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that's all the time we have left this evening. as always, thank you for being with us. we will be back here tomorrow night. all the coverage on of the town halls. all the news of the day. we are here to toss to greta van susteren. >> pennsylvania, missouri, arkansas, and wisconsin. the health care town hall meetings are exploding. protesters are spread from coast to coast rand going on the word next. start your engines, g.m.'s vice chairman goes "on the record." remember, you have a huge stake in general motors now. in some ways, our next guest is your employee. now, have you heard about this new car that gets 230 miles per gallon? more on that coming up. how about our international multi tasking? not only is secretary of state hillary clinton doing diplomacy in africa but it turns out the secretary is busting out her dance moves in africa. we have got it on tape is she a good dancer? we report. you decide. but you have got to see. this [captioning made possible by fox
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news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- greta: the mystery, it's solved. it's our fault. as battles rage at town halls across the country white house press secretary robert gibbs has some harsh words for us. cable news. >> dissent is part of the american tradition. i think what is unproductive though is if somebody tries to come to a town hall meeting and you can't ask your question or your mother can't ask her question because somebody else is yelling. that's what cable tv and the food fight brings to this. i think we all have something to lose, matt, if we let cable television come to town hall meetings and kill health care reform for another year and put the special interest back in charge. greta: today, protesters continued to blast lawmakers at health care town halls. >> you want to be led out of here? you are welcome to go. now, wait a minute, wait a minute, now wait a minute. >> i came prepared to speak and
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instead you wouldn't let anybody to speak. i'm not a lobbyists with all cinsdz of money to stick in your pocket. >> we have just had a demonstration of democracy. >> what are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created according to the constitution? [cheers and applause] >> george washington would roll over in his grave right now. >> but the insurance company won't pay. can you afford it? and i said no, so right here. is the victim of health care rationing. four months old. >> that's what america is about. we have a vigorous debate. it's not about putting the government in charge of your health care insurance. >> i don't want to see the government involved in health care, period. >> ok. what is it that you think we are going to accomplish if you don't let anybody talk? what is the point. >> it's not even on the table. so,. [[inaudible] >> i don't understand this rudeness.
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i honestly don't get it do you all think you are persuading people when you shout out like that? >> explain to us why we should believe any of the numbers that are being presented to us here as far as costs? [cheers and applause] greta: we have protests across the country covered and we start with our own griff jenkins at beck nell university in lewisberg, west virginia where specter held a town hall today. >> that's right. there are 350 people packed into an auditorium. another 500 in overflow room and the senator took 30 questions. if i could just address the comments of mr. gibbs, he might want to take note. what i saw here today, greta, was a referendum on washington as much as it was a discussion of health care. at one point a woman stood up and said i'm generally concerned senator specter we are going down a road of socialism. the senator speckster said it's
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the good thing only a third of the room stood up. the entire room erupted in cheering to make their point. they are mad with the speed with which things are being done. that might be a message, greta, that mr. gibbs want to pay attention to. i will say that it was orderly here there were no protesters there was no shouting. no violence. but there was plenty of shouting shouting. lots of passion. i spoke to plenty of folks after the event. here is what they had to say. take a listen. >> when you get below the surface, i think there are a lot of things that are disturbing, again, the bureaucrats making decisions having access to our bank accounts. this is stuff not american. with friends in canada and different stuff. we don't want that. >> kind of bugs me about the congress is that they pass laws and generally they are some of those laws that don't apply to them. any law that's passed in congress ought to apply to all members of congress it would be
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nice to see that. >> what i want them to understand is from my perspective, i work at guyinger, that has been cited as one of the health care delivery systems almost as a model to use as health care reform. one thing i overlooked in there one, one of the reason we are cost effective our ceo glen steele only makes about 1.5 million per year. is he underpaid as far as i'm concerned. whereas insurance companies, the top ten, these guys make over 12 million on average, from what i understand. and my point to the country and to senator specter is how much is enough? how much do they need? >> things need changed or they need adjusted but you don't redo the whole system. that just makes it bad. after the event i asked senator specter about the mob title and he said quote i'm not going to categorize any guests that turn out to my town halls as mobs.
