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stay up past 9:00. brian: we're back with hurricane season. gretchen: i know. we do need to kick off this morning with this alert for you because it's out in the atlantic. this storm, well, it's already packing winds of 75 miles per hour. hurricane bill expected to gain strength and could become a major hurricane by wednesday. heavy rain and 50 mile-per-hour winds slammed the florida coast as claudette. now, that's the first tropical storm to hit the u.s. up to 10 inches of rain expected in some areas in the u.s. this year, i should say. claudette is not expected to cause any significant flooding or wind damage, neither is anna which formed as a tropical storm but now has weakened to a tropical depression. steve will have the latest on what to expect from these storms. he is going to have it right now. steve: thank you very much. there is claudette right there. it's a big, big rainmaker impact as you can see the florida panhandle at this hour. and so that's what the doppler is indicating down there.

all eyes are on hurricane bill. bill was a tropical storm until an hour and 15 minutes ago. and then it hit the flesh hold of winds in excess of 74 miles per hour. this is some of the rain from claudette as she made landfall late yesterday it sounds as if brian: 24 minutes after the over the next couple days, over hour. first your numbers by the the warm waters of the numbers. caribbean, bill could gain "district 9" got $37 million. strength and be a major category 3, perhaps, by the time it does impact the u.s.a. toward the aliens live in a ghetto in weekend. of course, hang on to fox, south african. bowers we have got all your 700 million land line phones details as bill starts churning given up for cell phones. out in the atlantic. that's a look at your weather and one in four americans rely for this monday. solely on cell phones. gretchen: thanks, steve. that might be a good idea for mexican drug lord started the me. 1,000 feet, that's how far california wildfire. skydiver lewis fell. the blaze was first sparked he landed on a steel roof and during a cookout at an illegal pot farm near the border. survived. he's in stable but critical brian: so much wrong there. gretchen: the fire has charred condition. steve? steve: thank you very much, more than 75,000 acres in santa brian. new mexico governor bill richardson wants first-time barbara county and forced 200 residents to leave their home. d.u.i. offenders can't a manned dry and windy weather fueling

dore three days in jail and a more than a dozen wildfires across the state. meantime an evacuation order was $2,500 fine. just lifted in santa cruz where other stays have been cracking hundreds of residence are now down on firsttime offenders. returning home. the search resumes this morning are the new laws tough enough for a georgia mother who has been missing for almost a week. or not tough enough? joining us from dallas, mimi investigators say each day christie cornwell is missing, coffee, a defense attorney who she less likely to be found alive. specializes in d.u.i. the 38-year-old mom disappeared while taking a walk last tuesday offenders. and it's believed she was and kathleen rice prosecuted a abducted by somebody in a case where a 24-year-old drunk passing car. her cell phone was found on driver who drove the wrong way friday about three miles from where she was allegedly kidnapped. in long island and killed a investigators say they're looking for a white suv and a limo driver and decapitated a tan or gold subcontact car. 7-year-old flower girl after a both types of vehicles spotted wedding in 2005. all right, mimi, bill in the area where cornwell went richardson in new mexico, missing. they've got some of the the lights go out today in toughest laws on the books. he would like to see firsttime chicago. shutting down for reduced offenders go to jail for three service day in an effort to balance its budget. days and a mandatory $2,500 most city employees are off fine. without pay and city hall, that seems -- that seems libraries and health clip nicks minimum to me. closed a long time advisor to what do you say? >> well, steve, the real

city's mayor says other cities question is, when we're cracking down on d.w.i.'s, we will be next. >> other cities will be looking have to be very careful that we are going after the real at chicago and saying our turn next. d.w.i.'s. the real problem is we're chicago is not unique in this passing laws to crack down on d.w.i.'s but not being fair. situation. gretchen: police and fire units judges are saying that the still operate as usual. this is the first of three manufacture release the source furlough days with two more code. they won't release a source expected after thanksgiving and code. on christmas eve. we continue throughout the country to put sodium fluoride what's the most entertaining way in -- steve: mimi, let me redirect to destroy clunk are cars? you. if the cops say that person is what about watching a monster truck do it. drunk, shouldn't he have some responsibility in pay? >> if that person truly is sponsored by a car dealership. good idea. breaking the law. but what we need to do is make under the cash for clunkers sure that we also have laws program. government mandates all clunkers that protect those who are not must destroy. they mandate that the dealers drunk from being falsely pay for it as well. convicted. brian: what about if you are a and three days in jail doesn't charity and you look forward to solve your problem. getting those clunkers to that's just like lowering the transport children or transport legal limit from .01 to bullpen seniors? 08. steve: that is not available to judges say that doesn't reduce you. brian: down as much 25% they d.w.i.'s. we need to be sure we are project by the end of the year convicting folks who are really

donated cars. that's the bad side. intoxicated instead of drinking steve: number one issue that you are interested in, and that is and driving. if you drink and drive we're the president's health care going to come after you. that's wrong. reform. what was going on over the steve: kathleen? you prosecuted a horrific case weekend. had you a u.s. senator, kent where this family after a conrad talking about how the votes simply are not in the u.s. wedding said we're going to hire a limo an we're going to drive home and the family was senate for the public option. driving home in a limo and that's where the government somebody, i think it was that essentially would get into the person right there, apparently insurance business. going the wrong -- down the kathleen sebelius who is the secretary of health and human wrong side of a highway killed services it sounded as if she the limo driver, decapitated was changing her tune as well the little girl. where she said the public option all right. and it was -- he'd had some other thing in his history as well, alcohol-related, but this not essential? >> i think there will be a guy fuelly was convicted of competitor to private insurers. murder. >> right. that's what he did. that's the essential part. you had a family who did you don't turn over the whole to everything right and a defendant who did everything private insurance companies and wrong. he was more in an three times trust them to do did the right the legal limit. thing. and what we are seeing is drunk we need choices and competition. drivers are violent killers brian: the president said just like martin higen was so something similar on friday which when gretchen was doing

we need to raise awareness her scrapbooks. the bottom line we have choice about the fact that too many and competition for the insurance market. people are drinking and driving again, if you are in a place in for a whole host of reasons, this country you have one choice, how in the world you can not the least to think that convince anybody that you are driving down costs. they think it's not a crime. he basically said that's what he wants out there. he wants that as an option. drivers are killing thousands cost and comp is the new catch of people on our roads every single year. phrase. steve: mimi, i realize you're a gretchen: guys, this is a fox news alert. this is totally changing the defense attorney and your job is to get people who are charged with d.w.i.'s -- or story this is totally changing the story of what they wanted d.u.i.'s to get them off the had cathy care reform. hook. but 13,000 people die in this that public option is not going country every single year and to be around anymore. people have got to be held responsible. if you get behind a wheel and you are drink, you need to brian: you are speaking frank. either go to jail or something gretchen: gretchen it's from all needs to happen to you. that relaxation. the idea they are going to change their tune on this. >> steve, first of all, my job fox news alert now the is to make sure that justice is done. i'm so glad you brought up those numbers. administration coming back and because in between 14,000 to saying i'm not sure what kathleen sebelius meant what she 17,000 alcohol-related deaths said. occur in the united states the public option very important every single year. to barack obama. steve: that is the most important point. that's if a beer can is out

late last night the white house there on the side of the road if there is a fatality or told mark at the atlantic that somebody is at a .01 alcohol she did misspeak another said related. the true numbers are about 2,500 innocent folks are killed as victims of d.w.i. a year. 3,000 people in america die she didn't misspeak the media from choking. 1.4 million americans are being misinterpreted what she said: arrested for d.w.i. for every 100 people getting nothings that changed. so effectively would what we saw arrested for d.w.i. only one person caused a death. and yet we're destroying yesterday was it or was it simply a trial balloon? keep in mind, if there is no countless of lives, they're losing their jobs, they can't public option, you know -- we feed their families. throwing people in jail when we already know a lot of republicans aren't going to vote don't even -- first of all, our laws are not constricted to for it if there is no public make sure that they are really option, most liberal democrats are going to go i don't know guilty. in terms of the breath test that i can vote on that. machine and this could be a deal changeer. should have such stringent rules in this country because brian: that to the atlantic was some people are get prosecuted unnamed white house official. if kathleen sebelius said in a unjustly and are going to lose vacuum did she trip on herself? their livelihood and yet we listen to the president on have people who get behind the saturday go over this. car and they are drunk and they listen. drive and they kill people. >> the fact is across this public option whether we have it country rules are not the laws

or don't have, it is not the are not stringent enough. entirety of health care reform what she is talking about is dealt with in courtrooms every day. if someone is arrested and they are charged with drunk driving, this is one sliver, one aspect. there are are instances where they may not -- they may be it's the right and left that have become so fixated on this, that they forget everything found not guilty. the people who need the protection of the law the most else. are people like you and me, the brian: define public option, too. it's medicaid, it's the s-chip regular joe out there on the street who just wants to get from point a to point b without program. don't have insurance medicaid, getting killed by a drunk driver. steve: absolutely. medicare for seniors forced to weigh in on this folks out take it public option would take there in tv land. all those in the middle, ok, you what do you think about it? can have a government run email us right now. program and your company bill thanks to mimi coffey down in jones and the deli across the dallas and kathleen rice in our street can decide to sign up for studio, thank you so much. the public option, if you do not >> ncaa. steve: all right. straight ahead, he had a gun give your employees a -- pay an pointed directly in his face by four robbers but this shop owner in new york city was not 8% tax the politics behind is is going to go down without a fight. the robbery turned deadly for the crooks. but today, the shop owner is interesting to me. back in business. kathleen sebelius get the message from the obama hear from him next. administration and now are they backtracking to try to appease and the last time senator arlen the liberals that they knew that specter had a town hall meeting

