>> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ applause ] i'm supposed to be out here right now? i'm not governor mike huckabee. i'm not george w. bush either. but i would like to welcome you to, what is that guy's name?

huckabee. ladies and gentlemen, mike huckabee, the governor. bring it on! [ applause ] >> hey, frank. >> hello, how are you? >> i'm doing great. so, we have you on the show today. >> yes, i will be here. >> which means we have dozens of people on the show today, right? >> that's absolutely, correct. >> give us a little preview. >> maybe a little bit of this. >> what were you thinking? very odd, very weird and let's get going. i want to see jon voigt. >> frank cal dougiendo on the w today. look forward to seeing you in a few minutes, frank. >> also, tonight, he says president obama is trying to change america but maybe not the change you bar gained for. jon voight will be here to tell us why he has become so involved and he will give us his take on healthcare reform. and they are one of the top christian music bands in the

world. but recording platinum albums and selling out concerts not their only job. they are also youth counselors who try to keep youth on the right path. they perform one of their biggest hits here on the show tonight. well, this weekend, funeral services were held for senator ted kennedy and with his burial the end of a long and storied senate career. though there were many controversies over the issues in his personal life, he was true to his personal political convictions. he didn't try to reinvent himself with each election or poll and proudly proclaimed himself a liberal when most ran from the label. i respect people honest their own political leanings far from those that change with the season. no one can accuse ted ken day of campaigning differently than he served or he believed. you can work with a principled

liberal more effectively than an unprincipled conservative who is more about the political game of winning than actually solving problems. a government like ours isn't always neat and pretty and rarely does it give everybody everything they want but it works. like the airplane with both wings attached to the fuselage, it has balance that keeps it from the torque of one engine putting it into a death spiral. i once sat alongside ted kennedy where both of us were testifying a program. here were two men as far apart in every way as two men could be. one from a wealthy powerful catholic family from big city boston. the other, from a poor working class baptist family from a smalltown in arkansas. he was caviar and cape cod. i was corn bread and catfish but on that day our vast

differences found common ground to make sure that families who were struckling to care for a severely disabled child didn't have to become immoverrished in order to receive care for their child. there are attempts to politicize on his death for calls for hurriedly enacting government run healthcare in tribute to him. i spoke on my radio show and pointed out when senator kennedy was diagnosed with terminal cancer he chose to fight with all that was within him and to do that for life instead of choosing the pain pill that president obama spoke of in his answer to james stern during his white house town hall feeing. george stephanopoulos, time magazine, huffington host and scores are liberal bloggers have gone berserk, maying i

have made things up. here is my challenge, george, the magazine and any one else. go to my website, mikehuckabee.com. click on the huckabee report and then follow the links to on demand and listen to the morning commentary for thursday, august 27th. now, listen to this comment from president obama during the telecast that georgia's own network aired on june 24th. >> what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that is not making anybody's mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going improve care, at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. maybe you are better off not having the surgery but taking the pain killer. >> my challenge, what did i say that wasn't true? in fact, listen to what i said.

it was actually a tribute to senator kennedy and an observation that he did what americans would want to do, follow the best healthcare they can find. and we don't want the government telling us to go home and take a pain pill and die. lest someone think we edited his comments and put them out of context, let me play what he said as he opened and closed the questionsance answers to james stern. he first acknowledged it is already a form of rationing by medicare and medicaid and private insurance. >> i don't want bureaucracies making those decisions. they are already being made in one way or another. if they are not being made under medicare and medicaid they are being made by private insurers. >> at the end, he says the decision is between a patient and his doctor. >> we are not going to solve every single one of these difficult decisions of end of life and ultimately that is going be between physicians and

patients. >> as it should be. >> the irony is that the final months of senator kennedy letts life are the very reason we shouldn't let government take us to the pelosi, frank plan. when diagnosed with brain cancer, senator kennedy didn't to as president obama suggested and take a pain pill and ride it at home, he went to the best medical facilities in the world, had surgery and sought to live as long and as strong as possible. that is what americans are trying to tell congress. we aren't looking for the cheapest healthcare but the best. and we know everyone can't have everything but let us and our family decide that, not the government. by the way, the program that senator kennedy and i were testifying for that day is the approach that congress should be taking. government involvement when no private option exists and which provides for those that exhausted all of their options. if america wants to truly honor