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greta? greta: griff, any of the people that you spoke to afterwards after the event said i learned more, i learned more, i changed my opinion. did you get any of that? >> people said i felt like the senator was listening to me and i hope will take that message back to washington. that's what i heard the most. greta: all right, griff. thank you. to many the message is simple. read the bill. just read it robert mitchell takes on senator arlen specter the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> when congressman scoff at the notion of reading legislation because they aren't qualified or they aren't competent to understand it how can would he be confident that those congressman are competent to reengineer the entire healthcare system? [cheers and applause] greta: robert mitchell asked that question and joins us live from philadelphia. rob, that town hall meeting was last week sometime. did you get any answers that
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satisfied you so when you walked out the door you felt better about this bill? >>. no we didn't get any answers. it was pretty clear to us when from the time they entered the room they were there in order to deliver their talking points and to try to persuade audience that they were right. they weren't really there to listen to what the audience had to say. and we reacted to them appropriately. >> do you have a sense this democracy, i'm sure you didn't hear that senator specter made some remark this is democracy. on the other hand, some have described this as angry mob. some have described this as unamerican. how do you describe yourself? >> unamerican, i can't believe that speaker of the house would call people unamerican. how insulated they have become and how out of touch they have become with people. what has people upset is
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congress forcing bills down our throats, spending bills after spending bills that are very untop larr with democrats and republicans alike health care, let's not lose sight that this whole health care bill is something barack obama planned to have wrapped up and signed into before the august break that was before the legislators themselves would have had an opportunity to read it we are tired of being ram rodded in this way by people who have supposed to be working for us. greta: is this a one-time deal or are you just getting energized? >> the more that they insult us, the more energized we become. i mean, the people who are conducting these meetings, the people in washington, d.c. were put in washington, d.c. to represent the people. we don't feel like we are being represented. we feel like they have turned completely on their heads.
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hopefully any can control public opinion to limit the political consequences that might come around the next time that they face election. they are already talking about using parliamentary tricks to ram health care reform through regardless of what the people have had to say during this particular break. greta: rob, thank you. good luck. a town hall. rob richards' question causes an uproar. >> coercion measure. will you support taking the same coercion as you are legislating upon the american people? >> i don't understand what you are getting at. mike and i do not support a single pair system. we are not interested in saying gel pair system. we are not interested in expanding medicare. >> but that's what obama wants. >> no it's not what president obama wants. >> yes, it is.
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greta: rob joins us live from little rock. rob, the members of congress say that they do not support singer pair, that the president does not support single pair, do you believe them? >> well, greta, thanks for having me on, it's good to be with you. as obama said when he was running for president that ideally we would have a single pair system. now we already have a real terrible sense of bureaucracy with hpos ppos and a medicare system in which if you were watching larry king earlier, pin teller was saying that we spend twice as much money on health care here in america as any other system in the world. but, it's terribly inefficient. and we're now proposing expanding public health care coverage to more americans and i don't see that as an act of
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responsibility by our congress. greta: all right. what would you do if you had a magic wand and you were in congress? >> well, i would like to see more tax credits for taxpayers. less government intervention in the dr. -patient relationship. certainly not forcing employers to provide health care for all their employees. all that's going to do is result in layoffs. more unemployment. and more unemployment is going to stem less health care for people. less production. you are going to seat g.d.p. dropping even more. we may come to a point where in such trouble that a lot of americans will be asking for handouts. sigh that as terrible. greta: all right. the members of congress go back to work in about three weeks and they will be debating this and voting on this. is this a one-time deal or do you intend to keep attempting to
