>> thank you for being here, eric. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. >> absolutely. >> in the meantime we have "happening now" ready to go. >> take care. ♪ jon: we start off this morning with this, israel prime minister vowing hamas will pay for the murder of the three israeli teenagers. good morning to you, i'm jon scott. shannon: launching airstrikes against dozens of targets deep in the heart of hamas controlled gaza strip following a rash of rocket attacks. jon: retaliation for the death of the three teens. their bodies were found last night in the west bank. john hardy is live in israel area did john.

reporter: that is right. we are outside the house of frankel who live here with his family. here with his classmates are being buried today side-by-side in a joint funeral. the question is the anger as it continues, the anger also continues to grow, and the question is will the violence that has already escalated in recent weeks since the disappearance, will that continue to grow as well? last night the israeli air force struck 34 targets, firing missiles into the targets. one of the largest airstrikes in recent years and while raiding homes and the teens bodies were found outside of the city in the west bank. now this as ground troops are hunting down to g two palestinin accused of murdering the teenagers. it is a mystery why they were

taken, why they were killed. last night there was violence when news spread of the bodies being found, also reports that stones are being thrown at the ambulances taking the teens bodies away. in response to all this after the bodies were found, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said hamas will pay and the teens were murdered in cold blood by animals. hamas has denied being behind the abductions but more on that, the prime minister netanyahu "brings a war on gaza, the gates of hell will open unto him." last night there were candlelight vigils including those in tel aviv and also jerusalem. as i mentioned, the teens are being buried today at a joint funeral side-by-side. this as the anger, the outrage continues to grow. now we will see the violence, the battle will grow as well.

jon: a very sad story and perhaps just beginning. john hardy joining us from israel, thanks. shannon: new information on the crisis in iraq as a new parliament just wraps up its first session without choosing a new prime minister. as terrorist control large chunks of the country, and we learn the death toll in june reached 2400 making it the deadliest month by far in iraq this year. all the developments in jerusalem. reporter: without a clear military solution to end the violence in iraq, president obama and others are pinning their hopes on some sort of political solution but any political deal is looking all the more unlikely today. lawmakers in iraq dig their heels in to pick a new speaker of the parliament. the hope is they would unite for a more inclusive leader to replace the current prime minister who many believe

has fueled the secretary in violence in iraq but politicians look as divided as ever. the political deadlock comes as fighting continues across the country, iraqi troops have dug in and around with other key areas it looks like the insurgent have calmed is somewhat of a halt. they still control large parts of iraq but they don't seem to be gaining any new ground so far. they have received a lot of international military assistance not only from the united states in terms of intelligence but direct military aid from russia and iran. president obama says he will not send any combat troops to iraq but the white house is ascending 200 more military advisors to not only help the iraqi government and military but to protect u.s. embassy bringing the total number of u.s. troops in iraq to about 800 or so. the real military presence, u.s.

military presence in iraq is steadily growing. whether or not they get involved directly in terms of boots on the ground is a big question. president obama says no, but the presence is growing significantly. shannon: thank you. jon: to politics at home and a new comparison for hillary clinton with some suggesting she is like john mccain. they both started out with high poll numbers ahead of the presidential election but then their numbers began dropping. here was for assessment, staff writer for the washington free be. what you think of that? >> i think you can do it, but the more apt comparison is hillary clinton in 2008 because she started out very strong. jon: she was the anointed one. >> gallup had her something like 29 points ahead of barack obama and obviously that's changed and it is the case mccain started out well, he teetered off in

2007 and i read an article this morning from 2009, may of 2009, america's mayor to america's president profiling rudy giuliani as the front-runner. there is always the thing in politics it goes back and forth, mccain was down and became backup able to win the nomination. the conclusion we draw from that comparison is politics are unpredictable. that is inaccurate but what it means for her presidential campaign, i don't know there are two many overall conclusions we can draw from it other than we know politics this how such thing as a thing. jon: a darkness politics professor wrote this op-ed piece, here is the opening line. hillary clinton's artificially inflated poll numbers he writes makes it seem like especially strong presidential candidate. but the clinton bubble is quickly coming to an end. do you agree with that?

