check from the union bill, but former labor secretary elaine chao says that's the tip of the iceberg, she says there are other big problems with the bill that will soon be exposed and she joins you to explain what those are. >> and do you remember this? >> what does this have to do with tax sns what does this have to do with taxes, do you realize-- >> lets me finish my point. >> i'm guessing do you. we have an update on that anti-tea party reporter from that other cable network coming up. >> and feast your eyes on this everyone. massive cupcake. delicious. >> oh, there it is. the brand new world record holder weighs in at about 150 pounds. wait until you hear the calorie counts. >> our slogan, this is "fox & friends" when i wake up i'm happy to see the foxx fox crew waking up with me. we are, because we're barely

awake. awake. >> it's "fox & friends"! >> what did you say, chris? love it. >> chris says he likes to wake up with himself. >> a good sign. >> you don't want to wake up with us, chris? (inaudible). >> good sunday morning to you everyone. alisyn camerota on the couch with us avecation. clayton morris, dave briggs. >> thank you, i missed you terribly, glad to be back. >> i have to tell you how tech savvy alisyn camerota, you can set your auto reply out of office in your e-mailbox. >> i got so busted about this. >> here is the best thing. >> i got this, too. >> how tech savvile alisyn it i'm out of town and unable to respond to e-mails until i get back on march 8th. >> this is an old reply she set up. >> i don't know how that happened i methodically went through, i know how to do this, i know how to put the

out of office thing, this took me 15 minutes. this one no, no, and i typed it out i am aout of the office and i deleted the date and then i get at e-mails from everybody saying you're taking off until march what is your problem? >> and she sent one to me, all right, i guess i'll see you in march. >> 3-8. you know who else is tech savvy? nasa lately and the 40th anniversary of the moon landing and announced they lost the tapes, original tapes of the moon landing. how do you lose tapes? we've got a guy one of the nasa engineers responsible, an archivist, not the one that did it by the way, he's a nice guy. we'll have him on to show us what the tapes look like, how in the world you erase the moon landing, how it happened and it may have looked better now that they don't have it. >> that is fascinating stuff. >> and also celebrities come out publicly with their

phobias and boy do they have some interesting ones. we'll share with you some of these individual celebrities phobias. >> billy bob thornton. >> he's afraid of doorknobs. >> and one has clowns. we'll talk about that coming up. let's talk about a job, i thought that clayton morris had locked down at the treasury department. you're not going to run the treasury, but they had a humor in the work place job opening, someone who could draw up cartoons. >> on the spot. this is no joke, the ad that department of the treasury put up on the the website looking for contractors with the ability to discuss the power of humor in the workplace and one of the things is they needed somebody to walk through the hallways and spontaneously draw cartoons on the spot. >> are you sure this is for real and not from the onion? >> no. >> it's so ridiculous. >> no, no, it was a true--

it was a true job, so much so we were talking about it on friday on "fox & friends" and have al franken walk across the street and maybe get a job there, joe biden as well. people are listening because the treasury department yanked the job off the website. no more humor job. >> you called it on the air as absurd and they yanked the ad. >> it is absurd. >> if you need someone to walk the halls and explain why humor is important, and what humor is, you ain't got humor and kind of kills the joke if you have to explain it. >> here is what i find absurd about ti'm having a rough day, and the humor guy is walking down the hall. >> the pressure. >> wait a second, draw a cartoon, i want to you draw garfield. that's great. >> you're going to be disappointed though. my day is better.

>> hire a clown man, treasury department. >> a lot of out of work clowns i'm sure in the economy. >> sure is, stimulus package. >> you know what is more frightening not that they posted it, but the treasury department listened to us, me call it absurd and yanked it from the website. >> you're frighteningly powerful. >> i've got my finger on the funny bone of america. >> and you're tickling it. that's bizarre that they posted it and that they pulled it. >> yeah, it's gone. >> in the meantime, let me tell you your headlines at this hour, if you're just waking up, there's new video of secretary of state hillary clinton arriving in new delhi, india. this is the second stop on her visit to the second most populous nation. while in dell high she's attending events on climate change. and she went to dubai and met

with victims of the hotel terror attack and india and others step up to the plate when facing terrorism. the u.s. video in afghanistan, fox is not showing the 28 minute video, but the sewed shows the soldier in a traditional afghan outfit interviewed in english by capital tors and the soldier says he's scared and chokes up when he talks about his family and calls the war extremely hard and says american morale is low. the pentagon not releasing the soldier's identity yet. he went missing from a base in eastern afghanistan last month. >> well, it's rise and shine time for the crew the space shuttle endeavour getting their wakeup call. ♪ >> the planned space walk was a success and astronauts

stalled a porch for an experiment. they did have trouble communicating because of static from the microphones, but they were able to complete their tasks and next walk is monday, there are 13 astronauts aboard the complex, that's the largest group yet. this could be the future of what powers the space program and everything else, we're talking about onions. a california farming company has succeeded turning onion skins into green energy. the owner says he scum believed on this accidentally trying to figure out a way to get rid of onion waste, did something explode? the discovery is saving his company $700,000 a year and electric bills and 400,000 on onion disposal costs. and the company a looking to expand the business. >> that's government at work. don't need a government mandate you come up with the

american ingenuity. >> the entire time you're crying if you're having onions for energy. >> that's right. everybody out there probably has a strange fear, a phobia and turns out celebrities are no exception to that fuel. we've put together some of the most interesting celebrity phobias and they're fantastic. for instance cameron diaz afraid of door handles and has to open up with her elbow. billy bob thornton, one of the quirkier guys in hollywood, he's actually afraid of antique furniture. >> how could you be afraid of antique furnitures. >> not american antiques, he's afraid of french antiques, he calls them castly and he can't sleep or eat near them and if he's going to a hotel he has to call ahead to make sure there's no french antiques in the room. i'm going to chalk that up to a past life, no other explanation other than he's a quirky guy. >> sarah michelle geller or

as. >> buffy the vampire center. >> afraid of grave yards, she's buffy the vampire slayer. >> that's ironic. >> we have phobias here, we put up alisyn. >> no, i don't have a phobia. >> oh, i'm afraid of clayton. >> i'm afraid of myself. i am he an afraid of cockroaches, they absolutely freak-- i can't stand them. >> they're gross. >> the i get that not too strange. >> what am i afraid of. >> alisyn is wildly afraid of fast forward and saturated fat. >> afraid or attracted? >> you're afraid of ham. >> i'm afraid of anyone touching my head. don't ever touch my head. my wife and kids are the only people on the planet. i will lose it, my hair, my head. >> don't do that. >> it's not about my hair, i was dumped once in a locker and-- >> i can't do it. >> come here, i literally

can't do it, it freaks me out. >> what do you think, matthew mcconnaughey. >> rick, popping out after box? . >> you're afraid of boxes, he no, i'm claustrophobic. >> he doesn't like receiving packages. >> monica says she's afraid of a toad because the male toad fertilizes the egg on the female's back. >> that's odd. >> greensboro grub writes me on twitter, the fear a lot of people probably have, fear of larry king. >> that cockroach was nasty. >> we want to hear what your phobias are, spiders, sfaks, cockroach. >> dave who had hair once. >> you don't want to touch dave's hair. >> it's not a hair thing. >> nicole kidman is scared of butterflies, that's pretty freaky. >> don't touch my head, man. >> all right, rick, how is the

letter. >> get the handy wipes out. clayton. >> if you're in the southwest, it's extremely hot once again, you think it should be hot in arizona and nevada this time of year, but this is extreme so a couple more days, heat advisories across the southwest again especially along the colorado river valley and across the valley north of l.a. stay inside. if you can at all. it's not the case up to the north and wake up cool 56 in minneapolis right now. another cool day, it's going to warm up. we'll get back to summer and a front will bring more rain showers and thunderstorms across parts of florida and this week brings some rainy conditions cs much of the eastern seaboard and we're starting to see the rain develop in texas and going to around the day towards houston and austin and san antonio areas that desperately need some rain, you're going to get it. nice and cool around the great lakes, a little bit of cloud cover and showers and heat across the west.

all right, guys, cockroach is nice. >> we have catty, a fear of balloons. >> balloons? >> that's freakish. >> it's the pong. >> daniel radcliff who plays harry potter, scared of clowns. a common fear and my wife is scared of clowns as well. >> they can be creepy. >> my favorite of the day, perhaps one of them. what happens when your name sounds a lot like a popular character, harry potter. >> imagine what happens when you have to live your life that way especially when the new movie comes out. >> we'll tell what you happens to a poor guy. a new york mailman getting crank calls in the middle of the name. hey, is harry potter there? >> that's his real name. >> he uses skip on the answering machine. he's listed as harry potter. it did get him one good thing, a free meal at outback steakhouse he made a

reservation of as hair i potter and thought they were blowing them off, thank you bought him a steak. >> he wants more. >> what does he wants. he wants j.k. rowling to sar some profits of the books with them because he's had to suffer indig knits of everybody calling him hairy potter, asking if he's a wizard. >> there's no indignity in that, being considered harry potter. >> there are 12 harry potters in the city of new york alone. >> unbelievable there's more than just him. share the the wealth, harry. coming up on the show, moderate democrat much on the left killing card check and former secretary elaine chao says there are other appropriates in the bill. she's here next to explain. woohoo!

