even your lips. the senate finance committee coming up with new ways to have you pay for health care reform. our slogan comes from iowa. our father's advice never ends. he introduced me to "fox & friends." [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- brian: good morning, everybody. i'm going to go with your calendar thing. if your calendar says it's tuesday and it's the end of the july. i'm waiting for summer to start. i'm going to go with that too. gretchen: it's so depressing we are almost to august. we are so happy you joined us. we have big news to start off with. steve: we are going to do something we have only done device before in this program. we are going to have here in the a block a governor of the united states sitting in the curvy couch to talk about the news of the day. only twice before.

mitt romney mike huckabee. who is the third? he will be with us in four minutes. brian: this is happening way too much. you noticing? gretchen: domestic terror we are talking about. a stunning case of homegrown terrorism busted by the authorities. seven north carolina men in federal custody this morning, including a father and two of his sons. prosecutors say the group was planning violent attacks overseas. muslim convert daniel boyd is the ringleader of the group. he has deep roots in terrorism. he fought in the afghans against the soviets and made numerous trips to gaza and pakistan. he ran a drywall business in his quiet neighborhood south of raleigh. neighbors, of course, stunned. >> scary as hell, man. it's scary. >> you just don't know this day and age. you just don't know who your neighbors are. gretchen: no kidding. also arrested were these three men. boyd's two sons are in custody as well. defense secretary robert gates is in iraq today. is he meeting with iraq prime

minister nouri al maliki. is he also stopping by a command post in southern iraq to get a look at the next phase of the war. u.s. troops at the post have already shifted from a combat role to a more advisory role. that's something we can expect to see more of, of course, as this war continues. allegations this morning that michael jackson's doctor conrad murray shot him full of that powerful sedative. propofol hours before he died. it's a powerful hospital-grade sedative that helps a patient sleep. not really. it's used for surgery. murray's lawyer admits his client is at the center of a manslaughter investigation but he insists did he not give jackson any medicine medication that would have caused his heart to fail. there is still no official cause of death. nasa astronauts this morning beginning the process of coming back home. ♪ i'm proud to be an american ♪ where at least i know i'm free

free. gretchen: sing it steve and lee greenwood, i believe. steve: i love that song. gretchen: wakeup call for the crew of the endeavour. the seven astronauts completed five spacewalks during their trismt set to undock from the international space station. it will spend three more days in orbit before returning to earth on friday. brian: where we are. gretchen: take a look at the scratches on a homemade when a bear broke in as the family was fast asleep. a family dog started barking when the bear came. in and that's when paul fisher yelled to his family run. fisher shot the bear when he found it rummaging through the kitchen. >> as soon as i got close, the bear from back in there charged me. so as i was retreating i fired three shots. and the bear kept charging. >> after that a sheriff deputy showed up and shot the bear another five times with his

handgun. the bear was not killed until the sheriff fired two more shots from his rifle. no one in the family was hurt. the chafer the senate finance committee shooting down reports of a plastic surgery tax. senator matt bachus says lawmakers are not considering the so-called botax to help fund health care reform. a g.o.p. aid con foirmd fox news the idea was tossed around there. botax would raise money to pay for health care reform. we will hear from glenn beck to hear what he has to say about the botax idea. i can't keep from laughing because i can only imagine what the beckster. brian: right because i can't imagine that glenn beck has had plastic surgery or bo owe talks botox. steve: it includes hair plugs. according to the irs you can't

claim a medical deduction for. brian: we're finding out more and more what happened that fateful day in cambridge at professor gates' house and what led up to the fact that sergeant crowley was called there and had to act there and go inside there and what he heard. here's the 911 tapes of the caller. this woman is it lucille way waylynn. picks up the phone and calls in and says spots somebody though ho they believe is breaking into a house. listen to how this unfolds.

steve: if you listen to the whole press conference and yesterday they released a four minute audio file of what went on. she almost sounds apologetic that she called in that there could be a holdup or break-in in progress. very clear she did not identify the men as being black. she did say one guy could be hispanic. also on this same audio file that the police released, you can hear sergeant crowley calling for backup. in the background on several of the episodes, can you hear a man who some have ussuggested is tht man, professor gates making some background. listen to this. >> steve: because he lives there. gretchen: right. two things here.

never was the word african-american or black mentioned in this 911 call as brian stated and steve affirmed. number two, the fact that he asked for backup. he is just doing his job. he is at the house. he feels that there is reason for backup to keep coming just in case. these -- i think this is very important to have these calls released. it's going to shed light on what's going to happen on thursday. 6:00 p.m. east coast time the beer fest is going to happen between the three people involved in this mess. that's what what it is now is a mess. will they come to terms and have fun when they drink down that bud? we have to see. brian: 6:00 thursday at the white house. crowley will be there, gates will thereby, and president obama will be there? steve: no. there are going to be more. accord are to the boston herald. each of the men can invite a friend as well.

brian: boyb. steve: bring your own budweiser. >> officer crowl solid drinking blue moon and officer crowley is drinking becks what's the president drinking? >> the president had a budweiser at the all-star game? why are you looking at me like that. >> blue moon, red stripe, becks? >> why do you hate budweiser, wendell? wendell, how about this? we will go pick out the beer. we will do the beer run. gretchen: did anyone else think this is a little odd? it's bizarre. they are going to have this beer fest. this is a very serious topic. and now it's come down to sharing a beer over it i don't know. something is weird about it. steve: putting a band-aid on it the audio that was released. you don't know what all happened. do you trust the police officer and what he said where, you know, and we have told you over the last couple of days what gates allegedly said. do you trust him?

do you trust gates? this doesn't really answer a lot of the question. brian: other major issue at 8 minutes after the hour health care. what's going on. is it going to get done. are they going to vote before they go on recess. nancy pelosi not experiencing a period of wild popularity at this moment in americans. was asked are you going to meet the deadline before you go on vacation of putting something together from the house and have something ready to go and go into conference with the senate? here is what the speaker had to say. >> if you don't set deadlines in this town, things don't happen. >> the house and the senate to finish their critical work on health reform before the august recess. >> we are still on schedule to do what we had planned, to vote on this legislation before we leave for the august recess. >> we are committed to getting this thing done before we go home for august recess. >> i'm not afraid of august. it's a month.

>> i want it done by the end of this year. >> we have every intention of passing a health care reform bill and sending it to president obama for his signature by the fall. >> we're pleased to see progress and as long as we see continued progress, we think we are on the road to getting come prehencive health care reform before this fall. >> we are scheduled to either do it now or to do it whenever. >> from got to do it right now to august to fall to whenever. gretchen: somebody who might have to want to weigh in on this is a governor. we told you before the show started right when this started the third governor to sit on the sit on the curvy couch come on over governor from north dakota. >> good morning, steve. how are you? gretchen: good morning. great to see you. >> i come bearing gifts. steve: fantastic. i know how difficult the traffic here is in new york city. i brought these license plates for you. i know the traffic is going to absolutely part when they see

these on your car as you come down the streets. gretchen: governor you have no idea how much this is going to mean to my 6-year-old daughter. she is in to looking at all the license place. we were in minnesota and she was excited to see north dakota. >> no luvnd. love north dakota. steve: number one topic health care. we would like to insure everybody but there are crazy schemes of thousand pay for it most people do have coverage out there. >> we have very high quality health care in north dakota. it's very cost-effective. we are doing it at a very affordable rate. clearly we need health care reform. everybody adegrees on that. it's doing it right. we have such a deficit problem in this country now we have to be very careful how we do it. so let's find ways to expand

coverage but keep choice in the equation so that, you know, we have competition to keep prices down so that consumers have choice. and let's undertake things like tort reform to actually. brian: no one brings that up. >> it's a huge issue. we have been aggressive tonget we have done that in north dakota. we need to do it nationally. brian: don't have to practice defensive medicine. >> if we are going to cover another 50 million americans and find ways to do it and not continue to build this huge deficit. we have to do things like tort reform. find ways to continue to provide the very top quality health coverage in medicine but find ways to do it cost effectively. gretchen: isn't it true in north dakota you have a very low unemployment rate, right. >> right now it's about 4 continue to 2%. gretchen: that's half of what the national average stnchts is very low. we feel fortunate about that on the other hand, our people have, i think, really done a lot of things to help themselves and help our state. we didn't get into the subprime lending.

we have been very aggressive in economic development. we are doing a lot with energy. you hear so much nationally about what's going on the need to develop more energy. big energy producing state. we just passed oklahoma, the fifth largest producer of oil and gas. steve: congratulations. >> biofuels, wind, all of them and in partnership. brian: are we allowed in north dakota? >> consider yourself invited. brian: fantastic. gretchen: you have to get the pass from me first. i was almost at your border. >> only because she is a neighbor. gretchen: you betcha. steve: we will keep you around because we have more questions for you including one of your u.s. senators is in a little bit of hot water. we will talk to you about some breaking news this morning and is he going, i wonder what that's about. you will find out in just about two minutes as all of you will. gretchen: the governor's state very low unemployment rate of 4.2% there. he says it's no thanks to the

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steve: welcome back on this tuesday. secret testimony apparently shows democratic senators chris dodd and kent conrad of north dakota. they knew from the start that they were getting sweetheart mortgage deals from countrywide. both senators insist they didn't do anything wrong. former countrywide executive told the house oversight committee they did. he said both conrad from north dakota and dodd from connecticut received preferential treatment under the friends of anglo program referring to now indicted former countrywide ceo anglo.

