don't ruffle the same feathers. martha: wow. very explosive over the weekend. jess a can ehrlich and democratic strategist. katie pavlich, editor of townhall.com news and fox news contributor. welcome to you both ladies. good to have you here. jessica, let me start with you, really stunning statements by sharyl attkisson here. what is your response? >> well, i think it is always disappointing when there's a situation in which journalists feel they can't have their true voice and honest voice that is out there, gathering information. but i think that this situation now is sort of turned into one where it seems like, you know, she, maybe had a disagreement with the producers in terms of some of her own personal stories that she wanted to have more
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airtime. it turned into this sort of balloon effect after story that has become one about whether the obama administration is somehow, has this ability to keep news producers from actually doing their job and i think that is very overstated. martha: well you know, she is not alone. ap did analysis and came out and said that this is the least transparent administration. that is from the associated press. bob woodward, who has a long history of a investigative reporter of course, starting with watergate, said basically the same thing and this is a reporter who in 2012 won an award for accuracy in reporting on "fast & furious" and, that seems to be, you know, sort of the last opportunity that cbs gave her, katy, to do the work she was doing. >> i just want to get out of the way this is not a personal disagreement between sharyl attkisson and producers at cbs news. she wet with the executives of cbs. she expressed in the an interview with howard kurtz they actually agreed in the sense of
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the investigative reporting isn't getting put on the air. this is not a personal dispute. on the issue of the obama administration, let's not forget the promise the president made about being most transparent administration in history yet we've seen this overreaching authority and pressure on reporters and it is a concerted effort and a coordinated effort between the justice department and the white house, between the white house and tax-exempt organizations that go after reporters for their reporting. even "the new york times" has said that this is the most controlled freak administration we've ever had when it comes to, comes to getting people information that they're look forge. martha: she is by no means alone in what she has been talking about as you point out, "new york times," ap, bob woodward all saying the same thing about access that they have. let's listen to another sound bite from the interview over the weekend with howard kurtz. >> the press in general seems to be very shy about challenging the administration as if it is making some sort of a political statement rather than just doing our job as watchdogs. i didn't run into that same kind
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of sentiment as i did in the obama administration when i covered the bush administration very aggressively. martha: yes. jessica, she is saying that she see as clear difference. when she did aggressive stories against the bush administration she did not run into the same stonewalling as she does now. >> well, i mean, in that situation that, it just seems like it is sort of, gone on from, i mean i understand that people are saying this administration has exert ad lot of control over the stories that they're putting out. they have also been facing a lot of different sorts of news stories that have come out and certainly from someone who is consumer of news it does not feel like there has been less going on from a journalistic standpoint, reviewing and going into the cases in this administration. seems like there was much less of that during the bush administration. actually -- martha: at cbs when she did
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stories on the bush administration she didn't run into same kind, she did say, thought it was fascinating. not like they were unsympathetic. oh, this is really good story. we're going to try to get it on. and it was die a death after thousand cuts, would get edited to the point it was practically unrecognizable. we're sorry, it was not our fault. we couldn't get into in the broadcast. we all run into that over course of our careers. there are things you love that often fall on the edit room floor but this is just a consistent situation, in particularly with her work on benghazi, katy? >> cheryl has a ton of credibility because she has been very aggressive in both republican and democrat administrations i think we should take her word for it when she says things are different. consumers see there is difference how the press pursued the obama administration and bush administration. on the benghazi issue i think it is important to look who is running the show here. ben rhodes is a deputy national
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security advisor at the white house and just so happens that his brother, david rhodes is the president of cbs news. so you can't ignore those coincidences as well when it comes to how the coverage is being made. and you know, it is really unfair that she is getting jerked around in this way of them just not straight up saying we're not airing the story instead of dragging her out. she left because she is better than that she has a lot more credibility and her stories deserve to be on air. martha: jessica, what do you think? >> i think possibly if she had come forth now and there was some sort of smoking gun o, youe had where she could pinpoint it and say they didn't run this in particular and because of that they have an done a disjustice to viewers and news consumers to people in general i think that would be a different situation. i think we would see something where certainly you could pinpoint an instance but this is more just been a situation where she was saying they weren't running her stories. maybe they felt there was stronger news that day, or