the senator, make it possible for everyone to have the kind of care he had in his final months. that is my view, and if you would like to share yours, contact me at mikehuckabee.com. click on the fox news feedback link. well, my first guest says the obama administration is trying to force government-run healthcare upon american citizens who don't want it. please welcome academy award winning actor jon voight. [ applause ] >> hello, jon. >> hello, governor. >> boy, isn't it nice. nice to see you all. it is great to be, you know -- it is great to be with you,

patriotic americans. >> and you have a fan club here. >> isn't that nice. >> yes, you do. >> you have had a fan club your entire career, you had incredible acting career. >> i want to say, i watched you -- >> yeah. >> you know, i watch governor huckabee on a weekly basis and you are such a comfort to all of us. >> thank you. >> you are such a terrific -- [ applause ] >> you know, and now i'm here now i have watched it, i have never been on the show with you. i have been on the satellite a little bit. now, i'm here on the show and see where the audience is and where the cameras are and there is where the little rockers work out. >> you got it all figured out. >> nice to be here with you. >> i want to say how much i have appreciated your public stand for what you believe in and there aren't many people in the entertainment business, particularly hollywood actors who are willing coul to come os boldly as they are. tell me, what is it that is

motivating you to be an outspoken american citizen right now. >> i lived a long life and made a mistake or two and learned some lessons. at this time i can see things a little clearer and see the dangers where they are and as a citizen of this country, you know, we are given this freedom and encouragement to speak out when we see troubles brewing and i'm just, you know, just being a citizen that i would like other people to be. >> but you have had some remarkable statements that i have listened to and said, that's powerful. you have talked about the need of this country to pay attention to where we are headed, down a path that really is the equivalent of i think you have used the term, jon, civil unrest. >> yeah. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, we are in the situation where obviously at this hour we are being -- the

american people are being forced to do something they don't want to do. let me say this. i am here t validate all of the millions of people who are opposed to the obama healthcare. [ applause ] we are witnessing -- we are witnessing a slow and steady takeover of our true freedoms. we are becoming a socialist nation. and obama is causing civil unrest in this country. what is going on, what we see, first of all, that the stimulus package and now we see the government taking over banks. we see the government taking over car companies. insurance. we are being told what cars we

can drive, what -- how much we can make and now they want to take control of our healthcare and tell us what doctors we can see and what treatments we can have. >> i want to talk about specifically healthcare. how president obama is invoking god into the discussion. >> let me -- let me -- >> we need to take a break and when we get back that is where we will start. i want to hear this because i think you have powerful views that we need to hear. that is where we will start that is where we will start when we come back. jon voightth stays with us andi hope you will, too. >> he's so professional. insur. yeah, great service at the right price. and nowadays, my business depends on it. do you have anything like that for my car? yes! our car insurance comes with 24/7 claim service, and you can save hundreds. so, what you haulin'? oh, eight-year-olds to soccer practice. nine! oh, precious cargo.

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voight. he has won oscars for his very successful acting career but he is not acting when talks about his passion regarding the concerns you have about the healthcare bill. >> i was saying that the people don't want this. they don't want the government into their lives in this way. and they are happy with the healthcare they have. but it seems that obama has made this a personal crusade now. and, if it is successful, if he brings this off, then it will be his personal -- he says he keeps repeating this is not about me, this is not about me. but, as we can see, it really is about him and he is arrogant and he is adamant that he will get this passed no matter what the outcry. and he is trying everything. even -- even the so-called god card. if you love god, he tells us, if you love god, then it is your duty to vote this healthcare bill in. >> he did a conference call, john work a thousand ministers

last week and if president bush had done that or others had done that they would have been castigating for invoking the god card but he did that and the liberal press sort of said oh, that is okay if he does that. >> well, i say that they are taking away god's first gift to man, our freewill. [ applause ] >> and no man, no matter what his title, even if he is president of the united states has the consent of god to decide that he is god. >> you said something to me earlier that i thought was very powerful. you quoted thomas seoul who i think is one of the most brilliant minds in america today and something that he said. i want to -- aah, you have it. i think it was very powerful. >> suddenly it appears. and people, you know, some people said to me, you are getting on the old side, a lot of that stuff is getting on the

old side, you know, when i was in "transformers" the director came up to me and said we are going to run 50 feet or that to one of the vehicles to escape from the transformer and he said -- he was very sensitive to me, he says do you think you can do that. and i said oh, my god, i'm not that bad. and, of course, and they -- and people say how can you read? like i write big. anyway, i want to read this quote. this is what this great man, one of the wisest of our fellows has said, this african american writer. "what they are trying to do is create an america very unlike the america that has existed for centuries, the america that people have been attracted to by the millions from all over the world, the america many generations of americans have fought and died for.

america, freedom. what must be destroyed if this is to be turn inside a fundamentally different country to suit obama's vision of the country and of himself ." >> that is a power statement. thomas seoul. a great thinker and writer. yon, thanjon, thank you for wee today. we need voices of charity and conscience. >> and i want to say to the governor if i can just say to the governor, try it again, we need a man like you! >> thank you, jon. jon voight. jon voight. >> frank caliendo and all of his characters coming up next.

