and they are going to increase production of fruit flavored vodka. dave: that was just one of several jokes. what did brian think? are they over the line, kilmeade? brian: i didn't see how it applied. brian: fruit flavored vodka. gretchen: i like it. brian: woman facing time in the slam or for killing a deer. some people think it's no not enough. brian: we report. you decide. fruit flavored vodka. our slogan this hour combings from wyoming. "fox & friends" in the morning, that about sums it up. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- brian: that was one of the small parts of david letterman's

monologue that did not include a reference to sarah palin. he did have a sarah palin joke but people thought are you going back there? gretchen: we're just trying to get our audience glued to us so we bring he them that joke when it does become available to us. because none of us stayed up that late. we do want to welcome dave briggs to the sofa bright and early for steve doocy. dave: steve doocy off. i thought there was something letterman knew that i did not. brian: did you watch the michael jackson ceremony. i don't know many people who could sit there all those hours. if you did, what did you think. watched some of it listened to some of it on satellite radio. to me the best moment and most surprising moment really happened and the most heart wrenching moment happened with his 11-year-old daughter. gretchen: at the end. i happened to catch that part of it i have to say i wasn't tearing up much at all until that moment of time. owho could not listen to a young child break down like that as a parent all three of us are

parents. millions of you are. let's listen. >> ever since i was born daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love him so much. gretchen: just heart wrenching to watch that child in that much pain. i mean, she lost her father and that really brought it home about the personal touch the world is mourning michael jackson but this is his child who lost her father. dave: it humanized him a little bit. we needed that moment. so often we have seen these kids behind these shields and carried in odd regard and michael jackson referred to in strange ways. but it was important to see that he is a dad and a good dad and these kids loved their father. we haven't even seen these kids

a whole lot to. hear from them was shocking. that was the moment that definitely stood out to me. brian: here is my message. the family thought she was up to it and they were right. number two, back off. when you start ripping on michael jackson 13 nose jobs, think about the kids that they might be watching. they are tuned in. again, is he a human being. can you imagine him being a great dad. he was child like in his demeanor. he always loved having a good time he probably was a sensational dad. gretchen: i felt bad for them as well because they have lived this incredibly sheltered life and by many regards, a different kind of a life. brian: but she came off like a kid that would be experiencing like anything other. gretchen: of course. but we don't know all the other stuff that was going on. my heart goes out to her for losing her father and also for the life that she has had to live. i hope her life will be a good one now. dave: that was definitely the

best moment. one moment that stood out to a lot of people. brook shields came out and not only looked phenomenal but spoke from the heart about their childhood about meeting michael jackson. they of course dated. they understood what one another went through. she told some interesting stories about the way michael was when he was young. things we have not heard too often. here is brook shields yesterday. >> we never performed together or danced on the same stage, although he did try in vein -- vain one night to unsuccessfully teach me the moon walk. he just basically just shook his head and crossed his arms at my attempt. dave: some people are surprised that she got so emotional. again, i thought it was nice to hear an actual story about michael jackson that we haven't heard that humanized him a bit. gretchen: i did as well. i felt like those memories were 35 years ago. i'm not so sure that brook

shields had recent contact with him. i'm not so sure that anyone had recent contact with him. that in itself was sad to me. when i was listening to her, i felt like i was listening to distant memories. that made me feel sad for the isolated life that this man had lived. brian: let's talk about where the body is, not buried it turns out. not at the place where they had the ceremony yesterday before going over to the staples center. wife did they have the ceremony at that star-studded ceremony if they weren't going to bury him there? he is in this huge 2 a thousand dollars coffin. dave: gold casket. brian: wonder where the body is going to be borrowed. one official says the body is not returning to that place. my sense is they are going to still try to angle into the neverland and make it a tourist site like elvis. dave: you are not allowed to bury anybody outside of a cemetery in the state of california it was supposed to be at forest lawn and supposedly

moveded to the staples center we all saw during that performance. or did we. some say maybe it was a gold plated casket. no one ever saw that was cet leave the staples center. never. it could still be there. it never have included michael jackson's body. who knows where it will be buried. gretchen: this will catapult the whole mystery of his life into his death. as people now say elvis is in the building, what really happened to elvis. elvis is still alive. trust me, these stories will now run rampant about michael jackson because of the fact that the casket never left the staples center and people will start asking questions about where is he? where was he? really did he die? i think this is going to keep this whole thing alive, no pun intended for a while. brian: we're going to show you highlights from the multi-hour ceremony yesterday. highlights from the actual event. meanwhile, tell us what else is happening, gretchen. gretchen: in the news. let's do that. let's start with breaking news.

president obama just arrived and the world's most powerful leaders are about to kick off the g 8 summit. joining us now we are going to bring you update live from rome. in the mean time, we haven't even spent the money from the first stimulus yet but the u.s. already needs a second one. that's according to laura tyson president obama's economic advisor who said the first one was just a bit too small. brian: that's what i thousand. gretchen: tyson 'believes putting additional money into infrastructure projects result this year. we are going to discuss. this even democrats are not in favor of a second sim columbus plan. another 60 detainees are getting out of gitmo. terrorist suspects are heading to trial. half will face military commissions and justice department. no word on what's happening with the more than 200 other terrorist suspects being held at gitmo. the administration admits it's still not sure how to deal with them and president obama's deadline for shutting down the prison just six months away now.

all right. we do have greg burke's signal now live for us in rome where president obama is set to join the g-8 summit. good morning to you, greg. >> hi, gretchen. good morning. beautiful day here in rome. the president arrived just a short time ago at a small airport outside of rome. helicoptered in immediately here into rome to see the president george napolitano. he speaks excellent english. actually, is he one of the former communist in his political career here. but after things changed in 1990 became president and now the host not of the g-8 but the host here in italy, of course, and protocol means that, that the president goes first there then immediately going off -- of course you remember from three months ago when the earthquake hit. originally the g-8 summit. the world's top leaders, this he were supposed to meet at a very posh island.

one of the small islands of sardine. it would be good idea to focus the world's attention of the region, on the city, so not only bringing the leaders of the g-8 nations but several other nations up here for the meeting. that's the latest from here. back to you guys in new york. gretchen: thank you for that report. cyber attacks that crippled u.s. government computers beginning on july 4 could be linked to similar virus that struck south korea. intelligence reportedly suspects that north korean hackers are responsible for both attacks. some u.s. sites are still having problems, including those of agencies fighting cyber crime. north korea is known to have a cyber attack unit that uses techniques developed in china. google is gearing up to take on microsoft. google chrome os which will rival microsoft windows.

google says the system will be based on internet browsing. if the system improves internet speed, google could benefit from more web searches. google launched an internet browser to challenge microsoft's internet explorer earlier this year. his family gave bologna its first name. the former chair of oscar mayer is dead at age 95. oscar mayer was named president of the company in 19556789 he retired in 1977 after the company had first year with a billion dollars in revenue. he worked a total of 41 years for the company. and those are your headlines. now let's head outside to domenica davis who is here to take a look at our weather picture. >> good morning, gretchen. not too bad this morning. in the northeast the clouds are going to return once again. it's this pesky system setting up to the north in canada. that means we're really not going to see the sun come back in full force all along the mid-atlantic up to the northeast until about thursday that pretty much goes for everything you see on the radar right now.

the system out throughout northern plains, that's going to be another one that is going to effect parts of the plains until thursday and then that system will clear out. down to the south. heavy rain continues again. and we could see a chance for severe weather down through parts of florida. alabama, and off through parts of georgia as well. here is a look at today's highs. very hot out through the southern plains. well, there is another look at the radar. no severe thunderstorm watches in effect right now. we could see that pop up through the northern plains down to the south. we do have a big heat wave going on and we will tell you more about that coming up in a little bit. gretchen? gretchen: thank you very much. did you know that your social security numbers really maybe are not a secret? turns out there is a way to figure out i.d. number from public data. what is the social security administration doing about this? brian: then, what you didn't see at michael jackson's memorial. up next, we will show you some video not yet apparent to you from inside the staples center.

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brian: you have to do what i do every morning. go to foxnation.com. it's time because we have online community over there. you can talk to people and get views and values on the stories that you really care about. for example, today we are going to lead with and we're leading with bill o'reilly's take on mike exal jackson. why he is important and why he is not. why barack obama is a little ticked off why he was not covered in russia and possibly how he was received. possibly one of the headlines is what will barack obama be a one term president if the economy doesn't turn around. three of the stories that you are telling us that you care most about. you talk about two people you care about. does the name dave briggs and gretchen carlson ring a bell? you are right, those are the two. dave: we hope so, brian. gretchen: thank you. think your social security number is safe? you might want to think again.

researchers at carnegie mellon university. guess social security number by knowing your state and date of birth. dave: do author of the study published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. good morning to you. this is frightening stuff. >> good morning. dave: for people out there. we thought these were somewhat random and people could not predict them. you found otherwise. tell us how easy this is to find out someone's social security number. >> well, it's quite easy. it's too easy in a way. the prediction changes with the state of birth and the year of birth of the person you want to predict. it can go from very low to very high. for instance, in certain cases we can predict the first five digits with 90% accuracy. 90% of ssn can be predicted with

just one attempt. gretchen: let's look at one of those examples that people get a sense of what you are talking about. if you were born july 8th in wyoming. 19193, then the first five digits you would automatically know. so how do you know automatically the first five digits are 52031? >> well, because you work with covers that you combine information which is publicly available about the assignment scheme together with other information, also publicly available from the so-called data base with ssn of people who are dead. and you can find patterns of issuance which allow you to estimate also ssn of people still alive. by using statistics and data mining you can predict the digits. the state and year you were mentioning is very hayek are a is i of prediction.

dave: you say if it's a small state or if you are born after 1998 it is very easy. why is that? >> that's correct there are two reasons for that. states with lower population. at. applies fewer births in a given day. fewer births implies floor transition for scheme. slower is easier to predict and follow. the reason is the year. what happened was that for the 1980s and in particular at the end of the 1980s, there were some initiatives which made it more likely that the ssn would be applied for at birth. once upon a time you could apply for ssn at any time in your life. usually when you start working. after '87 and '89, because of the process called eab information at birth most of the newborns in the u.s. get their ssn at birth.

ironically these initials were intented to increase the theft. to avoid fraud. -- creatinger regulator which can be et exemployed. gretchen: hopefully there aren't as many scientists throughout as smart as you to figure this system out because otherwise we're all in trouble for identity theft. but if you are born in new york, dave, you have an advantage because there is so many people. dave: still frightening. hobby we do something about this. we appreciate your time this morning. >> i'm sorry, could you repeat? dave: i said thanks for joining us this morning. >> i'm sorry. dave: a woman attacked. >> thank you very much. dave: a woman attack as deer and kills it. some of her neighbors are outraged.