>> i do. you think about after benghazi secretary of state, that is when the approval started to drop among independents and republicans. she had very high approval because she wasn't receiving very much approval. when you're not having it, it is naturally going to be higher. she has been in a situation for the past few years where she has table to get by on little to no criticism, and that has helped her. it will naturally have to drop because she was not in a position to avoid a lot of criticism until benghazi and then it started to pick up and i think it will continue to pick up as she is more batted and watched closely. jon: her credibility ratings have dropped 20% since 2012, but it is not republicans she is necessarily aiming to please. it is the democratic faithful.

>> gallup had a poll from june 11, she still had a 90% approval rating so she is still very favorable among her base. it has dropped among independents a little bit. she is still very high amongst her base, going to say are we kind of overrating into hillary clinton as a candidate? i think she is most viable democratic nominee and she is declared candidate making pendants and press have to treat her as that word will be professionally negligent not to look into her background and treat her as a serious contender she is. jon: the most recent fox poll has her at 51% favorable, 41% unfavorable rating. some of those numbers are come crashing down to earth as, well, as people hear more about her tenure as secretary of state, the look at the book launch and so forth. >> that will happen more and more as she is on public.

the best thing for hillary clinton writes now is to just not make news because if she could just stay out of the news, she would stay on top. when you going to the news you have a lot of people watching you and you will be scrutinized and your poll numbers are going to take a hit. jon: she came out on the supreme court decision, we will get into that at the 1:00 hour on "happening now" about two hours from now. from the washington for a beacon. thanks. shannon. shannon: we have a fox news extreme weather alert. the first named storm of the season off the coast of florida right now. tropical storm arthur moving up the atlantic coast packing winds of 40 miles an hour and expected to reach hurricane status by the fourth of july weekend. tracking it all, she is live at the fox news weather center. reporter: just got the weather

advisory from the national hurricane center, they have upgraded this to our first official storm of the season. this is arthur, it is strengthening. we are seeing the wind gust already in the 20s, 25 miles per hour range hovering for the next 24, 48 hours and then up the coastline and we do think it will become a hurricane just off the coast of the beautiful north carolina, virginia border, the outer banks by friday, that would be july 1. july first excuse me, the fourth and up the coastline. here are the computer models, and of course a more west this goes, the more effects we will feel along the coastline. we kind of want this to move a little bit more out to sea. it certainly looks like the outer banks are going to see the brunt of this possible hurricane

in the next couple of days, a european model where we see the potential for the storm to hunt the coast again, by the fourth of july and the northeast coastline will have to watch this over the weekend, all eyes are on arthur. back to you. >> we will be bugging you and make you earn your paycheck extra this week. they will check back. jon: new leads in the disappearance of madeleine mccann. the girl who vanished on a trip to portugal now heating up as police question new suspects nearly seven years later. and israel vowing hamas will pay for the deaths of the three teenagers kidnapped and murdered in the west bank. more on that tragedy next. our live chat is up and running. do you support the hobby lobby decision? go to fox news/happening now to get on the discussion.

jon: right now some new information and crime stories we're keeping an eye on. the 2013 conviction of a new york city police officer accused of plotting to kidnap, kill and eat his victims has been overturned. the judge ruled there was not enough evidence to support conviction and the officer was simply role-playing a fantasy.

in wisconsin police within the five the found in milwaukee as 19-year-old oregon mother. the 52-year-old security officers being held on charges of hiding a corpse but so far he has not been charged with homicide. portuguese police interviewing and number of suspects in the 2007 disappearance of madeleine mccann. police launched an investigation into her disappearance recently searching areas near the resort where that little girl was last seen. shannon: israel is fighting back launching military airstrikes against dozens of targets in the gaza strip following rocket attacks on southern israel. hours after a massive search for three missing israeli teenagers came came to a tragic end. search crews discovered in the bodies in the west bank. joe lieberman joins us live to talk about that. senator, thank you. >> good to be here. shannon: we can't imagine how devastating this is for the

loved ones and the country as a whole. benjamin netanyahu has vowed hamas will pay for this. are we seeing the beginning of this, will we see something more decisive regarding military action? >> i do. israel is a small country, when something like this happens, it is like a family, so everybody feels they've lost three sons. the text by the israelis on gaza really a response to the increase in rocket fire from gaza, israel, that started on sunday. prime minister netanyahu made it clear there will be more of a response to the killing of these three young men. what it is, we don't know. any government has the right to respond to a brutal act of murder against his own, like this. shannon: hamas has said it would open the gates of hell against

