search the house, where they found the drug. i spoke to the lawyer last night brian: yeah. does this mean more taxpayer money going down the drain? in and i asked him, did your you know, money we put aside client procurer or administer that we don't know how to spend anyway? the drug? our slogan comes to us from he said that he had no jimmy in georgia. it's another holiday morning, the holiday went too quick. statement. i asked him again. he said that he would not i am watching "fox & friends," i confirm or deny. think i'll call in sick. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] i told him that he was really clear on demerol, so what would captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- he say about this? brian: all right, johnson, you are in. peter: dr. kilmeade, thanks for he would not say. having me. thanks for having me gretchen. gretchen: peter johnson jr. is propofol, by name, was found at here. president obama is in russia meeting with medvedev. the house. that is where this is leading. let's go to moscow and our own that drug could have stopped dana lewis. good morning, deign navment. michael jackson's heart. >> good morning, everybody. brian: you have watched the president obama and -- key video of his reversal. did it make you believe that

this guy was not slowly dying? meetings will take place between that something happened last president obama and russian night? >> slowly dying is an counter part that will produce the framework of a new nuclear interesting way of putting it. arms treaty between america and i do not think that he was russia. we can tell that you air force slowly dying. i think that he was one touched down in moscow deteriorating. within the hour. president obama will spend two what i have heard from people that work on the show is that days meeting with russian officials but putting emphasis ironically, that last video, he on russian society. was more with it than he had business leaders, russian been on many other reversals. opposition leaders. soviet leader miguel gorbachev. lots of people thought that he would never make 50 shows. president obama and medvedev i will tell you, and we reported will spend almost four and a half hours talking arms this last week, michael jackson reduction. the last time they met was in april in london. had dozens of injection marks and what they agreed to was a all over his body. key arms treaty start. needs to be replaced. the treaty expires this december dozens. and today we are likely to hear he had a serious drug problem. some details of what the new agreement will look like, >> if the doctor gave him that propofol, it would be beyond including new ceilings on nuclear warheads, nuclear twisted. missiles, lower from the same as your new show, i existing agreement 1700 to 22 understand. [laughter] >> that is not what the show is

war heads. going to be about, but i closer to 1500 war heads on both appreciate that. sides. that is a good one. lots of negotiations we are told by sources in the coming months what we will be doing is like what you are looking at right including russian opposition to the american missile defense now, a woman driving in her system to be built in poland and driveway and it does not maneuver exactly right. the czech republic. russians say so noe way will we have so many stunning videos they finalize a deal until the from all over the world. abm issue is resolved. rituals in india where they tomorrow, president obama may have a spicy meeting with the catch babies on sheets from high man that most people consider to ledges, all sorts of things. be the real leader in russia, we are using our producers for prime minister putin because these non-celebrity videos, creating a funny show. gretchen: we have got to go, we barack obama says putin has one would love to keep talking to foot stuck in business in the you, back in a flash. cold war and some sources close say he has taken real offense to those remarks. back to you. brian: always good to see you. what are relations like between putin and medvedev? are they still buddies? >> some say they are a tandem. they work perfectly it's a

lovely marriage. others tell us think are not even talking to each other and there is a lot of tension. certainly the key discussion in russia who is running this country. brian: we know one thing for sure you are running the bureau. thanks for joining us this morning. gretchen: he knows how to say medvedev better than i do. brian: than everybody. gretchen: putin we rather see john mccain or obama in he says he looks in in his eyes he sees kgb: one civilian dead in afghanistan. four civilians and four afghan soldiers hurt. the attacker blew up his minivan at a check point outside the kandahar air field. bombing comes as u.s. marines continue a major offensive against the taliban. general motors clears a major road block. late last night a federal judge gave the company a green light to sell most of its assets to

the new g.m. that clears a key hurdle as g.m. tries to emerge from bankruptcy. hundreds of groups objected to the sale. it's not clear if they will appeal. the items not sold to the new g.m. will be liquidated to the highest bidder. disney world's famous monorail system still shut down this morning as the investigation continues into the fatal crash. one of the drivers was killed when the two monorails collided. the victim has been identified as a college student working at disney part time. at least five tourists were treated for minor injuries. first fatal accident on the monorail in. [ water ] hey, it's me -- water. did you know that when you filter me from your tap i'm pretty much the same as i am in a plastic bottle? brian: i was there saturday on well, that's not entirely true. the monorail. see, at home, i'm 10 times cheaper. gretchen: franken scheduled to take senate seat. other than that, though, i'm pretty similar. tomorrow he will be sworn in. oh, wait, there's no expiration date. he is the winner over norm and i don't have to get shipped all around the country. coleman. giving democrats. but other than the costing, somebody is touching me. the expiring thing, and the shipping thing,

a 60 seat filibuster proof we're pretty much the same. majority. is the word midget just as pur. good, clean water. offensive as a racial slur? little people are calling on the fcc now to ban the use of the midget on broadcast tv. request was prompted by episode of celebrity apprentice during which they created a detergent ad called jesse james and beauty editors and research institutes are seeing results. midgets. brian: i didn't know if you were asking me that question. i heard we should be calling [ male announcer ] best cleanser, essence magazine. them little people. hydrates better than the $350 cream. gretchen: as a group who probably is very sensitive to that, they probably have a point there. brian: go with little people. unless peter johnson jr. you find that illegal. peter: no, it's just a "we request." gretchen: some people might question the legality of it, is it enough gaffe? is this another gaffe? did he actually say we misread the economy? the obama administration misread

the economy? that's in fact what he said, guys, in errant view effort weekend. brian: over in iraq walking around, talking to people and giving exclusive interview one of the sunday shows. here is former senator and now vice president biden saying look, it's a lot worse than we thought. >> we misread now bad the economy was but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package. the truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that that recovery package would, in fact, be in a position at this point of having to distribute a bulk of the money. peter: it's a contradiction in terms. either he misread it or no one expected it was going to be effective at this point. which one is it? brian: $787 billion aside for a stimulus package we couldn't afford and only money has been spent. yesterday with chris wallace said it's been a big letdown.

john boehner said you promised jobs through this money we don't have. we don't get any jobs. only unemployment going up. gretchen: travelling over the weekend. i saw a lot of the $300 signs that the stimulus paid for. this is part of the stimulus package. we put $300 up to tell you that's where your stimulus dollars is going. only 10% of the money infiltrated into the economy. number one, how do you really know if it's actually worked yet. number two, why didn't that money come into the economy sooner. [now they are talking about a second stimulus package nor fall. the administration says no decision has been made yet. trust me, prurebs will be very upset about signing off on any second stimulus package. democrats will as well. brian: studies are overwhelming. measure people are more concerned about overspending. you have to be tone death to do it -- tone deaf to do it. how can you say i need more money when you haven't spent the

money they already put aside? peter: people are concerned with the deficit at this point. when the numbers start to reach 10%, 11%, perhaps 12% and unemployment and people are losing jobs, then that calculus changes and maybe people believe what paul krugman said yesterday that they need a second stimulus and more. brian: he wanted more to begin with. gretchen: goes back to president bush as well though. the truth is just how bad an economy we inherited. they are still going back to the bush administration as well. peter: that's going to be the refrain. gretchen: let's look at the faceoff between steny hoyer and boehner on this yesterday. >> we have got to understand we inherited 2 million jobs being lost in the three months before we took office. the policies that were put in place were put in place about 130 days ago. not eight years ago but 130 days ago. >> come on, you sound like the

kid who shows up without his homework every day and he wants to blame the dog. the president said unemployment wouldn't get above 8%. we said early this year that this plan was not going to work. brian: hear from colin powell a big supporter of barack obama. also concerned about the pace in which programs are coming out and pace in which we are spending as a government in stressful times. gretchen: we will discuss that with the pundit pit. michael jackson big day for the jackson family. they head to court for a showdown to see who gets power over michael's estate. joining us live from los angeles is adam housley with the breaking developments on this. really, adam, they are going to go to court today and are they going to contest this 2002 will or are they going to let it stand? the family, actually? >> at this point the family is going to ask for postponement, the hearing will be down the street from where tomorrow's service is going to take place at the nokia theater of course at the staple center where the

main event will take place. they are expected to ask for postponement. if the judge were to grant this will filed last wednesday, then two men john mcclain, a music executive and john bronca an attorney would take over for the most part michael jackson's affairs. his mother catherine jackson has a little bit of authority there. what they want to do is put this off for as long as possible. the family wants to look and see if there is a possibility another will may have been written, a newer one because this one filed on wednesday was written in 2002. they want to make sure there is not another one out there. they want to make sure this one was done proper at the time when it was written. finally they want to get the memorial service completed first. they are asking the judge to postpone. this it can go either way. when you talk to experts out here they say a 50/50 chance that could happen. just down the street not far away here in downtown los angeles is the nokia theater and the staples center where the main crowd will be tomorrow. we are told more than

1.6 million people applied for tickets. roughly 8500 will be granted tickets to go in to see the service tomorrow. they have already got downtown in some places blocked off. i drove by this morning very early here of course in los angeles. and they have already got streets closed down. big time police presence. and we're still, you know, more than 24 hours away from that service taking place, guys. brian: adam, do you have any idea why they are not using the coliseum that could have sat 100,000 people as opposed to the staples center with 8500? >> brian, that's a really good question. we have been talking about that ourselves. the coliseum is a little bit further away. all we could think of maybe they are doing some renovations at the coliseum. there has also been some other issues. of course the lake kerr's parade ended there the thought is maybe the police department and the city of los angeles, listen, we are spending enough money to have it here at the staples center. if you have it at the coliseum, you are talking about a much larger police presence and event

which means much more money being spent. as we know in california money hard to come by state and local, guys. gretchen: who is paying for this? is it the taxpayer? >> right now the taxpayers are paying for it yep. the laker's parade was paid for by private donations because there was outcry when that was going to take place. people stepped forward and paid for it. but right now taxpayers are paying for it. brian: we will call you again and again and again; is that right? >> no problem. we are up. might as well. gretchen: he is up at 3:12 a.m. brian: looks like he took a shower. looks so clean. peter: that's fantastic. gretchen: personal details later later. brian: live taylor is going to read the eulogy, is she ok? gretchen: fox news alert liz

taylor ok. we are only 12 minutes into this thing,. peter: peter we need tom counsel on the couch. power cut off, sprinklers flooding the floors. nowhere to put the inmates. we'll tell you what happened. plus,. brian: sarah palin says goodbye to the governor's office. brilliant move or risky stunt? ♪ (announcer) this is nine generations of the world's most revered luxury sedan. this is a history of over 50,000 crash-tested cars... this is the world record for longevity and endurance. and one of the most technologically advanced automobiles on the planet. this is the 9th generation e-class. this is mercedes-benz.