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brian: thousands packed the staples center for michael jackson's memorial as you know star studded event as you know. some of the biggest names in entertainment. dave, do you want to take a look? >> yeah, let's do that ♪ halleluiah, ♪ we're going to see the king. >> to millions around the world, michael jackson was an idol, a

hero, even a king. >> michael was the biggest star on earth. >> this is a celebration of his life, of his legacy ♪ who's bad ♪ who's bad? ♪ >> this is a moment that i wished that i didn't live to see come ♪ you said you would be the light. >> i want his three children to know there wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. it was strange what he had to deal with. but he dealt with it >> i was 13 when we met i was like what's up with the glove? >> michael, when you left us, a part of me went with you.

and a part of you will live forever within all of us. >> you just don't think that you are going to see or you will live to see him gone he will never really be gone. he is going to live forever and ever and ever and ever. ♪ we are the world ♪ we are the children ♪ we we are the one who make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving ♪ there's a choice we're making. dave: i love that song, brian. i love we are the world. zach moss otherwise known as d.j. moss was one of the lucky ones who won a ticket to the jackson memorial service. he joins us from los angeles this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you doing? dave: good. thanks for being here.

why was it so important for you to be there as oppose to the hundreds of millions of people who watched this on tv it? >> was really important to me because being in the music industry and being a d.j. and being able to play his records day in night in and night out, to be there and kind of experience his last hurrah per se was pretty important and, you know, definitely wanted to be there and experience that with all his fans and family. brian: you said the high moment was not caught on camera. you took it, in tell us about it. >> the high moment for me seeing at the end michael jackson's song was playing, just the instrumental. spotlight on the microphone and nobody there. i don't know if it was because the speaker was late to the stand or it was intentional but it looked like they were playing his music, spotlight was on the microphone and he wasn't there and he should have been. michael should have been there to sing his song.

it kind of showed that he wasn't there anymore and we definitely have a gap in the music industry forever. dave: this is your cell phone video, i understand that you took yesterday at the service, right? >> that is correct. dave: what was the mood there? some people are worried that there actually might be violence it seemed like a very respectful tone. tell us what it was like to be there. >> it was extremely peaceful. walking in and everyone was very mum, very silent. being in such a huge stadium and having no one speak was, i think the most powerful thing in the world for a good 20 minutes everybody was silent. and every time between speakers, there was silence. there was silence and then there was applause. there was no, you know, huge energy that built throughout room. which was good. it wasn't meant to be a loud joyous, per se, event. it was a, you know a memory of him and to have that being, you

know, so joy us and so somber at the same time was ago for sarah palin but is he back at it? >> the governor of alaska, sarah palin is announcing she is stepping down. she will no longer be the governor of alaska. today she first thing woke up and went out on her front porch and waived goodbye to russia. dave: is that funny or over the line? you decide. check out this crazy video. is he a real life spiderman jumping from bus to roof and back to a bus. nice. brian: without the union tarred.

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double-decker bus to the next. finally landing back to the ground and running away. dave: what's wrong with this guy. brian: that's fantastic. dave: kids, we do not recommend you doing it at home. brian: unless you are a friend on the ground filming it. gretchen: he has a lot of agility. dave: sarah palin went out and did an interview while everyone went fishing. she shed a lot of light what's going on. still left to speculate whether she is running for 2012. she said politically if i die, so be it. now it comes out a poll that suggests that republicans definitely still support sarah palin. in fact 72% if she ran for 2012 do support her. the numbers not so good when you look at independents and that, of course, is what you are going to need if you are going to get elected. strong support still remains in the republican party, guys. gretchen: i think that independent number is pretty high. most of those independence in

november went for obama. the idea that 44% of them would still be behind sarah palin with all the stuff that's, you know, been printed about her and everything, i think that number is pretty high. her future remains unknown. one thing that's not unknown is the fact that dave letterman, did he learn his lesson? no. gretchen: when he did those jokes about her kids and about sarah palin herself? he was back at it again last night. >> the governor of alaska, sarah palin, has announced that she is stepping down. she will no longer be the governor of alaska. yeah. today she went first thing, woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to russia. governor sarah, what are you going to do? what's going to happen? insiders believe she hopes to be the next octomom but i don't know. i don't know. we're talking about sarah palin. and you know what she did? one of the thing you have got to love about sarah palin, after she announces that she is stepping down as governor, you know what she did? she went fishing. she said the heck with it, i'm going fishing. we have footage of that take a look. sarah palin going fishing today

earlier watch this. there she is getting into the -- oh my god. you hate to see that. the friends of governor palin are saying that she is resigning because she is tired of attacks from the media. that's why she is resigning. tired of attacks from the media. thank god i didn't say anything. i mean,. [ applause ] brian: that last one would have been fine. the other ones just goes right at it meanwhile we are playing it he still gets publicity and beating conan o'brien. i think john fund did a fine job at the "wall street journal" coming to her defense. he said do you know there has been 150 freedom of information act requests from alaska since 2008 when she was tossed into this thing. do you know that there has been $500,000 in legal fees? she had no choice but to quit. she did the right thing. called some stall worth in the republican party, dick cheney, governor crist, what do you think about this? what about my political future? am i doing the right thing? her wholt problem is i don't think it was a good move because

to run for offense you have to do what tim pawlenty said i'm not running for reelection. the whole problem was at the press conference. if she just said these are. so reasons i'm going to step aside. it's easier to run the state if you are not being attacked and better for the people of alaska. i'm going to go fishing and decide in few days i'm what i'm going to do. not such a firestorm. shocked that the announcement was a bad time to do it. that hit her like a ton of bricks. she didn't think it was a problem making the announcement before july 4th. gretchen: she said she did it on the eve of independence dated to show independence. that makes total sense. however, in the media business, we know that if you make an announcement on a friday, you are frying to usually -- holiday weekend you are usually trying not to get a lot of press about it let's face it, she is not a predictable person. so i take her comments at face value that she did it because it was the eve of independence day. brian: on a different note. if you are in a relationship,

there is always one guy or girl in your group or a guy let's just say it's not really -- it is gender specific that always seems to do the right thing. i have this friend fred, when you double date with him always be the first one to open the door. always ask -- let the woman order first. he would always walk the girl to the door. stuff that i should have known in synckively. i need flash cards, get out, stupid. fred always knew what to do. president obama, is he making all guys look bad because he seems to be the perfect date. dave: he has date night. he is the president of the united states. runs the country. finds time for date night. flies her to new york and paris and whatnot. but he finally, finally slipped up a bit. brian: big time. big time. dave: he is not the perfect husband. we all feel a little more human today at least husbands do. here is the president slipping up about how he met michelle. turns out he forget.

>> i don't know if anybody else will meet their future wife or husband in class like did i, but i'm sure that you are all going to have wonderful careers. dave: here is the problem. they didn't meet in class. another problem is michelle obama was there for that speech. they met at a law firm when he was fares year associate he was a first year lawyer. she was there to catch that and probably scratching her head a little bit. gretchen: interesting. somebody had wondered if joe biden's gaffism rubbed off. i met my husband on a blind day. i will never ever ever ever forget that you met your wife in 7th grade so you did meet her in class. brian: english class. turns out to be my native tongue. i had no idea. later i would make out with her in the same tongue. i'm just telling you. i just disgusted ian.

