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to design and drive a gasoline powered car. taking their four wheel buggy for a testfield in springfield and a year later the two bicycle makers would open what would become the first american car company and it all began 116 years ago today. and now you know the news as fox reports, this sunday, fox reports, this sunday, september 20th, 2009. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> announcer: but isn't >> loads and gentlemen,-- ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> hello everybody. and welcome, thank you very much for coming. welcome to the fox studios in new york city, tonight, congressman and michael burgess, they're medical doctors and they're going to be talking on whether health care reform should include rewards for the best decisions and also the amazing creskin demonstrates why
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he would be a good addition to the president's staff ap research counsel tony per kiss on the likelihood of a major turn around in the congress after the next term of congress. their song press one for english a youtube sensation ♪ the language of this land ♪ and every time it's posted here i could understand ♪ ♪ i do not live in china, mexico no foreign place ♪ ♪ and english is the language in these united states ♪ >> that's kay and ron and they're here today to debut a brand new song called a big fat no with the little rockers later today. are' going to love kay and ron, they're a lot of fun. today is going to mark the launch of a very dynamic
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partnership, putting music in the hand of students across america. one of your favorite parts of the show is the music, both from our guest celebrities as well as our in-house band, the little rockers, all of whom are volunteers who work behind the scenes at the fox news channel, but also people who love playing music and when we've had the celebrities here, something that we were doing back stage, we've asked them to autograph a guitar, i kept it for all of this time and we're going to kick off the want to play fund by auctioning that guitar on ebay. all the proceeds going to buy musical instruments for students. now, even if you don't bid on the guitar, you can make a tax deductible contribution to the want to play fund. later today you're going to meet some students from new jersey who are living proof of how music transforms the lives of students. all of the details are available on mike huckabee.com. just follow the link, go to foxnews.com, you can also get it there by the fox news feedback section, stay tuned for all of
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today's show, we are going to have a lot more on this musical venture. well, speaking of fiddling around and beating drums, president obama chose to announce that we're not going to honor our commitment to poland and the czech republic with the missile shield that we promised. we made the surprise announcement on the 70th anniversary of the russian invasion of poland. brilliant diplomatic move for sure, but while we seem to be eager to have a chat with iran despite their moving forward with nuclear capacity we're turning on those who have been reliable friends. when the blood of 20-year-old women were spilled in the streets of tehran as they were murdered by their own government, the president said he didn't want to interfere. and yet when 20 jewish families tried to move into a jewish owned apartment complex in israel, obama personally interfered and urged the israelis to stop those families because it might the
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palestinians. and as if building a school is the same as blowing up the children inside the school. okay. on a personal note, happy 100th birthday today to dr. raymond coppinger, a professor of theology in arkansas. dr. coppinger is one of the most brilliant scholars i know and his edenboro trained intellect is only shadowed by his gracious spirit. i thank him for his investment in my life (applause) >> we will, that's my view and i welcome yours. remember, go to mike huckabee.com and share your retorts, rebutles, rebukes or even kind words, happy to get that. we miss jay leno and monologues over the summer and in prime time. jay didn't waste anytime taking his hilarious shots at the political world.
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>> wait, have you heard about this? i love this. they have new house rules, remember the guy yelling out you lie. they have new house rules, the members of congress cannot call the president a liar, a hypocrite, that he's dishonest, president bush said where are the rules when i was president? hey, what's this all about? hey! >> we've been missing jay leno, we're glad he's back. congress as now they've gone back, back to the drawing board this week to come up with a health care reform plan that americans can live with. a lot is going on. here is the question, what's in it for the doctors, nurses and medical professionals, the men and women out there saving our lives. let's ask two congressmen, they're also doctors. republican charles must sany of louisiana, a heart surgeon and here in the studio republican michael burgess of texas, an ob-g ob-gyn. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> mike: great to have you here from new orleans. >> thank you. >> mike: let me get this underway asking a question i think has confused a lot of
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americans and congressman i'll ask you in new orleans. we know that the president has said that the ama is supportive and so therefore, he sort of said the doctors are all behind this health care reform bill. yet, only 20% of the positions in america belong to the ama. is there somewhat of a, maybe a not quite so honest approach? are the doctors of america truly behind the health care reform bill that the democrats have put forth? >> i don't think that's really true. i think if you look at state medical societies, a number of the specialty societies and i can tell you, many, many physicians i've spoken to, both in my home state of louisiana, and around the country, they're opposed to this because they see the very heavy hand of government getting involved in every aspect of our health care in a very disruptive way. >> let me go to you, congressman burgess, because we talked about incentives. the fact that there ought to be something in there for doctors if they do well.