brian: we are here with the governor of north dakota. he brags about unemployment rate at 4.2. he should. despite getting millions from the stimulus plan, north dakota's governor does not care. he says he won't credit the stimulus for any of his state's good fortunes so far. governor, what stimulus money was coming your way and what have you done with it? >> well, i wasn't a fan of the stimulus package as it was provided. i think in many respects it was a social program. we have used it basically the way it's been prescribed by the congress one of the things a lot of governors has talked about do they accept it or not. though i'm not a fan i said yes, i will use it our citizen also have to pay it back like everyone else. when you pay your taxes, you will pay it back. we will see what it does in terms of job creation. we will do the very best we can with it but to this point --

brian: didn't you have to draw up shovel ready programs? >> sure. brian: which one dust put together and say ok i would use the money for this. >> again it was pretty much prescribed. we worked through our legislative process to follow the guidelines or the requirements that they laid out in the bill depending how that money was provided to us we will spend it conrad looks like he is in trouble. senate investigations, ethics committee, looking at his friends of anglo deal. we have a countrywide person say i was dealing with him. i told him he was getting v.i.p. treatment and ended up the terms of points and all those things that make mortgages more attractive. that went his way. what's your reaction? how well do you know him? >> i know senator conrad very well. at this point i would refrain from commenting on it because it just came out. i haven't had a chance to take a look at it i was aware of the mortgage obviously. that happened some time ago. this is some new information? we have to see. brian: what brings to you new york. >> we are working with site

selectors, people that make decisions where companies are going to locate to do business. we have a tremendous business climate in north dakota. we are pitching our business climate to them and encouraging companies to come out and take advantage of the great legal framework. great productivity of our people. brian: 4.2%. things going well for the governor of north dakota. john, it's a pleasure meeting you. >> thanks for having me this morning, i appreciate it. brian: stay out of trouble in new york. friends of brian. >> i will drop your name. if you can do that and if it helps you, please tell me. the white house pay czar set to contracts too lucrative. is this really his business? judge napolitano is here. i'm sure he is fired up. where not to send your kids to college. the new party school rankings are out. judge paterno can't be happy. ññ

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steve: the obama's administration pay czar that guy right there targeting financial contracts the salaries and bonuses to paid to top executives. first task a 100-million-dollar bonus set to go to a city corps executive. he is owed it, he wants it. gretchen: fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano is here to talk to us about the pay czar. >> who got a better tan last week carlson or knap? gretchen: we will start a riewrnl here. >> very good. different parts of the country but off the same week. brian: what do you think, judge? >> i think the pay czar has no authority under the law. brian: we gave money to these companies though. >> we gave money to citibank.

the government gave 45 billion to citibank at a time it was on life support. citibank begged for the money. they begged for the right to pate 45 billion back and the government wouldn't accept it why? because the government wants to end a class of citibank stock so it can say we have some control over citibank. the problem is this contract, with this fellow from great britain basically said if i produce 650 50 million in business you will pay me 100 million of it. valid contract entered before citibank went on life support courtesy of the taxpayer and constitution, your friend, prevents the government from interfering with that contract. how did you like that answer. steve: a deal is a deal. >> exactly. gretchen: we have seen bankruptcy proceedings where a deal was not a contract. >> that is true. that is the only way under our law that the government can lawfully interfere with a valid contract is when one of the contracting parties goes into

bankruptcy. steve: that doesn't stop us from being outraged. they owe us bill billions of dollars. they gave this guy a million-dollar bonus. >> they tried to pay it back as did a number of the tarp recipients and the government said no, we want to keep our paws in you. gretchen: to me that's the bigger story. >> own some of your stock, we can at least argue that we have some control over management. brian: you may be right constitutionally. you may have the law on your side. >> toby, can you give me a right of brian saying you may be right. brian: we are still on, judge. we can handle this in the break. [ laughter ] brian: judge, it doesn't mean that fineberg is not going to say you are not getting the 100 million? >> you are exactly right. in my opinion i know fineberg sea decent honest guy he doesn't have the authority to do what the president's him to do. gretchen: wouldn't be there be in the fine print of the contract yes can you receive the bailout money if you try to pay it back and we say no we don't

have any authority to dictate your salaries? >> i read the bailout contracts. the documents signed by the government and the recipients of the tarp. it basically says if we don't want your money back, you can't pay us back. but nothing in there about management control. the management control is a political argument. but legally citibank cannot pay that money back until the government is willing to take it. brian: did i tell you i want this guy to make his money. he made, he made me $600 million. i would gladly give you 100 million back. people are outraged by that figure. you hear congressional leaders say i just think it's too much. it's overcompensation. >> that's just a subjective gut political judgment. it's too much money. there isn't a company in the world that wouldn't pay somebody 100 million if you delivered them 650 million in business. that's the way these banks work. gretchen: making money in this economy somehow became unpopular. >> it's a good thing to make money in this economy. it helps all of us. he has got to do something unless he puts it in a shoebox.

wherever he puts that money it will help everybody. brian: next year we will get you a salary. >> it would be nice. steve: great tan. >> have a great day and great show. steve: hope and change have accusations of abuses of power tainted president obama's message? michelle malkin is next with those explosive allegations. gretchen: she is here on the curvy couch, i think. racing for 22 years and didn't expect this to happen. check out the video of a boat race. 1 0 miles per hour goes terribly wrong flipping the boat and crashing hard in the water. the driver walks away without a scratch. is he here live coming up. brian: happy birthday to my childhood friend elizabeth berkeley. she is the former saved by the bell star. she turns 37 today. rewrite your hair's past and give it a whole new life.

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>> critics of the federal stimulus plan say that millions of dollars are being wasted on fixing up bathrooms at our national parks. yeah, fixing up the bathrooms. they may be right because this week they turned old faithful into a buoy day. >> here it is, you have crowley and you have gates and the tempers flared, case of mistaken

identity. you have anger. you have have accusations. you have name calling, sure, let's add alcohol. let's go. let's pick it up. why not? steve: why not. thank you, dave. thank you conan. brian: conan's setup is getting longer. 27 minutes before the top of the hour. also, i would like to know if you can email us right now. we had this discussion yesterday. who do you think right now is the best late night host because they are so influx. gretchen: we had this discussion off camera yesterday. brian: friends@foxnews.com. i want to see if anyone agrees with me. steve: brian is going with unconventional not highly rated host. brian: he beats his counter part. steve: i will cut to the chase. brian likes ferguson. that's going to generate conversation. gretchen: i'm twittering this discussion right now. who do you think the best late night host is. brian: might be the guy who

doesn't work until september. steve: personally i think greta van susteren. brian: very good point. i love her band. of. steve: we have plenty to talk about this morning. some information about some tapes. gretchen: more evidence the co-pilot of the plane that crashed in buffalo, new york, remember back in february killing everyone on board may have been too sick to fly. new transcripts from the cockpit were released from before the plane took off. on them you can hear co-pilot rebecca shaw tell the captain she wasn't feeling well. this is. gretchen: investigators believe human error caused that crash. all 4 the people on board and one person on the ground killed. steve? steve: meanwhile, gretch, this morning the senate judiciary committee set to vote on supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor.

so far the majority of republicans on the panel will not vote for her. some believe she let's her biases interfere with her rulings. she will likely be approved. the full senate vote on her will be next week and it's expected she is going to get the job. brian? brian: banking giant bank of america causing about 10% of its branches. the bank currently has 6,000 of them nationwide. the branches becoming less profitable as people turn to online banking. also dealing with the credit crisis. there is no timetable yet for the closings. we know they have been struggling. gretchen: the cost of treating obesity swelling to new expensive highs. medical expenses for obese people averaging $1,400 more a year than for someone normal weight. that's nearly double what it was 10 years ago. the higher expense comes from the cost of treating by beats and other ailments. typical people who are

overweight. no surprises there. steve: meanwhile, you are probably asking yourself what is the top party college in the nation? it's just been announced. you have to wonder were they taking bludos advice? >> my advice to you, start drinking heavily. >> better listen to him flounder. he is in premedicine. >> he is in pre-med. the life of the party is penn state. according to the review they're now the number one party school in the nation. coming in second the university of florida. the most sober school for the tenth year in a row is bring ham young university. not boyb which is something we were talking about earlier beer party at the white house on thursday. bring ham young out in utah. congratulations. gretchen: big news regarding michael vick and the nfl. brian? brian: happened yesterday at

5:30. door wide open for michael vick to return to the national football league. the commissioner goodell reinstated vick with conditions. new information. according to a high level source close to michael vick has until week 6 to reinstate him. he does not have to wait six weeks. he could be playing sooner. providing he finds a team to take him. word is he is going to find the team and quick. he got the call from the commissioner. big surprise at 3:00 this afternoon when i asked him to describe the call and vick's attitude during that call. i found out that he was highly emotional because of the long journey he took to get back. vick is now out of prison after serving 18 months on dogfighting charges. the quiet mvp of this situation tony dungy visited him twice in prison has been a mentor. unbelievable golf shots ever. leon the tee. par 15. comaddian open. shot off another player's ball. watch this.