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okay. we tried to take over -- tried to take over at gee beginning of the program. but his hilarious impersonations make him fay favorite of all time. give an official welcome to the very funny frank caliendo. >> we get to hear officially now. the audience at home didn't get to see but during the break

when jon voight sang happy birthday to michael, that was pretty school. >> that was awesome. >> i'm not seen sure where to start with you, frank. i tell you, every time i watch you, i think you are the funniest man in america. >> i am. >> i am amazed because you do 120, 130 different characters. >> actually five. just sounds like 130. do i versions. -- gao versions. >> do you realize what a politician you could be with all those different places. >> i do speak out of this side and my mouth and go to this one. >> first impression you ever did, who it was? >> jay leno. it was in college. i said hey, how would you like nacho cheese flavored dorough toes. >> what did he think when --

door doritos. >> i should go to the audience. hey, what's going on in the audience. >> what did jay leno think when you did him? >> i'm out of breath. hold on. give me a second. i have a weight problem. >> check your pulse. >> all right. >> he was very nice to me. >> one of the nicest people in the whole world, isn't he? >> second to you. >> you are good. >> very good. nice prompting, huh, very good but you. huckabee, huh? i like this guy. you, you are very good. >> all right. robin williams comedy, my friends, if you don't have a joke, just switch voices. >> robin williams got a lot of his stuff from jonathan winters. >> one thing the impressionists grew up, a little older school

kind of thing. i watched jonathan winters. when they switched from the voices. january on this winters. i did something a little weird today, it involves a kitty cat, a dog and a box of tinker toys. you are not supposed to connect animals in a spot with a toy. >> did your parents go nuts when you were little? >> i was a loner little kid. i just wanted a tv. my parents good for them, that they never said frank, what are you going to do with that, you watch too much tv. >> get serious, have a career. >> my dad. >> you're grounded. >> how intense. >> one of the things that you do so well, jump back and forth from entertainment to political characters. we have a whole -- >> they are both the same. >> when we come back we will get to a whole bunch of them. when we get back we will ask

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america's news headquarters. i'm lauren sivan. senator edward kennedy's long trip to his final resting place now over. kennedy buried at arlington national cemetery saturday night with full honors. the graves of president john f. kennedy and robert kennedy nearby. a mass was held in boston earlier in the day with president obama delivering a eulogy. drug paraphernalia was found close to the body of djam. the 36-year-old whose real name

was adam goldstein was found dead on friday. reports say a crack pipe and prescription drugs were found in the apartment. i'm lauren sivan. we now head back to "huckabee" right here on fox. if you would like to be part of the studio audience, call or write to huckpicks @ fox news.com. and the folks in our studio audience get to hear people like frank caliendo. you will be doing a gig in las vegas. >> i signed a gig to be in the month tee carlo for -- monte carlo for the next ten years. i should start reading contracts. >> you do television shows and sports.

>> we will do a sketch and it will be like dr. phil telling the players stop being so stupid, what is your problem. terry bradshaw will be after the segment, not funny, frank, not funny. after the show he will say very funny, frank, very funny. i was like why can't you say that while we were on tv. he said, well, howie hadn't explained it to me. >> one of the things is john mad. >> thing of the things that you do in life and all the things you don't do and put those together and that is pretty much everything. >> he retired and this is what he said. at 73, it is time to start spending time with my family. that is the age you pick? >> you know, when politicians say that, it always, i just cringe because when they say i'm resigning to spend more time with my family. i say what, did you wake up and say who are these people in my

house? >> i want to spend time with migrate, great, great, great, children and their grand children. >> brett favre comes back again. this guy, every time i think he's out he pulls me back in. you look at brett favre and the green bay packers are not going to retire the number four jersey. they should retire the number four not just from the green bay packers or the nfl but from the entire numerical system. replace it with the word favre. from now on, one, two, three, favre, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. >> what is your favorite holiday? >> the favre of july. >> a person who talked about getting out of politics and into the sports arena is charles barkley. what would it sound like if he announced for the governor.

