wall today. >> big stuff going on down there. we have got a busy morning. gretchen: eric, another thing we are going to talk about. eric: a gapg hole in an airplane. how that got there. gretchen: this is "fox & friends." steve: for a tuesday. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: now, we got to explain. we did the entire cold open. nothing was in the teleprompter. gretchen: we get an a for effort this morning. steve: we know that much. we need to introduce eric bolling is in today for brian kilmeade. the all star game going on tonight out there in st. louis and you used to be a pittsburgh pirate. eric: i did, i was a pirate a couple of years a long time ago. steve: before you moved to wall street and became a different kind of pirate. eric: it's all good. gretchen: it's good we you have here today. we are talking about the banks.

eric: baseball to the banks and now to fox. it's great. gretchen: we are talking about goldman sachs today and the massive profits they are going to report for this year $2 billion. a lot of people are saying how did they make that much money when the rest of the economy seems to be, you know, going to pot. although other people have said well, that's good news that the banks are making money again. eric: here is the problem with the 2 billion plus profit a lot of that money was made taking a lot of risks. they took most of this risks while they had tarp money. that means all of us, all our taxpayer money was in the goldman covers at the time that they went out and speculated aggressively in commodities on the price of oil. on just about anything that was high risk. if they failed, we were going to pick up the tab. they happened to do well and made money. now they are looking at $2 billion. i think they will end up giving that to executives. steve: the news this morning, eric, is that as wall street was completely falling down stairs and companies were failing left

and right, apparently a number of executives at goldman sachs sold about $700 million worth of goldman sachs stock. now, apparently and there are a couple of stories out there that apparently two guys who were partners in the firm, they held, i think, about 18 million and something like $38 million worth of funds that maybe there was a margin call on or something like that. they became a liquid. how they actually sold their stock, as wall street seen these guys inside of goldman sachs are selling their stock, that could have caused goldman sachs to unwind. it was done on the q.t. does that happen very often? eric: you want even more conspiracy theory at the time hank paulson was the treasury secretary. where did he come from? he was of goldman prior to that a lot of stuff going on behind closed doors. gretchen: no doubt banks have to be with -- they basically handed

over bills. wasn't the biggest problem, eric, they handed over that money with no strings attached. that's why the american public really does not know where all that money went nor do they ever have to report it. eric: no strings attached. we gave them literally hundreds of billions of dollars and said hey do what you will of it. this money is toik sure you lend it make sure small businesses around the country can borrow money. payroll, fill up inventory, et cetera, et cetera. no exit streargts. steve: exactly. you got the news this morning that they are going to say that we made $2 billion in the last quarter, which is extraordinary because they did take $10 billion worth of our tarp money and they still have not completely paid it back. they started the process but they still have tarp dollars in there. that's extraordinary. gretchen: maybe every taxpayer should get a piece of that $2 billion. that's not going to happen but it's a nice thought. eric: you know why it's not going to happen? what they decided to do instead

of reducing the debt and retiring that money, unprints the money they printed to give to the banks. they are going to make government bigger and spend it on something else. steve: have $28 billion worth of loans from the fdic, the cozy rate, which is helping them. and we should points out if you are just a rank and file employee at goldman sachs your average bonus is going to be $600,000 from this. you are welcome. gretchen: another big thing happening on capitol hill that's part of your tax dollars now owning companies are the car companies. amazing news yesterday, the guy who is the car czar, steve ratner with no car experience before he became car czar decided to step down. was it because the g.m. and chrysler bankruptcies swiftly made it through that process one in 30 some days and one in 40 days and he thought his work was done or was it because his firm, the heat is on now. the sec has been investigating them for the last couple of

months, i believe since february. and now the heat appears to be getting hotter that apparently there was some sort of a kickback, an alleged kickback of $122 million to a specific pension fund and could it be that steve ratner did not want to be the car czar and at the same time possibly be indicted on some sort of criminal activity? steve: you know, the department of justice says there is no investigation into him and the attorney general here in new york state cuomo says that there are no charges pending. but, it would be hard for him to keep his job as car czar with this investigation. because when he had -- and he has untangled himself from quad rangel. it was acrimonious and he is no longer with that firm. it's a hedge fund and they decided to get into the pension fund. they paid a guy last name morris some money and there were kickbacks apparently according to the investigators and somehow this car czar got all tang gld

up in it and that's the problem with these czars. here he became the car czar and there was. no look at sonia sotomayor she has gotcha confirmation hearing up on capitol hill today. and she is completely vetted. these people who are czars and now we have 32 of them, i believe. who looked into their background. now steve ratner is going back into some sort of business. >> you have got to think about, this when the czar, it's almost like a shadow government. they are not vetted. they are just appointed. who do they report to? what's the hierarchy? is czar above fully vetted congressional nominee put in place or is it the other way around? gretchen: direct pipeline to president obama and the interesting thing here is that a lot of these czars, are they replacing the people who are already sects of certain departments so for example the treasury might be in charge of the chrysler bankruptcies no's it the car czar. the secretary of labor might be in charge of compensation.

steve: look at those people we don't know anything about. gretchen: not the secretary who was appointed and then council firmed by congress with some vetting. it's these czars. you have got to wonder how many czars we are going to get to before someone says are you czar czarrous. >> side note when hank paulson was named treasury he had to sell stocks he owned. i'm not sure the car czar or the faith czar, that they are not going to be involved in conflicts of interest across the board. they are involved in influencing the obama administration's decisions if they made profit from it on their own terms. steve: who is the new car czar? well, as steven ratner gets out of town and comes back to new york to spend more time with his family that's what the white house said yesterday, apparently the new car czar will be a fellow by the name of ron bloovment he is an exsteel worker. gretchen: union. steve: steel worker union official. i don't know if that's a picture of him. gretchen: he was on the task

force. he something elevated to the top important point is that he represents the unions. by all accounts, that's one of the few groups that benefitted from these bankruptcies. surprise. steve: exactly. eric: benefitted greatly. of all the groups the u.s. government, the canadian auto workers, the united auto workers. the uaw got the best deal going. going to own a big portion of our car industry. gretchen: yesterday was so excited to start watching the sonia sotomayor hearings and was waiting to hear from her it took about six hours to get to that point. because, as usual, the politicians wanted to listen to themselves speak and their speeches. did you think it was somewhat boring? take a look at what her nephews thought. steve: there they are. corrie and conner next to their mom. they were absolutely sacked out at one point listening. and yesterday today it's going to be more exciting.

everyone got 10 minutes. it's interesting. al franken yesterday, the new senator from the great state of minnesota spoke out about sonia sotomayor. he mentioned his own name 41 times and himself 41 times and he mentioned her 14. something like that. gretchen: let's turn to kelly wright in d.c. for a wrap up of all the events there. good morning. >> gretchen good morning to you, steve and my good friend eric as well. good to see you filling in for brian. this is a front row seat to history in the making here on capitol hill. the senate judiciary committee is going to prepare to start questioning the first ever hispanic nominee to the supreme court. that's of course judge sonia sotomayor who, by the way, on monday had her chance to publicly speak and address the senate judiciary committee. here is what she said. >> in the past month, many senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. simple.

fidelity to the law. >> and that is just a glimpse of what she will be talking about today as well. talking about fidelity to the law. today republican members of the senate judiciary committee, they will grill sotomayor on her judicial philosophy, plus statements that she has made away from her duties as a judge. one thing they will focus on is a comment that she publicly made on several occasions stating that a wise latino judge with rich experiences can come to better conclusions than a white male. >> i will not vote for and no senator should vote for an individual nominated by any president who is not fully committed to fairness and impartiality toward every person who appears before them. >> but then democrats, they do endorse president obama's nominee. praising her 17 years' experience as an appellate judge and extoggle her life story as a

testament to the avenue chiefments of the american dream. >> judicial record leads me to conclude she is a powerful judge with deep respect to precedent. with respect to the other branches of the government including the law-making role of the congress. >> you can see how it's breaking down right now. republicans will definitely question her and grill her. all of that starts at 9:80. they will be very cordial in doing that but they will get to the point and that is discussing her judicial philosophy. is she one who perceives justice as being blind or is she one who, perhaps, will color justice with her own type of ethnic background as well as her own personal experiences or the phrase they have been using, empathy. something they take question with we will follow it again today beginning at 9:30. it should be quite informative. back to you guys. steve: if there are going to be fireworks, they are going to be today. kelly, thanks very much for live

report from capitol hill. gretchen: senate obama giving the senate finance committee until the end of the week to come up with health care reform plan according to several democratic officials. the president spoke with matt bachus and other top democrats. the president responded to claims that reform won't happen by his deadline. >> there was a lot of chatter during the week that i was gone. we are going to get this done. nax is not inaction is not an option. for those nay sayers and cynic who's think that this is not going to happen, don't bet against us. gretchen: the president's demands are more likely to be met by the house. democrats there say they will have a bill ready by next tuesday. that measure would prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage, based on preexisting medical conditions. they were dressed in all black in ninja gear when they stormed a home in florida killing a couple with 16 children, 12 adopted, many of them disabled. investigators say one team of

men entered the front of the house where bird and mellowed billings lived. a second team came in the back of the house. they were out of the house in less than four minutes. this morning we are hearing from the billings oldest child who talked about how her siblings are now doing. >> i don't know the extent that they understand it but they are doing well. they are kids and it's summertime and they are going to, you know, they -- we are going to do the best we can to keep them happy. gretchen: four people now under arrest. investigators say more arrests are eminent. they believe eight people may have been involved in these murders. the sheriff will join us live at 8:00 a.m. eastern. those are your headlines this morning. steve: that's an awful story. 13 minutes after the top of the hour. thanks for joining us on this tuesday. imagine flying on the airplane and this is what you see a great big hole just above your head. that's what happened on a southwest flight at 30,000 feet. the unbelievable story straight

ahead. eric: former vice president dick cheney in the hot seat. the attorney general expected to investigate the bush administration's interrogation tactics. what cheney's daughter is saying about it. she joins us right ofafter the break.