and straight into the hole. we're playing pool. he has won just 19,000 in pro golf career. won $40,000 for that one. bmw. set a pga record seven holes in one in the tournament. finally sad news. hold on to something or somebody. looks like kim darr dash shan kardashian. they have been dating for more than two years and rumors of wedding bells. suddenly. this we get up to this news. u.s. magazine says the reality show star and football star going different directions. reggie in the open field and looking to score somewhere else. gretchen: that was two puns in that sentence. brian: thank you. gretchen: open field and scoring. steve: so a moment of silence. michelle malkin come on over. gretchen: all right. here in person. >> i descended from the mountain

top. >> great to see you. steve: brand new book comes out this week. culture of corruption. obama and his team of corroboration and croonies. we will talk about this t. specifically. the "new york times" magazine over the weekend ran a glowing valentine for valerie jarrett one of the senior administration officials. brian: long-time friend of barack obama. steve: a lot of information in there a lot of stuff wasn't in there. where do you want to start about the stuff that wasn't in there. >> look. it was an 8100 word piece. and apparently the author spent four months trying to, quote, find the inevidence -- infabale decht. what they omitted was sorted history. steve: you would normally do that in a valentine. >> you would think they would at least squeeze something in in 8100 word piece about her role as president of a company called

habitat. got in a lot of hot water with the feds over its mismanagement of a housing complex called grove park. now, if you google it, you can find the stuff on the blogosphere and see some pictures of this slum complex. a lot of low income minorities had lived there and you might think that the "new york times," champion of the poor minorities might be concerned about this. but barely a peep about it. in fact, they spun her management at that company as having rescued poor people and turned the city around. steve: you don't buy that? >> no. i think the pictures and the real story speak for themselves. brian: valerie jarrett has been on here before. speaker of the house has approval rating of 25%. only 24 hers of -- 24% trust her. she doesn't care about the

popularity. she says that's not true about the trust numbers. what's your take or nancy pelosi, the speaker? >> well, i think thatwhat she is showing now has always been there the true colors are really coming out. what i really think is happening is this is a consequence of her failure to deal with the cia debacle last may. it's catching up to her. i think now wherever she goes she is having to answer these questions. the nickname for her around, you know, the grass roots movement is belokio. when she was in houston in may after she gave dancing press conference where she tried to avoid questions. she was hounded. she is having to deal with that remember, when she couldn't quell the questions. she flew off to china. i would like to know where on her itinerary she is going to take our military plans. cut and run. gretchen: this is what she said when she was confronted about latest poll numbers. >> i certainly want to be trusted. i'm not particularly concerned

if i'm liked. now, you know what? that sounds a lot like what george bush may have said. he said he didn't look at the poll numbers either. that might be a good statement. unfortunately the trust level is also at a record low for her. >> that's right. it's interesting that the woman who actually coined the term culture of corruption and branded the republican party with that, is now facing a backlash and that is coming to boom around with her. because she made all of these grand promises about having the most ethical congress ever. i think that's weighing as an albatross around her neck as well. brian: i think judging by the president can't be happy about. this his agenda. it's really her agenda so far. he's made a few tactical errors giving her so much leverage. >> you are seeing open grumbling not just about nancy pelosi. if you think about this, this is a bay area culture thing. you know her sister in arms, barbara boxer has also been in a lot of trouble lately with her

condescending statements and her meltdowns. and i think it doesn't bode well for the democrat leadership. steve: michelle has a brand new book. we are going to talk about it on the other side of this quick time out. explosives allegations. did members of president obama's cabinet use their positions to abuse their power? michelle is going to tell us about that straight ahead. gretchen: meet the man who walked away from this heart-thumping boat crash. racing at 190 miles per hour when it happened. how he managed to get away completely unscathe. he joins us live after michelle. .

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gretchen: back with michelle malkin. she released new book culture of corruption. she claims they abuse their power. it does come with a deck of cards. my kids would love this michelle. >> those are actually special edition for special v.i.p.s. that's my own v.i.p. program. gretchen: everybody who buys the books doesn't get the cards? >> not yet. let's see the top one on my deck was michelle obama. how does she factor into your book and do i dare say culture of corruption? >> i think she elm bodies the chicago way. she is somebody who was brought up in the daily political machine. her father was basically a prix tonnage appointee of richard daily. so she has been, you know, familiar and steeped with the hard ball tactics of chicago. and has applied that in her partnership with barack. brian: we know the bigger names. but let's talk about some of

these czars. we don't know where they came from. you found out about urban czar. >> this guy was a bronx borough president. is he here in your backyard. it's astonishing to me that he was able to get this position without any public scrutiny at all basically. he was involved in a number of pay for play scandals. still under investigation by the city for accepting all sorts of gifts from developers and turning around and trading that power and influence, giving them projects and contracts and then benefitting it from it personally. there was an architect that agreed to do renovations on one of his homes that he failed to pay until after he was nominated for the czar position. now, that kind of arrangement got ted stevens in hot trouble in alaska and got john rollins, the former republican governor of connecticut kicked out of office. gretchen: health czar nancy

deparle. what's the issue there. >> about conflict of interest and transparency and double standards. this woman has made nearly $6 million as a consultant and working for basically lobbying for the health care industry. if this was a republican. there is no way she would have made it into office. and there are a number of companies that she has done work for which, of course, are now going to probably benefit from the health care takeover. brian: in any way, shape, or form the book health care corruption. number two and i imagine now it's number 1. it tends to take a critical view. that's what i'm getting. 10 minutes before the top of the hour. michelle, great to see new person. congratulations. gretchen: we told you earlier about the bo. tax. tax on plastic surgery. that's not the only tax. you can say couch potato tax? brian: 1 0 miles per hour when he lost control of his boat flipping over and over and over but the driver escaped without a scratch. he will join us with terrifying tale of being inside that thing.

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brian: pilot loses control during a race that could have cost him his life. the most miraculous part of this footage is that he walked away without a scratch. steve: we're pleased because he is able to join us this morning. brian: and other reasons. steve: and seattle to tell this story. good morning to you jay michael kelly. good morning. >> good morning. steve: when i first saw that video without hearing the whole story, i thought whoever was driving that boat was probably dead. when you look at that picture, what was going on inside the cockpit? >> it was like being on a giant roller coaster, you know. it caught me by surprise and all you can do is really hold on and hope for the best.

brian: hope did you buckle up. have you figured out since you are a pro what happened that caused to you flip like that? >> just a combination of a few things, you know, going almost 200 miles an hour. rollers have other boats and a little bit of wind and little roller and just next thing you know take off. and sometimes there is nothing can you do about it. >> jay michael as we look at the video again, i have been water skiing. i don't know how fast that is, maybe what 25, 30 miles per hour. sometimes that can be a little on the rough side. what is it like going close to 200 miles per hour had on what looks like a pretty calm lake? >> yeah, it's a rush. you know, it does look like it's pretty calm out there at times. when you are actually sitting in the boat, have you got like 5-foot rollers, you know, the boats are fairly big. so, you know, 200 miles per hour, it's a rush. brian: you say you will have

trouble getting back in the boat going that fast again? >> you know, thinking about it, yeah. you know, it's always tough to get back in the boat but once i get strapped in, it's just, you know, it's your job. you have got to get in there. and deal with it and go about it. because it's. >> going to take courage to get in. there is that boat trashed? >> it got beat up pretty good. >> the guys are working hard on it graham trucking and all those guys, we got a race coming up this week. and so, you know, it's important that we get the boat done and the guys i know they are working hard to get it done. steve: absolutely, don't want to lose the security deposit on it jay michael kelly. we thank you for joining us today from seattle. we are so glad are ok. >> yeah, appreciate it thank you. brian: getting right back. in coming straight ahead coming up. president obama getting involved in the professor gates case is he acting more like a community organizer than president of the

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gretchen: hope you are having a great morning. july 2, 2009. thank you for sharing your time with us today. testimony has been leaked two democratic senators. chris dodd and conrad knew about the sweetheart mortgage deals they received. glenn beck is here to weigh in. brian: he can't believe it. steve: meanwhile she answered the front door of her house and shot in the face by 16-year-old amy fisher who was having an affair with her husband. now mary jo buttafuoco here to tell you will and explain why she stayed with her husband after he did all of that for 10 more years. brian: only in massapequa. a highprincipal she students she thought were fighting. she was fired did. school go too far? our slogan comes to us from dana in georgia. the alarm clock screams, no more z's to be catching, happily i awake with steve, brian, and gretchen. i saw that coming. [captioning made possible by fox

news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: live from studio e, welcome to our tuesday telecast. glenn beck is going to be with us very shortly. last time i saw him he was wearing hot pants. luckily today is he actually wearing pants. >> they were not hot pants. they were leader hosen. gretchen: you looked hot in them. >> chicks dig me. steve: if you missed the picture we will share it with you but right now we start with a fox news alert. gretchen: let's talk a little domestic terrorism a disturbing occasion of this homegrown kind of terrorism. seven north carolina man father and two sons now in federal custody. accuse of plotting violent attacks overseas. muslim convert daniel boyd is apparently the ringleader. he has been involved with terrorists for a long time. even fighting with the afghan muslims against the soviet union. boyd ran a drywall company south of raleigh and he was known in his community.