statement was going to infuriate. in other words, are they really willing to compromise and take on herk temperatures boiled. away the public option if that's the case, to get this through. he will get another one. then they have to make it seem you are looking live in philadelphia where fox news potentially like that's not what cameras are standing by. they really meant to keep the and he was trying to make calm liberals on board. of bucks selling cold lemonade to me that's the fascinating on a hot new york city day. aspect of this whole thing. that girl got a hefty fine. remember when they went on financial shows and they had three financial people say straight ahead on "fox & middle class taxes are coming friends." and then they said no, we didn't really mean that same thing with kathleen sebelius. brian: howard dean says if there will is no public option, this plan is not worth passing. steve: if republicans and liberal democrats don't vote for it, who is going to vote for it? >>no the public option is still in the house version. the worst possible scenario would be to some on the right and some who oppose to would be that they pass is in the house and the senate with no public option but then during the conference committee where they

do some more horse trading they actually put it back in at the last minute. that's what a lot of people worry. i think yesterday was a trial bliewnget. gretchen: exactly. steve: when you look at what rasmussen is reporting in their very latest telephone poll of over thousand people, 54% of you say that no health care reform would be better than whatever congress is going to come up with. gretchen: that's an interesting question. line line -- brian: talk about the health -- gretchen: a lot of people have r. saying town halls people speaking up the way america is supposed to work. does that make a difference in changing the tone where this whole thing was headed. that's our text questions for you today. because it's monday. did the town halls make a difference no text friends 1 to 3628 yes, text friends 2 to 362 8. there was a lot of stuff going on when i was not here between

major garrett and that question session he had with robert gibbs who is spokes person more president obama on these emails, guys. now there is a latest development on it. steve: major garrett, if you didn't see it on thursday during the press briefing said there is r. a whole bunch of people who did not sign up for white house email who got this email very long and lengthy explaining the truths and myths behind health care. how is it that these people who did not ask for spam got spam? last night somebody from the press office named nick shapiro. i don't know who he is. gretchen: is he in charge of new media. steve: never heard of him until just now. brian: brand new or just you. gretchen: yes. latest technology. steve: essentially the white house has passed the blame on to third parties third parties who may have accidentally gone ahead

and put your name on the particular white house email list. brian: few days but went with a formal explanation. it gets kind of detailed. this is what i get from it if i was signed up for the white house plan and then i decided i want to be on the white house list. and then to spread the word with david axelrod asks, let's spread the word that there is a lot of falls cities out there about this plan and i forward my email list out to the whole country. a lot of people aren't barack obama supporters, then they will say why am i getting david axelrod's email. gretchen: i can understand how it happened. it's the politics underneath the whole thing couldn't imagine if other administrations had done. this had sent out mass emails there would have been a huge uproar. i ask you this question this morning. why is nobody else covering this? why is no other media outlet wanting to note answer to major garrett's question? why? to me, everyone should be interested in that question.

steve: i think that's why our ratings are number one by a mile because people trust fox news to give you both sides. brian: richard nixon had that enemies list. everybody talks about that he is caught on tape saying let's get gretchen: welcome back, our enemies. everyone. president obama puts the health care debate a little bit on hold because he'll be holding a problem. steve: it's just a little scary the annual v.f.w. convention. because 10 days ago we heard about that snitch list if you he may be getting some object see something snitchy about health care send it to flag at ers at this event. white house.gov. all these people getting spamed brian: joining us is mike and now for the white house to emanuel. blame third parties and a what will we expect? >> we'll be told about his glitch, i don't know if that's enough, because if you send an views on the wars in iraq and email to somebody else and afghanistan and express his suddenly that group puts you on gratitude to the troops that have done such heavy lifting the list at the white house and since 2001, sibs the 9/11 then the white house spams you, attacks. something is the matter with it. and -- since the 9/11 attacks. and we expect to hear about his gretchen: they do say they're going to make sure that didn't commitment to the troops happen again. getting what they need does not steve: they called it a glitch. include buying expensive weapon crazy. systems that the pentagon says brian: we won't have a glitch we they don't want or need. hope. the public option being dropped. so we expect him to weave is that just a ploy or is health multiple themes together in the speech to the v.f.w.

care reform really -- political steve: and, mike, did i detect panel will take up that issue in just three minutes. just as the case with the town steve: a man is punched and halls last week where he had a couple of them, while there may kicked by six police officers. not be any protesters inside at what led to the beating that led the v.f.w. convention, on the to the arrest. outside you figure if you are stay with us. in the scottsdale, phoenix area, you might show up with a poster board today if you want the president to know how you feel about this. >> steve, you're right. we are expected to see some protesters about health care reform, wanting to give the president an earful before he heads back to the east coast from here. so as you know from these events there's obviously tremendous security around the convention center in phoenix but me will be out and we expect they may try to give a message to the president, as his motorcade is driving to here or from here to the airport. steve: election coming up in afghanistan. -- brian: election coming up in afghanistan. do you think he'll be talking about that at all today?

>> well, brian, he's not expected to give a very detailed analysis of where things stand on afghanistan because the top commander in afghanistan, general mcchrystal, has been conducting a review that's due sometime after the afghan elections this week. we expect he'll talk about winning in afghanistan but not a lot of technical details because he doesn't want to step on that report which is due any day now. gretchen: mike emanuel, thanks that's a-- tiny netbook. for getting up so early and yeah, it's-- good-looking, lightweight. sharing the report with us. generally awesome. and you could just-- go online, video-chat with my cousin. >> thank you, guys. steve: is out hot out there. this is un-- under $200. speaking of weather, we have a are you some kind of-- mind reader, visionary ? developing story today. thus, the animation from the no, i have them. fox news extreme weather huh. center. we have got our -- what you are the new lightweight hp mini netbook looking at right now is with windows and america's largest and most-reliable 3g network built in. claudette which made landfall a only 199.99 with mobile broadband plans little after midnight last from 39.99 i am-- speechless, envious. night in the coastal gulf of mexico in florida. wanna be me right now. it was a huge rainmaker. getting one. in fact, if we can put up the radar it is a massive blob of come on. good girl.] mollie's never looked better. rain affecting all the way

from, as you can see, northern i really was amazed to see the change in her coat. portions of florida right through portions of mississippi people stop us when we're walking, and they'll say, "did you shine up her spots?" as well with the -- with rur of surf. [ woman announcing ] just another way purina one... it's been downgraded, however, unlocks the brilliance of nature... this particular troorm to a -- to transform the life of your dog. tropical storm to a tropical for us to see the difference in mollie-- we were really excited about it. depression. out in the atlantic that big blob, as you can see right in it just makes you feel wonderful. the center there, that is hurricane bill. right now maximum sustained [ announcer ] it's amazing what one can do. winds at 75 miles per hour. moving to the west-northwest at about 22 miles per hour. over the next couple of days this moves over the warm water of the caribbean. it could actually develop into a category three by wednesday and then by the end of the week will it impact the southeastern united states? florida or the gulf coast? we'll watching it all week long right here on fox. gretchen: ok. a few other headlines. a store in new york city back in business after a robber

foiled. in picture is of gus, augusto. he killed two of the robbers becoming a reluctant hero. earlier on frends -- "fox & friends" we spoke to him about an incident. >> i stuck my head out in the aisle and i kept my eye on j.b. on the right because i didn't want to hit him. i fired three quick rounds, more or less, to the left of center toward where the four gretchen: health and human guys were but not exactly at services exact kathleen sebelius has been defending the benefits them. and then i saw jay dive for of a health care public option for months now. listen. >> one of the fundamental issues cover. when he dove for cover i turned is how you make sure that costs come down and i think a public my vision to the four intruders. option is competition in the gretchen: police have not charged augusto in the marketplace is one of the best ways to do that. shooting. in fact, they say they are not going to charge him. it was self-defense. gretchen: why is she now brian: all right. a group of moms say claiming that the public option is not an essential part of health care reform? breast-feeding mothers have a right to nurse in public. and does this mean that democrats are preparing to drop more than 2,000 moms staged a the public option? i'm joined today by jonathan nursing at a chick-fil-a cowan, president of third way restaurant in florida. the protest began when managers and former chief of staff for the department of housing and suggested that a woman cover up while breast-feeding. the moms say they are trying to development. betsy mccoy and wall street open up people's minds.