>> brian, you are fired. dave: i met my wife in fourth grade. we were in elementary school. we were not sweethearts or anything. we met many, many, many, many years ago. gretchen: moons ago. my goodness, people you don't know about the people you sit too on the curvy couch. brian: here is what else is happening. gretchen: sure, make me start after that fox news alert right now. you are looking at the first pictures of president obama in italy this morning. i see he gave her flowers. no, just kidding. where the world's most powerful leaders are meeting for the g-8 summit. it's being held in the same city where nearly 300 people died in that earthquake just three months ago. g-8 leaders will tour the devastation later in the day. >> the death and destruction that took place after the earthquake and i'm very pleased that the united states, like many other countries, will be contributing to to help the

rebuilding process. gretchen: main focus of the summit climate control and the global economic crisis. dave? dave: celebrities and fans filled the staples center in l.a. to say goodbye to michael jackson. his daughter paris had an emotional message for the crowd. >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love him so much. dave: before the ceremony, jackson's family attended a private funeral service. still no official word on where his body will be buried. meanwhile jackson's death certificate has been revealed but it leaves out the cause of death. brian: i got this one. the senate's newest member al franken cast his first vote and believe it or not he went against barack obama.

junior senator was born in by vice president joe biden yesterday. he cast a no vote against a white house plan to halt earmark on homeland security act. sponsored by senator john mccain failed. when asked how the vote went, he replied it felt like he was a member of the u.s. senate. gretchen: first franken becomes a senator now alec baldwin a governor in the 30 rock star says he has been approached by some democrats to run for governor of ohio. baldwin that's not going to happen, at least not yet. is he keeping his eye on what's going on closer to home saying i'm a carry me out in a box new yorker. why would they want him to run in ohio? has he ever lived in ohio? dave: didn't he also say he wanted to run against joe lieberman in connecticut. gretchen: usually you have to be from the state that you are going to represent. dave: typically. a 75-year-old woman beats a deer to death claiming her life was in danger but neighbors say that's not the true story. >> dallas-fort worthy, did you

see a off and on in your front yard the other day? she said i sure did. i killed it. i killed it dead. i got a shuffle and killed it dead. she said she was going to put the deer at the edge of the woods so the other deer know not to come and eat her flowers. dave: that sends a message. once people in the ohio neighborhood found out what really happened, calls like this started pouring in to the city council. dave: the woman is expected to be charged with animal abuse sometime this week. those are your headlines. domenica davis in with your weather. gretchen: let's hope for sunny and warm. >> gretchen, the temperatures are cool here in the northeast unfortunately. look where it is really hot. it's starting a little bit of a heat wave here. because for the next three days we are going to be looking at temperatures either in the upper

90's or as you can see today's highs in some cases will be over the 100-degree mark. factor in the humidity and it feels like 115 in plenty of these spots. it's a scorcher. that heat doesn't break until the end of the week. take a look at temperatures elsewhere across the country. still dealing with cool conditions to the northeast. temperatures running a little bit below normal and out to the west coast 71 for the high in san francisco. a cool 6 a in seattle. weefs do have a chance for some severe storms mainly through the northern plains and down down through the northern tip of florida. that's the latest from here. guys. brian: that was domenica. now this. imagine you can't talk to friends in your own home. that's what happened to two senior citizens. they apparently talked too much and they're fighting back. gretchen: was president obama man handled in russia is. colonel ralph peters said obama handed over a lot and got next to nothing in return. he got an hour long speech from putin. ♪ honey, honey submit to

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gretchen: commuters are getting 10 gals loans of unleaded regular pay paid by allstate. alexandria had the most improved driving record in the nation. good for you. congratulations. a mid-air nightmare minutes after taking off from the great barrier island, the propellers came off ripping the door from this airplane. passengers said it felt like explosion. they did manage to land safely and thankfully only two passengers needed medical treatment. dave, brian? dave: president obama strikes a deal with the russians that will reduce our nuclear arsenal by one third by 2016. did the president negotiate a great deal or was he man

handled? brian: fox news strategic analyst colonel ralph peters joins us. colonel peters, looking back at the moscow trip, how would you rate it for president obama? >> well, for the united states of america, i would rate it a complete failure. we got nothing. we gave a great deal away. oh, we did get a russian agreement to buy more u.s. ham burgers. but we agreed for the first time in our history to the kremlin's terms for strategic arms reductions. but, brian, really, there is a potential upside. and i think that obama assured that his charisma could change everything that's correct could talk to putin and persuade him. i think he got a real cold shower. why we didn't get anything out of it obama may have. he may have gotten a new sense of reality from putin who is the only real power in russia gave him an hour long lecture on america's sins during the cold war. i don't think obama likes to be

lectured. that was a real clash of the egos there. also, russians whom i have dealt with, i speak russian, been there, done that got the dirty t-shirt. and i will tell you, they are extremely racist. and psychologically when putin had to sit down with a black or half black american president, that would really disconcerting for him and putin wouldn't be able to help lecturing obama. again, the bottom line is, this very, very bad situation for the u.s. and moscow but potentially good if obama learns something. dave: colonel dave here. you say they got nothing out of this united states. we did get ability to fly through russian airspace and the president did hold firm on -- did he not back down on missile defense system in europe. he did accomplish some things there, did he not? >> no, the deal about flying through russian airspace is a sucker punch. it's absolutely transparent. what the russians are doing, what putin is doing, is trying to addict us to this supply line

through russia, which does save us some time, saves us some fuel and some costs. cave dave and $100 million a year. >> yeah. which is compared to the recovery package is pretty small. at any rate, what they want to do is get us hooked on that so if putin which he will -- acts against georgia or ukraine we'll cry a couple of tears but we won't want to jeopardize the supply line because ultimately afghanistan is about getting supplies to the troops as we increase the numbers to. me putin is playing a transparent, very dangerous game and we fell into the trap. brian: we will see. colonel peters, we will continue to read your stuff and your books. thanks so much on your instant analysis of what took place. the president is now off to the g-8 summit. colonel ralph peters, thanks. >> my pleasure. brian: straight ahead. dave: coming up, the vice president at it again. here is what joe biden is saying now. >> we misread how bad the economy was but we are now only

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gretchen: they fought for our country. they talked about it. they are banned from the hallways because the condo board says they are too loud. they are loitering. they are not going down without a fight. they join us with their attorney. good morning, gentlemen. great to have you. i love to sit on the couch and just chat with you guys and that's what you guys were doing at your condo, right? >> and we would love to have you. gretchen: thank you very much. so the five of you would congregate and have conversation and talk about the good old days

and what did the condo board tell you? >> no more -- prohibited from standing outside the building and from sitting in the lobby. it was all because of one person who created this whole problem. she used to sit with us. she used to talk with us. and she got insulted once because she was a heavy smoker. there was cigarette butts -- you could walk on -- it looked like a tobacco farm. somebody made a remark about it stop them, put them away in the ashtray. she got insulted. that was the whole thing. she was a board member. >> made a remark about it after that she harassed me and all the rest of us. gretchen: so you were basically charged with loitering, which according to your condo bylaws was a problem. let me bring in your attorney, robert. loitering, these five men were loitering. what did you do from a legal point of view? >> we're asking -- we have filed a lawsuit. we are seeking declaratory relief saying that under the laws of the state of new york, under the definition of

loitering, that's established in the common meaning, they are not loitering. they are not there for -- in the lobby for any improper purpose or they are not just just standing around son terring about or acting in a dilatory manner. they live there they peaceably assemble in the hallway. they have done so for the last 14 years as a group with various other people. they can't be -- you can't loiter your own building. the penal law actually has a definition of loitering that includes things like begging and panhandling. gretchen: i'm sure they weren't doing that. >> being in a public place for soliciting deviant sexual intercourse. it's not viable. what's happened here is we have a little -- the condo board has a little thief dom and they are using their power against these people improperly. gretchen: we do so many stories about this type of thing. let me turn it back to you, gentlemen. what do you want to happen here? do you want to be able assemble again in the hallway. >> yes. definitely. we made a proposal to the

president. we will sit on the side of the lobby. nobody will see us. we will be quiet. can you give us any regulations as far as noise goes. we will follow it just leave us alone. let us sit in the lobby. we will bring our own little chairs down and that's the whole situation. gretchen: lee is, is t. simply not ridiculous that people cannot congregate and share olds times with one another. >> people can congregate and share with each other if they are lawful. and we are lawful. the board claims we aren't lawful. so, that's the difference. we should be able to -- they shouldn't inhibit us. and we're -- we don't -- in the lobby to object structure anybody. we are just there as a social thing. gretchen: as a social thing. >> for an hour. gretchen: everyone needs some social time and i hope that you

guys can get your social time back. ron, will he roy, robert, thanks for sharing your story. keep us abreast of what happens. >> thank you. gretchen: the first stimulus was to suppose to create jobs. that didn't happen. why is the administration talking about a potential second stimulus. she walked out of the store with a brand new pickupy. guess what? she didn't pay for it she also didn't realize she was caught on camera. @ 4l

gretchen: good morning, earn. we made it to hump day. it's wednesday, july, 2009. let me tell what you is happening right now. a daughter's love on display for her father. >> and i just wanted to say i

love him so much. gretchen: from behind the vales to center stage a rare and heart-breaking glimpse at michael jackson's three children. dave: the first stimulus was supposed to create a whole bunch of jobs but that has not happened. so why is the administration now talking about another stimulus? brian: is that true? dave: it is, indeed. brian: who is watching joe biden. the vice president makes another gaffe. >> we misread how bad the economy was but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package. dave: wait until you hear what president obama had to say about what his vice president had to say about well those two things. you can say damage control? our slogan this hour should please you, not make you feel as though you have to spin it right. from steve in illinois. he says i wake up, do my duties, then it's "fox & friends" to see all you cuties. [captioning made possible by fox news channel]

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gretchen: good morning. i know for sure that he was referencing dave and brian. brian: i don't think so. dave: assumption was not. gretchen: cutie is plural and dave briggs from the weekend show is sitting in tore steve doocy. good to see you today. brian: we have a control room. -- those years in the mob. they want to keep and be anonymous. a lot of italians in there. three minutes after the hour. it's true. i'm half italian. ♪ brian: listen michael jackson's funeral went on and on and on it was appropriate and had the right tone. for me, the best speakers, i thought al sharpton was tremendous. i thought magic johnson was fantastic. i thought brook shields was great if not a little long. clearly the 11-year-old daughter stole the show. gretchen: yeah. right at the very end after all of the concerts and performers and unexpectedly paris showed up

at the microphone and decided that she wanted to say a few words. i think what is so startling about this is for most of their lives these kids have lived in the shadows of life. brian: not anymore. gretchen: in a house where they were rarely seen and if they were ever out in public they had on a mask. so it was very heart wrenching to me. brian: daughter had a michael jackson doll. steve: young blanket. brian: boy, excuse me. dave: here is a look back at the highlights from the ceremony from brook shields and all the others. take a look. ♪ halleluiah ♪ we're going to see the king. >> to millions around the world, michael jackson was an idol, a hero, even a king. >> michael was the biggest star on earth. >> this is a celebration of his life, of his legacy. ♪ whose bad? ♪ whose bad ♪