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have your voice be heard? >> well, it's certainly not the first time that i have made my voice heard and i can promise that along with the campaign for liberty we are here and we are loud and we won't stop speaking up until we see america return to the principles as the founders laid out in the constitution. and the bill of rights. greta: rob, thank you very much. up next. they might be on edge at the white house tonight. voters, as you can see, are furious, at least some. protests are continuing. is support for the president's health care plan fading? we have new information tonight. plus, six months in jail for a bodily function. an opera composed on twitter. and a luxury hotel without beds, towels, toilet paper or anythin
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greta: well, they are not happy and the numbers are not proving it. in the face of angry poo protests across the country. obama's health care plan is dropping fast. approval of the health care plan has fall ton a new low. 42%. that is down 5 points from only two weeks ago. are the protests knocking away at the president wants numbers? protests like this one in green bay, wisconsin. >> kill the bill. >> you are supposed to work for the people. you are supposed to do what we want. not what you want. [cheers and applause] bill: dennis feldman was at that town hall. have you ever gone to a town hall before? >> no, i never have i have to say i'm very proud to be on the fox news channel. you do the best job. your raghtsd are through the roof and i'm very happy for you. thank you. greta: i thought you were going to say that you are happy to
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talk to me because i'm a fellow cheese head. that's what i was expecting to you say. i will take the other compliment for fox news. anyways why did you go to this town hall? >> well, in fact, i went because because. >> i generally follow what's going on with spending. i tend to be responsible with my spending. i'm pretty much in line with watching. when this stimulus package it had to be rushed through. they had to put 300 extra pages on it on the last night and had to be voted on the next day. i said to myself, this is crazy. $878 billion, i believe it was that was going to be spent and we had it-to-ram it through right now and then and then the
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president didn't sign it for four more days after that? if that's the case. why didn't we get a chance to look at it we didn't get to look at it because there would have been too many things in there that would have been a problem for them. that's what started me going on the craziness all the spending. then, i started watching what was going on with this cap and trade bill. with the cap and trade. i happen to be a union member. i am in the paper industry. i'm actually on the road right now for a company. i said we are going to be punishing industry in this country if we do this cap and trade thing, which says that companies can only put out so much pollution and then they will be punished and then depending how low they want to make the ceiling and punished to the point they will move out of this country. this effects the middle class. this is working families, not the evil rich. i kept calling my com. i said where do you stand on
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this he said well i want to make sure listen to the people. opposition saying they are against this because it's going to cost jobs and hurt the economy. utility bills will go up because, in fact, the power companies are going to suffer because president obama already said that coal is going to be one of things he will try to eliminate. that's our most efficient power that effects everybody. that's why i went to the meeting. i'm so frustrated they are not listening to us. greta: how about your neighbors? do they feel the same way or are you standing alone in your neighborhood on this? >> well, in fact, by the way, for those people, including nancy pelosi that says that we are a bunch or, you know, we are the swastika crowd and we are organized and whatever. i am a union guy. i speak for myself. i'm fed up with people that tell me that if i have to go down and do something i have to toe the mark and say what they want me to say and i'm not bust in
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there. it's a bunch of bologna and i'm fed up with it the people that i saw down there, i got to talking to them when they were in the room there. nobody was told what to say. nobody was organized. a bunch of people fed up and wanted to come down there. by the way, when our congressman wasn't listening to us on cap and trade and said he was going to listen to the people before he voted because he wouldn't say how he was voting. i called him the day of the vote and i said how are you going to vote on it this? he said well, i'm still waiting to hear from the people because he had previously said well, we're going to make sure that we listen and he said we are getting a lot -- the staffs said we are getting a lot of phone calls on this. greta: dennis, i have got to run. you have got to come back though, dennis. thank you, i'm up against a break. up next, what made senator clair mccaskill say this at a town hall today. >> i don't understand this rudeness. what is this?
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greta: senator yeah.
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>> hours ago, hillsborough missouri. senator mccaskill gets an earful from protesters at town hall.