>> other people in the journalist john fund. good morning to all three of community will get educated on the fact that there are laws you. if you missed watching over the affecting breast-feeding women weekend as a viewer and say this morning public option isn't part of the program anymore, betsy? whether they are showing nothing or everything. >> well, it won't matter much to brian: the americans apologized individuals in the u.s. because to the incident. the bills will still require to the women covered up while you give up the health plan you breast-feeding, well, there you have now and move into one of go they'll be joining us on the government designed private "fox & friends." those are your headlines, by plans. they are all going to be the the way. now for another extremely same with the simplistic level important story -- of protection you won't find out steve: a 10-year-old and her dad went to the park, central park in new york city to sell lemonade and cookies on a hot what's in those plans until 18 summer day. months after the bill is paid. agents for sneerks parks it's a pig in the poke. department put the squeeze on they say they there will be choice among the plans. their -- new york city parks it's like the government saying you must eat an apple for department put the squeeze on their prafplgtse dinner. choose any apple you want. gretchen: joining us is the the basic plan will be the same whether it says cigna or blue girl and her father. good morning to you. >> good morning. cross, blue shield or etna. >> i don't want to be gretchen: i have little kids. i know how exciting if can be contentious or early in the to go out and do a lemonade morning. i think you are wrong it is a stand and that's what you wanted to do, right? >> yeah. brian: why? business deal. >> because it was a hot day and more than a trial balloon.

also, like, i've always wanted the obama administration has made clear that public option to do a lemonade stand. isn't an essential element. gretchen: but it was. brian: we are in a capitalist this is a major turn around in society. gretchen: that question is for dad. steve: you know, lemonade change. >> this is a shift if this is the direction they go in. but, the health care package on stands, clementine, is hard to the table would provide stability and security to middle class americans and there are lots and lots of things in it do in new york city because president obama said over the people live in cannedos. weekend public option is one we have a yard. my kids, if they want to do it slice. gretchen: that's not what he they have the streets. said a couple months ago. you didn't have that so instead i'm interested in the politics you went to central park. behind. this is this because the people at those town halls are not >> riverside park. actually part of the mob and steve: so you're selling some they were actually american citizens who made a difference? >> if the dogs don't eat the dog lemonade. next thing you know people in uniform are coming over and food you have to go back to a new formula. what did they say, richard? i think this is rebranding. >> well, they came over and i think the public option is going to be reborn under the they -- basically asked for a co-opt system which sounds a permit. steve: for a lemonade stand. whole lot more benign and less threatening. >> i don't believe actually you will see them pushing co-opts which will have the same exists for a lemonade stand. effect as the public option. they asked for a permit. gretchen: very interesting. all right. i want the panel to stick around i obviously didn't have one. i didn't know you needed one. if you will.

and then i offered to sort of was hillary's trip to africa move on. just a continuation of the or to leave. they wouldn't have any of that. president's apology tour. asked for my -- >> in 2000 our presidency came gretchen: they gave you a ticket. >> and gave us a ticket. down to one state where the it was a summons, yes. brother running for president gretchen: you have to pay a was the brother of the state. we have our problems, too. fine. >> well, yes. gretchen: our political panel technically. sticks around for this one. but since this began, now the then, back on the football parks commissioner called us field, michael vick speaks out. last night and apologized for >> i feel, you know, tremendous it and said that in fact he hurt behind what happened. would rescind this ticket. and, you know, i should have and ask the rangers not to -- took the initiative to stop it all, you know, and i didn't. i didn't step up. i wasn't a leader. brian: how many sales did you make before you were stopped? >> about seven. gretchen: james brown did that brian: seven sells at 50 cents interviewer. he will join us live with what each. gretchen: can i have some lemon else vick revealed. right back. since arthur's been eating purina one, he has blossomed... aide? steve: how many -- how much does it cost? >> 50 cents. into an incredibly strong, healthy cat. steve: they said, ok, anybody his coat is incredibly shiny and soft and very thick. who sells stuff needs a vendor everybody thinks he's the most handsome cat they've ever seen. permit. glad it all worked out. >> thank you.

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>> our democracy is still evolving. we had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections, as you might remember. in 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state. so, we have our problems, too. gretchen: all right. so you heard those words from secretary of state hillary clinton. but are these the words we should be hearing from the nation's top. this s. this another example of the apology tour continuing? let me start with you john fund this morning. i know that you believe to a certain extent that this was a continuation of the apology tour. and is it the right thing or the wrong thing for america? >> i think america should be humble. we have made mistakes but this, i think, really gave a wrong impression of our democracy. gretchen: welcome back. this is a live picture right the 2000 election had problems. we had the wrong voting here because a town hall in machines. we had hanging chad's. philadelphia about to kick off very close race. with senator arlen specter but, the fact that governor jeb there. now, last time he had a town hall meeting on health care,

temperatures boiled. bush was florida and that state do you remember that one? we'll key an eye on it. happened to be close was oh, we got the thumbs up. that means the cameras are coincidence. secretary of state kathleen ready to go and we'll bring you harris was independently elected all of the action there coming official. those votes were made first by up live in just a few minutes. florida supreme court which moved in a liberal direction and u.s. supreme court which moved in a different direction by 7-2 >> we have an agreement from drug companies to make and 5-4. i think her conflating the two prescription drugs affordable and simply tying fact that jeb for seniors. $80 billion that can cut the bush is related to george w. doughnut holes that seniors have to deal with on bush. is a disservice. prescription drug plans in half. gretchen: if you are a democrat, [applause] i could understand how you would still be sore about what happened in the 2000 election. >> the aarp supports this does she wish she could have policy and agrees with us that these words back or did she really mean it? reform must happen this year. >> this is a mountain out of a gretchen: well, that was molehill. nobody thinks the united states president barack obama at a is a banana republic. recent town hall in grand junction, colorado, affirming the aarp support for health we are in no danger of that. care reform. but that's sparking some the white house has said controversial among the group's members. repeatedly united states is a joining me live from cleveland, great country. ohio, are two of those members, indespence cybil nation. patrick and mary. i agree with john, showing the good morning to you. >> good morning, gretchen.

>> good morning, gretchen. world a little humility. gretchen: now, i understand that both of you have decided it's got to be you are with us that you no longer want to be members of the aarp. or against it strategy in the why? >> that -- well, the aarp is last decade. gretchen: this is a continuation backing something that is not of a democracy a lot of people right now in america would going to be in the range of our actually question whether or not we are continuing to evolve as a democracy are or whether we are ages. the aarp is backing a national going in a different direction. health care plan. >> nevertheless, the united to me, it's this national -- if states has for 200 years set the this national health care plan goes through, me and my age of over 70, going to be 73 and my gold standard for elections. wife is going to be 70, we may compared to the rest of the world we are doing well and we be rationed out of the care. and if we are, we're both going are emulated. to have to give up. it's the role of the secretary i'm going to have to give up my of state to cast the united states in a positive light wife because she costs whenever possible. insurance a lot of money, and gretchen: she should not have it's taking care of the things said what she said to the people of phi gear i can't? that she's had as far as cancer >> that's my position, yes. gretchen: thank you for getting up bright and early on a monday for 17 years. morning. gretchen: i have to say that, woo each united states your time so much. patrick, when you said that my medicare success and good model heart sunk. for the president's health care you said you'd have to give up

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gretchen: we have the first hurricane of the atlantic storm season that's already packing winds of about 75 miles per hour. hurricane bill, as it's being called, expected to gain strength, could become a major hurricane by wednesday. meantime, heavy rain, 50 mile-per-hour winds slammed the coast. this is claudette the first tropical storm to hit the u.s. up to 10 inches of rain expected in some areas from that clawed death is not expected to cause any significant flooding or wind damage, neither is anna, which formed as a tropical storm. but now has weakened to a tropical depression. all right. steve. there is three storms out there. steve: there are, a, b, c. anna not so much. that's what we are looking at right there. that's claudette. claudette could drop 3 to 6 inches of rain along the gulf coast. made landfall a couple of hours ago. the thing to worry about over

the next week or so is hurricane bill. bill became a hurricane about an hour and a half ago. it's way out to sea. it's over 1,000 miles out. the big question is, will it impact florida? will it be the east coast? the gulf coast? hang on, we won't know for a couple of days. but, none the less, three storms to worry about. meanwhile, a whole bunch of other stuff, politicswise. brian: you talk about sports. here is another sports. battle royal brewing among steve: we have been telling you about this. i would like to introduce you to republicans. hutchinson kicks off her the winners of the all american campaign for governor. bride contest. she takes on rick perry who they are military brides who seeks a third term. hutchinson is expected to focus on improving leadership and served our country in the armed education. she is resigning her senate seat forces. for this fall. as a thank-you, "fox & friends" perry meanwhile has captured the attention of many republicans with his fiery anti-spending has treated the lovely bride city to a lovely weekend of stance and his participation in tea parties. gretchen? styling and guests. gretchen: the mayor of milwaukee in the hospital this morning right here we have got after being attacked with a

metal pipe. christine, paris, and vivian. mayor tom barrett was leaving the wisconsin state fair when he heard a woman screaming for help. a round of applause for the the woman a grandmother was trying to protect her 1-year-old grandchild from a domestic bride's, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] dispute. when the mayor started dialing gretchen: you came to new york 911, the suspect charged at him, city to pick out your down hitting him with the pipe. because you want our contest. >> tom was attacked and struck you all look so stunning, to a repeatedly with a metal object. tom's efforts protected the special moment. woman and the child, his efforts steve: you are in the air force also protected members of our right now, carry? family as well. gretchen: wow. although out of uniform. [laughter] the mayor fought back fracturing >> i am on leave today. his hand when he punched the suspect. the suspect was arrested. steve: how cool was it that you the woman and child not hurt. got to get this fantastic wedding dress? >> it has been amazing. steve: meanwhile, the minneapolis chief of police say everything that they have done he will review this dash cam for us, it has been wonderful. video of six officers apparently beating a map during a traffic steve: tell me about the lucky stop. police say they stopped darryl guy, christine. >> he is wonderful, he is in the jenkins back in february for going 15 miles over the posted speed limit. air force -- not me. you can seat officer wrestling with jenkins trying to handcuff a wonderful guy, so proud of him after they say he refused to him.

get out of his car. it makes things very jenkins admits to having three interesting. beers that night at dinner but says he was attack because he steve: how did you pick your dress? >> we went to the bridal shop in vigorously questioned one officer about why he was stopped. manhattan. general cibs had to have seven stitches put in above his eye. they were great people there. relief fund. steve: you have another dress, brian: charles swab schwab could very impressive, get swland a lawsuit. congratulations. where is your husband to be? brokers committed fraud by >> in the army. selling off long-term debt to their investors. other firms agreed to buy back brian: how excited was he when the same type of securities they sold to their clients. he heard that you won? schwab has not and says the >> he was very excited, it was a filing of any charges against the company are totally great opportunity for us both to unwarranted. represent the army. gretchen: president obama gets brian: this is not camouflage. back to work today after taking a tour of the grand canyon. we can see it clearly. the president visited several [laughter] how did you pick this one? national parks over the weekend with his family. >> i just knew it when i saw it. gun opponents used the trip to criticize him. back in may the president signed steve: brian, are you a bill letting licensed gun auditioning for the red carpet? [laughter] owners bring firearms into national parks as long as state we are going to the members of law. he was praised for setting aside chatter barry after the show.

