dannon have more sugar than twinkies. the gulf coast is educating students about modesty as part of their campaign. good morning it is thursday, the 29th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in place of elisabeth hasselbeck. a devastating new waiting -- new report shows the waiting lists are real and the costs are deadly. >> i told you we didn't document the numbers. >> this morning one man is being targeted. we are live in washington. >> is edward snowden a hero or a traitor? you may change your mind about him after you hear his brand-new interview

that aired last night on another channel. you'll see it here on this channel. >> gwenyth paltrow says getting attacked for being famous is just like being at war. really? really? >> gwennie! >> mornings are better with friends. watch us. >> this is joe piscopo. you're watching the number one cable show for news. i love these guys. >> welcome to the thursday show that seems like a wednesday because a lot of people had monday off. we've got anna in because apparently on her birthday last night elisabeth hasselbeck must have tied one on because she is not with us today. >> no. i've known for awhile i was filling in for her. a fox news alert on this thursday morning. late night fireworks during a hearing on the v.a. scandal. >> this as a scathing new government report reveals

the scandal in phoenix and elsewhere much worse than we thought. >> let's review it for you. we'll go to washington to do that with elizabeth prann. recap what took place. >> it was a rare scene on capitol hill. three top administrators were called in for questioning following accusations at least 40 veterans died waiting for appointments at a phoenix facility. some congressmen became enraged with the hearing finding their answers to be too diplomatic specifically when they were told the now destroyed documents were not secret. lawmakers accusing the v.a. paid out bonuses based on the false wait times. >> i did not think they were secret lists. >> you spent the easter weekend there with your wife. how you could have possibly thought it was appropriate to turn such a critical, serious mission into a personal holiday. >> it was the easter weekend. i thought it was appropriate that my wife could join me. >> veterans died.

give us the answers, please. >> keep in mind earlier in the day the inspector general interim report found at least 1,700 veterans seeking care at phoenix were at risk of being forgotten or lost. more than 200 veterans waited on average 115 days for their first primary care appointment and about 84% of those waited more than 14 days. at the white house the press secretary said president obama was briefed on the findings of the report and found them to be, quote, extremely troubling. >> thank you elizabeth prann. thomas lynch, the doctor right there we saw who was taking some of the heat hast night, the assistant deputy under secretary, he says his staff made him aware of what he called interim work projects, but he denied that there were any wait lists. can you imagine? just the fact that there were 1,700 vets who weren't on any list, but they

thought that they were and they were waiting for care, it's unbelievable. >> remember, this is in phoenix alone, which is where all this got started. burr we're hearing that more than 40 -- but we're hearing that more than 40 veterans' locations are under investigation at the moment. to hear that this report comes out telling everybody this is worse than would he initially thought is just troubling and heartbreaking. >> i don't know how much more proof the president needs. he's got to take action and go beyond the investigation. this investigation by the i.g. is complete. now let's talk about what everyone is focusing on. everyone is going to focus on general shinseki, should he resign or not resign? and if he goes on his way because of the his forced ouster, peel -- people will go good. meanwhile lieutenant colonel ralph peters was on with bill o'reilly last

night and is outraged. >> stop playing politics with this issue. it's about our vets! it's not about your reelection or election campaign. by the way, blame shinseki. congress holds the purse strings. congress refuses to reform the civil service regulations that allowed this to happen. congress is supposed to exercise oversight of it. instead you have somebody like senator burr attacking the v.f.w. by the way, i don't think senator burr served in the military. congress, you're a disgrace. >> there are five senators who are democrats and also two senate candidates as well. you just heard from ralph paoerts. he said if you're trying to blame shinseki for this, it is like trying to blame your doctor for your cancer. give him time to work through these problems. it is systemic, going on for decades.

>> we had a couple of congressmen who were in the hearing last night who will be joining us. there was a great item yesterday. i believe it was in the daily beast. they were trying to figure out how did it get so screwed up at the v.a. one of the things with the secret waiting list -- and we were told it's 24 minutes -- or 24 days even though it was 100-some odd, is 50% of the executive bonuses tied to waiting times. so if you want a bonus, you lie. >> they were worried more about their bonuses and their jobs than they are about the lives of these poor veterans. >> that's some of the frustration you hear there in colonel ralph peters voice. >> general shinseki is a wounded veteran himself, he's gotten treated at the v.a. himself. if he took this out after a career and -- after a year and said here's the problem, this is what i've got to fix, i would say give him the time he needs.

but to have a journalist tell him about an agency he was supposed to be running for five years, so right there i would say thanks for your service, you're clearly not the right manager here and try not to make it personal. my feeling is they will say general shinseki is gone and so we can move on. that's the problem. >> i think over the last couple of weeks a lot of people have had different ideas. it is probably time to weaned down the v.a. hospital, go to a system where everybody has a card, you can go to any doctor you want to and then we wouldn't have these obvious lies so people can get big bonuses. >> that way these veterans can find a private doctor that they think would be giving them better care. the other thing is it would increase competition so these veterans hospital would feel like these veterans are their customers and you want to keep the customers happy rather than work for the government. >> now we'll tell you a story you've been hearing mostly on fox and greta van

susteren has been doing an incredible job tracking the progress or lack thereof of : -- thereof of tahmooressi who was in jail. >> the first thing his family did was fire the attorney because they say he said things that weren't true. for instance, the attorney said say you've never been to tijuana before. he had been to tijuana at least six times. they fired the attorney, and that meant that there would not actually be a day of testimony, so he went back to jail. he did wind up talking to greta afterwards, and he describes the day when he was simply in the wrong lane heading out of san diego toward tijuana. and that's when it hit the fan. >> he got on the walkie

talkie and was communicating what was going on. i think what he said was hey, we got a guy down here with three guns. then in came the military officer, you know, marching and like he was a man on a mission to, you know, get the job done. and then he just took control from there, the military officer. he didn't seem to care at all about anything of what i had to say or my story at all. he just -- it was like a math equation in his head. three guns, man, equals prison. >> when he realized that he was in mexico, he immediately dialed 911 and was told by the authorities, they said there is nothing we can do. he talked to a mexican customs official in that sound bite he referred to,

and he said he was going to drive him back. then this was a mexican soldier who said hold on. >> there has been talk there ought to be a demille terrorizeation zone -- demilitarization zone, some neutral border. >> mexico is supposed to be our friend. this should not be an international issue. it turns out his old attorney who was fired said this guy is innocent. the fact they changed attorneys shows they were not ready to question the two marines and border officials who were part of it. that is why he goes back to jail. hopefully the mom picks the right guy to represent him from hereon. >> we haven't heard about the new attorney yet. this is the first interview we heard with sergeant tahmooressi. you can hear more of that at 7:00 tonight "on the record." >> speaking of on the record, that's where we turn to heather nauert. >> i've got a story for you

about cyber terrorism, a major threat to the united states. there is a new crafty way hackers are doing it. there is a frightening new report out. hackers in iran are spying on high-ranking officials including a four-star general. this has been going on for three years now and is apparently still underway. cyber security experts are revealing the hackers are pretending to work for a fake news organization. they're developing targets in the united states through facebook and linked in and other social media sites and tricking people into giving up personal information and also log-on information. this has been going on since about 2011 and hundreds of high-ranking officials have been targeted. we'll keep you posted on that. in his first american tvent view, edward snowden says he wants to return to the united states. the 30-year-old claims he exposed the government secrets as a service to his country and he says he tried to go through the proper channels but that didn't work. >> i have raised these

complaints not just officially, in writing through e-mail to these offices and these individuals. but to my supervisors, to my colleagues in more than one office. did i it in fort meade, i did it in hawaii. the response more or less in bureaucratic language was you should stop asking questions. >> now he is appealing to members of congress asking them to confirm his claim that there is a paper trail at the n.s.a. new overnight, these pictures may stop new your tracks. a massive oil tanker explodes off the coast of japan. you can see the clouds of thick black smoke rising into the sky. and at this hour, as we understands, there is a search underway to find the missing captain. seven other crew members have been rescued. it is believed one of the men using a power tool to remove some paint may have triggered the blast. the tanker fortunately was empty. it had just dropped off its cargo which was filled with oil. more planes nearly

colliding in the sky. this time it happened in alaska. it happened when a flight from portland, oregon tried to land in anchorage. both planes were at the same elevation and one of the pilots spotted the other plane and turned away. fortunately no one was hurt. last week two united airline planes almost crashed. they came within 400 feet of one another. those are your headlines. see you back here in just a little bit. >> thank you. >> too close. >> coming up, our next block, the president tells an audience of cadets that america's foreign policy is diplomacy. what does that message send to our military? a west point grad reacts. >> the hollywood red carpet turns into a real-life fight club for actor brad pitt.