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act. >> why was the compromise made and is this good news for the bill? joining us with her thoughts is former us secretary of labor, elaine chao, good morning to you. so why was this taken out? and again, we should remind folks this gave unions the right to vote on a union without a secret balance and it's been taken out. >> right. >> why? >> i think this were just plain acknowledgment of the political reality. basically, this bill was stalled because the proponents of this bill want today eliminate the right to a private ballot and unionization drive and they tried to prevent this, it's something that was good for workers, so, obviously, it won't working, nobody was buying it. >> not good for american business. >> not at all. very unamerican to eliminate the project ballot. what they want to do now is just to keep this bill going because what's important is that there's a moving vehicle through which other amendments can be added on and eventually will go to conference and the

secret ballot can be possibly added back in again. >> and this is why you're not relieved this morning. >> no, no. >> you would think you had abe relieved because it was spiked, but you're not. what's wrong with the bill. >> the xrim compromisers, were looking at about political reality. now, there are other parts of the bill are just as bad. >> such as? >> ago called interest arbitration. basically, you know, it's been almost a sacred part of negotiating, collective bargaining negotiating, that no outside parties interfere in the collective bargaining process. here, this bill would say if both eyes do not come to an agreement with 120 days, government, it's then a government bureaucrat to basically impose a two-year agreement, a contract agreement on the two parties and this means that the government bureaucrat will be able to impose terms and

conditions, such as salary, benefits, union work rules, and once that template is set, in subsequent future negotiations, that becomes you know, the model. >> and what's so interesting is now that card check, it took up so much attention that now the other issues can come to the fore that people can-- >> there are many, many things that are wrong with the bill. a great deal of attention focused on the ballot, but interest arbitration is a real problem and another problem with quickly elections, basically, tt unions who want the ability to come into the work place within, you know, after presenting like 30% of the workers wants ago election. >> right. >> and five days to ten days later an election would be held. at these are very accelerated time frames, so what is effective. what is happening now? the average election takes place within 45 days, that's not too slow. >> we are going to have to leave it there. but it's good news for now that card check has been taken

out. >>, but watch it on the monitor still. >> thanks for focusing on the other issues and elaine chao thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> new footage, is it about to be released of man's first moonwalk, but it's not from the original tapes because nasa lost them. that has conspiracy theorists talking. we'll find out how this is possible, how they could have lost the vital tapes. fascinating stuff coming up. broccoli and carrots

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they're saying of course we neverlanded on the moon in the first place. he oversees the restoration of the moonwalk footage and been there since 1968. thank you for joining us this morning. >> you're welcome, clayton nice to be here. >> tomorrow, big anniversary of the lunar landing. a lot of people wondering as nasa admitted the tapes, the original moonwalk footing was erased, a lot of people wondering and conspiracy theorists won dr how they were erased and why? >> well, it's probably a long story, but the short version is that this television from apollo 11 which was unique and called slow scan, not broadcast television, had to be recorded on a telemetry tape and the only we had to record in that format. one of 14 tracks. those tapes are historically stored in the national record center for a period of years

and then they're pulled out and either the data used again if the houston apollo program needed it and if the program cleared it that that data wasn't needed, these tapes are reduced in the network, we had over probably 500,000 tapes during the apollo program that came in and out of the national record center in austin areas. >> the tapes, most don't what they look like. you have one in front of you. if you can pick it up. i want to see the size of these things. >> okay, that's what one of the original nasa tapes would look like, right? >> right, it's about 15 pounds, about 14 inches, it's got 14 tracks on it, it's about 9,000 feet of tape and during the apollo, every 15 minutes, 9,000 foot of tape was used this thing was rolling at 120 inches a second which is faster than most recorders are done. so, 45 tapes out of 500,000 had this video. >> what they did, they were

demagnetized during the process and theorists say we didn't land on the moon. what do you say. >> i'm in a unique position since i came to nasa in 1968 and support the apollo programs and my team of engineers and technicians worldwide supported the recession processing aen transmission live of the event on the moon, the lunar walk on television. i think the conspiracy theories are entertaining, i was there, my people were there. >> you were there and you saw-- >> i was there, i was there. >> and celebrating the 40th anniversary tomorrow at smithsonian. >> right. >> thank you for coming in. i don't think most americans have seen what the tapes looks like. thank you so much, dick. >> thank you very much. >> well, we have a special programming note to tell, but this morning, we are going to tune into fox news 3 p.m. eastern time for a special covering of the special apollo

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>> yeah. >> it would be like one foot long. >> just dry cake, but still not bad. they're going to give it away to the pig farm, pigs don't insist on frosting. >> they will he' eat anything. >> what kind was it, vanilla? >> i'm guessing, looks like vanilla. >> i like a lemon cupcake. >> lemon? why am i not surprised. >> can you show everyone the size of your coffee you just ordered? >> no. >> please? you like lem noncupcakes. >> dave got a shot of coffee it big, it's a dainty-- >> i'm going to dedefend myself because it's straight espresso, that's why. >> the morning joe right now. it's straight espresso, more tough guy than that. >> this is the morning joke segment. >> hutch milk and sugar in that, zero. >> okay. >> and that's-- >> you win that's the cutest

coffee. >> it's a manly coffee, so cute and adorable. let's move on and tell you news today. >> delicious. >> remember susan rosegin the cnn reporter who went out to the tea party. supposed to be covering the tea parties, but in fact, many people said that they let her own agenda sort of eclipse the participants of the tea parties. let's show you an example. >> refresh it. >> okay, let's see, you're hear with your two-year-old and already in-- why are you hear, sir. >> i hear a president say he believes in what lincoln stood for, lincoln's prumry thing people had the right to liberty. >> sir, what does this have to do with taxes. realize. >> lets he me finish my point. >> and is that responsible reporting and journalism? she went on to attack our network of course as well saying at that we had

orchestrate this had and she was slamming our network to these people which was not the case at all. and then, cnn apparently just decided not to renew her contract. >> so, i guess applaud the move there because obviously, this is someone that allowed her personal bias to come on the air and attack these people at the tea part and now, she's-- they will not comment on personal matters not say it's because of bias, but we read between lines. >> cnn is not confirming this actually. we inside the news, read the tv newser inside and and gossip, very solid source and credible and say they are contract is not renewed as a result of all of this. cnn is not confirming it, but there was so much, frankly, criticism of how she covered it, that it wouldn't be surprising if cnn decided she was too much of after liability to renew her contract. >> in a side bar in the news

business, we're inside news right now, side bar, she applied to work at fox news twice in the past and was not hired. >> maybe she will a third time now that she's unemployed. aly what's going on? >> i've got headlines. indonesian police are closing in on the suspect in that jakarta hotel bombing. police can confirm that they are, the bombings bear a remarkable resemblance to other attacks carried out by a radical islamic group. they tried to see if they had a connection to one of the group's leaders. seven people were killed in the bombings at the ritz carlton and marriott hotels in jakarta. we've got one of the bad guys, police arrested one of the fbi's ten most wanted, expected of opening fire on two los angeles county deputies nearly nine years ago. one deepty was shot in the face and badly wounded.

thankfully that officer has since recovered. lore na dunnish was if a romantic mood, maybe instead of trying online dating. she had an unusual way of getting a date. called 911. she need add cute deputy trainee to come after her house after he responded to a noise complaints. >> can you come back my way? >> you need him to come back here? >> i'd like that, yeah. >> >> and that was three years ago and now her attempt at date is going to be on national tv. about when does-- >> it was on national tv. >> you make a good point. >> actually i think we just scooped this next show. about when not to call 911. the attempt at a date never worked out, she got two years probation.

>> wow, a lot for that. as for the deputy, he never got past the training program. >> no. >> and a sad story. >> i remembered that story when it first aired, not at fox, a different show and i remembered that and she had him come back and she wanted him to come back and she was so desperate-- >> wait a minute, you get two years probation for thinking a guy is cute and trying it lure him back to your house, 911. >> miss dudash you can have gone to the fire department. >> they're all cute. >> you can find an excuse for the fire department to come out. >> you're not suggesting lighting something. >> a cat in a tree. >> if you have vacations, showing us how a few hot spots are getting hotter this summer, take a look. >> weak economic times are eliminating some off beat destinations as vacationers

look at places closer to home. including one place people might want to avoid. tours of the city's sewage treatment plant are booked solid, visitors learn what happened after they flush the toilet. >> it may not be the sandy beach in hawaii just as fun and interesting. hundreds of curiosity seekers are hunting in california to check out the world break arer, longest burning light bulb, including a history of the bulb. >> this light bulb has been burning since 1901. >> and a chance to explore the engines for free. >> it's a reminder how many unique and interesting and amazing thing we have in this country. >> editors at the lonely planet travel guide say the need for something free and different has americans seeking the road less traveled. this drive through redwood tree in northern california. a prison museum in hundredsville, texas that

houses the furs electric chair and the spam museum in austin, minnesota visitors can explore the father of all mystery meat. >> people are like, why not, why not? there are plenty of inexpensive options for summertime fun right around the corner. >> that light bulb, for a hundred years? >> this spam museum system. >> no, the water treatment system, just as fun and exciting as san diego. >> you're fascinated. >> they have to prove that one. >> you went there last week. >> you wouldn't wan to see how they process sewage? >> granted it's tempting, but no thank you. >> as in spam. >> and an e-mail from a viewer saying you guys have great stories today. we absolutely do and it doesn't stop there, the train keeps moving wait until you hear the next stories, peta,

we love peta, you love lobster out there in america and love to eat lobster. >> now how they cook lobsters. >> i'd rather not know. >> put it in boiling waters and that's how you enjoy a live lobster, boiling water and killed and eat it and peta how taking on the killing of lobsters in boiling water and they say it's inhumane and there's a better way to do it. >> what's the better way to do it ♪ . >> is this lobster music? >> how could you not know it. >> the little mermaid. >> don't forget mickey mouse. mou do they kill the lobsters? >> they use, how do i say this elegantly. >> a poker. >> they use a poker, thank you, and they prick inside the back of it and kill it first and then into the pot. >> so that feels, apparently that-- pleasant? >> new science revealed that lobsters feel pain. that's why-- >> i knew it, i knew it, i knew it. because when you're leading

them towards the boiling water, if a lobster could scream it would, they're like, they're like-- >> it's horrible. i think peta is right. >> i hate to agree with this one, but i think they've got a point. >> and putting them in boiling water, clayton. >> hold on a second the way in which you're leading to water, more inhuman, hey, buddy we're about to go into the boiling water. >> the i was trying to cushion the blow. >> he is that's not all about peta, more stories, an amusement park in san francisco, going to shut down and don't have the money to operate the park and peta stepped in and said we will fund this amusement park and help keep you open if you rename your park, rename is sea kitten park. sea kitten is their discussion what we reflame fish so we wouldn't eat them. >> sea kitten park? >> i think it sounds cute.

i'd like to go there. >> usually i just-- >> this is not going the way we planned it, is it? >> no, i'm sorry, usually i find peta ridiculous in their efforts. >> and two for two day. >> the lobster thing i find ridiculous. if the park is going to be closed because ever funding and peta says we'll give you the money and have the park so kids have a place to go and play. >> oh, we go to baseball games at citizen's park. >> will they serve like fish sticks, sea kitten sticks? necessary what i wonder. >> e-mail us on let you know what to think about this. >> rick, you have to start impaling your lobsters. >> i have he ride this. have you ever boiled a lobster. >> it is inhuman. >> it feels awful when do you it, cringe and walk away. >> tastes delicious afterwards. >> i don't think i have it in

me to stick that knife in its neck to do it that way. >> you do, rick. >> no, i don't, that killer instinct. >> i don't have that at all. all right. take a look at the weather maps, guys, we've got a beautiful start to the day. temperatures are comfortable and need a jacket across areas of the north, parts of minnesota, wisconsin, michigan, you need a jacket heading out and it's chilly and going to warm up this week and see temperatures returning back kind of to typical, but not today just yet. still warm across the west and the salt radar picture we'll see a nice day and really a lot of the country dealing with clear skies right now. certainly the case across the east except for parts of florida and essentially central florida for your day today. this week, your frontal boundary across the racquet is going to hang out and move backwards towards the west and bring the rain showers across the mid atlantic this week. across the west, more rain showers and thunderstorms in

around the four corners and by the afternoon, the high plains areas of eastern colorado and western texas dealing with severe weather again. >> all right, guys, have you put alisyn into the boiling pot yet? >> not just yet. we're looking for a bigger pot this morning. >> believe me, i have felt the same way as you, rick, it does seem inhuman so-- >> coming up on the show, new concerns over the president's plans for health care, a new proposal could cut out very important procedures and put your health in jeopardy. we'll let now what those are when we come back. >> imodium multi-symptom relief combines two powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium.