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during that time that would capture audience they were looking to capture and be more an formative to the american people. martha: i'm not sure why, you know one thing about benghazi that baffled me, why wouldn't everybody on both sides of the political fence want to know what happened? why would they not want to know? >> right and i think -- martha: go ahead, katy. >> she did during the interview with howard kurtz she did pinpoint a lot of issues when her stuff was not getting on the air across the spectrum with very serious situations and very serious scandals facing the obama administration, if it was republican president i think we would want to know about it, not to mention under a democratic president. nothing to do with not pinpointing. >> great to talk to you both. >> thanks. >> thank you. bill: beautiful day. final round of the masters in augusta. it was perfect to see a crowd favorite win another green jacket. here it is. >> you can see all --
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>> watson wins another green jacket at augusta! bill: a lot of tears coming out of bubba watson winning second masters in three-year-old. his 2-year-old adoptive son congratulating him. how cool is that with the green a gus is a chirt on. -- shirt on. solid most of sunday and celebrated. there is a high-five around the crowd. southern style, they went to waffle house. martha: where else. bill: watson tweeted this picture, with his wife and some friend. called it a champ's dinner. bubba watson. martha: he is a crier. bill: he was with us two weeks ago. he a crier. a lot of emotion. hope to have him here in new york with us, maybe later in the week. i was in augusta on thursday. i told you earlier today, i've been talking a lot. martha: he has. bill: it is perfect example of the hand of god and hand of man, or humankind coming together and
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making something absolutely perfect. martha: so you're saying sort of like today vinci's creation and what he had in mind was augusta? bill: perhaps. he just had a lot of forethought. martha: exactly. absolutely beautiful. bill: on that, bubba -- martha: congratulations to him. bill: cool tournament. martha: fantastic. next year i'm going. you say here. bill: make it happen. martha: this story coming up. a teacher calls it quits but does not go away quietly. she took to the internet why. she will tell us why she quit and you will fine this very interesting, if you are interested in the common core. so stick around. bill: martha, growing tensions in ukraine, now on the verge of a possible military showdown with russia. should the u.s. be getting more involved now? low prices,
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2000 homes. the flames leaping from hilltop to hilltop. some 10,000 people forced out of their homes, including more than 200 inmates at a women's prison. look at scenes on the ground. the fire began saturday in wooded area. began to spread quickly as high winds reined hot arc over wooden houses. you can see frantic efforts to keep the houses wet. bill: what you're looking at there, are pictures, showing the explosive matter in ukraine. pro-russian separatists seizing yet another police bidding in the far eastern part of the country. key lawmakers in washington calling for the u.s. government to take more action to help ukraine. senator mccain on that. >> we ought to at least, for god's sake, give them some weapons, light weapons with which to defend themselves. so far this administration not only not done that, but they won't even share some intelligence with the ukrainian
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government. i can tell from you my conversations with the people in the government, they feel abandoned by us and, rightfully so. this is shameful. bill: kt mcfarland, fox news national security analyst, been on this the from beginning. kt, nice to see you. some light weapons to defend themselves, mccain says? they feel abandoned by us and rightfully so. is he right on those points? >> he is absolutely right. nobody is saying we should send in the marines. there is no military option for the united states. on the other hand there are things we could do we have not yet done but probably won't do. we could share intelligence. we're not even telling ukrainians how many russian troops are on the border. you know what we've done? send equivalent of mcdonald's happy meal. meals ready to eat. bill: why wouldn't we share that? >> because administration, administration at least according to many, it would be provocative. we don't want to encourage the russians. don't upset the russians. the russians don't really care at this point.
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what the administration has done is talk, talk. talk, done nothing. obama talks, putin -- bill: you don't think this administration is prepared to do much. >> no. in terms of talk. bill: helping kiev? >> no, here's why. even if they were willing to do something like banking sanctions, energy sector sanctions, the problem we don't have a lost trade with russia, so there won't be that effect in the near term. the europeans have a lot of trade, et cetera, with the russians. they're not likely to endanger that. so the, they're probably not going to step up. bill: what is the danger of us not doing something to help the people in ukraine? >> here is the danger. that putin keeps going. what he has done, he has taken in 2008, he took part of georgia. he has now taken crimea. when hardly a peep out of anybody. certainly nothing effective. he is poised to take parts of eastern ukraine. if that is successful he is likely to take moldova next. he may look at the baltics.