steve: welcome back. president obama urging the country to move forward but his attorney general may have other plans. eric: reports say attorney general eric holder is leaning toward investigating the bush administration and torture policies. former vice president's daughter lynne cheney. >> good morning. eric: is this targeted at your father specifically or the whole bush administration. >> a lot of things going on here. attorney general holder we saw a piece where he may well be prosecuting the cia operatives. we heard pieces of this before. people ought to remember president obama himself from the white house in april, when he released the interrogation

memos, his own statement said look, we are not interested in operating -- prosecuting the cia officials. for them to be back and saying they are doing that is shameful. these folks made the nation safer. steve: stories in their drips and drabs coming from anonymous sources we are going to look in and see what dick cheney did, if dick cheney broke the law. >> it's clearly all political. i think the panetta story is obviously political. have you democrats up on the hill who are suggesting something that i think they are trying -- they are hoping will cover for speaker pelosi. steve: she had the extraordinary statement that yeah the cia comes up here and they lie to us all the time. >> right. and you know inexplicable press conference frankly. you had general hayden yesterday come out and publicly and say it's just not true. the particular set of activities they are talking about never rose to the level of a program that would have had to be briefed. i would point out that that

particular set of activities we are learning yesterday and today had to do with capturing and killing al qaeda leaders. steve: to go wherever they were. eric: that's a great point. you talk about what the enhanced interrogation actually provided. it worked. it helped, right? >> well, it did. my dad has asked for those memos that show exactly what we learned, the terrorist attacks that were stopped, the lives that were saved because of our interrogation program. he has asked to have them released. i would remind people they still haven't been released. steve: eric holder said i'm going to think about it over the next couple of weeks to whether to go forward with an investigation is it really eric holder? isn't it somebody at 1600 to think about whether this is politically the right thing to do for the country. >> and security of the country. at the end of the day president obama is the chief law enforcement of the land. it will be interesting to see if he steps up and say this isn't right for the security of the nation. the whole brouhaha why americans

have such a hard time trusting the democrats on national security. eric: i watched that press conference you referenced, it looked me like she was saying hey guys we don't want a full blown investigation here that it may show things that we don't all open up. >> look, we have kept the nation safe since 9/11. there hasn't been a single attack. and it's because of a number of things, a number of policies but also because of intelligence. we can't do that without the right intelligence. and the situation we're in now has really hurt morale at the agency and harmed our ability to get that intelligence. steve: liz cheney joining us on this tuesday morning in july. thank you for being here. >> great to be here, thanks. steve: straight ahead on "fox & friends" for this tuesday. lots of angry reaction about general motors delearships shutting down. is the auto giant using scare tactics? the proof may be in email exchange. eric: scam artist bernie madoff is out of a new york city jail on his way to north carolina where he will be settling down

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gretchen: thank you very much. a letter getting major reaction from some general motors dealership owners. g.m.'s national dealer council sent a letter to its delearships asking them to not support legislation that would help restore the delearships that were forced to shut down. scott lambert is the head of the auto dealer association. he received one of these letters and is now taking the fight to d.c. welcome to you, scott. >> well, good morning, thank you, gretchen. gretchen: terminated dealers from all across the country are on capitol hill today meeting with different members of congress to try to pass this house bill to be reinstated, right? >> that's correct. the bill would restore dealers' franchise rights that they lost in the brupsz and would reinstate dealers that were terminated. we think terminated unfair live by general motors and chrysler. gretchen: so far 238 members of the house have signed on to. this the majority loorkses like it's going to go to hearings. this was unexpected to the executives of general motors and chrysler. now they have asked their

dealers that survived to lobby against those that have been terminated. one of the things you would like it point out this letter has been going around to ask them to solicit their own members of congress to not sign this house bill. let's take a look at part of that letter it says this: gretchen: that got you a little steamed, right? >> it did. general motors, especially, i think, has acted in bad faith when it comes to their own dealer body. what's unique about the letter is they asked their own dealers to sign the letter and not send it in to members of congress but to send it to general motors with their dealer code and dealer number. it aed to basically a loyalty pledge to general motors. i have got to tell you, dealers felt very intimidated just to get the letter. but then it was followed up with phone calls and personal visits

from g.m. managers and executives. you haven't signed your letter. where is your letter? we haven't gotten your letter back yet. you have got to get your letter in. this is a company that arbitrarily wiped out a lot of dealers. it's corporate bullying. gretchen: you decided to take action. frankly other people are afraid to speak up. here is your letter. gretchen: what was the blow back to you, scott, when you had that email exchange? >> the response was hey, a lot of people signed the letter so therefore we must have been right. and, of course, my feeling on that is if have you got a gun to your head, if you are extracting political statements because you are threatening people's property and livelihood, that's nothing to be proud of. that's disgraceful. and general motors really owes an apology to their dealers and they owe an apology to congress. you know, we are all happy they

are out of the bankruptcy. we want to get back to selling this fabulous product. but it's time to move on. and we have got to admit general motors has to admit that they made a mistake when it came to their dealers. gretchen: scott lambert minnesota auto dealers association representative. we'll continue to follow the story and see what happens on capitol hill later on today. thanks for being my guest. >> thank you, gretchen. good to be here. gretchen: coming up on the show, is hillary clinton taking a shot at her boss? what the secretary of state is calling a complete nightmare. then more teleprompter problems for the president. what happened this time when the prompter crashed to the floor smashing into pieces? plus, our own dave briggs out in st. louis for of the all-star game. hey, dave. dave: hey, gretch. hate those prompter problems. we are here in bush stadium in st. louis how many of the 2009 all-star game coming up in just a bit. advice from the best in baseball to theto tsident of the united states who throws out the first pitch plus the preview of

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gretchen: half past the hour. let's get right to your tuesday headlines. secretary of state hillary clinton taking a shot at her boss. she says the obama administration's vetting policy makes filling top state department jobs a nightmare. clinton called it frustrating

beyond words. candidates for top jobs must answer a long list of questions, including naming every foreigner they know. clinton's comments named after she was asked by the u.s. agency for international development is still without a director. interestingly enough, the czars don't have to answer those questions. eric: they wanted to fight jihad what left to minnesota and returned to somalia to fight with al qaeda. federal authorities just unsealing indictment in the long-running investigation of the men they say a year-long those men provided resources and themselves to terrorists in minnesota and elsewhere. steve: that is crazy. meanwhile, there is nothing peachy about bernie madoff's new home. right now the wall street swindler is behind bars in the federal lock jump in the peach state of georgia. but a law enforcement source says the prison in atlanta is not madoff's final destination. is he expected to serve 150 year sentence at a federal prison in buttner, north carolina, famous inmates there include the spy

jonathan pollard and former adelphia communications chairman john ray i can'tes. gretchen: cancer drug for dogs. the food and drug administration created a drug created by pfizer. 7 a% success rate in helping dogs with cancer move into partial or full remission. available only through vets who specialize in oncology, eric? eric: president obama doesn't have a lot of love for tell prompt terse. neither die. that's right all right. listen what happened during a speech on urban policy. [crashing sound] >> to pull our economy. my goodness. sorry about that guys. >> the tell prompt member fell over in the middle of his remarks. using another backup prompter. that's always a good idea. the shards left glass all around his floor. in the past tell prompt terse have either stopped working or

fallen over for president obama or vice president biden. remember these moments? >> i just noticed that i jumped the gun here. go ahead and move it up. >> what am i going to tell the president when i tell him his teleprompter is broken? what will he do then? eric: the president has joked in the past to learn to go off prompter and vice presidented byline learn to stay on prompter. good idea. is that mine? that's yours, steve. steve: go ahead. eric: baseball's greatest hit the field for 2009 mlb all-star game. we sent our own "fox & friends" weekend host dave briggs for an inside look at the festivities. steve: hey, dave. dave: what's going on, eric in the prompter can be tricky, my friend. eric: tell me about it. >> all the pressure tonight on the national league squad who has not won an all-star game since 1996. winner, of course, still gets home field advantage and the world series until at least

2011. as for last night though, all the expectations were not on the squad but one man. one albert pools, the face of the game and certainly of this city. it was the home run derby and pool hulls put on a show for the fans. he did get help from one fan maybe interference you could call it. that was it for st. louis's king of pop. the night belonged to prince fielder, son of sesil. he was the winner of this home run derby, outlasting nelson cruise one home run with 503 feet into the st. louis sky so the prince is the st. king. back here at bush stadium security is tight. secret service detail all over the park because president obama will throw out the first pitch tonight becoming just the fourth president in 80 all-star games to do. so the other three kennedy back in 1962, nisks son in '70.

ford in '76. we talked to some of the best players here, managers and some other notable figures about just what to do when you throw out a first pitch with so many watching. here is there -- their advice. >> i have seen the president throw a baseball before. is he going to throw pretty good. he has got a pretty good arm and good form. >> practice you will do fine. if you are going to come out with no practice more than less. >> your tips for the commander and chief? >> don't hurt yourself. that's it. don't hurt yourself. >> this is the president of the united states, can he get it done. >> what advice do you have for him because you know what that feels like. >> i wouldn't presume to give the president any advice. >> if he throws from the mound, make sure that slope will get you if you don't pay attention to throwing it high enough. >> don't throw it in the dirt. don't be short. that's the only goal. that's all we ever care about. aim small, miss small. that's a line from the patriot. >> i would move in about 15 feet to make sure i didn't bounce it

before it got to the plate. >> you have got to catch that first pitch tomorrow night from the president of the united states. you don't seem nervous at all. what's your advice for him. >> throw as high as you can and make an arch. don't try to throw a strike because you might bounce it i'm looking forward. >> i would tell you what, aiming high should not be a problem for a president who passed a 787 billion-dollar stimulus plan, at least in my opinion. as you look behind the scenes, one of the special things here is the relationships. you saw captain sullenberger, coach bobby knight, joe torre, all hugging it out here. all close friends. it's not just that but the fathers and sons who come here to the game together. we saw a lot of them together at the home run derby. that's what makes this game special is the relationships. the game tonight, 8:00 a.m. eastern time on fox. shoved be a good one. all the expectations on the national league. guys? eric: i noticed the president

throws from way left over here, right? >> yeah. steve: he sure does. >> very fittingly. steve: he used that left wing. eric: not over the top or the middle but way to the left. gretchen: i know you love sports. we will check back in with you throughout the morning. thanks so much for that first report. somebody else who loves sports, i do. acre boggle used to play professional baseball. he was drafted by the pittsburgh pirates. here is him as the latest pirate. >> that's great. is that this year's halloween? >> strang strangely enough it was hard to hit the baseball with that one eye patch. you had to get around to see the ball. steve: hostess at long john silver's. >> they didn't pay a lot in the minor leagues. gretchen: that's where you ate actually most of the time. steve: delicious. let's talk about this. this is french newspaper. number two newspaper in france. what they have done is, ok.