>> this is a moment that i wished that i didn't live to see come ♪ you said you would be the light >> i want his three children to know there wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. it was strange what your daddy had to deal with. but he dealt with it. >> i was 13 when we met. when he started wearing the glove, i was like what's up with the glove? >> michael, when you left us, a part of me went with you. and a part of you will live forever within all of us. >> you just don't think that you are going to see or you will live to see him gone but he will

never really be gone. he is going to live forever and ever and ever and ever. [ applause ] ♪ we are the world ♪ we are the children ♪ we are the ones ♪ who make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving ♪ there's a choice we're making ♪ >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just wanted to say i love him so much. brian: unbelievably sad and dramatic. dave: as a parent, you know, that's what really makes it hit home at least to me and i know to many other millions of americans. that was the moment that you

really felt. this you really saw michael jackson as something other than a performer. you have got to remember he is a father and obviously was a good father no matter what you think of him. he is a dad. that was hard to see those kids. some say they might have a more normal life now that their father is gone because they may be take off the vales and whatnot. gretchen: exactly. that will remain to be seen. but we hope the best obviously for those three children. so what will happen though to the body of michael jackson. now the mystery continues because apparently the casket never left the staples center after this performance even though there was a burial ceremony at forest lawn cemetery where a lot of other hollywood stars are buried before the staples center concert. so, will this keep the whole thing alive, guys, about is michael jackson really buried now or are they waiting to somehow get a new law enacted so they can put him at neverland? brian: right. because you need a special exempt from the governor and from the city to do that. but i'm wondering is i don't

know about their religion whether mike ended up being a muslim or gentlemen jehovah's witness. i'm won gerg they're waiting for the body to become whole again before they put him in the ground. gretchen: it could be. he didn't say whether he wanted to be cremated or buried. there was no description in that 2002 will about what he wanted to happen to himself when he died. dave: surprising to hear that they haven't tried to make neverland ranch kind of a whole michael jackson tribute. millions would want to see that. i'm talking about the company that does own it that thing they have had offers for $100 million and up bury him there if can you get an exemption for california law. i'm surprised that's not what's happening with michael jackson's body. stay tuned. brian: we have switched back to the economy was senator joe biden saying that we misread. we misread and misjudged the

economic situation. then he quickly said what we inherited was a lot worse. that was headlines everywhere. we led with it so admitting that the stimulus package might have been too small or not effective and we haven't turned it around jobs numbers too high because he had misread the numbers. gretchen: they didn't misread it when they said we needed the stimulus package and urgent we needed to have it immediately. now president obama, is he back to damage control now or did he agree with his vice president on misreading the economy? >> rather than say misread, we had incomplete information. what i would say is that in some areas you are seeing the economic engine turn. but what we always knew was that, a, this recession was going to be deep. b, it was going to last for a while. dave: here is the problem. they are both true. they misread the economy because they had the wrong information.

it's the president's job to get the right information. is he not correcting with a joe biden said. gretchen: i'm not sure they had wrong information there are economists that had a different point of view. dave: they said the unemployment rate would not go over 9. it was their job to get the right information. gretchen: they needed to say that unemployment was going to stay at 8% in order to sell their stimulus package. whatever term you want to use, i'm not so sure that the president was happy that joe biden said what he said. we will continue to discuss this. we have the pundit pit assembling. maybe they will have thoughts on that. meantime your headlines for a wednesday starts with a fox news alert. we are getting our first look at a president obama in rome this morning. minutes ago he landed where the world's most powerful leaders are gathering to kick off the g-8 summit. the group is hoping to come up with an agreement on climate control and the global economic crisis. the summit being held in the same city where nearly 300 people were killed in that devastating earthquake that happened just three months ago.

there is some security gaps in our government where there should be none. smuggled bomb making teerms materials into 10 federal buildings including the offices of homeland security. according to their report they assembled the bombs and carried them throughout the buildings. the agency responsible for security has already taken action to correct the problems. but that's not enough. hearings on the matter begin today on capitol hill. girls screeched and men jostled to shake his hand when former president bill clinton arrived in a former haitian town. is he there as a united nations envoy. mr. clinton said haiti needed more money and better coordination between and among relief agencies and the government. a hostage situation leads to this huge house fire in i couldn't know scale connecticut neighborhood. richard shankman is accused of holding his estranged wife hostage for showers in the home that they once shared.

shankman now in custody had initially prevented wife by saying he had initially booby trapped the house with explosives. his wife escaped from the home. his lawyer says he was supposed to have already vacated the home. some don't seem to know their state's landscape very well. dave, you should be reading this story you are have colorado. running from governor used this image of canadian rockies on campaign web site instead of the colorado rockies. the image has since been changed to show mountains west of bolder. this is not the first time this has happened in colorado. bob shaffer used alaska in the mckinley in tv ad. dave: it happens all time because colorado mountains don't look like you might imagine. they don't look like wyoming or alaskan mountains. do your homework. get the right image, people that's not going to help you in the campaign. coming up though, she got a brand new pickupy. one problem though, she didn't

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brian: governor palin in a row boat suggested that the media may to be blame for her resignation and a new gallop poll suggests she is right. 53% believe the media coverage of palin has been unfairly negative. 9% think it's been unfairly positive. and 2% belief the coverage has been just about right. will palin disappear from the media spotlight? let's ask our pundit pit. that's why they are here. senior fellow at the manhattan institute you know her as judith miller. author of right time, right place, richard brookizer is here

and new york columnist kirsten powers. kirsten, so far, would you say overall that governor palin has been forth coming in the reasons why she left? >> i don't know. because there is no way to get inside of her brain. i was just in alaska because you know i'm from alaska. i was home over the holiday. and there isn't a sense there that there is any kind of scandal coming out. so i think a lot of people thought that originally oh, there is some sort of scandal coming out so she is doing this to kind of get ahead of it. i think the general sense is sort of what she said in so many words. she is not having fun anymore. she doesn't like this job. she has ethics complaints that frankly most of them are frivolous. and i think one of them they found some wrongdoing and she had to repay the state. but they are frivolous and they are going to keep on coming. she is in a lot of debt and she wants to go out and make money and have a new life. i think that's what it really comes down to. brian: richard, do you buy that?

she just wasn't clear on july 3rd or do you think there is something more to it? >> look, she is young. there are second acts in american political lives. whatever her motives are now, she can certainly have a career later on. you know, we know nixon came back from it seemed like extinction. ronald reagan had some low points. the most dramatic one is you his sis grant. if you look where he was in 1859, he was a watched up van living in missouri. brian: that seems like yesterday we refused to cover that at the time. judith, in the big picture i think it makes sense. if you are going to run for president you have got to do what pawlenty did. at the very least resign. haley barbour says resign. still he has to run to iowa. she did the responsible thing. >> you don't do the responsible thing by quitting. remember her own remarks about quitting? all of a sunday she decides that she is not having fun anymore

maybe kirsten is right. she is just going to walk out and leave the people of alaska to cope with all of the economic problems they are having and every other problem. look, maybe it will work for her. maybe she will raise lots of money. maybe she will get a talk show job but she right now is a quitter and fair game for david letterman and others who want to make fun of her. brian: maybe my political career will die so if it dies that dies. >> that's part of her schtick. she is not the politics of the way that we normally do it. she is different. i think that this really resonates with the people who like her. i think they see her as somebody who is fighting the good fight against the liberal media she is standing up. she is going to stand by her principles. brian: something tells me you are not buying it. [ laughter ] brian: when we come back, i can sense. the punch wasn't really there coming up straight ahead, we will talk more to these three esteemed guest. will president obama be a one-term president if the economy doesn't turn around in the pundit pit weighs in on

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brian: we're back with our esteemed pundit pit. we have got to find out now if the economy doesn't turn around and we need another stimulus package and that doesn't work as well will barack obama get another four years. judith miller, what do you think. >> who is going to oppose him? at the moment every republican nominee or contender is kind of biting the dust or taking herself out of it. brian: number one, you could see well president bush had the tarp program. from here on in stop spending. what's going on here right, kirsten? >> it's a tough situation. i think that it's easy for republicans to be saying that but the reality is that a lot of

democrats are actually getting concerned with it bs, i think if you look at democratic voters. people are saying what's going on here? why are we spending so much money? i support what obama is doing. i think that there are people, there are liberal economists who think that they actually should have spent more money. i think that maybe that's what they are realizing is that they didn't spend enough. >> look, if the economy stays in the tank until the next election, obviously he is toast. but. brian: you think it's obvious with all the charisma? >> wait, but the premises is if the economy stays. now, remember, there was a recession in 1982 i saw the figure unemployment is getting to be as high as it's been since 1982. who was president in 1982? and how many states did he carry when he won again? ronald reagan? he had this terrible first term recession and then it ended and then he carried 49 states. we are very early on to be talking about election prospects.

brian: he didn't redistribute wealth with our healthcare system. these are massive programs, judith. is he clearly on the clock. >> he is. i think one of the questions they must be asking themselves now is if they want quick results should have really gone for this dreaded republican word tax cuts which would have moved money out into the economy. paul krugman on the left says the stimulus was never big enough. now they may have to go back to coming. i think if he needs to do it to get more money to bail out california, somehow this guy is going to do it. brian: write the check to california and the other 30 states who also can't pay their bills, kirsten, do you think that could destroy him? >> if the economy, i agree about what he said. if the economy does not turn around by the time is he running for election, i think he is in serious trouble. i think that everybody -- basically everyone is saying ok, you are in charge. we're trusting you. you are doing these things. you are telling us that they are going to work. >> show us the money.