>> great neighbors. we have never had any trouble with. they their kids play with our kids. gretchen: also arrested were these three men along with two of boyd's sons. who would have thunk, huh? defense secretary robert gates is in iraq today before his meeting with prime minister nouri al maliki. gates played a surprise visit to southern iraq. he visited with a unit that's advising iraqi troops. something more u.s. troops will be doing in the coming months. gates also ift scheduled to visit the kurdish region where it shows dominant party losing power there. secretary of state hillary clinton plans to visit africa on seven nation tour. the trip is meant to stress the obama's administration to the continent. state department says in each country clinton will highlight africa as a place of opportunity along with partner. reports out that michael jackson's doctor killed him. a law enforcement source says dr. con ratted murray did shoot

jackson full of that powerful sedative known as propofol hours before he died. it's a drug that's most often used well only used during surgery. jackson apparently used it to help him fall asleep. murray's lawyer admits his client is at the center of a manslaughter investigation but he insists he did not give jackson any medication that would have caused his heart to stop. accused ponzi schemer r. alan stanford whining like a baby about his jail cell. he says it feels like a sauna because it lacks airconditioning. is he wining about power outages and overcrowding. is he demanding his client be moved to katyushaier detention center in houston. stanford awaiting trial in texas thaton charges that he ran a $7 million ponzi scheme. here is a church unlike any other. beyond stained glass, it's been turned into a full-fledged

workout facility. the owner spent over $1 million turning it into what he calls faith gym. >> as a christian, this was just a golden opportunity for me to take the christianity was in my heart. create a fitness at informs mere which was also in my heart and do the best to combine them and create something that no one has ever seen before. brian: i could take him. gretchen: i'm not so sure, brian. the former congregation is glad that the build something being preserved and happy to know faith gym has wednesday night bible studies. brian: if i had glenn beck on my side we could take him. me and glenn against that guy. brian: there he is. gretchen: how is your by september, -- by accept? >> not good. steve: you better get that ready to do this because on thursday night, 6:00 at the white house, they are going to have a beer fest. >> that is unbelievable.

brian: why? >> why? brian: yeah, why? >> teaching lesson? who needs to learn what here? this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seeded hatehatred for white culture i don't know what it is. you can't sit in a pew with jeremiah wright for 17 years and not hear some of that stuff and not have it wash over. what president of the united states immediately jumps on the police just like what kind of president would ever say oh, well, yeah, well, he is black, of course he was breaking into the house. you would never do that you would never do that. he wanted to address this. now they are going to have a beer? that's obscene. gretchen: seems weird to me that he wanted to perpetuate the story. what's even more interesting is reports coming out he actually wanted that question. >> yeah, he did. gretchen: he thought through potentially the words he was going to use. >> you bet. gretchen: different story than

just doing it off the cuff. >> well, i guess. because i mean you can learn something from somebody just off the cuff. but i guess you don't really -- i don't think you learn anything new from barack obama off the cuff or planned. this guy has a social justice. he is going to set all of the wrongs of the past right. brian: you can't say he doesn't like white people. david axelrod and rahm emanuel is white. robert gibbs is white. >> i'm not saying he doesn't like white people. i'm saying he has a problem. this guy is, i believe, a racist. look at the way -- look at the things that he has been surrounded by. steve: give us an example aside from this. >> let's give his new green job czar. the guy is, again, black liberation theology. a black nationalist who is also an avowed communist. he comes in and he puts that guy. in well, wait a minute, how many

people with this kind of philosophy do you need to have in your life before we start to say show me your friends and i will show you your future. steve: yesterday, glenn, on this program we were talking to people about whether or not gates should -- or rather crowley should go. >> crowley is under pressure to go. steve: sounds like gates was under pressure because thursday he was saying i'm going to sue, i'm going to make a documentary. >> and then nothing. steve: friday we have got to put this all behind us. some are saying until there is an apology from either the president and gates or at least gates, that crowley should not go,. >> or at least -- i mean have we really even look at this scene to know for sure? i believe crowley. some people believe gates. but have we had a full airing of this? it seems like it's just being swept under the carpet. why don't we have everybody who was at the scene, all of the witnesses, the people who were walking by on the street, let's find out. because if gates is right, then

the officer needs to apologize. if it's the other way, we need to set the record straight. we do this in america over and over again. we open up a can of worms and then we go oh, no, don't look at that and we put fund the carpet. steve: get together and have some beer and it's all going to go away. >> it's not going to go away. gretchen: isn't it important at least in my mind that the president would take it upon himself. >> it is important that the president of the united states stands with right first of all you don't walk in as president of the united states and say i don't know all of the facts or the details but the police acted stupidly. first of all, there are bad police but there are also good police. we don't ever send the message that you don't do what the police say unless they are corrupt. and it's the responsibility of the president of the united states to say, we're going to find out. i don't know this story. i don't know all the details but we are going to find out. if this officer was wrong, we are going to nail him.

if not, we're going to nail my friend. brian: i think this isn't a teachable moment. in a way we have moved passed it. if when you think about when you hear those 911 tapes. this woman doesn't see black, white, hispanic. she was asked three times. is it -- i don't know. we're just trying to find out what's happening. steve: one guy might be hispanic. >> most americans don't ceclor. most americans, i don't really think they don't see color. they are being forced to live in a politically correct world. i have said this for a while now. i don't know what this means. it's just something that i feel. the paradigm is about to change. and i think it means the media. i think it means politics. and i also think it means political correctness. i got up this weekend and i heard about this beer thing and i thought there's going to come a time when the people who have been forced to live in a politically correct world and have done everything that they are supposed to do and watch your language and watch, this

and do that and you can't say this, and you can't say this and you can't be that. there is going to come a time when the public is just going to say i'm not living in your politically correct world. i don't care anymore. i know i'm there. i don't care anymore. you want to do it? you want to call me whatever? call me whatever you want. i don't care. gretchen: maybe a lot of people are getting to that point with regard to paying their taxes. >> paradigm is about to change. gretchen: all the talk about taxes with health care and now did you hear about this latest botax that was potentially being discussed? >> well, why not? gretchen: just charge an extra tax on top of people going to do anything cosmetically. >> we should ask joe biden or nancy pelosi how much they would pay for that face. gretchen: you think that option to try and come up with the revenue to pay for health care reform -- >> -- you are going to be taxed on absolutely everything you do. you better hope that you are in the politically correct group because you will get less tax than what, you know, what they're try -- what behavior

they are trying to stop and what they are say something bad. brian: don't you think that president barack obama's behavior will change because of the trouble and embarrassment he has had. >> no. brian: with his health care plan that he needed done before the recess and it has ended horribly? he licensed out the writing of a thousand page document. >> you have never seen this man pushed up against the wall. i wonder how many sometimes in his life he has been pushed up against the wall. you have never seen the media really goofer him. he has never been cornered. how does this man react when he is cornered? we don't know. but i will tell you this. the people he surrounds himself with and the things i'm doing monologue tonight taken all the audio of barack obama over of the years and put it together. a lot of it we have heard before have you heard it with the ears? are penal starting to go wait a minute he did say that i know what that means now. steve: are you suggesting, glenn, because he has never been on this tight a jam on such a

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steve: we joust point out that glenn beck shaved his legs before he put on the leader hose. gretchen: and i thought you waxed. >> i think i just threw up in my mouth a little bit. steve: trouble for two u.s. senators chris dodd of connecticut. >> trouble? >> and kent conrad. both democrats. according to a fellow by the name of robert fine b rg, official of country wide mortgage these two guys were

told when they went in to get a couple mortgages each that they were friends of anglo and they were getting a special deal. they were getting french treenchts they say. no absolutely not. i just want to make sure i understand this. steve: this is the guy who gave did to him at the v.i.p. program at country wide they weren't getting anything special. why would you have a program titled v.i.p. that is exactly the same as everybody else? brian: they did say. this why are you in the v.i.p. program they said i thought it was because i would get better service. >> oh. saved 7 a thousand dollars. >> you know what's really weird is nobody subpoenaed the records of chris dodd. they have got the records. brian: won't give them up until the ethics investigation is over. >> got them ready to go at the bank. they are ready to go. they are doing this investigation, ok? but nobody has asked and nobody has subpoenaed the actual records. the government in the investigation, don't you think

maybe they should look at the records? the intank waiting. just want a piece of paper. we will hand them over. here they all are. nobody has asked. >> we should remind people the reason this would be a problem is that congressional leaders are not supposed to accept any deals that the general public cannot get. it's a violation of ethics. >> why would we expect them to do that. the average salary for americans $45,000 a year. their average salary 173. what's your health care like? let's care it to their health care. they have violated everything our founding fathers stood for. thomas payne said the great thing about the system is congress will never vote a rod against themselves because they know they are going to be going back into the general public. i say it is about time to say enough. i say it's about time to say you work for $45,000 a year. you don't get health care. you don't get retirement packages for the rest of your life because of have you served two terms. that's ridiculous. nobody in america gets that. brian: supposed to serve. supposed to almost be like giving up your time and career.

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gretchen: may 1992 and mary jo buttafuoco answered the front door of her long island home she saw 16-year-old amy fisher pointing a gun at her face and then she fired. fisher had been having an affair with mary jo's husband joey who was more than twice her age. mary jo buttafuoco miraculously survived the close range shot. focus love triangle she didn't even know about. fisher once dubbed the long island lolita sentenced to seven years in prison and her husband joey got four months for statutory rape. the deal made in for three made for tv movies. now the book getting it through my thick skull mary jo butbuttae terms of turmoil. some know your story and then there are younger people who don't. but horrifying thing you bent through all those years ago when you are shot at close range. >> yes. >> miraculously you are sitting

here on the couch with me here today. >> i know. it is a miracle. it really, really is i'm very blessed. gretchen: you finally get around to finally divorcing joey and many say said what took you so long. now you write a book calling him a sociopath. >> i based this book on a revelation i had with my son paul two years ago where he very blatantly stated dad is a sociopath. i didn't understand what that meant. to me, that was a murderer, an o.j. simpson, scott peterson, like that type. and paul said to me, no, mom, there is a lot of sociopaths. they drain you. i went and i looked on the computer and i put up the word sociopathic tendencies. there was this list. when i saw the list, the bulb went off in my head and i went oh, my god. this is what i have been living with all of my life. and i made it a quest to learn more about it. talked to specialists about it and through that, i tell in my