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the senator stood her ground. >> catch a crook over here. and the system over here. >> hey, hey, hey. ma'am, everybody sit down. >> she insisted on coming today and what mom wants, mom gets. >> we learned at the dinner table that democracy meant getting into it. >> beg your pardon, sir? let the man talked to asked question. >> i said it's not realistic right now. >> tug at our heart strings and tell us it's for the children. >> i'm so disappointed. [boos] >> honestly, i am. >> how are you going to vote yes on this bill? you work for us. and we knew in november that we didn't want it. [ applause ] i have got to tell you guys.
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i hate to use my mother's voice here because i have got three teenagers and i got one. but what is it that you think we are going to accomplish if you don't let anybody talk? what is the point? greta: guess who robert gibbs blames for points like that? us. cable news. >> dissent is part of the american tradition. i think what is unproductive though is in somebody tries to come to a town hall meeting question just like -- i think we all have something to coverage town hall meetings. put the special interest back in charge. greta: joining us live is dana who radio host to ho works with the tea party coalition. she went to town hall meeting today. dana, first, let's talk about robert gibbs. was cable television there supporting this or promoting it
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or anything? i'm just sort of curious whether we tore blame as robert gibbs says. >> i don't think that at all. i think gibbs is -- he is using cable news as a copout. this is the problem. he wants to talk about being constructive. this is what is not constructive when you getting elected officials standing up in front of people being disingenuous. if we are going to have a discussion about what is and isn't constructive. i don't like the blaming of the measure people for responding to that the american officials. transparent about the bills sponsoring writing did senator mccaskill get a fair chance in your opinion to answer the questions? you might may not have liked answer go d. she get a chair chance to answer. >> to her credit i think her tone has been way more welcoming
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and warm than the tone of some of her colleagues, but, i don't like that con descension admonishing the crowd and using mother's voice. maybe we should use our mother's voice on you you don't tell lies, plain and simple. the president was going to eliminate private insurance. technically it's not in the bill expressly. let's look at the obvious here. the president is supporting a plan that's going to really jack on these regulations to these private insurance plans that's going to skyrocket the cost of them and push people to the public option logic dictates because of that he would support getting rid of private insurance. let's look at how the logic flows here. >> is it a deliberate intent to be deceitful or simply a different view in terms of how things will ultimately roll out based on a particular change?
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they tonight think single spare imminent. greta: you are not saying senator mccaskill is being dishun snes. >> not with that particular aspect. however there is a couple of things that she said that will are a lot of things that people were getting pretty upset about. i don't think she is truly malicious like being maliciously dishonest with it. but i still -- but that doesn't mean i give her credit for not realizing the perspective of what we're all looking at here. i mean, we all see -- i don't give her -- i don't give her credit for not being a little bit more open-minded, i guess. but i don't think she is a liar. greta: from the radio business, i have got a radio break so i have got to know. dana, thanks. up next, one of your employees goes on the record. the vice chairman of g.m. from g.m. headquarters in detroit. pay attention. he has something to show you, that's next. inner beauty is important, but not nearly as important as outer beauty. ♪
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greta: this is a fox news alert, a new air and ground assault operation eastern resolve has begun in afghanistan. this is new information first to fox news our own greg palkot is riding in a multi vehicle convoy witnessing the violence firsthand. afghan soldiers are fighting in the offensive. the operation is aimed at liberating a key town in northern helmand province. carrying a strategic pass used by taliban fighters. hearing gunfire in the center of the town. latest on breaking news as soon as we get it into fox. our next guest is your employee, sort of. is he robert will you tell us. vice chairman of general motors, a company you own 60% of. moments ago he went on the record from g.m. headquarters in detroit. mr. will you tell us, it's -- lutz, knives to see you, sir. >> nice to see you. greta: when are we going to see
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the chevies on the market. >> we are producing 10 a beak now which by the standards of many manufacturers making electric vehicles would be pretty good production for us it's preproduction for test fleet. actual production for the consumer will start in november of 2010. then we will hit full scale 2011 and ramp that more in 2012 why should i want one? i saw unbelievable numbers flash across the screen today. 233 miles her gallon. is that the mileage. >> that's the way the e.p.a. we believe and the e.p.a. is going to be calculated. they are assuming on your city driving they you will be electric a lot of the time but they sort of say notionally you will also be using the gasoline engine a little bit. this is when you ask why would anybody want this vehicle?