they have gotten all that information, right? it's in french. they have decided because there is some eyeballs around the globe to translate it, into different languages. the problem is rather than translater that are flute tent as people they use software program. unfortunately, as we all know computers simply cannot replace people. and, in fact, when you look at some of the headlines from this particular newspaper, they are funny. gretchen: these are the original headlines as they first made it out through this software translation. take a look at the michael jackson story. of course that was a big one. a french takeovers the last residence of michael jackson more than $36 million. that's not what they meant. what did they really mean. here it is french citizen business michael jackson's last residence for more than $36 million is that true? steve: i don't think so. gretchen: i don't even know if that's actually true. steve: when it came to the movie by michaelman the headline was

public enemies, a michaelman in teeth of saw. public enemies checkered performance from michaelman. eric: original headline wall street without leadership for one week charged. what they meant to say wall street is without direction ahead of busy week. gretchen: the first one made more sense. or at least that's one we want to read. not that wall street is going up in flames. steve: loses something in the traps legs. gretchen: plays a doctor on television. going in for emergency surgery real life health battle. steve: do you text and walk at the same time? you might want to think twice. meet a girl who fell into an open manhole while she was texting. her family is upset. welcome to the now network. currently, thousands of people are enjoying the new palm pre with its revolutionary web os. they're running multiple live applications at the same time.

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steve: a former er doctor going under the knife. mara thuenery is having emergency surgery to have a tumor removed from her breast. she will not know the severity of her condition until after the surgery but assured friends her condition is treatable. of course she played dr. abby lockhart on er for 10 seasons. meanwhile, trading in his hollywood hills mansion for a box? actor david arquette will live in a plexiglass box in new york city to bring awareness to the problem of hunger and raise money for feeding america. we will get first-hand reaction of how it goes. david arquette live on our curvy couch this thursday when he is out of the box. eric? eric: one second she is walking down the street and writing a text message next she is gone

following through a manhole in the middle of the sidewalk. 15-year-old alexa didn't realize what was happening until she landed inches of sewage. gretchen: alexa is here with her mother kim this morning. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. gretchen: you are walking down the street last week. her friend hands you her cell phone to read a text. right? what do you remember happening next? >> just falling. gretchen: falling down? >> yeah. gretchen: there was nothing outside of this manhole like an orange cone to warn you hey there is a hole six feet deep here. >> no, not at all. no guy standing there. eric: where was the manhole? were you in the street or the sidewalk? >> it was on a sidewalk. eric: it was just open? no one there? gretchen: as the mom you must have been frantic. she is only a half block from home. what happened? >> dad ran out. i ran out after dad. called 911 and that was it.

then we went to the hospital, of course. and thankfully she is ok. eric: tell us about it you walk. next thing you know you are falling into a 6-foot hollanding in sewage. what's going through your mind at the time? >> i just wanted to get out of there. it was just scarey. eric: what did the guys do. >> one of the guys was saying he was sorry. he offered me his hand when i was at the top of the hole. gretchen: a lot of people now saying she was texts when she was walking and they are wondering if that's safe to be texting while you are walking down a street. you respond how? >> you shouldn't have to worry about texting and walking down a street. you are walking down your own street, why should you worry what's there? it's the dp's job to protect you. eric: have they told you they are going to, i don't know, make some sort of arrange. with you? >> no. they did stay at the hospital until she was released that night. you know, to make sure that she

was ok. which his name is mr. alvarez, which was very kind to them. gretchen: department of environmental protection. here is their statement: gretchen: what sort of action will you take, if any, or will you just not text when you walk anymore? >> i mean, i will just watch where i'm walking now but not really going to text. eric: you are 15 getting your driver's license soon? you are not going to be texting while you are driving now, are you? >> no. >> definitely not. gretchen: your mom is sitting next to you. >> she won'ting talking and driving either hopefully. gretchen: we are glad you are ok and you get the situation rectified here and that the injuries were not life-threatening.

>> that was the point. it could have been worse. you know. it could have been anybody else. gretchen: thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> you are welcome. eric: you heard of cap and trade. did you know it's a tax. if it quacks like a tax and walks like a tax it's a tax. glenn beck talking about it today at the top of the hour. gretchen: the president's car czar under scrutiny and stepping down now. shouldn't there be a vetting process for these powerful people. (music playing) well, this is new... i'm working on my digestive health. whatcha eatin'? yoplus. it's a yogurt for digestive health. here... blackberry pomegranate. i can't find my hand. (announcer) yoplus... a delicious alternative for digestive health... ...from yoplait.

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eric: well, we got some change in the czars, hant been on the job very long but car czar

steven rattner stepping down in his place ron bloom an exsteel worker official. eric: they don't answer to congress or the people they answer to the president. steve: look at all those czars. gretchen: fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano is here. steve: our legal czar. >> i knew that was coming. gretchen: you never know, you might be getting a call. they seem to be adding to the list on a daily basis. judge: i won't hold my breath. these are presidential assistants which means they are not vetted by the fbi. they don't have to be confirmed by the senate. the president on his own can grant them a top security clearance so they can see secured documents, top secret documents. and the president, as we know from the chrysler and g.m. bankruptcies can by pass the heads of the cabinet departments that would be responsible for regulating in that area by using his presidential assistants instead. eric: judge, i brought this out earlier in the hour and i'm

thinking about this. when you are named secretary of cabinet post you have to liquidate your stock interest in some of the companies you may be associated with or some of the companies you may vin influence over. does a czar have to do the same thing? judge: i don't know the answer to that we haven't seen that challenged yet. we do know in the case plaintiff rattner, who allegedly was responsible for cooking up the chrysler and general motors bankruptcies that he is now living because of alleged financial improprieties back here in new york where the attorney general of new york is investigating him for allegedly paying middle men to get him state pension business. steve: isn't that a perfect example of why, perhaps, you are going to have all these czars they should be vetted and confirmed before the guy dose down to washington you can say look your company had this pay for play thing and people are big trouble. >> you are making great point. the statutes are written to force the secretary of say transportation to put all assets in a blind trust. the statutes are written to

force the secretary of transportation-to-announce ahead of time, 30 days in advance what his department plans to do. so congress and the public can weigh in. the statutes are written to force the secretary of transportation to comply with a subpoena from congress and to answer questions from a congressional committee who subpoenas him. the czars don't have to do any of that. in fact a supreme court opinion right on point that they are presidential advisors and he claims executive privilege, nobody can interrogate them about what they do. gretchen: you think they would actually have experience in these czar dom that they are taking over. >> one would hope so. gretchen: auto task force even the czar himself have no auto experience. >> basically people whose judgment and loyalty the presidency trust. that's it. gretchen: why would members of congress want this? by all effects they are taking away their own power. >> the only way congress can stop this is by enacting legislation which the president would probably veto. they would need a two thirds vote in both houses to override a veto to prevent him from

paying these people. they are paid as presidential assistants. there is no limit on the number of people he can hire as long as he stays within the budget for the white house. eric: i'm going to do my homework. czar can have stock in companies and go ahead and have presidential influence over those companies it really could be major league conflict of interest. >> it could be inconceivable if that could happen. my guess is there is no law that prohibits it because we have never had this many czars before. steve: we'll try to have the answer in the next hour. >> have a good one. steve: a story you won't hear any place else islamic school outside of washington, d.c. with expected terror ties. there was a late meeting last night about this school. they want to expand. we'll tell you all about it 500 people crammed into a room to make sure that it didn't happen. gretchen: then do you believe in the second amendment in the connection between the right to bear arms and sonia sotomayor's confirmation to the supreme

