brian: suing? tomorrow is the first ever islamic day of prayer in washington, d.c., organized by a lawyer who has represented terrorists. there are two sides to this story. we'll try to give you both. our slogan comes to us from ken in fairfield, new jersey. if you want the facts and fun, watch "fox & friends," it gets the job done. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute -- www.ncicap.org -- alisyn: good morning, everybody. brian: gaddafi just finished up. so -- qaddafi just finished up. you're in for gretchen. alisyn: i am. kaddafi was supposed to speak for 15 minutes. he exceeded that. brian: he got the comedic red light. it was on in the background. i guess you couldn't see it. steve: get the hook. maybe he was still steamed they took away his tent. anyway, yesterday at the united nations he went on and on and on.

in fact, he war out a translator. meanwhile, the president of the united states was on stage there at the general assembly earlier in the day. and in the "the new york post" today the lead editorial says, "who wrote the president's speech yesterday? was it rodney king?" essentially the president's message was can't we all just get along? he also said this. and we'll talk about something important after you listen to it. >> like all of you, my responsibility is to act in the interests of my nation and my people. and i will never apologize for defending those interests. brian: and he didn't. that day. but he did talk about and got cheers from -- and it was almost surreal if you watch these u.n. addresses. the world was just applauding as he basically gave a stump speech. hey, i closed gitmo, let's hear it for me. i banned torture, which, by the way, the administration doesn't think we were torturing. by the way, i'm going to join

the human rights council and join iran on that. and i'm into quitting iraq and scrapping nukes. who's with me? steve: wait a minute. even though the president of the united states was talking about how i will not apologize for policy that protect our people, essentially he was apologizing. it was a not too subtle jab at george w. bush, where he was apologizing torture and all of that other stuff brian just mentioned. alisyn: did he say in the past he thought the u.s. acted way too unilaterally. brian: you think so? alisyn: he felt perhaps some of the other nations around the world objected to how the u.s. had been acting for basically the past eight years. but i thought him saying that i will not apologize was a direct reference to critics who said he has been on this apology tour. he used those words, i thought, very specifically. so just to remind you in the past of some of the things he said about the u.s., take a listen. >> there have been times where america showed arrogance and been ?i dismissive.

>> the united states is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. >> we have at times been disengaged and at times we sought to dictate our terms. we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes. that's how we learn. unfortunately we're faced with an uncertain threat. our government made a series of hasty decisions. in other words, we went off course. steve: ok. so there you heard the president's apology tour, as alisyn set up. and even though he was not going to apologize for defending his people, us, did it sound like he was apologizing for stuff that george bush did regarding terrorism and global warming and stuff like that? e-mail us, friends@foxnews.com. alisyn: he was saying all of you other cubt is -- countries who have been antiamerican, the time is over for you as well. steve: that was good stop complaining, help out. brian: we'll see if the world does respond. after that it was an absolute

circus at the u.n. we'll fill you in in on that. steve: just a hint. we'll talk about it. brian: it just looks like someone swelled up qaddafi. what's with that mask? steve: that's his face. brian: remember the "great planet earth?" he just looks like the character of the anti-christ. qaddafi. steve: it was his first time to talk at the u.n., so he made the best of it talking for 98 minutes. we're going to be talking very shortly -- there he is holding up some of his hand-made notes. we're going to be talking about barack obama and his many television appearances. brian: their budget deposit include a tell -- didn't include a teleprompter operator. steve: but the president still appeared. brian: right. alisyn: in the meantime, general mcchrystal, who is set to, this week, either today or tomorrow, send a request, a troop request,

to the united states for how many more people will be needed on the ground in afghanistan. well, as a result of some media reports saying that there's been a riff between mcchrystal's plan and mcchrystal's vision and what the president's new strategy may be so mcchrystal came out and forcefully this week, unequivocally, said there is no rift, i am not considering resigning. some people thought because he and the president are not on the same page that he might be resigning. he has said that that's not the case. brian: he welcomes the fierce debate. he rejected the assessment that the war recommendation had caused a riff with him and the president. but we do understand from that article -- "we should not have any ambiguities, as a nation or a coalition. at the end of the day, we are putting young people in harm's way. i believe success is achievable. i can tell you unequivocally that i have not considered resigning at all." here's the issue. bob woodward got the story and he's working on a book. he said this is so hot, i've got

to call up "the washington post" where i have a freelance arrangement and put this in the paper. the white house got word of this and said, give me a day or two to walk this back or at least plow the ground. we're not sure the intelligence that had to be taken out. but when this hit the airwaves and hit our show and everything else, there looked to be a real problem. and the president admitted it. general mcchrystal's report is not necessarily what he's going with, even though in the spring he said i'm waiting for general mcchrystal's report. steve: so this is a political hot potato for barack obama. he made it very clear when he was running for president he did not like war, in any shape or form. brian: the iraq war. but he said afghanistan was the good war. steve: it morphed into that. now suddenly the president finds himself where he's got to add a whole bunch of troops. as glenn beckon this couch a couple of days ago said, you either have to fight to win or pull them out. here is one of the top republicans reacting to president obama's challenging

afghan policy. >> if we don't come to a decision, the president doesn't dom a decision soon -- come to a decision soon, what will happen is we will miss the window of getting more troops into the theater as the spring thaw occurs when additional troops are going to be necessary. brian: we don't have the 20,000 troops that were requested when president obama first took over. they're not fully there yet. so even if general mcchrystal gets his 40,000, and it's officially released tomorrow, gets his 40,000 troops, it is going to take at least six months to get that 40,000 in there. so he hasn't signed off o on anything yet. so nothing's happened. alisyn: the troop surge, which has worked so successfully in iraq but is a totally different set of circumstances in afghanistan than in iraq, considering, i think, more sort of surgical strikes just at the taliban or al qaeda stronghold. but that is not what general mcchrystal is set to request. steve: they're going to have to hurry.