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brian: i will tell you what it's a late 60 minutes which is the subject of our next guess james brown with michael vick. one of the biggest upsets in golf history virtually unknown 37-year-old south korean golfer y.e. yang out duels is tiger. tiger missed putts left and right. yang solid as a rock as the sock goes. he hits tremendous shot on 18. to seal the deal. very nice. he really hides his emotions well. watch the reaction. he would sink the birdie putt. yang is the first asian golf tore win a major. tiger, the first time he has lost a major while leading after the third round. goes a year without winning a major for the first time since 2000 4. he did win five of the tournaments coming off reconstructive knee surgery. hussein bolt, shatters the world record with the 100-meter.

he is aptly names runs quicker and quicker. .58. ran the fastest race ever. bolt will try to win the 200 gold medal in berlin. that will be in germany. 24 minutes after the hour. he says he is disgusted with his behavior and wants his actions now to speak louder than what he has done in the past. but can michael vick be successful in his return to football? and should he be returned to football anybody? sports announcer and all around great guy james brown sat down with michael vick for his first interview since going to jail. j.w. welcome back to "fox & friends"? >> brian, good to see you again. if i happen to stop mid sentence, that means no doze has worn off, buddy. brian: you can handle it j.b. worked for 18 months nor michael vick interview. you won his trust in legislative worth in visiting him. first off, your impression of what we didn't see on 60

minutes. michael vick looked like when the cameras were rolling. tell me about it. >> i glean from the interviews i have had with him a resolve and commitment fully recognizing the error of his ways. he talked about being indoctrinated early on. he yundz stands that's definitely an excuse. he blames himself fully for it he knows he has a real uphill battle from here. i think he is determined and he has the right kind of people around him right now. clearly tony dungy fits the bill there. brian: tony dungy so impressive and that's your take. you are sold on it. here is what michael had to say about losing $137 billion. let's listen. >> for the cynics, michael vick might be more concerned about the fact that his career was hurt than dogs were hurt. >> i mean, football don't even matter, you know. >> losing 135-million-dollar contract doesn't matter?

>> it don't matter. it don't matter. i deserved to lose that. brian: because did he an illegal act. people who aren't sports fans and you can d. this as a journalist and not as a sports anchor. sports journalist, they are wondering does he know the feeling? does he regret the feeling of holding a dog under water until he drowns of electrociewght a dog. putting a domestic annal in with a proven dogfighter? can he feel how wrong that was? >> brian, and that is the laser focus that i tried to keep in mind be in conducting this interview and you are right it wasn't as a sportscaster as much as being a journalist to ask all the questions that i think people wanted to have answers to. he give the right answers. -- feel whether or not he senses whether orthe outrage. >> it's my sense that he did. brian: something else stood out

to me when you asked him when did reality hit about your behavior being so wrong. he said when i went to prison. not going to court. not the trial. not hearing those people screaming and hissing at him every day he went to court. he realized it was wrong when the doors closed. does that mean anything to you? not really when you put it in the context how he was introduced to it. in talking to the president of the humane society there is a greacket there once he was in prison for those days and settled in with the introspection it became abun dantly clear to him. brian: here is something else that struck me. vick knew about his reputation of all talent and very little work. listen. >> do you know what your reputation was like when you were playing. >> yeah. >> what was it? >> i was lazy. you know, last guy in the

building, first guy out. i know that. and i heard everything that people say. that hurt me when i heard that but i true -- knew it was true. brian: highest paid player in the sports. number one pick. he wasn't trying. is he ready to try? >> from athletic standpoint it really speaks to how remarkably talented he is that he was the most exciting player and he had an exceedingly poor work athletic. the huber russ that he had as well, brian. he said that he fully recognizes it he misses the drudgery of training camp. he says he will be a leader from this point on. we will have to see. mcnabb will be an excellent role model for him. brian: congratulations on all the hard work to get. this you are the hardest working guy in the sports business now. news business. >> brian, guess who i have been taking notes from?

one named brian kilmeade. thank you very much, buddy. >> wow! brian: i haven't read the book yet but to know that you probably have four or five chapters from the time that you filled in for steve doocy and brian kilmeade on "fox & friends." it's certainly moving. >> tell gretchen she is blessed to be flanked by two outstanding guys herself. brian: if you didn't say it she wouldn't believe it. gretchen: hello j.b. >> hello, gretchen. brian: good luck to the at the other station. >> congratulations to you steve and gretchen as well. brian: james brown joining us. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. thanks j.b. she says government run health care killed her dad. she is speaking out against the president's health care reform plan. it's very personal next. a store owner turns the table on a grouch robbers, pulling a shotgun from behind the counter.

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barrel, which is how steve buys it. investors are worried the weak economy will continue to slow the demand down for oil. people? steve: thank you, person. our next guest is speaking out against the president's health care plan and says that government-run health care killed her father. gretchen: lori roman is a concerned citizen and founder of regular folks united.com. good to see you this morning, lori. >> good morning, gretchen and steve. gretchen: so your father, whose birthday by the way would have been today, correct? >> correct. he would have been 89 today. gretchen: we are looking at a wonderful picture of you with your father. a lot of people focusing now on the health care reform bill and what it could possibly do to those people who are over 65. tell us your story about your father. >> well, the first thing that surprised me was that as soon as my father was diagnosed with dementia, even though his face and smile still lit up a room,

every room he went, into even though he was still active and healthy and very happy, the doctor, in a routine checkup did, i guess what is now known as end of life counseling with us, unsolicited, recommended that i put a do not resuscitate order on my father, recommended that if my father got sick, that we really just give him comfort care. and that we not treat his illness and i felt pressure from the doctor to really haven my -- hasten my father's death if he should become ill. i fired that doctor. i find out that this seems to permeate the system. after my father was admitted to the hospital with a kidney infection, completely treatable by antibiotics and another doctor recommended that we didn't have to feed my father now that he couldn't eat on his own, and i shot back at that doctor, i don't believe in starving old people, do you? i expect you to treat my father like you would treat your own father. and everywhere i turned, i seemed surprised that because my father had dementia, it seemed

that under the medicare system there was encouragement not to treat him properly. in the end, he was discharged from the hospital under medicare rules because of that kidney infection, while he still had a fever. he still had an infection. but his temperature fell 1/10th of one degree short for the medical guideline of hospitalization. he died shortly after that. steve: lori, what you are worried about. is if the president's initiative goes through with these end of life panels and stuff like that, that what happened to you would happen to if not all of us, a lot of us? >> i'm worried that it's already happening. i'm worried that it will get worse with more bureaucracy and more rules. and to have a doctor say to you, my hands are tied, the medicare rules say i have to pull this iv antibiotic out of your father's body, even though it's healing him. even though he is getting better. i don't want a bureaucrat

between my doctor and my loved one. and i just think it will get worse. i worry when i see comments that i have seen from one of the health care advisors to the white house. in 1996 evehiclial -- ezekiel not making to people with dementia. i worry about people like my father. i'm worried they will define quality of life. dancing with my dad those last few days, playing glenn miller songs with him and seeing his face light up, i don't want someone else defining what's quality of life. gretchen: so many people can relate to what you are talking about. we have all had parents and we love them. we have an understanding what you have are talking about. lori roman thank you so much for being our guest this morning. >> thank you. steve: straight ahead. house speaker nancy pelosi has called town hall protesters unamerican. really? speaker? remember when you said this? >> when franklin roosevelt died

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brian: no charges have been fired against a harlem shop keeper. ray kelly, one of the best had this to say about the incident. >> it certainly had a right under the law to defend himself and defend his co-workers. it looks like his coworker could have been seriously injured or perhaps killed himself. so he acted in self-defense seems to be certainly pursuant

to the penal law. i know mr. gusto took no pleasure -- statement was the toughest day of his life. >> put your again away and go on home. i won't call the police or do anything. they thought about it a little bit. that didn't work. they got more violent. they were hurting my guy worse. brian: so he had no choice. where does the law draw the line on self-defense killings? and when are you within the rights to protect yourself? let's debate it fox legal analyst arthur aidala is here and former prosecutor doug burns is here for the other side. is there a problem with this owner protecting one of his employees and taking out two would-be robbers? >> no. he actually has two theories under the law of justification, which is the law of self-defense. you are allowed to use deadly, physical force when you believe someone else's life is in harm's way. obviously people think your life is in harm's way you could use deadly physical force. here, the kid is being pistoled

with a 35-year-old employee. if he was being hit with a pipe, it would be close. because it's a gun that could easily be turned around and fired. he is defending the life of a third person. there is those theories. also, under the law, if you believe someone is committing a burglary, and which is a breaking into a piece -- breaking into property with the intent to commit a crime, you could commit -- you can use deadly physical force. brian: you have a problem with his actions? >> it's interesting. it's kind of a lost call. can you defend yourself or a third party using commensurate force. in other words, if you pull out a paper clip and throw it at me. i can't shoot at you. if you pull a gun on me, i can, justifiable defense. here there was a third party being pistol whipped and tied up with rope. the argument is he used too much force. however, i ultimately do agree with arthur. when somebody is in the middle of a robbery with a gun they could turn and shoot you. it's justified.