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gretchen: good morning, everyone. we hope you are having a great tuesday. july 14, 2009. thank you for sharing your time with us. goldman sachs sold off $700 million in stocks for a profit when taxpayers gave them a bailout of 10 something or another. i forget if it's millions or billions. steve: billions. gretchen: they are expecting a huge profit. glenn beck is here. eric: a story you went hear anywhere else. a school in the united states with terror ties that school now looking to expand. why is the local government ready to give it the green light? steve: going to get you going this morning. a bus driver behind behind the wheel and reading a book. take a look at these pictures taken by a passenger. where this happened and what is

being done to that guy behind the wheel. meanwhile, our slogan this hour comes from kimberly in mississippi. throw off the sheets and don't be a grouch, go join "fox & friends" on the old curvy couch. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> unless you have a complete meltdown in the next three seconds, you are watching "fox & friends." steve: thank you very much chris chulo for that comment behind camera four this morning. gretchen: of course a takeoff from senator lindsey graham yesterday during the sonia sotomayor hearings. of the republicans saying unless sotomayor had a meltdown she would be confirmed. more on that in a minute. plus, take a look at the all-star game out in st. louis. that's where we dispatched our own dave briggs there it is going on tonight. steve: that's the cardinals store where you can buy cardinals memo more beal i can't. eric bolling is in today for brian kilmeade who is travelling travelling. eric: they are 0-11-1 in the

last years. steve: they should open up the store immediately. gretchen: glass. eric, have you got to get yourself a pair of spectacles before the segment. eric: i will work on that. gretchen: headlines before beckster moves over here. president obama giving the senate finance committee until the end of the week to come up with a health care reform program that's according to several democratic officials. the president with the committee chair matt bachus and other top democrats. the president responded to claims that reform will north happen by his deadline. >> for those nay sayers and cynics who think that this is not going to happen, don't bet against us. we are going to make this thing happen. the american people desperately need it. gretchen: the president's demands are more likely to be met by the house. democrats there say they will have a bill ready by next tuesday. that measure would prohibit insurance companies from denying

coverage based on preexisting medical conditions. terminated auto dealers on capitol hill today urging lawmakers to support a bill to restore their delearships. the general motors is lobbying hard against it. in fact, many remaining dealers say the company is turning into a big bully, practically forcing them to oppose the legislation. earlier we were joined by the head of the minute society auto dealers association. >> dealers feel very intimidated just to get the letter. but then it was followed up with phone calls and personal visits from g.m. managers and executives. you haven't signed your letter. where is your letter. we haven't gotten your letter back yet. you have got to get the letter in. gretchen: right. >> this is a company that arbitrarily wiped out a lot of dealers. it's corporate bullying is what it is. gretchen: so far 238 members of the house, a majority have signed that bill to reinstate the terminated dealers. they were dressed in all black in ninja gear when they stormed a home in florida. they killed a couple with 16

children, 12 adopted, and many of them disabled. investigators say one team of men entered the front of the house where bird and mellowed billings lived. a second team, dressed like ninjas, came through an unlocked door in the back of the house. the attackers were in and out of the house in less than four minutes. this morning for the first time we are hearing from the billings oldest child who talked about her other sin blinks are doing. >> i don't know the extent that they understand it but they are doing well. i mean, they are kids and it's summertime and they are going, you know, we're going to do the best we can to keep them happy. gretchen: four people now under arrest. investigators say more arrests are eminent. they believe that 8 people may have been involved in this robbery, murder situation. the sheriff is going to join us live at 8:00 a.m. eastern for more details. a maryland bus driver being investigated after kicking back with a good book. the only problem was she was

driving the bus. take a look at these shocking photos taken by a passenger. they show the driver reading at the wheel. city lawmakers are outraged and they say they are going to take action. >> this is indeed what did t. purports to reflect. a bus driver who is not attending to the road. i am just so distraught. gretchen: the bus company says the driver won't get back behind the wheel until investigation ensues. steve: must have been a really good book. gretchen: it was a page turner. it's a snack attack caught on camera. check out this hysterical video of a squirrel with a yogurt cup stuck on his head. maybe he should stick to acorns. the news photographer stumbled on this while shooting. don't worry the photographer later helps that poor little critter get unstuck. hopefully he wasn't bit in the process. i would always advise people to stay away from squirrels. what do you think about that,

beckster? >> i would stay away. that's a good safety tip. stay away. eric: when the bus driver was reading this book. i have heard a lot about that book. couldn't put it down. steve: glenn beck's "common sense." if there are going to be fireworks with sonia sotomayor, it's going to happen today. yesterday everybody was just speech aphiing. and today the republicans are going to ask her questions. one thing she has kind of a murky background on. >> everything? steve: guns. i know in 2004 she says that owning a gun is not a fundamental right. that was going to be asked about. the n.r.a. squarely. >> she is playing the game of that the second amendment doesn't belong -- it belongs to the states. and -- i'm trying to remember how she is phrasing it no it belongs to the federal government not the states, ya da ya da.

she is playing this game and she is very, very murky on just about everything. my question with her is when is enough enough? when will america finally say we just elected a president who swore, you know, he told joe the plumber i'm going to take your money and give it to somebody else but i'm not a marxist. i'm also going to be transparent and you will be able to read all of the bills and you will be able to -- we are not going to jam things down and we are going to do these things right, et cetera, et cetera. he has violated almost everything that he promised in campaigns. ok. is he not a maxist but now "newsweek" magazine says we are all socialists now. we don't have transparency. we are spending all this money on the transparency bill. she says i don't legislate from the bench yesterday. if he dealt to the law but she has been giving speech after speech where she is saying you know what? this is where we make policies at the bench. eric: at the end of the day she

is going to be confirmed. is this a problem? >> the problem is that, again, i don't know how much is enough for this country. do we -- we have this feeling that oh well the constitution will always be here. oh well, we are in the united states of america we will always survive. not if we don't care about it not if we don't stand up. not if we don't fight for common decency. not if we continue to put people, who are lying to us, who are clearly lying to us. steve: who is lying? >> sotomayor is lying. gretchen: about what? >> you name it. let's just take this. she says i know we are not supposed to say this, and clearly i don't do it but we all know that you legislate from the bench. yesterday she stands there and says no if he dealt to the law. well, which one is it? well, with the history of what we have going in washington on both the republican and the are democrat side i say we take them at their word.

we look at the worst case scenario and take them at that word. when they give us two different explanations, i'm going to believe the one she didn't say in washington. gretchen: one thing that the american public should be concerned about is all these john karrs it is changing the constitution. >> it's changing the very structure of this country. f.d.r. had czars but he called them dictators that was the same system. the progressives have always liked the dictator system. look at history. steve: one of the things on mr. obama's agenda is he would love to get health care passed. >> i'm sure he would. steve: it's going to cost people who are successful in this country a lot more to pay the bill on that. but, also, energy reform. is the blanket fehrman for what is also known as cap and trade. essentially that's going to say whatever you spend for energy, f. you spend more than a certain amount, you have to pass that on to your customers. many have referred to that as a

tax. >> of course it is. steve: democrats say it's not a tax. >> it's just higher prices, oh, ok. gretchen: electricity that everyone uses. >> it is insane. weigh are right now we are sending timothy geithner over to saudi arabia to beg them and tell them hey, we're good for all of our debt. why do we have to send him over because people don't think we can actually pay our debt. what are we doing with saudi arabia? we are allowing them to charge us seven times the amount that it actually takes to pull the stuff out of the ground because we won't use our own natural resources. so we take our dollar, send them over to saudi arabia then beg saudi arabia for a loan and they take our dollars and loan them back to us. what are we doing? steve: glenn, why don't we do nuclear in this country? look at europe, and europe is all atomic and they are doing well. >> look at what the eu environmental minister said. he said cap and trade is about the economy. it is about leveling the playing field for big business.

that's what this is about. nuclear energy is clean, it is cheap. well, they can't have that. eric: address the fact that china and india have no intention of signing on to any sort of reducing carbon emissions. by the way when you are pliewfting china, it comes here. >> oh yeah. look. i'm reading an absolutely terrifying book. one of the first copies of english the coming insurrection. it was printed in france. it is coming here in the middle of august. it is terrifying. and it is about communism. and it is the take the streets. what they are burning the cars in france it is coming here. and it is this is the time. communism, a one world government will happen. we have got to do it now. that's what cap and trade and all of this is about. this is about uniting the world. al gore just said it last week. nobody covered it because we were talking about michael jackson. gretchen: i was just going to say because they passed that cap and trade bill with 300

additional pages the day after michael jackson died and most of the malcolm jenkins in this country did not know anything about it. will they now though know about it. >> no, i don't think so. steve: they don't understand it. >> because everybody is, again, either asleep, or they are. steve: in the tank? >> in the tank. they have been bribed through whatever it is, what tax break they get. whatever. or it's just plain arrogance that they say if i hear one more person say well, we have been through worse. well, you are not going to get through worse or even the same thing if you don't have a healthy respect for it. this is a dangerous time we live in. gretchen: look at the similarities between eric bolling and glenn beck. both tieless. you are losing the pink socks today. eric: i don't have pink socks. gretchen: you filled in for glenn beck last week. how did he do as a substitute? glenn gave us his ratings a bowling. steve: look at this video.

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>> we're back with glenn beck just talking about his vacation last week. of course he is the host of the glenn beck program and author of common sense, the occasion against an out-of-control government. now, listen, while you were gone last, this man, eric bolling, mr. bowling for dollars, filled in for you and you dispatched somebody to the street. >> we did. steve: to do a popularity poll,

right? listen to this. >> i love glenn beck. >> what about eric bolling? >> i don't know eric bolling. >> do you know who glenn beck is. >> yes, die. >> ok. what about eric bolling. >> i don't know that name. >> do you know who glenn beck is. >> yes, i do. >> what about eric bolling. >> no, i don't know him. >> do you know who glenn beck is. >> i do. >> what about eric bolling? >> no, i don't know him. >> do you know who glenn beck snches sure do. >> what about eric bolling. >> sure don't. >> not one? >> well, i mean. pink socks. >> when you sit in for glenn beck, those are big socks to fill. >> i brought you something. >> favorite thing. >> i was missing a few. nature's prozac. i got there and i'm like where where is the all the m&m's.

got did a great job. i got a lot of mail. steve: you ought to dig into this goldman sachs thing. they made profits of $2 billion this last quarter even though they took 10 billion in tarp money which they have not paid back yet. >> blood will shoot out of your eyes it is corruption, what's going on in washington. >> here is the thing. they took -- while they had tarp money, 10 billion, 25 billion, they took risks. they put on the most risky bets on the planet. bets on commodities. >> how much time do we have? steve: we got 1 minute. >> real quick. paulson works for goldman sachs. first thing he does, he let's lehman brothers fail. then the very next day, he bails out a.i.g. a.i.g. pays back goldman.