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he told former georgian president saakashvili, his goal was to take baltics, latvia, lithuania. those are allies. if he takes them by blackmail or intimidation that is really the effect. bill: if that is true, i don't see any administration sitting back to allow that to happen? >> what have we done so far? sent them 300,000 meals ready to eat which are literally mcdonald's happy meals. bill: you think putin get what is he wants? he can call all the shots? >> it doesn't have to be like this. the administration could do three things they are not doing. bill: name them. >> number one, we could give them logistics help and share intelligence. number two we could shore up the nato allies in the region. we could reconsider building missile defense shield in poland and the czech republic. finally russia is broke within five years unless they get fracking technology. we're the kings of fracking technology. bill: that all goes to the
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economy. the ruble fell 1% against the u.s. dollar today. the stock market in moscow opened up 2% lower. gradually you see this economic wear and tear on the russian economy. >> yeah. bill: that has to affect putin and people that support him. >> it will affect him with time but doesn't affect him right now. putin is looking at that it is worth the risk. i'm willing to take that hit because what i will get back is my greater russian empire. look, what he has done is outrageously popular with the russian people. they're applauding with him. they're crying with him. the great revival of russian nationalism. bill: on that front he is winning at home. >> you bet. bill: joe biden goes there in two weeks, 10 days, is it? >> apparently the i'm confirmed the head of the cia was there in kiev talking to the ukrainians. but at end of the day money talks. we're not doing any of that talking. bill: we'll see if any of that comes. good to see you. kt mcfarland here in new york. appreciate it. martha, what is up next. martha: the government's common
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core approach to education taken a lot of heat from students and parents and teachers. one teacher ended her 11-year career over that issue. she will explain her reasons that she did in a blog that has gone viral. more than 60,000 people reading it so far. she will tell us why. bill: also look to the heavens a little later tonight. a blood moon is rising. what's you ask? we shall explain. ♪ ♪ with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. and the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. glucerna products help me keep everythibalanced. (crash) ugh! i'm good. well, almost everything.
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related. temperatures reached the 70s during the 13-mile race. authorities say weather should not have been a concern. nonetheless, it -- martha: colorado teacher is packing up her classroom at the end of this school year and she is doing that because of the new common core standards. pauline hawkins has been teaching english in colorado the past 11 years. she took to her blog viewed nearly 70,000 times and resigned in a post over what she cause a system that punishes students. pauline hawkins joins me now. welcome. good to have you here. tell me what was it that bothered you so much about the common core? >> the biggest thing that affected me was with my own son. he is in third grade and the changes that are happen right now in the elementary school level are just, just insane. you know.
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he, is, struggling to keep up with where they want him to be and, you know woe come home every day crying. >> specifically, if you could, pauline, tell us what is it about the common core? what, how is it changing teaching? how is it changing learning in your opinion? >> it is become very specific. it has, you know certain things they want us to teach all the way up from, kindergarten all the way up to through the high school. they have certain skills that they want the kids to have at a certain time at a certain age, with certain grade level and kids just are not made like that. we're all different. martha: right. >> and -- martha: let's take a look a quote from your blog that got so much attention and let's put that up on the screen and we'll show everybody at home. do we have that ready to go? here it comes. it says, i can no longer be part of a system that continues to do
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the exact opposite of what i'm supposed to do as a teacher. i'm supposed to help them think for themselves, help them find solutions to problems. help them be productive. members of society. instead the emphasis on common core standards and high-stakes testing is teach to the stress mentality a stress for teachers and students. let me ask you one thing about this we've all seen the terrible stories about how middle of the pack, the united states has become in math and science. you know, so many of us grew up in a world where we were number one in all of these areas. and now we're, 25th in mat, 27th in science, people say that is not acceptable and that these tests are supposed to help us get back to those levels, nod intentions. the standards are there so that, you know, every classroom will get the right material. but it has become so rigid and then, you know, tie that in with
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the standardized state testing, you know, it has become a right answer, rather than a way to think. a way to open up your minds to figure out answers for yourself. and, that is what the biggest problem is. martha: some of the people who complain about the common core say they feel like the federal government is mandating to the states but the federal government says, no, we're not. they claim that is not true. what do you say, based on your own experience? how is it really working? >> it's not working very well at all. you know, we are, what east happening is we are just inundated with data collection. you know, we have to constantly fill out forms and collect data on students. and collect data on teachers. and you know, it is taking up a lot of time. it is creating a lot of stress, time we could be spending with our students or creating lesson plans, better things to help them think for themselves and just become healthier
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individuals. and it is just, it is taking away from our classroom. martha: pauline, thank you. others have done these public resignations. we thank you for being with us today. interesting stuff. >> thank you. bill: sebelius is gone. brit hume will analyze next. ecoe one of the biggest financial services companies in the country? hey. yours? not anymore. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more tn halfway. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing.