>> we need to see them working. we are talking a lot about unemployment. unemployment is a lagging indicator. so, you know, the administration would argue that things are starting to move. the money is starting to move out. we will start to see things change, that's what has to happen. >> they better be right. brian: we just have three and a half years. promise you will come back. we will see how it goes. great job pundit pit. good luck on whatever do you together from here on in. straight ahead, you can believe the administration is already talking about a second stimulus package? we just were. well, the first one didn't exactly create a whole lot of jobs and we haven't spent it yet. what is the alternative, by the way? and the president is in italy right now for the g-8 summit. moments ago he arrived in laquila. we have a live report from italy straight ahead. trying to impress the ladies with a flashy red convertible? it won't work. they did a study. get out of the car, take your shirt off and do some sit-ups. ♪ everybody is getting down ♪ getting down to business

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>> today in russia president obama delivered a speech to the graduating class of moscow's new economic school. that's right. the title of his speech was can we borrow 4 trillion rubles? please? 4 trillion rubles. gretchen: how many rubles is that, though?

brian: it's 4 bucks, i think. i think rubles have been devalued. first time he went overseas and didn't get hero's welcome. they didn't carry his speech live. a little bit of a surprise. dave: and putin lectures him. gretchen: for an hour about the cold war. i'm not sure anyone would have appreciated that all right. from russia to italy, the president has just arrived to join the world's most powerful leaders to tackle the global economic crisis. peter barnes is covering the g-8 summit and joins from us la quilla, italy. good morning, peter. >> good morning, gretchen. the president has just arrived here and one of the obvious big top topics at the touch the agenda for president obama and the other g-8 leaders is the economy and the global financial system and what to do about it next. they are going to be global financial system and economy when they start their first formal meeting here at 9:00 new york time. 3:00 our time.

brian: first off, it doesn't seem to have a lot of momentum, peter, so far. don't people have high expectations. it doesn't seem to be a lot of drama. is it just a matter of talking stimulus or no stimulus or how is your stimulus working? what are they going to be talking about? >> well, we're hearing different things from different countries. and, you know, it's because all politics is local. we are hearing about a potential second stimulus package in the u.s. although the administration is saying it isn't ruling that out but it isn't ruling that in. wants to buy more time for the current stimulus package and now we're hearing that the bricks and the countries of the european union are looking at potential additional assistance for the banks. one of the president's aids did brief us this morning and said every country will evaluate its own situation and own capacity for additional stimulus and other policy responses with a common goal of balance and sustained growth. so, don't look for any strong agreement here on every country throwing trillions of dollars more into the game here on the global economy.

gretchen: thank you very much peter varnes live for us this morning in italy. his funeral is over but noe still no word on where michael jackson's body will be buried. jackson's family attended a private ceremony in the hollywood hills yesterday. his body wasn't returned after the memorial service after the staples center ♪ we are the children ♪ we are the ones to make a brighter day ♪ so let's start giving. gretchen: fans heard memories from closest friends including music producer eric gordie. >> i feel the king of pop is not big enough for him. i think he is simply -- i think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived. [cheers and applause] gretchen: had it right the first time berry gordie. this is a look at jackson's

death certificate it leaves out the cause of death until doctors get test results back on his brain. also still up in the air, who will get custody of jackson's three children and what happens to his estate? those are three loaded questions. dave? dave: all right, let's talk about my alma matter. former university of colorado professor and 9/11 conspiracy theirist ward church hill is not getting his job back. he wrote an essay comparing some 9/11 victims to nazis. he got fired not for the essay contest but for plagiarism. even though a jury recently agreed his firing was politically motivated the judge has now ruled the school has its own rights to set standards of academic integrity. thanks, brian. brian: police getting closer to proving the man they shot is responsible for a killing spree in south carolina. 41-year-old patrick burris was shot to death by cops. that happened on monday. they say items were on his body

that belonged to some the five victims killed last week. they won't specifically say -- they won't specify exactly what those items are police are said bullets found in burris's gun matched those used in serial killings. gretchen: these go girls knew they wanted a puppy and knew how they were going to steal it but they didn't know they were on camera. how could you not know that in 2009? well, anyway, after walking around this florida pet store with a 4 month old set land sheep dogs in their arms, they just strolled right out the front door. the store manager says the girls came into the shop day earlier to play with the $1,200 dog leading her to believe they were serious buyers. the peppy -- puppy out the door. gretchen: take over bruno dave crossing the sign again. a gay austrian fashion reporter has now angered the country's new ambassador to britain. emil bricks wants people to protest against the movie for

its cheap gags about adolf hitler. you may recall that fritsel is austrian man who imprisoned his daughter and fathered seven children with her. this as the film has been reedited to cut out a scene featuring michael jackson's sister la toya. boy, that movie seems to be offending the entire planet. gretchen: just as borat did. from borat to bruno. let's take a look at your weather picture. it's summertime, right, domenica? >> it's supposed to be. it's chilly out here in the northeast unfortunately. we have been doing looking at cooler temperatures mid-atlantic many parts in the north. not only cooler temperatures but also the clouds and some scattered showers which is exactly what we are going to see really through the rest of the week here until about thursday. we have a batch of rain out through the northern plains. a slight chance of severe weather later today with that down to the south, the heaviest rain continues. flooding concerns from texas to florida with a slight risk for severe weather. but this morning we do have some pretty good thunderstorms that

are moving through kansas and areas of nebraska. golf ball size hail being reported with some of these storms that are now dropping to the south as you can see on the radar. hot temperatures down to the south. through the central -- the south central you can see temperatures getting over the 100-degree mark in places like dallas. this is going to be the beginning of a heat wave that will stick around for the next three days. the heat index is going to feel like a 115. that will be the real-feel temperature as we get through the next couple of afternoons with some very dangerous heating sitting down to the south. that is the latest from here. guys? brian: all right. domenica. i will take that let's talk a little sports. let's talk biking. seven time tour de france champion trailed going through the race. down to 22100 of of a second. there is a long way to go

though. the race doesn't end until 226th. that will be in paris which, according to some, is in france. baseball, manny ramirez played first road game since returning from 50 dave suspension for cheating. first stop, citifield on the road. manny unfazed by his response. he grew up in new york. broken back two rbi single put the dorges up 3-0. they realized how bad the mets were and stopped celebrating. fifth inning things got testy. ramirez called out again. he doesn't like it. there he does, he tosses his elbow pad. the ump says is that your elbow pad you? are out of here. goodbye. manny says after the game, it doesn't matter i was leaving after the fifth inning anyway. want to see eye hand coordination? take a look. royals, tigers troy broken bat but the tiger's fan is there to catch the bat while on the cell phone. he never put the phone down. there he is, baby, things finally breaking right. the royals do lead -- did win

that game by a final score. royals actually lost that game 8-a coming up on brian and the judge later between 9:00 and noon. geraldo rivera will be joining us looking back at what i believe will be the big ceremony, of course, geraldo rivera one of the people who kept in touch with michael jackson over the years. watch and listen on satellite or hopefully your local station. dave: that guy may have saved a life splintered bat heading at the young lady. could. gretchen: could have been his wife. did you know that being married is healthy for you at least when it comes to alzheimer's disease or dementia or things like that. this group did a study. first interviewed middle aged people around 50 in the 1970s and 1980s came back to look at them 21 years later those that were married in that point in the midpoint of their life. ended up having much fewer cases of alzheimer's than those divorced, widowed, single or whatever. dave: i'm kind of conflicted on this one.

my wife keeps me sane. i lose everything afternoon she helps me find it i leave cabinets open. does your husband leave cabinets open. gretchen: that first thing you said. dave: losing things? gretchen: yeah. dave: i leave these cabinets open aren't house and i come back and they are closed. sometimes i'm thinking my marbles. i realize she likes to come behind me and close things and put things away. brian: i'm amazed they interviewed people in the 197 os and 1980s. they see that they keep it together. i find this somewhat leave it to the fins and swedes to some up with something. gretchen: don't look at me, pal. we are -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other. gretchen: are you sure they are not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now? brian: the problem is the swedes have pure genes. they marry other swedes, that's the rule. fins marry other fins they have a pure society.

in america we marry everybody. we will marry italians and irish. dave: this study does not apply? brian: does not apply to us. gretchen: amazing dededuction. brian: that's how i feel. gretchen: thank you for filling us in on that italian irish man. brian: if you want to win over a woman. are you better off in a hot-looking sleek looking car? >> absolutely. brian: yes or no. gretchen: john on the floor crew what do you drive? >> i drive one of those. brian: i had a '69 mustang which was white. i thought all cars were that fast. it was like having the space shuttle engine in it but the problem with my '69 mustang although it's one of the coolest cars on the planet, i thought it would be a good idea to put rug on the dashboard that is a female repellent, evidently. dave: that's why you didn't get ladies. so you did not get girls? brian: i didn't get what?

dave: ladies. gretchen: he already had his lady who we discussed earlier he met his wife in the first grade. brian: a little bit later. gretchen: my boyfriend the first one. brian: what kind of car? gretchen: had fuzzy dice. rolling stones tongue sticker. and he drove a big black ford truck. yes. brian: did you like that? you own a g.m. dealership. good move, pal. gretchen: i was a truck chick, knock growing up in minnesota. a little rugged up there. brian: gretchenson dating a ford owner. gretchen: they were more concerned about the rolling stones, i think. brian: here it is this neuroinsight. thieves australians did this study and it turns out women want guys like a surfer dude who is in shape even without a car that people in hot cars the minutes they get in there it is not a turn on.