israel. in the white house statement yesterday the president decided to stay calm and not escalate, so where do we go from here? >> you can't expect particularly with israel as close an ally of the united states, you cannot expect the israelis not to response to this because of a didn't respond to the murder of three teenagers it would only encourage hamas and others to do with more. it would be like asking us, the u.s., to be restrained in our response to the terrorist attack on us in 9/11. know that was 3000 lives, this is three lives, but the basic principle is the same. a sovereign government has a right to act to protect its own people, part of protecting its own people is not letting an enemy kill them without some sort of fear and punishment imposed on them. shannon: authorities have condemned this from the very

beginning sends word of their disappearance happened, yet it seems this situation is raising questions about any kind of alliance between hamas and the authorities. >> this murder should raise questions about any alliance between the fraction controlled by the palestinian authority in hamas. i appreciate the very outspoken condemnation that president of the palestinian authity issued against these murders and the cooperation i gather that existed between the israeli security officials and troops and the palestinians, but the fact is hamas is part of this alliance that imposes on these territories. they cannot accept that because they are committed to the destruction of israel. we can't accept it. we should suspend our aid to the palestinian authority until

hamas gets out of the authority because our money will be going effectively to terrorists, and that will be against the law of the united states. change is platform, to say they're going to be part of the palestinian authority of government because like those in it now, there are no longer sworn to the destruction of israel and he wants to find a way to live in peace. shannon: they live in a very tough neighborhood and often with tension in iraq, you are supportive of the senate going in and getting something done. how does it feel to you now to the situation how it has01ñ evod and word they attempte attendeda parliamentary session ended didn't go well, the sunnis and kurds walked out. >> it is heartbreaking to watch what is going on in iraq now. our troops were brilliant and courageous.

we were not ready really to help the iraqis set up their own government after that, we almost looks like we were going to lose it, and then president bush committed to the surge, we did it, the country stabilized, and it began to build a future for itself. two things happened that were wrong. we pulled all our troops out. we should have kept about 10,000 in there just to protect the investment of lives and money we had made in that country and to threaten the enemies of iraq. the second is the prime minister never created the coalition government between secretary in groups that were necessary, and here comes this violent islamic extremist sunni group isis. they make an alliance with the sunni tribes shutout.

it is a shame, but it is still retrievable. i am not too upset with what happened in the iraqi parliament because unfortunately this is the way of iraqi politics work. in some sense you have to say the walkout was a negotiating tactic. on the other hand they had not been negotiating for a while on a fanatical group has been moving across the country taking territories so i would say to my friends in iraq it is time to stop the political games, form a coalition government and we can still provide a better life for the people. shannon: senator, always great to see you. jon: a massive demonstration against the government of china. coming up, why tens of thousands of people in hong kong are taking to the streets today. plus, new developments in the oscar pistorius murder trial. how defense attorneys are trying to come back after a major setback to their case.

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in the courtroom covering this case from the start, he joins us live on the phone. reporter: oscar pistorius was distance to be a ringside spectator for the verbal brawling in court. they use a sound expert to suggest neighbors who claim they heard a woman screaming on the night she was shot were mistaken, it was oscar pistorius himself screaming. of steps the lawyers cutting through all the talk of decibel levels which the expert has been giving and instead got to agree people generally can interpret sounds correctly. >> right in saying it is common sense that more often than not can do in the fight a woman and a male voice screaming but we cannot say it is absolutely certain. >> that is correct. reporter: he found a fit only carried out the test a week ago and got into greases the shooting occurred a year ago houses have been built between

the homes making the tests results questionable the way sound carries has changed. next, the agent talk on holly after disappearance at the 2012 london olympics transported him into international sports stardom. he became a global icon able to charge appearance and sponsorship fees five to six times higher than before the olympics. to that, they queried the credibility as a witness asking him is it's not possible to say anything negative? the agent claims the f8 plan to take her with him to two international events and they had a loving and caring relationship, jon. jon: i'm as agent was question on his financial connections to oscar pistorius. thank you. shannon: trenton mayor rob ford saying he is a changed man.