book some stories that now i realize were the behaviors of a sociopath that did i not know then. and my hope is in this book is not to bash joe or anything like that. but just through my experiences to maybe help people who are in toxic relationships get out of them. gretchen: because millions of people are and so many people said mary joe, why did you stick around in that marriage for 10 years after you were shot in the face? but you say because there are millions of other women and men in similar situations. you felt that your catholic upbringing was making you stay in that relationship? >> i had a number of reasons. number one, i was so sick. it i was almost murdered. i was in no shape to go anywhere. the kids were little. they were traumatized beyond belief. it happened at their home in front of their house. of my irish catholic upbringing which is you stay and fight no matter what. the main thing is he is a very good liar and a sociopath. i believed him when he swore to

me on all that was holy that he had nothing to do with her. gretchen: you became addicted to painkillers from the incident that happened to you. >> yeah. >> you went to get help at the betty ford clinic. >> yeah. >> did that help you change your life around as well? >> yes. i write about that in the book that i was devastated. i was embarrassed. i didn't want to go. i thought oh my god, you know. look what happened? i survived this and now i'm addicted to pain pills. what did i was in there they helped me to be aware of mary jo, have you got to live with this and get over. this and they helped me through the process that allowed me to eventually forgive amy fisher. move on with my life. get a divorce. find a new love. and like move on with my life. gretchen: but, yet, you can't really get away from it totally because just two years ago we were hearing about some reality show where amy fisher was hooking back up with joey. they had some sort of a weird relationship going on. you still stay in touch with her. >> it's a very brief, you know,

an email now and then. but nothing, nothing. there is not a relationship. it's more she'll say to me, you know, how are you and i will say i am well. and then i did kind of -- this new venture she is on as a pole dancer and the video. like as a mom i wrote and said you really shouldn't be doing. this that was just my opinion. she is doing. this what am i going to do? gretchen: mary jo, some people would say my goodness the fact that you could even type one word to this woman and especially in an advisory role almost now. how do you do that? >> i don't know. once a mom, always a mom, i guess. you know. i'm very disappointed in the path she has taken. she had a second chance. and what she did with it is it's not productive. she has got three little kids. that, to me, is the tragedy. gretchen: do you stay in touch with joey? >> very, very briefly. i sent him a copy the book. i told him what i was going to say about it. at the time he laughed at me and now he seems insulted and hurt. that's typical joe.

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the white house. [ applause ] >> have a beer. yeah, and, if that works out obama is going to have ahmadinejad and netanyahu over for yeager bombs. brian: that's pretty funny. gretchen: that was funny, actually. you probably are wondering what is brian doing? this is a regular day on "fox & friends." steve: if the president's health care initiative goes through, we would actually wind one dr. sealing taking our blood pressure every morning. >> i'm kidding. >> they could do worse than that, steve. >> steve: there is a new study out we are going to talk about very shortly that counting cash can actually relax you. so what he is doing is taking our precash counting blood pressure readings right now. >> he is 115 over 65. athlete's blood pressure better than yours, steve. brian: 115. gretchen: while steve is reading the first headline. bring that cuff thing over here. >> i know yours is going to be

low. brian: can you imagine doing it without the lab coat? it wouldn't make sense. steve: meanwhile, as the doctor continues his free health exam, weigh now know when president obama will be sharing that beer with the harvard professor and the cambridge officer who arrested him. the drink will be thursday night, 6:00 p.m. white house. president obama professor henry gates and sergeant joe crowley will be talking about the incident that grew into a national debate about race. we are also hearing the 9/11 calls from the day gates was arrested as he tried to get into his own home. >> i don't know if they live there and they just had a hard time with their key, but i did notice they kind of used their shoulder to try to barge. in and they got. in. >> are were they white, black, or hispanic? >> um, well they were two larger men. one looked cuyahoga county of hispanic but i'm not really sure. the other one was in and i didn't see what he looked like

at all. steve: that call came in from a neighbor massachusetts. gretchen: texting behind the wheel 243 more times to crash. that's according to a new study from virginia tech. people who take their eyes off the road. texters took their eyes off the road for as long as 5 seconds at a time. that's the time it takes to drive the length of football field at 55 miles per hour. brian: a doctor who played a large role in changing the legal drinking to my knowledge 21. now he says it's the single most regrettable decision of his career. 1980 morris was on the presidential commission that recommended changing the law. i know it changed from 19 and then to 21. i was chasing it. he now says the age change resulted in collateral off road damage like bing drinking and date rape. how did he figure that out? how does that relate? steve: meanwhile people in texas could be forced to leave their homes against their will this hurricane season.

if a mandatory evacuation is insubstituted and they don't leave, they will be arrested. this is according to a new law starting in september. residents will also have to pay rescue costs if they stay and need help from authorities who have got to go in to bail them out. >> is sports betting the answer to state budget problems? some gofs are saying yep, delaware governor jack markel is leading the charge. legalized sports betting. now being challenged by sports league and new jersey governor jon corzine says the federal band on sports bet something unconstitutional. legalized betting would hurt the integrity of the games. and i read that entire story while brian was flashing the light in my eyes. brian: i want to make sure you are healthy. am i doing the right thing here steve. >> you have to turn the light on. gretchen: ok, dr. kilmeade. brian: what do i use that for? >> look into her eyes and see if they are dilted or not. >> she definitely has beautiful

eyes. brian: can i play a lot of party games. if the eyes are dilated that means she is attracted to me? >> no. it means she had a lot of coffee. gretchen: party games. too much to drink. are they dilated? steve: the reason dr. mark segal has brought in this stuff. gretchen: stop. steve: study suggests that just counting money can boost your happiness and confidence and even reduce pain. we will put that to the test. we have $1,000 of cash right now. >> house money. steve: we borrowed it from glenn beck. explain the idea behind, why would counting money actually relax us? >> that's actually very serious science. because there is a new study out in a re reputable journal called psychological science. they looked at undergraduates, actually, 96 of them. they are afraid of losing their jobs or not getting jobs. fear is of the unknown. it's of loss of control. so if you give people money, something concrete, even if it's not really going to solve the problem, they get the sense, the

brain gets the sense i have money now, everything is going to be ok. you calm down. steve: even if it's not my money. >> even if it's not your money. you calm down and your hormones that are released are healthier for you than the stress you feel from losing your job. it works. gretchen: while doocy is putting his paws over that 1,000 bucks. do his blood pressure because we did preratings and now we want to see if his improves when he is touching the dough. brian: 140 over 85. >> steve: 82. brian: sounds like a blockage of some sort. >> five consumption of coffee. >> normally heart rate will improve faster than blood pressure. steve: i need to be counting the money. >> this would work better for anchors of other networks afraid of losing their jobs. brian: steve is very secure here. that's the problem. >> he should be.

[beeping] steve: as long as that doesn't go flat line. brian: i don't know why shows don't do this more often? >> it did come down it came down. his heart rate is now 75. and his blood pressure is enough to down to 135 over 75. i think it's my relaxing touch. the art of medicine. this is the art of medicine that we're sacrificing under the health care reforms that hands on, one-on-one medical care. gretchen: brian, are you next or am i? brian: have you even gotten your first? gretchen: yeah. i was -- i think i was the lowest one. 105 over 70. brian: will you actually bring this into the psychological today follow-up story? >> here is what is interesting. they didn't check heart rates or blood pressures. how did you feel after that? did you feel better after you counted the money? steve: do you know what i like about counting money? i like the smell of money. i love the smell of money. >> did it give you a feeling of power or security? >> it made me want more.

>> people in the study, when they actually took this, they felt less pain. they put their hands in hot water. gretchen: i want to make sure the money is all organized. what does that say about me? >> that you are very organized. gretchen: my husband would say i'm a nut. >> he is the one that let's money float away probably. brian: you are always taking her side, doctor. i don't think it's going to help her. >> that's a medical trick. gretchen: got to get it on my actual forearm or bicept. now i have to consciously think about the money. we are counting. steve: people at home, feel free to do this as well. gretchen: break out your blood pressure machines. >> you can come in and see me. i'm ready with my equipment. brian: this will help to satisfy the deductible. ♪ gretchen is about the same. she is 110 over 70.

gretchen: it went up we're more used to handling money than steve. steve: maybe. gretchen: this is a very interesting study. people at home just touch your money today, you will feel better. brian: or take it all out. steve: doctor is going to stick around next hour. we will talk about the new swine flu vaccine and whether you should get it or not, because they are talking about kids. brian: come over and get me. steve: straight ahead as brian gets his reading done. homegrown terror. seven suspects, all but one of them american and arrested. they planned jihad. we are live in north carolina with profiles of these men and one is a father of two. gretchen: then the seven dirty secrets of president obama's health care reform. peter johnson jr. is here next to retree them and tell you why they might take away your freedoms and make your blood pressure go sky high. >> talk about the progress we