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>> president obama's health care overhaul is causing some major concerns in the medical community and a new provision in the house bill could limit the availability of mri's and ct scans all because of funding cuts. >> dr. jack lewin is the ceo of american college of cardiology and former health care advisor to president clinton. good morning, doctor, thanks for being here this morning. >> tell us exactly how obama's nationalized health care could limit the mri's and ct scans cs this kun, especially in rural areas? >> well, now, we did a 29% row ducks in morbidity and mow talty and heart disease deaths in this country in the last eight years. which is the whole world is

looking at stunning. and part of that due to image techniques that prevent heart attack, congenital disease, aneurysms and ruptures, all sorts of things. imaging as it's more sophisticated there are more imaging tests and congress and medicare wanted to reduce the prices of imaging which could actually reduce the availability of these services to millions and millions of americans who haven't received them and need them in rural areas and even gender and ethnic disparities occur. so the balance is stop the inappropriate tests and find a better way than the current plans to limit the use of these services. >> wait a second, doctor, of because the point of universal health care, it's supposed to make medicine more accessible to people who don't have good coverage.

so why this paradox? >> well, i think for one thing, that the amount of these tests have gone up. obviously, some of them, with any new technology, people aren't getting the right test the first time. you've got mr, ct, echo, nuclear tests, and the idea is to stop paying on a volume basis, this is what we'd like to see and pay for quality. change the way we do payment in health reform. instead of price cuts like congress and medicare are proposing. let's provide incentives for doctors to use the best test are right test, the first time using technology to help us make the decisions better. >> if that doesn't happen. give us the bottom line. what does it mean more people who do not catch heart disease, who do not catch early cancer. if they don't have the ct stance scans, don't have the mri's and the heart test you

talked about, what's the end result? >> well, the end result is people in lower inkm communities, rural areas outside of the big urban injuries will have less access to the critically important tests which have advanced the science reduced morbidity and mortality for more americans. we need them more available for all americans, using the tests right. appropriate use criteria where we can use electronic support systems today to make sure that people get the right test the first time. what we don't want to do is just put price controls on these and limit access to them and need them to save their lives. >> doctor, thank you for joining us with the info. >> thank you very much. >> a battle in texas over social studies curriculum. the issue, how much faith should be taught in history

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends," there is a battle brewing over how much faith belongs in america's history classrooms. the texas school board is smack in the middle of it and some want the bible in textbooks and others don't. the member of the school board joins me live to talk about it. good morning to you, don. >> good morning. >> now, you're pushing this movement here to try to get more faith into the classroom, into the kicurriculum it try to make more americans realize the principles for the country are largely biblical, is that right? >> right, i wouldn't call it putting religion in the classrooms, but i will characterize it as what makes america such great place and i

think it's because we've been founded on biblical principles, but first of all, i think it's interesting we recognize that america is a special place and that needs to be communicated to the children. i think would you agree with me, there's so much ignorance out there when it comes to the founding of our countries it relates to faith and religion and so many books come out, one professing one thing and founding fathers were not christian, that's inacts. some will say they're all atheists, that's not accurate. how important to know how the country was founded for our children? >> we have all of this freedom and let's just look at our founding documents. the declaration of independence. what does it say? what principles are like in the preamable, it taste that we hold these truths it be self-evidence that all men are created equal and endowed by the creator of unalienable

rights. it's the truth, there's a creator and we're created. some folks, say, no, enlightenment principles, secular principles, but the secular principles, as i say there's no truth, no god and evolved. the principles you see in the declaration is that we are he' biblically formed. that's a controversial subject and argue back and forth. >> i'll he give you the other side of this history argument here, is that thomas jefferson himself wrote specifically the declaration of independence with a team, but he famously said that look, you know, the king government of england was founded on kingship and kings were led by a divine creator, god and the united states was founded on the governed, the people. and this is seen by many critics and historians is a large departure of the idea being driven boy a divine creator, what say you about

that? >> if you look at the principles which i just enumerated, they talk about god. one other real key biblical institution, why do we have the three branches of power, a biblical view of man that man has fallen, a sinner and we have the fact in the declaration that is great, but we have also the-- there's the constitution that recognizes man as a sinner, that we can't put too much trust in just any government. >> right. >> look at it. look at the christiany, christiandom and europe when we strayed away from christian principles, nazi germany and part of russia, it's important to understand where we came from and there are biblical principles. we all agree we want historical accuracy in the classroom. from the texas state board of

education. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> good job, clayton, a new warning from the c.d.c. kids may need to get four flu shots in the fall. what every parent needs to know coming up. ♪ . pass 4l

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>> good morning, it's sunday, july 19th. new numbers out where republicans stand in the 2012 race for the white house, you may be surprised to see just how close it is. >> and the group with links to al-qaeda is stepping up it's recruit of members, kicking off a conference today to attract followers, you won't believe this. right here on u.s. soil. >> a surprising new study, the more unpopular a boy's name is, the more likely he's going to end up behind bars, why am i not locked up yet? the slogan from bot baton rouge, "fox & friends" better than espresso for opening your eyes or perhaps dave is. >> live from the news crossroads of the world, this is "fox & friends." >> that's right. welcome on this sunday morning to "fox & friends," i'm clayton morris, the lovely and talented dave briggs and beautiful alisyn camerota back

from vacation. great to be back with you guys. >> nice and tan. >> thank you, we had very cooperative weather on cape cord. >> nice out east. >> it was absolutely wonderful. >> weigh in this morning and on the blog aly got that finally fired up after a week off and clayton morris and twitter and the chat room is open weighing in on what we're talking about this morning and talking about this, people are weighing in on. >> including, let us know who you think is the likely candidate for the republican party in 2012. polls are all over the place, but a new one suggests in spite of the damage sarah palin might be the one to deet in the republican party. here is the new poll that says 26% of voters say they think that sarah palin. 26 is mitt romney, pardon me, mitt romney, the likely g.o.p. candidate, sarah palin 21 and our own mike huckabee hangening there and clearly said he has no intention. >> i love that you cannot be

running or have any intention of running, but still show up on polls as if you are running. >> that's cheaper, actually, it's a lot better. but the reason you're saying she may be the one to beat because her favorability rating is higher than mitt romney, so though more people believe he would be the candidate in 2012, her favorability rating among republicans is at 72%, that's extremely high. mitts romney again, number one leading candidate is 56 and the point the gallop pole she's not been hurt, no erosion since resigning of the governorship the end this have month. >> that's among republicans. the other side of this and to play the other side of this. which has been her problem is the independents, swing voters and independents, and seen as a polarizing source among those people and 44% favorable ratings there and i threw this to the chat room.

who would you vote for palin or romney. 90% say romney, romney. some people want to palin, huckabee ticket. >> i think if the economy stays as is, we're going to go to mitt romney, turning around companies, that's the key. and the president now never worked in the private sector, i think had the economy gone sour earlier. mitt romney might be our president. >> and a lot of people point out what happened in massachusetts, what was happening there when he was down there and did not do as successful a job with the massachusetts economy as he did in the private sector with all of his projects. >> clayton you brought up the independents, i found a pole on cbs news found that the independents were slipping from the obama camp and approval rating, the president down 8% from just that six months ago. >> so he's losing the middle right now. >> that's huge, happening since march. >> does anyone have a chat room site. why are we talking about 2012

got through the most protracted presidential race ever. >> no one is worried that we're not. everyone is thinking about it already and no one said, wait, why are we talking about this? >> somehow is does feel relevant. >> a good-- >> sarah palin makes it somehow early vant. >> the day after the election and we're talking 2012. that's what we do. we think forward. >> here is another thing we do, we like to vacation. all right. and i could speak, i think firsthand knowledge of this having just come off a relaxing vacation, yes, it does recharge your batteries and rejuvenate. you. is it worth 3/4 of a million dollars to taxpayers? that's what the executives at the social security administration just spent on frankly a boon dogle. >> look at this. >> to a glitzy posh hotel. >> a beautiful resort in arizona where they said they had to go to meet face-to-face offer 600 executives had to

meet face-to-face and one reporter appeared on gretta the other night. what they saw unfolding when they walked into this thing. >> the first thing we saw when we walked into the main ballroom where there were several hundred, pretty much the whole crowd, all of these managers there, were you know, there were gift baskets handed out and they said those were donated and they went into the dance routine about how to relieve stress for about 20 to 30 minutes and then after that, they had, they had a dance group perform for them and they had these huge, huge monitors and elaborate audio visual setup. >> what i just realized you don't have money to dance. we have done it on the show previously and you don't have to go it a fancy hotel. you can get up at your desk and dance anytime and admit it i'm going to have the guys illustrate how to do it. >> you are. >> and i didn't get that memo. >> the setup coming. >> i didn't get the memo. >> the irony of course the

social security administration running out of money and might not be around and less than 30 years going to run dry, less than $700,000 for a party. bad time to go say the least and employees there have been receiving death threats and they have a very stressful job. >> that's why they claim they had to go on the boondogle for $700,000 because they've been receiving death threats. if they thought people were angry before this, when they find out they spent 700,000-- >> nobody should be getting death threats and i'm skeptical because they only mention it had when they asked them why they're going to it ritzy hotel, we didn't hear about it beforehand. this is a ridiculous inopportune time to go on a boondogle. >> we had people weigh in on twitter and people said this isn't the first part of the government to do this. in fact, the irs has done this and if that doesn't outrage you, the irs doing similar

trips and get aways, that the social security administration is doing, but think, the irs, people who will come and audit you if you do not pay taxes, using your taxes to go on lavish trips as well. >> what else is going on. >> in your headlines, a terrifyi terrifying crash in san francisco, two light rail trains crashed, four are considered severe. shocked people waiting at the west portal station. >> i'm just rattled of, very rattled. i had to spin out of the way, i saw it coming, it was frightening. >> investigators are looking into both mechanical failure and human error, this is the third major transit accident in the u.s. in the past two months. >> pope benedict celebrates sunday mass with a cast on his right wrist. the pope will be in a cast the next month.