meanwhile, from afghanistan to acorn. what's the latest on acorn? well, you know, we heard last week how bertha lewis, the head of acorn was very thankful to those young filmmakers who posed as a pimp and a prostitute for exposing these bad actors, these low-level bad apples in acorn, essentially showing people how to break the law. well, now to show their gratitude to the young filmmakers, james o'keefe and hannah giles, acorn's taking them to court. particularly in baltimore. because in maryland there's a law in the books, so-called linda tripp law, where both parties two parties, have to know that they are being taped. that was not the case because only one party knew in this situation. alisyn: sure, but that would fly in the face of anybody ever being able to do surveillance swrid yo or -- video or undercover video that would expos corruption. as you know, jurmists, tv --

journalists, tv, sometimes it's the only way to get to the truth so there is question whether or not this would stand in court. maybe there's a higher principle at work which is that this has been exposed to the point where congress is now investigating, pulling funding -- steve: they're also investigating the young filming. alisyn: that is true. brian: the lawyer for acorn says, "we are blaming them for trying to destroy an organization whose principle purpose is to help poor people. not only are they looking to go after james o'keefe and hannah giles, they're also looking to go after the people who funded it." steve: here's a couple of reasons why. there's andrew breitbart right there. here's a couple of reasons why this is dumb, filing suit. number one, it gives the media good reason to continue to cover acorn and the corruption there. number two, there's this tricky, thorny legal thing called discovery which means they would have to, acorn would, open the

books, open their past misdeeds to public record. so that will be just an absolute treasure hunt for andrew breitbart. nonetheless, here is barney frank, as ali just mentioned, talking about whacking the funds for acorn. >> i think they have forfeited their right to get funds. i admired some of what they've done, but they had the sloppiness in the voter registration. they have some problems, frankly, with embezzlement with people on the staff. and then when i heard about this tolerance of using these bogus prostitution, it it became clear to me the organization is just not run well enough to get federal funds. steve: deposit barney frank have someone running a prostitution ring out of his house in the 1980's? brian: do we have footage? steve: i don't think so just curious. how about some headlines? alisyn: three suspects in that terror plot to detonate bombs across the country are heading to court this morning.

us is the us is -- the suspected ring leader will be in a courtroom for plans maybe finalized to transfer him to a federal lockup in new york. zazi's father is expected to be released on bond. authorities continue to search for other suspects. they also combed through a mini storage area on staton island looking for potential chemical agents. there's been a gruesome discovery. a census worker found hanged with the word "fed" on his chest. his body was found near a cemetery in southeastern kentucky. investigators are working to see if his death is related to his job with the census. he was a single dad who also worked as a substitute teacher. there will be no sunday service at this church in georgia. residents are getting their first glimpse today of the devastation caused bypassive flooding. it left at least 10 people dead and destroyed thousands of churches, homes, and businesses this woman fears she may have

lost everything. >> the refrigerator is floating on its back in the kitchen. the water -- we've got water marks as high up on our walls, almost to the ceiling. it's just heartbreaking. alisyn: oh, boy. residents are also understandably concerned about bacteria because it's believed the sewage plant flooded in four atlanta area counties. on a lighter note, despite a wild performance, tom delay is getting another chance to hit the dance floor. >> ♪ wild thing you make my heart sing ♪ alisyn: the hammer survived the first round of elimination last night on "dancing with the stars." the two celebrities hanging up their dancing shoes, actor ashley hamilton and singer macy gray. brian: unfair. steve: so long. brian: i cannot believe the hammer lasted. steve: it's hammer time for another week. brian: good news for spandex. he needs another outfit. steve: go blue.

straight ahead, he's denied the holocaust ever happened and wants israel wiped off the map. iranian president ahmadinejad back at it again. we get reaction to his u.n. speech coming up next. brian: plus, thousands of muslims expected to visit the capital for d.c.'s -- the capitol for d.c.'s islamic day of prayer. luke: moving my mind and my hands at world record speed. i'm luke myers. if you want to be incredible, eat incredible. announcer: eggs. incredible energy for body and mind. (guitar music)

steve: welcome back. the strongest evidence yet water exists on the moon. using data from three spacecraft scientists are confident a thin layer of water coats some parts of the moon this could result in new research, because previously it was believed there was no water up there. meanwhile, the senate finance committee is now debating hundreds of amendments on the health care bill. hundreds! 500! it could take them another three

weeks. senate republicans say they want to do a thorough job but the finance committee chair, max baucus, wants to speed up the process. ali, brian? alisyn: thanks, steve. well, iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, gave his speech before the u.n. general assembly last night but not everyone stuck around to hear what he had to say. at least 11 delegations walked out before it even began. brian: it had been a long day. the former assistant secretary of state heard the speech and said ahmadinejad looks like a hypocrite. she joins us from it our d.c. bureau. welcome, ms. secretary. in what way do you see him as a hypocrite because there are so many different ways to describe him. >> well, you know, brian -- good morning to you. as you say, the hall was quite empty. the delegates had either walked out or had had never shown up to begin with. and, you know, he used, for example, the word justice over 15 times. and justice is not something that he's given out to the