>> 100%. >> correct. appoint goldman sachs to run tarp. he makes lehman brothers -- i mean goldman sachs, he makes them a bank holding company. now the sec doesn't oversee them but the fed does. run by an ex -- goldman sachs guy who is on the board of directors of goldman sachs. >> one more, glenn. that weekend when lehman failed they saved, who? merrill lunch who is the chairman? john thain. where did he come from? goldman sachs. >> unbelievable. wait until you hear this web of corruption and who is really running our country. gretchen: sounds like a full circle. people want to tune in tonight at 5:00. thank you very much. gretchen: get the pink socks. a story you will hear here meeting about islamic school with expected terror ties. it wants to expand and officials may give it the go ahead. we will tell you all about it

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gretchen: time for your news by the numbers. first, 1.0 trillion dollars. that's the size of the u.s. budget deficit. the first time the deficit has topped the 1 trillion mark. next, $732,000. that's how much money sarah palin's political action committee has raised since it was founded five months ago. 200,000 has poured in since palin announced she is stepping down as alaska governor. finally 45 million bucks. that's how much ryan secrest will be paid to most "american idol" for the next three years. let's see that's 15 million a year. it makes him the highest paid

reality host in tv history. steve? steve: i want that deal. meanwhile, we all want that deal. all across tv land and you folks at home as well. meanwhile, this is something that's going to get you going. a holy war raging in the commonwealth of virginia right now. a saudi school there who counts alleged terrorist suspects among its past students is trying to expand their campus. critics say it's hate training academy. county supervisors held a public hearing last night in fairfax county, virginia, as they close in on a vote on whether to allow the islamic academy to grow we don't know a lot about it so we called in president of the center for security policy frank gaffney jr. joining us today from atlanta. hi, frank. >> good morning, steve. steve: first of all, i used to live in fairfax county. i'm familiar with the case here. it has been called terror high.

why? >> this is a school that the saudis have established in the united states as part of a much more broad-reaching effort on their part to promote what they believe is the true authoritative version of islam. it has at its core a program, and we talked about it before, called sur rhea. by its very nature it adherence the belief that their obligation, the supremacist idea is they must ensure that islam triumphs over all others. fly jihad and more stementy means where violence is not possible. this academy is part and parcel of that program. >> so the academy wants to expand. wants to get bigger. i think there are four or 500 people showed up last night in fairfax county mostly to say we can't let this happen right now.

let's talk about a little bit about the saudis who were involved in this, they say there is nothing to do that don't call it terror high. when you look at the valedictorian of the class back in 1999, in 2005, the valedictorian of this academy was convicted for joining al qaeda and plotting to assassinate president bush. >> right. that's only one of several episodes. faculty members and other students that gives rise to this concern. but, again, it's central to the curriculum that involves training under the saudi's textbooks that promotes this idea that that's what you are supposed to be doing. so you have got 1200 students if the saudis have their way. within minutes of the seat of our government, this idea that their job is to wage jihad. i mean, is it any wonder that people in northern virginia are beginning to say, wait a minute, so their board of supervisors in fairfax county, it's high time,

steve. frankly, this thing has been moving along because, i believe, among other things, the reason that glenn beck mentioned a moment ago. we're so desperate for saudi help, mostly recycling our petra dollars that we're not going to raise any concerns. at least at the state department, the federal government level about this totalitarian ideology that they're trying through stealth and through violence to promote worldwide, including in our own country. steve: so our own state department not helpful on this because saudi arabia is our gas station. real quickly, bones of contention has been the fact that apparently the books that they have been using at this academy have in the past come from directly sawdz did i ayash i can't. you saudi arabia. and he kind of touched on all of the bad stuff in those books, but there have been, what, 40 different instances where they have come back and said we have ripped pages out of it. who is doing the books now? >> yeah. as far as i know, it's still the

saudis. this is a saudi government owned operation. the textbooks i believe are still from saudi arabia. they still tell us they are cleaning them up. terrific effort underway of the virginia anti-sharia task forest led by jim. [ laughterlafferty holding them accountable. we weigh in virginia and nationwide against this expansion of a saudi sort of pettrey dish for incould you baiting terrorists perhaps in our country. and i hope that the american people will engage in this where the state department and our federal government and others are refusing to do so. steve: it's quite a story. frank gaffney jr. joining from us atlanta. we thank you, circumstance for getting up on this tuesday morning. >> thank you. steve: meanwhile, straight ahead, three killers escape through underground tunnels surrounded by residential neighborhood. two of the guys still on the loose. how police are racing against time to get the prisoners back before they could possibly kill again. meanwhile, the easy part is over

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>> what is the stimulus money doing? is it doing anything? is the tarp money doing anything? why are we calling it tarp? [ laughter ] congressman, help me. >> well, the stimulus money -- actually, i will tell you, i'm not supposed to call it stimulus. the message experts in washington have told us that we are supposed to call it the recovery plan. that that works out better with focus groups. i was puzzled by that because i have found most people would rather be stimulated rather than recover. steve: don't call it stimulus money. gretchen: like there is no more war on terror. that was named something i can't remember. do you guys remember? eric: no. gretchen: but it's not the war on terror. it's all in the way that the words work. headlines for your tuesday

morning. they wanted to fight jihad. speaking of the war on terror. that's what feds are saying about two somali who left to fight with al qaeda. federal authorities unsealing an indictment in the long running investigation of the men. they say for a year those men provided resources and themselves to terrorists in minnesota and elsewhere. steve: great. meanwhile, a cold blooded killer and convicted rapist on the loose right now as authorities in indiana scramble to figure out how they escaped from a maximum security prison. it is believed the three inmates made a break through underground tunnels at the indiana state prison about 60 miles from chicago. one convict, also a murderer was caught eight miles from the prison. other two, still at large. all right. the minority children who were kicked out of a philadelphia area swim club are now rejecting the club's offer to return to the pool. day camp director al thee a wright says the kids are

permanently scarred after hearing racial comments. take a listen to what they told us on friday. >> i felt really angry and upset that these -- like they would say something like that. like they wouldn't let us in just because of the color of our skin. >> the camp plans to sue the club. they want want members to used racist language expelled. gretchen: motorcycle history being made. take a look at this cool video of a biker jumping across the tower bridge. that gets the guy's attention over the river in london. alleluia australian moat cross star. he is the first one ever to read those jumps. you can't watch. there he goes. gretchen: very cool. steve good day. all right, feeling hungry? how about some chain gang chili? that's one of the items on this menu at this restaurant which has just opened in chicago. the owner is putting ex-cons

back to work and named the new joint felony franks. remember this guy? we had him on our show. while some people can't stomach the idea, employees have a much different take. >> i think it's rather insulting. i think they could have thought up of a better nanchts we shouldn't be glorifying felonies here in this day and age. >> best thing to happen to me since i have been rehabilitated. i couldn't ask for more. steve: there you go. the owner of felony franks is asking for more. he plans to open up additional restaurants all over chicago land. eric: you know him from reality show jon and kate plus 8 jon goes lynn split from kate about a month ago on tv. now it looks like his new squeeze has a past filled with pot smoke. this is haley's mugshot from when she was arrested in 2005. police busted her on a college campus where she was allegedly passing a marijuana pipe around with five friends. the case was eventually settled out of court. steve: oh boy. gretchen: welcome to the world

of reality tv and everything known about your life in the public. let's go to dave bringings who is getting all the scoop on the all-star game in st. louis. it's going to be going on tonight. you have some guests, dave. steve: famous ones. >> we do have very famous gusts at the all-star stadium 8:00 tonight on fox. two very special guests this morning. mr. october mr. reggie jackson, hall of famer, also ken griffey sr. listen to, this between these two seven world series rings. 17 awful-star game appearances. you guys know all about this game. and reggie, you are saying just now it was the national league dominating this game when you played in it? >> i don't want to admit this. why did you bring that up? they used to whip us like a stepchild. i was in 14 of those games and it was maize, aaron, gibson. co-fax and then after that

seemed like half the reds, receiver, bench, morgan, mccuby. i hate to say it but they whipped up is. >> is it right that the winner of this game gets home field advantage in the world series? >> i haven't even actually i have never thought about it that way. you know, like i say, when reggie and i played in terms of playing the game, we played to win the game. wasn't any incensives for us. we wanted to have the bragging rights. know, against the american league. >> we don't have no bragging rights. >> the biggest thing was the american league also dominated the world series. and especially the yankees, you know. that's -- and i guess the fortunate thing was that when we got the teams together. >> five rings here, that's what i'm saying. they dominated the world series

get back back was the all star game. >> do you know ohio remember the most? was joe morgan. run around bragging hiding behind maize and aaron and big guys although joe is a great player. make fun of us all the time. dave: another thing, guys that people are trying to figure out today is what to make of the steroid hearing. your son ken griffey jr. hits over 600 home runs, may be the greatest home run hitter of our area if it weren't for the steroid era. what do we make of today and the sluggers. albert puls seems to be the face today of a clean game. what do we make of all of these allegations? >> well, i mean, you know, like i said, the only thing i can look at is major league baseball is trying to clean it up that's the biggest thing i can say. the guys can actually just go and, you know, what they do is

they have got to play the game, no matter what happens. they have got to make contact and do all of that still, the difference is they are cleaning up the game. >> religiony, your thoughts real quick? >> i would like to seat commissioner of baseball have a much stronger hand in the decision-making. i know the players association has to protect the players but i really like the way they have such a dominant voice in the nfl. i would like to see bud. >> you are here working. this is a special day, two years cancer free as of today. >> as of today, right. so, you know, i'm working right now with a campaign with depends products and portion of the proceeds if you buy the products goes to zero. and that's to -- campaign to stamp out prostate cancer.