brian: find out he has had the gun for 2 oyears and it wasn't registered of. >> it wasn't a gun it was a shotgun. a shotgun, because it is not a concealed weapon, brian. people can see what's there, it's only an administrative code violation. it's in his place of business. in your home or place of business, the gun laws are different because it goes back to the beginning of time when you feel like you are allowed to protect your home, your property and your family. brian: he had a permit. >> he had had a permit. it looks like they are letting him slide. >> cover on every newspaper in new york. happened in harlem. he does not want to be declared a hero. they both left without me shooting, then i would be declared a hero. good debate. brian: straight ahead. next hour we will -- joining us live next hour will be gus himself to talk about his actions and what his life has been like since this happened. house speaker nancy pelosi not a fan of town hall protesters, calling them unamerican. quite a change from this mark. >> when franklin roosevelt died

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i'm just asking. >> you are asking me if they are on a list. got a different way of checking without asking me to double-check the names, i'm happy -- >> they are telling me they never asked for an email from the white house. steve: but is the white house now just placing the blame on a third party? we're going to report. you are going to decide. >> and this story. just not going to hear anywhere else. else.. [squealing] brian: all out shoutout husband calling contest. are there any husbands coming? not anymore. they are running. our slogan comes to us from jima jima. we will learn if that was a typo typo. "fox & friends" will make you cheer.

[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gretchen: holly cow, can you imagine waking up to that call every morning? husbands and wives would be running away from that. brian: what was the name on that? did it start out as a name? steve: during -- we're in fair season right now. and a number of state fairs actually have competitions like that to get people to come in. we have further details on the husband calling contest in a couple of moments. right now we are going to start with a fox news alert. there is something going onwise impacting people coastal u.s.a. >> you can believe it? we are going to be talking about the first hurricane of the atlantic storm season already packing winds 75 miles per hour. hurricane bill as it's being called could become a major hurricane by wednesday. meantime, heavy rain, 50 mile-per-hour winds slammed the coast already from clawed death. the first tropical storm to hit the u.s. this year up to 10 inches of rain expected in some areas there.

clawed death is not expected to cause any significant flooding or wind damage. neither is anna, which formed as a tropical storm but now has weakened to a tropical depression. all right, steve, so you are on overdive this morning with all these storms brewing. >> you hit all the details. that is clawed death right there, gretch, and it is impacting as you can see the florida panhandle. 3 to 6 inches expected there the big worry is what is brewing out east of the lesser antilles. it is still over thousand miles away from coastal u.s. but hurricane bill, yes, bill, which was a tropical storm yesterday now a hurricane category 1. it has maximum sustained winds of about 75 miles per hour. that's where it is. expected to head toward the lesser antilles in the next couple of days. could be a category three by wednesday. it could make landfall coastal u.s. or take a right turn and miss us all together by the end of the week or the weekend.

and, of course, even if it does take a right turn, it will impact the coast. the rough sea as well bill, a rainmaker with claudette today in florida. gretchen: thanks a lot, steve. move on to the other headlines. a an american man freed. 53-year-old man is in a bangkok hospital in bad shape after spending three months in prison. he had been held for visiting the home of detained leader key. he was freed through the efforts of virginia senator jim webb. the lawmaker met with the leaders and with sui key. he says the west needs to help myanmar move toward more democratic reforms. new developments out of north korea this morning. opening up border with the south south. aimed at increasing -- far from

actually being friendly. high alert after south korea held a series of joint exercises with the united states. barack obama sets to adread veterans in phoenix. thank them for their service. is he expected to talk about the war in iraq and stepping up efforts in afghanistan. he will not address troop strength or strategies. we have an interview on that coming up later in the show. gram rockers, kiss are releasing their first new album in 11 years. following -- was just going to say following in the footsteps of one of my favorite bands. acdc. the cd will only be available -- bring it on, hell's bells, remember that? available at wal-mart and sam's club back in black. sam's -- sonic boom.

acdc was recently back in concert on the east coast. i missed it. i listen to it all the time on my i pod. it gets me going when i'm running. brian: the drummer came up to me and says he loves our show and's to come on. gretchen: acdc's drummer? hello, biggest fan right here. brian: breaking news. fox news alert about the acdc. drummer story. steve: it's a red alert. also let's talk about this. apparently, a number of democrats have told nancy pelosi, nancy, or madam speaker, i don't know how familiar they are, you have got to tell the white house that unless there is a public option in the health care reform package, we will not vote for it. this is from a number of liberal democrats. and, in fact, in the person of representative eddie bernice johnson down in texas, she said yesterday, absolutely. if there is no public option, it's a deal breaker.

it's off the table. yet, didn't it sound like they were talking about taking it off the table? >> that. gretchen: that seemed to be the spin coming out of the obama administration on saturday at one of those town halls that the president had on the west coast. he did point to the fact that that was not the most important element of this health care reform package. he said his quote was it was a sliver of it yesterday, the secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius on the talk shows said the same thing. >> i think there will be a competitor to private insurers. that's really the essential part is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing. we need some choices. we need some competition. brian: that's the catch phrase, choice and competition that from robert gibbs. that was kathleen sebelius. robert gibbs said the same thing. the president said something similar. exact quote blrp we have it northern, not the entirety of the health care reform. just a sliver of it.

report from the -- she misspoke they are not willing to back off the public option. who is the anonymous source? is the anonymous source wrong? it seems like tactical retreaty hour. steve: from the atlantic gotcha information says sebelius misspoke and sebelius was simply mischaracterized and also talks about how linda douglas, who is the director of the health reform communications at the white house says changed. interesting, on his column yesterday, talked about how this public option, the rumors are that the president never really intended that to go through, but he thought it was -- didn't think it would go through but thought it was a useful bargaining chip. >> that's probably true. >> the president does support and has said that in the past the public option. now, in a sound bite we heard a moment ago from kathleen

sebelius, former governor of my state of kansas, she mentioned something competitive. well now there is talk about well what about this co-opt thing which would be privately held but initially funded by the federal government? senator kent conrad touched on that yesterday. >> the idea is the government would front end some of the money and we have the yet to discuss whether all of that or some of that gets paid back. but there would be that amount of involvement. but then it would be manipulate manipulate -- membership run, membership controlled. the government wouldn't have any obligation or control. gretchen: interesting thing here is the politics behind all of this. i agree with you, steve, i think president obama was behind the public option. he actually wants that to be part of the bill. when they introduced this originally they thought let's just throw everything out there that we could possibly ask for. then these town halls started happening. people across america started saying wait a minute. i'm not sure i like all these

things in this bill. the death panel thing that had been discussed that looks like that could be going away at least from the senate side. and now could the whole public option go away? some would argue that the co-opts are still similar to the public option, so is it really that big of a difference? brian: when cap and trade passed the house and dropped in the senate and doesn't have any support, all those democratic senators are on the hook for. this america's outrage, wait a second, this is going to raise our taxes and tupper the economy on its ear. we are not for this. the senate says we are not for it either. thee guys or women are all on the record for it now the houses we are for a public option. we want to do this to health care reform. now the president backs out of the public option. and the senate says we probably can't get it passed. is the house going to go ahead with any of the bills that they have and risk being kicked thought 2010 backing an option that even the president doesn't want to support? >> you have got to think that perhaps, if it wasn't misspeaking it was a trial balloon, what we heard yesterday on the chat shows. none the less, hang on.

meanwhile, thursday, it was contentious. major garrett, at the briefing at the white house asked robert gibbs, i got email from people who say we didn't subscribe to anything from the white house and yet we wound up with these emails from david axelrod, senior advisor to the president. remember this right here? we have got an explanation now. what you are telling me is i need to give you these people's emails so you can check them on a list? i'm just asking. >> you are asking me if they are on a list. >> they are telling me. >> a way of checking without asking me to double-check the names. i'm happy. >> they are telling me on a list because they never asked for an email from the white house. steve: now it sounds like people who did not subscribe to anything at the white house may have gotten spam from the white house because, according to the white house, third party organizations may have put your name, if you received one of those things on the official list. and that's how you wound up --

it's the third party who is the reason that we spammed you. >> well, no doubt, because of the pressure, i believe fox filed a freedom of information act to the white house as well. over the weekend the white house probably spent a lot of time with lawyers probably figuring out this statement which they then released to fox: steve: how is that possible? how can that happen? it happened during george bush's years there would be heck to pay. gretchen: that's probably true. we all get these spam sort of emails. if they were sent to the white house. you are suddenly on the list. now they are going to fix that problem. brian: why aren't more reporters pressing the obama administration? are they afraid at the they will be cut off? dana perino weighs in.