he had surgery after breaking his wrist in a fall at his vacation home and will have no impact on the pope's public schedule which will go on as planned. six people are dead after a killing spree in tennessee and alabama and police now arrested 30-year-old jacob schaeffer. he was found on the porch of one of the homes where the victims were found. >> we have taken one person in custody believed to be responsible for this horrendous crime scenes. it's a tremendous crime scene. >> schaeffer's held without bond in lincoln county, tennessee which borders alabama. a local louisiana chef won big in a cookoff. >> he competed against chefs of 15 other states and become the king of the kitchen. they had to create a dish using fish native to the home state. no wonder louisiana won.

great fish there. >> they do. >> how are the e-mails going, romney and huckabee in 2012 and also had an e-mailer from tennessee saying liz cheney, no one is smart he and a better speaker than dick cheney's daughter. >> what about newt gingrich. >> pops up on the poll as well. >> let's go to rick reichmuth. >> how about rick reichmuth. >> no, no, no, any lobster in that. >> i'll get on that with you. >> extreme weather in the west, colorado river valley and temperatures 115 to 117. extremely hot and you need to stay inside a lot of people go to the pool and lakes and rivers, but take care of yourself and elderly, people with heat related illnesses. and temps extremely warm across the area and i think we'll drop maybe to five degrees, it's extremely cool

across the far northern plains and feels like fall, need your sweaters and jackets, areas of minneapolis, and madison, wisconsin and milwaukee. here is across the east though, we've gotten the frontal boundary, rain showers toward florida and going to hang around the area and scattered showers and thunderstorms around much this have week across the eastern seaboard and we're seeing some rain towards texas, that's good news, we need it at least getting in towards southern texas and we'll see the showers move in around austin and san antonio, probably not the far south texas the worst of the drought going on around the country and we will see the beneficial rain here. here is the high temperatures, all the heat is across the west and temps below our averages around the great lakes today. we'll continue to see a bit more cloud cover across this area for the day today and an upper level disturbance will cause some of the showers and thunderstorms during the the afternoon hours, tampa today at 85. that's going to be cool a little bit because a lot of

the showers and thunderstorms, but this heat across the west is going to continue to be a big deal for us. and we're also going to see spreading across california, valley, temperatures around 100 today. and we are going to watch a little bit of an increase in our temperatures, again, out across parts of texas the next few days, right now, 98 in dallas today. headed to el paso around 100 degrees. >> the colorado river region, rick. >> want me to talk about it again. >> no one e-mail wrote in and have rick talk about the colorado river region and he's been talking about it. >> we'll listen, next time you do your forecast we are going to listen. >> we promise. >> all right. coming up, thanks, rick, listen to this story, a group of terrorists gathering right here in the u.s. for a meeting. minds and to recruit new members. a posh hotel is actually allowing this to happen and we'll talk to someone about the outrageous event. >> parents, a warning, be

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>> welcome back here to "fox & friends," our next guest is urging the republican party to rally against sonia sotomayor. the christian coalition and chairman of the new faith and freedom coalition joins us to talk about it this morning. good morning to you, raffle. >> good morning, clayton, good to be with you. >> you want republicans now to rally around judge-- behind and excuse me, against judge sonia sotomayor. >> against. >> against her, moving forward here. i've got to ask you, is this too late? >> no, i don't think so. because i think what the hearings did, clayton was something very critical, which was lay down some key markers, where she stood on the issues

and demonstrated in a way that's incontrovertible on either side of the aisle in terms of her judicial philosophy. in terms of other rulings and in terms of his advocacy, she's out of the rain stream. a couple of quick examples, she repeatedly declined to affirm the constitution includes a basic right to self-defense. this is contrary to the ruling last year, saying there was such a right and secondly said that world court and international law should be be on par with the u.s. constitution and she is in the past advocated many extremist positions so i think here is the key. obviously, she's a hispanic woman nominee the first in history and the republicans obviously want to connect with that hispanic constituency, but if they oppose it on the merit and any red state kkt who votes for sotomayor is

voting for the extremist views i think it will be for the democrats in 2010 and 2012. >> that's an interesting point, challenging here on the merits, let's be honest, politics is open and these people, obviously, these republicans who want to run for reelection, needs to run that coalition among hispanic americans, do you believe that they are going to see it based on the merits? they are simply going to see this guy in my district voted against judge sonia sotomayor or was pushing for having her removed or she was the one who made this polarizing issue. do you think that the hispanic community will see it that way on the merit? >> i think they will. and i will tell you at the faith and freedom coalition we are going to be making building bridges to hispanic citizens and voters a major priority and let me tell you something, we are going to make it clear to them that long before barack obama was elected president and nominated sotomayor that george w. bush nominated miguel he is strata and it was

the democrat and it was leahy and the other leading liberals in the senate who would not allow miguel estrada to come to vote as appellate nominee. the other side prevented qualified hispanics from being nominate today high court position not conservative. >> let's talk now about the christian coalition, as former executive director of the christian coalition and the republican party which i'm a tech guy and i know that the republican party, i've talked to a lot of republican strategists who said we failed the tech argument here, we did not jump on board with web 2.0 and social media and moving the party forward and connecting the way which president obama did, then candidate obama by connecting with his constituents. >> right. >> what do you plan to do with the christian coalition moving forward? you're doing something pretty unique, right? >> welling, it's the faith and freedom coalition, that's my old position. >> right. but what we're doing, we are going to harness the 21st

century technology of social networking, the internet, twitter, all the other technologies available to us, i was twittering with folks on our website as i was coming on the show this morning. ang i will twitter throughout the day and twittered throughout the sotomayor hearings. but beyond that there is a way to take the tech knowledges of social networking to build a grass roots organization all the way down to the precinct and neighborhood level and has a parallel virtual analog online and allow anybody with eight friends to form a virtual chapter on our website and allow them to access voter files directly from our website, i.d. voters and turn them in and if 1932 was the virs radio' lex and 1950 the first television election and 2010 is the first internet election and people have to harness technology if they want be to be competitive if

they want to win if the future. >> i hope people are listening to you and follow raffle reed's twitter, i didn't realize you were a prolific twitterer. we enjoy the feedback, thank you. >> a warning for c.d.c. before kids head back to school they need to get flu shots. the health scoop every parent needs to know is next. hey, it's me, water. did you know that when you filter me at home

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>> dr. mark segal, a contributor. good morning, doc, this is fascinating, we haven't heard much about the h1n1, we thought it was dying out. what about the summer camp. >> i'm on the way to maine to get him and i'm in boston this morning. there were 80 kids who got it, documented by the centers for disease control and i recommended that the camp put everyone on tamiflu as a preventive because studies show that that's 80 to 90% effective at preventing spread and you know what happened not a single kid got the swiefl that cast taking tamiflu, not a camp worker and a respond. >> all the campers were lucky their camp mates had you for a father, but the rest of us considering camp for august, is camp a safe place for kids this summer? >> well, that's a great question and throughout maine

there were several camps and i think that the swine flu spread up there and came from new york and mainly in maine, pennsylvania, some in virginia, i think it's safe to send your kids to camp because the swine flu is very mild, but this is something that should be on everyone's mind and they should be taking temperatures and they should be screening carefully for that. >> let's talk flu shots. what do you recommend this year, this summer? >> well, you know what, i'm disappointed how slow we are. 40 to 150 million doses by october, not fast enough, dave, because we're using old-fashioned hen egg technology, chicken egg technology which is very slow and we are going to have to vaccinate health care workers first, you're telling by the way i'm talking i want kids vaccinated. people in high risk groups, pregnant women, heart disease, infants must be vaccinated and by the way, parents out there, you should know there's no

preservative in the vaccine for kids. and the fear is just emotional, but we don't happen to worry about it, it's not in the vaccine. >> and listen to this, doctor, the c.d.c. says the kids may need four flu shots. not just one, now how hard it is to get your children to the doctor for a shot. may need four different flu shots, why. alisyn, lets he a talk about that, because both the regular flu and the swine flu shot will need boosters in kids, so in other words, get your initial shot and immunity, where it will wear off until the end of flu season, i'm most interested in the compliance with the first two shots. and then i'll encourage my parents to go in and get a second shot as a booster. but you've got to get to regular shot and the h1n1 shot. i think it's a very good idea this year because there's over a million cases around the world. very mild, but let's stamp it down. >> good information this morning, dr. segal. good luck getting the kids there for a second round of

flu shots. >> no kidding. i'm going to be working on it. >> drive safely over there. >> thank you. >> all right, guys, coming up, listen to this, there's a group that's saeshd with al-qaeda as looking for new members and it's kicking off a recruiting conference today, where? >> right here in the united states. we'll have the details of where. >> well, it's the u.s. open a sand castle building. why not? where hundreds of contestants are vying for a thousand dollar payout, we'll have that coming up but first, a quick look at our weather with mr. rick reichmuth. >> i should be doing the weather for that place. >> a good call. >> we could have a spectacular day across the east coast and in fact, a lot of sunshine and very nice temperatures and i don't know if it will last that long coming up. stay with us. my grandkids are a great reason for me to keep my bones strong but even with calcium, vitamin d, and exercise,

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>> and welcome back everybody. thanks for joining us this morning. alisyn camerota with the lovely and talented dave briggs and the techie kid. >> and this guy. >> come on. >> the lovely and handsome and wildly talented. >> adorable, don't forget adorable. >> clayton, i think for the next story we need to tell you about, you would have been a good job applicant. >> yeah. >> sadly the treasury department thought better than what they have posted just last week, they were looking for a humorist to roam the halls of the treasury department. looking for qualified contractors with the ability to discuss the power of humor in the work place. the relationship between hume are and stress and why humor is one of the most important ways that we communicate. >> and that's not all, alisyn, they wanted the person to be able to come up with cartoons, create cartoons on the spot.