gretchen: thought it was going to be a no news holiday weekend. sarah palin dropping a bombshell saying she plans to quit her position as governor. brilliant move or risky stunt? what does karl rove think? >> it's unclear what her strategy is. again, she said she wanted to lead effective change outside of

government. now people are going to be saying what is it that you mean by that? and how have you demonstrated effective leadership for change around america? some say the move is brilliant. executive director of go pack. fellow at the new american foundation and do author of grand new party. and political consultant. good morning to all of you. we thought it was going to be a quiet little holiday weekend. and suddenly, i turn on the tv on a few days off and i'm like uh-oh. what do you make of this announcement? brilliant or risky. >> brilliant. mesmerizing watching this woman. people were talking about her grammar. she didn't make any sense. i thought she was electrifying performer. give her a 12 hour television program. follow her around with the dogs and the kids and the army. and, also, what -- we heard about her husband and the alaska independence movement. what if she is leading a guerrilla movement to take

alaska out of the union. gretchen: is it brilliant? huckabee says when you call a press conference you usually want to answer questions, you don't want to create new ones and suddenly people are like huh? >> whether this is a brilliant move is still to be determined. if she uses this time to go out and build a nationwide campaign organization and talk about issues, and use speeches, government isn't the only place to get experience. i will mention that she still has more experience going into a campaign than barack obama did. gretchen: that argument did not work. that argument did not work in the general election. and now she is quitting a job. i turn to you, tara, because we have kids, we teach them when they want to quit a game when they are losing not to quit. i ask that question this morning could it be because she wants to make money in the private sector? >> if that's the case then it was a good strategy. if her goal is to go to the private sector and get a 7 figure book deal and land some

sort of show, fine. the announcement was high drama it was controversial it was unpredictable. no one expected it. she sthokd it. if that's the goal, it's a good move. if she thinks she is going to be a contendner 2012. ill advised and a poor strategy from a strategic standpoint. not good at all. gretchen: comment on that. >> quitting sometimes makes sense. she came into this office as a bright shiny super star who is bipartisan. she had support of 80% of alaskans. then after the campaign she was retooled as a national republican. not someone who fit alaska quite as well. the job became miserable for her. gretchen: did she want to drop out now because ratings in alaska were going down and this was a way to keep her popularity on the upswing? >> she had partisan attacks continuously coming at her. >> thanks to her own party, too. >> next to barack obama, there was no one more electrifying on the campaign trail last year. there isn't a politician in this country that wouldn't want the base of support and ability to rally people more than sarah

palin. >> if you can't deal with those attacks you can't deal with kim jong il. gretchen: next in the pit is barack obama spending too much of your money in colin powell thinks. so remembers, he supported and endorsed barack obama. we are going to ask the pitster what they think about that five murders in five days, a town being stocked by serial killer. this is not the first time. shell v-power. our most advanced fuel ever. nitrogen-enriched for optimum performance, maximum protection. there's no mistaking the power of the v. ♪ which beneful prepared meals. tonight? there's no mistaking the power of the v. roasted chicken recipe? - savory rice and lamb stew. - [ barks ] you're right. tonight is a beef stew kind of night. [ announcer ] beneful prepared meals. another healthful, flavorful beneful.

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>> i have talked to some of his people about this, is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. and we can't pay for it all. i think the president, as he moves forward with his initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all of this is.

gretchen: that is former secretary of state, of course, colin powell, a staunch supporter of the president now saying obama's plans may be too ambitious and costly. back in the pundit pit with david, ryan and tara. you are an obama supporter and so was colin powell. i found this interview alarming that he now would come out and criticize the president as much as he did and say, look, we can't pay for all these programs. your thoughts? >> well, i want to start with his first part where he said it was too ambitious. i actually take exception to that my parents taught me you set the bar high. you aim high. you hit high. i actually don't have a problem with him taking a very ambitious approach and having a broad, ambitious, aggressive agenda because the system that we function in, which is the greatest system in the world, it really only allows you to do but so much. if you set the bar here, you are going to hit here. if you set the bar here, you hit here. that's better. gretchen: don't you want to set

the bar with the amount of money you have in your wallet? the point is if you don't have the money to pay for it, yeah we can all have lofty goals when the chips are down, somebody has got to foot the bill, right? >> reagan was republican that figured out that root canal economics doesn't work. barack obama similarly is thinking look when clinton wases in the office he balanced the budget and bush came in and passed tax cuts. colin powell is in a different funny position. a guy who is above politics. he can come in and say look, this isn't responsible. this doesn't make sense. what i'm thinking is he might be an eisenhower figure. i don't know if he has any political ambitions but think about it. what if a guy who said i was for obama and i was rooting for him and now i don't think he is on the right path. we need to get above party and need someone who is going to clean up the mess in washington. can you imagine him as a 2012 presidential candidate? i can. gretchen: i don't think his wife would go for that that's part of the problem. colin powell knew barack obama was a spender when he endorsed

him back in november. >> he had two choices. he thought barack obama was the best one. here is the problem for bromplet colin powell, has branded himself as an image of an independent thinker. i think it presents a real problem for obama in that i think that's where independent voters are i think they are seeing this spending and are very concerned about what's going on. our chairman frank donatelli has a piece up on web site california is a good example of where america is going under barack obama. they are now sending iou's out because they can't pay their bills. gretchen: let's not go there. because america may be bailing out california. if we all go there we will be in trouble. thanks we appreciate it who murdered steve mcnair in the investigation now turning to that 20-year-old woman believed to be his girlfriend. what the woman's sister is now revealing about their relationship. selling access to the "the washington post"? after eveelg a plan for charging

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definition of a senseless death. gretchen: when steve mcfair was found shot to death over the weekend. former quarterback with the titans. won the super bowl with them back in 2000. his girlfriend apparently unbeaten nons to his wife he had this -- beknownst to his wife he had this girlfriend sahelkazemi both of them gunned down. the question is whether it was murder suicide. brian: both parents killed in iran. raised by her aunt. had a boyfriend. had moved to nashville. had dave and busters, steve mcnair and she meet. they exchange numbers. they start dating. steve mcnair explains to her, according to the sister of this woman, that well i'm going to get divorced in a couple of weeks. peter: mr. mcnair was apparently the victim of four gunshot wounds and she was the victim of one. the gun was found underneath her body it appears at this point

that there is a murder suicide involved and the police are saying that there are no other suspects that are being sought in terms of these killings at this point. gretchen: interesting thing is, peter from, a legal point of view, when the police find a weapon underneath a person, that would indicate that that person had done -- because somebody could set it up as well because now reports are coming out that she had this boyfriend that was allegedly violent and allegedly jealous of her having any other relationships. peter: the police could say no other suspects are being sought and seeking suspects. they are not held to that we don't know what's happening on this at this point. there this may not be a suicide murder this may be a double murder. we don't know if it please at this point. obviously very hard to shoot yourself and put the gun underneath you if that's in fact what happened. brian: didn't know where the gun was until they moved her body and found it underneath. peter: that's not typical in terms of handgun discharges that the gun would be underneath the victim's body if it was a

suicide. there is really more questions than answers. brian: gotcha picture of them vacationing together. you also have the reports about their relationship that was happening. he had four boys. a wife that had no idea this was going on. very respected in the community and respected by teammates and opponents for his years playing in the league at 36 years old was retired. considered one of the toughest guys around and was found by his business partner on a couch just sitting there. peter: they had shared the apartment. tissue of drinking. an arrest a couple days before of the young woman who was killed and he was in the car as well. gretchen: the car was registered to both of them. peter: right. it's interesting. also a situation that he had a possession of a handgun in the past. we don't know whether this was his handgun or not. gretchen: in doing simple defective work they are also saying there was not forced entry into this apartment and that the co-owner of the apartment had to use his key to get in to actually discover the

two bodies. you have to wonder then if all the action happened on the inside or if the person responsible for it was savvy enough to lock the door before they left. peter: the fact there is no forcible entry also reads in this occasion to say it was a murder-suicide but we don't know at this point. brian: 26 minutes before the top of the hour. here is what is going on in the rest of the world. deadly riots spinning out of control. at least 140 people dead now. brutal fighting between muslim uighurs, brian, peter, the uighurs and the chinese. worst violence in the region in decades. demonstrators are demanding justice for two uighurs killed last month at a chinese factory. we don't know which side those started that violence. peter? peter: a serial killer tear i see rising a small down in south carolina. he is believed to have killed five people in just five days. now police in the town of gaffney are releasing this sketch in hopes of finding the

killer. it all began last week when 63-year-old klein cash was found shot to death in his home. 50-year-old gina parker and her 83-year-old mother were also found dead. and a few days later. 15-year-old abby tyler and her father were found shot in their family store. abby tragically died this weekend yesterday, hundreds of mourners gathered at a funeral service for parker. how close are police to tracking down the killer? in just 30 minutes the latest on the investigation when the chef joins us live -- sheriff joins us live. three people recovering this morning after an accident. bus taking visitors to upstates new york prison ripped down 50 yards of guardrail rolled on its side and plowed into a rock ledge. one woman killed after being pinned underneath the bus. police are investigating the cause of the accident.