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steve: welcome back. is the white house shutting down reporters who ask tough questions? our own major garrett did just that he asked a hard question and was dismissed by press secretary robert gibbs last week who concluded the sound bite with major with i'm going to move on with somebody that might be a little more constructive. dana perino is the former white house press secretary for the president of the united states, george w. bush. joins us from the bureau. hi, dana. >> hello. steve: what do you make of the white house coming out after that testy exchange between gibbs and garrett on thursday. and now the white house says, yeah, there are a lot of people who got spammed because it sounds like third party groups

may have signed people up unbeknownst to the people. do you think that sounds possible? >> i mean i first heard about this last friday, i bet that the press office went back and tried to find out exactly what happened. asking the political advisors and lawyers how did this happen? because there are laws that govern these types of communications. one thing that's important to remember is that a white house cannot lobby. that is illegal. they're allowed to respond to questions asking for more information. that's not what happened here. steve: the white house can't lobby. that point is important. this great big spam came out from david axelrod. is he talking about how good the president's program would be. that sounds like lobbying. and, yet, if you didn't sign up for the spam and you got it, i can understand. and this about 10 days after people were told to narc on their neighbors. health care transmissions on the

internet. it's kind of big brother is watching. >> well, two things. one, so david axelrod and the white house reportedly have very cozy relationships with third party groups. maybe those relationships need to be more clarified which is possibly what nick shapiro is trying to say in his statement there the other thing is that if you just think about what would have happened if all of the sudden people in america started getting emails from karl rove, holy crap, people would have gone crazy. because it's -- at the very least it's a violation of your privacy. a little bit creepy. and possibly illegal. and so i think they are right to continue to press on that. if i were the reporters i would want a little bit more information and i wouldn't stop until i got it. steve: where are the other reporters though? you know, record regarding this particular story, i think fox news has been ahead of everybody else. i have looked around on the internet, i didn't really see much about it why isn't anybody asking this? you know, it's disturbing. >> there are times in the white house briefing room where one

reporter will be focused on a story and will drive the news on it while the others have other things that they are wanting to cover. there are other times when you are in the briefing room when everybody is chasing the same exact stories, so you can get 15 questions all on the same subject or you can have a variety of questions and i think that's probably what happened here. steve: i will say that major does ask some really hard questions. but then again, robert gibbs points at him and asks him what his question is. it seems day after day. >> natural adversarial relationship. >> more with dana perino straight ahead. we are going to talk about how house speaker nancy pelosi calling people attending town halls unamerican. what did she mean when she said this? >> franklin roosevelt died. and i draw great inspiration from him because weighs a disrupter and i'm a fan of disrupters, people who make -- steve: that was three years ago. does she still like disrupters?

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brian: house speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer joining forces to call the town hall protesters unamerican. gretchen: this comes from a woman who said a three years ago she was a fan of disrupters. >> when franklin roosevelt died and i draw great inspiration from him because he was a disrupter. i'm fan of disrupters. people -- steve: we are back with former white house press secretary secretary and contributor dana perino. dew, i know the difference there a couple of years ago, she was in favor of disrupters when they were disrupting your former boss, george w. bush. now that they are disrupting her ally, in legislation, barack obama, she doesn't like it.

>> right, so hypocrisy doesn't seem to bother them at all. this is not the first time that we have seen nancy pelosi say one thing and then say another, it apparently doesn't bother anybody. i think it does contribute to the fact that congress is one of the least respected institutions in america. the other one being the media. steve: thank you. >> the other thing i did last week when they called unamerican, the first thing i thought was that was rubbing salt in their self-inflicting wound. gretchen: exactly. now is, it not because of these town hall meetings that we are starting to see a shift in this whole health care reform bill? over the weekend, dana. and you have to admit this was a huge shift and possibly a strategy. i'm interested in your thoughts on that to suddenly talk about having the public option not be so important. >> having the white house float the fact that they are going to strip out the most important part of their proposed legislation, the public option, is a major victory for people

who are against that bill. it -- there is no other way that you can look at it they floated it out there. the sunday talk shows. this is one of the things that they do. and they see how public reaction is or they start laying the groundwork to try to soften the blow with their groups. and then they drop the bomb. and i think this is going to -- well, one, i think it shows that legitimate questions were asked. they were not answered. and the house democrats are v. probably told nancy pelosi there is no way we can pass this bill with a public option. brian: what's your take on comparing the people set up town halls with war protests? a lot of people against iraq war. the president was stead fast for it during your years. now president obama very for his health care proposal obviously. how did you both treat your detractors? how do they differ? >> well, i think it's most important -- first of all, i think it's very important to just respect the fact that there are going to be people who disagree with you when you are president. that doesn't mean that you necessarily change your position.

it just means that you have to stick with your principles and explain it the best way that you can. you have to respect people. and there is always going to be on the fringe, people like code pink or moveon.org that would try to disrupt the president or even disrupt military funerals, which was absolutely beyond the pale. there is a lot of people who didn't go to town halls but think watched all of this. people watching that you really need to be worried about. >> that's reflected in the polls that have come out recently as we have seen tremendous not only for health care reform but for the president. >> went out to change minds and they certainly changed minds. changed it against. steve: it was the moderates, independents who saw those protesters as being sympathetic. that was perhaps the beginning of the end. always a pleasure. always gait grate to see you on monday. see you next monday on "fox & friends." gretchen: earlier in the show we asked you this text questions of the day. are town halls making a difference? well, continue to let us know.

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we start with a fox news weather alert. take a look. that big yellow and orange blob is tropical storm claudette. the first named storm to make landfall in the u.s.a. during this 2009 hurricane season. claudette right now 40 mile-per-hour maximum sustained winds and it is a big rainmaker. some spots along the gulf coast could wind up with 3 to 6 inches. meanwhile, there is another storm to worry about overnight tropical storm bill became hurricane bill. right now maximum sustained winds of about 75 miles per hour. the track of bill, we should point out, is way east of the lesser antilles right now. it could make a beeline for the islands. could hook to the right by midweek it could be a category 3. we will keep an eye on bill as bill bears down on the islands. brian? brian: 27 minutes before the top of the hour. another fox news alert at this hour. new video just in to our newsroom shows chaos in the streets of pakistan. this after a truck bomb explodes

right in the region. six people killed in the attack. police first thought it was a suicide bombing but now say mortar fire was loaded on to the truck without the driver knowing it so far no claims of responsibility but you can guess the area right next door to the travel regions is dominated by the taliban. meanwhile, fire crews in california have gained the upper hand on a wildfire burning in santa barbara county. investigators now say the fire was sparked during a cookout. and an illegal pot farm near the border. the fire has charred for man 75,000 acres in santa barbara county as alone and forced more than 200 residents to leave their homes. dry and windy conditions are fueling nearly a dozen wildfires across the golden state. meanwhile, an evacuation order was just lifted in santa cruz where hundreds of residents are now returning home. and that's the view, the fires from space. gretchen: you are looking right now at mexico's brand new

security force being deployed to the border. they are taking over for the country's 700 custom inspectors who all lost their jobs. the major shakeup, part of a plan to cut off the flow of illegal drugs and weapons literally flooding the country. the new border agents are highly trained and using x-ray and gala machines to scan for hidden contraband. brian: according to a "u.s.a. today" gallup poll 41% say it has a positive impact on the economy while 33% say the stimulus has had no impact. and 24% says it's actually made the economy worse. essentially give the money back. as for how the stimulus is effecting people's wallets. just 18% say it's made lives better. 68% say it has no impact. while 13% say it made their lives worse. steve: meanwhile, you are about to get a look at the latest members of the u.s. military who never sleep and never bleed.

they are robot warriors and they are going on display today in maryland. they include a new version of the bomb-detecting robot. and this brand new pilotless helicopter will be used by the navy later this year to track down drug smugglers in the pacific ocean. that is okay the use of robotics in the military sex explosive. billions of dollars on unmanned programs every year. gretchen: i see they gave me this story again at the illinois state fair they take their shouting very seriously. [. [hog calling] gretchen: i'm so embarrassed for those people. the annual husband calling contest. steve: is he calling a husband? gretchen: glad to see there is equal opportunity for men and women to make fools out of themselves. this year's winner screamed loudest of them all. brace yourself.