dave: point it s. they didn't say it was a turn on if you drive a hatch back like did i for my first car. how hot is that? you can actually still get a few ladies if you drive even that car. that looks like the brian -- car. brian: also pack her luggage in the back with the hatch back easy opening and closing. dave: let us know. friends@foxnews.com and twitter as well. brian: did your car help get you your woman slash man? dave: it didn't me. brian: i'm asking the people. dave: obviously. brian: everything is about. dave: dave you are looking at me. brian: i'm just saying. second sim columbus on the horizon. wait a second, the first one we haven't spent yet and hasn't delivered. a closer look at that next. gretchen: two army buddies separated in battle. they thought each other had died. 42 years later they found each other alive recently. wait until you hear how they were reyiewb nighted. dave: first the aflac trivia

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are hurting out there. dave: according to a new rasmussen poll 60% of americans oppose the passage of a second stimulus plan this year. gretchen: kevin is the director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute. good morning to you, kevin. >> good morning. maybe one of the reasons that that poll shows that 60% of the american public is against a second stimulus package is only because 10% of the money of the first stimulus package has actually gone to creating jobs, right? >> yeah. in fact, i think the carpet on the dashboard probably polled better than the obama stimulus thing. [ laughter ] >> it's beginning to feel, i would say it feels a little bit like a bad house episodes. they don't have bad house episodes. right? we have given the patient medicine. the patient is not responding. so now they are talking about giving the same medicine again instead of trying something else. that's really what we should be talking about. dave: boy, kevin, you are paying attention this morning. lori tyson an obama advisor, she feels this is a good idea. problem is we have only spent

some say 10% of this stimulus package. by the end of 2010 we still might only be at 50%. how can we figure out if we need a second one if we haven't spent nearly enough of the first one? >> right. in fact even that 10% number is an exaggeration because most of the money that we spent was grants to the states. so we mailed -- the federal government mailed money to the state governments but we don't know whether the state governments have spent the money yet. it's probably smaller than that they did mail people checks. they did do that we saw what happened. people saved the money. they saved it. it didn't go to stimulate the economy. gretchen: the government accountability office known as the gao is supposed to file a report over two months where this stimulus money has gone. some of the things they have uncovered for example in some states they have not used education funds to fund new innovative programs. instead, they have used the funds to prevent layoffs. the money appears to not be used in the correct fashion that was

intended to. right? >> yeah. that's exactly right. if you give money to say your kids and say i want you to spend it on this but they have some other money but what you are really doing is for them to waste the money. that's what's going on with the states. we give the money to the states and say that's for medicare they spend less of their own money on medicare and then go out and do what they want. gretchen: would you be in favor of a second stimulus package. >> no. absolutely not. i think the big mistake here is that the obama administration has taken fixing things off the table. we have to do temporary measures that don't work when, in fact, what we should do is fix one of the country's big problems like the fact that we have the highest corporate tax in the world. like the fact that our entitlements like social security aren't really paid for in present value running deficits. if we fix one of our long run problems men maybe people can be optimistic about the future again. dave: he does not favor carpet on the dashboard either. we have got those clear. >> fuzzy dice i like. gretchen: thank you. two army buddies attacked in battle. each thought the other had died.

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you served together in vietnam. >> that's correct. >> right. gretchen: and during a mission one day, richard, you are captured, right? >> yes. gretchen: and you are sent away for five and a half years in a prison camp. ken, you thought that richard was gone. >> i didn't know if he was living or dead, but we went out on patrol, we looked for a few day for him, we were trying to get him before they took him into cambodia because once they took them over to cambodia, we weren't allowed over there, and it's been a nightmare for me ever since. brian: because you've been thinking is he alive, what happened. >> right. brian: how did you find out he was alive and where he was? >> i found out when i read the long island "newsday," and i saw his name, they did an article on vietnam, and i saw his name, and

then i looked at the picture, and i recognized him right away, even after these years, even though he's an old man and bald headed. >> thanks. >> but welcome back to the world. gretchen: wow. >> thank you, my friend. gretchen: richard, nobody can understand. maybe john mccain can because he was there with you. >> right, he was. gretchen: nobody can understand what you went through there, but the idea that you have reconnected with this friend 42 years later, and you've talked to him every day on the phone now for the last couple of days. >> almost every day we talk. gretchen: like old times, four decades later. what has it meant to you to reconnect with ken? >> well, when ken called me that sunday morning, we were just laying in bed, it was about 10 after 8:00, and the phone rang, and you expect news, and when i answered the phone, he said

paraconi, and i said yeah, and he said ken thompson. i got the goose bumps. we were reminiscing, he told me about the article in news da"ne and i had to call you. ken and i were really tight. >> has he changed? >> he never changed. just got older. the thing is, again, i get goose bumps, that's my friend. gretchen: it's an amazing story, ken. i she the emotion on your face, and i want to know if the two of you are going to be able to see each other in person. >> oh, definitely, we're going to arrange something. ken says he has a relative down in orlando. i was just up in new york the week before the paper came out to see my mom, and too bad the newspaper didn't come out before, but we will get

together, i guarantee that. brian: and we'd like to have you in studio. richard paraconi and kenneth thompson, and we're so thrilled that you're reconnected, and thanks for your service to this great country. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'll talk to you, ken. >> i'll definitely be in touch. i'll call you today when i get home. gretchen: what a wonderful story. that's what sharing good stories is all about. thanks for being here. brian: straight ahead a teacher calls cops when she heard about a student's hit list and then she got a call saying you're fired. gretchen: and david letterman hasn't learned his lesson. last night he started -- >> the governor of alaska has announced that she's stepping down, she will no longer be the governor of alaska, and today she woke up, went out on her porch, and waved goodbye to russia. gretchen: i'm still talking to ken. and there's more from dave letterman. @

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your right color. gretchen: good morning, everyone. happy wednesday, july 8, 2009. we hope you're having a great day. david letterman not quite done picking on his favorite governor, sarah palin. >> the friends of governor palin are saying that she's resigning because she is tired of attacks from the media. that's why she's resigning. tired of attack proceeds the media. thank god i didn't say anything. gretchen: he said a lot last night. there were lots of jokes about sarah palin. we'll bring you some more of them. dave: he was sprung from gitmo, now the former detainee is back at work killing american soldiers. brian: the administration didn't misread the economy like joe biden said, it just had incomplete information issue. is that really the problem? and is there any difference?

our slogan comes from duncan in florida. every golfer knows that for real facts and lots of fun, "fox & friends" is a hole in one. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> i'm selena gomez from wizards of waverly place. gretchen: she was on the show recently. dave briggs sitting in for steve today. we need to get right to the cause of michael jackson's death. celebrities and fans said goodbye to the king of pop yesterday. paris brought everyone to tears. >> ever since i was born, dad a has been the best father you could ever imagine. and i just want to say i love

him. very much. gretchen: heartbreaking ceremony as it wrapped up there with his daughter. let's go out to mindy mowzel. >> we were among the lucky few who were able to score tickets at the very last second, we were able to run inside and see that memorial service in person, and as soon as we did, the mood abruptly changed. here outside the staples center it was a mood of celebration, so many people who were feeling lucky to have gotten that golden ticket, but as soon as we went inside to that service, it was just dead silence in there. you could tell it was a memorial service and that so many people were there to pay their respects. the other shocker was seeing that casket brought in. we've been reporting all morning that that was a possibility, that the jackson family had been considering bringing michael jackson's body to the service, but to actually see it brought in and put to the very front, it

really set the tone that this was not just a tribute to a pop star, but to a father, a brother, a son. the last shocker was seeing 11-year-old paris get on stage and pay tribute to her father. that was not part of the program. organizers say they basically left that moment up for the jackson family to just kind of be impromptu. to be able to say something if they'd like to. you saw the mike go to marlon jackson. he said a few words talking about his brother, and then he said that janet jackson would be talking, but instead of her getting up to the mike, she instead encouraged little paris to say something, and that's when you saw everyone just basically tear up in the crowd as she talked about how much her dad meant to her. brian: thank you very much, glad you were able to get in there and share that story. what else is happening? we know the president's over in italy. gretchen: and the "fox news

alert," you're watching president obama arrive in italy. the world's most powerful leaders are meeting there right now trying to tackle the global economic crisis, but so far they can't come to terms on whether to stop all the stimulus spending. climate control also tops the agenda. the meeting will last three days. another 60 detainees are getting out of gitmo. the terror suspects are getting out of trial. half will face military commissions and the rest will be tried by the justice department. the administration admits it's still not sure how to deal with them, and president obama's deadline for shutting down the prison is just six months away. a series of cyber attacks that temporarily crippled computers. north korea is suspected. some u.s. sites are still having problems including those of agencies fighting cyber crimes. north korea is known to have a

cyber attack unit that uses techniques that they developed in china. she's been accused of stealing jewelry before, and now lindsay lohan may have stolen her tan. jennifer sunday is suing lohan for stealing her secret spray tan formula and using it in her new product. sunday says they couldn't agree on a price as business partners, so lindsay just cut her out. lohan says no way, and it took three long years for her company to develop her own spray, and those are your headlines. dave: that could get really ugly. brian: this is one topic i promise not to bring up with laura ingraham should we have her live. dave: she may weigh in on that battle. laura: this is for dave briggs because i understand his secret tanning formula is also clearly possibly stolen. dave: i'm coming after lindsay