gretchen: country's most dangerous inmates and they proved it a group of prisoners sabotaged the sprinkler system flooding the whole place. upset over suspected swine flu outbreak. smashed water pike pipes, forcing evacuation. they had to be shipped to other jails while the clean up gets underway. peter: that's one way of doing it huge holiday weekend at the box office where the two frontrunners are at a photo finish. transformers revenge of the fallen took in $42.5 million. so did ice age. dawn of the dinosaurs. we will feigned out who is number one later today when the final numbers come out. having a strong debut in third place is the crime drama public enemies starring johnny depp who plays famed bank robber john dillen ger. rainy day went to ice age 3. i have to give a double thumbs up for adults and kids. very enenjoyable.

peter: we're going to see it. gretchen: amazing match between roger and federer. brian: i had to leave during the set to get a trampoline. i thought kids falling through was a negative. i thought we should get one. we sat there in the trampoline place watching the fifth and final set watching forever. history made at wimbledon. he outlasted american andy roddick in record breaking 15th grand slam. no one has done before. they played 30 games in the final set before he finally broke his serve to win the match 16-14. only time federer broke roddick's serve in all 77 games in the match. most ever in a grand slam final. with the win federer passes pete san fras to hold the most slams ever. >> it's staggering, you know, that i have been able to play so well for, you know, some years

now and stay injury-free and happy what i'm doing. there is a certain routine that's started to happen the last few years since i sort of became number one in the world. and i knew what it took to win the big ones. brian: it's true. great guy. but also andy roddick got a standing ovation from the brits who demanded a curtain call for him who was flat out phenomenal. the match took about 4 hours and 16 minutes. by the way overshadowed the guy named tiger woods who sent federer a text message. hours later he was celebrating his own victory. he held off two young stars to win the at&t national for the first time. the event that he hosts. tiger sealed the win by one shot shot. he goes for 15th major at the british open in two weeks. and dare i say looked kind of vulnerable yesterday even though he does walk away with the win. maybe the bar is incredibly high

with him. when tiger woods is the fourth story in sports you know it's a big deal. brian and the judge between 9 and noon on local satellite station. exciting guests more important the judge and i have together. gretchen: very important. when i was off for a couple of days i did happen to hear you say you were twittering in my place. how did that go? brian: i have my own twitter account on the side. it's going well. a lot of people write back and they they seem to get it i think the thing about twitter which i'm finding is that people need limits on the characters. peter: how do people get you on the twist twitter? gretchen: twitter.com/"fox & friends." brian: i don't know how to get the password. gretchen: i twitter for the show, peter. i thought brian had taken over those duties. you were handling your own personal twitter. brian: asking if they have anything being that gretchen is out. you get the sound track to your own show.

gretchen: i wanted to see how it all went. do you get the sound track, peter? peter: why does tiger woods look vulnerable to you. brian: he didn't close it out like is he used to. he kept everyone in the hunt. in the final day it's like see you later, guys. yet, he was still in contention at the end. gretchen: somebody else saying see you later the "the washington post" parties supposedly going to have charging $25,000, you could sponsor a series of dinner parties with lobbyists and get inside information from some of the reporters that work at "the washington post." good idea? bad idea? bad idea. now the "the washington post" has come out, the publisher to apologize in an op ed piece in the sunday paper. here is what it said. while i do believe there is legitimate way to hold such event we will review guidelines for them with the posts top editors and make sure guidelines are strictly followed. we all make mistakes and hope to be forgiven for them. i apologized to our readers for the manages stakes we made in this case. peter: screwed up and strong.

lobbyists pay 2 a or thousand dollars. meet with our editors and reporters and have obama officials there. first session do health care. if you are a health care lobbyists spend your $50,000. come have a nice dinner talk to the reporters, the machine makers, talk to the administration officials and we can all do business together for a nice night and no one will even know what about. brian: they call were calling it an off the record conversation. peter: they called it a salon. gretchen: the editor of the "the washington post" said she was not aware of this brochure that went out advertising it as such. so, there she is there. brian: this sits home for you you had renegade bonfires where you invited different factions to come over and barbecue at your house under the fox name. peter: 750 a ticket. got a sandwich and it was fine.

gretchen: twitter us and let us know what you think about that deal. dip pro-van that powerful drug used to knock patients out cold used for surgery it was found in jackson's home now investigators want to talk to five of his doctors. are they be charged with a crime? legal panel takes on next. peter: sweeping credit card changes begin next year. some are already adjusting the fine print right now and you are paying for it what you need to know next. ♪ i never thought it could happen to me... a heart attack at 53. i had felt fine. but turns out... my cholesterol and other risk factors... increased my chance of a heart attack. i should've done something. now, i trust my heart to lipitor. when diet and exercise are not enough, adding lipitor may help.

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come face to face with the judge. estranged husband of hudson's sister. he has pleaded not guilty to the murders. no peeping tom that's what spokesperson for marion barry is saying after police arrested him this weekend. a woman flagged down police in a washington park saying she was being stalked by the former mayor. he was parked near in a car. he was convicted in 1994 for smoking crack in a hotel room which peter johnson jr. still illegal. peter? peter: absolutely is investigation into michael jackson's death now focusing on these five doctors, perhaps. one whose identity we don't know. the question did any of them provide the singer with drugs that may have ended his life and can they be held liable in a criminal court? with us is spencer and josh deputy d.a. of brooks county,

brooklyn. what's going to happen here? is somebody going to be arrested here. >> quite ponget all the media attention. king of pop is dead. d.a.'s office is going to be looking at whether they can gather enough evidence to successfully prosecute any of these doctors for wrongdoing. one of the things we have to remember here. we are not talking about malpractice not a civil liability standard but the very higher standard of a crime. it's going to be interesting to see what they decide to do. these are notoriously very difficult cases to prosecute. peter: josh, we have seen pictures of people we don't know if these people are involved with michael jackson's death. we do know they were physicians to michael jackson. how notoriously hard are these cases to bring in? what do you have to show? >> what have you here. it's difficult. two ways to look at it one way is if you have one doctor who said i'm giving you a diprivan or a drug not something that should be prescribed out of the hospital. because is he the king of pop we

are getting it to him because i don't want to say. no the problem comes in when you have several doctors. four or five doctors now giving him different drugs, that's hard to monitor when a patient walks into a doctor's office and says you know what? i'm not on any medicine at all. write as prescription. it's hard when you have because there is no way to check. problem is if it's a bunch of doctors, it's going to be tough to prosecute. if it's one it's -- >> that's what make it less of a criminal case and more of a civil case. these dock stores are going to claim michael jackson was less than truthful or different people requesting these drugs and they thought they were prescribing them properly they can't possibly have that kind of criminal intent that our law requires. brian: remy, you are a defense attorney and you love to push this kind of case off it's only a matter of malpractice. there is really no intent. this doctor didn't mean anything wrong. does it become criminally negligent when a doctor who knows that his patient is a drug addict provides additional drugs that maybe ends up killing the

patient. is that criminal act. >> yes. the scenario you just described, yes. that would then become a criminal act. when a person, doctor or otherwise, shows such a reckless disregard for the value of human life, otherwise lawful act becomes unlawful. manslaughter. that's what a manslaughter charge is all about. we are seeing a similar sort of scenario play out with the anna nicole smith. if the doctor knowingly administers these kind of drugs to someone who has a problem, that could become value charge. >> king of pop different from anna nicole get much more attention and final therely there is going to be -- finally there is going to be prosecution. peter: thank you. see you soon. lives of spoiled teens more popular on the diswreenget shows like gossip girls closer to reality than you think. inside details from someone who went to school with the hollywood elite. sea lion hijack as police boat.

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the option to name your price -- new and only from progressive. call or click today. gretchen: you have probably seen gossip girl and ncc prep or the hills. what is it like to grow up in the middle of this privileged elite community? peter: isabel was just a senior in high school when she finished debut novel hancock park which she describes a mix of gossip girl and mean girls. good morning. >> good morning. peter: how are you. >> i'm good. peter: how did you get the idea to do this book. >> i got the idea from living in los angeles, growing up in this crazy world much and i have always wanted to write and wanted to be a writer. and i think there is a very

unique little bubble in hollywood and i wanted to write about that? brian: you realized you were growing up in this privileged community and you started writing about. this you thought this is kind of surreal. how were you able to step out of it and look back while you were 16 years old in the middle of it? >> i do realize that i wrote it when i had no experience of living elsewhere and even now i only have one year. i think it was interesting for me because both-neither of my patients were from l.a. neither of them from california. both moved there as adults. i got a little bit of the realization that l.a. is a bubble. this is not what the entire world is like. and growing up, you know my parents would say to me if you live somewhere else blank wouldn't be the case and you can fill in the blanks. gretchen: recognize her voice, you know that she is the daughter of susan estrich, the fox news contributor. and a great lawyer. let's talk to you a little politically. >> sure that would be fine. gretchen: talk sarah palin startling announcement that she is stepping down as governor.

your thoughts about sarah palin as a female role model in this generation? >> i don't think it sets a really great example to young women who quit -- to step back in the middle of something. i think when i was growing up, and when lots of kids were growing up, parents teach you even if you are starting something that is not going the way you wanted it to or you don't think it was going to be successful when it started out don't quit, don't stop. it doesn't great role model especially women go into politics to step down in the middle of her term as governor. peter: who is setting role model besides your mother for you and for your friends you? are a very smart young woman. you went to harvard. so you have got your own career and whole life ahead of you. who is the role model for you and your young women friends? >> well, you know, when i was 6 years old my choice, i dressed up as hillary clinton for halloween. s it with a "times" writer on the 1996 campaign that was my 6-year-old choice. but i think it's great that

sarah palin has, you know, a full working career and is, you know, working very hard to raise her children. i think that it doesn't set a good role model to quit. it is true we need more women out there in politics and stopping in the middle when you are doing something. gretchen: having a young daughter myself was being able to show her there was hillary clinton as a democrat and sarah palin as a republican. and wasn't this phenomenal in this election cycle that weekend teach our children that women on both sides of the political spectrum were in the running. this was fantastic. this was my first time voting since turning 18 last may it was exciting to not only be a part of the political process for the first time but also see all the changes that could be in store. brian: off to a tremendous start. first book deal at 16. done by 19. out doing the book tour and summer off after your freshman year. congratulations on this. gretchen: intern on capitol hill. >> i am. gretchen: hancock park.

isabel kaplan, thanks so much for sharing your book. >> thanks. brian: new video just in of barack obama arriving in russia. is he meeting with medvedev right now. what this means for u.s. foreign policy. live from moscow. peter: still in the dark after governor sarah palin announced she is calling it quits. governor mike huckabee will perhaps shed some light on her unexpected bombshell. is he joining us live right after this break.