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right now, doctors are reimbursed for the number of procedures they perform, not for the outcomes that those procedures produce. so if the doctors takes seven tries to get it right he gets compensated seven times. director that gets it right on the first time only paid once, only like you're rewarded for not doing well. should there be a way to reimburse physicians for the quality of the care as well as just the quantity of the care? >> well, certainly that's something that's been first and foremost and in the previous administration, secretary leavitt, governor leavitt had what was called the physician group practice demonstration project. the results of that recently the first round is produced where you actually reward a doctor or a medical group tore doing things right. it's intriguing, there are some real savings that have been shown in that. there are some other areas where the actual savings that they felt would have materialized didn't and here is the deal. we're not doing the one thing that would incentivize doctors in a big way right now, which would be medical liability reform. we've done that in texas, oklahoma over the weekend, just
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made a move to do that. and these programs work when they're instituted. and yeah, people will tell me that it doesn't bring down medical costs immediately. no, there are some-- there is some learned behavior involved, but will take some time to adjust, but we have seen such a significant change in taxes since 2003, i frankly don't know why that's not part of a discussion. >> congressman, before we take a break here, i need to ask you, congressman, here, has brought up about medical liability. it's a big issue, doctors talk about it, but it's not something that the democrats have been all that anxious to do. would that make a big impact not so much for you as a congressman, but for you as a physician, specifically a heart surgeon? >> well there's no question that tort reform is necessary to try it bring down the cost of health care. it's not a sill veer bullet, but something that's desperately needed in my opinion. if you look at behavior and the things that drive up costs, the
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threat of frivolous lawsuits and the fat of the matter is we do have a number of frivolous lawsuits that materialize and go away over a matter of years, this puts physicians in a defensive posture and they tend to do more often times than what might be needed just to protect themselves. it's one of the cost drivers in health care and i think it-- the you know, medical liability reform is clearly an important part of the reform effort. we're going to keep both the congressmen here and visit with them a little more about the health care bill. how it's going to impact your life. we'll be right back. do not go anywhere. [applause]. when i melt to sleep
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mruz mruz (applause) >> we're back with congressman from texas and louisiana. barack obama has performed some managic here recently, he has been talking now for months that we had 47 million uninsured americans. watch this. >> in the wealthiest nation on earth. 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage. now, if you are one of nearly 46 million people who don't have health insurance, you'll finally have quality affordable option. now, i don't have to explain to you why it's so important to pass health reform for 46 million. >> okay, 46 i was pretty close, but then all of a sudden, get a reaction from both congressmen, this last week when we was speaking to the joint session, listen to what he says. >> we are the only democracy, the only advanced democracy on earth, the only wealthy nation
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that allows such hardship for millions of its people. there are now more than 30 million american citizens who cannot get coverage. >> mike: okay, i want to know what happened in the middle of the night that suddenly insured 17 or 16 million americans? congressman, let me start with you. what did i miss during the night? >> well, i remember really taking note of that change in the number and now, i suppose what the president did was he subtracted the illegal aliens in the country, but he didn't really explain the difference between the 30 million and the 46 million in his speech. so, i can only assume he subtracted the illegal immigrants in the country and, but you know, that's also highlights the difficulty with th this nisumber. and we on the republican side of the aisle now, let's get really accurate numbers and see what's behind this.