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>> america must always lead on the world stage. if we don't, no one else will. the military that you have joined is and always will be the backbone of that leadership. >> well, as he deals with multiple foreign policy issues, president obama using his commencement speech at west point yesterday to go on the defense, firing back at critics who say his leadership has resulted in a weaker and less respected america. joining us right now, how effective was the president's speech? we've got a west point grad and vietnam war vet john mufford joins us. how are you? what was your headline out of the president's speech yesterday? >> the president didn't give us a vision for the security of our nation in the 21st century unfortunately, and he's

leading with his words but not his deeds. so there's no match between the words and the deeds that america is pursuing in this new century. >> sure. you know, it seemed like it was kind of a philosophical speech rather than the kind of speech you would expect to hear from a commander in chief in front of the troops. >> there is no question about it. unfortunately, he's handing these cadets a military that is struggling, a nation that is struggling economically and less powerful than it's ever been in the world and on the domestic front. >> before we get started, i asked what kind of grade you'd give the president in his speech yesterday, and you said you'd give it a? >> i'd have to give it a generous 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. >> why? >> because the president didn't connect our political, military and economic interests around the world in a way that was cohesive and understandable to the american public. he's failed to do so because all he's doing is

reacting to the crises brought on by others, and he's allowing what he calls regional powers to dictate the course of the world's history in the 21st century. that's not american leadership. >> dick cheney was on with sean hannity last night, and he said that the president is very, very weak, maybe the weakest president in mr. cheney's lifetime. it's curious that given the fact that he was in front of all these military men and women, he did not even touch on the v.a. scandal, and it is a scandal, and it impacts all of them. and that would have been the perfect time for him to say, by the way, i'd like to apologize that we have let everybody down who has worn a uniform. >> that's an excellent point. and the v.a. crisis, like all the other crises that have remained unresolved all speak to ineffective leadership by the administration. they have poured money into the v.a. in the last five years, but have gotten nothing in return in terms of care of our veterans and meeting the needs of the

military. >> sure. he didn't talk about the v.a. but he did talk about how, as a future military they're going to have to do something about -- wait for it -- climate change. did your jaw just go what when he said that? >> mine and everyone i knew said that. the military's job is to fight and win wars. the military is not an organization of social policy. >> all right. curiously enough, just about only a quarter of those in attendance gave him a standing ovation. john, we thank you very much for joining us today from our nation's capital with your perspective, sir. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. gwenyth paltrow says getting attacked for being famous is just like being at war. gwenyth, come on. his team took tons of taxpayer dollars, then lance armstrong admitted he

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hey everybody. 24 minutes after the hour. quick entertainment headlines. a notorious ukrainian prankster in custody charged with bat ter after he attacked brad pitt on the red carpet in hollywood. he jumped over the security barrier and hit pitt. but he was quickly wrestled to the ground. pitt was not hurt. it is like going to war, that is what gwenyth paltrow said. she said celebrities are major targets and sometimes

it feels like they're at war. >> the cyclist who rode with lance armstrong, now in his new book, he tells all about armstrong and the massive doping scandal. joining us to talk about his career and his book, george himself and the author of this book called "the loyal lieutenant" and the forward is from lance armstrong. does that mean, george, you guys are okay? >> yeah. lance understands the position i was in and knew that i was all about the change in the sport. the book is more about how much the sport has changed. of course it acknowledges the past and that era of the sport, that unfortunate era of the sport. it also puts emphasis on how much the sport has changed over the last several years. it is a completely different sport now. >> he refers to you and the analogy of scottie pippen and michael jordan and you

sacrificed personal satisfaction for the team. any regrets about that? >> no. i focused on something i was really good at, and that was helping guys like lance, not only lance, but other guys who today are top stars in cycling. it really goes beyond lance. >> the sport was very similar, in my mind, to baseball, when everyone seemed to be doing steroids, that other guy was doing it. and that was the steroid era. you walked into the doping era; you did it too? >> yeah. i never set out to put myself in to think i was going to be in that position. you move from a -- i grew up down the street in queens. i moved to europe, a culture i was not familiar with, and here i am thrown into this world. i thought at the time like i didn't have a choice. now looking back, i know i made some wrong decisions and i was happy that i was able to see a change in the

sport and be able to mentor younger riders and later on in my career and tell them that was not the right way and the sport needs to change. >> like mark mcgwire, he said i shouldn't have done it, doesn't mean he's not a tremendous athlete. fort landis said something yesterday. you stopped in 2006 and he doesn't believe it. he goes junkies like george don't quit like that, and he goes on. your reaction? >> today's stars are speaking about their experiences with me. i spent countless amount of hours and days with them over the last seven, eight years. they know a lot more about my character. >> do you resent him using the term junkie? >> floyd went through a lot. no. he obviously has a right to his opinion, and i hope that he'll find peace at some point. >> that's good perspective.

the u.s. postal service was your sponsor. they put millions of dollars into your team. now it turns out that you guys were cheating through a lot of it, lance armstrong being the headline there. should those taxpayer dollars that went to your team be given back by lance armstrong and others? >> that's -- i don't think that's a question for me. that's more of a legal question. i think that's ongoing. i don't know where that's going to end up. >> how do you feel about the fact that the postal system was on your jersey and now it comes out that you guys were doing a lot of illegal stuff? >> at the time, unfortunately, that was a major part of the sport and we were certainly not alone in that. >> george, what do you want people to get out of your book? >> the main thing is how much the sport changed, that now it is possible to win races clean, and i've witnessed that firsthand. >> george hincapie, it is all in here, and the forward by lance armstrong.

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was hard to pick. i looked for the oldest picture i could find and this, i think, is from 1983. steve and edie. she passed away within the last year. they were the nicest folks. every time they came to town, they gave me a call. when they came to washington, d.c. and i was living there, i would get a call as well. they were great people. >> every time sting is in town, he gives me a call. >> [buzzer sounds] >> that's you with donnie and marie. >> donnie osmond tried to fight me. he attacked me. >> they photo shopped you in that.

they thought you weren't going to bring in a picture, so they photoin that picture. brian actually did bring in a picture. we'll show that to you later. >> that didn't happen? >> no, it didn't happen. >> no wonder i don't remember. >> this could be a very fun game. >> wait a second. i don't get to see my picture? >> you're going to see it in the next hour. you saw it when you brought it in. >> i lived it. i want to share it with america. not a word from the control room. is this broken? can someone tell me. >> the control room mentioned something about heather. he think she's got to do the news. >> not going to see my picture. unbelievable. >> it was a wild night. you just don't remember with the osmonds. good morning, guys. i've got news for you. this coming out of colorado. this kid was stuck at 13,000 feet in the air on the side of a mountain with no way down. a 19-year-old hiker stranded in rocky mountain

national park in colorado. the hiker spent the night shivering on the mountain in 30 degree temperatures until a chopper crew rescued him. >> they ran out and -- i ran out and slipped. if i slipped just one feet more, i would have fallen to my death. >> that is the hiker. he is from quebec. at least 30 people took part in that rescue mission. that guy, by the way, had never climbed a mountain before. no word on what it cost to rescue him. parents are outraged this morning after their children just in the first grade left their school recess walking all the way home with no one at the school even noticing. the parents were the ones who alerted the school once their kids showed up at the house. it happened in taylorsville, utah. the walk is about half a mile and goes right past a canal. >> they could have drowned in the canal. they could have wanted to go swimming. we need to work together to correct this so it doesn't

happen again. >> school officials say they followed protocol as soon as they found out the children were missing. oh boy. imagine driving down the highway and seeing this. a horse high-tailing it right next to your car. you see right there in that left lane. the horse took off from an equestrian event near westchester new york. it jumped the median and ran the wrong way down the shoulder of that road. a group of trainers rescued that runway and returned it to the owner. >> we told you about the person hiding money in public places and tweeting out the crews. tv cameras were there when a man spotted the cash on a fire hydrant. take a listen to this. >> right here. >> that would make your day, wouldn't it? inside that envelope, 135 bucks. the scavenger hunt now

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mississippi, alabama with much rain. there have been reports of six inches of rain in some areas. watches are in effect and warnings for some of you. that area shaded in red is where more than four inches can fall -plt this is an issue out here along parts of the gulf coast. temperature wise, very warm in some part of the country. >> maria molina on the chilly streets of new york city. if you're having yogurt for breakfast now, put down your spoon! which ones have more sugar than a twinkie? >> say it ain't so. is edward snowden a hero or traitor? you may change your mind about him after you hear his interview. don't go anywhere.