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>> we begin holy week with palm sunday yesterday. the president is recognizing that this morning at the white house easter prayer breakfast. they are reflecting on the significance of holy week and the coming of easter. his making comments a moment ago about pope francis and the example that he believes he is giving everyone for forgiveness and mercy. he made comments about the shootings, their obvious relevance to religious life in this country violated over the course of this weekend at a jewish community center where three people lost theirñer live.
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they are known for their accepting of people of all faiths. the president is speaking about that this morning. let's listen in. president obama: we are still learning the details, but this much we know. a president opened fire at two jewish facilities. the community center and a retirement home. innocent people were killed, their families were devastated. this violence has struck at the heart of the jewish community in kansas city. two of the victims, a grandfather and his teenage son attended a united methodists church of the resurrection lead by our friend alexander hamilt hamilton. some of you may know during my inauguration he delivered the sermon and the prayer service at the cathedral. i was grateful for his presence, his words. he joined us at our breakfast last year and at the easter service for palm sunday last
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night he had to break this terrible news to his congregation. this occurred now as jews were preparing to celebrate passover as christians were observing palm sunday. making the tragedy all the more painful. today as passover begins, we are seeing a number of synagogues and jewish community centers with added security precautions. nobody should have to worry about their security when gathering. nobody should have to fear for their safety when they go to pray. as a government, we will provide whatever assistance is necessary to support the investigation. as americans were not only need to open our hearts the family of the victims, we needed to stand united against this kind of terrible violence, which has no place in society. we have to keep coming together
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across faiths to combat the ignorance and intolerance including anti-semitism that can lead to hatred and to violence because we are all children of god, rated his image worthy of his love and dignity, we see what happens around the world when this kind of religious base can rear its ugly head. this easter week we recognize a lot of pain and a lot of sin and a lot of tragedy in this world but we're also overwhelmed by the grace of an awesome god. we are reminded how he loves us so deeply that he gave his only begotten son. in these holidays we recall jesus endured for us, through
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the crucifixion. >> we have and watch the president at the easter prayer breakfast, he spoke moments ago about one of our top news stories this morning, the killing of three people over the weekend at a jewish community center in kansas. plus this fox news alert today. the fed back away from a volatile standoff against a rancher in nevada after bringing in armed agents by helicopter and snipers to seize part of his herd. attracting hundreds of demonstrators finally releasing the lives after what they see in this was, not over until the cows come home. they will be there until that happens. welcome, everybody, a brand knew our starts right now of "america's newsroom." bill: grazing his cattle on an
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open range without paying fees to the federal government. they agreed to return the cows citing safety concerns after an armed standoff between federal agents and supporters. families the it is about time. >> those cattle are ours. private family cattle. they stole them from us, and they realized it. they are our cows, and they can come home the place they've thed all their life. martha: live in bunker ville, nevada. so this standoff really reached a boiling point over the weekend. >> and it did. the situation began to unravel for the blm friday night when supporters began to arrive from around the west. so-called patriots, armed militia outnumbering the federal agents 4:1 by saturday morning.
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they close the interstate. both sides according to witnesses had their guns pointed at each other. as this picture shows, a protester with his rifle and sniper position on an overpass above the blm guarding the trespass cattle holding them below. a former sheriff worried about what was going to happen next. >> we were strategizing to put the women upfront. they're going to start shooting it is going to be women televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers. reporter: the standoff lasted 30 minutes, and they were this close to somebody pulling a trigger. the blm made a safe decision to back down. martha: what is happening today?
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bill: someone in washington is probably saying what happened. what went wrong? at one point blm was a force a court order against him and they consider an outlaw, the next they are pulling out. they gave him back every cattle or a cow they spent a week catching in a very expensive operation, 30 days. roundup by helicopter is fast and effective, but it's considered inhumane and now during season when the young ones can't keep up with the herd, 17 orphans, as young as a week old suffering from their mothers. >> these cows will be on the run, they cannot keep up. the hot desert country. what they have created is a lot of orphaned cows.