post-election protesters who have been either murdered, imprisoned or raped. he was talking about the oppression of the israelis and it sounded like he was talking about his own government. he said it's about time that we stopped portraying dictators as democrats. and you wonder if he was talking about the israelis or talking about himself. alisyn: yes, it's so true. there are some things that seemed as though he was perhaps projecting or playing to an audience back at home rather than the u.n. let's give our audience some examples of things that struck you. here's the first one. >> our nation has successfully gone through a glorious and fully democratic election. government may survive with blasphemy but never with oppression. alisyn: iran has gone through a glorious and fully democratic election? your thoughts? >> well, you know, i think that

was one of his most absurd comments ex-also said that he was entrusted -- comments. he also said that he was entrusted with the majority of the people. we know how that majority was achieved, through vote fraud. so he's either delusional or thinks that one speech at the u.n. can whitewash the stolen election and that the iranian people will forget so easily. i think he's going to be proven wrong. brian: how does he feel about enriching uranium he? talked about using it for medicinal purposes. >> he also talked about nonproliferation all over the world. he also said nuclear development must stop by all nations. but we all know that this is all rhetoric ex-just thinks that -- rhetoric. he just thinks because he showed up and gives a speech like that, that the audience going to believe in what he's saying. alisyn: thank you very much for your take. >> thanks for having me.

brenda: last last night. meanwhile, straight ahead, he's been -- we've had breaking news on the war on terror all week thanks a lot and mostly to the new york reporter. he'll be joining us next on the chilling lot to that was thankfully thwarted, we believe in new york city. alisyn: so far. a small-town honoring a fallen marine with flags. but an employee of bank of america pulled them out of the ground. a friend of the marine joins us live with how the town is fighting back.

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steve: the three suspects at the center of a massive terror probe are due back in court this morning. najibullah zazi and his father have detention hearings in denver while the third has a hearing here in new york city.

all three are charged with lying to investigators, a part of a big plot they think they've uncovered. while the president and more than 100 world leaders are here in new york city, the nypd is on high alert. alisyn: good morning, james. >> good morning, everybody. alisyn: one of the meft troubling things about this -- most troubling things is it sounds like authority think there are 24 other people still out there, not arrested, that may be connected with this what could we know about -- do we know about them? >> what we know is that the authorities really believe this time they have got an al qaeda cell that they've identified for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, believe it it or not, in had this country. so they are on, as you said, high alert. and the resources the federal government has thrown at this thing are unprecedented. it really reminds me of the millennium plot when they caught a guy sneaking across the border with al qaeda ties with liquid explosives. the chief of customs at the time

was ray kelly, now the commissioner of police in new york. so the country is on alert in terms of law enforcement and counterterrorism. they think they've got up to two dozen people under surveillance. but whether or not they're all part of a plot remains to be seen. but the investigators are really hard chargers and they're going after this full board. brian: we heard about the backpacks. you're worried about an initial report that you also covered, and that is about renting the biggest u-haul they could find. they weren't able to. what do you think they were up to and why weren't they able to? >> well, you may recall a little over a week ago when they raided those apartments in queens, when this whole thing began, they found a bunch of new backpacks and cell phones. of course, they started thinking about madrid and london and the rail bombings and worrying about something of those lines. sometime last week, i think mid-week, they seemed to discover that some of the people associated with the prime suspect in this case, azizi, the guy in denver who's probably going to be moved here to new

york today, discovered that some of his friends and associates, apparently a group of them, tried to rent a u-haul truck on september 9, a 26-footer. this is the same day that azazi was driving across the country on the eve of 9/11. of course, you see that and you start thinking immediately of oklahoma city, the 1993 world trade center bombing. you wonder what the hell are these guy going to put in the truck. maybe it was furpt, who knows? but the law enforcement looking for a establish of explosives -- a stache of explosives. steve: james, before you go, i had read one report from senior law enforcement official who said because they don't know if it has completely been disruptive this particular plot, is he has never been as terrified as he is right now regarding this. >> i've heard that from a lot of people who say, look, we've seen a lot of these things over the years and sometimes they just

turn out to be sketchy things, f.b.i. informant driven. this is a real thing, a foreign-based, they believe, plot, with al qaeda training operatives who have some expertise, people who can travel freely between here and pakistan. and you have afghans involved allegedly in this thing. azazi is an afgha after postumet brings a whole new element. brian: thank you. alisyn: coming up, a lawyer who represented terrorists is now holding the first ever islamic day of prayer on capitol hill tomorrow. is there more to this story than meets the eye? we have a fair and balanced look next. steve: and a fist pump for the dalai lama. alisyn: happy birthday to nia vardalos. turns 47 today.