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we know, for instance, that four and a half million are college students and graduate students when they hit 22, are forced off their parent's insurance. i think that's a bipartisan area of agreement we should let them stay on if they're still dependent on their parents. the bottom line, you have to understand what are we trying to do? what, and once you break down that number, target solutions to the problem. >> congressman burgess, i'll bring you in on the discussion and i want to ask you m this question, what in the health care bill do you like? is there something about reform that we need to be doing that republicans and democrats could agree on and we ought to be focused on? >> well, governor, in fact, there is and it's disappoint to go me that we don't focus on that. one thing i heard from the town halls over the summer, people don't trust us to do something as big as we've carved out for ourselves. what if we broke it down as the doctor said, broke it down to some of these populations that are really suffering and people
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recognize that reform needs to happen. then we could do that right off the bat with the people who have what are called preexisting conditions and so-called insurance rescissions, nothing is more offensive to an american than they think of someone writing out the check and paying the premium every month and get a tough medical diagnosis and insurance is gone. that's wrong, we can fix that, the president and i and most republicans agree on that point. we could have a something for the american people and could have done that before we went home for august if we'd been serious about this and again, the american people do feel betrayed by so many things that happened the past six or eight months. we took over the financial section-- (applause) >> we took over their cars, and now we want their doctor's office and people are fed up and that's what they told us over august and many hear that in different ways. >> mike: everybody who went out for the town hall meetings, some were afraid to go to the town hall. thanks congressmen, great to have you both here and hope we
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can visit with you again and hope you guys will-- >> thank you, governor. >> mike: you already know that i love music and i believe that music and art should be a part of every student's curricula because the ultimate economic stimulus is to stimulate creativity. coming up we're going to be joined by the ceo of nam the national association of music merchants and my partnership with them to put an instruments in the hands of every kid in america and you're going to meet a group of teenagers who found real purpose for music. amerid you meet a group ofte
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>> for a long time. one of the big passions of my life has been trying to make sure that every student in america had access to music and the arts and there's a reason for that. it changes their lives. it gives all of those kids who
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are right-brained focused something to stimulate them. one in three kids in america dropped out of school, you know why? they're not dumb, they're bored. a lot of kids aren't having what fires them up stimulated and that's why this partnership we're announcing today is so very special to me. i'm partnering with the national association of music marketers, joining me is nancy ceo joe lamond and i'm going to be talking with joe just a little while and we're going to talk about this partnership. but you know, the old saying of confucious, a picture is worth a thousand word, what about a picture with songs. joining us from jersey city, new jersey. namm sponsored with vh-1 with save of music. martin school, a 7th grader. on the keyboards, 9th graders, dijon and jay allen and clyde
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riley. on drums 8th grader peter west point. now, we're going to ask them to just show what happens when students can get their hands on music. i think you're going to enjoy it. this is an old temptations song. listen. their teacher, by the way, miss christine carter gets them ready for today. you're going to love this. here you go. ♪ ♪ ♪ i've got sunshine ♪ on a cloudy day
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♪ when it's cold outside i've got the month of may ♪ ♪ i guess you'd say ♪ what can make me feel this way ♪ ♪ my girl ♪ my girl ♪ my girl ♪ talking about my girl, my girl ♪ ♪ i've got so much honey the bees will sting ♪ ♪ i've got the sweetest song than the birds in the trees ♪ ♪ well, i guess you'd say ♪ what can make me feel this way ♪ ♪ my girl, my girl, my girl
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♪ talking my girl, my girl ♪ ooh, ooh (applause) >> all right! students from the martin school of jersey city, jersey. i've got to tell you, you guys are fantastic! thank you very much. let me tell you something, how much has music inspired you, not just musically, but to do well in school? >> well, music is pretty much what makes people go in the morning, you know? they drive to do different things and you know, music, tbad made me want to go to school and practice and everything and just reach for higher goals because i know if we made it this far we can make it in everything. >> mike: you scored a perfect score on one of the standardized tests one of the few students ever to do that. >> yes.
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>> mike: what do you want to do in your adult life, a music producer or artist. >> i would love to be an astronaut. >> mike: the first singing astronaut in space making music, but now what, studies have shown that people who study music do better in the very skills they're needing, like math ap science, so, we'll see if he's on the launch pad. thank you very much. and we have folks in the audience, we have his mother, and other parents of the students and think it might be nice, tora, let me ask you this question, how much has this meant to see your son involved in the music program, as a mom, in terms of the discipline and just his having something to do? >> it means a lot because in the environment that we live in, i need somewhere for my son to go and then in the process of that he's learning something new.