lohan. laura: you're the george hamilton at "fox & friends." dave: laura, i get this at the beach. let's talk to someone who's out fishing. sarah palin finally starting to talk about the resignation, and it's still hart to figure out what exactly she's doing. we do have a poll that says republicans are still in strong support of her, 70% say they would vote for her if she ran in 2012. is that really what she's after here, laura? >> i think it's pretty amazing because we have a lot of people trying to speculate why did she do this, is she going to come back, is she going to stay in politics? i'm kind of taking her at her word now, but i think in general she wants to move on to something else, she doesn't think she can be effective in alaska, and she's going to try to make some money for her family and then she's going to see what happens. she says i can't predict, and i don't think any of us can predict what's going to happen to her, but she has a strong

base of support in this g.o.p., i think the people don't like her probably don't like her a little bit more, but i don't think we've heard the last from sarah palin, i think she's going to be a major force in the party. gretchen: one person who hopes she is is dave letterman because he just can't get enough of telling a lot of jokes about her. he was back at it last night. let's take a listen to the myriad of jokes that he had. >> the governor of alaska, sarah palin, has announced that she's stepping down, she will no longer be the governor of alaska. today she woke up, went on her porch, and waved goodbye to russia. governor sarah, what are you going to do, and insiders believe she hopes to be the next octu-mom, but i don't know. we're talking about sarah palin, and you know what she did? one of the things you've got to love about sarah palin, after she announces that she's stepping down as governor, she went fishing. she went fishing. she said the heck with it, i'm going fishing. we have footage of that.

take a look. sarah palin going fishing. there she is. oh, my god. the friends of governor palin are saying they is resigning because she is tired of attacks from the media. that's why she's resigning. tired of attacks from the media. thank god i didn't say anything. brian: that's where he should have started and stopped. laura, what do you think about that? >> well, look, everybody's using everybody else here. letterman uses palin, it helps him get some ratings, gets him coverage from the likes of us. if you're going to be in the public fray and be somebody that's very unconventional and different, she's going to get a lot of attention. i don't think she's surprised by any of this. it's probably going to

intensify, not weaken. brian: let's be honest, we're using you for ratings. laura: good luck. gretchen: somebody who i believe is surprised about her role in the obama administration is hillary clinton. the last time i checked, she was secretary of state, however, you wouldn't know that when you look internationally because she's nowhere to be found. what are your thoughts? laura: malia and sasha are on the trip, the first lady is on the trip. i don't know if the social secretary desire' rogers made the trip, but this is a big entourage they had in russia. the fact that the secretary of state is not with them is very odd. and i don't know if the cast on her elbow expands or contracts at 35,000 feet, but it is slightly strange, and the last thing we heard reported about hillary versus president obama was on iran, and she believed that the president was not forceful enough in his first statements about iran, and she

expressed that to him, and then he did take the rhetoric up a notch, so there might be a little bit of tension there, and maybe people are -- i know some people, even democrats are looking back saying maybe those clinton years -- we're waxing a little nostalgia for the clinton years. dave: she did skip italy and greece which sound like pretty nice boondoggles because of this broken elbow. >> broken elbow? there are no medical clinics who could treat her elbow if it flared up. does this past the straight face test to anyone? it's ridiculous. gretchen: i think this is a huge story, and i don't think it's going to go away any time soon, and i think you're dead on about the whole iran situation. stick around because we have other things we want to discuss with you. two years ago, this story, he was sprung from gitmo, and now

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brian: one woman, one man. the woman, laura ingraham, the man is a mullah. he was in gitmo, he was arrested, he's a bad guy, he's now out, killing our guys. what does this mean for barack obama's gitmo policy, laura ingraham? >> i hope it means we're going to slow it down and think about what our next move is here. his sole responsibility is to keep us safe, and we don't know the details behind why this

zaker was released. and remember we just released the chinese muslims to bermuda. do we have a homing device on them? the last i checked they were frolicking in the ocean. we have to remember that this is very complicated, very complex. we don't know what's going to happen when we release individuals into someone else's custody, and the fact that this man is now leading the fight against the american troops is a major black eye for our policy and if the previous administration had something to do with this, and they're going to have to answer questions as well, so whether it was the bush administration releasing people prematurely or this administration shutting down gitmo, i think there are a lot of americans out there saying look, if we're safe as a result of them being kept at gitmo, why are they closing gitmo? gretchen: it's up to the obama administration as to what to do about it.

he's put him out out there by saying he's going to close that place down in six months. this was his first executive order. there's still 200 guy there is with no home. so is he going to be able to reach that deadline? >> i don't think so. there will be some excuse for not reaching the deadline. this is a pure example of how politics gets in the way of national security, and politics gets in the way of logical common sense thinking, and for the president to -- stick to this old antiquated left wing notion that we're the bad guys here for setting up gitmo in the first place, no, we were smart in setting up gitmo. that was one of the smartest things that the bush administration had done, and it kept us safe. dave: the president may make another order to delay. that's the right thing to do, right? >> he has a very angry left wing

base. they will be infuriated, and they're going to call for blood, his scalp if he doesn't close gitmo. i think he's under an enormous amount of pressure. we're releasing people who end up killing our soldiers. how does that make any sense? brian: laura ingraham, thanks for joining us. gretchen: do vaccines cause autism? you've heard that question so many times before, and what about cell phones? do they cause cancer? medical truths revealed right here on "fox & friends." dave: the administration can't seem to get us out of debt, but dave ramsey, perhaps he can with some fireworks. (announcer) it is the most advanced automobile

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dave: 22 minutes past the hours. 1600. that's how old the newest online bible is. it's in greek and will be posted by the british library on monday. 24/7. if you've got an iphone and live in boston, soon you'll be able to complain to city hall with pictures any time you like. and take a look. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. it won't happen again for a thousand years. enjoy it, guys. brian: i did enjoy that. i'm going to enjoy this even more. it's wednesday, and that means it's ramsey day, dave ramsey, host "the dave ramsey show," coincidence? he's here to answer your financial questions. gretchen: let's start out with pamela from california. good morning, dave.

>> well, she's there now. what i would recommend she does is completely cancel the reverse mortgage if she can because hertious worth more than she'll ever get out of this. reverse mortgages are not a good deal. they're very high in fees, crummy interest rates, and that's the one that aren't a con. a large percentage have consteres associated with them. some of the reverse mortgages, she is correct, do take the house upon death, and that settles the death. brian: robert wagner makes it sound so reasonable.

>> nope. not legally. they can obviously make your wife's life miserable which is very similar to making your life miserable. brian: you're not going to get dinner until her cards are paid off. gretchen: let's check in with dawn from colorado. >> you fix car right now because you don't have the money to move. obviously if you sole it and can get out of it, that would be ok, too. you may get a cheaper beater that's actually operating better than this one is. sometimes you've got to move around a little bit until you get out of beater land, but we want you to pay cash for the car and stay out of death because the average car payment in america is $484 right now, and if you save that for just a few months, you've got serious money

to pay cash for an upscale beater and eventually end up in a really nice car. brian: and not just a beater. dave, tell us about the latest plasticomy. >> this is somebody enthusiastic about the fourth of july. i think people are ticked about their credit cards. we get some great ones in. gretchen: i love that one. we've been speak about beaters, cars, what your first ride was and whether or not that made you sexier as a man. so what was your car? >> '74 monte carlo. we went across the railroad tracks, i was telling my wife i was going to be a millionaire, and the muffler fell off.

gretchen: did you have carpet on the dashboard? >> no. brian: 26 minutes past the hour. she's free to roam around the country. ruth madoff is free to skip the country. gretchen: florida's beaches, some of the most beautiful in the country. there's a new plan that can change the landscape dramatically. @

dave: welcome back to "fox & friends." there's an enormous oil and gas deposit under the gulf of mexico and a bit of a controversy is erupting in florida over what it would take to get it out. phil keating in clear water beach this morning. how much oil and gas are we talking about? >> on the high end, 10 billion gallons of hydrocarbons. most of that is believed to be natural gas, but it's still unclear how much is natural gas and how much is oil. it's miles and miles off shore behind me under the water, and experts say it's enough energy to provide 1 million homes energy for 30 years. much of the area is called the eastern gulf area. it's been off limits for drilling for many years. within that area is calmed the destine dome south of florida,

and within that destin dome, there's tons of gas. all of that shaded area was and currently is, rather, off limits to drilling, but under a u.s. senate energy bill which has gone through the energy and natural resource committee on its way through the u.s. senate, that would now allow if it passed as is by the full senate drilling to within ten miles of the panhandle coastline and within 45 miles of the tampa bay area coastline, and, of course, in florida it's quite controversial, and that's why drilling offshore has been off limits for so many years because all of these gorgeous beaches bring from tourists from around the world, and it's valued to be about $65 billion in tourist dollars a year. brian: how glad are you that this story really is a beach story and you get to dress like that and still cover something as serious as you are covering?