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sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. >> wow. joining us from our washington, d.c. bureau with his reaction is fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. good morning. >> good morning, guys. >> snowden says he's justified in doing this because president obama lied to the american people, president bush lied to the american people. james clapper. so is he justified at all. are there instances where the american people don't need to know everything? >> you could make both arguments, anna. obviously the government's argument is, if i can make that one first, we're looking for a needle in a haystack and in order to find that needle, we have to be able to identify every piece of straw in the haystack. that's the argument of the n.s.a., the argument of president bush and the argument of president obama. it is a tough argument to make when you've taken an oath to uphold the constitution because the constitution prohibits, if i can go back to the needle in the haystack analogy, touching and moving and examining each piece of straw in order to find the needle.

now to snowden, what he said is true. there are times in american history when what is right is not necessarily legal. it's a risky thing for him to say. it's questionable whether a judge would let him make that argument to a jury if he does come here and if he's tried. >> judge, you talk about risky. can you imagine if every american decides what is right so they decide to break laws because at times in america we can decide what's right and therefore break those laws and feel justified doing so? what kind of society would we have? >> remember, brian, our society was created by a bunch of people who broke laws. to the king of england, the founding fathers -- hamilton, madison and jefferson and adams and franklin -- were traitors. they broke his laws in order to found a new country here. when you do that and you succeed, you're a hero and you're a patriot. when you do that and you fail, you end up in the gallows or you end up in jail. >> did they break laws and

run to hong kong? did they sneak out and eventually end up in russia? what kind of courage do you have if you do what he did, stay in russia and then say i did the right thing, in his mind? >> well, the founding fathers actually shot at british soldiers. you can't get much more aggressive against the king than that. in terms of snowden, look, he saw what happened to other people who attempted to reveal what the government was doing. i don't justify living in moscow at all. but he seems to feel that moscow is a place where the american government can't reach him. he's hired a law, very prominent lawyer in d.c. whom i know who as we speak, maybe not this time of day, is negotiating with the justice department for his return. this is a gambit that he took. even someone you and i know well -- ray kelly -- whose law enforcement credentials cannot be questioned, said spying this massive on everybody in the united

states, you're damned right i want to know about it. >> edward snowden said he's justified in breaking the law because he says the n.s.a. violated our constitutional rights. listen. >> i don't believe the united states is or ever should be a security state. if we want to be free, we can't become subject to surveillance. we can't give away our privacy. we can't give away our rights. we have to be an active party. we have to be an active part of our government. and we have to say there are some things worth dying for. and i think the country is one of them. >> we have more evidence right here, did he do it? yes, he did, he says he did it. the question is: is he justified and will that hold water on his day in court if he gets one. >> if there is a trial and if a judge lets him say to a jury what he just said to brian williams, it will be up to a jury to decide.

he'll point to historical figures throughout the history of the country who have done what was technically wrong at the time but it turned out to be a good thing, because if the government is violating everybody's rights, everybody has a right to know about it. >> judge, your prediction, will be back in america lawyered up ready to go to trial? >> i think he's going to cut a deal, brian. i think the government does not want to try this case and want him off the headlines, and the only way they can do that is to give him a deal. i think we can expect to hear about this soon. >> interesting. the secretary of state was very direct in telling him to come back but definitely not excusing him. judge napolitano, thanks for joining us all the way from washington, d.c. >> pleasure guys. >> coming up straight ahead, detroit is bankrupt. so what would be better than a bailout? how about bulldozing the town? that is the latest plan. we'll explain. >> one of the hottest ads seen on tv, but do you have

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hey, everybody of the good morning. today is thursday, the 29th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we start with a fox news alert. a late night showdown in washington after a devastating new report shows the v.a. waiting lists are real. >> how did you not find them? you were there. >> i did find them. >> how many were on the list? you told me you didn't look at this list. >> i told you we didn't document the numbers. >> we are live in washington, d.c. with the late-breaking details. and the president didn't even mention the v.a. scandal in his speech at west point, but he did have time to say this. >> that spirit of cooperation needs to energize the global effort to combat climate change.

>> of course. so how exactly is our military going to combat climate change? we're going to talk about that. and i'm having eggs for breakfast this morning. the reason why i'm bulking up can only be found on this show. unless somebody is doing a show exactly like us on another show. mornings are better with friends. that was a good tease. it looked like you were just having a healthy breakfast, if you like raw eggs. >> man, that hurt. >> i am really a lethal weapon. >> apparently we are not going to reveal the nature of it. we'll just say it's a rocky road for you. >> i would say this, it's great to be in a studio that's one block away from broadway where two very special people are wait ing. does that not help the show. >> that was a good clue.

>> rocky show. talk being sylvester stallone coming up. that's why he's eating the raw egg. that's coming up. in the meantime, fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal coming hours of a a scathing report shows just how screwed up the place is. >> elizabeth prann is live with the breaking details. what's new? >> reporter: good morning. it was a faceoff on capitol hill last night. lawmakers questioned three top v.a. administrators for hours addressing a number of accusations about systemic corruption in a report that veterans died waiting for appointments at a phoenix facility. lawmakers were told they were not secret. some on the hill said the v.a. paid out bonuses based on false wait times. >> these waiting lists could be at every va in the country. is that correct?

>> congressman, i don't think they were secret. i think they were -- >> how did you not find them, dr. lynch? you were there. >> i did. >> if i was in your shoes, i would describe this as a five alarm fire and you're rushing to the scene and you're bringing mutual aid because the house is on fire and nobody is going to survive. what do you know? what we know is that people died! >> ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, veterans died. get us the answers, please! >> tell me how you could have possibly thought it was appropriate to turn such a critical, serious mission into a personal holiday. >> keep in mind, hours before hand, the inspector general intern report alleges 1700 veterans seeking care at the phoenix facility were at risk of being forgotten or lost. more than 200 waited on average 115 days for their first primary care appointment and 84% of

those waited more than 14 days. jay carney says the president finds the report, quote, extremely troubling. anna, steve, brian, back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. >> i want to see them go from troubling to action because we don't have to have a wait. now the study is just about in. >> too bad, because the president says he wants to wait. we've had 20 reports so far from the i.g. what's interesting is during that interplay where the congress people were asking for the records, they have subpoenaed the records and extraordinarily, the v.a. officials, the three on the hot seats, said that their attorneys had the records and they were not available due to attorney-client privilege. are you kidding me? >> could this be a tipping point? >> we're the client! >> right. >> i agree with you. how is that acceptable? how could you sit there and do that, especially when you're talking about a situation that you need everybody on all sides to work together. you can not claim to be working together at the same time

lawyering up. >> well, it is curious. they did in the i.g. report, find paper printouts of hundreds of records where people were asking for primary care appointments at the v.a. hospital. they were never entered into the official computer. they just had a paper of it. so yesterday that dr. thomas lynch there, he said there were no wait lists. however, his staff did tell him what they referred to as interim work products. so the paper wait lists were not wait list, they were interim work products. that's some beautiful bureaucratic legalese. >> yeah. sounds like a funny way to change the verbiage on that. could this be a tipping point for president obama to call for the resignation of eric shinseki should he choose not to step down himself in the first place? the chorus of people on both sides of the aisle is getting much louder. the vfw also, but it's not just

republicans, it's democrats now. for the first time we've had five senate democrats come forward as well and two senate democrat candidates. but we do have democratic congressman mike meshow, who will join us and gop congressman jeff miller at 8:45. they're going to be weighing in on all this. what a late night in washington, d.c certainly some firey comments. >> congressman has been sounding the alarm. among those democrats saying okay, general shinseki has to go, senator hagin, as well as mark udall. >> we should point out 20 democrats as well, according to national journal, a senior white house official says mr. shinseki's job currently is up in the air. all right. let's go to west point yesterday. the president of the united states delivered the commencement address. it was an icy reception. less than 25% of them gave him a

standing ovation, according to one news account. what's interesting is he didn't talk about the v.a. scandal, which he should have. he didn't talk about islamic, when he was talking about the extremists. but he did have time to make sure that those in attendance realize that now that they were graduating, they needed to get out there, put on their camo and fight climate change. >> that spirit of cooperation needs to energize the global effort to combat climate change, a creeping national security crisis that will help shape your time in uniform as we are called on to respond to refugee flows and natural disasters and conflicts over water and food, which is why next year i intend to make sure america is out front in putting together a global framework to preserve our planet. >> he talked about closing gitmo. who is stopping him? everything, even though it was a pledge he made. he talked about that. he also talked about how we are