>> don't drink and drive. don't be a knuckle head. care about your fellow citizens. it is good and important to love each other. and that is what it is about. knuckle headed listeners. >> he doesn't say terrible. it's like that was terrible. that was a terrible, terrible thing. >> trying to play the home game of we will of fortune. that was terrible. how do you pla scrabble with h? what is that. in trbl, terrible. sometimes he makes sense and sometimes he doesn't. you fay trifigure out where he is going on a, e, i, o, u and sometimes why. >> i love the vowels. >> and i love the consonants,

asia, europe. >> the george bush impersonation got you several places including washington, d.c. >> congressional correspondent. >> what was that like? >> very surreal. >> did he laugh? >> he did. i looked over -- the president was supposed to be there and even the vice president is making fun like the president couldn't be here today. he's in cancun. >> and then i was like well, it is good that the president wasn't here because i thought he would be here. i looked at you, mr. cheney and like i can't stand this guy, dick. and cheney was on the floor. i have been working on the obama impression. i don't have the voice down yet, i'm rye lying mostly on my -- relying mostly on my physical resemblance to him. >> it is like cartman from southpark. some where in here. look, here is the deal.

he says look and here is the deal and if he says both he wants you to listen and it might cost you a couple of bucks. i don't care if you are a liberal or republican or democrat. >> i care, he doesn't have to. >> here is the deal. i agree to talk slow at the beginning and fast at the end. bush would get to the end of the sentence and couldn't think of the last word and you find yourself kind of rooting for him to get it. like a scene from the water boy, you can do it. you wanted him to get there so bad. president obama sometimes the teleprompter gets behind. here is the deal. could you move that for us. i just winged it. it worked better. >> i don't think it did. >> did george bush ever comment on your impression of him? >> no, i had karl rove come up to me one time like a similar kind of event where i met you and karl rove came up and i thought it would be meet to meet him. it is always cool to meet some of these guys. i was going to go up to him and

he came walking over to the car and tells me to roll down the window and he did this and i was like what do you think i'm in, a model t. >> he was like hi, frank, i said what is this, the patriot act. i'm like hey, rover, what's going on, man, red rover, red involver, let karl rover come over. >> has any one gotten mad at you? >> i don't want to say, boom. i went on the letterman show, david letterman, show. here is a guy explain things you don't have to. sometimes that's okay. >> too much. >> here is the deal. let's get back on track. i have been lost for awhile. i know that story. i went on letterman with my zipper down and he is like is your zipper down. i was like here is the top ten things you shouldn't do on

letterman. awkward, dave. >> donald trump. >> the most luxurious, human being in the history of the world. >> i talked to him on the phone. you can't surprise trump. there is no surprising trump. he knows exactly what is coming. i would surprise him on a radio show or so i thought. this is an incredible human being, this is your conscious talking and even your conscience calls you mr. trump and he goes that must be frank, frank, how are you doing. >> what would al gore say if he were the starting center of the new york knicks? >> don't shoot that basketball too high, it might bring down acid rain. the environment must be saved. i understand the environmental argument and all that kind of stuff. sometimes he seems like a bad

ball dracula. because he is trying to scare. it is like some of the facts there are and some of the facts you are like wait, if i think that is true that doesn't quite make sense. i almost did a glenn beck there. look to the camera. that is glenn beck on a roll. >> got to go. >> next time on huckabee! >> thank you, frank. what a pleasure. frank caliendo. don't forget, starting october 12th, he will be at the monte carlo in las vegas. if you want more details go to frank caliendo.com. they provide motivation to youngsters searching for answers. top selling music artists casting crowns join us next.

these guys spend half their week as youth pastors and the other half as a grammy award winning band. and you thought you had a busy schedule. when the brand new cd drops in november. it is called casting crowns. i'm amazed at the way your band functions. a lot of full-time bands are out there on the road all the time and yet you guys had one of the chart-busting christian contemporary bands out there, grammy award winning, gov award, angel awards but this

isn't your full-time gig. you are out there doing youth pastor work. >> we are out there in the week, loving on teenagers and their families. >> you surely have been pressured to make it a full-time thing and go on the road. why have you chosen to stay in the ministry and obviously the financial rewards would we dramatic if you do this all the time. >> i believe that the music comes from the ministry in the church. if we were to disconnect from the church and live on the bus we wouldn't be connected to the people and be singing songs about the people that we are with every day of the week. and all nobleness aside, it is helping us. you are not reading your website too much, you are plugged in with people that aren't impressed with you, they have known you a year or two. >> you are talkin with kids wih all kinds of pressures. does that affect the way you