can you imagine this? and it appears, clayton, that the treasury department is listening to you. >> because earlier in the week steve and i were talking with, i personally thought how absurd the job was, the notion to hire someone walking the halls and a bad day and they're walking and there's the humorist and have a better day and laughing because you see the person drawing cartoons and steve and i talked about it earlier this week, let's listen. >> it's crazy, joe biden says a lot of funny stuff, would he be available to do this? >> that's good. why not have him go over if he needs a second job. >> the department of treasury is right next door to the white house. apparently they were listening, i called it absurd because they yanked it off of their website, no longer looking for this job applicant anymore. the treasury department perhaps realizing this thing was absurd. >> had you already applied? >> i did, i was upset i called and applied and it was called

absurd? >> i mean, honestly, how did this happen? a time of budget crunch, belt tightening, how much were they going to pay? >> i don't know we never got that. >> to have somebody roam the halls and tell punch lines, it is, it's as though it's a joke story from say the onion. >> it would have been a great onion story. >> in fact, i almost feel as though it is, except that it was on fed bid op, federal business opportunities.gov. it was really on the website, but it seems-- >> maybe a humor czar. >> and it had-- i believe, it was the salary i think it was like $66,000 a year. >> they did post the salary. >> they had everything on there and you know, when you post a federal job it has the job distinction, a particular number and serial number and everything that has a specific pay grade so it's ease toy look up. >> and al franken, senator franken thought he had another gig. >> you bet. in the meantime, your headlines for you, let me tell you what's happening if you're

just waking u the taliban released video of a u.s. soldier captured in afghanistan. fox news is choosing not to air that footage. showing the soldier in afghan garb interviewed by the captures. the soldier is scared and chokes up when talking about his family and the pentagon is not releasing the soldier's identity at this time. believed to be the same missing from a base in eastern afghanistan last month. mississippi governor haley barber, widely considered a presidential contender for 2012 offered some thoughts on how to rebuild the republican party. he says the g.o.p. should use its time out of power to find the next generation of leaders. take a listen. >> well, people from the bush administration last eight years and now seeing different republicans and that's helpful, it's useful. >> barber made those comments during an interview with fox news at the national governor's position meeting which is happening this weekend in biloxi,

mississippi. >> blago is back. the former illinois governor rod blagojevich is considering his future job prospects. he's hosting a radio talk show today and next sunday. and he also sometimes flies through the air in front after green screen. he was removed from office in january, unemployed, but a frequent guest on radio and television shows and he did try out for a reality tv show seeing on the right-hand side of your screen. those obstruction charges aren't going away. he denies wrongdoing and his corruption trial is set for june of the year 2010. let's go to dave. >> wow, 59-year-old tom watson teeing off in the final round of the british open and the in about an hour, trying to pull off one of the most unlikeliest wins in golf history looking to become the sport's oldest major champion, the oldest previous, 48 years

old. tom watson is 59. a couple months short of his 60th birthday and rough patches yesterday, nailed some clutch putts down the stretch and holland, two virtually unknowns, ross fisher and goingens, and. the victory would be the watson's 6th clarett jug. no mickleson or woods and people are clamoring to watch this. >> mostly good weather. >> mostly good weather out there. >> let's take a look at the story, sand sculptors are in california for the sand competition, creating all sorts of castles as they vie for the u.s. open ground and also a kids competition, compete for $21,000 in prizes. the winners will be announced

later today. now, that, my friends, you know, usually we have the sand story in medical rewind and i'm going to be buried in sand. >> i watched you covered up to here in sand. >> and a phobia though. >> yeah, i hate sand. i cannot sand sand. >> are you kidding? you overcame it for the show? >> i can't stand because it gets everywhere. remember cramer on seinfeld episode he's got sand all over them. i bring a back and there's sand in the book and bring a sandwich and there's sand in the ham sandwich. >> it's true. >> the worst when you lay the towel down and the sand is on the towel and you lay on it. >> you're so weird. >> and my son ditched the pass fire in the sand and put it in his mouth and spent a lot of time-- >> this is why i could not come to your house. >> listen to the next story, particularly if you have given your son an uncommon or strange name. there is he' a new study done

at chippingsford university. appearing in the quarterly that shows the stranger a boy's name is the more likely he's to become a juvenile delinquent or end up behind bars. we love this story and our viewers love this story and weighed in on some of the names that their relatives have. but here is the list that they put together of uncommon names you might wind up behind bars. alec is tops on the list. >> and then earnest. >> and i wonder alec baldwin. >> and he's the not behind bars. >> garland. ivan, kareem, and point people out that his real name was lou alcindor. >> lucas is not an unusual name. luke, i don't find that unusual. but they say that-- >> not a real nail. >> a lot of guys behind bars have that name. malcolm, preston. >> preston sounds like you know, like a prep school kid name, you know. >> and then they go bad when

they get there. >> and here is an interesting thing though, two names work in reverse and sally writes on twitter my father's name is garland malcolm. 's he not in jail. >> anymore. >> and perhaps two reverses the effect. >> and clayton, i was locked up right out of the womb. >> and so many lovely-- that shot. >> and clayton. >> yucky. >> hey, listen, this is honest to god i did do a study of this as well. if you name your child ray with their middle name, your son, they will become a fulth. that was the most common middle name when i worked at america's most wanted, every fugitive, i don't care the first name was, middle name was ray. everybody had a middle name of ray. >> i have a female question, dave. no, i have a female question

for alisyn, why the women gravitate to the bad boy guys. >> how much time do you have. my dissertation on this, maybe because they're exciting and cool and handsome and interesting? >> how about this guy when he grows up. this is the senior producer's baby gavin, take a look at the creepy picture. >> he did two or three days hard time, last week. >> and michelle you provided me in my erie called her baby creepy. >> he's cute, but looks like a lot of trouble later in life. >> because he's that angry about his name. >> he's on the lamb right now. >> he's upset. >> i called him creepy, and michelle offered up the picture because she thought he looked creepy as well. have you seen him recently? >> adorable and that's actually one of the prettyiest babies i've ever seen. >> he looks like he didn't get a lot of sleep in that photo. >> i'm trying to butter up

michelle. >> more time for your weather, go. >> exactly. go. beautiful day across much of the northeast, here is your temp. 65 in new york, not humid at all. where you see the green, drier, cooler air mass and making a very comfortable morning. still warm heading to dallas, 73. better than the last week or so. satellite radar picture showing us an upper level disturbance across upper canada and the great lakes today, maybe a few spotty showers and a little bit of cloud cover and bigger story towards florida and one or two inches of rain in southern florida or central florida i should say and that frontal boundary should move back towards the west again and brief showers on and off all the way through friday it looks like. across the west, nice conditions, up and down the coastal areas, but california, at least southern california remaining extremely warm and that's the case with arizona, too, but we are going to see the showers around the four corners, especially in the the afternoon. and in areas of the front

range across parts of west texas, thunderstorm activity throughout the afternoon hours as well. temperature-wise, this is really our bigger story across parts of the west, 113 today in phoenix, we'll be pushing 100 in the outskirts of l.a., and many areas of nevada and utah, parts of new mexico are looking at triple digit temperatures as well. 78, nice towards seattle and for your day tomorrow, we are going to see things cooler, a little bit towards rapid city, 84 and continue to see the sunshine across the west. >> guys, back to you inside. >> we listened that time, rick, you're not bad. >> mid 80's in seattle. >> seattle 83, who knew. >> you're a good weather guy. >> coming up, a group of terrorists are gathering today, right here on u.s. soil. what they're looking for is to recruit new members. a hotel letting it happen and one man trying to prevent it next. imodium multi-symptom relief combines two powerful medicines

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>> all right. welcome back here to the big show. a dangerous meeting of the minds, involves the terrorism recruitment conference. being held right here in the united states and kicks off today. why in the world is a hotel even allowing this to happen. we're joined by founder of responsibility for quality and liberty group and he's leading a protest against this meeting. jeffrey, thanks for being here. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> this group, we should tell

everybody is a global sunni network, it's long been considered to have al-qaeda ties. it is a recruiting group. it's indoctrinenates people. why on earth would the hilton hotel in chicago allow this gathering to happen? >> well, you know, the problem comes down to that the hiltonen other hotels and many people around the country don't understand what these organizations represent. and what they represent is an ideology that's against democracy and it's against human freedom. those of us responsible for equality and liberty are seeking to protect democracy and stand up and speak out for equality and liberty. >> now, you're specifically staying at this hotel today and you're staying there while this conference is going on and you're there specifically for what purpose? >> i'm there.

we are going to be across the street protesting and their activities against democracy, against equality, and against liberty. our group, responsible for equality. believes that all americans and all people around the world are struggling for our human freedoms. this group, you understand, is more than a terrorist group. they just don't want to attack people and buildings, they want to attack the very idea of human freedom. they want to attack your freedoms as a human being. they're against freedom and democracy completely. >> right. so what we're looking to do. >> go ahead. >> is to speak out in sport of freedom and democracy as the basis of why we should be free human beings and have universal human rights. >> let's be clear, they just don't have a different philosophy than you or most americans because obviously, believe in freedom of speech and have different

philosophies. that's right. >> this is considered by experts to be preparing the infran tri for al-qaeda, the same terrorist organization that killed 3,000 american citizens, that they are he' preparing the infantry for more attacks and this sounds like it goes beyond a difference of philosophy. >> well, you know, their organization has a number of former members who have been linked it al-qaeda. kalid shaikh mohammed i'm sure you're maybe aware, was a former member this have organization. >> right. >> there have been members of al-qaeda that have been linked to this organization, but you know, the way we start fighting terrorism is fighting the ideas. we have to fight the ideas that inspired terrorism. and this organization, their ideas are the inspiration of being against human freedom, democracy, equality and liberty and that's where we're starting, what they believe in. >> people are comparing them to the hitler youth recruiting

this radical ideology we we wanted to know why in the worrell the hilton would host this event. >> we're united states citizens and american businesses, if it's legal we're able to host it as long as it's nothing that disrupts our or other guests' privacy and security. what do you to that? >> well, you know, we'll hear the same type of comments around the hotels around the country in similar situations, don't be surprised by that, but you can do something about it. you can stand out on the corner or stand out and be actively visibly responsible for equality and liberty. you know, people around the world are struggling for freedom for democracy today. there are people that need us to stand up and be counted. you have to stand up as individuals, show that we love them as fellow human beings and respect their universal human rights, so that's why not only does the world need you, but america needs you to be responsible for equality and liberty. >> jeffrey, the founder of

responsibility and equality of liberty groups, thank you for joining us, there's a silver lining, they're out in the public and the fbi keeping an eye on it. >> good point and at hilton in chicago is hosting them. is this the right time to buy the home of your dreams? could there be a possibly better time? and an investment expert weighs in on whether today is date. some people like to pretend... a flood could never happen to them... and that their homeowners insurance... protects them. it doesn't. stop pretending. it can happen to you. protect your home with flood insurance.