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reporter: the takeaway for those who came here to support bundy, they feel they made a statement for their way of life. he is still an outlaw and will pursue bundy. martha. martha: quite a story. thank you very much. bill: a fox news alert, awful story, a woman accused of killing her own babies. : police report a dead infant at her home. officers arrived to find the bodies of six more babies born over 10 years. neighbors are stunned at the gruesome news spreading throughout the community. >> quite frankly i am still in a state of shock. since we have this information. >> he really loved her and the family, they were really good people. bill: live in the west coast newsroom with more on this story. what do we know about how this
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happened? reporter: bill, authorities say the estranged husband was cleaning out his garage on saturday when he found a cardboard box that smelled horrible. he pulled out of the box, opened it, and inside he found the body of a newborn infant which appeared to be full-term, so he immediately called police. they get a search warrant, came back and found six more infant bodies each in separate cardboard containers so poisoned up arresting her and charged her with six counts of murder because they believe one infant was stillborn. the babies between 1996-2006. according to the news in utah, she admitted she either suffocated or strangled the babies immediately after they were born. as we estranged husband, they say he is not a suspect. they are doing dna tests to see if he is the father of the infant. the couple does have three girls who are now either teenagers or adults.
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bill: to people know if she was pregnant, and did they ask what happened to her babies over the years? reporter: that is the baffling thing about it. during the decade in question, they saw her every single day and had no idea she was pregnant. >> i've had a few shocks in my life, but certainly is a huge one. to have this many 80s full-term, it is like where were they? reporter: they say she was a nice woman, peers to be a good mom and even babysat for other kids in the neighborhood. they don't even think the estranged husband knew she was pregnant even though they were together at the time, bill. how that is possible, one officer says that is the billion dollars question. bill: thank you. on a terrible story out of los angeles.
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martha: let's get to the weather now where there is a powerful cold front moving across much of the country. and it's almost easter, easter is late this year. bringing a threat of severe storms. strong winds knocking down power lines in area. maria molina live in the fox weather center with the latest on what is coming. : hi, martha. producing severe weather across the plains including tornadoes, damaging wind and large hail. we still have the threat across the gulf coast between texas, louisiana, parts of the panhandle including alabama and mississippi. the system ha heads east. the other issue besides severe weather with this storm is flooding. number of watches an in effect
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because of the rainfall and throughout the morning hours. flood watches in effect because the same storm system producing areas of heavy rain with temperatures warming so much ahead of it snow is melting very quickly. you can see temperatures widespread in the 60s for places like cleveland, new york city. but it is a cold front behind it, big cooldown in the 30s and kansas city, 20s in minneapolis, and we even saw a little bit of snow in the plains yesterday and early this morning. this out here, these are widespread warnings and watches in effect between texas into parts of kentucky. how about a little real spring? martha: we are thinking of folks. thanks, maria. bill: go already. there is new information now on
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the deadly bus collision in california, questions today and if the truck that slammed into it killing some of the students on board was already on fire before the accident. we will look at that in a moment. martha: and nfl player facing federal charges of a run-in with security. how he got the attention of authorities. bill: and giving kathleen sebelius a grand sendoff. whether the government taking responsibility for our politics behind this latest move? >> they will tell you that kathleen sebelius resigning is a result of obamacare success. well, if that's true, i hope every democrat will follow her path and resign as well. [applauding]
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bill: and nfl player arrested at the airport in los angeles. san francisco 49ers linebacker smith got belligerent during security screenings claiming he had a bomb. that is not what you want to do at the airport. fbi's i as anybody who makes a bomb threat to be subject to federal charges which have not yet been filed against smith. the arrest the latest legal trouble for him. last year arrested for dui and marijuana possession. he's facing felony weapon charges stemming from a house party back in 2012. martha: there you go. the white house putting a positive spin on the departure of health secretary kathleen sebelius. despite the rocky rollout of obamacare. there are some questions about the timing of her resignation. yesterday she described the conversation with president obama last month discussing her departure. after the sign-up deadline. listen to this. >> i think once we finish this first chapter, you really should begin to look for the next secretary who can be here through the end of your term. that really wasn't a commitment
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i was willing to make, and he knew that. i made it pretty clear that really wasn't an option to stay on. martha: interesting. britt hume joins me now. in a prior interview she said absolutely i plan to stay on. so kind of curious.fá reporter: when you think about it, martha, it was a good time for her to leave. she left when all the worst of it, that would have been look like a firing under fire because she was failing. that would have embarrassed the administration and embarrassed her and would have been a blow. so now comes the fact they met this number they put themselves, that she had outlined, they exceeded it by a bit. now they can claim a success,
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certainly isn't a full success, but it is a success, and cabinet members welcomed to quit after the first term, she was in the midst of this huge project. this turned out to be good timing for her, she gets out of at least something to claim as a victory. martha: let's take a listen to another piece of that interview. i want to get your thoughts on this. >> there was a team in place with other people coming in kicking the tires, reports on the tech side, but clearly the estimate that i was ready to go october 1 was flat out wrong. martha: this is one of the questions we still don't know. what did the white house, what did the president understand about how ready or not ready this thing was to go? she seems to be suggesting she knew it was not ready, which leaves only one option, that she was encouraged to go ahead anyway. >reporter: what i took away was
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people looked at it, that she is not a technician, given her to believe it was ready to go despite the fact that we know from since the rollout we know there were warnings from within the project it was not ready to go, but she seemed to believe it was, which i presume is what she told the white house and the president, we may never know. martha: we may never know. ultimately the impact on all of this, the midterm elections, whether or not her departure something that would show accountability for things that did not work the way they are supposed to or whether or not it is just a good political move to get the person who has become the face of that mess just out of the picture. >> in some respects you can argue it both ways, but my thought about it is people will
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look at her and all she has been through. a secretary who finally got it across the finish line at least in some form, no wonder she wanted out. i don't think this is something that will make a lot of people who are looking at this and disappointed with the results or distrustful of the whole program will think oh, well, what a success and she left in a blaze of glory, i will now vote democrat. i don't think that is going to happen. martha: thank you so much. bill: what do people make of the laid-back pope during holy week? and the base jumper facing charges now talking, why did he make this giant, secretly?