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gretchen: a very good monday morning to you, july 6, 2008. see we had a holiday i can't even speak anymore. we are so glad you joined us on this monday. a community living in fear. five people dead and a suspected serial killer now still on the loose in south carolina. the sheriff leading the manhunt joins us live in two minutes. brian: governor sarah palin

calls it quits with more than 16 months left in office. this morning new clues on where she is heading next from governor huckabee himself who could be running for office. peter: crafty sea lion come deer as boat. using flippers. whole thing caught on camera. deputy who shot this incredible video will join us live. our slogan this hour comes from linda in florida. this is what she says. "fox & friends" is better than coffee. the buzz is there all day. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this is dana lewis in moscow and you are watching "fox & friends." and the president of russia is demeet tree medvedev. gretchen: thanks a lot, dana that's why we you have say it. >> thanks a lot.

five years in russia and that's what i have learned. brian: brian we know that barack obama is there. were there crazy crowds greeting him like everywhere else he goes? >> i wouldn't say there were huge numbers of crowds out to greet him. there is a lot of people though looking forward to his visit. he has been on the front pages of russian newspapers here definitely. gretchen: of course, many people want to know whether or not he will be meeting with prime minister vladimir putin because many people believe that he is the one pulling all the strings in the country of russia. will that meeting take place? >> it? >> will definitely take place. the cold war ended about 20 years ago. why do we still have all these nuclear weapons that were originally designed to destroy america and russia. the two countries have huge nuclear stockpiles and president obama on his visit here will be focusing on reducing the threat here. we can tell that you he and the first lady arrived in moscow

about 120 minutes ago. they went for a wreath laying ceremony. we have that video. and meetings are already underway. the two presidents agreed in london this spring to replace a treaty. it expires this december. some four and a half hours of talks scheduled today to come up with a framework agreement on what the treaty would like like. it's expected to be announced at a news conference. expected to lower the nuclear stockpiles from 3,000 war heads each down to 1500 war heads and spell out how many launch platforms either side can maintain. final agreement also take months to negotiate it is complicated because the russian guys are still maintaining that they want the anti-ballistic missile system to be based on its borders in the czech republic in poland to go away. rust russians saying there is no way they will ratify any treaty agreement unless that is dealt

with. president obama did an interview with a.p. before he left for russiaened he a accused vladimir putin of having one foot stuck in the past in the cold war past. we are told that has angered vladimir putin. that may make for spicy meeting between president obama and vladimir putin which is supposed to take tomorrow for an hour and a half. back to you all. gretchen: russia plays such a pivotal role in world affairs right now more than ever with north korea and iran. two of the big problems for the u.s. right now. peter: some wondering whether that comment was a faux pas in terms of making putin an even harder liner than he is at this point. gretchen: let's see how that meeting plays out. residents of a small south carolina town being terrorized by a spring of homicides that police believe is related to each other. five victims ranging in age from 15 to 83 years old have been murdered. the hunt continuing for the serial killer. cherokee county sheriff bill ballot ten joins us now this

morning with an update. good morning to you, sheriff. >> good morning. gretchen: we have this these five murders. you are deepg this to be a serial killer. what is the connection between all of these homicides? >> the only connection we have now is physical evidence which we don't discuss but we don't have any evidence that he knew -- we're not saying he didn't but we don't have any evidence or proof that he knew all three of the families that he has destroyed. but we can't put him at all three crime scenes. brian: we see the sketch there you say the suspect is in his 40's, some gray hair, 6'2", 200 pounds. driving a ford explorer? >> we think it's a vehicle -- we think it's a ford explorer or a vehicle that looks close to a ford explorer. two door. goldish brown, champagne

colored, that's correct. peter: sheriff, what efforts are being made in terms of state and federal authorities? are they helping you as well in this manhunt? and is there a reward? >> yes. the reward just is a basic reward of $2,000. that's just a crime stopper's starting point, but that's been increasing and i'm not sure what the amount is yet, but the fbi son the task force, the state law enforcement division. there is probably 12 or 15 sheriff's offices in south carolina and north carolina that have offices here or equipment here. other state agencies like probation-parole, department of corrections, there is a lot of other agencies that are assisting, yes. gretchen: sheriff, let me ask you. this if you think these incidents could be related, what would be the common thread between these three families?

>> i'm not sure i understand your question. gretchen: do any of the families know each other or what would be the common thread between these three families who have been attacked? >> well, the common thread, and i don't know that he knows that is he has destroyed three of probably some of the best families in this community. they were all well-known, i'm sure community this size they were -- they knew each other, school teachers, mr. tyler was a businessman, went to a pretty large church. he just destroyed three great families. and i'm sure the families knew each other. i knew all of them. and i am pretty sure they knew each other, yes. peter: are these folks random targets that we believe at this point or do we believe that this serial killer chose them

intentionally for some particular reason? >> we don't have any evidence that he targeted them. if he did, we can't -- we don't have any evidence of that yet. right now it looks like they are just randoms. brian: all within 10 miles of each other. i guess the big question is will he strike again in this area? is he from this area? or will he move on? what have you done in terms of sealing the region, the area, the city, the county? we bro v. brought in a lark amount of patrol officers. what we are trying to do is basically just to keep him from killing again until we catch him. gretchen: sheriff bill blanton, our thoughts are with you as you try to track down this alleged serial killer. thank you for your time this morning. peter: good luck, sir. >> thank you. i appreciate it. gretchen: another fox news alert right now police in miami looking for a man accused of opening fire at a house party.

1 people shot and wounded early this morning when the gunman stormed the party and started firing. this video just in to our newsroom. one person was also hit by a car when trying to run from the home. police say three of the wounded are in critical condition. witnesses say the shooter was wearing a black trench coat when he stormed into the party. more information as it comes in to us. we turn now to hun dower was on on -- honduras. police and soldiers block the ousted president's plane from landing. violent fights broke out with former president manuel supporters at least one person killed in. this at least 30 injured. he is still vowing to return home. the interim government threatening to arrest him if he does. general motors clears a key hurdle as it tries to get out of bankruptcy. late last night a federal judge ruled that g.m. can sell its most valuable assets to the new

g.m. hundreds of people fought that sale including bond holders. they were supposed to be first in line. assets will be liquidated to the highest bidder. kristen is being charged with the attempted murder of her own son. accused of withholding cancer treatment who died last march. she canceled at least a dozen appointsments for chemotherapy treatments. did not fill half of the prescriptions her son germany had been given. she is scheduled to appear in court later today a soldier's death in afghanistan quickly becomes one of twitter's hottest topics when his father thanks him for his service. david masters a public servant tweeted that his sister was killed in afghanistan. after explaining his death he wrote. this. well, he got his witch. that phrase thank you aaron shot up twitter charts becoming the weekend's number one topics.

it was a wild moose chase in spokane washington. police had to stop traffic as they carefully tracked him through neighborhoods. they ended up calling the department of wild wildlife to help move the moose. they ended up baby-sitting the moose until someone could arrive and those are your evidence lines. what do you charge to sit a moose? what do you think the going rate is? 15 bucks an hour? we have a dime on the set do you think we could baby-sit a mootion with that? brian: miss serious move over the weekend, she talked to some people and said you know what i'm not going to run for reelection ok in 16 months. i will step aside. we all know about the tan particulars that happen for lame duck governors who travel around and tax people. i'm not going to do that. a lot of people are saying what are you doing now? why are you leaving? and who are you blaming? gretchen: it's interesting. because she says she is looking

forward to serving the public outside of the governor's chair. she has always done things that are not necessarily run of the mill as far as a politician's moves. some people saying hey, including mary mast lynn a renowned republican strategist. this is a brilliant move. she is stepping down because she wants to focus her time run for president. overwhelming majority of say this does not good -- look great. peter: most pundits are self-interested people. there is a lot of hard left leaning democrats who hate sarah palin who really don't like her. so they are delighted that she has stepped down and they think she has done it in a way that brings embarrassment to her. i think a lot of americans like sarah palin. and certainly a lot of republicans like sarah palin. brian: got to have a press conference that makes sense. i have no idea what the press

conference meant what it said and where it was going. peter: there was an op. ed piece that said there is two things going on. classism and sexism, too. this is not one of the harvard people. this is north a princeton person. this is not part of the east coast elite. brian: she blamed the media. many. gretchen: for me, peter, i'm with you on all of this. i think it's difficult to explain to our kids unless she is going to come out and say here is what i am going to do. peter: frank luntz will be with us. detainee sprung from gitmo now the leader of the taliban. enough to convince guantanamo bay to keep it open. and? >> sea lion high jackets a boat. the gentleman who joins this