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>> libyan leader muammar qaddafi. he talked forever. he talked on israel, the swine flu, the j.f.k. assassinations. where was kanye west to grab the microphone away? >> it went over 90 minutes. think he was supposed to speak for 15 minutes. as usual, he was all over the place. take a look at this. brian: that's fantastic. the best part, and it's almost a joke, when they hand him the little note. essentially we heard it said

"wrap up." forget that. kept going. steve: he went so long he wore out the translator and at one point, extraordinarily, he picked up the little thing to listen to himself to make sure that the new translator -- alisyn: the relief translator. steve: gets it right. brian: and how many times have you done this, you wear a sash and it's not tight enough and he has to keep adjusting it. does that bother you? he kept touching himself. it was like napoleon. steve: brining, you're fired. alisyn: and then back on the train to crazy town. brian: he never got off. alisyn: let's talk about what's going to happen on capitol hill tomorrow. it is the first ever islamic day of prayer. this is organized by a muslim organization in elizabeth, new jersey. it's the first ever. they say that their goal is to send a message to muslims around the world, look at american

muslim, look at the freedoms we can enjoy, look at how we can go to capitol hill and pray. they say there will be no political speeches, it will be about prayer. they say this allows skepticism and critics. steve: particularly the critics are a little horrified that the organizer of this is actually a lawyer who has defended terrorists. he's a president of the mosque in elizabeth, new jersey that ali just mentioned. apparently, let's see here -- he repped a man accused of the 1993 world trade center bombing. in 2007 he repped a cab driver in baltimore who pleaded guilty to provide material sport for a terrorist group. he was an attorney for the guy who wound up giving the fake i.d.'s to some of the 9/11 bombers. and the list goes on and on. brian: isn't that the nature of a defense attorney? they defend sometimes guilty people. don't they? don't these people go out there?

alisyn: that's what this guy who is organizing it says. he also reminds people he at one time worked as a prosecutor in union county, new jersey when he was on the other side of it. but people are concerned because it's never happened before. they do want to know -- they expect 50,000 people. that's at least what he's expecting. so what is going to happen on the capitol? and also that the other national day of prayer, for christians, had been canceled. steve: we should also point out that because this has now gotten all of this attention, this particular islamic day of prayer, there is going to be a counter event at the rayburn office building on capitol hill. it is called the stop islamisation of america. so on one side you got that. the other side you got this. brian: all right. they could have a couple hundred thousand people there. a few islamic organizations said, don't count me in,

including c.a.r., which is an acronym meaning something islamic. alisyn: thank you for that. we'll tell you more about this later. here are your headlines. an announcement could happen today on a temporary replacement for the late ted kennedy senate seat. and the governor's reportedly leaning heavily towards naming paul kirk, a long-time aide to kennedy and the chairman of the j.f.k. library foundation's board of directors. a data mining system set up by the f.b.i. to catch terrorists may soon be tracking you. newly declassified documents obtained by wire.com reveal that the data base includes tens of thousands of records from hotel chains, car rental companies, even transactions from department stores. critics say before the f.b.i. expands its mission there should be strict oversight from congress. well, he desperately tried to save his son. john travolta taking the stand at the trial of two people accused of trying to blackmail him. for first time in public the actor also admitted that his son

jett was autistic. prosecutors say the alleged scammers tried to extort $25 million from travolta. the actor will be back on the stand again today. so heartbreaking. and the dalai lama gets a rather unique welcome from the mayor of memphis. take a look. >> we also have a tradition. they say you have a sense of humor. i've always wanted to say, hello dalai. alisyn: i'm sure he's never heard that before. yes, the dal yea llama was in memphis to receive the national civil rights museum freedom award. steve: job well done. alisyn: thank you. knuckle-to-knuckle. yeah. over to brian, shall we? brian: the nba is about to get its first owner from outside the country. it is russia's richest man. he's reached a deal to buy the new jersey nets

for $200 million. he becomes a majority owner. he ltsz also gets a stake -- also gets a stake in that new arena in brooklyn if they ever crack it. evidently tall, a basketball player, and made his money selling russian metal. evidently they have a lot. check out this incredible shot. historic shot. he's being billed as the longest basketball shot in history. it's a texas a & m student. he fired the basketball from the upper deck of the football stadium right into the hoop on the field. the shot was made by students -- i don't get it. it's really from dude perfect? a group that goes around making crazy basketball shots. alisyn: are we sure this wasn't edited? i think i can make that shot. wait a minute. that does look authentic. steve: cool. brian: steve, you have an important interview coming your way. steve: right now, brian. here's president obama in his own words during his recent media blitz on almost all

channels. >> if you don't have health insurance, you're going to be able to get affordable health insurance. we're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops we're automatically going to make americans safe. the american people can't afford to stay on the current path. if it hadn't been for the stimulus, you probably would have seen an additional, say, 1.5 million to two million jobs lost. steve: since becoming president barack obama has done 124 print, broadcast and radio interviews, more than george w. bush and bill clinton combined at the same point in their presidencies. is it too much or is it the big media blitz actually working? the president of the media research center ought to know. we've called him in. he's at their world headquarters. good morning to you, brent. >> good morning, mr. dooce, how are you doing? steve: i'm doing ok. i watched president barack obama. he was on those shows except for fox.

extraordinarily. >> surprise. steve: he didn't have anything new. he kept saying the same stuff over and over that we've heard before. and you view that as a core mistake. >> well, what's settling in is obama fatigue. the man is giving the same speech over and over and over and over again. and now he has to go on five networks to find an audience, cumulative audience, because the audience just isn't there. and the audience that is listening is being turned off. you're seeing a scientific fact here. the more he speaks, the more you look at his record, at his proposals, the less you like him. that's what all the polling data is showing that. here's something interesting we found. kudos to my colleague dan gainer who found this. here is the ultimate difference between barack obama and ronald reagan. ronald reagan never used the first person singular. he always talked about the first person plural, we, we, we, we. barack obama, how many times in 41 major speeches do you think

he has used the word "i" or "me?" >> 41. >> 1,198 times. steve: wow. >> america is getting tired of this man taking credit for everything. this is the reality. steve: one of the other realities is during his barackaon this -- let me coin a new word -- he was chewing out the media for showing those people at the tea parties. >> this is shades of bill clinton. he did this several times during his presidency whenever his numbers started going down, when the media finally started focusing on anything negative, he would go on a jihad against the press and the press would back down immediately. it is amazing. it is amazing that not only did barack obama do this, but that in these interviews when they had him one-on-one, still they refused to ask him tough questions. only abc asked him about acorn.