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brian: fox news alert now. shocking case of homegrown terrorist. seven north carolina men arrested for plotting violent attacks oversees. >> stacy davis joins us live from willow springs north carolina. good morning to you, stacy. >> good morning, we're in front of the home of daniel boyd, the accused terrorism ringleader. this is a large home right on the lake. 30 minutes south of raleigh. swarming with fbi agents. shocked neighbors who often saw boyd walking the dog with his family. he was a drywall salesman. and often openly talked to neighbors about his conversion from christianity to islam. a lot of folks having a hard time reconcile that father that they knew with the man the fbi talks about in 14 page

indictment unsealed yesterday. in it the fbi and investigators accusing him of plotting terrorism attacks overseas, recruiting other muslims of stockpiling weapons like a.k. 47s here at the home. him and his two sons and four other men around the raleigh area arrested yesterday, expected in court later this week. back to you. steve: stacy davis. we thank you. meanwhile, seven dirty little secrets lurking in president obama's health care plan that's what fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. joins. he has been tracking the president's health care plan for us. peter seven points real quickly. coordination. we hear that a lot. what's that mean? >> we hear coordination a lot. it means rationing. it means you can't get the tests or the procedures or the surgeries that you want and need under parts of this plan. steve: medical homes. >> medical homes. sounds like house a not a home. medical homes are more like mansion or beatle juice lives. gate keeper the primary care

physician you will go to whether you get a specialist or don't get into a specialist. plans are to cut costs, he is specialtily the medicare participants by at least 20%. so, with 45 million more people in the system, and 20% cost reduction, you are probably not going to get the tests or procedures you need. gretchen: this one people should pay close attention to. community rating. >> community rating means that you are paying as a healthy 25-year-old the same as an unhealthy 70-year-old. there is no penalty or enhancement for good health or bad health. and so we wind up all paying the same thing and the healthy wind up paying for the very, very sick. brian: beatle juice alex baldwin was so thin comparative effectiveness. >> very thin. comparative effectiveness means the government is going to take tests and make determinations with a special panel as to not only which tests and procedures and surgeries are the most effective, but the most

effective and the cheapest. a lot of people think that the test should be what's most effective not what most effective and the cheapest. brian: michael keaton was good. the public option? >> the public option means that there will be a new government health care plan, a new government insurance that you can buy. it will probably be cheaper than your private health care, but it will probably be more akin to medicaid and medicare benefits. so if you have a private health care plan that you are very happy with, as a lot of americans do now. they are probably going to be disappointed in the government-sponsored plan. but the truth is, employers will probably choose it over time because it will be cheaper. steve: one of the most troubling it? >> is troubling. steve: advanced care planning consultation. >> advanced care planning consultation is our 2009 brave new world soil and green, a 1984 huxley kind of world where you

come in and see a doctor at age 65. and if you are chronically ill you come in every year and your doctor who will be trained and they will spend billions of dollars on training doctors to be counselors that you have options. you don't have to go into a hospital. steve: these are the people that are going to determine whether or not you live or dinchts they say listen, you can go to inauguration care facility. it doesn't have to be a skilled nursing care facility. you don't have to pro long your deaths there are benefits to hospice. palliative care. brian: ultimate exit strategy. only going to give you what makes you happy. lot of people in our healthcare system that don't make them feel healthy but make them feel better and maybe even live longer lives. these are fright frightening things we have to be looking at this week as they rush this thing. we don't want a want a loss lot of these. >> tort reform and abortion i will be talking about those in

the next couple of days. steve: thank you. gretchen: check out in video she thought it would be funny. see the principal in the jacket she jumped on the kids. the school didn't think it was funny at all. they fired her. what the school has to say when she joins us live. brian: you better help her, peter. >> absolutely. . . we know why we're here. to redefine air travel for a new generation.

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because from the video it looks like you were just having fun with the kids. >> that's exactly right. i saw some students across the commons. there was one student jumping on the back of another. at first i thought it was a fight, and i asked them to separate, but then i realized they were just having fun, and the kids were all laughing, so because i came up screaming at them, i decided well, i'll just relieve the tension here and jump on and show them that i can be human too. steve: sure, and it was one second, and you didn't realize something was taping that with a cell phone camera. if you had it to do over again, would you do it again? >> well, with the results, i certainly wouldn't, but not having the knowledge i now have, i would do it again. i think it's appropriate when a principal is trying to work on relationships with students, and the students know at this school

that i'm human, i'll work with them, i listen to them, and many of the students have told me and parents as well that i'm one of the only ones that will work with them and listen to them. gretchen: because this school has had a slew of principals in the last couple of years. >> that's true. gretchen: you lasted longer than a lot of them. let's take a look at what the school board president had to say about this incident. it's a pretty short statement. all right. so that's all that that particular person had to say about your situation. you're out of a job now. what's going to happen to you, dr. wells? >> well, right now i'm not sure. i'm looking for a position. hoping to stay close to my home. i have an 85-year-old mother there and a brother that's physically handicapped. of course my husband and i were building a home, and we have about $95,000 wrapped up into that, so it would be nice if i could find another job. steve: are you of the opinion

that perhaps the school was just looking for a reason to get rid of you because i know you and a number of teachers, more than a dozen teachers, did not see eye to eye on discipline. you were for it, and they were not for your kind of discipline. do you think the school was looking for a reason to can you? >> oh, i absolutely think so. my understanding of the state statute says that anything like this, especially if the teacher or principal was to be terminated or transferred, should be brought before the board before april 1st. they did not even start questioning me on an improvement plan until april 9, and they only gave me 28 days tomorrow prove, and then they suspended me ten days with pay over the dog pile where they tried to make a decision, and then five days without. so right there they took away 15 days of the 28 i could have been improving. steve: you didn't wind up with your due process. we're going to keep an eye and see what does happen, if

anything changes. dr. brenda wells, we thank you very much for joining us today from pittsburgh. thank you. >> thank you. gretchen: health care reform, we've been talking a lot about it on this show being pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed quicker, but now all of the sudden nancy pelosi may be changing her tune. >> i'm not afraid of august. it's a month. gretchen: so what happened to all the urgency? steve: the vice president, no stranger to making gaffes, like this one. >> the truth is we, and everyone else, misread the economy. i would tell members of my family, and i have, i wouldn't go anywhere in confined places. my memory is not as good as chief justice roberts'. stand up, chuck. let them see you. god love you. what am i talking about. steve: wait until you hear what the white house secretary had to say about joe biden. @ ♪ i am stuck on band-aid® brand ♪

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gretchen: we hope you're having a fabulous tuesday morning. if you check your calendar, it's july 28th already. pushing hard for health care, it's been full steam ahead for that reform, but now all of the sudden the speaker of the house, pelosi, seems to be changing her tune. are the democrats splitting now at the seam? steve: you will hear the 911 call to police from professor gates' neighbor in cambridge. it's been released. here's nine seconds of it. what else do the tapes reveal including was anybody at fault clearly? we'll report. you decide. brian: bill maher thinks your stupid. >> gosh, this country just gets dumber and dumber by the day. brian: doesn't stop there, folks. it gets worse.

he goes after sarah palin. our slogan comes from michael. "fox & friends, "-- i'm never going to get to sleep. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- brian: the translutant glass behind us. gretchen: good thing i don't have a bald spot. we're so happy you would join us on a tuesday for our final hour of "fox & friends." it's happy hour, not right now, even though we're going to have some happy times, it's happy hour at the white house on thursday, right? president obama has invited special guests over. brian: and mike emanuel not one of them, he'll come in and take some video and be asked to leave. what's happening, and who's bringing the beer? >> well, good morning, guys. the beer summit, happy hour for the white house is set for thursday, 6:00 p.m. with professor henry louis gates and the police agent jim crowley. you might remember it was sergeant crowley who made the

recommendation of sitting down with a beer with professor gates and president obama at the white house. he enjoys blue moon beer. the police officer complained about getting the media off his lawn. the president said he has a similar problem. see here. professor gates and president obama are friends. the president told us that when he spoke out on the incident last wednesday night at his prime time news conference. we are told professor gates' beer of choice is red stripe or beck's. the question now, what will president obama drink? >> the president had a bud. >> uh-oh. we had a little technical difficulty. let me recap what he told us yesterday at the briefing. he said that the president had a budweiser at the all-star game known as an all-american beer, and so it sounded like all

indications were that that would be what the president would have thursday evening. we will be watching and waiting to see how the beer summit goes and how everybody gets along, and gibbs mentioned when wendell goler was asking about what kind of beer everybody would be drinking, gibbs suggested wendell and he should be making the beer run. but i don't think that will happen. steve: why not? this bud's for you, mr. president and mr. professor and mr. sergeant. hey, mike, any chance that there could possibly be an apology from anybody before the actual beer summit? >> that's a great question. everybody is thinking this will be neat, they're going to sit down and have a beer, but the question is what if they don't go along? what in the detective basically says i didn't do anything wrong, and the professor mentions racial profiling?

what if there is some kind of flareup and this thing goes terribly wrong? we'll have to watch and wait. steve: they will be there. gretchen: mike emanuel, good to see you this morning. brian: and that's why there's reggie love, just for the beer summit. he has a body man, reggie love. he's still with him. good job, mike, we're going to get you a body man too. bill maher was on television yesterday, and he's angry, he's a complainer, and in case you thought he has a little bit of a problem with this country, we have confirmation. we are stupid and getting dumber by the day. why? because sarah palin could one day be president. he defines. >> do you think she has a future nationally as a presidential candidate? >> i don't know about a presidential candidate, but i would never put anything past this stupid country.