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time at pbs. hi, pam. >> hi. >> now according to business week may be the absolute best time to buy a house we've seen in decades, is that true? >> i can't think of another time during my lifetime when i've seen both home prices and rates on mortgages fall so low at the same time. and usually-- >> and inventory up. i mean, it's incredible. >> even your pick of the litter. >> that's right. but it feels so fragile. i mean, the economy feels fragile like we're in the eye of the storm of the recession so you're not thinking that way, but meanwhile, the opportunity has been-- if you have your head above water and in a position to become a home owner, wow. >> inventory up, rates down, price down, but isn't credit basically dried up. can people get home loans now? >> yes, credit is not dried up. of course, it's dried up in many sectors, in many areas,

it's slowed down, it's trickling and if you're qualified to take out a mortgage loan that you can actually afford and your outlook is very realistic and your expectations are all aligned, then, i think that you're in a great position and of course, with job losses and what we're going through right now with unemployment, you know, a lot of people are unsecure. they feel like if they're working and have a job they're concerned about hanging on to that job, but if you traveled back in time five years, okay, and were you a renter. >> right. >> one of those people who you were turning on the tvs it was a flip your house show on every network. >> sure. >> your friends, it felt like the train was passing you by and every time you went to go buy a house, housing prices were just out of reach, sort of a dream. and now the train has come back around again and guess what, tickets are on sale. there are more on the train available to you. >> that's great. >> my father is a realtor in

reading, pennsylvania and the one problem for him trying to secure the mortgages and so, you know, he has to meet with these people and have to have pre approval letters and jump through hoops right now. there are certain questions that potential home buyers should be asking not only of their realtor, but the mortgage broker. >> start with yourself. ask yourself. do a reality check. remember, you're not the same home buyer were you five years ago. you're smarter now, so when you go into the transaction, you're going to make sure that you feel like you're pretty fortified with job security, if you're a free-lancer or feel there's reasonably good chance to hang onto the house for five years, at least, so it's a five year plan instead of a one year plan. >> flip it, watching the shows and flipping it. >> the next stop on the train is not getting off the next stop, next five stops. >> pam krueger, appreciate it, host of "money track".

>> thanks. >> i'm going to buy a house today and i don't need one. >> another hour of the show to do. >> then i will. >> meanwhile, the battle lines of course were drawn as the debate over health care heats up in congress, dick morris is here with his thoughts on why president obama is not sticking to his self-imposed deadline. and they entered the all-star break in a freefall, but it looks like the new york mets are finally getting some help. meet the senior softball players now offering to teach the men how the game should really be played. we'll get their tips and we'll get their tips and tricks coming up. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. both cost the same. but only the new pringles super stack can

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>> alisyn: good morning, it is sunday, july 19th, here's what's happening this hour. dissension in the ranks, democrats are balking at president obama's plan for health care. it is a press -- this is president backing down from the fight. >> dave: smokers are targeted again, this time getting hit with back taxes. this is -- is it government overkill, we report, you decide. >> clayton: the bad news bears of major league baseball are getting a little help, senior softball players have instruction for the bumbling mets, i couldn't be happier as a phillies fan, our slogan from leah in florida, nothing could be finer than sitting in my recliner watching "fox & recliner watching "fox & friends."

captioning by, closed captioning services, inc. >> good morning you are watching "fox & friends." nice. >> dave: it is indeed, nice! good morning to you all, thanks for being here. >> alisyn: thanks for joining us. >> clayton: look who is back. >> alisyn: back, fresh, rejuvenated from my family vacation. >> dave: nothing like taking vacation and getting up at 3:00 a.m. and to be on television. >> alisyn: i get enough rest, the 3:00 a.m. alarm clock was not as painful. >> clayton: coming up on the show, talking about scott peterson, has been locked up a number of years, convicted of murdering laci peterson and their unborn child and now, scott peterson's family asking for help, for the appeal process, they need money. they want to help him out, by raising $95,000 in fees, using paypal and we'll show you what web site that is and how you can contribute. which is unbelievable. >> dave: fascinating and now,

we'll bring in dick morris, fox news political analyst, talking about health care. as you might imagine, good morning to you, dick. >> hey, good to be here. >> dave: it is fascinating, the the president appears to be backing off of that claim they are going to get health care legislation, by the august recess, that of course is less than two weeks away, and for the house and the senate, august 7th, and so, if he is softening his approach -- is he softening the approach? let's be honest, the blue dog democrats are not backing down. >> i don't believe it. until we white house officially says that, i think he may just be hiding in the weeds. he's getting a real backlash on this. from the senate democrats, the moderate democrats. because, he's stringing them along and saying we have to completely change the entire health care system of the united states, and we have to do it in tep days. and the bill doesn't take effect until next year anyway. and, you know, we spend a lot of

time talking about what a disaster the program would be. in canada, where they have a very similar -- a program which ours will eventually, inevitably become there is an eight week wait for cancer radiation therapy. you just have to -- hope the cancer waits that long and why the democrats are getting squeamish about this and running out of them, we'll see if they force him to back down and if they do it is huge, because this is his second defeat, in the last thee weeks. the first two he has ever had and first lost the card check bill which supports people in the labor union and may miss the august deadline and he is quite explicit about setting and once he starts to lose, he will crash. >> clayton: interesting point. there is fog about this, too, right? we don't know necessarily what the sticking points are. in all of this, right now. what is holding back the moderate democrats, specifically, from not jumping on board with this? because it doesn't seem there is

a clear, definitive answer yet. >> well, they say that it is not an official deadline and they say they are opposed to financing it through taxes and raising the income tax and they say they are worried about the public option and i don't think that is the real reason. the real reason, i think is they are experiencing a lot 0 question from people, particularly old people, who are wondering if this in fact means the repeal of medicare. because, it does stop their guaranteed access to health care. now, the government will decide if they are getting hip replacements or heart surgery and a lot of people don't like that. >> alisyn: dick you remember what happened in the clinton white house, when they tried to do universal health care, and was the president, president obama, a little naive in, perhaps, understanding what a hornet's nest the issue is? >> yes. i think he was, but i think that the other problem he had is that he spent the money too soon.

the stimulus package money this is money he could have set aside for health care and, you know, when the clintons proposed health care reform they didn't propose any tax hikes, they said we can use it out of normal budgeting and all of that. and, obama could have tried to do the same thing, except he spent all the money, on the stimulus package to -- that has not done a thing. >> dave: and is not helped by the cdo -- cbo projection it would add to the health care costs and our deficit and we'll be back with dick morris in a couple of minutes, where has hillary clinton been and what happened to her role and more from him in a couple minutes. >> alisyn: and we'll have answers to those questions, in the headlines, secretary of state clinton is in new delhi on the second stop of her trip abood and the main topic is climate change and she'll tour an energy farm and earlier she visited mumbai and talked with victims of the november terror attacks and in anded india and other nations step up in the fight against terrorism. funeral services for legendary

newscaster walter cronkite will take place on tuesday in new york and the private service will be held -- worship at st. bartholomew's episcopal church and a public memorial next month at lincoln center and the legendary anchor will be cremated and his ashes buried at the family's plot in missouri. he died at the age of 92. the taliban releases new video of an american soldier, holding hostage. fox news is not showing the 28 minute video at this time. it shows the soldier wearing afghan clothes and being interviewed in english and the soldier says he is scared and wants to go home, the military has not released the soldier's name, kidnapped outside of a base in eastern afghanistan late last month. onions may one daylight up your entire house! a california farm company says it is now converting green electricity out of onion waste.

>> an aerobic digester which has bacteria in it and they produce methane, and the methane gas is then used to power the fuel cells. >> alisyn: you could say $700,000 in electricity bills and 400,000 in onion waste removal costs and is working on converting energy from other vegetables. i love that. those are your headlines. >> where is that plant, remind me never to drive through the town with the smell -- make you cry. >> next to a cattle yard. greeley, colorado, my friends. >> rick: i have been there. and that is what i had in my my mind. geez, hey, here's the east coast, looking very, very nice and there are showers across parts of florida today and central florida, especially, we will see 1 inch of rain and this boundary here, is going to not move anywhere, except maybe back

to the west and that means we'll be seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms, all across the mid-atlantic and towards the north and east and when you started to see summer return, well, we are going to go back -- a little bit of gloom and we orseeing beneficial rain across texas, will move in the middle part of the south and where we had the worst drought of anyplace in the country going on right now and we'll see a little bit of the rain today and maybe 1-2 inches, but, the thunderstorms will be very very, beneficial, to get that kind of moisture, there, and the other thing is across the west we have extremely hot conditions, and the colorado river valley, clayton, for you, right there and for mary, and dealing with extreme heat, areas 115 to 118 and dangerous temperatures there, and we will see the heat move in across parts of southern california, in and around los angeles area. there you go. a bug, flying around my face the entire time. >> alisyn: it lends an authenticity to your outdoor

forecast. >> clayton: the best is when the fly -- in the middle of a serious story and it lands on your face in the middle of the broadcast. >> dave: president obama can show you how to that thing. >> rick: i caught it in my hand! >> dave: coming up, hillary clinton back on the world stage and what is miss -- has been missing in action for weeks, was she benched by president obama in we'll ask dick morris, next. >> alisyn: and who says you have to be young to play america's favorite pastime and a group of senior citizens are here, showing off their skills and have pointers for those free falling new york mets. >> clayton: can't wait! applebee's 2 for $20. it's refreshed, and ready for summer. choose one appetizer and two entrees for just 20 bucks. 2 for $20. it's real food at the right price, and it's only at applebee's. it's a whole new neighborhood.

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care. and was she sidelined? we report, you decide or in the case, fox news political analyst, dick morris decides, he's back with us, former advisor to president clinton, of course. dick, what is going on behind the scenes, because, she said, i broke my elbow, not my larynx. was she sidelined? what is going on behind the scenes? >> well, i think clearly hillary obviously broke her bowl and i understand it has been a painful rehabilitation, and we can all sympathize with that and, obviously, to some extent it kept her out of play, but, equally obviously from the beginning of this appointment, obama has put wraps all over hillary. underneath hillary, you have dennis ross, who is doing iran, and reporting for the white house and you have holbrooke, doing afghanistan and pakistan. you have mitchell, who is doing the middle east. and, above hillary you have biden as vice president, and you have ross, the u.n. ambassador

and you have powell on the nfc an jones, the national security advisor and by the time you get down to it, hillary's mandate is fairly limited an at this moment india is the most significant country she has any real direct power over and there are other points, i wonder if some of this is not hillary, deliberately wanting to distance herself from obama's foreign policy. because, a couple of times, we have seen leaks, we have heard leaks, undoubtedly came from her camp that she felt he should have taken a stronger stand on iran and should have demanded more from moscow and you are getting the blow-back coming probably from the clintons and that is because, obama's popularity has dropped from the 60s into the low 50s and, if this popularity decrease continues, i think you will see more criticism by hillary, and i think, eventually, eventually, eventually, if obama sinks into the 30s i would not rule out,

that she resigns and challenges him in a primary fight. >> dave: i was going to get to that. do you think, long term, it could be a strategy by hillary to get back into this thing and run in 2012, would she have any chance. >> well, it depends on obama's ratings. she wouldn't run if she didn't have a channels. and obama's ratings would have to sink a the lot lower than they sunk. but, they -- they've fallen 8 or 9 points the last five, section weeks, depending on who you listen there, they airport various forms, i call them free -- called them free falling the other day and you look at the reversal, we talked about in health care, and the catastrophe, the incredibly, difficult, hard sell this is, you have to wonder if his ratings will not be in the 40s and lower and if he's in the same shape george w. bush was at the end of his term it is likely that she will run and a lot of the democrats will ask her to do that, because they won't want to run with a flood of candidates.