everyone else ignored it. only nbc asked him a tepid question about health care. everyone else ignored it. only cbs asked a tepid question about missile defense. everyone else ignored it. he goes on these shows because they're softballs. and, oh, by the way, the reason he doesn't go on fox is because he's going to get a serious question or two. steve: we should point out the number of media interviews he has done. we have a graphic we can show. he said 45. bush had done seven and clinton six. so he's way ahead. brent, you just mentioned acorn. in a column you've written for mrc.org, you say that the president is starting to lie with disturbing regularity. obama's campaign aides denied he had been an acorn trainer until "the new york times" found records to prove it. >> right. in his interview on sunday with george stephanopoulos and george stephanopoulos asked him about acorn, he said, "frankly it's not something i followed closely" and then went on to say he didn't know much about the

funding that acorn gets from the federal government. now, this is the same obama speaking to them during his campaign. "i've been fighting long side acorn on the issues my entire career." you know, before he was elected official, "i ran project vote in steve: straight ahead, a fallen marine gets a hero's welcome. but an employee at bank of america pulled the flags out of the ground. the bank apologized but the town is fighting back. a friend of the marine joins us next to explain.

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done. steve: we are joined by a close friend of the fallen hero's family. good morning to you, linley. >> good morning. steve: you went on your face dg book. before you knew it, you had 4,000 flags being distributed throughout gaffney, south carolina. you wanted to give this young man a hero's welcome home before his burial. what was the reaction when you heard, what do you mean the bank of america has received all of that bailout money? what do you mean bank of america has jerked those flags out of the ground because one person thought it was against company policy? >> i think everyone involved found it very disappointing that a local business, for starters, and even a national company, would not honor a true american hero and fly our flag proudly, particularly considering that they were just the recipients of a great deal of bailout money.

brian: that's a great point. and it is called bank of america. america. and they did get the bailout money. and on top of that, they just said it might offend people to put the flag out there. now, this woman that told you that, she quickly had that policy reversed by somebody else. are you over it? do you accept the apology? >> i do accept the apology, but i'm not the person that needs to be apologized to. well, as an american, i guess i am and all of america. but particularly the fowlkes' family. i think if this employee acted on her own, she needs to take responsibility and make an apology herself. if she was upholding the policy of the bank of america, they need to stand behind this employee and understand maybe they're getting a taste of their own medicine, having the repercussions of one person's mistake and they're paying the price of it. the american taxpayers are feeling right now, as we are

footing the bill for the bailout. steve: i know the county pulled their money out and a bunch of individuals have pulled their money out of that particular bank. of course, it was all to salute this young man. tell us about lance corporal. >> he was a great all-american young man. i don't know that ever saw him without a smile on his face. he had a great attitude. you mentioned facebook. i watched him countdown the days until his deployment. when his deployment was postponed, he was very disappointed. he was doing what he wanted to do in serving our country. we are very proud of him and thankful to all of our troops. brian: and you're doing great work getting his name out. thanks so much. >> thank you. brian: before he pitched his tent on donald trump's property he tried the same thing in the bronx but was outsmarted by our next guest. steve: and he is the president's safe school czar. critics say he's the wrong guy for the job.

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alisyn: you remember his home whoas. he tried to stay in ingle wood, new jersey they didn't want him. then in new york city. then tent city in bedford, new york. that didn't work out. the libyan leader tried to rent two mansions in the brongs, new york. one lawyer put a stop to that as well. brian: he is with us. john fitzgerald. he killed the deal forcing kadafi to stay at the libyan mission. 50,000 bucks was coming your way. they wanted it right away. who did your potential client say they were when they called? >> they said they were a

delegates from we lancaster can -- vir lancaster canalan can a. >> what made you think it was fishy. >> they wanted to move in within 24 hours. we needed to get some documents signed. and we needed to put names on documents. and when we asked for that, they wanted to rent the premises in their agent's name. we said we are dealing with a sovereign government here. we need to know the name of the sovereign government and guarantee the sovereign government. then it shifted from being the sri lankan government from people to the mideast. they would not identify where in the mideast. so we said we needed names of people who were going to occupy the premises and then finally they said they were from libya. brian: then what did you say. >> that was the end of the conversation. >> what did they say? >> they tried to keep it going.

they said, look. a number of things. they said we don't have big parties. they did say they had wanted a tent, which -- but we didn't think much of that. they said they weren't loud. they have did no drinking. there wouldn't be a lot of cars. then they were starting to offer more money, too. alisyn: you stood to gain a lot of money. $50,000 was the beginning offer for these two places. it was going to go up from there. were you tempted. >> not as soon as we knew who they were. not at that time. brian: great thing that you did. attorney with fitzgerald and fitzgerald. thank you for sharing your story. after 40 years the libyan president comes over here and he is having a hard time finding residence. thanks, john. >> thank you. alisyn: iranian president ahmadinejad upset so many people during his address that they walked out. we will bring you some of the highlights and low lights from his and libyan leader can a kadafi's speeches.