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brian: he was released from gitmo in 2007 and put into afghan custody and now we are learning that he has become a leader of the taliban group in afghanistan right in the helmand province which, right now, we are taking action in with about 6,000 marines. that's right, former gift mow detainee back -- he is a former gitmo detainee clearly and back in the line of terrorism. the former commander of the "u.s.s. cole" joins us now. first off, commander, are you surprised that a released gitmo detainee has gone back to terror terror? >> not surprised at all, brian. i mean, we have made a best judgment possible to try to turn back people to their home countries as possible but the reality of it is the ones that are in guantanamo bay today need to remain there. they are the most dangerous of

the detainees that we have. we have down to a number less than 250. right now look at it. even our european allies won't touch them with a 10-foot pole but other countries like saudi arabia and yemen will embrace them and take them back all right. brian: american people are the ones that are upset that the rest of the world was mad at us for having prison. put so much pressure on political leaders they had no choice, correct? >> they did put a lot of pressure on us. but the reality of it is, brian, when we sat counsel and looked at those leaders and said ok hoursingare you going to help us solve this problem? what youking are go to do to help us get all these detainees reintegrated back into a life that doesn't include fanatic islam in the reality of it is says we don't want anything to do with them. they are too dangerous. we are not going to take them on. we don't want to turn these people loose because we legalize our allies now realize that they are too dangerous to be turned loofs.

and the reality of it is, guantanamo bay is a facility that works. we have invested over $200 million in the facilities down there, the infrastrurex down there. it's already built and the last thing we need to do is being paying other countries more money, especially when we have a got a deficit of trillions to try to take these detainees off our hands. brian: there is a rush to let these people go. no interest in asimulating back into society. the american people are not outraged by. this they have not shown this disdain. we try to be loft i can't understand above it all. have to keep american values. you are not the one fighting them again in afghanistan. they have operation to counter or prawtion in the helmand province, how do you feel about that? >> well, the reality of it is, brian, is that the reason the american people don't understand is because so few people are paying attention to the detainee issue. i mean, right now if you wanted to learn more there is a web site that you can go to, military families united has it

it's don't free the tastes.org or don't free terrorists.org. it will tell you all about it. the reality is we do not want to turn these detainees loose. the facility in guantanamo bay works. it is keeping these people off the battlefield because we don't need our military of these families suffering more. brian: commander, i agree with you. thanks for your service to this country and this organization. good job. >> thank you. brian: straight ahead, big changes are coming to the credit card industry next year. guess what, some credit card cpsz are not waiting. they are already adding outrageous new charges. we'll reveal the new fees you are paying next. slumdog million mayor's home was demolished. thanks. taking its rightful place

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gretchen: hold on to your wallets because credit card fees are on their way up. you may be charged without being told about it first, imagine that peter. among the outrageous fees college students charge 3% more on tuition if they pay with credit card. travel agents pay with plastic. peter: what's behind all these fees. how can you avoid them? "wall street journal" reporter mary is here. good morning, mary. >> good morning. what is happening. there is a new law that's going to go into effect in 2010. are the credit card companies kind of off the range at this point? >> they are of the fine print is written such that they can change whatever they want whenever they want essentially. until everything goes into effect in february of 2010. it's going to be crazy. so be sure to check your fine print really carefully. now is a great time to shop around and think about who you really want to be doing business with. gretchen: what is the effort by credit card companies? trying to make fast cash before the laws get into play?

>> they have to completely rethink business model. they can say they care but and customer service and this and that bottom line you need to do what's in your best interest. when we think of credit cards we think of five or 10 major issuers. great time to think more broadly about who you should give your business to. peter: what specific issues should people be looking at in terms of their credit cards? grace periods, universal defaults? tell us. >> fees we have never seen before. if you have a free credit card a lot of people are saying it might not be free anymore. annual fees, over-the-limit fees. since credit card companies are lowering your limit you might think you are within your limit and you go to charge something overnight they have changed it. gretchen: looking at some of these costs now on the screen. paying by phone can cost you 10 to $15. a late fee could cost you between 20 .50 and 3 .50. average fee for going over your

limit. trying to read the fine print. you say not only is it fine print it's jargon nobody can get. >> that is one of the things that will change in 2010. it might come in mail. we are so used to getting so much junk mail from our own issuers and others trying to get our business. be sure to check mail. not everyone is going to email you necessarily. call them up and ask what am i going to be charged. peter: what is the notion universal default if they want to change the terms they can? >> when you sign up for a credit card. you are signing on their terms that's, again, something that's is going to change in 2010. we are still operating under the old rules. gretchen: all right. so pay attention and beware. mary, great to see you today. >> great, thanks. another big storks peter, over the weekend. did steve mcnair's marriage get in the way former nfl super star found murdered. all eyes on the 20-year-old

woman believed to be his girlfriend. she also passed away. peter: los angeles bracing for impact. not an earthquake. but more than 1 million people heading there for michael jackson's memorial perhaps. live at the staples center with more details on the service. gretchen: here is something you didn't see or you don't see every day. a sea lion hijacking a police boat. what was he doing there? how far did he get before cops caught up with him? we talk to the deputy who shot this video.

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♪ peter: queen of pop pays her own personal tribute to the king of pop michael jackson. she performed some of jackson's greatest hits at a concert over the weekend at the same london arena where jackson was supposed to stage his comeback. brian: meanwhile i think stevie wonder is going to be performing. who else is going to be performing tomorrow at the big event? steve. peter: you said elizabeth taylor. brian: jennifer hudson. gretchen: our own adam housley is live for us out in l.a. before that memorial service tomorrow at the staple center there is a big day in court today for the jackson family,

right, adam? >> yeah, there is we are hearing lionel richie. a lot of names being thrown out there. you mentioned the hearings, gretchen. exactly right. about four hours from now this will will be talked about this the superior court behind me here in los angeles. also in downtown. only about a mile or so away from the staples center where tomorrow's service will take place. at this hearing, catherine jackson's lawyers, michael's mothers lawyers are expected to ask for this hearing to be postponed. primarily because the two men who were put in charge of the michael jackson east, at least most of it, are john bron can a and john mcclain. they are an attorney and music promoter here. the jackson family wants to put this off until they have the service tomorrow. until they have a chance to look more closely at this will to, in their minds, make sure that it's 100% legitimate and also to ensure that there is not a newer will that's been written since 2002. this one that was filed last wednesday by jackson attorneys was written in 2002. catherine jackson's attorneys

and the jackson family believe there might be a newer will. going on four hours from downtown los angeles. also taking place right now in downtown los angeles is the set up for tomorrow's event. they have already shut down a number of streets around the nokia neither. this is going to be quite an event downtown. as you know, more than 1.6 million people applied online to get tickets to go to this event tomorrow. only about 8500 will be -- will have the opportunity they expect a lot more to come downtown. talk about taxpayer money being spent. one says if the jackson family has $25,000 to spend on a coffin they should help pitch in to pay for some of the security in this. and some other costs as well. at the same time the acting mayor has come out according to one report this morning and saying this might be good for tourism. this is going to be a speck cackle tomorrow. whether you think it's a good thing or bad thing it is going

to be a big thing. back to you in new york. gretchen: i read in the newspaper this morning that people from britain are trying to get over here by the hoards because of michael jackson was so popular there and all the flights are sold out. they are trying to get to other cities and driving it could be a huge situation. brian: how disappointed are you if you have tickets to see michael jackson and the jackson family afterwards? you can't. peter: have agreed to take a commemorative ticket instead of getting money back so these concert promoters are actually. brian: trying to find a way to not pay people back. peter: also probably going to get 16 or $17 million insurance policy on michael jackson's life payable to them. brian: probably have a good dvd to release. 26 minutes before the top of the hour. another developing story. iran's supreme leader once again warning the west. the ayatollah says he will continue to sour. relations will continue to sour with the west unless the west

butts out of the crisis. khomeini says iran will react if necessary. this is a senior group as of religious clerics challenged the ayatollah in unprecedented move. they accused of fraud. clerics are not from the west but more on that later. gretchen: death on steve mcnair now being called cold blooded murder. nashville police are stopping short of calling it murder-suicide. mcnair was found shot in his condo in nashville. 20-year-old woman believed to be his girlfriend was found dead next to him with a single bullet wound to the head. new details and photo emerging about their relationship. tmz posted picture showing married mcnair on vacation with the 2 o-year-old. now the woman's sister telling a local newspaper that mcnair promised that young woman that he was in the process of getting divorced. peter? peter: a bridge in indiana was too crowded when it collapsed on the fourth of july injuring

about 25 people. two cables holding up the suspension bridge snapped, sending dozens flying into the water 10 feet below. the crowd was just leaving a fireworks show when it happened. the bridge designed to hold only about 40 people but there are reports that about 80 people were actually on the bridge at the time. thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. brian: suicide car bomb explosions outside the main nato base in southern afghanistan leaving at least one civilian dead. at least to auer soldiers and civilians hurt. this came as a major offensive taliban. gretchen: joe biden admits the obama administration was not prepared for the latest unemployment numbers frmingt we misread how bad the economy was. but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package. the truth of the matter was no one anticipated, no one expected

that that recovery package would, in fact, be in a position at this point of having distributed the bulk of the money. gretchen: the vice president thinks more jobs will be created in the long run even as unemployment in the u.s. is now at 9.5%. but senate leader mitch mcconnell isn't buying it. he says he doesn't think the country's quote, spending bing is going to improve the economic situation any time soon. governor mike huckabee joins us next hour to weigh in on his thoughts on this topic. peter? peter: a social networking site gets the new spy chief for the u.k. in hot water. john sawyers incoming head of mi 6 created security snafu when wife posted personal information and pictures of him on her social networking page. british foreign secretary david acknowledged the posting but said nothing didn't reveal -- nothing compromising. to make matters even more elm bear racing he will head the country's cyber security team.