his out of rehab and doing a lot of apologizing. we are live with details. social media on fire after the supreme court issues the hobby lobby decision. twitter users opposing the ruling got a little mixup, they thought they were tweeting directly to the justices until they saw a reply like this, one woman writing i almost feel like my country considers me a person. to which they replied back at you.

jenna: right now let's take a look what's still to come this hour. people upset over the hobby lobby decision voice their frustration. some thought they were tweeting the supreme court justices directly. not so much. and as italy prepares to try amanda knox once again, we hear about a strategy from her former boyfriend. have you ever wanted to tell a co-worker what you think of their performance at the office? there may be an app for that now. he's back. toronto crack smoking mayor rob ford is out of rehab and he says he's a changed man, committed to living a clean life. we hope it still involves dancing. jonathan hunt has details. >> didn't you miss him? crack smoking mayor of toronto is back. still the mayor but apparently no longer smoking the crack.

>> stand before you today having completed two months of intensive rehab therapy. >> mayor ford admitted he was in denial when he was doing things like this in the council chamber and saying things like this outside it. >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine but no -- am i an addict? no. have i tried it? probably in one of my drunken stup ors. >> and in an emotional news conference, he promised to do better this time >> my commitment to living clean is now unwaivering. to the people of this great city, i want to offer a public apology. >> but mayor ford admitted it won't be easy to leave the past

behind. >> but folks, this is a long, long road to recovery. no matter what i do, no matter what i do, i will never be able to change the mistakes that i have made in the past. >> now, despite that difficult road ahead, mayor ford apparently still plans to run for re-election in october and he may well win. the latest polls indicate his popularity. actually rose while he was in rehab, although i guess you could argue that is because he wasn't on camera running around the council chamber or saying any of those bizarre things. >> he actually looks different. he looks good. we wish him all the best. >> we certainly do. >> thanks, jonathan. jon: and another dance. social media lit up moments after the supreme court ruling in the hobby lobby case. that was just about 25 hours ago

the ruling came down. many taking to sites like twitter to voice support or, of course, opposition to the decision. but some mistakenly tweeted their feelings to the site that covers the supreme court thinking they were communicating with the justices themselves. that prompted some funny replies from blog writers. control me wrote that they kicked down my front door and stole my freedom. what do you do now? contact your isp. joining us is a columnist. in the media, we get used to using -- throwing around the turn skotus which stands for supreme court of the united states. people see the blog and they think it's the blog of the supreme court of the united states. it is not. >> right. for everybody out there confused by this whole thing, when a decision like hobby lobby comes down and you write scotus, it's

not like you're writing to them. >> tell us about your favorite tweets. >> easily the number one tweet we saw yesterday and this got retweeted like 5,000 times, governor bobby of louisiana said president obama probably at this moment, there it is i'm screaming, can an executive order override supreme court? he's googling it. can i overrule this? that got a lot of laughs and a lot of reaction as well. >> speaking of victory, there was some hateful stuff out there and i guess the f-bomb set the record yet. >> yeah. most f-bombs, not only most f-bombs but most capitalized in making a point and it really got ugly because i think hobby lobby now will need a new sprinkler system. dozens that i saw of people

saying that we should now burn down hobby lobby stores and i study this stuff, social media on a daily basis. there's a different between the right and the left. the right, there are exceptions and you'll have some whacks on both side but will respond to sdigs like this which sum civility maybe argue the points of it. left, it becomes unhinged and the best example is during the defense of marriage act last year. you didn't see people on religious rights saying we should burn down gay bars. you didn't hear that. but here you hear people saying they should burn down hobby lobby stores. >> there was something like 20 birth control options, 16 of which hobby lobby was already offering to its female employees. they just felt that -- as owners they felt that the four kind of

birth control that amount to the killing of the fertilized egg or the prevention of the implantation of that egg, that is what they didn't want to pay for. it's kind of a very small segment of the marketplace. >> social media, i think, puts on display what some call the low information voter, people that see things generally and just react with emotion without reading into things like this. there were two yesterday that were quite unique that i found interesting. keep your rosaries off my ovaries. i'm a poet and didn't know it. and a comedian, alleged comedian said hobby lobby ruling proves against scalia law is like the law that executes women if they commit adultery. some is unsettling to be honest with you. >> these are the same people