this is lyndon johnson and bobby kennedy all over again, potentially except johnson was stuck with bobby in the cabinet and obama brought hillary in. >> clayton: an intriguing conspiracy theory, how much of it is actually about the president and the fact that he doesn't like to give up the spotlight and that he wants to be on primetime television all the time, and even -- he doesn't want to sideline her but relishes the spotlight and making the major policy speeches himself? >> well, i think it has more to do with the president's priorities. i think domestic policy, obviously, is way ahead of foreign policy. and health care is way ahead of everything. and i think that he is determined while he has this 59, 60 democratic votes, depending on whether harry byrd is well enough to participate, that majority in the senate, he wam to jam every left wing social program he can through, cap-and-trade and amnesty,

health care program, maybe a second stimulus package, everything. and, i think that naturally, he is -- foreign policy is becoming less significant. but the other point is that he is fueling the foreign policy line, that is totally at variance from that which hillary did during the campaign. hillary was a hawk, tough on terror and originally for the war in iraq and gradually shifted when she got into her candidacy and i think hill lar may be thinking that obama is a little too weak in this, exposing his flank and she's lying in the weeds waiting to see if he gets hurry and will leak that she was on -- hurt and will leak that she was on the right track all along. >> dave: i want to get back to the health care quick and you said the white house budget director now saying it is still the -- august this is goal for health care legislation and here's my take on it.

not just the higher taxes or the -- for the high income brackets, and why the sense of urgency and why this, we have to do it now, that always makes me nervous? this is something that will affect generations and generations and why the urgency to get it done so quickly. >> it doesn't take effect until next year anyway. you are absolutely right. the urgency is that obama's job approval is dropping and he wants to do this while he still have enough political clout to get it pass and he's doing it, with probably the 51 plurality and is not getting the 60 votes and we'll ram the mammoth bill through and pretend it is just a budget adjustment and the real question is, a simple one, how will he cover 50 million more people without any more doctors and the answer is he's not. the only way he's going to do it is to cut the quality of medical care, ration it and government manage it and particularly for senior citizens. >> dave: fascinating, dick morris, we'll see how it happens

and now, they are running ads that appear to be going after the democrats, as well as at the -- >> the democratic is paying for ads to pressure democratic senators to vote for a democratic bill. that is how the democrats form a firing squad. in a circle. >> dave: that could backfire, dick morris, author of "catastrophe" good information, appreciate it. and buying cigarettes over the internet could cost you, that's right, smokers being targeted again, find out how they plan to fight back this time. 4l

>> alisyn: you know the expression, buyer beware, if you buy your cigarettes on-line, and you think they are tax free, think again. some people are being smoked by

thousands of dollars in back taxes. fox's eric sean investigates. >> eric: she has been buying cigarettes on-line for years now and feels burned. >> 4500-plus dollars, and i called them, and they told me, it was tax on cigaretteses. >> eric: like a lot of americans, she started ordering smokes on the web, tax free and then received a notice from the state of pennsylvania. demanding thousands of dollars in back sales taxes. and the department of revenue even slapped a lien on her house, to get this money. >> how do i pay taxes on something i didn't know was taxed. >> widely held misconception that this really is tax free and it's not. >> eric: the professor says buying on-line is not an excuse to skip out on state taxes. by law, internet sites have to report the sales to state tax authorities. which become more aggressive in

tracking down on-line buyers to pony up. >> it makes people think when they buy things over the internet, it is sales tax free. we all have an obligation to pay whatever use taxes or excise taxes would be paid if we bought it locally. >> eric: and the state lost $4445.66 in back taxes from glad is and she's not alone. pennsylvania secretary of revenue, says, smokers should know the law. >> taxes on cigarettes whether you buy them in pennsylvania or buy them on-line are... >> eric: tell glad is that. >> i'm 83 today. i am not the smartest person in the world but when it comes to my money, hell and high water is not going to stop me from... >> eric: i'm eric sean, fox news. >> alisyn: well, coming up he was quick ford killing his wife and unborn child. now, scott peterson is looking

to get out of prison, and the family wants your help, next. plus, this could ease your fear of flying. we'll look at the vintage plane that just has been converted into a five-star hotel, in the sky. first, reich has a quick look at weather and is outside with special guests. >> rick: yeah, we have -- oh! a wifl ball, not easy. and they say it is a softball, all i can tell you about is wiffle ball, and because it is -- bring it on! good day of weather for... there we go! nice weather for a game of softball. we'll be right back.

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>> clayton: welcome back here at "fox & friends" and here's yours shot of the morning, if you are afraid of flying and want to go to new hietsdz, holland has a hotel built into a vintage 1960s jet and never leaves the ground and has a whirlpool, flash

screen tv and even a kitchen, and it is set on the edge of a run way at an airport and you can watch other planes take off and land, while you stay firm on the ground. and cost, two people, $300 a night. >> alisyn: cool, auto like that idea! if only you could wake up in a different city, though. >> clayton: it would be highly difficult to get you a good night's rest with jets taking off above your head. >> alisyn: the one design flaw in that! >> dave: you order an inhome movie in-room movie and can't hear it because jets are taking off and they only bring you peanuts. >> alisyn: and the window into your... >> clayton: like a fantasy episode. >> alisyn: in the meantime, if you are just waking up, where have you been? let me tell you your headlines right now, indonesian police, can confirm, that the bombings at two jakarta hotels are very similar to previous bombings by

one radical you islamic group and and they are trying to identify the suicide bombers to see if they have a connection to the group. the attacks on the ritz-carlton and marriott hotels killed 7 people, and wounded at least 8 americans. police arrested one of the fbi's ten most wanted in mexico, suspected of opening fire on two los angeles county sheriffs deputies nine years ago and this morning he is in custody, one deputy was shot in the face, and badly wounded, and thankfully, he has since recovered. here's another interesting 911 story. a woman named lorna dudish was in a romantic mood and instead of maybe trying on a bathing suit had an unusual way of getting a date, she called 911 to get a cute deputy trainee to come back to her house after he responded to a noise complain. listen: >> if you come back my way...

>> you need him to come back there. >> i'd like that. >> why do you need him to come back there. >> um ... because i have an emergency, i'll think of something. >> alisyn: i saw a cute boy... that was her three years ago and now her attempt at a date is going to be on national television. about when not to call 911. the date nef really worked out, for her, she got two years pre-bayings and the deputy, he never got back to the training program i have a suggestion. >> clayton: you do. >> alisyn: i'll get to the bottom of this story. why should two years probation, it seems like it is a little tough. >> clayton: when she used an emergency services line to try to get a date. >> alisyn: that is wrong? >> clayton: yes. >> dave: try... yeah. >> clayton: yes, it is. yes, it is, and this story, you know how your car can turn into a hot, oven on a hot day, and two meteorologists in california

took it literally and they baked their cookies in their car. it did end up taking two hours and 108 degree weather but it was worth the wait and even shared their treat with their colleagues, and what you do is get the cookies, pre-made dough and put it on a sheet and go to work and come out and you have cookies done -- or i have a better idea, pizza bagels. >> alisyn: heats up. >> clayton: and you come out after work and a pizza is cooked on your dashboard. >> dave: energy saving technology, not just techie. >> he's hungry. >> dave: sports this morning, 59-year-old tom watson teed off in the final round of the british open a couple of minutes ago. trying to pull off you on of this most unlikely upsets in golf history. watson, would become the fourth oldest major champion and watson, round three fought through rough patches to keep a one-stroke lead and hot on his

heels, two virtual unknowns, an australian and an englishman, roth fisher and he is tied with tom watson 4 under par and watson, a couple of months shore of his 60th birthday and this oldest major winner before him, 48 years old, and watson looking to claim the jug at turnberry and he and i know that is what i am doing today, guys, should be good golf watching. >> alisyn: you are -- you will not play golf, you will watch it. >> dave: that is what i do on sundays, hang out, kick back on this couch. >> clayton: i have a phobia playing golf, i haven't played in a while and i used to be good and now i'm bad, that is my phobia. >> dave: that is strange and you actually have many other and earlier you said you have a phobia of sand and cockroaches which i don't think is that odd. >> alisyn: and similar to these strange celebrity phobia, that we are learning about, this morning, celebrities have weird things they are afraid of, for

instance, nicole kidman is afraid of butterflies. and she is delicate and is like a butterfly, trans lose scent skin and decorative -- and she's afraid of them and says, it stems from the fact when she was growing up in the australian countryside he'd come home from school and there would be a giant butterfly on her front gate. >> dave: and went around to avoid it. >> clayton: i can see that, because that you are very dangerous. and another one is, sarah michelle gellar. buffy the vampire slayer has a fear of grave yards, who else is on the list. >> dave: my favorite is billie bob thornson, who is afraid of antique furniture, and specifically, french antique furniture. we knew he was quirke, and i didn't know he was that quirke. >> alisyn: he's creeped out by french antiques and so fearful of being near them, that he can't sleep or eat near them. and he also tells -- calls ahead ahead to make sure none is in

his suite and garden variety, whoopi goldberg is deathly afraid of flying and had to take a course, because -- to overcome her fear to play in london. >> clayton: i was fine with flying, but after 9/11 i honestly became terrified of it and i've gotten to the point i have flown so much recently i've gotten over it. >> alisyn: virgin atlantic has a flying without fear program to help you. >> dave: and maybe help john madden, and, matthew mcconnaughey is afraid of puddles and revolve doors which, so does colonel david hunt. >> alisyn: he's not afraid of them, he thinks they are are dangerous and will not let me go through them and clayton you are afraid of tarantulas. >> clayton: and cockroaches, people like jungle jack hannah plays with them and allison is afraid of saturated fats and fatty foods as evidenced by the salad she had for breakfast and dave is afraid of the hand of

god and doesn't like when people touch his head and what is that. >> dave: i want to clarify and rick is afriday of tight space, not boxes and it's not about high hair, it's not about the hair, i have a control thing and anyone touches my head it freaks me out. >> clayton: and the hands behind rick want to touch your head. >> dave: i have encountered my fears on the show, i encountered my dentist fear and my giving blood fear and the touching my head fear is just a little one. >> rick: i know, i hate that. >> clayton: come here, little sweetie. >> dave: can we get you into an -- a closed space. >> rick: maybe we should have a fear factor. >> clayton: mine would be cockroaches, i want to see you try and get out of a closed space. >> i think clayton is no good at tennis and he wants to play with me -- i have a. >> clayton: i have a phobia of spending time with you out work. >> rick: you are the one who is trying to and i keep trying to avoted and where did you run off to?