that's ironic. reports his wife's online page has since been taken down. gretchen: you are looking at one of the poverty stricken child stars from slumdog millionaire posing in front of his new house in mumbai, i observeddia, he had lost his home in may when authorities demolished part of the slum. he will move in his shan'ty house next week. let's take a look at fun filled weekend of sports and great tennis match. brian: slumdog millionaire not uplifting. i just didn't find it uplifting at all. gretchen: the movie itself or the reality of the life that they live? brian: both. let's talk tennis. that was uplifting if you like sports and competition. roger federer outlasts andy rotted dick to claim that title. look at some of the mind blowing numbers in the match. 50. how many he had in the final setting a career record roddick wasn't too snaby either. he said he doesn't figure out

his serve. i aglivment next 77. that's how many games were played in the slam match. roddick finally broke his serve. 15 is how many grand slam titles he has one. left of center count 10, that's at least 10 things i didn't get done because i watched that match. take a look at the starters as voted by the fans. you see the american league starters are there right now. you see them right in front of you. i'm not going to read them all. derek jeter is there at short. jason bay, the guy who its replaced manny ramirez who is not on performance enhancing drugs is in the outfield. the game is in st. louis. the national league hasn't run in 12 years. and pujols has a shot at the triple crown. frank luntz is here, leah ladies and gentlemen. gretchen: just a few minutes ago we were talking about sarah

palin's announcement that she is stepping down as alaska's governor. peter: some may have been confused by statements and posting in the last few days. words that work. frank luntz is here to help us decode. how do we decode her words this morning. >> take out. so ums and huhs. clearly she realizedthis was going nowhere for her family and nowhere for herself. she was under attack. when you start going after her kids, what people at home don't realize is a candidate is tough and they can handle it. so is a spouse. when the kids get involved and they start becoming the butt of jokes it will is impossible for a parent to repair. gretchen: why the speech wasn't a little bit more succinct in actually stating some of those reasons. your thoughts? >> that, i don't understand. she went after the press attacking people who sell it by the barrel. she clarified that she is not a

quitter which i found very interesting because she actually is in a sense quitting as governor of alaska. what i was fascinated with is she didn't give the principles. diddelay out -- this is one peoe like us not to be analyzing it so clear, but she didn't. here what you think about, this frank, critics are spinning so hang in there as they feed false info on the right made as i run for office again. >> good communicator during the campaign. i say to everyone, whether you liked her or not, her speech at the national convention was one of the great speeches of all time. gretchen: no doubt. no doubt. brian: prompter went down during. this she had to ad-lib it. >> she did it successfully. that's why i'm very surprised of

she didn't have the kind of people around her. gretchen: a lot of emailers and tweefts said she didn't want gave a reason she didn't want to waste tax dollars tore forgive russ ache sanctions against her and potential federal indictments. did you get that in the mess sack. >> yovment i don't one ever divifs up in the middle. i don't believe it has. i still believe she is looking at 2012. richard nixon made that famous announcement you won't have the dick nixon to kirk around nick and later he becomes president. you represented and adviseed a little successful politicians around the states. don't some governors and senators just stay on the public breast milk for too long? shouldn't they get the heck out when it's time to get out. >> yeah, it's only two years. she just started as governor.

16 months. brian: another quote: brian: playing the victim card? >> i'm not hostile to her. i think she should have stuck it out and fought it out. she would have earned more respect by staying to the end of the term. brian: like pawlenty is doing. >> pawlenty took charge. plenty of people. rudy giuliani didn't let people push him around and he was the victim of all of attacks. gretchen: people with lipstick on. she would have lived through to that. for those of us who really defended her because she was a woman, you know, i think this is a little bit more difficult to try to figure out. >> right. except that i do believe she disefnedding her children. i think that's a wonderful thing. brian: i think it's a wonderful thing you are going to stick around for another segment.

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brian: wars heating up against the effort to overhaul our nation's health care. gretchen: back with frank luntz. take a look at this ad from canada. what happens to this particular woman? >> now, we have been dial testing all of the health care ads there are about 20 that are out there. none has had a strong an impact among republicans than the one that you are about to see and the reason why is that they have a specific, a real person, a real victim of canadian health care. the higher that you see the lines climb the more favorable the ad. if it goes above a 50.

it's a home run. watch how high the republican line climbs here. >> i survived a brain tumor, but if i had relied on my government for health care i would be dead. i am a canadian citizen. as my brain tumor got worse, my government healthcare system told me i had to wait six months to see a specialist. in six months i would have died. >> government runs health care in canada. care is delayed or denied. some patients wait a year for vital surgeries. delays that can be deadly. many drugs and treatments are not available because government says patients aren't worth it. >> i'm here today because i was able to travel to the u.s. where i received world class treatment. government health care isn't the answer ant it sure isn't free. gretchen: look at that line up there you can't each go any higher than what that line says. brian: the republicans. >> patients united now realized they had to personalize the health care message. she did that when she said i would be dead. republicans said that's me.

brian: democrats. >> not quite as favorable. at 50 line. good ad for them. anazzing for republicans. interesting that the republicans are focused on canadian care, british care. democrats are looking at about american care. >> does this ad have an impact on your position on health care? this one didn't do quite as well. let's take a look. >> washington now runs your banks, insurance, and car companies. but do you trust washington with your life? congress is rushing to take over health care, too. paid for by $600 billion in new taxes. and cutting 400 billion from medicare. plus, tens of millions will lose their current insurance. and wind up on the government health plan. what will happen to your family's health care if washington runs it? tell senator bachus to vote no on government run health care. gretchen: pretty successful ad but why be correct in saying that if when you have a person telling their story it's much

more effective. >> because we all know someone who has had their life threatened and in some cases people have lost their life and dealt with the healthcare system. uns with you personalize it, individualize it and human humanize it then it's powerful. brian: thank you. is president obama spending too much of your money? colin powell thinks so. what the former secretary of state is saying now about the spenting programs. >> after he endorsed obama. something you have to see to believe. sea lion hijacks a police boat and takes over the controls. he wasn't in a costume either. video after the break. brian: naval academy inducts first female midshipman. beyonce and jz crazy in love. i believe they are. . . taking its rightful place

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>> good morning. two california deputies were trying to move a sea lion to safety when suddenly the tables turned. the sea lion wandered into the boat's control room and took the captain's seat. they coaxed him back into the water, but after a very interesting ride. >> the orange county sheriff officer james slicker joins us now. james, how did he get into the control room? >> we were trying to get him off a public dock where a sea lion had bit a couple of kids, and we tried to call the appropriate agencies that weren't available, so that left us. we got some lines to try to get around his neck to make like a leash to get him off the dock

and after he tried to bite us, he finally ducked out of the leash and ran down into the fire boat, and then i looked at my partner, and i said what are we going to do now? brian: these things are vicious. >> they are very vicious. this one was only about 60 pounds, he was a juvenile, but it's like a pit bull, and now it's irritated because we put lines on it to get it off the deck. he's in the v berth, and i see him going in the driver's seat, so i got my camera out because i told my partner, no one's going to believe this so i better get it on video. peter: were you thinking of tasering him with cuffs, what? do you bring those kind of policing tools? >> not for a juvenile sea lion.

maybe one of the bigger 600 or 800 pound bulls, but this one we felt like as long as he was down below, and he was trying to bite at us, we could use something on the boat to keep him away from us, built he got on the controls, and when he put his flippers on the controls, he accidentally honked the horn and then with his right flipper he turned on the emergency lights, the navigation lights, the blower, and then as you probably see in the video, he goes up on the controls, and at one point because he was laying on them, he moves the controls in reverse which made our fire boat back up temporarily. we're trying to make light of a awkward situation. so it was definitely unusual. peter: we've never seen anything like it. brian: are you pushing to charge

him as an adult? >> as far as i know, he's been released on his own recognizance, and i don't think any charges are going to be charged. peter: print the flipper next time. if we see him again, he will be arrested. >> he got a stern warning of not to touch the controls on the orange county sheriff fire boat. peter: absolutely. brian: thanks for joining us and having the brilliance to tape it so we get to talk about it because no one would have believed it. jim, thanks, and be safe. >> you bet, guys, take care. brian: a showdown expected over michael jackson's estate. new details about what will happen inside the courtroom. peter: she was in kidney failure, so she turned to her

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gretchen: good monday morning to you. thank you for sharing your time with us. joe biden admitting the administration goofed. >> we misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package. gretchen: does this mean more taxpayer money going down the drain? another stimulus package coming your way. peter: and a serial killer terrorizing a small town. he's already killed five people in five days, and get this? it's happened in this town before. brian: did she marry the wrong brother? stunning new details about an

alleged affair between jackie o and bobby kennedy. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- announcer: it's "fox & friends." gretchen: i like that slogan. brian: it was very strong. bad news for "hannity" and greta. gretchen: they can tivo those. thanks for sharing your time with us, steve's off, and peter johnson jr. is here. we hope that you had a great holiday, and now it's back to work. president obama is in russia meeting with dmitri medvedev. they were all smiles this morning. >> there's a whole host of issues, including security issues, economic issues, energy issues, environmental issues that the united states and

russia have more in common than they have differences. gretchen: the two are discussing a deal to reducing nuclear weapons. they're expected to announce the framework. the jackson family headed to court for a showdown today to see who gets power or michael jackson's estate. adam housley outside that courthouse in l.a. what's at stake here? we all know about this 2002 will. is that what they're going to be talking about? >> for sure, and the preliminary idea of who's going to be taking over his finances. katherine jackson has partial control, but two other people were named, john maclean and john bronka. the family wants to put this off to see if there's another will

out there and because of the service, and what's at stake, gretchen, by conservative estimates, michael jackson's estate could be worth $500 million, but there's a chance that a.i.g. is going to put this service tomorrow on some sort of dvd, you have the possibility that blu-ray release they're talking about or pay per view release of his last performance which was taped last week before he died, and then of course the music sales have gone up tremendously since his passing, so you have potentially a lot of money at stake. gretchen: what right would the jackson family have to say any profits from this last performance? it would be a huge money maker, right? >> absolutely. you're hearing things that it may be a dvd or cd, maybe even pay per view. because of this, and we've been hearing this could be a fight before we even knew there was a

will, back last week where after michael jackson first had passed away, and joe jackson said he didn't believe there was a will at one points. we know there was a will filed in 2002. the family says there may be a newer version of this, and that's one of several reasons why they want this hearing postponed. gretchen: we'll keep our eyes on that story. a serial killer terrorizing a small town in south carolina. he is believed to have killed five people in just five days. now, police in the town of gaffney are releasing this sketch in hopes of finding the killer. earlier on "fox & friends" we spoke to sheriff bill blanton about the investigation. >> we don't have any evidence that he targeted them. if he did, we don't have any evidence of that yet. right now it looks like they're randoms. gretchen: these events are stirring up painful memories. in the 1960's the gaffney strangler murdered four girls before he was caught.