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i want to see him strive for more. with him being valedictorian of his school, i'm so proud of him. >> mike: well, you ought to be. [applause] >> he's the valedictorian and music has not taken from his academic study, it's given to him and i think that's evident by the accomplishments he has. peter, let me ask you, your son is back here on the drum and you've got to be proud to see him play so well. by the way we could use him in the little rockers, some day. tell me about, have you encouraged him to play? is that something that you did as a child? did you ask him or he picked this up on his own? >> well, he followed behind me in church when he was little, he used to sit in the seat with his mother and used to just watch me play. so, when he got old enough a little bitty bought him a set of drums and he started from there. so, you know, he's moving to the drums, his drums, and he's
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moving to the guitar and the keyboard. he's doing something that i wish i could do, play more than one instrument. >> mike: well, joe, when we're hearing this, this is exciting for me. you and i have been talking for a long time what can we do to get more kid involved like this in music? we've been getting a guitar sign, we've got about 35 signatures and i want to show this guitar to you, joe, et cetera got the signatures of willie nelson. we've got american idols, chris allen, ray price, bobice, steven curtis chapman, neil is a dabbinga. we're going to put it on ebay, every dime that comes from the proceed will go into the hands of the foundation and the fund and it's all tax deductible and we hope it's going to be thousands of dollars. people can donate who want to play as well. joe, i want to present this
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guitar to you and we want, want to play fund, to put music in the hands of kids. >> thanks, governor. [applause]. >> mike: . >> and as you said today, some of kids may be mew significants, astronauts, whatever they choose, music will set a foundation for their life and we're trying to let every student reach their potential and how they do it, through music and after kicking off the want to play fund in such grand style and thanks, guys, you're inspiring to all of us and hoping to accomplish across the country. thank you. >> mike: i want to say thank you to all our partners here, mike huckabee.com and if you'll go there, find the links to bid on the guitar, as well as make a taxable contribution. i get zero compensation, my compensation is watching youngsters like this get to play and when they get to be an old cottager like me they'll still
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be playing and having fun. speaking of having fun, the amazing meantist creskin how he thinks he could be a help to the president and vice-president of the united states. we will be right back. ♪ . we will be right back. we will be right back. [ applause ] i drove my first car from my parent's home in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. i'll never forget. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel efficiency by up to 80%.
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>> from america's news headquarters, hello everyone, i'm julie banderas, an escaped insane killer on the run since thursday has been recaptured in south central washington state. he was caught apparently trying to hitch a ride in golden dale. 47-year-old phillip arnold paul disappeared during a trip to a county fair with other mental institution patients. he had been committed after the 1987 murder of an elderly woman. three terror suspects will make their first court appearances tomorrow. fbi agents arrested zazi and his
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this guy should be vice-president to work for the administration and you've got an idea for them don't you. >> because of the show, three times, asked do i want to run for office and my position states as it is now, i refuse to become involved in politics, greater respect for organized crime. i want to say something. >> mike: okay. >> i love talking to you because there's a genuine communication feeling, a song was haunting me for months now, it's an old song when my mother was around, my mother in '96, a song some of you will recognize because it makes me think of certain wrdz in it how we can apply it to congress. i'm just going to play 30 seconds of it. ♪ >> tell me if you know what this song is. ♪
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>> now, that song has a phrase in it, governor mike, that says millions of hearts have been broken, just because these words were spoken. the three words if you can guess them, i love you. but because of months because of what's going on in the culture and people are accused of lying and because of being stupid or what have you, i thought to myself let's change the words that could be so devastating and that is vote for me. we trusted people who said vote for me. so i made a decision, i've sent a letter to the president of the united states. by the way the name of the song is dedicated to congress, the name of the song is "it's a sin to tell a lie", i sent a letter to the president, to sit in on meetings, i don't want to be
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announced governor mike, i swear to god he can trust me not to bring this public, but at the end of the meeting i can be checked under certain conditions shall, the person is lying. i'm going to share what i feel the real agenda of the people who are being involved in discussions, who is lying, who is modifying the truth. and maybe it can be of help in this day and age. >> mike: will you stay around and see if you can put that to the test with the audience ap we'll give you the trial for the job, that's what we're going to do. >> all right. >> mike: we'll be right back with the amazing creskin and we are going to find out if he can tell who is lying. [applause]. going to find out n tell who is lying. [ applause ] my doctor told me something i never knew. as we get older, our bodies become... less able to absorb calcium. he recommended citracal. it's a different kind of calcium. calcium citrate. with vitamin d... for unsurpassed absorption, to nourish your bones.
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the deliciously different way to serve up your love at mealtime. chef-inspired. dog-desired. chef michael's canine creations. (applause) >> we're back with the amazing creskin and he's going to use some of our audience members in the studio here and prove why they ought to be able to tell who is lying. you really can? >> i can't teach you, in all honesty, i can't teach to you read thoughts, but put your tape recording on, tape this segment and study it because you can learn how to tell through sound if someone is lying. governor huckabee, i want you to pick five people in the audience you don't know and who do not know each other, kind of quickly come down, if you will. >> mike: let me pick you, sir. are you willing to come? yes, ma'am. and you, sir? you, sir, would you do it? yeah, you'll pass, okay.