an exceptional nation and believes with every fiber of his being and took time to take a shot at president bush. saying pursuing al-qaeda all over the globe is just a fantasy, something we shouldn't have been doing of the really? because they're spreading all over the globe and i think i'd feel a lot better if we were still pursuing them. he went on to outline exactly to tell those in the audience that in afghanistan where essentially out of there in two years, it's going to end like a rock. how is a rock going? al-qaeda came back because we ended that wrongly. are we going to learn anything from our last exit? find it disappointing. i know that a lot of people are on the president for not getting applause. but i did find out later that the cadets were told not to applaud on anything on any line until the end. i think some were disappointed that no one addressed them. admiral mcraven gave an incredible address in texas. another giving advice for life and memorable moments, the president really was there and talked above them. >> not to mention the big pink

elephant in the room. he not even talked about the care for our veterans. at least he could have done it the way he did on monday and say we care about you. we will always care about you. even if he didn't mention it specifically. it's not right for these cadets to think about going onto the front lines and not being taken care of when they come home. montel williams was on kneel cavuto and he said, why would anybody even want to sign up? this is going to hurt recruitment when these guys are getting the middle finger left and right. >> it didn't seem to be a good -- it was a philosophical speech. it wasn't a commander in chief speaking to the troops kind of speech. dick cheney was on with sean hannity last night and he was blunt as he always is. listen. >> he's very, very weak president, maybe the weakist certainly in my lifetime. i know from my own experience, in a recent trip to the middle east spending several days talking with folks i dealt with

all the way become to desert storm, they all are absolutely convinced that the american capacity to lead and to influence events in that part of the world has been dramatically reduced by this president. >> okay. so i think we can review, it wasn't a very good speech, according to many. ten minutes after the top of the hour. we turn to heather nauert who has some headlines. >> ive a story about hackers and a clever technique they're using that we need to be aware of. there is a new report that's due out. hackers in iran are spying on high ranking u.s. officials, including a four star general and this has been going on for at least three years now and it is apparently still underway. cyber security experts are now revealing that the hackers are pretending to work for a fake u.s. news organization. they're developing connections to the target through facebook, "lincoln" and other media sites and tricking them into giving up personal data and log on information. interesting. in his first american tv

interview, snowden says he wants to return to the united states. the 30-year-old who is still in russia claims exposing the government's secrets was his civic duty and that he's not a traitor. >> being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country. >> we get a lecture from snowden. secretary of state john kerry says snowden should man up and come back to the united states to rosecution. ukrainian tv reporter arrested and charged with battery after slugging brad pitt on the red carpet in hollywood. you can see him being taken away by cops. that guy, that reporter has a history of pranking celebrities. he crept over a security barrier and hit brad in the face before security wrestled him to the ground. the guy made a career out of attacking celebrities. he's the one who tried to kiss will smith earlier in the month and then he also tried to --

it's not funny? >> he's not funny. that's dangerous. >> he also tried to crawl under her dress. you can see that picture right there. >> why is that allowed? >> he just got around security. >> put this guy in jail. what is he doing? >> he probably is this morning, brian. >> let's keep him there. 12 minutes after the hour. coming up, what does it take to be the most powerful woman in the world? find out. we reveal who just got that honor and it's one of our own. what's better than a bailout? charles gasparino is here and he has a bulldozer and a license to own one. ♪ ♪

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there is a new plan to get detroit, the motor city, back on track by demolishing tens of thousands of decaying blighted buildings. a task force report shows it will take five years and 2 billion bucks to bulldoze the blight. is dumping more money into bankrupt detroit really the best solution? charlie gasparino joins us now. good morning to you. >> thank you. >> so they say it will cost $2 billion -- >> at least. >> they got, what, 80,000 blighted buildings. >> right. we should say that detroit is a huge city land wise. a lot of population have left. 136 square miles long. it's big. it's desolate. but here is the problem, everything the obama administration does involves big

government, they don't need big government here. they don't need to spend that much money here. there is a simple solution and i'll tell you, wall street firms have pitched this. sell lots of the city to private equity. shrink the city. let the private investors, private equity officials take the risk and they would. listen, detroit is a narrow lake. it's not exactly the worst place in the world once you take out the blight. it's actually very attractive place to do business, it could be, if you shrunk it, policed it. one of the problems with detroit is it's so big that the current city government doesn't have enough money to police it and provide violation services. if you shrank it and sold big parts of it to private investors and created other cities, that is what a lot of wall street firms are telling them to do. >> you laid it out pretty clearly. it seems like a no brainer. first of all, where would they get the $2 billion to do that to detroit? they would need a bailout. >> that's what we're talking. that's the bailout that the president said would never

happen. bulldozing a whole city is not cheap. it costs a lot. >> but nobody lives there. >> a lot of places -- listen, there is something called eminent domain where you could basically take it over, which they've done in other places. but the simple solution is to get the private investor involved in this. i'm telling you private equity, as much as the president attacked mitt romney during the election, they take chances on places like this. >> and michigan is a pro-growth, pro-business state. >> listen, give them tax incentives to do it. >> it's interesting. thank you, charlie. still ahead, peter johnson, jr. knocking down doors in washington, d.c. demanding answers on the v.a. mess there. he talked to the democratic ranking member of the committee, but he says no one should lose their job yet. really? what's he waiting for? why is brian bulking up? the story that may be hard to

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man's job to pay for the first date. and number one. german chancellor angela merkel named by "forbes" magazine as the most powerful woman in the world. also on the top 100 list, our own greta van susteren. she is the longest running news anchor in cable news. she also made the list last year. way to go, greta. >> congratulations, greta van susteren. >>i have good news, bad news. i had an opportunity to interview sylvester stallone and the actor on broadway. what they do is phenomenal. because i saw it, i have a chance to go one block away and interview stallone -- >> just go. >> got your running shoes on? go! tell him we said hi. >> you guys got to wait.

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♪ we do expect answers. we'll get to the bottom of this to uncover the truth and ensure a solution is implemented that never allows something like this to happen again. we expect accountability and full accountability for every failure that has harmed a veteran and for every individual who perpetrated such harm. >> that's the ranking democratic member of the house veterans affairs committee, congressman michaud, last night they rare late night hearings on the v.a. scandal. >> peter johnson, jr. was at that hearing and asked the questions we all wanted answered. he joins us live from the bureau. peter? >> good morning. i met the congressman right after the i.g. report came out and we had a very interesting interview with the questions

that america has been asking. by what right does the secretary of the v.a., former general shinseki, have a right to maintain his position? shouldn't he be fired by the president today? >> i'm not going to make that judgment right now until we have interim report -- i mean the final report for the inspector general. yes, this is a huge problem and there is a lot of outrage and justifiably so. but the v.a. does provide good, good health care when veterans are able to get in to the health care system. >> what will it take for you, congressman, to say no mas. general shinseki, thank you for your service as an american hero, but too many people have died and been injured because of the mail you'res of the v.a.? what will it take? >> i think until we have that final report, i think it's premature to say that he definitely should resign today. >> in about three to four days,

i received almost 2,000 e-mails from veterans and their families documenting injury and/or death as a result of v.a. care. do you get e-mails like that? >> as far as personal e-mails, i haven't seen it to the extent that you're talking about. we've had disgruntled veterans in the past about mileage reimbursement, something like that. but not from what you're saying. >> so you've never seen an e-mail with regard to veteran dying as a result of lack of care? >> no. >> you've never seen an e-mail with regard to a veteran suffering injury as a lack of care? >> no. >> i read each and every one of them. i will share them with you. will you receive them from me if i send them to you? >> absolutely. >> there is an anger. there is a feeling of absolute disrespect. so what do you say to the former g.a.s in america today?

what do you say to our veteran when is after this interim report you say, well, i'm going to withhold judgment about general shinseki? how do you rationalize that? >> rice now it's premature to actually go in and start firing individuals until we have the full report and once we have that full report, i expect the president to hold everyone involved in this particular case accountable. >> are you disappointed in the president's stewardship with regard to veterans' fairs? and do you blame him and/or general shinseki for the scandal that america is now immersed in with regard to patient deaths? >> i'm not going to make any prejudgment 'til we have the final report from the inspector general as far as are those people on that waiting list,s that been attributed -- their deaths attributed to them waiting? as far as the president, he has done a phenomenal job as far as providing resources to the department of veterans affairs, more than any other president

has done. >> thanks, congressman. >> thank you very much. >> so there is no doubt that the congressman is a loyal steward to veterans and obviously he's been a committed member of that committee. but i was surprised by his responses yesterday with regard to moving on general shinseki generally. very, very measured and in some ways, bureaucratic and political and partisan. some democrats have left the fold and saying shinseki must go. but it was a revealing interview with the congressman yesterday. at the hearing last night that i attended, he was a lot more robust and less partisan in his questioning. >> maybe you got him fired up because you went down there with thousands of e-mail. you printed them all out so that they could take a look at it. what's extraordinary is you talked to him before the hearing, but after the i.g. report came out and the i.g. report, which was final, on the

phoenix situation was very clear. 1700 vets thought they were on waiting lists, but they were not. i mean, that was clear. the wait time was not 24 days. it was 115 days. >> right. and the critical part of that report is they said it was systemic. the office of the inspector general is now looking at more than 40 v.a. medical centers across the united states. so it's not only phoenix. a lot of these members were asking, is it my district? is it my district? great concerns by congress last night. >> the headline really seems to be it's worse than we really thought. peter, you're there in d.c we started to see some senate democrats say abandon ship, abandon ship. is that going to continue? is that what you're hearing? >> i think it will because as you read this report, you see a level of deception on behalf of the v.a. congressman jeff miller, the chair and will be interviewing him, we'll have that in a little bit -- he said, i can't believe the v.a. numbers.