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this is the unique part about the volt that no pure electric vehicle does and no hybrid vehicle does. in that once you do a full charge it will do 40 miles purely electrically which covers the computing needs if needs of 80% of americans. once the 40 miles is gone. you don't need to plug it in. you keep going because the small gasoline engine or flex fuel engine can be ethanol fuel kicks in and it will constantly recharge the albert, so you can use it like a regular car and go for 300 miles. it's the only vehicle in the world right now that combines the fuel saving feature of the pure electric vehicle but with the range of a conventional gasoline vehicle and that's why people will want it because it does everything. greta: how much and how does it do in the safety crash tests?
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>> outstanding. i think we are going to get five star ration on everything that was one of the big engineer challenges because large litani i don'tlithium albert in there e container in the form of a fuel tank. we have conducted extensive crash tests. we have rolled them over and smashed them with other vehicles and done all of the conventional g.m. crash testing and the integrity of both the albert and fuel system is impeccable and the occupants are well protected so from a safety standpoint no concerns whatsoever. >> greta: how much? >> how much is it going to cost? greta: yeah. >> we haven't decided. but, frankly, this is first generation technology and we're probably going to have to charge a little more than we would like to. so, it's going to be somewhere in the vicinity of $40,000. hopefully a little less. but there is a government grant or a government tax credit for
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buyers of this vehicle of $7,500. so, on the assumption we charge 40 minus the 7500 from the federal government means the car would cost around 32,500 which is not much more than a normal medium sized car. greta: you mentioned the government. that's another interesting topic for g.m. how is the government doing? do you feel their presence in the day-to-day operation. now you and i are almost partners. >> i know. greta: i'm an owner. you work for me. wait a second. i'm the owner and you work for me. >> it's a privilege, believe me. >> actually the government is only a shareholder. they have helped select some board members. the board supervises the company and runs it in terms of the running of the company and what we do, there is no difference from before we try to do
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everything smartser and faster and for a lot less money than before. but in terms of corporate governance, there really isn't any difference i know the right wing talk show hosts in whom i'm totally in agreement i depart from their view when they say it's government motors and g.m. is going to be run by the government and they are going to have to do nothing but environmentally friendly cars. not so. one of the key members on the gongeghts task force was a free market republican. he helped a lot. i will tell you the only agenda of this task force was to create a healthy general motors. they want to see us succeed and pay the government back as quickly as possible your tax dollars will be replaced by shares can you buy on the open market. that was their vision and our vision. they. us to keep building all the cars
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that the american public wants from the volt at one end -- greta: then tell me, sir, why did you need us? when i say us, i mean the taxpayer. why couldn't have you done this all yourself because you are an expensive hobby of ours right now. [ laughter ] >> well, it was a long series of, you could say 30 years of mistakes by general motors the availability of cheap gas blown. exchange rate that favored japanese competition. healthcare system where we had to fund about $7 billion health care for active and retirees are per year. finally it was sooner or later this was going to happen. and i'm sorry that we had to go through chapter 11 but i think we are going to be the better
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company for it. i'm very grateful for the administration framplegly. they did something that wasn't going to win them any popularity contest short-term. i think they did the right thing in saving the american automobile industry. automobile industry is key for any country. unemployment effect is like one in ten people in the united states are in some way dependent on a healthy automobile industry so they did the right thing. greta: well, we look forward to seeing the volt hit the streets wait, one final thing you have got to come out to milford and drive this thing and you have see seen the future of the automobile. i would like to extend that invitation for you to come out here and drive. greta: if you will be out there and want me to be be a passenger i will do it? >> i will do that. greta: thank you, sir. >> thank you.