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bill: getting some headlines yet again, the pope going off script. that rarely, if ever, happens. encouraging believers to evacuate -- or evaluate rather, how they are living their lives. pope francis posting a selfie with the young folks in the crowd there. how are you, father? six more days of lent. the light is at the end of the tunnel. now, some people had a remark that he looked tired and that he
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looked fatigued, but this whole idea of going off script. he used to work at the vatican. how common, if ever, does that happen? >> at the age of 76, he wants to be retired and all the sudden you are the leader of the catholic. there's a reason he is tired. and i think he is. going off script, that doesn't happen. the reason it doesn't happen isr because it's dangerous to go off script. you think of the handlers of the president, they don't want their guy going off script. they could misinterpret it. when it comes down to church teaching and talking about the bible and talking about faith and morals, you go off script somebody will say hey, reverend. if i sit up in my church and gave a 15 minute sermon reading off a script people would leave the church and it would be understandable that they did. we have a guy going to take the
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risk to reach the heart. bill: he asks has my life: asleep, where is my heart. >> he is reaching the heart, that is what he wants to do. you don't get there by reading off a script. if you are a pastor first and foremost instead of a manager, you care about what people are receiving not just what you are saying. bill: when he sees the situation it is difficult, washes my hands. has he talked like this before? >> it is just the way he is, but he is getting increasingly brave. he never left the vatican before. this is what you have to do, and right from the beginning he was able to say you know what, maybe you have to but i am not going to. now i think he will be gaining strength and recognizes his life
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is short and he is going to start saying more and more of what he thinks is necessary. and what about the selfie? who am i not to take a selfie. bill: thank you. martha: we have a fox news alert, a deadly attack the heartland, three killed outside a jewish community center in nearby retirement community. what we are learning now about this suspect. and now a bit more about a possible motive next. weekdays are for rising to the challenge.
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bill: fox news alert trying to what happened with the shooting in kansas be investigated as a hate crime. it was near kansas city, 73-year-old who was once a member of the clan accused of opening fire outside a jewish unity center and nearby retirement home happen a day before the start of passover, that begins tonight at sundown. three people shot and killed there. >> i began crying and my mom began crying. bill: fox news contributor. good morning to you. in northern idaho. when you look at this story from the outside, what do you see?
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>> if you look at the attitude toward the group and society, he put it out there for everybody to see, so everybody knew he was there. it seems to be a very knee-jerk, spontaneous reaction to some kind of an event in this man's life or even his own mind. i think that is where they will probably start with this with a search warrant of his house, trying to interview his wife. did his behavior change? maybe even submit to a mental evaluation of a physical examination and try to find out what that triggering event was. bill: he has a long history, apparently.