so when congress is saying we can't believe the v.a. numbers about anything, clearly there is a loss of confidence. the problem is the three people who testified on behalf of the v.a. last night didn't seem to get the message. so it still looks like general shinseki is fighting for his political life. unfortunately, veterans have died in the process, according to these allegations. >> peter johnson, jr., america's lawyer, he took all the e-mail that you sent over the last couple of weeks, he personally took it down to dc and he'll be back in the next hour with another interview with jeff miller. >> absolutely. >> thank you. excellent job. heather nauert, tell us what else is happening. >> got other news to bring you. more planes nearly colliding in the sky. this time happening in alaska. this happened when an alaskan airline plane packed with 143 passengers was trying to land a cargo jet had just taken off. the two planes coming within a quarter mile of one another. you may remember last week we told you about this, united

airlines two planes almost crashing, coming within 400 feet of one another. a shocking turn as the marine who is still sitting in ma mexican prison fires his attorney minutes before his first hearing yesterday. today he's still behind bars. he arrived in a mexican court to face weapons charges. you can see him there. he mistakenly crossed the mexican border. that's what he says -- with three legally registered and owned guns in his car. here he is describing the whole ordeal in his own words to greta. >> he didn't seem to care at all about anything of what i had to say or my story at all. it was like a math equation in his head, three guns, man equals prison. >> he was referring there to some of the troops who detained him when he was on that border.

tune in tonight because he speaks on the phone to fox's greta van susteren on "the record." she's been doing a lot of coverage of that story. you know there's a erectile dysfunction drugs? eli lily what's cialis to be sold over the counter without a prescription and i guess men everywhere happy about that. there is a new licensing deal with a french company and it could see it hit drugstore shelves as early as 2018. that plan still needs approval from regulators. who says dogs need humans to have fun? this dog invented a way to play catch all by himself. take a look at this. you're kidding, right? no. that is amazing. he loads the tennis ball and

leaps to the other end and propels the ball into the air. that is so smart. jack russell terriers, they're clever dogs. >> your move, underdog. i thought he was amazing 'til i saw this. >> the incredible thing is not only does he launch it, but then he runs through an obstacle course to get it. >> go figure. >> there you go. >> thank you, heather. straight ahead, how do you teach criminals a lesson with a show of force? the police shaming in a packed stadium coming up. yep. are you planning on making home improvements this spring? do you know what questions to ask contractors? stick around. bob massi has the ways to make sure the job gets done and the work is legit. >> first the trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1958, this actor played dan hack crowd's wife in "the great outdoors." who is she? be first with the correct answer. i don't think i've ever seen that great actress.

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some international headlines now. new photos of a massive oil tanker exploding off the coast of japan. clouds of thick black smoke seen rising into the sky. at this hour a search is underway to find the missing captain of the it's believed one of the crew members triggered the blast using a power tool to

remove paint. verdicts in a china stadium. a chinese court announcing guilty verdicts for 55 people on charges of terrorism and murder inside a stadium filled with 7,000 people. the public event was a show of force after 43 people were killed last week in an attack at a vegetable market. public shaming. all right. meanwhile, out in public in his first u.s. interview, edward snowden sat down with brian williams yesterday on nbc, is when they ran the interview. people have said why did you break the law? well, it turns out that he tried to be an official whistle blower. he tried to go through the official channels, but he was told why exactly are you asking all these questions? you should just shut up. so what did he do? he leaked all this information to journalists. he considers himself a patriot because this is the only way the people of the united states will know that the federal government is in his estimation, violating

the u.s. constitution. here is snowden. >> you might say, does anybody really care that i'm looking up the score for the rangers game? well, government or hacker or some other nefarious individual would say yes, they're very interested in that because that tells a lot about you. first off it tells you probably speak english. it says you're probably an american. you're interested in this sport. they might know what your habits are. where were you in the world when you checked this score? when you travel or just at home? they'd be able to tell something called your pattern of life. when are you doing these kind of activities? when did you wake up or go to sleep? what other phones are around you when you wake up and go to sleep? are you with someone who is not your wife? are you someplace you shouldn't be, which is arbitrary.

are you engaged in any kind of activities that we disapprove of, even if they aren't technically illegal? and all of these things can raise your level of scrutiny, even if it seems entirely innocent to you, even if you have nothing to hide, even if you're doing nothing wrong. >> the government is watching us all the time. >> i had no idea until i heard him say that, that they have a way of doing that. judge napolitano weighed in. he's a big supporter of edward snowden. >> remember, brian, that our society was created by a bunch of people who broke laws. to the king of england, the founding fathers, hamilton and madison and jefferson and adams and franklin were traitors. they broke his laws in order to found a new country here. when you do that and you succeed, you're a hero and you're a patriot. when you do that and you fail, you end up in the gallows or in jail. >> i don't think you should equate him to jefferson. but the judge is the constitutional scholar. >> same idea. mr. snowden says the

constitution has been used to -- we the federal government has been using the constitution to violate our privacy on a massive scale, all tame while saying, well, we're trying to crack down on terrorists. so we've got to monitor everybody. >> so. do you believe that edward snowden now has a leg to stand on? >> so edward snowden says i'm justified in break the law because president bush, president obama, alberto gonzalez and james clapper were not up front with the american people, so i decided to take the reins and be up front with the american people. weigh in on that or hit us up on facebook. >> what it comes down to, since the government is gathering all that information, do you trust the government? do you trust the government? >> should you arbitrarily go around deciding it's time for me to violate the laws because the ends justifies the means? >> he was willing to go to jail to do it. >> right. in hong kong. >> he wanted to go to south america. >> right. >> so he got stuck.

give us an e-mail. in the meantime, 11 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, katie couric lending her voice to a new film that says americans are too fat. are you sick and tired of the food police telling you what to eat? john stossel is sick and tired and he says every american should have food freedom. he can eat both. about summer starts now with hot deals this weekend at bass pro shops. like 40% off redhead macks creek shorts. save $20 on new balance 608 trainers. and sign up for email to get a special $10 in-store coupon good for this weekend.

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>> a new documentary narrated by katie couric taking on america's obesity epidemic. >> there are 600,000 food items in america. 80% of them have added sugar. your brain lights up with sugar just like it does with cocaine or heroin. you'll become an addict. >> you end up with a great health epidemics of our time. >> that sounds scary. but are all the warnings we get about food true and even if they are, should the government be deciding what we eat? john stossel tackles this on tonight's show. good morning to you, john. >> no. they're not all true. and no, government shouldn't be telling us what to eat. government has been wrong about so much, like saturated fat. all my life i've given up bacon and butter because they said it was bad for you. now it turns out oops, all that stuff may have been wrong. we're eating probably too much sugar, replacing the fat.

and the katie couric movie, you have another clip from that? can we play that? >> steve, did you bring it? >> let's watch. >> wrong in some ways. she says 95% of us will be overweight or obese within a couple decades. and i mean, on the face of it it's absurd. how can they say things like that? >> do you thin the government should educate our children about it, whether they're mandating what should be in lunches or not, they should do a better job educating kids? >> fine, they already spent millions and millions when we have the internet and a million diet books and television, million ways people can find out about food. michelle obama has this healthy kids program in schools. $400 million, kids are throwing the food out. people are tossing it. >> eventually don't you think -- >> it's fine if she wants to inspire people by exercising with the kids. but they're just dropping out of the school lunch program. >> once again, forget about the food police. personal responsibility?

>> right. and government is very clumsy at trying to fix these problems. sugar is as addictive as heroin and it's not your fault. it's not willpower. it's the companies. bunk. >> have you muselix instead of captain crunch. >> make a tiny bit of difference. >> okay, fine. we're going to watch you tonight. >> this is my night, thursdays, 9:00 o'clock. >> watch "stossel" on the "fox business" network. meanwhile, it's starting to be the theme of the primaries. washington insiders out. outsiders in. the first interview with texas attorney general who just ousted the oldest serving member of congress, john ratcliffe here with his first interview in about two minutes. nexium level protection. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month?