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giving him the pga championship. tiger knew it. first asian player to win a major golf title. for tiger the first time he has failed to win a major leading after three counts rounds. tiger did not win a major first time since 1994. he spoke to james brown on 60 minutes and took full responsibility for his actions. >> i'm still being involved in the community because i still regardless of football will have a voice that can have contact on kids because i will be a living example of what not to do. >> earlier we spoke to james brown who gave us the impression, his impressions of the vick interview. >> he talked about being indoctrinated early on but he understands that's definitely an excuse. he blames himself fully for it he knows he has got a real uphill battle from here. but you know what? i think he is determined and he has the right kind of people

around him right now. clearly tony dungy fits the bill there. brian: bucks coach serving as vick's mentor. he practiced with brand new team philadelphia eagles, he will will be the backup quarterback. coming up on brian and the judge exciting guests. go to fox news.com. click on that or go join the community brian and the judge.com and go join the fun xm sirius. steve: in a lot of communities politicians have called town hall meetings and in many cases they have gotten yelled at by their constituents who don't like the idea of this -- brian: what have they done because of it? gretchen: they have gone underground. steve: some of them have and are not doing the town halls. those are the ones over at hot air, which is michelle malkin's sites. suggested well maybe we should put people in towns where the politicians aren't having town halls, maybe they should put them on milk cartons much like they have put missing children

on milk cartons. you know what? in new hampshire, people are asking where our congress people? gretchen: it's not just in new hampshire. i mean, there is a big laundry list here of folks who apparently canceled their town hall meetings or decided they weren't going to have them. a lot of these people decided they were going to do a conference call on the phone. it's more difficult to take somebody yelling at you. gretchen: we want to be sensitive to the fact that usually on a milk carton there is a missing child. this is tongue in cheek, of course, about missing in action. these people lawmakers, who refuse to hold the town hall meetings to hear from their constituents. steve: they don't want that video stand somebody standing up and yelling you are going to destroy their quality of health care. anyway. at hot air they were asking about who else would you suggest that they put on the list? brian: meanwhile the main topic of the day is health care. we are talking about all the different aspects of health care. what about when people steal

your identity. your medical identity? what happens now what about your credit rating. >> that's a good point there is a guy who lives at our house who has been working on just that brian, say hello to peter doocy and gretch. >> hey. good morning. i like the pink tie today, peter. >> thank you. brian: did i not even know that medical identity theft is an issue. >> it is. it's a huge issue. as you guys were talking about people in the town halls, people on the street, on the internet still debating health care. before anybody worries about what could go wrong down the line, they should be worried about how they might already be getting ripped off. check this out. >> when scott goes to the hospital, he fears for the worst. >> i figure they probably treat me wrong first off an and then they would probably arrest me. >> scott is the victim of medical identity theft. someone has been using his personal information to get medical care at hospitals for years and scott gets the bills. he says it's happened at least 38 times in las vegas alone. >> there has been several weeks

where i spent 30 or 40 hours or more either filling out paperwork, making phone calls. >> scott is left with over 100 thousand dollars in medical bills that he says aren't his and an altered medical history. is he not alone. medical identity theft effects about 250,000 people each year. it could be deadly. >> someone could have corrupted your medical information and then you get improper care from the health care provider because they think you have the health condition that the identity thief had. >> the federal trade commission is fighting theft with a new set of the regulations called the red flag rules. this means that doctor's offices and hospitals could start checking photo ids so make sure their are who they say they are. >> reasonable steps, not perfection but reasonable steps to make sure that they are treating the right person, that they are giving care to the right person, they are not willing the wrong person. >> the rules go into effect in november. there is a $3,500 fine for those who don't comply. but the american medical association thinks health care

providers already have enough on their plate. >> it's additional rule. an additional hassle which will have nothing to do with improving health care and therefore it's unnecessary. >> but for scott bennett, the rules could mean he gets his medical identity back from the person who stole it. >> i feel sorry for him. he needs medical attention. i understand that i just wish he could quit using my name. steve: no kidding. it sounds as if the ftc and federal government so it doesn't happen to anybody else might start requiring i.d. before you get something done at the doctor's office. >> all the experts we talked to said there is no quick fix for this. he first had his medical identity stolen in 2002. that's the first treatment. they still have not caught the guy. the ftc finally coming in and they are going to basically just make sure what we are talking about. they are treating the right person. steve: good job. gretchen: president obama goes front and center.

future of the military. the national commander of the vfq joins us next. brian: two of the thieves dead. >> i told him i didn't have any money. put your gun away and go on home. i won't call the police. i won't do anything. they thought about it a little bit but then that didn't work. they still got more and more violent and they were hurting my guy worse. steve: that storm owner joins us live next. stay with us. about to drive... also to the men's room. he has been going over and over. they ought to see their doctors. could be male urinary symptoms due to bph, an enlarged prostate. for many guys, prescription flomax reduces their urinary symptoms due to bph in one week. and if their doctors do prescribe flomax, they could get up to $40 off new or refill prescriptions. so guys already on flomax can also save. only your doctor can tell if you have bph, not a more serious condition like prostate cancer. avoid driving or hazardous tasks for 12 hours

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gretchen: welcome back, everyone. president obama continuing his trips around the country today. is he in arizona addressing the veterans. so what do they want to hear him say about the military's future? brian: we're joined by glenn gardner, the national commander of the vfw. glenn, welcome back. the president spoke to your group when he was trying to become president.

now that he is, what do you want to hear from him? >> well, thank you, brian. we appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning. we are sure the president is going to talk about the proposed changes and the advancement that he is making in entitlements to veterans. the increased funding that he has given to the aid system. to help with health care and all the entitlement programs. i'm sure that our members are interested in hearing about the improvements that we have made in iraq. and perhaps so. ideas that they have for afghanistan. gretchen: so the commander and chief will be coming to speak to you, the commander, of the vfw. let me ask you, this commander. i'm really interested in your point of view, how the military, people in the military feel about a lack of attention about the military in the last couple of months. it seems that the president has really been focusing on domestic policies. do you feel the same way or am i wrong in that he'sment? >> gretchen, i think you are a little bit wrong. i believe we continue to be very impressed with president obama

and the reception that we have had. we have had issues having to do with the veterans and with the military. he, as i said, he gave the v.a. the largest budget they have ever had. whenever we have an issue with him, he has an open door policy. i have met with him twice since he has been in office talking about issues that have to do with the military and veterans. first lady is very concerned about military families and that's something we are very concerned about. brian: in afghanistan, are you sure the public support for the afghanistan war seems to be weaning. are you concerned about that because it certainly weighed on president bush's policies? >> brian, as a vietnam veteran we are always concerned as most of our members are vietnam veterans. we are always concerned when the general public doesn't support 100% the actions of our military. it's very fortunate, however, this year and i have always said i'm very fortunate to be the commander and chief when i think the country has found a way to

separate the war from the warrior. we do have a lot of support out there for the warriors whether they do support what's going on in iraq or afghanistan or not. brian: we certainly support you and your organization and hope you hear what you want to hear today when the president comes down. glenn gardner, thank you. >> thank you very much, brian. brian: straight ahead. four member stormed his shop with guns. he tried to talk with them and told them to leave but they weren't having it so this store owner pulled his own shotgun on the intruders. we talk to him live about what happened next. steve. brian: first on this day in history august 16, 1965. number one song "i gout babe" ssony and cher married and broke up. they had a daughter. . can add up fast. so i'm packing my own lunch now-- for less than $3. thanks to walmart.

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steve: what a story this is. a new york city storeowner back in business today after foiling an attempted robby that went very, very wrong. gus agusto jr. was forced to draw his shotgun on four intruders. he killed two of them. he is now a neighborhood hero. gretchen: good morning to you, gus. >> good morning. gretchen: so this is happening to you last week. bring us back when you had to take out your shotgun and shoot two of the intruders in your store. >> there was one with a gun in my face threatening us, screaming for money, and there was more down by the front door where i couldn't see. i don't know how many were there, i don't know how many had guns. i was in this corner. then, i hear them beating them up on one of my guys, j.b.

i didn't understand why they were beating him up for. steve: they were pistol whipping up, right? >> he was fighting back. so the guy with the pistol after i asked him, i have no money here, i said. nobody came in and bought anything all day. why don't you take away your gun and go home. i won't even call the police. right now the pride is hurt, these fools. so my guys put up a fight down here. this one with the gun goes down there and he start working all the -- my guy, j.b. that gave me a chance to go to the shotgun. i stepped out job to the aisle and look out to the door. i kept my eye on j.b. on the right because i didn't want to hit him and i fired three quick rounds more or less to the left of center toward where the four guys were but not exactly at them. then i saw jay dive for country. when he defense for country i

turned -- when he dove for country and i turned my vision to the four intruders. and they were -- this only took two, three seconds. then i saw the threat had diminished. three of them were trying to open the door to get out. they didn't know which way to push -- they didn't know what to do. i still had three more rounds in the shotgun. i made the choice to let those three get out the door. i didn't fire no more. steve: you really had -- do you feel like you had no choice with those guys? they had a gun and -- >> you never had a gun in your face. steve: no, i never have. >> you don't want to do that either. some of these kids are crazy they shoot each other out there for nothing. gretchen: and i hear you, gus. >> maybe they all had guns. i don't know. gretchen: and you've apparently been robbed before. >> it's no fun. gretchen: and ray kelly, the chief of police here, he basically said this. gus certainly had the right to defend himself and his

co-workers. i know he took no pleasure in this thing. it was the toughest day of his life. you know, a lot of people are probably not anything, gus, about the emotions that you had to go through. >> this is horrible. this is horrible. nobody can imagine. this is terrible. gretchen: well, and tell our viewers, because i found this the most intreeinging part of this entire story. what do you want to happen to the two guys who you did not shoot? >> well, as far as i'm concerned they owe me their lives. and if they owe me their lives i don't want to see their lives ruined. if they don't have a long criminal record, if they're career criminals, then, i don't know, you got to do what you got to do. but if they don't have long records and they're petty, they're not too bad, i'd like to see them get another chance. i'd like to see them get no jail time, some kind of supervised probation. because if you put them in jail you almost make them criminals.

it is almost helped. nobody wants to give you a rob, nobody wants to bother you. you make them criminals. steve: well, you did what you had to do. it was self-defense. your shotgun was registered and you are back open for business today, right, gus? >> i was opened friday, too. we're always closed saturday. i don't know. i just feel lousy. gretchen: i'm sure. i'm sure you do but you're a tough cookie. >> i'm an old man. gretchen: you are still a cuffe tough cookie. we appreciate you coming on the show to share your story with us, gus. gretchen: that's rough. steve: amazing story. coming up in just about two minutes, a mom missing for two weeks. she disappeared walking through her own neighborhood. could her cell phone hold clues to her disappearance? gretchen: then, dropping the public option. when it comes to health care reform. does this mean you can keep your own doctor? well, our truth seeker, peter johnson, will be here with all of the answers for you.