that think they're communicating directly with the justices of the supreme court. >> it puts on display the low information voter but their vote is equal to your vote and my vote and people that are actually paying attention. >> how about united states senator, harry reid saying five male justices of the supreme court shouldn't tell women what to do? i'm para phrasing badly but their opinions shouldn't apply to women. >> the senate majority leader has the best unintentional comedy out there only because of hypocrisy. mr. reid's case, all of his senior staff within his office are male. his chief of staff, his head legal counsel. if you're going to talk about males speaking decisions, maybe hire some women on your own staff, harry reid. >> i'll send it to scotus. >> justices don't use email. i'm pretty sure they're not

tweeting, either. an update on the controversial case involving a war memorial cross in san diego. what the supreme court just decided. we'll have a live report. amanda knox's ex-boyfriend adopting a new defense strategy in the case. what it is and why some legal analysts say it could mean an acquittal for him but more trouble for her.

>> we are about 16 minutes away from "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. what do you have? >> one state's largest newspaper, get this, apologizing

for endorsing president barack obama back in 2008 and listing the reasons why. >> plus the kissing congressman and running for re-election. he was caught making out with a married staffer, just not married to him. he wouldn't be the first politician to recover from such a scandal and have we kissed our standards goodbye when it comes to elected officials? and a woman going on 100 dates this summer. that got us wondering about our worst dates. you'll hear about them. i know kimberly has got them. >> how much time do you have, huh? >> i want to hear those stories. >> you know you do. >> maybe i'll learn something. >> you will indeed. >> probably. >> looking forward to it. top of the hour. thanks. >> thank you. >> in the meantime, amanda knox's former boyfriend may be trying to distance himself from her as they face a new murder trial. now saying that he has nothing to do with knox's case and he

was just dragged in to an unfortunate situation. the dramatic shift from the couple's previous strategy of sticking together as they prepare for a murder trial of a former roommate. welcome to you both. >> good to be here >> thank you. >> we'll start with you. it was stick together. they'd only been dating for a week when this happened so it seemed strange but it seemed like the strategy worked for them up until now. >> up until now, right. >> but now breaking apart. >> absolutely. after seven years of being together and sort of being we're saying the same story, we were together and had nothing to do with it, there was nothing going on here, after they've both been convicted but by the way, he's very much closer to the appellate process. amanda knox is safely in seattle. we're not going to extradite here. he's with his defense lawyers saying, you know, after seven years i'm rethinking that saying

there might have been a bit of evidence against her but not me. it's a little too late, i think. >> and i know that times this is just what prosecutors to want see. then you have the defendants not only fighting against the prosecutors but against themselves as well. they've got two fronts. >> absolutely. this is the old throw the codefendant right up under the bus routine. up until now, as you said, he has been her alibi. now what he's doing is providing a little bit of a crack in that ally so it's conceivable that maybe she's guilty while he can still maintain, hey, i'm innocent. i never left the house. she left for a little while. look at her. not me. >> does it help him at all, the fact that she's now supportive of the strategy publicly saying he did just get dragged into this and i'm supportive of the move he's making. does that help him at all? >> helps him a little bit. i just want to point out something. this is what happened in the u.s., those defendants would ever been split from the very beginning. it would have been separate

trials and potentially people testify against each other. but to have them together like this, siamese twins leads to this reality t. may help a little bit but not so much. >> phillip, was this pointed out that maybe this should have been done earlier in the process? >> i have to take a little issue with what she said. it's counter routine. i've been involved in a number of trials where you have codefendants being tried together before the same jury and when they're pointing the fingers at each other, it's a prosecutor's dream because not only do they have to fight the prosecutor and sometimes even the judge but they're fighting against each other and it absolutely splits them up and does not end well for the defendants to be honest with you. >> any predictions how this does or doesn't work for him? >> i don't think it's going to work for him. it's going to go through an appeal. he has 25 years. she has 28. she'll not be ex extra indicted from this country. i don't see the convictions being overturned. >> another hot murder case. utah doctor convicted of killing his wife. he's now seeking a new trial.