>> people are already complaining that you're calling the united states a stupid country, and i'm giving a chance for you to clarify. >> i don't need to clarify. it is. >> tell me why you think the united states is a stupid country. >> because sarah palin could be president. please. do i need -- but, you know, in general, gosh, this country just gets dumber and dumber by the day, and i don't think i have time on your show to list all the reasons. steve: why is it everybody punches sarah palin? if they're not punching her family. we're dumb because she could be president of the united states. she did something that was so unrecognizable by stepping aside, something some have characterized it as an act of political courageousness, and you look at governor sarah palin, her poll numbers are two or three times what nancy pelosi's are?

anybody bringing that up? gretchen: are you suggesting that bill maher would still not be punching her if she had not stepped down? >>. steve: oh, absolutely. take a swing at a democrat, bill. gretchen: he's not going to do that. here's the problem. sarah palin stepping down as governor is not going to stop the blows from coming her way. brian: i watched the whole segment. they posted it online on "the daily beast," and now they have closer clips. he does not like this country. the bigger picture is there's people that walk around and don't want to be here. why is he here? if he thinks we're a bunch of idiots, walking around so stupid, i'm sure he thinks we are as well, everybody who emails and complains, why don't these people leave. steve: because france won't give him a tv show. brian: maybe that's the problem. doesn't he have a great opportunity? what's he so angry about? gretchen: he's offending a huge portion of the population.

steve: the entire population. and those are the people who like sarah palin because she's just regular folks. we're going to start with a "fox news alert." you might be offended by this because the stunning case of home grown terrorism busted by the authorities, seven north carolina men now in federal custody including a father and two of his sons. prosecutors say the group was planning violent attacks overseas, interestingly enough. daniel boyd, muslim convert, is the ring leader of the group. he has deep roots in terrorism. he fought were the afghans against the soviets and has made numerous trips to gaza and pakistan. he ran a drywall business in his quiet neighborhood south of raleigh. his neighbors had no idea. >> it's scary as hell. >> you just don't know this day and age. you just don't know who your neighbors are. gretchen: also arrested were these three men, boyd's two sons

are in custody as well. another story that we are keeping tabs on, the senate judicial committee set to vote on sonia sotomayor. so far the majority of republicans on the panel say they will not vote in favor of sotomayor. some believe the judge lets her biases interfere with her ruling, but no democrats have announced that they will vote no, meaning she will likely be approved. they'll vote next week, and it's expected that she will be confirmed. secret testimony claims that democratic senators chris dodd of connecticut and kent conrad of north dakota knew they were getting sweetheart deals from countrywide. the two previously denied any knowledge of that, but former countrywide executive robert fineburg tells the house oversight committee they certainly knew. earlier on "fox & friends" the governor of north dakota john hoven weighed in. >> i know senator conrad very well, and at this point i'd

refrain from commenting on it because it just came out. i was aware of the mortgage obviously, that happened some time ago. we'll have to see. gretchen: dodd and conrad received preferential treatment under the friends of angelo program referring to the former ceo. madonna may be hitting the gym a little too hard. check out the material girl showing off her ripped muscles and bulging veins. brian: i don't think this is a flattering shot. steve: it's not. gretchen: we'll let you decide for yourself if she looks good. ♪ meantime her latest release is an old recording, and she probably doesn't want you to hear it. 17 minutes of an erotic message she left on an old boyfriend's machine. the tapes the expected to go for 40 grand each, $2,000 bucks a

minute. those arms were startling. it's kind of skin on bones. steve: she needs arms control. joining us right now from the russell rotunda is the senator from the great state of arizona, he's a republican, he's john cog. good morning to you. what happened no the calendar up on capitol hill? we've been hearing we've got to get health care done before those darned senators go on vacation before august. it's got to be done by the fall. and then nancy pelosi said well, whenever. what's that about? >> well, first of all, it's more important what is done than when it is done, and when you're talking about something as important as health care for you and your family, you want it done right. the reality is this is very complicated, especially the way that the democratic leadership and the president are trying to do it. they've got a basic plan no undo

the system that we have and have a government takeover of health care in this country dictating all of the rules not only for the government programs but also for the private insurance programs. to do something that big and costly is proving to be very difficult and take a lot of time. the republican approach is a more targeted one. we believe if you identify the specific problems in our system, we can provide affordable care, quality care, for everybody in this country, and i think we could do that in a much better way if we set the goal here a little bit lower in terms of the amount of money we want to spend and the amount of government regulation involved. gretchen: how will that happen senator kyl? everybody can do the math. there are fewer republicans than democrats. >> absolutely right, nobody can blame republicans for slowing this thing down in the senate. there's 60 democrats and 40 republicans. the democrats have not gotten their own act together on this, let alone talk to the republicans. we believe that if the plans that are out there right now that are -- they spend too much,

way too costly, and it does represent a government takeover, and it destroys the private insurance today that most people say they like. there's a knox survey. 91% say they have insurance, and 84% say it's good or excellent. what you have to do is stop these bills that are out there right now, go back and then target a specific solution to the two or three key problems. steve: we want to continue the conversation on the other side of the break. stand by. what's up, smart? being smart. yep. just booked my 10th night on hotels.com, so i get a night free. you. me. getaway. really? where? anywhere you want. a bed and breakfast? bed and breakfast. check. a place by the beach? a place by awesome. oh, you are smart. accumulate 10 nights and get a night free. welcome rewards from hotels.com.

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barack obama was complain nag the bush administration was rushing through legislation without lawmakers getting the time to read the bill or have debate. why does that seem so familiar to me? >> i saw that segment. it was great, and of course they are flooding the zone to use the football analogy, putting so many things out there, it's hard to focus very much attention on any one thing, and this whole business of we have to do health care quickly or it won't get done at all, and he's basically right. unless they can get it done before anybody had a chance to really read the bills and talk to their constituents back home, it's going to be more difficult for them, and that's proven to be the case. steve: apparently the president's party in maine is running some ads targeting olympia snow, try nothing get her, a republican, to vote for his plan. now, you look at the supermajority. he does not need her, and he doesn't need collins as well, but sometimes they do go over to the other side. >> but they're trying to say

that they're going to have a bipartisan product, so if they can pick off one or two or possibly three republicans, then they could contend that they have a bipartisan product, besides which they don't have everybody in their caucus. olympia snow is on the finance committee, and she's made it very clear she doesn't want to move this thing too fast and she doesn't like some of the ideas they've come out with either. steve: one of the ideas is this advisory panel and they would decide what kind of health benefits you get and what kind of care, and at the end of your life, if you're 80 years old, and they go it just doesn't make sense for us to give you that heart valve replacement. you're in trouble. >> that's right, and this is one thing that both olympia snow and i have a real problem with. this unelected group of people would say here are the rules, and unless congress, both bodies, specifically passed a law saying no to those

recommendations, they would automatically go into effect, so you could literally have life and death decisions being made by people who are not elected, and those decisions regarding rationing or delay and denial of health care are the most fundamental decisions to you and your family and mine as well, and i don't want those being made by a bureaucrat, and i don't think the government should be in the business of dictating those conditions to begin with, and it's not necessary to solve the problems that we have. republicans have a lot of ways to solve these problems that don't require a government takeover. steve: and that's what we could be facing, senator john kyl from arizona, thank you, sir, for joining us today. >> appreciate it. take care. steve: 20 after the top of the hour. straight ahead the 911 call to police officers from professor gates' neighbor have been released. up next we're going to play them for you and hear what juan willi williams has to say about them. and our vice president. >> my memory is not as good as chief justice roberts.

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gretchen: that 911 call just released revealing the truth about the arrest of harvard professor henry gates.

brian: we're joined by juan williams. juan, first off, should -- is beer diplomacy extending this story or ending this story? >> well, you know, good morning, but i've got to say for president obama's perspective, he's hoping it's an end to the story, but ironically it extends the story because everybody's going to be talking about it from now through thursday, making jokes about the beer and the get-together, and he's going to have to fashion this meeting in some way to bring it to some happy conclusion. i'm not sure he's in control of what sergeant crowley and what professor gates have to say afterwards. gretchen: because, juan, what's going to happen? they come out of this meeting, and they're drinking alcohol at the meeting, i'm not sure that's a good thing to do, i'm being serious about this, but i understand they're doing it in good fun, but what are they going to say when they come out? sergeant crowley is going to say yeah, i still stand by my story, and professor gates is going to say i still stand by my story,

and where is that going to leave the president? >> hopefully it will leave him with an image of reconciliation that he's acting above the fray, that he's there as an arbiter, that he's there has someone who's trying to bring peace to the situation. that's what the allows wants out of this. everybody's going to remember that he set this afire, he added fuel with his comments to the police acting stupidly before he knew what was going on. steve: last friday he could have ended up when he came hout with robert gibbs and he had a statement, and he said his words were ill chosen, but he didn't apologize. had he said let me walk back that a little bit. stupidly was the wrong word. i should have said unfortunately there was an arrest made, and that way it could go either way. the cop did say that professor gates had been difficult and professor gates accused the cop

of being a racist. >> president obama knew the question was coming, his aides had said it's likely you're going to get a question about this, and in his mind he went off on how can i take advantage to this, and he started referring to the work that he had done in illinois regarding racial profiling, but this case had nothing to do with racial profiling, and i think it just got him down a bad road, so now the best that he can hope is that people will see his efforts as an apology, even if it's not labeled as such because he doesn't want to offend anybody else, professor gates' supporters. he's got to somehow rehabilitate his image as someone who doesn't play the race card, doesn't exacerbate racial tensions, but that he is this crossover racial superstar. that's what he's got to get back to. brian: as an african-american, forget tv guy and deep their, are you glad that he explored this topic? are you glad we're in this so called teachable moment phase? >> the problem with it, from

order to have credibility on race, you have to be very, very, very honest, and in this situation i think the initial take was not honest because people were making this out to be police harassment or police brutality or police profiling, and that's just not what happened in this case, so we'll see what comes of it. hopefully people are aware that if you're african-american, you are more likely to get stopped, and there have been issues with racial profiling in this country, but you can have that discussion without maligning sergeant crowley who is not proven to have done anything wrong in this situation. gretchen: right, and that brings me back no the point i'm not sure exactly what the outcome will be for the president after this meeting, but we'll have to wait and see. >> that's a good point. gretchen: great to see you this morning, thanks for your honesty on the topic. >> you're welcome. steve: without naming names, how many members of congress off the top of your head have used botox or had hair plugs? gretchen: you don't have to answer that.