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ma'am, will you come? >> come down real quick. real quick. >> mike: one, two, three, four. >> hurry down. on the aisle. five folks, how are you, sir? >> very good. come on down. [applause]. . >> you, sir, over there, great to have you here. >> i don't know any of you, we've not met in any way, shape or form. governor mike will you hold this. holding the bag. listen, we're going it use this as the focal point of this test and all of you at home pay attention and by the way, if some of you have poor eyesight you're blessed, you're blessed because i read thoughts better when i can not see people clear, i take my glass off. we have five balls here and one is black, you don't know what i'm going to do. we haven't discuss this had at all. see the five balls, mix thm up. it's hard, it's all mixed up.
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what you're going to do. folks, reach and try not to rich the bag, reach to the bottom. and grab a ball and hold it in your fist, when you remove your hand you should not see what you took. i'm going to hold the bag up so i can't see what's remaining, reach in with your hand down deep in and when you take it out. have your hand in a fist. >> you don't know what you took. we don't want to see what's left. bear in mind four white balls and one black one and have it in your fist in your fist, likewise, if you see, hold it, can you see, folks, their angle. you've got it in your fist. take the bag and hand it in your hand. hold it up high shouldn't see what's in it. reach in, take what, and hand it to the last gentleman, and hold it and throw the bag down you've got your hands in a fist and none of you know what you have in your hands. from now on my back is going to be to you. i want, the governor mike, if you would stand here for just a moment.
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four or five of you look at me, when you turn around your fist in frpt of you, back to your camera and open your hand only you can see the color you have and make sure now the color and turn back and face our audience, all of you turn around now. governor mike, none of you can see, turn facing forward you must all know the color you have. governor mike, ask you to step back to the group. all of you, can, your hand are in a fist, we can't see what you have. governor mike, would you take this in your hand. listen to me, folks, i have to rely on the sound of your voice. governor mike, when i raise my hand is going to go to each of you one at a time and ask you a question and answer it honestly with one word, yes or no. >> have you ever been to the moon? >> no. >> are you a twin? >> no. >> governor. >> the same person one more time. the same person one more time. have you ever been to the moon.
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>> no the second person. >> okay, are you a twin? >> no. >> go to the third person. >> have you ever rin in a submarine under the arctic ice cap. >> no. >> next person. >> have you ever won a lottery. >> no. >> the last person. one more. >> have you ever been in a ufo? >> no. >> now, governor mike, listen to me the five of you, i can't be tapping in on something you're emotionally hiding because this is not a crime i'm at a tremendous disadvantage. if a crime or something you'd hide strongly you'd have emotional feeling. you're hold ago black marble, symbolizes the years to go in the early days when the group sat around a marble was earlied into the hands and the person who got the black marble unbeknownst to the other had to commit to lek dating the person, that's where we get the person
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black bawling. your a hold that go marble, listen to me all five of you when he asks to have the marble, answer in an innocent way, don't give yourself away, answer no and you who are not telling the truth answer is innocently so we can't tell. start with the first person. >> do you have the black marble. >> noments do you have the black marble. >> ask that person again the second time. >> do you have the black marble. >> no. >> i'll put $100 right here, $100 don't tell me, $100 he's telling the truth. go to the next person. >> do you have the black marble. >> no. >> do you have-- do you have the black marble? >> no. >> ask him again. do you have the black marble. >> no. last person. >> do you have the black marble? >> no. >> grn mike, i already know one person is telling the truth, i can eliminate four and get down to the person and i'll know who is lying, show us what you have in your hand. show us the marble, open your hand, please, there it is,
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folks. [applaus [applause] >> there you go, the amazing creskin. very quickly. folks i've got something i'm very excited about. never done this before in this way shall the odds of doing this are in the millions. this is a prediction, i've dated today and give it to governor mike with the understanding he'll never open it until the next time i see him. next week, next month, next year and it will be predicting what's going to happen on that show that day and chances are in the millions. so, governor mike i'm not going to say goodbye just to be continued. >> mike: i can't wait it get you back so i can open this envelope. [applause]. >> mike: icht the amazing creskin, everybody. obviously, we need him in congress because he would clear out a lot of the seats. i wonder if congress may be in line for a big shake-up next year? we are going to talk about it with tony perkins, don't go away we'll be right back. ack.