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interview with edward snowden. is he a hero or a zero? we're going to report and you're going to decide. and a surprise. in my sit down with sylvester stallone. >> he always does things like that. >> you want to take a swing at me? >> yeah, i do. >> what i did to get rocky, that rocky, all riled up. mornings are better with friends. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> that was the theme song to "iron side"? i didn't know that. >> yeah. >> you were ready for it, you've been eating your raw egg whites. >> i couldn't take both rockies at once. he was able to repel thunder lips in rocky 3 when he was thrown out in the ring. >> thunder lips? >> he ended up being hulk hogan.

>> related to baby cakes? >> been an interesting week. so let's talk about what happened late last night on capitol hill. it's a fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal after a scathing report shows just how disturbing and how widespread the problem is. elizabeth prann is in washington with the details and the latest from the white house as they react. >> reporter: yeah. good morning. tensions were high on the hill as lawmakers questioned three top v.a. administrators for hours. the session revolved around the phoenix v.a. facility's wait times. the agency's lack of accountability and transparency. questioning became hostile when officials told lawmakers that now destroyed documents were not secret. some legislators say the v.a. paid out bonuses based on the false wait times. >> you said you told the staff that it was your impression that the list was destroyed. is that what you're saying today? >> that is what i'm saying. >> let me give you a little

hint. v.a. won't tell you the truth. if you're relying solely on the management of these facilities to tell you the truth, you're not going to get it. you're just not going to get it. >> if i was in your shoes, i would describe this as a five alarm fire and you're rushing to the scene and you're bringing mutual aid because the house is on fire and nobody is going to survive. what do you know? what we know is that people died! >> hours before, we saw the inspector general interim report, it allergies a range of misconduct, finding 1700 veterans seeking care at phoenix at risk of being forgotten or lost. more than 200 waited on average 115 days for their first primary care appointment. 84% of those waited more than 14 days. we do have new information per our own ed henry.

the president still has full confidence in secretary eric shinseki despite a number of senate democrats now calling for him to resign. keep in mind, he does find the i.g. interim report extremely disturbing. back to you. >> extremely disturbing. the question a lot of people have is, this is happening right under his nose. so he is either inept and incapable of continuing to do that job, or he knew about the cook of the books and helped cover it up. which one is worse? either way, should he resign? >> there are at least 58 members of congress who now are calling for his resignation, including 20 democrats. it's interesting, the number of facilities being investigated now at 42. when the i.g. showed up, they didn't call anybody ahead of time because they were worried that the various facilities would destroy the evidence or they would coach the people who worked there how to answer in an evasive way. so when they can't even trust the people who are working there to tell the truth to the

investigative team, that's sad. >> so the thing is everyone's focus is on general shinseki and what was he doing at this job? should he be fired? lieutenant colonel ralph peters has a concern. >> stop playing politics with this issue! it's about our vets! it's not about your reelection or election campaign! by the way, blame shinseki, congress holds the purse strings! congress refuses to reform the civil service regulations and allow this to happen! congress doesn't exercise oversight and instead you have someone like. >> reporter: bird attacking the vfw because they won't call for shinseki's resignation? i don't think senator burr ever served in the military. congress, you're a disgrace! >> the vfw now has called for mr. shinseki to step down. >> yes. colonel ralph peters, big supporter of shinseki, saying that give him more time and he should be able to do it and

calling on congress and saying you're the ones to blame. but the problem is, you just heard there from elizabeth's report, this has expanded to 42 medical facilities for the v.a. and that there i phoenix, they were showing up, waiting for 24 days when it was really 115 days. if congress doesn't have the correct information, how are they supposed to know what to do? >> i like your plan from the first hour. let's start winding it down. let's just get some of that money into the private sector, make that the doctor fix to let them get the money to supplement the care that they will be getting. >> right now our vets are being short changed and it's not fair. in the meantime, it's starting to be the theme of the primaries. washington insiders out. outsiders in. our next guest defeated the oldest serving member of the house who is also the only world war ii veteran seeking reelection. so how did john ratcliffe do it? joining us, republican congressional candidate and form u.s. attorney, john ratcliffe joins us today from dallas, texas. good morning to you, sir.

>> good morning. thank you for having me on. >> what was it about your message that resonated with the people of texas? >> i think that the voters in this district were like me and like many of your viewers. they were concerned about the direction of our country. too much spending, too much taxing, too much borrowing as evidenced by $17 trillion debt. policies like obamacare are only making that worse. so i believe that a majority of the people in the district were ready for a new conservative voice that was really ready and willing to fight for better results than we've been getting and clearly the results of the election prove that. >> any mixed feelings about someone who served for so long and served for the country? >> well, obviously i'm grateful for everyone that serves for our country and members of congress included. but that's not a lifetime path to serve in congress. so i really think that the people had the opportunity to make the choice that they wanted to and they did. >> back to the concerns that you just mentioned that you think the voters were thinking about,

why is it that you can come in with this new blood and make a difference after 34 years of somebody else? >> clearly the problems in washington right now are getting worse, not better. the people up there that are providing ideas and solutions aren't working. if you want to get better results, you need better leadership. i think that what's happened in my district is happening across the country. i think that people really are tired of the status quo and they really do want change. >> you have the tea party backed you for this. people saying the tea party doesn't have the power it did. not it used to have, but in this case anyway, right? >> yeah. i'm not a big labeled guy. i really think that's a washington insider's game. i did garner a lot of tea party support. but i also garnered support from traditional republicans and libertarians and independents. so i think that's the kind of broad coalition that we need to build for republicans to finally start winning national

elections. >> all right. mr. ratcliffe, let's say you do win from your district there in texas. you go to washington, d.c give us something concrete you would work on, because let's face it, we're all fed up with what's going on in washington in many respects. how would you change it? >> one of the reasons i got in this race is the $17 trillion debt. we need to restore fiscal sanity. i'd push for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. i'd push for spending caps that would limit our spending to 18% of the gdp which is a historical average since world war ii. we need to start making those tough decisions now, cut spending now so that we can give our kids a chance at the same american dream we've had. we have too many career politicians up there that are making decisions and putting their next election in front of the next generation. we need to change that. >> all right. john ratcliffe, who is running for congress from the great state of texas, thank you very much for joining us today from the dallas-fort worth metroplex. >> thanks for having me on. >> good luck to you.

other stories making headlines. heather nauert is here. >> good morning to you. a story for you about who hackers are targeting now. there is a frightening new report due out, hackers in iran are now spying on high ranking u.s. officials, including a four-star general. this is apparently been going on for at least three years and it is still considered to be underway. cyber security experts are now revealing that the hackers are pretending to work for some sort of a fake news organization. they're then developing connections to the target through facebook, linkedin and other social media sites and somehow trick them into giving up personal data and log in information and that is how they're compiling all their information about these u.s. officials. in his first american television interview with nbc news, edward snowden says he wants to return to the united states. the 30-year-old claims that he exposed the government secrets as a service to his country. he says he tried to go through the proper channels, but that didn't work. listen here. >> i had raised these complaints

not just officially, in writing through e-mail to these offices and these individuals, but to my supervisors, to my colleagues, in more than one office. i did it in hawaii. the response more or less, bureaucratic language was, you should stop asking questions. >> sources confirm that snowden did send a couple e mails to his superiors. freedom of information act was filed to see if there are any more e-mails that could shed any more light on this. brad pitt attacked on the red carpet and now a ukrainian tv reporter is under arrest on battery charges. that reporter, who has a history of pranking celebrities, jumped over a security barrier and slugged pit in the face before security could tackle him. there you see him. you may remember he's the one who tried to kiss will smith and that he tried to crawl, as you can see here, under an actress' dress earlier this month. >> how does he get press

credentials? >> why do you like him so much? >> there is an outrage on the part of the curvy couch. >> it's not funny. >> we interrupted your newscast. >> i've got one more story. this is one you want to listen to. a north dakota high school student is getting something even better than her high school diemployee in a on graduation day. take a look at this. this is awesome. a father and airman who was deployed to cuba surprised his daughter at her graduation ceremony in grand forks, north dakota. >> for a total of 1782 days to be exact. over the years, she missed a lot, i missed a lot. birthdays, christmas, that kind of thing. so i just tried my best to get here for when she graduated. >> i'm so happy he's here. that's all i wanted for graduation. >> how sweet. the dad will spend a week at home with his family before he heads back to cuba. what's particularly nice about

this, she was on her way driving to graduation, in tears, had no idea her dad would be there. the mom didn't know either. and then he shows up. what a turn around. >> that's wonderful. >> thanks for putting a smile on our faces. >> this next one will get people seeing red. gwyneth paltrow says getting attacked for being famous is just like being at war. really? folks, what do you think of this? >> and play on making -- plan on making home improve ams this summer? do you know what questions to ask a contractor who you might hire? bob massi knows about these guys. he's got the ways to make sure you don't get ripped off and the job gets done.