>> you can get a piece of the old yankee stadium the house that ruth built go to yankees.com or steiner sports.com. get some special items from the original stadium. major league baseball game tonight. our thanks to mr. october and ken griffey sr. back to you guys. steve: we should point out it was a little noisy there. there was a secret service helicopter above the stadium right there because the president of the united states going to be throwing out the first pitch. it's going to be causing the mother of all traffic jams because apparently they will have to close down interstate 64. that's going to be a ginormous hark for the people of st. louis st. louis. gretchen: thank you for everyone emailing in to let me know what the war on terror is called. oversatisfies contingency operation. it's impossible to remember. i wonder if that's on purpose. we talk to the sheriff's department investigating the murder of that couple with 16

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role of judges in government. >> in the past month, many senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. simple, fidelity to the law. eric: that's not what she said just a few years ago. >> they are looking for people with court of appeals experience because it is court of appeals is where policy is made. eric: so which one of these philosophies will judge sonia sotomayor take to the supreme court if she is confirmed? steve: joining us right now from washington senate judiciary committee member senator orrin happen. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. nice to be with you. steve: good to have you. you know that videotape that really comes back to haunt you sometimes. yesterday she talked about if i dealt with the law a a couple years ago she was talking at this court level this is where policy is made. somebody today on the republican side certainly will ask her about that, won't they? >> i don't think there is any

question about it. that was a very strange statement. also, you know, she kind of joked about it like, well, we all know that but we shouldn't be joking about it. the exact of the matter is if she believes that the circuits of appeals and by extension the supreme court should set the policy of this country that is totally contrary to what judges should be doing. they should be interpreting the laws, not making it she said that would be her philosophy yesterday. that was a slogan not a philosophy. i have to say she is going to have to distinguish that she will get tough questions on that precise issue. >> senator, tough questions perhaps, about l. it change anyone's vote, frankly? >> it depends on how she answers. i suspect she will do quite well. i'm sure the white house and the justice department have prepped her a great deal. she is a bright woman to boot. she has a wolf life story.

many things you can say to commend her. observed, we don't expect, as republicans, we don't expect president barack obama to appoint a conservative or moderate to the bench. is he naturally going-to-a point a liberal person. she certainly fits that mode. she has a lot of things that distinguish her and has a lot of things that can be said are in her favor. steve: one thing she has got some splains to do and that regards the second amendment. i think it was back in 2004 she said that gun ownership is not a fundamental right. >> that's right. and in fact she even said that after the heller decision which was decided here in the district of columbia. now that decision applied only to the district of columbia, not to the states. but for her to -- she just threw that out there, even though the case didn't require that. the facts of the case were not interested in that. yet she threw that out as, you know, just as an extra thought. that's not what judges should

do. she will have to answer that. frankly she will have to make it very clear where she stands on that very important issue. >> senator, real quick, we are running out of time. will you ask her about punitive damage awards it's been a hotpoint for businesses where she stands and how she will judge. >> i'm not sure about that but, you know, that is a serious issue. and the current supreme court has been doing some things about that. frankly, they have been running out of control. a lot of the punitive damage awards for the past. so i think the courts are starting to apply itself to that particular set of issues. steve: all right. senator orrin hatch joining from us a very noisy capitol hill on this tuesday morning. senator, thank you very much for joining us. we know you have a very busy day today. by the way, the coverage of the confirmation hearings of judge sonia sotomayor kick off about an hour from now right here on fox. eric: all right, imagine you are flying on a plane and this is what you see, a gapping hole above your head. it happened on a southwest flight at 30,000 feet.

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ally begins with the dress. there were tux give-aways, limos, ice sculptures, and the wedding gowns. we're joined with sharon highman and kelly jacobson. good morning, ladies. jacqueline and tanya, i grew up two towns over from your shop in minnesota, and i think this is such a wonderful idea. when i read about this last week, i thought wow, out of the goodness of your hearts you're giving away wedding gowns to brides to be whose boyfriends are serving overseas. how did you come up with the idea? >> two years ago tanya and i were at a bridal buying show in chicago, and we met another

mother-daughter bridal shop owner, and they had done it in new york, and we thought it was such a great idea that we thought we wanted to do it here. gretchen: i know, tanya, that you're making such a difference in the lives of these young women who are waiting for the most important time in their life to get married, and you're providing these gowns for them. that's such a wonderful thing to do. >> yeah, we are doing it to thank them for what they go through waiting for their fiances and boyfriends that are serving our country, and in return they end up thanking us, so it's just a very gratifying event to do. gretchen: sharon, you're a military bride to be. i know your wedding is planned for next summer. where is your fiance and when will he be coming home? >> he's currently serving in iraq, in basra, and he will be coming home around february of

2010. gretchen: so no doubt he had a chance that you were given this gown. what was his reaction? >> he was thrilled. he thought it was awesome, and he's just excited to hear about it. gretchen: callie, for you, i love this part, one of the things that you got was a camouflage garter? >> yes, pretty excited about that. gretchen: your fiance is coming home soon, september, from iraq, right? >> that's his two-week leave. he's there till january. gretchen: but you'll at least be able to see him. what was your reaction to know that you were going to be given this wedding dress for the most important moment in your life? >> besides the day of my wedding it's the best gift i could have ever received. it's awesome. gretchen: and what did you say to jacqueline and tanya when this event happened? >> we shared some tears, there were definitely tears, my fiance

called from iraq when i was there, and he got to speak with her too, and it was an amazing gift. there's not even words to explain how happy i am. gretchen: in this day and age in reporting, so many awful stories, i love doing these good news stories, and if it weren't for people like you, tanya and jacqueline, we would not be able to report them. thank you for doing this, and brides to be, have fantastic weddings. >> thank you. >> thank you. gretchen: more "fox & friends" straight ahead. sonia sotomayor getting a grilling on day two of her confirmation hearings. dems singing her praises, though. laurie ingraham is here at the top of the hour. and a couple with 16 children, 12 of them adopted, killed, murdered, after a bunch of bandits stormed their home.

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gretchen: we hope you're having a fantastic tuesday, we are here on "fox & friends," and it's july 14, 2009. the president's car czar is out, so why did steve rattner step down. laura ingraham is here with a closer look. steve: they took a major risk with our money. goldman sachs executives sold off assets. wrong or right, we will report, and you will decide in two minutes. eric. >> passengers looked up, and there is what they saw, the sky. how this huge gaping hole blew through the fuselage of a plane. our slogan comes from steve been and stephanie in georgia. we went on vacation, we won't a cruise, we were happy to find we

still had fox news. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- announcer: it's "fox & friends." steve: live from studio e as in eric, eric boling in today. gretchen: we're going to speak to laura ingraham as well as t. boone pickens. he's a texas guy who knows a lot about energy, and eric is going to be interviewing t. boone pickens. >> i'm not going to give him a pass. gretchen: we have to start with your headlines this morning. because this is an amazingly disturbing story. they were dressed in all black when they stormed the house and killed the couple. this couple had 16 children, 12ch them adopted. one team of men entered the front of the house where byrd and melanie billings lived. a second team came through

ninjas came through an unlocked door. the attackers were in and out of the house in less than four minutes. this morning for the first time we're hearing from the billings' oldest child how the billings are doing. >> i don't know to the extent they understand. they're kids, it's summertime, and we're going to do the best we can to keep them happy. gretchen: four people under arrest, but more arrests imminent. the sheriff will join us live ten minutes away. a report is coming out showing goldman sachs has made huge efforts. the "wall street journal" reports that goldman execs sold out $7 million worth of stock for their own profit, but most of the selloff came as the company was getting $10 billion in taxpayer bailout money. today's report is expected to show the investment group posted strong earnings for the second

quarter of the year, 2 b. hillary clinton taking a shot at her boss. she says the obama process for vetting is very difficult. they have no name every foreigner that they know. clinton's comments came when asked why there's still director positions unfilled. this is home for bernie madoff. he was moved from new york to this federal prison in atlanta. this isn't his final destination. he's expected to serve his 150-year sentence in butner, north carolina. that prison has several famous residents. president obama doesn't have a lot of luck with his teleprompter.

listen to what happens during his speech on urban policy. >> for our economy -- oh, goodness. sorry about that, guys. gretchen: the teleprompter fell over in the middle of his remarks, but the president recovered using another teleprompter. in the past teleprompters have either stopped working or fallen other for both president obama and vice president biden. check out these moments. >> i just noticed that i jumped the gun here. >> what am i going to tell the president when i tell him his teleprompter is broken. what will he do then? gretchen: he's joked he'll learn to go off prompter and vice president biden will learn to stay on prompter. steve: laurie ingraham is here.

so sorry to here about the teleprompter of the united states biting the dust. >> that was the sound of the economy falling. he said economy -- there he said economy, the whole prompter went down. it was appropriate. steve: i know you as somebody who used to work as the supreme court very interested in what's going on in capitol hill. it was -- we're going to show a little exciting montage for yesterday. for the most part it was a love-in for sonia sotomayor. let's watch. >> your nomination i view with a great sense of personal pride. you are indeed a very special woman. >> now, our presence here today is about a nominee who's supremely well-qualified. >> i know you have many friends and family here, but it was really an honor to meet your mom. >> after meeting you in my office last week, i know you're not just an outstanding jurist, but an exceptional individual. >> unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to get

confirmed. and i don't think you will. gretchen: he meant he didn't think she would have a meltdown. what was your take away? why don't they just get right to the issues instead of having these speeches? we didn't hear from her until 3:00 p.m. eastern time. >> i found the entire exercise to be one in futility. that's not what being a justis is about, it's about the constitution, equal justice under the law, and whether her view of the constitution comports with the framers' view. all of this well, i'm proud of you, and by the way, i loved amy klobuchar, both minnesota senators are on the judicial committee, and amy klobuchar recounts everybody's inspiring story and a gaping hole in her

list of course justice clarence thomas whose grandfather was share cropper and who slept in a chair until he was 5 years old in pinpoint, georgia, so i thought all of that was very amusing, and good for lindsey graham putting up that big fight. >> two-thirds of the republican senators are still going to vote for her after they grill her. i mean this seems like -- we had glenn beck on her saying this seems like a lot of smoke and mirrors. >> again, if you believe that the advise and consent rule means something, then i think they should start actually getting to their role, and i hope they do that today or tomorrow because a plot is at stake, a lot of decisions are made at the court the affect our lives and a lot of decision making is being taken away by the court and diminished by the court, so it's really important. steve: if you were actually asking a question of her today, i know it would be a good one. what area -- she said so much stuff, the wise latina stuff,