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cancers in the u.s. after lung . now back to greta. greta: this brings new meaning to the term drowning in debt. new report 201148% of u.s. home mortgages could be under water. that means the owners will owe more money than their houses are worth. how is that possible? joining us is bill barnett association of mortgage brokers. the good news i read this morning experts i this the recession is over and then i hear what you have to present. >> no. it's far from over. we have got a situation where we have the specifically in 2005 where the subprime mortgages came out and you had three term varieties a two year arm, a three year arm and five year adjustable rate mortgage. we have gone through the two years. they matured a justed in 2007. 2000 it it 8 we hit the three years that's what we are going through right now. the foreclosures are -- it is
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abysmal. it's not helping anything. as we know the unemployment is contributing towards more possible foreclosures. the big news that i haven't heard out on the street yet is the awaiting 2010 which is the first year arms that were presented in 2005 are going to be adjusting in 2010. greta: when they start the adjustment in 2010, what happens? >> depending on what type of loan they have they could be in a traditional mortgage plus index more gin fancy bank terms. typically right now you may find some people going down a slight bit. greta: that's good. they are not going to go in foreclosure. tchts ones that go up. >> correct. greta: what's the respecter of that? are there a lot of people in that category? if there are going to be a lot of foreclosures that could certainly take the wind out of our sales in getting out of this recession. >> the answer is yes, there is a lot of people. most prominent loan at the time was an option arm. that was set up people paid less than the interest due on the loan. the difference between interest
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only payment and the amount they paid went on to the loan balance. the balances actually went up. loss of value. so those people are way under water and they are going to be in trouble. greta: what are the numbers? are the numbers commensurate for the numbers for the two year and three year so we will have the same magnitude? >> actually, no. they are higher, much higher. i think the predictions right now are 77% of all the people that had option arms are going to be upside down and in trouble. greta: of course, if you fold in the unemployment problems, it's going to amplify the problem. >> absolutely. greta: what are we doing? that sounds grim. what should would he be doing and fast? >> well, there is really not a whole lot you can do. hold on right now. the one reason we are -- most people are trying to get through right now are loan mostly cloudy skies that's the immediate help. again, i have got clients that have been in those for six months and still not resolved yet. greta: it is indeed a mess. if we are at least aware of it we can try to do something. somebody can try to do something so we don't go through this hell again into 2010 and 11.
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>> thanks, greta. greta: up next, the best of the rest. the man throws a man in jail for bodily function. be careful what you do in the courtroom. you have heard about the twitter opera? we're serious, a twitter opera. we humans are getting stranger by the moment. a luxury resort in sa
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greta: çyou have seen our top stories, but here is the best of the rest. if you're ever feeling drowsy, be careful. you could find yourself behind bars the and a man in illinois has been sentenced to prison for yawning at his cousin's sentencing -- you could find yourself behind bars. this was not an ordinary yawn. it is claimed the man was disrespectful. the judge charged demand with contempt and ordered him to jail for six months. six months for a yawn. he can get out of it, but only if he apologizes to the judge. if you hear a strange sound, it could be mozart rolling over in his grave. it is the first-ever twitter
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opera, and you could be one of the composers. here is how it works. you can suggest tweets, and they will set the story to music. so far, there is a story about a man kidnspped by birds and a talking cat. if you have ideas, go to www ç.twitter.com. and then we have some good news and bad news. rooms for $19 a night. here is the bad news. the sheets, towels, and toilet paper are not included in the deal. that is right, for $19 a night, all you get is an empty room with a tent inside. they call the promotion the way to make the best of these bad economic times. and there you have it, the best of the rest, but still ahead, one last call before we turn down the lights.
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other leaders who felt the music and could not contain themselves. for example, senator obama what ellen degeneres. [cheers and applause] -- with her. ç>> hey. [cheers and applause] the classic video of president bush feeling the groove and playing the drums on the white house lawn. ok, so who is the best one? we report, so you decide. go to gretawire.com and tell us who is the best with dancing, not politics, dancing. not politics, dancing.