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if you were an investigator in that community, would you necessarily be aware of his history? >> yes. you would be aware of it. if you were a detective or patrolman working that area or longtime officer on the deployment, you are aware of this and always take an opportunity to arrest, investigate, interrogate, question, stop, first, because you know his history and you know his attitude. but that doesn't in you have a good case. we can't just incarcerate somebody for their words. america first amendment allows him to do that. bill: is there any evidence that points to motivation? >> i think we want to jump to the conclusion that it is a hate crime, but he wasn't very well planned and his hate crime, he didn't specifically target the people that he hated. there was a triggering event
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that made him jump at an opportunity, not necessarily plan it out. the weapons twice was another indicator, almost what was ever at hand. very close ranged weapon. a shotgun is a very close ranged weapon. if you try to accomplish this kind of goal in daylight, you don't know what you will encounter but a shotgun is very close range, not very accurate. bill: mark, thank you. trying to analyze this, trying to find out why. we appreciate your time. martha: protecting your privacy online while we learn more about the heart bleed bug that can be used to get your logins, passwords and credit card information. thousands of websites that millions of people use. live from san francisco. there is never an end to the
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concerns of putting our information online. what is this one about? reporter: it first came to light last week. the major websites the most part have been putting in patches and fixes. the new concern is about medical websites. they share documents, they share your different medical codes online and through different situations. they're worried about the possibility that could have been or could be compromised because of heartbleed's a lot of medical companies affected to get medical services, they are all having to take and put in patches and do that kind of a thing. if you are concerned potentially about your medical records, it is definitely recommended that you contact your medical providers and find out what they've done to deal with heartbleed. martha: what can people do to protect themselves from this, adam? reporter: we talked about this a little bit, no more clarity. the number of websites that have been set up that you can go to,
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and to the websites you use and determine whether or not they put in a patch for heartbleed and if the website is still potentially affected by it. once that is completed, you can change your password and some say your username but really this goes above the normal consumer. it goes back the companies themselves, they have to go through this entire situation. it looks like this happened because of a programmer over in germany trying to put in a fix and accidentally did it the wrong way. there are questions about the nsa. reports they had used this to their advantage. the nsa said that didn't happen. a lot of things are still coming from this, martha, as heartbleed starts to get fixed. it shows you the vulnerability that exists for so much of the internet. martha: thank you very much. ♪ bill: a bit of overzealous getting in on the action at
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camden yards in baltimore. watch how this happened. >> rep said, fair ball come over the bag. the ball girl played it. it was a fair ball. bill: she played it pretty well. but that is a live ball. good snag. she thought it was foul. toronto beat baltimore, so in the end it didn't matter. martha: he spent years trying to build the new world trade center, and then he jumped off of it along with his friends, now he is explaining why he did this. bill: holy cow. another democrat suggesting republicans fighting immigration reform because they are racist. bill o'reilly had a few concerns about that.
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>> the heavy evidence is that eric holder is using his skin color as a shield to avoid explaining to the american people why he has been so ineffective on a variety of fronts. long past time to stop this kind of nonsense. financial services companies in the country? hey. yours? not anymore. come on in. [ male announcer ] by meeting you more tn halfway. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing.
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bill: the new yorker and worker who jumped off the freedom tower says what he did it. said he worked five years raising the nation's tallest building. as it grew taller, his desire to jump grew stronger. telling "the new york post," "i'm working on this building, what do i wants to do? i want to jump off. it is only risk, it was my own, nobody else is good i could control the parachute to exactly where i wanted to land." to the judge, he is facing felony charges of burglary, trespassing and reckless
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endangerment. martha: another democrat suggesting racism within the republican party. last week it was eric holder. followed by nancy pelosi. now over the weekend steve israel apparently citing racism as a potential reason for the delay of immigration reform in the house are. >> do you think a republican colleagues are racist? >> not all of them, but to a significant extent the republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. martha: former president of the women's media center and a fox news contributor. talkshow host for the new england talk network. are you comfortable with what he said? >> i tried really hard to stay away from accusing people.
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i think there are many democrats who use it too quickly, but i also think as republicans always celebrate the achievements of reagan, there needs to be a little bit more celebration of the fact they are the party of lincoln. i have lost a little bit of that focus. i don't think he is looking at the voter suppression efforts, the lack of progress on immigration reform, the fact this party allowed people to say the president of the united states wasn't legitimate, he didn't have a birth certificate they didn't push back against that. and doesn't five he apologized to the ncaacp for the fact republican party had not gone after the black vote and for some of the efforts or positions they have taken up.
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i think this is something that should be acknowledged. martha: what do you think? >> i think lincoln would disagree. he was very focused on the issue of secure borders while he was president. generalizations are bad. are all democrats facing the entrance around the oval office or take pictures of the legislature and weed them out to unsuspecting women? of course not. but let's also say something about immigration, which we have estimated 50,000 illegal immigrants from ireland and all the people i know support the rule of law. trying to pump up voting, starting with the women live. they don't want to talk about what is actually happening to minority men and women under the horrific presidency of president obama.