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>> with approval ratings for the president and congress sinking and concerns about the future of health care. will voters change during next year's mid term election. i had an opportunity to talk to tony perkins, family research council and ask him what a values voter stands for and what influence they have in politics. >> that term came to light after the 2004 election and now this from the whit polling that is done when voters come out of the booth. there are categories of questions and there's one
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category that's values and what surprised the pundits was that the leading factor in the way people cost their vote in 2004 was values and so they gave rise to the term value voters. in 2004 what was the big issue was marriage. it was on about a dozen ballots across the country so that's what really value voters are. they're concerned about values related issues and the policies. >> mike: are value voters the same thing as what used to be called the religious right? >> i don't think so, it's broader than that. the religious right may be those that vocalize and champion those issues, but it's much broader. i mean, it's 60, almost over 60% of americans think that marriage is between a man and a woman. not all of those would say that they're religious right, but they're certainly values oriented. in 2006 and 2008 value voters stayed home. what happened in 2006 and 2008 the republican party that had been seen as kind of the spokesman for the values kind of
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lost their way. if you remember, there was a number of scandals involving high profile elected officials in the republican party. there was the spending that was out of control and so they lost the confidence of the values voters and plus they backed away from those core value issues you just talked about. >> there's so many people, particularly the critics who say that republicans need to have a big tent back away from these social issues, they're a loser for the republicans and republicans need to focus on fiscal issues and forget about the social issues, or the value issues. what advice all right, let me ask you this way. is that advice good advice, bad advice, why or why not? >> let me ask you this, how many political pundits have you seen on the networks that are there to help conservatives win? >> zero. >> okay, there you go, so i don't think we should be listening, what's interesting, you start listening to the american people. especially during this last month in august when we had all of these town hall meetings, it was interesting that this was not only educational, i think,
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for the democratic party that is supporting this takeover of health care, but it was informative and educational for republicans to get back in touch with people who cared deeply about whether or not their tax dollars would go to fund abortion ins this country. they cared deeply whether or not they will be able to make choices and caring for their own family members or the government's going to make it. these are core value issues. >> mike: tony, i want to say thanks for being here today and let's continue the conversation in future months as we look at the impact of value voters on the elections coming up in 2010. great to have you here. >> always a pleasure to be here. >> mike: tony perkins, family research council in washington d.c. and for more information on the family research congresssional, go to frc action.org. well, their video press one for english has become an internet phenomena. the performers behind the song will be with us to perform their next big hit.
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>> top of the show we showed you a clip from the big youtube hit "press one for english" takes a light hearted look at laboring language in our country and they have a new tune about health care, this'll perform it and we brought in joe lamont in for drums and used fob with tommy and the two tones and josh, one of our little rockers and kay and ron from louisville, kentucky. welcome. >> thank you, thank you for having husband. >> mike: you guys were in washington last week for the rally, people love you. you've been on the entire tea party express and we're just happy to have you on the huckabee show today. >> and we're happy to be here. >> mike: i want to say you like the new strap i got. a woman from missouri made it for me. she makes it for keith richards, sheryl crow, i'm proud of it. >> i need her phone number.
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>> mike: i'll get it to you. the song is health care, the name is "a big fat no". let's do it. ♪ ♪ well universal health care, let the government control our care ♪ ♪ would seal our fate ♪ have the bureaucrats decide if we live or die ♪ ♪ scare us half to death and make us want to cry ♪ ♪ they said if you don't join they'll tax you, bro ♪ ♪ universal health care is a big fat no ♪ ♪ well universal health care is a slippery slope ♪ ♪ a single payer family, be a joke ♪ ♪ he'll no longer get to work and buy the very best ♪
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♪ no surgeries for you, just pain pills 'cause you're old ♪ ♪ hey, universal health care is a big fat no ♪ ♪ and the white house, i'll go for that ♪ ♪ no one's going to tell me how or when to pass ♪ ♪ if i live to be 95, will they say i should be euthanized ♪ ♪ now i'll admit our health care needs a little fix, but universal health care, well, that's just not it ♪ ♪ to have our health care rationed out when someone makes a call ♪ note and you won't get the treatment that you need at all ♪ ♪ well, i don't trust the government to save my soul ♪ ♪ universal health care is a big fat no ♪ ♪ universal health care is a big fat no ♪ (applause)

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