also here at the court of appeal level, this is where we make policy. what would you want to ask her? >> i would ask her about her repeated statements over the years about making policy from the bench, not just that one speech that she gave, but in another case that -- and i think this involved throwing out the conviction of a murderer for some reason, and she was talking about the sentencing guidelines, and she made some passing reference to how we shouldn't be subjected to -- i'm not quoting directly, but like the tyranny of the sentencing guidelines. why is it appropriate for a judge to make these policy comments on laws that are duly passd by the legislature? i find that troubling, and i find the summary judgment she uses troubling as well. those are very short opinions, they don't go into this details of the claims, so those are the things i would focus on most, and what does equal justice under the law mean to you. gretchen: well, this health care reform debate continues to go

forward, although the democrats seem to be at odds between one another at least between the house and senate. senate democrats have made it pretty cheer that they are not in agreement for taxing people to death for health care reform, democrats in the house have a specific difference, specifically charlie rangel. >> don't you love charlie rang alcohol is a tax cheat, the charlie rangel school of whatever it is in new york and the rent controlled apartments. this guy wants to raise taxes on the people who pay the lion's share of taxes in the united states who employ people, who expand businesses, who investment in research and development. this is an absolute disaster if this takes in effect, and i wouldn't rule it out in the senate. i absolutely would not rule it out, and one things i wanted to alert you guys to, yesterday when president obama in a very -- i thought it was a -- he's showing a little bravado saying there was a lot of chatter when i was away. we're getting this thing done, and he looked out at that

audience and said we're getting this thing done, and i was thinking chatter is actual debate, and aren't we supposed to be debating something like this? >> the big gaping hole is that gap between 1, maybe $2 trillion that this thing could cost and the number that rangel -- his $500,000 surtax, and that's not going to come close to paying for this. >> no, it's not, and this ends up filtering down to the middle class because these the ones that are employed by the so called rich. when you look at if rasmussen poll, 49% of americans now somewhat oppose this health care reform because they're learning more about it and that's why president obama wants to push this thing through before the august recess, and i hope calm and discerning minds stop that from happening. steve: we just put up the

graphic, 49% somewhat opposed, 46% somewhat favor, two weeks ago it was 45%, so it's up 4%. also very telling, laura, that the president said -- when pressed about details regarding how you're going to pay for this, they said i'm going to let capitol hill work that out. they've done so well in the past, and now they're going to be in charge of this, the biggest overall in american history regarding health care. >> he doesn't want to be tagged with raising taxesed i don't think on anybody, but the fact of the matter is we already spent $2.5 trillion on health care, and they're proposing that we spend $1 trillion more mostly for the -- for covering the uninsured and supposedly reducing health care costs and you guys know this. most americans now understand this adds up to one thing. rationing, and they don't want any part of that, that's not this way to fix the system, and i think more people are beginning to learn about this.

i think this bill is in real trouble. gretchen: another thing they've been pushing through real fast is the auto industry situation. a changing of the czars on the auto task force. very inside information that's very interesting. and shouldn't there be a vetting process for these powerful people? you're watching the lint of them as they roll by, more than 30 of them. >> releasing her private diary to the public, farrah fawcett's diary, who's behind this decision? steve: and you see a great big hole at 30,000 feet. crest whitestrips has created a revolutionary strip that sticks to your teeth so well you can even drink water with it on. new crest whitestrips advanced seal.

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gretchen: we're back with laura ingraham, and i know you're

champing at the bit to talk about all of these czars. the latest one, steve rattner, who was the car czar, with no auto experience, he's stepping down now, and ron blum will replace him, and he used to be with the steel workers union. no surprise there. they got the better end of the stick on that deal. >> of course the unions get their guy in place, rattner is a big money guy, and it leads me back to what we heard several months ago about how we were going to raid the ethical bar in washington, turning the page on the old way of doing business here, this was going to be the people's process, it was going to be transparent, and everyone was going to have a seat at the table, but no special lobbyist, and what we're seeing is in the naming of these czars, including rattner, and i have another czar to talk about, it's the same old, same old. and can i mention something about the science czar?

gretchen: is this a new one now? >> he's relatively new. it's just been revealed that he coauthored a book called "ecoscience," and in this book he actually endorses the idea of population control, forced sterilization, forced government taking of children of teenage mothers, incredibly controversial stuff, radical stuff, and holdren is yet another czar under a cloud, so i don't know where they're finding these people, but you can't get any more radical than this. steve: so this is the science czar, he's in charge of science czardome. who's he talking to? >> the white house puts these individuals in charge because they represent a certain vision for america, i would imagine, and when you go through this book that he wrote, coauthored,

in is like right out of china. this is terrifying that anyone in any position of authority in the united states would have written this. i think you can make an argument this is a genocidal treatist, this is a racist treatist. gretchen: why do we need a science czar? science teachers across the globe are probably thrilled. we have a surgeon general. we have a health and human services secretary, and we have a climate change person. what does this science czar do? >> when you are remaking america, you need a lot of people in place to do the work of the remaking, and i think the use of these czars and these people who clearly wield an enormous amount of authority is something we all should be concerned about. i don't think it's transparent, i don't think we know what these people are doing, and i think this is just one more example of the wool being pulled over the

eyes of the person people. >> let's not forget the faith czar. >> the faith office has been really helpful so far. steve: she's a radio czar in about 40 minutes. >> never. steve: the laura ingraham show around the world. thank you for spending your tuesday with us. gretchen: this is an amazingly sad story. cold-blooded, as many as eight people involved in the heinous murder of a couple with 16 kids, 12 of them adopted, disabled kids. >> take a look at this, passengers on a plane, they look up, and they she the sky, this all unfolded at 30,000 feet in the air. new swiffer sweeper cleans so completely...

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>> the shuttle has been grounded for an entire month. nasa will try to launch again tomorrow night. former e.r. doctor going under the knife. she has a tumor in her breast. her condition is treatable. she played dr. abby lockhart on e.r. for ten seasons. passengers looked up and saw this giant gaping hole in the fuselage of this 737. the plane was at 30,000 feet when it happened. the cabin lost pressure, deployed the oxygen masks, the pilot made a safe landing in charleston, west virginia. no one was hurt, and investigators are still trying to figure out why this happened. gretchen: a very scary story there, and back in florida a fourth suspect in custody in connection with these horrifying killings of a florida couple who had 16 children. steve: david morgan joins us

with the very latest. sheriff, good morning to you. >> good morning, sir. steve: this sounds like it was some sort of military operation, but one of the things that really helped you out was with all of the children this family had, they had an elaborate security system that had a number of cameras, and tell us how those cameras were able to lead to one of the first breaks in the case. >> this home was equipped with both exterior and interior security systems, and we had an image of the van that was used in the front of the home which was actually on the east side of the home that captured the image of the van pulling up and three individuals deploying from the van in the front of the house, and then of course yesterday we released a second tape of the home that showed the entry from the rear of two additional individuals. gretchen: and after the fact they apparently prepainted that van, but thanks to your tips in getting the media's attention, you were able to hone in on

certain suspects, and so many people wondering why? why was this couple murdered? what was the motive? >> we are releasing at this time a motive, and we want to again be specific here with everyone and let them know this is a motive meaning that we're developing sadly many other motives in this case, but one was robbery, the most simple and basic motive. >> what about the kids? what's the plan for the kids? >> well, we're very pleased to let the public know that these children are still with family members of the billings family. they're at an undisclosed location, but they're being well cared for, our victims advocate from the sheriff's office is working very closely with the family, and as best as can be stated in this difficult time, they are safe, secure, and loved. steve: let's go back a little bit. we saw the video tape of the van, and you referred to the

fact that the men were deployed from the van. this is almost like some sort of very precise operation. how many -- and there's the van right there. how many people do you think was involved in this? because it was pulled off with great precision. >> we've identified at this time at least seven individuals on the property that we've identified that were involved in the actual operation on that compound. we believe that there's a possibility that eight or nine individuals total. we just found out this morning that there may be another individual involved, and so, again, as i explained early on, it's been very complex and frustrating because just when we feel as though we've got a handle in a particular area, it begins to grow, so we're going to chase every lead that we receive from the public and every one that we develop, and hopefully we'll have a fairly quick resolution to a very complex case. gretchen: why would they have to kill them, and what did they take from the house?

>> well, again, those things in a crime, the why is always the most difficult thing to answer. and it's pure speculation at this point. we can't release what they took from the home at this time because we are still developing suspects, we're still interviewing suspects, and of course in police work you always hold back a certain amount of information because in that questioning process if we can get them to identify items that have been taken from the home, then of course that ties them to the crime scene. steve: absolutely, sheriff david morgan joining us from pensacola, thank you very much for the very latest, sir. >> thank you, honor to be here. steve: all right. gretchen: new numbers on the economy due out in just moments. we will bring them to you and tell you what they mean. steve: and. >> the story you won't hear anywhere else. steve: a baseball team handing out free cash to fans, $4,000 of