you knew i would do this, what is your name. >> connor. >> rick: and you live in. >> atlanta, georgia. >> rick: i good tennis player. >> pretty good. >> rick: do you think he could beat clayton's butt. >> yeah! >> rick: there you go. it wasn't me who said it. the weather picture, a nice day across much of the country, and no big weather systems, no major severe weather outbreak, and in fact a lot of people deeming with fall like temperatures and 56s in minneapolis, and coolary will be with us one more -- cool air will be with you one more day and the eastern part of the country, looking nice, exempted for parts of central florida today, maybe an inch or two of rain, again, and the frontal boundary will linger and move back towards the coastal areas, for the next few days and we'll see cloudy -- spotty showers and thunderstorms around the four corners area, in the west and rain moving in across parts of texas, southern texas, much needed. but the coastal areas looking beautiful and the temperature wise, up across the pacific

northwest, very very, nice and seattle today, you will be in the upper 70s and the heat is on, down across much of the southwest, as you move forward and look at the temperatures today, high temps around 113 in phoenix and 118 across areas of western arizona, and eastern -- southeastern california and be careful if you are out in the heat and by tomorrow, rapid city, 93 today's and tomorrow will drop a few degrees and warm up in and around the chicago area. >> alisyn: everybody remembers the horrible scott peterson case, his wife was missing a long period of time and it was devastating, she was 8 months pregnant and her body was found near their home along with their unborn son, connor, and scott peterson was convicted of the murder and he got the death penalty. and she was sentenced and his family is now for some reason, relying on the public's

sympathy. >> dave: trying to. >> alisyn: trying to raise $95,000, for his appeal. and defense. >> dave: and they are asking for your help, your donation, to help investigate this case. imagine that. >> clayton: and one of the most notorious criminals, and a judge, a westchester county da, she's in our studio, good morning. >> good morning, how are you. >> good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> clayton: the case has to make you absolutely sick, the family trying to raise money to save him from the death penalty going to paypal trying to make us donate money. >> the interesting thing is, they want to help scott and the -- and laci and connor and i thought that was well done but, look, here's the bottom line, the death penalty case there are more resources in every state for the defense of these people who are charged and now awaiting death. so, i mean, they are asking for 95,000 and want to rehire and retest some of the forensic tests and reinterview key witness as if it hadn't already

been done at the trial and you know, they have the right and i suspect they won't get it. >> alisyn: you get an automatic appeal from the state. why do you need more money. >> you get an automatic appeal and it is paid for, that is me point and there is all kinds of money. >> dave: the investigation is paid for by the state. >> you can bring in experts and go back to the court and see you i need to hire forensic experts and that is paid for. >> alisyn: what is this money -- to recoup money, what they've said they a lost. >> maybe they are not happy with the government charged experts and want to hire their own or maybe that want to put money into their pockets. >> clayton: here's what scott peterson's father, lee said, the statement the family put out, it boils down to the simple fact, peterson said if one or two bad cops feeling the media pressure and/or looking for glory decide to put an innocent man in jail, they have the power to do so, that thought should fright en every citizen, referring to thinking whether or not he got a fair shake. and i mean, is it motivation enough to try and raise money, a

fair shake. >> i think people that that will impress, and peopleal will say, gee, it's true, police and prosecutors have this enormous power, let's give them some money and take the man wrongly convicted, but this bottom line is, there was incredibly long trial, everything was contested to the nth degree and the guy is found guilty and the judge has ordered the jury, the death penalty and i don't know what else they can do. >> dave: i don't know who on the planet is willing to give money to help scott person. >> alisyn: there will be, there will be people. >> dave: i have to ask, your phobia, you are a celebrity, and what are you afraid of. >> i'm not but it is interesting, i thought, my fear, one of my foeb yeah, like a -- a gun or a knife or something, i don't know about butterflies! >> cockroaches. >> what are you afraid of, your hair? touching your head, that scares

you? >> alisyn: we need to talk to you also, about the amanda knox trial, in a second, and testimony wrapped up, in the murder trial of that american exchange student in italy. what one family member said on the stand that points the finger now the at someone else other than amanda knox, is yeah sneen buying it? -- jenin buying it. >> clayton: help from senior citizen softball players for the mets, straight ahead. they need it! - whoa. hi, i'm john. all: hi, john! going to college and need a laptop. what do you got? you, in the top corner. our next class laptops could be perfect for you. we got student feedback and designed them specifically for college. are they legit brands, though? boom! we partnered with hp, toshiba, sony and dell. okay. uh, what's the square root of 841? 29. announcer: laptops designed for college and thousands of people eager to help.

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provider for 2-layer ambien cr. >> alisyn: we have to wait until september to learn e the fate of amanda knox and testimony in the case wrapped up yesterday and some of it is quite surprising, and we now know there is also possible dna contamination. on the murder weapon. and i am joined by former westchester county district attorney and host of "judge" jannine shapiro and the case fascinates you as it does me and they are taking a summer break and just had finished testimony and are taking a summer break. and will it help or hurt her? >> when i was a prosecutor the judge would say, when testimony was finished, write summations and take a summer recess, and then, by the way, have a

summation for a month, now you know why they need summations from us,s is because they need recoup everything they've heard already from january and has been a 6 month trial and only met price twice a week and this is the italian justice. >> alisyn: and one of the things, a bit of a bombshell, there was dna evidence on this knife. there was the victim, meredith, and amanda knox's allegedly, dna on this knife, however, the knife was not found at the scene, it was at the boyfriend's house, and contamination? >> i don't think so. and i think that it is consistent with the testimony. and i have watched the tapes closely, there is a neighbor who said within a day or two after the murder, that she heard three people running away and if it was amanda knox and her boyfriend and the third person already convicted of murder, then it would make sense they'd take the knife with them and it is in the boyfriend's apartment with the victim's blood on the tip and amanda's blood on the handle.

but, even more than that, you have the behavior of amanda knox, that is so inappropriate, the not just, you know, not showing any emotions, but, kissing and caressing her boyfriend while her roommate's body is still on the floor, dead with blood all over and doing cartwheels in the police station and the woman is so gin appropriate, one of the most hated people of italy now and -- >> alisyn: her cousin, amanda knox's cousin was on the witness stand and she said she talked to amanda many times from the moment it happened and she lived in europe and she says amanda told her she was scared someone was running around, killing girls, and she was scared if it happened again, and any sympathy there, none, not at all, because amanda and her boyfriend when the police arrive they see you them at the apartment and she said, gee i came in and i saw blood, on the floor, and blood all over the bathroom and by the way, her boyfriend's footprint is in blood on the bath mat and i tack a shower and i really wasn't worried, so, everything is -- the woman says is totally

inconsistent with what she is saying now. >> alisyn: brought up the third person and someone has already been convicted of the murder and why don't we know more about his testimony, who he says was involved. >> apparently he's not saying. but, he is an individual who apparently has some low-level convictions, and has a knife as well, and used the knife in the crimes he committed and has not fingered them but the interesting thing is amanda knox identified a totally innocent man as the person who committed the murder and he's suing her for slander and everything that comes out of her mouth is a look and the evidence, the behavior and the bra strap, which i'm sure we'll get to which shows her boyfriend's dna on the victim's bra strap are consistent with a sex slave that is drug-fueled -- and the victim died and she says, allison, i know that meredith, the victim, died slowly, how do you know that? you are not a forensic expert. you were there and everything is in place, and, now, is the

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>> welcome back, how many times have you sat around, sports fans and thought to yourself, you know what? i could give these guys a little advice and play better than my particular team and the new york mets, spent $149 million on their baseball team, and they are four games under .500 and 8 games out of first and we have help for them this morning, carl, sale, harry, bobby, jack, and joe is here from the bristal all stars. >> clayton: welcome to you guys, thanks. >> alisyn: hey, guys. >> clayton: joe, you guys have created an instructional video, to help the mets play better baseball, a video you told them about and want to send to them, is that right. >> that's right. >> we did this, with tongue in

cheek, and it is fun! and we are all baseball fans and love the mets. >> clayton: you play senior softball and they -- these are fundamentals you want to go over and they first of which you wanted to talk about is to touch the base properly, right. >> correct. >> alisyn: demonstrate that, please. >> clayton: carl, carl, come over here. >> show the mets, because they are watching. >> when running bases the mets have a problem and miss a base, and show them, use that as a base, don't miss it, hit it. go. >> i have to ask you, though, carl has sunglasses on his had, would you advise the major leaguers to do that wait a second. bobby, tell 'em what they should do with that he sunglasses! >> put them on their ears, when it comes to hitting your eye, you -- the sun hitting your eye, you cannot see a thing.

>> flip 'em back. >> and he can't flip 'em back. >> clayton: they are losing baseballs in the sunlight and dropping a lot of balls. >> alisyn: and what is another one. >> when you hit the ball, what do you do, do you run or do you ignore it? >> i wanted you to hit the ball -- and run! >> dave: show thus swing! >> hey, buddy. >> he shouldn'ting standing there. he's supposed to be running. >> you actually could get on base if somebody drops it and you might not -- stand there and watch it. >> i know catching the ball has been a problem for the mets. fundamentally, what is wrong with the mets' approach. >> okay. show us how. the mets, we know they have their problems and show them -- how a pop-up should be caught. two hands. two hands. >> alisyn: throw the ball. >> here's --

oh! >> do you have any -- it's the throwing! >> you should have had alisyn throw the ball. >> alisyn: i realize my phobia. sports. >> okay. bobby. >> okay. >> come over here, over here, and harry is going to throw to you, the right way to -- when you are making a catch, and you want to tag somebody. throw it. all right. pass. >> and dave it comes down to the famous -- castillo dropped the ball. >> dave: didn't use two hands or didn't know where to throw the ball and that's why they lost and the all stars, all 70 years and up, i think they have good pointers. >> clayton: and the mets are in last place and fill lease in first place and maybe your tips will help them to be a rival in the national league east again. >> alisyn: we talk about our

phobias this morning and i actually do have a phobia of playing sports and when we come back maybe you can give me a tip when the ball comes towards me. >> clayton: more baseball when we come back.

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[ crunch! ] [ gasps ] [ stork ] [ laughs ] sorry, miss. [ crunch ] the girl can't help it. it's a vlasic. [ crunch ] vlasic. that's the tastiest crunch i've ever heard. >> dave: welcome back, bristal all stars, the new york mets, $149 million, check out the record,