general motors clears a major roadblock. a federal judge gave the company a green light to sell most of its assets to the new gm. that clears a hurdle. hundreds of groups objected like bondholders. they were supposed to be first in line. it's not clear in they're going to appeal now. the items not sold to the new gm will be liquidated to the highest bidder. a nondenominational church in austin, texas, is going to the dogs. they're allowing members to bring their dogs as a way to make them feel comfortable, and they're doing this at a bar? it takes an hour and a half to make the switch from bar to church, and then the preaching begins. brian: governor huckabee is here. governor, welcome back. >> thank you. i think i'm going to join that church that lets you bring your

lab. >> what kind of dog do you have. >> i have three. the dogs take care of me. that's the way this works. gretchen: maybe -- brian: no backyard parties for huckabee. we'll stay in the front by the garage. gretchen: maybe we need to send somebody to washington to do a little cleanup because now we have vice president biden who some might deep this a bit of a gaffe. he said they misread this whole economy thing. what do you make of that? unemployment they never expected to get to 9%, they were garnering on the fact that -- >> well, the giant sucking sound in the white house. here goes biden again, and he says something that is in this case true, they didn't realize how bad things were, but they're

not fixing it by spending this ridiculous amount of money in a stimulus plan. there's one thing that biden and president obama have got to get under control, and that is quit blaming george bush. george bush inherited an economy in 2001 that was already beginning to show real signs of the stress from the breaking of the technology bubble. george bush didn't go out whining and complaining every day. he stood up like a president of the united states, and he worked on trying to get it fixed. and then 2001, 9/11 came, things went tough, but he worked on the economy, and it was in much better shape for most of his presidency. and then the recession started, wasn't totally his fault for sure, and all you hear from joe biden and president obama is how terrible it was, what they inherited, how it wasn't their fault. you own it now. you got elected. you wanted the job. stand up and take it and get this thing rolling, but quit spending money.

peter: is it maybe not a gaffe on vice president biden's part? is it part of a greater strategy where they're trying to set up an occasion to dump another billion dollars into a stimulus? is it perhaps intentional? >> we know a lot of the democrats, steny hoyer and others, said we needed more of a stimulus. and he's trying to prepare us for when those unemployment numbers go to 10, 10.5, and 11%. he can say we told you it was worse, but that's ridiculous. they told us it wouldn't get above 8, and it's already 9.5. their predictions have been about as dead wrong as they can about. brian: steny hoyer is saying the same thing. compare the record of the democratic house and senate. here is -- let's hear steny hoyer and john boehner. they had an interesting debate

with chris wallace, and you were there yesterday. >> we've got to understand we inherited 2 million jobs being lost in the three months before we took office. the policies that were put in place were put in place about 130 days ago, not eight years ago. >> come on, steny. you sound like the kid who showed up without his home work every day, and he wants to blame the dog for eating his home work. the president said the unemployment wouldn't get above 8%. we said earlier this year that this plan was not going to work. brian: only 10% of the stimulus package has been spent, and the american people overwhelmingly are concerned about the deficit spending and too much spending. >> and they should be because this was stimulating votes in democratic districts, it was a christmas list of things that democrats were holding, wanting to have spent in fair districts. most of it is not going to create jobs, it's going to create government dependency,

and that's why i opposed it, i opposed the tarp bill. if the republicans had acted like republicans, we probably wouldn't be here today. gretchen: somebody who some say is not a republican anymore is colin powell, but suddenly over the weekend, and i think this was stunning news that maybe was undersold because of other things coming out about governor palin, colin powell truly criticizing barack obama after he endorsed him. let's take a listen to what he said. >> i think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president, and i've talked to some of his people about this, is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all, and we can't pay for it all. the president as he moves forward has to start really taking a very hard look at what the cost of all of this is. brian: ok. so he wants to look at the costs and the deficit spending. is that significant to you? >> it is, and i think the fact that colin powell had endorsed

barack obama late in the campaign, now he's speaking very clearly. i'm a fan of colin powell for this reason. i think colin powell is one of those rare people who speaks his mind, comes from his heart, and he's not that concerned about the political consequences, and that makes him a statesman, not just a typical political operative. it makes a lot of republicans mad. he really alienated a lot of republicans with some of his comments, but whether i agreed with all of them or not, the fact is i thought i was hearing from a man who was speaking clearly from his gut and not reading talking points that some consultant had read for him. i find that refreshing. gretchen: but some would argue that he knew barack obama was a spender before he endorsed him, so now to come out with that -- but anyway. we want you to stick around, if you will, governor, because we want to talk about governor sarah palin as she says goodbye to the governor's office. your thoughts as to whether or not it's a brilliant move or a risky stunt. peter: did jackie o marry the

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brian: governor sarah palin drops a bombshell. she says she's stepping down from office after only two and a half years in her first term. back with us former presidential candidate himself and host of "huckabee," mike huckabee. governor, when you were governor, how close were you to saying i can't do both? i'm out of here as mitt romney finished out his term, but governor bush was governor bush while he tried to be president. >> being governor means that you're going to be under constant attack, and if you run

for president, same thing. this is a blood sport these days. and i think most people understand that. part of the problem is that you can attack somebody for the price of a postage stamp. in my state, for example, all is required is to write a letter to the ethics commission. it cost 39 cents to send the letter, and it could result in tens of thousands of dollars in legal expenses to defend yourself against something that was nothing more than some citizen who just said i think mike huckabee's a bum. that's how the game is played. it's wrong, it's mean, but it's the way it works, and i don't know how to reform it outside of stifling people's free speech. brian: she had 15 ethics violations filed against her after she said i want to run for vice president. it's cost her $500,000. the lieutenant governor thinks the money has a lot to do with it, so that's one of the reasons she's stepping out. she just wasn't clear in her

speech. here's a recent poll. fox news viewers, an opinion dynamics poll. it said ok, republican candidates, who do you want to see as candidate? rudy is first, you are second, mitt romney, sarah palin, but 73% according to a pew research poll say that she has a strong approval rating, so sarah palin still up there. >> sarah palin is a rock star in the republican party. i watched when she was picked by john mccain. she brought a dynamic and electricity to the party. there was no enthusiasm until she was named, and there was electricity in the air, and a lot of it was because of her. there's no question that she is a very important player in the future of the party and bringing a lot of people's energy, particularly the grass roots of the party, that's critical, we

don't win without it, and i think that's why the announcement was somewhat stunning. brian: mary matalin, someone you respect, she says it's a brilliant move. does governor huckabee think that? >> the honest answer is nobody knows. it could be a brilliant move. it could be a move that's very costly. we just don't know. brian: you know politics, and you know polls. what do you think? >> my honest opinion is that she should have finished out her term because governing well is the best policy. if they say you're an idiot, you show what you've done. do your job well, and it's really hard to criticize that, and it gives you a platform to defend yourself. brian: let me make one suggestion. if you want to announce that you're running in a couple of years, do it on our show, not

your show. that's my polling. >> you're so gracious to give me that opportunity. brian: you owe me one. thanks, governor. straight ahead, she says all she needed was a little help from her employer after getting sick. she joins us with her story. an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but oranges could land you into the dentist chair. [ thud ] [ woman sighs ] [ horn honks ] [ sigh ] a lot goes through your mind after an accident. but with liberty mutual, insurance issues won't, because we offer unlimited rental coverage, new car replacement, and accident forgiveness to help ease your mind. and that's our policy. liberty mutual insurance.