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president obama will actually be at the game, he's going to be working in the broadcast booth at the all-star game. you know the economy is bad when the president has to take a second gig. that's not a good sign. no, thank you. steve: and tomorrow the big picture we're going to show you is the president throwing out the first pitch because george w. bush actually used to own a baseball team because he was pretty good at that. >> the rangers. steve: how will the president of the united states do? he'll see the pitch. >> he'll be in the booth with the teleprompter. gretchen: we know he can shoot good hoops. last ask dave briggs. how do you think he'll do? >> i think he'll do ok. he threw out the first pitch as

a u.s. senator in 2005. i think the players will tell you aim high is the key. the national league hoping to aim high because they haven't won a game here in the all-star game since 1996, and of course the winner gets home field advantage in the all-star game, and boy, do they need a win. the president will be the fourth president to throw out the pitch in an all-star game, kennedy, nixon, and ford before him. they all threw from the stands, so for advice to the president we had to turn to some prominent figures here at busch stadium, also the best players and managers for what the president should do when he takes the mound tonight. >> i've seen the president throw the baseball before. he's going to throw pretty good. he's got a pretty good arm and form. >> practice, and you'll do fine, but if you're going to come out

without any practice do more than less. >> what would your tips be? >> don't hurt yourself. this is the president of the united states. i mean he can get it done. >> what advice will you have for him? >> i wouldn't prespum to give the president any advice. >> if he throws from the mound, you've got to make sure, that slope will get you if you don't throw it high enough. >> don't be short. that's the only goal. aim small, miss small. that's a line from the patriot. >> i'd move in 15 feet to make sure i didn't bounce it till it got to the plate. >> you've got to catch that first pitch tomorrow night from the president of the united states. what's your advice for him? >> i'm going to tell him throw it as high as you can. don't try to throw a strike because then you might bounce it. >> beyond the first pitch the most intriguing pitch will be a

knuckleball because 42-year-old tim wakefield will become the oldest first-time all-star since 1952, so a nice story line as he makes his first all-star game, and the national league really needs a win here, haven't won since 1996, should be a good one at busch stadium, 8:00 eastern time on fox. let's get back to gretchen and steve, and one time ballplayer eric bolling from what i hear, although i asked all the players if they'd heard of eric, the former pirate. steve: coming up in just about two minutes, rick leventhal is standing not too far from us right now. he's going to tell you about a baseball team that could make your mortgage payment for two months. that is coming up. but right now we start the news headlines off with a "fox news alert." new economic numbers this morning, and they show that americans are opening their wallets a little bit more.

retail sales rose .6 of a percent. not bad. >> "businessweek" is on the block, but the 80-year-old magazine may sell for only $1. that's because "businessweek"'s advertising revenues have been plummeting. possible bidders for the magazine include open gate capital which bought "tv guide" for a dollar. gretchen: liz cheney, former state department official and daughter of former vice president dick cheney says she's seriously considering a run for political office. she's been a strong defender of the bush administration's policies, and she joined us earlier on the show, and had this to say about the secret intelligence programs started by the bush administration that have been canceled by leon panetta. >> the particular set of activities they're talking about never rose to the level of a program that had to be briefed, but that particular set of activities that we're learning

about how to do with capturing and killing al-qaeda leaders. gretchen: mrs. cheney does say that her immediate interests are raising her five children and helping her father write his memoirs. steve: it has been called terror high. a saudi school in virginia, in fairfax county, just outside washington, now looking to expand, but critics say it is actually a hate training academy, and they point to one of the school's valedictorians. in 2005 he was convicted for joining al-qaeda and then planning to assassinate president bush. county supervisors last night held a hearing on whether or not they will let the islamic academy expand and grow, and we spoke to former assistant secretary of defense frank gaffney jr. about the school earlier on this program. >> it has at its core a program called sharia, and by its very nature sharia involves incull

kating in the adherence, the belief that their obligation, this supremacist idea is they must ensure that islam triumphs over all others. steve: americans will have until august 13th to weigh in on the school's plan for expansion. >> a new report out this morning claims debbie rowe unloaded her children to michael jackson's mother for $4 million. according to the "new york post" jackson's ex-wife agreed not to seek custody of paris and prince michael in exchange for the massive payout. the report also says rowe can never seek custody again even if something happens to katherine jackson. and we can find out what killed michael jackson, that's when the l.a. coroner will get toxicology results. gretchen: alana stewart, the ex-wife of rod stewart was a very close friend of the

charlie's angel's star for 30 years. both farrah fawcett and ryan o'neill wanted the book released. steve: how would you like a baseball team to pay your mortgage for up to two months? one new jersey baseball team is scoring big with a unique promotion. it's all-star game, and we've got all-star rick leventhal joining us live. >> guess who threw out the first pitch of the new jersey jackles game? steve: you? >> i did. so the idea is it's not easy selling baseball tickets, especially these days, even when the best seats are just 10 bucks. they play at yogi berra stadium, and they calm up with mortgage

mondays, and they have thirsty fridays and fly away fridays, it's pretty much offering a promotion every single game night to put fans in the seats. >> in this economy, people are watching every nickel and dime, so it is difficult to get people out, and quite honestly coming to a ball game is kind of discretionary dollars that people are spending, so people in our kind of business or the entertainment business have to work very hard to get the fans to come on out. >> and last night's attendance was just shy of 1,600 which is pretty good for a monday night. gretchen: what about the free mortgage, rick? >> every fan over 18 with a rent or mortgage payment was invited to fill out these slips of paper, and then before the top of the seventh inning on the roof of the jackals digout jack the jackal helped pull out a name, and the winner was from

rutherford, new jersey, and here he is. >> when i walked in they said i won the contest, and that was it. i had fun. >> how much of a difference does this make? >> a lot. i won't have to ask my mom for no more money for two months. >> so he gets his rent paid for two months, and another lucky fan with win his mortgage payments on monday, august 10th. unfortunately the jackals lost to the american defenders 8-7. they could have clench add playoff spot. oh, well. does eric even own a tie? >> forget my tie. did you do that thing where you put your head on the bat and spin around. gretchen: he doesn't own any suits, but he owns a pirate suit. steve: he was drafted back in the day. >> not the somali pirates, the

pittsburgh pirates. steve: eric is going to be interviewing oil tycoon t. boone pickens who has a plan to wean us off oil. >> but i'm not letting him off the hook. gretchen: and she's a performer and musician, and she's dabbling in fashion too. she's co-host of the fashion show, kelly roland formerly of destiny's child is here.

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>> our next guest says reliance on foreign oil isn't only costing us money, it's damaging our national security, and he has a plan to get us back on track. texas oil tycoon t. boone pickens joins us from dallas. i told everyone all morning i wasn't going to let you off the

hook. i've traded oil with you for a long time. you've made a lot of money and you've lost a lot of money. where is oil going? >> i didn't say 300 and it went to 30, i said in ten years, it would be $300, and no, i -- where's it going now? we'll be 75 by the end of the year, and morgan stanley came out with something this morning that said 85 next year. the price is going to go up for oil, and there's no question about that. >> but boone, part of the problem is -- centered around your $300 call going forward was your wind energy proposal. where does that stand? >> oh, we're in the wind business, no question. we've -- i've ordered $2 billion worth of turbines from g.e., and we start receiving the first quarter of 2011, so i'm in the wind business.

renewables are going to happen. you're going to use wind, you're going to use solar, we're going to have a 21st century grid. all of those things have to happen for this country, but those are resources we have to use. you've got to use natural gas for transportation fuel. that's the only thing that will replace foreign oil, and we have abundance of natural gas in this country, so it's going to be used, there's no question that's going to happen. >> but if we use natural gas, boone, how do we get natural gas into our vehicles? there's 250 million passenger vehicles on the road. you can't retool them all. what are we supposed to do? >> ok. we don't pretool anything. everything's an oem. i don't want to upfit or anything else. i want to start with heavy duty 18-wheelers, and when new ones are purchased, they purchase natural gas. all that equipment, technology is very well known. there are 10 million vehicles in the world today that are on natural gas.

only 142,000 in the united states. and we have more gas reserves than any other country in the world. so we're absolute fools if we don't use it. >> wait a minute, though. if we were to move toward natural gas, you would be in the prime spot, the prime business location to benefit from this, not only from the business, but also from, say, i guess government incentives to transfer into natural gas, right? >> well, not really. if you're talking about me making money, the best place for me to have made money was not ever is that right the campaign, and i'd be better off by $60 million. i'm not a gas producer. somebody said the third largest gas producer in america. that's not true. i do own stock in companies that are gas producers, but i mean the winner in this deal is america because it gets us off of foreign oil. foreign oil costs us $500 billion a year, and we're buying it from people that are not friendly to us, and some of them

hate us, so we're fueling both sides, paying for both sides of a war. the best thing to do is to get on our own resource in america which will create jobs for us, jobs will create taxes, and taxes will help the economy, so the way to go is get on america's resources instead of somebody else's resources. >> we'll have to leave it there, boone, you'll have to drill for that natural gas as well, thanks for joining us. goldman sachs was expecting a huge profit after being bailed out by the american people. now, it's even bigger than we thought. from the stage to the runway, kelly rowland, the co-host of "the fashion show" is here live. there she is. first let's check in with bret and megyn. megyn: i come down here to washington, d.c. and they treat us like fancy anchors with a big desk. >> we turned it sideways for

you. megyn: i feel very special. it's a special day. bret: it is. everybody's talking about how this vote is already a conclusion, that she will get through, sonia sotomayor, but here's the question. how will she answer all of these questions, and with these hearings you really never know what's going to come up. megyn: can she take the heat? this is the day to watch. if you got bored yesterday, join us today because the q and a starts in 40 minutes, but our show starts in 8. . .

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steve: this is a fox news alert. but goldman sachs is expecting big profits in the second quarter of this year. they exceeded expectations. 3.3 $4 billion in the second quarter. yesterday we thought it was $2 billion, but it is $3.34

billion. gretchen: joining us now, co- host of "the fashion show," kelly rowland. you can do anything, can you not? >> we all can. [laughter] gretchen: you were so well known for your singing, but fashion has always been an interest? >> definitely. it does not matter when you get up in the morning, you have to wear clothes. you want to look well put together. 15 designers, we are down to the final four. we need america's health right now, they are the ones to vote for the winner. logon to bravotv.com. we need your help. it is so hard, the designers are

so great. one of the things that how people love about the show -- one of the things that people love about the show is the banter between people. it really is spontaneous. it is great. gretchen: you do not know who the winner is going to be because the general public is going to choose? >> we really do none now. the audience will vote, i will vote, isaac will vote, we will co over there. it is really hard. sometimes we do not agree with the audience. steven bell -- steve: docca nellie kicks off this thursday? >> that is right. gretchen: we want to talk about your music career in the after the show show, starting in three

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