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martha: there does seem to be a little bit of a theme we look at the statement by him. he wants to be very specific about what we're talking about here. >> those last five years have been defined by significant strides and lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity. >> i think it has to do with the fact they are not bringing an immigration bill. i heard them say it would be easy. martha: i hope she will be specific in saying this is the legislature who said i wish it were just the irish. when you look at both of these examples, what is your reaction? >> i look at the example of president george bush closing the civil rights summit in austin, texas, and celebrating the accomplishments of lyndon
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johnson saying it is a more generous country because of the civil rights act. that is something that should be celebrated, but we cannot deny there was a southern strategy within the republican party. when the civil rights act is passed, he says they have lost the south for generations. we have lost the south, this is a reality. we should have a different conversation about racism where we are not so quick to accuse people of racism but we acknowledge bias and how it affects policy and we actually embrace a more open conversation about it instead of accusations. looking at responding to a question a little bit more harsh language than that. martha: somebody wants to not have this conversation anymore because they look around and see the president of the united states barack obama,
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condoleezza rice the first secretary of state, they don't see the colors people want so often to pull us back to looking at necessarily. you look at the leaders of the tea party and the diversity they represent that they don't get credit for. >> al sharpton led the horrific attack with his rhetoric that resulted in violence. al sharpton used slurs. at the white house part of the president outreach for the prayer breakfast. estimates democrats stop inviting al sharpton to speak at the democratic national convention maybe people will be able to hear what they have to say about the justice. martha: thank you very much, we will see you next time. bill: may want to do some stargazing. what is that, you ask? martha: find out right after
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martha: kate middleton salas in the pregnancy rumors that has propped up enjoying wine with her husband, prince william. going a step further taking high-speed boat ride. there is nothing to it. this is little prince george on his first trip. a woman made a baby shawl and gave it to her telling her you might like to have another one soon suggesting may be prince
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george's want to have a little brother or sister but no indication of that yet. bill: great tune selection. a total lunar eclipse across much of the country. pittsburgh pa with family. good morning to you. what is a blood moon quest mark what is going on? >> it happens after midnight. lunar eclipse is a rare alignment of the earth, the sun and the moon. you can watch the earth's shadow
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sweeping across the moon. a bigger and bigger bite taken out of the moon and eventually the moon almost disappears but doesn't really disappear. it turns almost blood red. very spectacular, all you need to see it are clear skies and a pair of eyes. bill: what kind of a night? >> you need an alarm clock. on the east coast the action starts a little bit before 2:00. the real blood red moon starts at 3:06. a little better on the west coast. bill: get a minute to wake up. something very unusual about this eclipse, what is that? >> this is a set of four lunar eclipse having the next 18 months. unusual kind of arrangement. before the 20th century it had been 300 years since we had a
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set of eclipses like this. all four of them will be visible in the united states. perhaps another cool thing is today is not just a lunar eclipse, is the closest mars came to earth in six years. and nice, clear sky tonight you look up, the moon eclipse, mars shining light. blood red moon. bill: what is happening with the moon. why does this occur this way? >> you would see a total eclipse of the sun. it does not get completely dark. a red ring of fire around the earth. the red ring of fire is all the sunset on the earth all seen at once. that is the color of the sunset.
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lighting up the moon. you are not just seeing this eclipse, you are seeing your place on space. a pretty complacent spot to see where you are in the universe. bill: we will have the pictures tomorrow. >> even if it is hazy or partly cloudy, it up and watch it online these days. bill: there is an app for that. martha: it might be easier than waking up at 3:05. oscar pistorius trial on hold as the olympic athletes testified a shooting of his girlfriend, emotional outburst that brought the session to an early end.
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i mean this is the image of the weekend. martha: look how cute that little guy is. caleb, right? beautiful dad-son moment. bill: well-done, bubba. we have to run. have a great monday. martha: we'll see you back on tuesday. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: we start off with a fox news alert. three people killed including 14-year-old boy and his grandfather after a gun man opens fire in suburban kansas city. i'm jenna lee. >> i'm gregg jarrett in for jon scott. police say a man in his 70s fired on a packed jewish community center and jewish retirement home yesterday afternoon. the suspect was taken into custody. police say he is raging anti-semite with a very long history of violence. one witness described the scene at the community center. >> we were just with the kid and parents were in the process of dropping their kids off when we were all ushered to
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