good morning. 16 minutes after the hour. springtime means home improvement time. how do you protect yourself to make sure you don't get ripped off? fox news legal analyst bob massi has all the answers and joins us live from san diego. good morning. >> how are you? >> fantastic. thanks for asking. so first, what questions do homeowners need to ask before we decide to hire a contractor? >> the biggest mistake people make is they don't hire a contractor. so what you want to do is the obvious. make sure they have a business license. make sure they're properly insured for the work they're doing. make sure that they have workers' compensation coverage. why? you don't want somebody on your property basically doing work and gets injured and now people are looking to you also. these are basic things that you have to do. you could always check with the contractors board to see what their reputation is like. in defense of contractors, sometimes people file these frivolous complaints that has no merit. we're talking about significant home improve ams.

we're not talking about handyman type of work. if you're going to add a room on, make sure you get the contractor, make sure you get people that are licensed so that it's important for you that you're doing it legally. that's very crucial in this transaction. >> what about home improvement, time for a lot of people is handyman type of things and people are going on sites like task rabbit. how do you make sure that these people have liability insurance and more than that? >> there is a couple things that's very important. first of all, if you're using a general contractor, depending upon the size of the job, you could use a construction controller. what they do is that's who you pay to make sure that all subcontractors that's working on your home, the electrician, the plumber, the drywall people, that in fact, they're being paid and you must get what's called lien releases. in other words, if i do work on your home as a subcontractor and you pay that general contractor and he doesn't pay me, i could put a lien on your house for the services or the materials

rendered. so you always want to make sure that you are being sewer by the general contractor that he or she is paying the sub and you get lien releases. that's very, very crucial because so many times people end up getting these liens on their property and say wait a second, i paid the general contractor. i paid for what was done and there was a problem. they didn't pay the subs and now you're the one that pays the price for it. very crucial in this transaction. >> yes. joint checks may be an extra hoop to jump through. what are some of the dangers of not using a licensed contractor? >> disclosure when you sell your house. when you sell a home, you have certain disclosures in every state. if you know or don't know. so if you build a room onto your home and you don't use a general contractor and permits aren't pulled and the inspectors don't come out, you have a responsibility to that prospective buyer to say we put this room addition on, but we used a handyman. they didn't pull permits.

they didn't do this. why? because if you don't do that and there is a problem with that home improvement later on down the line, that buyer could come back to you, the seller, for nondisclosure. just do it legal, guys. quit cutting corners. i cannot tell you how many people that want to save a dollar here and there and in the long run, it costs them money. they got to come to people like me which costs you money. >> all right. thanks so much, bob, for helping us protect ourselves during home improvement season. >> thanks. >> everybody at home, you can ask bob questions at our web site. 20 minutes after the hour. up next, first graders skip recess and walk all the way home. the teachers have no idea how on earth this happened. then a surprise during brian's interview with sylvester stallone. >> he always does that. >> i know. >> you want to take a swing at me? >> yeah, i do. >> so what did he do to tick

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we got some headlines for you on this thursday morning. incredible new photos of massive oil tanker exploding off the coast of japan. look at this. at this hour, a search is underway to find the captain. he's missing. it's believed one of the crew members triggered the blast when they were using a power tool to remove paint. and more planes nearly colliding in the sky. this time in alaska. an alaskan airline jet liner packed with 143 passengers trying to land as a cargo jet was taking off. the two planes coming within a quarter mile of each other.

near miss. we've been playing "eye of the tiger" all morning getting ready for this interview. >> they let me go to their gym in forest hills, they let me train. as you know, i train hard. did my research and i believe i just might be ready for sylvester stallone, rocky and andy carl, the sipping rockies, on broadway. let's look. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i reached my goal in life. i've gotten sylvester stallone in the ring. and andy carl is here. it's all about rocky on broadway. ♪ ♪ >> you guys are in great shape. i watched rocky 1 last night. and the body that you have in rocky 1 is the one you have.

did you actually train to get that size? >> oh, yeah. when i got the gig, i was like, oh, oh, i better get to the gym. i got a trainer who looks like thor. and i said i want to look like you. he's been keeping me in shape. >> these guys, they went through a metamorphosis. when they went through the first time, i thought, you're good. but they don't have any idea what was coming down the pike about the amount of energy and stretch you put on the body. it's nonstop. they have to do it every day. every day. you don't get a break. >> i've seen the early choreography of you with carl weathers working out the first rocky and what went into it. you know what has to work on stage. >> we have people on stage at every angle. that means i can't do any fake punches. i got to get hit from every side. we're making full contact. >> we can do movie tricks. they can't.

>> so what is it like? what does the body go through? >> it goes through a lot because sometimes you get hit so hard, like i got hit so hard that four hours later i was in a hospital for four days. >> but you were in the expendables. you were over it. >> no, revenge. it's a long time coming. >> i'm still good. >> time for a faceoff. andy and sly, rocky quiz. ready? how many one handed pushups can did rocky did on screen in the first movie? a, 12. b, 16. c, 18? >> oh, my god. >> switches to the other side. i'm going to say 12. >> 12. >> 18. >> 18. >> yeah! >> how many eggs did rocky crack

into a glass and drink on screen in the first movie and then in the play? three, five, or six? >> i'd say five. >> three. >> five. >> i drink three. >> how many on the stage? >> three. >> do you really? >> absolutely. >> the last one -- >> he cheated. >> and the last one in the movie, rocky gets knocked down how many times? >> rocky gets knocked down twice. >> how many times in the movie? >> two times. >> okay. one you held on to the bottom rope. i judge that as a knock down. i would say that the answer is three. you actual low didn't hit the mat. but as a referee, i would have

said you were down. >> you know what? it's good news, we made six rockies. bad news is, i'm punchy. >> you want to take a swing at me? >> yeah, i do. ♪ ♪ >> the good news is you got workers' compensation as long as it takes. >> but if rocky hits you and you ask him, i have a terrific case. andy carl, you know i don't like musicals. i don't like it. i see "frozen," i break out in hives. listen, what they do is -- special thanks to tidal boxing. they rolled the ring out into the first few rows. they get the first rows up and surround it. you will like this play. it's been selling out and for the first time on broadway, you got mostly guys in the ring. broadway is mostly women -- >> a lot of guys are going to the theater. >> right. guys, you might have a man date.

instead of saying sheryl, do you want to come with me, say billy. >> why didn't you take me? >> i should have. >> if you're coming to new york, go see rocky. >> it's right around the block. coming up, what happens when he finds free cash stashed on the street? >> but there is more money out there. we'll tell you where. plus, when you think she couldn't say anything dumber, gwyneth paltrow proves that wrong. being attacked on line for just being famous is just like being at war. >> that's a cold play, steve.

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today is tbt, throwback thursday. what we're doing is we're doing groupies of musical acts and that we showed in the first hour of brian with the osmonds. as it turns out, we faked that. that's a photo shop because they were worried you weren't going to bring one in. instead you did. and this is -- and i remember the day it happened. in central park. it was over ten years ago. you came face-to-face with somebody you would like to take to the show, rocky. >> yeah. i got to make a choice between sylvester stallone and sting. that was a chance to go interview sting. he was doing a concert in times square. so i loved him since he was in the police and i had a chance to meet him. he's still talk being it. he recognized me in the final tower. >> tbt is because we are doing

the concert series. kicked off last friday. tomorrow we have the charlie daniels band. this picture was tweeted of him and charlie daniels. folks at home, send us your groupy pictures. >> if you're here tomorrow between the hours of 6, you might get a picture with charlie daniels 'cause he loves the fans >> yeah. >> gets going at 8. >> up 'til 9:00 o'clock. the big performance is at 8:50 each and every friday morning. the 36 minutes after the hour on a thursday. we have fox news alert. the labor department just releasing the brand-new jobless numbers. nicole petallides is live from the floor of the new york stock exchange with the details. good morning. >> good morning. we got in our weekly jobless numbers coming in better than expected. the claims came in at 300,000 for the latest week. that was better than the annual lists estimates.