steve: don't give us any names. >> the ladies would really be in trouble, but don't forget we have from the vice president on down, goodness gracious. brian: there you go naming names. thank you very much. steve: the reason i mentioned it, botox and hair plugs because bow tax is a proposed tax on plastic surgery and hair plugs and stuff like that being tossed around. can you say couch potato tax too? gretchen: and some call these statues art. others are calling them or scene, especially parents whose kids go to school down the street. brian: looking for that perfect match? a new show giving men more to love, the host of the plus size dating show. the great taste

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>> when you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody's read them. steve: and of course nobody gets a chance to read them either. brian: like everything that's come down the pike including this health care bill which was 1,014 pages, and even barack obama said i'm not sure what's in them. gretchen: no republican needs to read this health care bill because they're not going to like any part of it. to me let's just sit down and try to get back together and get on the same page on at least some of the issues. the republicans are not on the same page on any of the issues. brian: something is just coming across now, olympia snow working to get the public option out of this plan. so that might be something that gets some republican support and evidently congressman waxman

yesterday had a proposal to the blue dogs that was very similar to that. steve: meanwhile another prominent american, somebody with a very high job, is joe biden, our vice president of the united states, at the conclusion of a trip last wreak to the ukraine in georgia he said essentially that russia was going to cooperate with us because they're such a mess. he said russia has to make some very difficult calculated decisions, they have a shrinking population base, a withering economy, they have a banker sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable. so things over in russia is bad. brian: what is he thinking? the president just went over there to mend fences, he wants to give russians the respect that they feel they weren't getting. if he thinks that, is it to anybody's benefit to say it out

loud? gretchen: well, robert gibbs came to the table and he spoke on behalf of the vice president to defend his comments. >> the president and his team are enormously helped by the vice president whether it is the implementation of the stimulus or ranging from things like the implementation of the stimulus to being involved in the politics and the political reconciliation that has to happen in order to make iraq a safer place. steve: all right. so joe biden is an asset. and here is some of the asset in action. >> the truth is we and everyone else misread the economy. i would tell members of my family, and i have, i wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. it's not that it's going to mexico, it's that you're in a confined aircraft. when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. that's me. stand up, chuck. let them see you. oh, god love you. what am i talking about. you're making everybody else

stand up, though, pal. make no mistake about this. hillary clinton is as qualified or more qualified than i am to be vice president of the united states of america. my memory is not as good as chief justice roberts. brian: i love it. steve: i've got to agree, he is an enormous asset. i'm with gibbs because he gives us plenty to talk about. brian: a lot of times he's honest. a lot of times he's off. you make the call. steve: you just never know. thank you, mr. vice president. meanwhile we've got headlines on this tuesday, and we start with new video just in showing defense secretary robert gates meeting with american troops in southern iraq. live on the ground in baghdad with more on the trip and what it hopes to accomplish, our own man david piper. good morning to you, david. >> good morning, i'm actually at the air base with robert gates flew in a short time ago and actually met those iraqi

generals and also those american generals to find out exactly what is going on on the ground here. he hasn't been here since last december, and he wanted to find out what was happening were the june 30th agreement with the iraqi forces taking the lead in security here, and from what he told me, he was encouraged by what he's seeing, but he's been only going three and a half weeks. back to you. gretchen: you've been down in southern iraq. how is this advisory agreement operating there then? >> it's really a mixed picture. we've been out right on the front here with iran, and we've been seeing the u.s. special forces working very closely with their iraqi colleagues, but nearer to the base here, we went out with a patrol yesterday, and it was very difficult to even interview iraqi soldiers. there seems to be a major chain of command, and we were even told if we went to the iraqi brigade, we'd have to get clearance from iraq's ministry of defense, so it's quite

difficult to do any reporting down here at the moment. steve: david piper covering the gates' surprise visit in iraq, we thank you very much, it is a hot windy day over there. thank you. brian: still working out the new arrangement. the chair of the senate finance committee shooting down reports of a plastic surgery tax. he says lawmakers are not considering a bow tax on botox to help fund health care reforms, but a g.o.p. aide confirms to fox news the idea was tossed around, the botox tax is in order to raise money to pay for health care reform. and there are some reports of lawmakers considering a video game tax to keep people off the couch. steve: oh. gretchen: a high school principal thought she was relieving tension when she joined in on this playful dog pile. that's her in the jean jacket. well, the school said her leap

was inappropriate and they fired her. earlier on the show dr. wells explains she doesn't regret what she did. >> i would do it again, i think it's very -- i think it's appropriate when a principal is trying to work on relationships with students, and the students pretty much know at this school that i'm human, that i'll work with them. gretchen: and while dr. wells looks for a new job, the school board president has released this statement. steve. steve: take a look at this video. you folks out in tv land too. the driver of a boat going 190 miles an hour, lost control, flipped over and over. it doesn't look good for him, does it? well, the driver walked away without a scratch, and, in fact, joined us this morning on "fox & friends." >> it was like being on a giant roller coaster. it caught me by surprise, and all you can do is hold on and hope for the best.

steve: that guy right there, j. michael kelly, says he knows it will be hard to get back into the boat, but he's willing to get back to work and do just that. brian. some naked news. brian: i'm going to take off my clothes just to read it. gretchen: oh, my god. i'll pay attention. brian: now they're off. steve: i'm leaving. brian: these statues causing a controversy in del ray beach. some parents say the anatomically correct sculptures are indecent, and they're located in a shopping plaza near an elementary school. the owner of the plaza says the sculptures are beautiful, there are no plans to remove the display. didn't michelangelo do some similar things? steve: more graphic. gretchen: all in the name of art apparently. nice job on getting those clothes on and off. brian: not easy. it's all a big zipper up the front.

gretchen: a new vaccine for the swine flu about to be tested, but parents out there, pay attention to this, because you shouldn't be in a rush to take it. it could be four shots for our kids. steve: plus a new reality dating show that premiers tonight that gives contestants a bit more to love. the host of the plus size show coming up to explain.

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go to chevy.com for details. brian: they've got a vaccine for the h1n1 flu soon to be tested ready for this fall? gretchen: jonathan serrie is at one of those sights, the emory clinic in georgia.

>> right now i'm standing in front of the emory vaccine center in decatur, a suburb of atlanta. they are going to recruit 200 adult volunteers in august for preliminary trials to see whether this h1n1 vaccine is safe. if it is, they will then move on to pediatric and geriatric clients here and at approximately seven other locations throughout the country. the trials will help public health officials not only determine whether these vaccines are effective, but also the proper dosage. the results of these preliminary tests are expected in a matter of weeks, hopefully in time for wide scale distribution of a vaccine in time for flu season beginning in october. the first human trials of a swine flu vaccine are already under way in australia. two biotech companies have started injecting 540 adult volunteers. researchers hope to have a vaccine ready in that country for has distribution also by mid-october. of course it's winter south of

the equator, so australia's already full blown in flu season, and there are reports of heavy transmission rates of h1n1, no sign that the disease has mutated into a more dangerous form. nevertheless public health officials here in the u.s. not wanting to take any chances, and that is why they're conducting these trials of a potential h1n1 vaccine. brian and gretchen, back to you. brian: thank you very much, jonathan. gretchen: lots of parents are worried their kids will pick up the swine flu at summer camp or when they go back to school? but will it be ready and should your child take it? brian: dr. marc siegel, should we take it? >> we should all take it. this is a big headline. when we get this vaccine, when we finally get it, i believe everyone in the united states who hasn't already had the swine flu like your daughter i believe already had it, she should be immune. people that haven't had it need

it, we need to cut down on the circulating virus. we've got to get the whole united states vaccinated, but there's certain orders of priorities. health care workers, the very young, the very old, the chronically ill, kids with asthma, people that have chronic medical conditions have to get it, and then all healthy people should get it next. gretchen: the amazing thing is we're talking about four flu shots this fall. four. so how do you stagger those out with kids and adults? >> that's a great question. you're going to need two of the swine flu shots. there's 24 clinical trials ongoing, nine have already been completed, it looks very good for this vaccine. the problem is that to get full immunity you're going to need two. so they're about three weeks apart, you get your first shot, three weeks later you get your second shot. the problem were kids is they already need two of the regular flu shots, so that's four vaccines, but this is really important because we don't know what's going to happen with this flu. right now it's mild. there's several million cases

around the world, only about 825 deaths, but we don't know what's going to happen with it. we've got to control it, and we need the vaccine. brian: you say we should do it, in is breaking news. i've never taken a flu shot. >> i want you to take it. i'll give to it you on the air this year. i want to say i'm a little concerned of how long it's taking because schools are where flu really spreads, and there's a big study out of japan, over 25 years they cut down on 1 million deaths by vaccinating the school kids. we've got to get the vaccine in the schools. brian: here in new york especially. that's where it all started. dr. siegel, thanks very much, without the lab coat still effective and believable. gretchen: love comes in all shapes and sizes and a new plus size reality show is trying to make the perfect match. brian: the host of the show, emme, joins us live. bill: watch the clock, things are changing rapidly.

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the show is called "more to love." steve: a longtime friend of this show returns to the show. >> i like being on this curvy couch. steve: this show is more about real people in america. >> that isç right, it is about the average person looking for love. every pot has a cover. gretchen: i think it is very interesting because it really focuses on your size. there is some sadness that goes along with this because some of these women have never been on a date. >> that is right.

imagine being in your 20's, 30's and not finding love. she is having problems with being born into a bigger body and society says the only way to fit in is to be thin. so there is an inner, as well as and external turmoil. we can relate to not fitting in. steve: everybody has problems. >> that is right. the show is about the size, but that is secondary. you will be pulled into the show. everybody needs to find love.

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