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[captioning made possible by fox news channel] gretchen: good morning with you. august 17. the first hurricane of the atlantic season, what's it called, it's called bill and it's turning with 75-mile-per-hour winds and could become a major storms. plus, we're following other severe weather, including claudette, which made landful in florida. it's now a tropical depression. details straight ahead. steve: meanwhile, the white house tries to pass the blame for the -- for sending unwanted

spam emails to voters. but why was only one network willing to push the administration on that error? where have all the reporters gone? we look for them coming up. brian: all right. the cowboys too. they're the brides to be of our bravest warriors and we wanted to help make their dreams come true. >> i am looking forward to our wedding day. i know it's going to be amazing. i love you. brian: well, the three lucky ladies who are finalists in our all-american bride contest, see them strut their stuff on our plaza decked out just for them. steve: look at that. it's in front of our building right now. brian yeah. the morning's best host.

>> it's "fox & friends." brian: peanut butter toast going. gretchen: it's definitely good. steve: i love it when it's so hot it starts to slide off. welcome back, gretch. gretchen: i am organized. i stayed at home going through scrapbooks for my kids. it was great to take the time off and relax. brian: they are 35 and 30. how much time would it take? gretchen: well, i was only up to my 1-year birthday, for my son. steve: how many stories did he break? gretchen: lots of birthday cards and preschool report cards. steve: let's do the report card on health care reform in this country today. and if you had to grade what the administration was saying yesterday, you would have to say i got to give them

incomplete because did they change the message? remember, the president of the united states has been clear. he's for this public option where essentially the government would run health care for a lot of people in this country. and yet yesterday kathleen sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said, um, not so fast. maybe it's not essential that public option. listen. >> i think there will be a competitor to private insurers. that's really the essential part is you don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing. we need some choices, we need some competition. brian: and now they use the ferm choice and competition. and now they're using the choice co-ops. they'll give $3 billion or $4 billion in feed money to start this nonprofit co-op option that will create some competition for the private

insurers and at the same time not be the public option which has many democrats, blue dog democrats and almost all the democratic senators maybe perhaps saying i'll get a board. senator shelby says this is a good first step. combroith this is an amazing development because the public option, just a month ago on july 20, president obama said he would not be in favor of any health care reform bill if it did not include the public poppings. so now to come off of that, the only thing i can think of, there has been so many people that's come out to these town hall meetings and said, look, one of the beef we have with this program is the public option. who is going to pay for it? and now it appears that the obama administration coming off of that and trying to rebrand and resell their health care reform with this new co-op option. will it really be a difference for the individual? that's what we need to get to the bottom of. steve: here's what is the boldest statement came from

senator conrad of south dakota over the weekend. he's a democrat and one of the negotiators and he said that there are not enough votes in the u.s. senate. you have to get through the house and you have to get through the senate. so there is no support for that in the senate. however, keep in mind the president of the united states, even before he was a senator, back in 2003, he made it very clear that he was for the public option. listen to this from the way back machine. >> [inaudible] i happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care system. a single-payer health care plan, universal health care plan, that's what i'd like to see. steve: that's it right here. gretchen: this would be huge for him to come off of this is huge because he's obviously been in support of it for a very long time. maybe it's a compromise to get this whole thing through. who will they anger, brian?

their base, of the liberals. brian: liberals. gretchen: now they're coming out, members of congress saying we are not going to pass this unless you have the public option. brian: he wants to get republicans onboard without alienating the liberals. it's a tough wire to cross. steve, howard dean said if you don't have a public option it's not worth -- not worth bringing forward. and also indicates this might be a head fake to get this nonpublic option into the -- into conference. at that time they emerge with the public option. gretchen: i like that football analysis. brian: thank you very much. steve: the senate could say we could pass it without the public option but then when they are in conference with the house they took that out and we like it so let's put it back in. it's interesting, michelle wrote, regarding the information from sebelius, that it's not essential and was it a retreat by the white house, she

said. it's not a misstatement. it's not a surrender flag. it's a trial balloon to measure the potential net roots backlash versus the potential senate pickup. gretchen: interesting. steve: if the president says, i'm not for the single-payer option he'll wind up get more senators. more senators would go ahead and pass this. but it's very clear, as we have detailed during his years of public service, the president has been for it. so for him to cave this close to something, at least at the end of their vacation, that really says something. gretchen: yeah. it would still be a victory if he passes any health care reform so maybe that's what they're ultimately going for. we asked you this in our text question of the day. are town halls making a difference? for no, go to 36288. for yes 36288.

17% of you say no they are not making a difference. keep voting. we'll update it throughout the show. brian: three, michelle, dick and number three is mark. all those books are critical to the obama administration. they musting reading that and maybe that's why they pulled off public option. let's talk with the news. steve: we start with a fox news weather alert. the first hurricane of the atlantic storm system already packing winds of about 75 miles an hour. hurricane bill is expected to gain strength and is expected to become a major hurricane right now. that's bill right there. you just saw a moment ago claudette base heavy rain and 50-mile-an-hour winds slammed the coast earlier today. clawed he had, the first named tropical storm of the united states made landful. six to 10 inches of rain expected in some spots. claudette has been downgraded to a tropical depression from a tropical storm. so the coast is going to be affected by clawed he had --

claudette today, and bill could impact the southeastern u.s. by the end of the week. gretchen. >> a search resumes for a georgia mother missing almost a week. each day christy cornwell is missing she's less likely to be found alive. the 38-year-old mom disappeared while taking a walk last tuesday. it's believed she could have been abducted in the passing car. cell phone found flee miles from where she was allegedly kidnapped. sher looking for a white s.u.v. and a subcompact car. both cars spotted in the area where she went missing. it's lights out today in chicago. the windy city shutting down some city offices for reduced city day. most employees are off today without pay and city hall libraries and health clinics also closed. a long-time advisor to

chicago's mayor says other u.s. cities could be next. >> think some other big cities are going to be looking at chicago and saying our turn next. this -- chicago is not unique in this situation. gretchen: police and fire departments, they will operate as usual. that's good news. and this is the first of three furlough days with two more pectsed after thanksgiving and on christmas eve. today, marking the end of an era. >> three, two, one. we have liftoff. liftoff of the last united launch alliance delta two rocket carrying g.p.s. qr-21 for the united states air force. gretchen: and you are looking at history as the last delta two rocket lifts off into space this morning after 20 years and almost 50 launches. nasa scrapping the program. it's been bringing g.p.s. satellites to space to help u.s. troops in iraq and

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brian: wow, president obama says if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor under his health care plan. i didn't know he had a plan. but will you get the same care you used to? gretchen: we spoke to a woman this morning said that government-run health care already in place, medicare, killed her father. >> to have you say, my hands are tied, the medicare says we have to pull this antibuy ottic out of your father'd body -- i don't want a bureaucrat between my doctor and my loved one. gretchen: fox news analyst peter johnson jr. is here to break down fact versus fiction. i am so glad you're here because people are saying this is so complicated, help me understand what this public option was, if it's off the table now, what the heck is the co-op plan? >> well, the co-op plan is based to the ones like in puget sound, washington.

here the government would be funding a new insurance company, really state by state, or region by region, electedly not controlling it. the truth is -- allegedly not controlling it. the truth is costs have spiraled out of control with many co-op plans, including in the state of washington, and since the great depression co-op plans have not been a successful model of the united states. brian: the idea is if you get a bunch of groups together it drives down the rates they pay for insurance because so many people have been involved in it. >> and typically co-op plans have been set up by private insurance programs' capital. here the government is saying we are not going to have a public option but financial a quasi-public option. gretchen: so what a lot of people want to know is am i going to be able to keep my same physician? and under this co-op plan, will president obama still be able to say that? jl, the president has said --

>> well, the president has said repeatedly, you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor. i didn't accept that to be true in our analysis last friday the real issue becomes even if it's true, will you be able to get the same health care? and under the system that's being talked in congress now, there are certain things, certain ackry nims, certainly -- acronyms, certainly kind of codes that will reduce cost. called qualies. it's a calculation. it's a cost benefit analysis. the cost of a procedure over the remaining number of years by which you'll benefit from that procedure. so if you're 75 years old and someone says get a hip replacement, there's a calculation based on that. brian: more on that later. aren't doctors and hospitals obligated to continue providing

medical care even if medicare would not continue paying for it? this is a letter from a confused american. they want to know this -- isn't this done every day across the nation for illegal aliens who a penny to their name? what's wrong with this picture? gretchen: this girl's father died under medicare. >> people don't understand medicare. what people have to understand is there is an appeal process. that can take six months, that can take a year. you could be dead by the time the appeal process kicks in. doctors and hospitals are fined all the time by medicare who say, listen, you need to get that patient out of the hospital. gretchen: right. >> the hospitals and doctors then have to make a decision, are we going to make an ethical determination to keep this patient in the hospital because we think the patient is still sick, or are we going to bow to the medicare and medicaid authorities and put them out?

gretchen: ok, thank you. you have a lot to read tonight. we'll be talking medicare tomorrow. brian: states across the country are cracking down our drunk driving. is that going too far, jail time? we'll debate that next. since arthur's been eating purina one, he has blossomed...