perform your muse glick when you are coming from aabove it is hard to approach somebody. when they realize you have problems like they do and your warts and blemishes. >> you are one of the few bands ever that have been invite inside north korea. how on earth did a christian band get invited to north korean. >> global resource services. a nongovernmental agency working to establish friendship between the countries through humanitarian aid. they work with the hospitals and agriculture and feeding families in the country. we we went over to be part of a festival that north korea holds every year we were going to strengthen the bond between grs and the government there. the closer grs is to the government and friendship the more people they can reach and helped that friendship grow stronger which helps our

friendship grow stronger with them as well. >> what shocked you the most? >> for us, all we know is what we hear and it is this big dark place. then when you land, you meet people and suddenly north korea becomes ming and lee and become people to us and the personal relationships helped us to i think love them better and just understand they are in a tough place and they need help and we can't write everything off because we don't agree with the leadership. we got to love the people who are there, however, we can. >> did they ask you to dial it down a notch in terms of the lyrics of your songs. they are blatantly christian songs. did they ask you to dial it down? >> we were really surprised that they even called us. we are not hiding from anything, they are out there in front. we were a little concernd that they maybe hadn't heard our music and every time they heard

a song the invitation stood. we were waiting to be shut down a little bit. we sang amazing grace as they wanted to hear a traditional song and we thought that is traditional and sang it and had one of the guides come to us and say i have been hearing that song since i was a kid but we never knew there were words and we got to the words to amazing grace and give them to him. amazing moments. >> will you get to go back to north korea? >> as we were leaving they invited us into their radio station to record a song in korean and said you have a standing invitation to be here. it is a great thing to have some sort of connection with that country, maybe it is helping in a little way. >> tell kim jong il we all saided hey.

>> they will let me sit in with them on a song. i hope it doesn't seen you from buying their music because i promise some of the most phenomenal and dynamic music you will ever hear. we'll be right back with casting crowns right after this. two for three?!

oh, thank you. you're welcome. ♪ it's what you are... ♪ ...not what you've got.

we are back with casting crowns and mark, we were talking before about all of the things in korea but i want to talk about specifically your music and you have had a huge impact with so many people and particularly younger audiences love your music. and i want to ask you about the song we are going to do "the voice of truth." what is that song really say? what is that about? >> coming up through middle school, high school, i dealt with disleggia and add. dyslexia means you didn't read

good and atd means if you did read it good, it didn't matter. i started realizeing that god had a different idea for my life and i really had to sort through the idea that god doesn't need me but that he wants me and it real lay had to change the way i think and said my grace is efficient for you and my powers make perfect in your weakness. >> the song is called "voice of truth." casting crowns. i hope you will download not only this song and the other ones but november they have a brand new cd coming out. you will want to get that. hopefully we will get them back to sing some songs from it. let's do it. "voice of truth." ♪ ♪ the kind of face it pays to

climb out of this ♪ ♪ on to the crashing waves, you step out of my comfort zone, into the realm of the unknown where jesus is, and he is holding out his hand but they call out my name and laugh at me ♪ ♪ reminding me of all the times i tried before and failed, the waves they keep on telling me time and time again boy, you will never win, you will never win ♪ ♪ but the voice of truth tells me a different story, the voice of truth says do not be afraid ♪ ♪ on the voice of truth says this is for my glory, out of all the voices calling out to

me i would choose to listen and believe the voice of truth ♪ ♪ and oh, what i would do to have the kind of strength is takes to stand before a giant with just a sling and a stone, surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors shaking in their armor ♪ ♪ but the giant's calling out my name and he laughs at me ♪ ♪ reminding me of all the times ♪ ♪ the giant keeps on telling me time and time again, boy you'll never win, never win ♪ ♪ but the voice of truth tells

me a different story ♪ ♪ the voice of truth says do not be afraid ♪ ♪ and the voice of truth says this is for my glory, out of all the voices calling out to me, i would choose to listen and believe, i would choose to listen and believe the voice of truth ♪ ♪ i will listen and believe the voice of truth ♪ [ applause ] >> we'll be right back. don't go away. ú1

well, on last week's show, our staff and buddy collaborated to surprise me for my birthday with an amazing cake that looked exactly like one of my bass guitars. i was so excited i foregot to thank buddy and the people at tlc for giving us a sample of the incredible cakes that they make on tlc's cake boss. by the way, the cake was delicious and it was devoured or maybe i should say it was ravaged in the green room after the show by the crew and staff. also last week we told you about the legendary james burton's attempt to break a record of the guitar players playing the same song at the same time. hundreds of guitarists young and old flooded the