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zyrtec® works fast, so i can love the air™. alisyn: thursday, september 24. libyan leader moammar kadafi throwing the book at the u.n. calling president obama his son and making other ludacris statements. >> there is no regard to the general assembly which they should not be called the security council. they should be called the terror counsel. alisyn: that's a way to ingrate united states yourself. more of kadafi's gems coming up. brian: he is the president's safe school czar. he has a history of drug use. is he the right guy to talk to kids? you will decide that. steve: move over michael flatly the river dancing dog is taking

center stage. more fancy foot work coming up. crazy. meanwhile, our slogan this hour comes from judy in buford, south carolina. monday through friday from 6 to 9, "fox & friends" is never outshined. thanks, judy. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> you are watching "fox & friends," and i apologize for it. steve: thank you very much king of cable bill o'reilly. brian: he apologized before he knew you were filling in for gretchen. you are filling in today. i have the responsibility of the twitter account. i will handle it. i know how to work mine but not the responsibility to manage the show's. steve: you can email. brian: does that still work? steve: we do not answer all of them but we do read them all.

this is the news channel. alisyn: president obama is heading back to the united nations for historic event. he will chair security council meeting this morning where he is expected to ask nuclear nations to disarm. this is the first time the u.s. president is hosting a security council summit since the panel was established. later, mr. obama heads for the g-20 summit in pittsburgh where security is already in place to deal with protesters like green peace that hung this banner warning of climate destruction. the top american commander in afghanistan insists there is no rift between him and president obama over the declining state of the war there. general stanley mcchrystal also says unequivocally that he will not resign. this comes as mcchrystal prepares to send a report to the president on troop presence in afghanistan. he is expected to ask for about 40,000 additional troops there. senate democrats vote against keeping a plan in place to allow oil and gas drilling along the

atlantic and pacific coast. the bush administration put the policy in place. soaring gasoline prices last year had many calling for new offshore drilling sites, you will remember. well, a major break through in the fight against aids. for the first time ever an experiment tall vaccine has reduced the risk of becoming infected by h.i.v. by 31%. the u.s. army and conducted the world's largest vaccine trial on 30,000 volunteers in thailand. a quick-thinking teen saved a 3-year-old girl stuck in this car and sinking in water and mud. look at that car. her mom's car had a tire blow out and it crashed into a ditch. todd saw it all happen and ran to the rescue. he got the toddler out of her car seat and immediately gave her cpr. >> it was a big relief. it was really nice to see that she was -- there was hope and then she started to do a little bit of her own breathing. >> i believe that the lord's

hand helped him get that car door open to get that baby out. so, i know that they have a reason. alisyn: he learned basic life skilling skills in the boy scouts and the little girl is doing very well this morning. what a hero that teenager is. brush up on your cpr skills, everybody. steve: absolutely. brian: i'm not sure what the format showed but after president obama gave a 30-plus minute speech in a 15-minute time spot he went to the chair. i thought oh my goodness. my run down says moammar kadafi is next. is the president going to be sitting right there and then he got up and maybe was intentional you sit down in the cooling area and then you go out. he left. so did maybe half the congregation. at which time moammar kadafi made his way up to the podium. within a matter of five seconds his pages were out of order he had nowhere to start. little did i know they were probably all blank anyway. steve: the "new york times" on

the cover has a picture of the podium. can you see moammar kadafi's notes. it's all hand scribbled and looks like a napkin from the airport or something. a whole bunch of stuff going on here. he went for 98 minutes. let me tell you something. when you look at the cover of the new york daily news today. mad men talks about kadafi and ahmadinejad, mad men. another circus at the u.n. as the crazy twins take the podium. listen to the crazy stuff that moammar kadafi said yesterday at the united nations. >> all of you are tired, having jet lag, suffering from jet lag. perhaps this is why this may be one of those viruses that was out of control because it was meant as a military weapon. the assassination of the killing

of kennedy in '63 or '62. the president of the united states of america why? we want to know who killed him? somebody who by the name of lee harvey and then another jack ruby killed lee harvey. why did he kill him? alisyn: he is covering all bases there. the thing about jet lag he was saying, we shouldn't have the u.n. here in the united states because we all get jet lag. brian: he did thank us. he thanked us for having the u.n. here but time to get it moved. could it be that that you are so boring and droning on. steve: let's do move the united nations out of here. we pay too much for it anyway. we have been saying that on this show. alisyn: you agree with kadafi. very interesting, steve. i didn't know you were going to reveal it. brian: he wants president obama president for life who he called his son. alisyn: that is not what the president needs.

you don't need to have kadafi embracing you in his strange rant. steve: the reason he said our son, barack obama, was the fact that he is honoring his kenian roots. because kadafi is from africa so he felt sympathetic co. i will tell you what, the canadian delegates they thought this is nuts, we are not going to stand here and listen to this junk. here is lawrence cannon from the canadian delegates last night on the greta van susteren show. >> the outrageous statements by iran's presidents denying, of course, the holocaust casting terrible aspersions against the state of israel rights. as we have seen israel, we have seen iran over the course of the last several years, complete disregard for united nations security council resolutions. pro. ed us quite clearly not to be in the same room as the iranians. while the president was making