>> brian, i'm extremely happy about that, thank you very much. brian: and you usually smile at the end of your shots, but i think it's deserving to really smile now. gretchen: that's what they call a beauty shot in the business. >> it is a beauty shot, and if i could continue -- gretchen: with you in it. >> it's also being considered -- brian: that tractor wants some face time. that's the third time that tractor has been by. he's like honey watch for me, i'm behind the keating guy. how much garbage, the thing's been empty. the sand's flat, pal, get going. >> i will tell you guys that the beach is outstanding this morning. gretchen: thanks for wrapping up the story, phil. brian: what does that guy want? where's his metal detector?

gretchen: now we have to move on to some serious stories. dave: that was serious. gretchen: it was serious, but. brian: there's severe security gaps in our government where there should be none. bomb making materials were smuggled into ten offices including homeland security. they assembled the bombs and carried them throughout the buildings. hearings on the matter begin today on capitol hill. gretchen: you remember ruth madoff? she can officially get lost. oh, my goodness. the wife of imprisoned ponzi schemer bernie madoff just got her passport back. she surrendered it months ago. the feds let right keep $2.5 million. ruth madoff has no plans to

leave the country. dave. dave: nome, alaska, is begging her to come live there. a hostage situation leads to this huge house fire in an upscale connecticut neighborhood. richard shankman is accused of holding his estranged wife hostage for hours, shankman now in custody had initially prevented police from entering by saying he had bobby strapped the house with explosives. his wife nancy tyler escaped after the fire started, and believe it or not this wasn't the first time that shankman was accused of burning down a home. he burnt down the former couple's vacation house on the day he was ordered by a court to get out. brian. brian: it was a chain reaction like nothing in history. surgeons from across the country coordinated a procedure called a domino transplant. they swapped eight kidneys and performed 16 surgeries.

the lead surgeon says it's the largest chain of donations ever performed and hopes it serves as a model for the future. one donor describes her experience. >> i talked to my recipient this morning, and she's doing fantastic, so it's like i've hit the maryland jackpot. brian: patients can find a match donor who may live thousands of miles away. it could mean an additional 1,500 transplants a year that may occur. gretchen: these two army buddies separated during battle in vietnam. each thought the other had died, but they found each other 42 years later. the soldiers shared their incredible story with us earlier on the show. >> when i answered the phone, he says paraconi, and i said yeah, and he said ken thompson. i jumped out of bed, and we started talking and reminiscing, and he told me about the article in "newsday," and he said i

called "newsday," and i called you. gretchen: he and thompson have talked on the phone every day since reconnecting just a week ago. they plan to have a trip together because mr. paraconi is in florida and ken thompson up here in new york. brian: and if it's in new york we hope to have them here where domenica davis is outside with this wonderful weather. >> it's really nice out, it's warming up, the sun is coming out, and we have these nice folks behind us for the better part of an hour. they've trying to get on tv and say hello. nice people. they've been out here all morning long. let's take a look at the map, and we'll show you where the real heat is today, and it's certainly not in the northeast. temperatures are still running cooler than normal from the northeast to the midwest. high pressure centered over the southwest, not doing much for the monsoon season, but look at

the heat. we'll have the feel like temperature around 115 through the central part of the u.s., and that's going to stick around until the end of the week, so we have a couple of days to go before that heat wave will break. on the radar we do have severe weather later today through the northern plains, and that is all from here. have a good morning, guys. brian: you too, domenica. let's talk about the vice president of the united states and how it relates -- to the president, what he's saying. gretchen: another gaffe potentially. dave: a bit of a back and forth between joe biden and president obama on whether or not they ms. re misread the economy. here is the back and forth between joe biden and then president obama. >> we and everyone else misread the economy. the truth is there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited.

now, that -- i'm not laying -- it's now our responsibility. >> rather than say misread, we had incomplete information. what i would say is that in some areas you're seeing the economic engine turn, but what we always knew was that, a, this recession was going to be deep, b, it was going to last for a while. gretchen: what was misread? i don't really understand what was misread then. joe biden, was he just speaking off the cuff again, and did he get in trouble by barack obama by actually admitting that? a lot of people disagreed with the stimulus plan by the way. they said it would increase unemployment, it wouldn't help, and now there's talk about a second stimulus package. interestingly enough many democrats, 60%, say that they would be against a second stimulus plan. i'm not sure that they would ever get this second one through, especially since only 10% of the first allotment of money has actually been used to

create jobs. dave: and that's the problem. they haven't spent enough of this money. the cbo said that by the end of 2010 we still might only be talking about 50% of this stimulus spent, so how do we have any idea if this thing worked before even talking about another one which the president has said he is open to and a lot of democrats say i don't think so including harry reid. brian: right now there's nothing showing us we need a second stimulus. shelt shelt shelton whitehouse says we should. how could you even be thinking about another stimulus? dave: you can't. gretchen: the economic person we had on in the last hour said this is like giving the same medicine to a child who will is sick, and the medicine didn't work the first time, and then you give them more. no, sometimes you go to the

doctor and get a different prescription, and that's what some people are now saying, but on do a second stimulus plan would not be the answer to this growing problem of unemployment, but how do the people feel about it? let's take a look at this latest poll. 27% of you would favor a second round of stimulus. 60% would oppose, and 13% not sure according to rasmussen. dave: it's clear they need a do-over, but clearly a second one is an awful idea and even democrats are lining up against it, so hopefully not. brian: 19 minutes before the top of the hour. a student accused of having a hit list detailing other students he wanted to kill, so his teacher called the cops, and then she got fired. is that right? you'll meet her. and. gretchen: do vaccines cause autism, and what about those artificial sweeteners?

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brian: she was allegedly fired from her teaching job for calling the cops about a hit list even though her own son was number one and two on that list. gretchen: mary warner and her attorney join us. good morning. mary, you taught at the high school, and you became aware of a hit list that named your son as somebody that this other person wanted to kill. what did you do? >> i spoke to the principal of the school. she said that she would get back to me. she had heard of it, and then later in the day, she had not gotten back to me, said that there was no merit to the claim and then said it was just creative writing of an

imaginative child and that there was nothing to be done. brian: you reported that what month? >> may 29th. brian: you were reported when? >> june 18th. brian: you think it was related? >> it's absolutely related. we brought a federal civil rights action related to this incident. we're claiming that she exercised her constitutional rights when she weren't to the principal and reported it to the police. she had a genuine concern about her own child and the safety of others. brian: here's what the school district says. gretchen: on its face it seems to ridiculous because after columbine, weren't teachers and everyone told to bring everything to the attention of authorities to try and quell any other further violence in schools? >> absolutely. one of the important things that we have to remember, though, is that this is not even her school, it's the middle school.

she was acting as a concerned parent, not even an employee. she said do something about this, so she took matters into her own hands, she reported it to the police, and they took action, they investigated. two weeks later she's fired. brian: they wrote you're unemployable. you can't get a job in hoot district. so it's been a year without work, and you have a middle school kid who's going to be college -- >> i have three children. gretchen: what has the union -- we hear so much about teachers unions being strong there for their employees. what has happened with the union? >> unfortunately my union said there was nothing that they could do, and they pretty much washed their hands of it. brian: unbelievable. if she did not report that hit list, and there was a shooting at that school, i'd want to sue you. >> absolutely. teachers are supposed to do that, concerned parents are supposed to do that, you're supposed to report these things, you're supposed to bring it to the proper authorities'

attention. gretchen: what lesson does this tell others who might get some information? we do so many stories about how people don't get involved. what does this tell us? >> the real story will tell when the jury comes back for the verdict in this case. this is a very important case. this will tell parents when we're done that you had the right to report these things, and you should report these things. brian: and he also threatened to bite your son, and this kid has a history of antisocial history. when are you going to court? >> a year from now. brian: at year without a job? unbelievable. gretchen: thanks for joining us today. >> thank you. gretchen: organic foods, are they really better for you? they cost a lot more. up next a doctor who's been revealing medical truths for 20 years will joins and tell us whether they'res miss or reality. this is a picture of brian's first car. flashy cars may actually turn off the chicks.

brian: i also smelled like meat because i worked in a meat place. megyn kelly is here. megyn: i am just not touching that, brian. one conservative group is asking lawmakers to promise something very unusual on capitol hill. that they will actually read the bills before they pass them, and guess what? some of the lawmakers are saying no. just as some democrats push for another stimulus, we learn where the first one is going. also do not call them the m word, the term is little people, and donald trump may be in trouble for not knowing that. .

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dave: cellphones cause brain

cancer. these are some of the frightening stories we hear over and over again. our next guest says much of the medical information we hear is far from the truth. in her new book, she separates the fact from untended fears -- and unfounded fears. good morning to you. these are things we hear over and over again. i was frightened by the cellphone story. do they cause cancer? >> at the present time, we have no data that shows it causes cancer. dave: where did it come from? >> the research says maybe there is a link, but they do not take it to the next level to evaluate it further. for the short term, there is no link with the cellphones and brain tumors. children absorb more of the

radiation. there is data that shows that the radiation may alter proteins and the dna in the little ones. my concern is when the children are using the phones for 40 years, or 50 years, there may be a problem. maybe the kids need to text more and keep it away from their brain. dave: let's talk about these sweeteners. a lot of people fear that it might kill them. are these things bad for us? should we just go to sugar? are they ok? >> it is sorta vague loaded question. when i looked at the data, i was looking to find poisonous problem. -- it is sort of a loaded question. there is no data that shows there are side effects. it is the number one safest

sweetener. dave: is that the pink, the yellow, or the blue? >> the ping k one. dave: the next one you hear about, is there any link between the two between vaccinations and autism? >> there is absolutely no link between the two. as a pediatrician, we give out vaccines every single day. if we saw a link to autism, pediatricians would know that immediately. parents need to feel very comfortable that the vaccines we have are the safest in the world. dave: i have to ask you about organic foods. people are shopping exclusively for them. do they have health benefits? >> organic foods have no proven

health benefits over non organic foods. in other words, they do not prevent disease any more than non organic foods. dave: but they do cost a lot of money. the message this morning, do not believe the hype. thank you for being here this morning. coming up, they say there is something a woman likes about a pickup man. we told you why women may not like hot rods. gretchen, you like pickup trucks? your e-mail (announcer) this is nine generations

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