lawyers for the doctor say that his conviction should be thrown out because the jury wasn't told about a deal the prosecution made in exchange for a witness' testimony. we'll start with you. how important is it that the jury know that information that potentially the testimony they got, there was a deal in the works and that's how they got it? >> any time, any witness in a criminal case, especially one facing charges, has a motive to fabricate evidence, that is something that is highly relevant, it's constitutionally required that not only is it turned over to the defense but that the defense attorney use it and let the jury know about it because if this guy or witness has the opportunity to get on the stand and say something not true in order to help themselves, it can actually affect the outcome of the trial. >> phillip is absolutely right on that, but the standard is a higher standard once you've had a conviction. the standard is would these convictions, would the trial have turned out differently but for that evidence being on the stand? in this case, the jailhouse

snitch? the prosecutor will say that's a mistake but the verdict would have been the same. look at all of this evidence, look at the circumstantial evidence, the daughter's testified, all of that. the verdict would have been the same. >> it sounds like that's what the prosecutors are going to argue here. do you think the doctor has any luck with going this route and trying to get a new trial? >> as i understand it, the judge took a recess and i'm going to sit on this for a couple of months. the defense apparently gave them quite a bit think about so whether or not it would affect the outcome of the trial is going to be decided not only by the judge hearing this motion for a new trial but it's also going to be considered when that ruling goes up on appeal because either side is going to appeal it, whichever side loses at this point. >> a lot of times folks hear this, this kind of saying that an inmate, somebody who was in with the suspect, the defendant, is going to tell a story on them. a lot of folks immediately discredit that and say they're trying to get something for

themselves, get a good deal out of it. in a lot of cases, it is legitimate testimony. >> it is. you're in the jail and you talk to somebody in the jail and you say, you confess or even if it's not quite a confession, you sort of rat yourself out to a snitch and that person goes to the prosecutor and tries to make a deal t. happens every day. should the prosecution have turned this information over to the defense? absolutely. but would the verdict have been different but for that? >> we'll see what the judge says. great to see you both. >> thank you. >> it is a large cross on federal property. but is it a war memorial or a religious symbol? the case has been going on for two decades. what the supreme court just did. we're live with that story. plus would you tell your co-workers what you really think of them if you could do it anonymously? i like you a lot, shannon. >> what would you say anonymo anonymously? >> now there's an app for that.

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>> the future of a san diego war memorial cross will not be decided by the supreme court, at least not until after the case goes back to the appellate court. william joins us live from los angeles with the latest on all of that. william? >> the case does go back to the ninth circuit court of appeals where a three judge panel already ruled the cross unconstitutional as a religious symbol on federal land. now, after that defeat, supporters hope to skip a step, go directly to the supreme court because they consider the ninth circuit liberal and hostile to their case. but the supreme court said monday they had to follow the next appropriate step which is a hearing before a full 11 judge panel in the ninth circuit. this controversy goes back 100 years when the cross was first

directed on a prominent hill in san diego. the cross stands on federal land. it's dedicated to korean war vets. opponents claim it endorses christianity. appeals court agreed, calling the cross an illegal government endorsement of religion. supporters rallied yesterday to save their cross. they endorse a lower court ruling that found the cross to be a secular symbol. >> important thing to remember is the cross is not going anywhere. not now, and we believe not ever. >> that is possible. if supporters lose the case, they're expected to either move the cross to private land nearby or transfer the current site to a private entity, thereby removing the land from federal authority and potentially negating a lawsuit. a bill to transfer the cross into private hands has passed the house of representatives but the senate has refused to act so this is likely to play out in courts for a few more years before we find out what happens

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>> a new way to tell your colleagues what you really think of them and it's done with a free app. the app pits two co-workers against each other, letting you rate them on things like how good they are at their jobs and personality traits, each time a user is rated, they get a notification with the results,

at least seven people from a firm have to sign up for the app before they start rating each other. this sounds like a recipe for disaster. >> we probably already have seven signed up. see you here in an hour. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. >> this is "outnumbered." i'm sandra smith. today's hashtag one lucky guy, he is outnumbered. >> i'm wearing pants today, ladies. sorry to disappoint. >> earlier on you had the cutoff shorts. >> never again. that's the last time that happens. >> you're usually in your own world. now you're in my world. >> i'm intimidated. excuse me. >> we can't wait to get your take on a couple of topics coming up. they could be considered a controversial, mr. waters.