-- analyst estimates of 318,000. the four-week moving average is a less volatile average. really comprises over the four weeks rather than week to week, 'cause sometimes we have revisions, which you often hear and see about. so it's the lowest since 2007. so that's great to see the four-week moving average showing this great improvement. on the other hand, we also got in our gdp numbers, gross domestic products, where we saw that the u.s. economy shrank by 1%. that's terrible! that's not what we want. however, we're hoping that based on looking at it that there is some pent up demand and we'll see more spending. i enjoyed your throwback pictures. looking forward to charlie daniels. i loved "urban cowboy." >> that's when he rode the mechanical horse. >> bull. >> bull. and gave birth to a year of

everyone wanting a mechanical bull and realizing it's painful. >> it can be tricky. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. 23 minutes before the top of the hour. she's got headlines. >> good morning to you. we hope you are off to a great day. you know the stories about people who go off places they probably shouldn't and have to get rescued? i've got a story about that one coming up in just a minute. but first, let me start with this. parents are outraged this morning after their children who are first graders, left recess and then walked all the way home with no one, not even the school noticing the kids weren't there. the parents were the ones who alerted the school. once their kids showed up at their houses. this happened in utah. the walk is a half mile away from school. it goes right past the canal. parents upset. >> they could have drowned in the canal. they could have wanted to go swimming. we need to work together to correct this so it doesn't

happen again. >> school officials followed protocol as soon as they found out the kids were missing. we told you about this mystery man hiding envelopes stuffed with money in public places and tweeting out some of the clues. the tv cameras were rolling in san jose, california, when a guy spotted the hidden cash on a fire hydrant. take a look. >> come over here. >> inside that envelope, 135 bucks. might pay his utility bill or something great. the scavenger heads to los angeles and new york city. gwyneth paltrow under fire once again. this time the actress compared mean internet comments to war. yep. that's right. she said, quote, you come across on line comments about yourself and your friends and it's very dehumanizing. it's almost like how in war, you go through this bloody dehumanizing thing and then something is defined out of it.

you may remember this back in march, she talked about how difficult it is to be an actress and a mom, saying it would be easier to have an office job. okay. she might need to zip her lip a bit. >> yeah. it is dehumanizing and hurtful, but come on, give me a break. >> i'd still like to meet her. i liked iron men. coming up straight ahead, we showed you one of peter johnson, jr.'s trip to washington. now part two. he sits down with the man leading the call for v.a. secretary shinseki to resign. >> i don't trust the numbers that v.a. gives now. when my staff goes in and looks behind what the v.a. is doing, they find error after error after error. >> more of those harsh words for the v.a. next. ♪ ♪

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we've got a fox news alert. the house committee on veterans affairs grilling v.a. officials late into the night last night after the release of a devastating new report. >> i.g.'s interim findings make it all the more urgent for v.a. to come clean and fully comply with our subpoena.

veterans health is at stake and i will not stand for a department cover-up. >> that's what we want to hear. that was the committee's chairman, congressman jeff miller. he's now calling for the resignation of secretary eric shinseki. as you can see there, peter johnson, jr. joins us from washington. he sat down with mr. miller yesterday and peter has a report. >> good morning. i sat down with congressman miller at the witness table where those witnesses were grilled. let's watch. >> you've been urgently pursuing the truth on this issue. you withheld judgment, although asking tough questions about secretary shinseki. has anything changed in your mind about his ability to go forward as the secretary? >> i had always said let's wait 'til the report came out. the interim report was so damning that i felt it was important that i had my voice to those who had been calling for his resignation. >> the president has time and time again said he was going to reform the veterans

administration, made promises about wait time. made promises about delivering medical care. have those promises been met? >> no, they've failed when it comes to delivering health care in many ways in a timely fashion. they will hold out the fact that they claim the v.a. claims that they have cut the disability backlog in half. i don't trust the numbers that v.a. gives now and when my staff goes in and looks behind what the v.a. is doing, they find error after error after error as it comes to disability claims and the backlog. >> are we talking about fraud? are we talking about crimes? are we talking about criminal prosecution potentially? >> you're the attorney. between the two of us, i'm not. >> i would say yes. >> but i do say yes. any time somebody manipulates numbers for their own personal gain, especially where human beings are involved and these

are federal documents, i think there are some criminal culpability there within the department. >> does this go to the core of who we are as a people and how we take care of the people who protect us? >> the people that wear the uniform in this nation, as i said, they are our fathers, grandfathers, mothers, brothers, sister, whoever it happens to be, these people chose to wear the uniform of this country. some as a career, some as a very short period of time. we owe it to them to provide them the benefits that they expected to earn. we have a huge system out there. we spend over $150 billion a year in the department of veterans affairs, the second agency in size only to the dod. we have to get this right. >> with regard to all these e-mails from fox viewers, what's the next step for you and this congress? >> i will take these from you. we will go through them bit by

bit and try to make sure that they get to the appropriate member of congress regardless of party affiliation and see if we can listen to the stories that people took time to tell. not only will we look at them as members of congress, but i think the v.a. at some point needs to see them as well and hear the very same stories. >> thank you for doing that. >> thank you, peter. >> good to see you. >> i left there encouraged and optimistic. i literally carried those e-mails to that committee room. he was happy to take them and happy to act on them. so i left very pleased in some ways about our system and about this country because it's been very tough to see all these e-mails from these almost 2,000 viewers of "fox & friends" who say that they've been hurt, that their family members may have been killed as a result of v.a. inactivity, delays, fraud, and abuse. so it was a positive, positive event and that he's on a mission

and he wants to get to the bottom of this and get it fixed. >> you were on a mission as well. you detailed this problem from the get-go. you made a promise that if anybody wrote in, you would take the e-mail to washington, d.c. and yesterday you delivered. and for that -- >> i had a lot of americans walking by my side in those lonely halls of congress, even though they weren't physically there. they were there in spirit and so yeah, thanks for doing this with me, steve. >> you bet. peter, thank you. travel safely back from washington to the big town. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. tom cruise back in action with his brand-new movie, but first, he's talking to us. >> right now martha mccallum is talking to us to preview what happens on the channel in ten minutes and 30 seconds. >> good morning. we know thingly truth of it. 1700 vets stuck on a dead end waiting list to see a doctor. even democrats are clamoring for the firing of eric shinseki.

we have news out of the white house on this that we want to bring you. and dick cheney responds to the president's west point speech and will your children or your grandchildren ever have to learn how to drive a car? big development there. bill and i will see you at the top of the hour. t! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!"

53 minutes after the hour. tom cruise and emably blunt star not guilty a new blockbuster that's supposed to be out of this world. >> haven't you been in one of these before? >> maybe. >> my safety! how do i turn the safety? >> come find me when you wake up. >> joining us with an inside look at "edge of tomorrow," michael tammero, sitting on the

curvy couch. >> good morning, guys. imagine being able to relive the same day over and over until you got it right. that's the premise of this new $175 million latest blockbuster from tom cruise. he plays a pr agent thrown onto the front lines in the future of man versus alien, battle taking place. he doesn't live very long. but he gets to wake up the next day and relive the whole thing until he figures it out. >> it's groundhog day. >> meets independence day, meets saving private ryan. they did something that hadn't been done, they did three premieres across the globe, london, paris and new york. all in 24 hours. we caught up with them at the last stop, lincoln center at midnight last night and asked them who came up with this idea. >> i thought this was definitely tom cruise's idea. it's not my idea. but i was excited. i thought it was a cool way to promote the movie. >> some people said it was my idea. everyone thinks like i came up

with this. it was warner brothers. i thought it would be a lot of fun because it's in the theme of the movie. and it is fun. >> looks a little tired. >> it was midnight. >> what do you think? >> it was pretty good. one of the special effects were great. part of it were these suits the soldiers all wear that make these average soldiers into super soldiers to fight the aliens and cruise told us about what went into the planning and designing of them. >> with the suits, you have this -- because we're wearing it and i spent a lot of time researching and developing it and i don't know. it was just a lot of fun. >> how heavy was it? >> very. they're very heavy. at different times, i had the guns and live weapons flying. so we got up to 125 pounds. >> some of the guys who are paralyzed are using those suits to get them standing again. i guess this is a derivative.

>> they probably lost a lot of weight doing this. but it opens up overseas this weekend and north america on june 6. you can catch all our interviews at in the foxlight.com. look for me on twitter for all the latest. >> let's call him midnight michael. thanks. >> thanks. we're going to step aside. we'll be back in a couple of minutes with more. thank you new car!

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er. bill: thank you and good morning. resign or getted fired. that's the call more and more as the heat is on the va secretary eric shinseki after a nationwide breakdown of our va system. martha: i'm martha maccallum. this new report comes right before a rare evening hearing that happened on capitol hill. veterans affairs grilled va officials for four hours. they demanded answers on what they say is