his speech. steve: who can blame him. 11 delegates walked out for ahmadinejad. alisyn: we should just say that while we are all laughing about kadafi because he spouts some silly things. if you are a family member of the lockerbie crash, you didn't think anything was funny about that rant. brian: first time he has been here in 40 years. seven minutes after the hour. acorn story keeps on. somewhere in america akon would have his shirt off sweating. acorn, you know they are having problems. we thought one of the headlines we would be talking about. unfolding story with acorn that exists in that organization since 1970. the census has decided to cut ties and stop using them in terms of -- cut ties with them. on top of that the irs has decided to cut ties with them. the acorn is not so much in

retreat anymore. they have gone on the offensive. suing the two film makers james o'keefe, hanna giles and even andrew breitbart for, they are blaming them for trying to destroy an organization whose principle purpose is to help poor people. steve: acorn in their lawsuit, what they're doing they are saying hey, in maryland, if you tape somebody both parties have to know. the person who is taping and the person being taped. that didn't happen. it's the so-called linda trip rule. by going after them now, what acorn is doing, essentially it, looks like they are trying to punish people who exposed public corruption. right? barney frank was bill on o'reilly last night and talked about this very case. >> may have violated maryland law. even if people are doing something good, you shouldn't violate the law. bill. >> it's complicated that's why i can't tell you the answer. bill: in spirit, don't you admire them in spirit. >> bill, can i finish talking

about a complicated case up. bill: it's such an easy question. >> you tell me no it's not an easy question. i admire. i do get to answer the question? bill: well, nobody cares about the maryland wiretap law. >> i'm sorry,. bill: in spirit. >> what an outrageous statement for you to make. no one cares about the maryland law. i do care about the law. bill: you are eccentric there, congressman with all due respect. brian: wow. needs some therapy. alisyn: barney frank wants to investigate everybody. investigate acorn and the filmmakers who exposed what acorn was doing. steve: keep in mind had they not done that investigation and taped that stuff in baltimore and across the country, acorn would still be doing what they were doing. brian: by the way, more tapes coming out on big government.com. probably see them here. 10 minutes after the hour. of the senate finance committee will be back debating the health care bill and will be happening this morning. hundreds of amendments to go over.

joining us now from washington is caroline shively. caroline, what part of the bill is causing so much disagreement on capitol hill? >> the biggest fight so far, brian, is where to squeeze the money out to pay for it the baucus bill costs 900 billion over five years. 500 billion is pulled out of medicare. democrats say it's done through eliminating waste. republicans said you can't cut that much money out and not hurt seniors. the committee is back at it again this morning from 2.5 hours from now. they have hundreds of amendments to plow through. steve: at one point, didn't somebody say hey, can't we have a day or two to read this thing? and some of the democrats said, no, time's up. >> yeah. not trying to get too far out in the weeds on this, steve. republicans also put up an amendment that would publish the health care reform bill and its costs before a vote. it sounds pretty simple but democrats killed this idea. it would have required that the committee receive both the legislative language and the

final congressional budget office cost and analysis of the bill three days before a vote. usually written -- but the cbo says without that legislative language you don't know full costs. democrats complained it would cause a two to three week delay. olympia snow said to that so what? take a listen to her in committee yesterday. >> the american people are rightfully entitled to see exactly what we are doing, what we are legislating. we should not be afraid of having a better and complete understanding of exactly what we are doing. >> and snow was not happy after that vote. that's a problem for baucus. because, as of now, she is looking like the only republican who might vote for this bill, steve. steve: caroline shively, thank you very much. giving people a chance to read it not a bad thing. alisyn: that really should -- meanwhile, terror plot to bomb sites across the country. frank gaffney the former secretary of defense explains

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queens and all the boroughs of new york and find the materials that would have been used in a bomb plot in new york city and other cities, you think we should look even bigger than that. why, frank? >> well, what we have discovered so far and it is important to emphasize that we have only uncovered a piece of this. we only have a couple of suspects in custody. the rest are at large. there may be many more beyond the ones we are aware of that are involved. the problem that i see here is that we are preoccupied and understandably so with the links to al qaeda of these co-con spirits. and coconspirators. what al qaeda and others that share its ambitions have in common is something that is much bigger and i think ought to be the focus of our concern. that's what authoritative islam calls sharia. these guys waging violence violent or stealthy kind are

idea sharia calls for which is to destroy the infidels and impose islamic world order under sharia on all of us. that's really the problem. that's where should lead us into other cells, other plots, and other plotters much beyond this one. brian: sharia law you think basically is the outline for extremist islamic action. >> right. brian: if you want to find out who could be perpetrating a terror act here, shouldn't you be looking for those training in places like pakistan in those terror camps in waziristan? that's where the next attack will come, do you agree? >> let me be clear. it is not just a legal code it is a program it is now life should be lived all the way up to how the world should be run. where you are going to find, i think, the next cells, the next operatives is not necessarily in some training camp in pakistan

or in a cave in afghanistan. it may be in a mosque in america where the same basic program is being espoused and advocated and, by the way, being advanced not just by people. notably the muslim brotherhood brotherhood -- they are seeking to bring about this same global calafate through these sort of so-called peaceful or, i would say, stealthy means. you have got to look at all of these and we have not done that, not as a government, not as a nation. and, unless and until we do brian, i think we are going to miss the forest for the trees and more likely end up getting badly hurt. brian: hopefully investigators are doing that in the debriefing they are giving these guys and others now. thank you. >> thank you, brian. brian: impress me with the tease. alisyn: i will try. did president obama put israel on the diplomatic chopping block in his u.n. address? we'll tell you what he said and then you can report. sorry, we'll report. you decide. that's next.