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brian: 23 minutes after the hour. disney world's famous monorail system will shut down as the investigation continues into a fatal crash. one of the drivers was killed when the two trains collided. the victim said it was his dream job. at least five tourists were treated for minor injuries in

this accident. it's the first fatal accident at disney world. this could be mark sanford's last day in office. top republicans will hold a conference call tonight to decide whether to publicly push for his resignation. he's enraged the south carolina g.o.p. for his affair and bizarre conduct afterwards. peter: imagine finding out you have a deadly disease and weeks later losing your job and health insurance. that's what happened to a new york city woman who's now suing her former employer. gretchen: lydia rawlins is suffering from a life-threatening kidney disease. she's her with her attorney robert oughteninger. you find out that you have a fatal kidney disease. you need a transplant. >> yes, i do. gretchen: what happened at your place of employment? >> i went to work every day, continued to work, let everybody know that i had end stage renal

disease. when i came back to work to -- resume my duties, i was fired. peter: did you understand what this meant in terms of not having health insurance? >> i was very upset because i new i was a new dialysis patient, and how was i supposed to pay for it? gretchen: her brother's a perfect match, but the surgery costs $300,000, so with no job and no health insurance, she cannot proceed. >> she can't, and that's why she's brought this case. we want somebody in the state of new york to pay attention to lydia. she needs a kidney. they put her at risk. and someone at mayor bloomberg's

office has to pay to this person. she needs their help. peter: they wrote to you effective immediately your services are terminated. please be advised this separation from employment you're not permitted to appear at any facility. failure to adhere to this directive may be considered trespassing, so not only were you fired, you were threatened with some criminal action? >> yes, it was. gretchen: and robert, you believe that there's no other reason for her termination? >> there's no dispute that she was doing a fine job. there's no problem with her performance. the only problem is that she had kidney disease. that's it. this is a very strong disability. in fact, they fired her after she asked for a reasonable accommodation. gretchen: you believe that -- what you would like is a settlement from the city or your job back. >> i wouldn't really want my job back because i don't trust them

because they could just fire me again and put a bull's-eye on me. all i want is a kidney. that's my main goal is to have a kidney so i can double my life expectancy. peter: if people are watching from the city, tell them what you're thinking. >> right now i'm highly upset about the situation that i was fired from my job. i loved working with the children and helping the families, and why couldn't acs and the city help me when i was in need? i would just like new york to know and the nation to know like any help would be great for me right now. gretchen: this is a discrimination disability case? what is it? >> a disability discrimination case. she was fired because she has kidney disease, and we're here today -- she needs a kidney, and she needs it fast. peter: how do you get relief quickly, mr. ottenger? >> the legal system doesn't happen quickly, so we need the

city to pay attention now. gretchen: thank you, the best of luck to you. >> thank you. peter: good luck. >> thank you. gretchen: five murders in five days. we are live in south carolina where residents now living in fear of a serial killer there, and it may not be the first time. peter: plus president obama arriving in russia this morning. heading straight to the negotiating table. gretchen: jon and kate. are they a couple again? new details on what the two did together. 

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to 1500. both sides have 3,000. currently under the moscow treaty signed in 2002 the nations had committed to lowering those operational deployed nuclear warheads to 1700 to 2200, but right now they still have 3,000. they're also trying to work on an agreement to reduce missile delivery systems. we don't have the details on that yet. they're still working to try to get some agreement on that. all of this is under what both nations want to do with the star treaty which was first set in motion back in 1991, it expires at the end of this year, so both nations are trying to put together to succeed that star treaty. it's hard work, but we expect some sort of progress. gretchen. peter: major, the russians want to link arms control with the ballistic missile defense system. will the president agree to

that? >> he will not agree to that. the president has made it fundamentally clear these are two separate issues entirely. he's reviewing the bush administration decision to deploy both a ballistic radar system and launch system in poland and the czech republic. reviewing that. but he said today in a recent interview that he would like to cooperate with russia on the overall defense missile system, but the russians have set a very hard line on what that means. they want the u.s. to scrap everything they done, start fresh, and bring the russians in at the very beginning so the two nations would jointly build a domestic missile system. the united states is not interested in that, so they're divided. brian: i have two questions and then a follow-up. will you take both? >> yes, indeed. brian: what about vladimir putin? i understand they're having breakfast tomorrow. what kind of factor will he play in the summit?

is president obama talking to the decision-maker today or tomorrow? >> he's talking to the decisionmakers in russia both days. everyone here knows that president medvedev and putin jointly run this country, and you can't get anything done without their mutual agreement, and it's very interesting. president obama has lavish praise on president medvedev calling him progressive and thoughtful but has dis'd putin saying that he still has one foot in the cold war. president obama putin did n putin did not take kindly to those remarks. it will be interesting to see exactly how warm the relationship is between putin and barack obama. privately obama advisors would not mind friction between putin. the harsh reality is you can't

get anything done without both of them agreeing. brian: here's my follow-up. is that background real? it looks like a painting. >> it is absolutely real. it's not pixar or disney. it's real. the kremlin is just that way. gretchen: please teach us how to say dmitri medvedev. brian: what is it? >> i'm really not the person you should be asking. i asked dana lewis who is still teaching me, our moscow correspondent. when dana teaches me, then i'll teach you, and so the sort of halfway is medvedev. >> the president of russia is dmitri medvedev. gretchen: thanks a lot, major. we know how to say that one.

>> you got it. brian: a pakistani terror suspect may be forced to appear in a u.s. courtroom, and that's going to happen in person or on video tape. a hearing is scheduled to see if she is competent to stand trial. she grabbed a army officer's rifle and opened fire. she's refused to go to court and has reported having visions of her children in her cell. peter: the death of former titans' quarterback steve mcnair now being called cold-blooded murder, but nashville police are stopping short of calling it a murder/suicide. he was found shot in his condo in nashville. a 20-year-old believed to be his girlfriend was found shot with a single bullet to her head. tmz posted this picture showing the married mcnair on vacation

with the 20-year-old woman, and now the woman's sister telling a local newspaper mcnair promised to get a divorce from his wife. gretchen: another "fox news alert," three men dressed in all black ambushed a house party opening fire on the people inside. 12 people shot this morning whether the gunman stormed the party at a house in miami. one person who was trying to run from the home to save his life was hit by a car. right now three people in critical condition, and police still looking for the gunmen. brian: he's counting down the top 20 for decades. casey kasem is giving up the radio spotlight. >> it's time for our trivia question. a viewer in north carolina wants to know what singer/songwriter has written the most top ten hits. brian: he gave his final countdown on july 4th. he launched his first countdown show on that date 39 years ago. he wants to leave while he's

still on top. casey kasem was also the voice of shaggy on scooby-doo. peter: orange juice can land you into the dentist's chair. some orange juice is so acidic it can take the enamel off your teeth. gretchen: jon and kate were back together for the fourth of july. they were spotted having a picnic in pennsylvania, and they played volley ball and picked blueberries. brian: plenty of history made at wimbledon.

federer outlasted roddick. roddick wasn't broken until the last game, and for the american, the pill is a bitter one to swallow. >> it takes some satisfaction in december and november when we started into move forward, it was to give yourself an opportunity to win tournaments like this, and i feel like i did give myself that opportunity. it didn't work out. brian: he passes pete sampras with his 15th trip. brian: let's talk about a president and his brother. gretchen: we're talking about jackie o and rfk. a new brook saying jackie and bobby were an item after the assassination of jfk for four

years. the new book says yes to this relationship, and apparently it says that jackie o is the one that made the decision to end the life of rfk when he was on life support. peter: according to the book, ethyl and ted were so upset that they couldn't make the decision and that allegedly that jackie kennedy made that decision at that point. this is a story with a tremendous amount of pathos. bobby kennedy and jackie onassis were involved in a relationship six months after president kennedy's assassination, and they were brought together out of each other's grief. it's a terribly sad story in it's true. brian: it's a love story. peter: but it's sad. brian: the commerce secretary saw it, ethyl kennedy knew about it, and it was going on and on, and they broke it off just when bobby kennedy says i'm going to

run for president, and then they decided no longer to see each other. peter: we don't know if it's true, but jackie kennedy onassis in love at some point with president kennedy, and then according to this in love with bobby kennedy and both taken, both slain. incredible. gretchen: and she was married to aristotle onassis who said he knew about the details of the alleged affair, but he didn't want to lose jackie, so he didn't do anything about it. and ethyl kennedy knew about it according to the book and for the same reasons didn't say anything. times were so different back then. i'm not sure that all of these types of alleged relationships would have stayed under wraps. brian: how do you have another relationship with 11 kids? that's incredible. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. people are stocking up on ammo and locking themselves in home. that's because a serial killer

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rest yesterday. are investigators any closer to finding this killer? five people have now been gunned down. >> as you can imagine, this entire town is on edge, and yesterday they buried two of the victims, an 83-year-old woman and her daughter. hundreds of mourners turned out. they're restrained by the fear they feel. the sheriff bill blanton reiterated that they had been able to connect the killings, but he didn't say what evidence connects them. gretchen: we had him on the show earlier, and he said that he does not believe that these families were specifically targeted by this killer, and yet there may be some connection. what are you hearing? >> well, that's exactly what we're hearing. they've been saying for days now that they have reason to believe that it was the same person that

perpetrated all of this. they're calling this guy a serial killer. they continue to focus on the sketch they have of him. his first victim was a 63-year-old peach farmer. he approached his wife pretending he was there to buy hay. she got a good look at him. he's a white man in his 40's, 6'2", 240 pounds, and they're hoping somebody out there will recognize him and call in with a good tip. brian: describe this town. i hear they were all killed within ten miles of each other. we do tell you that we spoke to the sheriff and about more details on this case, and he was kind of cryptic. >> well, that's what we've been getting since we arrived. very little information, but with a case like this, when there's someone on the loose that they're trying to catch, they're not going to release that much, but they have told us that they're trying to do everything they can. they've got hundreds of tips coming in every second.

a lot of people in town are saying i saw a guy that looked like the picture. people are looking everywhere for this person. they want him caught, they had a serial killing here in this town in the late '60's, the gaffney strangler. a lot of people in this town have that on their mind. they want this person brought to justice. gretchen: of course, marianne silber, thank you for the latest details on this story. brian: straight ahead new developments in the michael jackson case, and who better to tell us about it than tmz. they just talked to the doctor about that drug. did the doctor give jackson that drug? first let's check in with megyn for what's on her show at the top of the hour. megyn: just when you not the pain was over, talk of another stimulus bill taking hold in washington. just how fast can those printing presses go? plus democrats say they have seriously reduced the cost of health care while covering

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brian: this morning, the web site is all over the drugs that doctors may have given michael jackson that could have caused his death. gretchen: harvey levin is with us this morning. breaking news, you spoke to the lawyer for the doctor that was with michael jackson when he died. what are the latest developments? who >> this is a huge

development. we found out and reported a few days ago that there were two search warrants executed for the house. the second one is where they found the powerful and anesthesia. that is the drug that should never be at someone's home. we found out that it was actually the doctors interview with police that led them to get the second search warrant to