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cost me. what's different about her? well, she is homeless. and if you would like to have her hair styled. that will cost you $20. how life like. people? steve: thank you very much. the american girl dolls. meanwhile did president obama put israel on the diplomatic chopping block during his speech yesterday at the united nations? listen to this. >> we continue to call on palestinianians to end incitement against israel. we continue to emphasize that america does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlements. alisyn: joining us malcolm honeline. thanks for being here. >> pleasure. alisyn: it was the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton who says that with that statement about the settlements not being legitimate that the president has put israel on the chopping block. did you agree? >> i don't think he put them on the chopping block, necessarily. i think this emphasis on settlements is disproportionate.

the disadvantage that he creates is that the arabs take advantage i'm not going to negotiate while natural growth goes on. there are no new settlements being built. is he prepared to have a freeze and some sort of moratorium. when you elevate it to this status to take advantage of it to say we are not going to negotiate under these conditions. steve: malkin, as you look at the arc of the president's comments on president's comments on palestinian, he has changed his tune. he was putting all the pressure on you guys, seemingly. now he is pushing both sides. >> he did, i think, initially the tenor and tone of the comment about israel and the statements even when senator mitchell went and others it, certainly has changed dramatically. they learned a lesson that other presidents have learned. you can't just put the pressure on your closest friend and believe you are going to get peace. the other side will move further away expecting america to deliver israel on a silver platter. steve: why was he pushing israel

so hard in the beginning. >> i think he pushed the israeli side because he wanted to have movement. the palestinians couldn't deliver and don't deliver and haven't proven yet to be a partner for peace. they are so divided internally. in fact ba's it's because of aid israel has given. economy has taken being many measures. israel has prooch it wants peace. the other side of wants steps. alisyn: in that case are you comfortable with the about the taking that tact of balance? he was saying palestinians you need to do this and israel you need to do this. if the palestinians are not being partner in peace. should he have harder rhetoric toward them? >> he put markers down for the first time and especially doing it at the u.n. stop the one-sided slams against israel. member states and the u.n. rights counsel elsewhere. he put down important markers. the danger you always have is that you create a moral equivalence and you sort of balance everything one against the other. whether you have a partner that's prepared to make steps,

that's ready to do and there are limits to what a government of israel can do as well. steve: sure. malcolm, we thank you very much for your perspective and analysis. >> my pleasure. alisyn: he is the president's safe school czar. it boils down to drugs and religion. we report. you decide. steve: dirty little secrets some restaurants don't want you to know like they reuse the salsa chips? what else is on the menu? this is decaf, right? oh sure, sir. 3:00 in the morning. got to get that waitress's number. luke: moving my mind and my hands at world record speed. i'm luke myers. if you want to be incredible, eat incredible. announcer: eggs. incredible energy for body and mind. (guitar music)

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brian: your morning shot of the day. this dog has a special talent. are you getting it? she can river dance. yes. the dog has become internet sensation. can i say i'm impressed with her irish dancing moves. >> she is no irish setter. steve: that is some fancy foot work. very nicely done. brian: is that really happening or v. we been duped? steve: that's a real dancing dog dog. alisyn: anything is possible with new editing systems. i have seen it before. >> we have been talking here at fox because nobody is talking about who exactly are these

czars? who have been appointed by to various high jobs. let's take a look at a fellow named kevin jenkins, the president's director of the office of safe and drug-free schools. and there are some who are questioning whether or not this guy is who should have a job given his history. alisyn: he wrote a memoir in which he talked about his own past drug use. i think there are two sides to this point if somebody has had experience with drugs they are very qualified to talk about the perils of it the downside, of course, is if they somehow glorify it and romanticize it. in his memoir he doesn't disavow it. you can go to the airport when you are really stoned and watch the planes take off and it's really quite fascinating when you are drunk and stoned. he is not talking about the potholes associated with this.

steve: you point out his memoir. i think the memoir came out in 2007. it's a relatively recent recounting of his life growing up as a young man in hawaii doing a lot of drugs. sufnedly that sounds like another memoir. none the less, he express nod regret. people are going well, he had the chance two years ago to regret -- to put that down on paper. but he did not. brian: the safe school czar position was actually from george bush's administration in 2002. president bush said we need something like this. maybe this wasn't the resume he would get. promoted homosexuality in schools. details a report on how he did not report an incident with an underaged student who had sex with an older man and also has expressed contempt for religion. so, as you expand the resume, it might not be the perfect candidate. alisyn: the reason he was chosen was because he has a long-time record of working to end bullying and discrimination against gay students.

he had that credential. brian: so he is against bullying? steve: apparently very successful at that only half the job revolves around that the other half is about usage of drugs in school and given his past, is he the guy for the job? of course, there was no senate vetting. he didn't go through the senate meat grinder. so we haven't heard him actually testify about his past. brian: 26 minutes before the top of the hour. georgia residents getting a first look at the damage after massive flooding that left 10 people dead, imagine this being your home with water all the way up to the middle of the garage. -- unrecognizable. >> when i opened the side door, it was like muddy tornado had gone through my entire office. alisyn: many residents are also

concerned about bacteria. four sewage treatment plants are believed to have flooded. steve: meanwhile, a raging wildfire. once again today caused by combustible manure. remember the methane gas being fueled by such winds right now, firefighters do not expect to contain the fire until at least saturday. authorities have asked families from 2200 homes to get out. but cannot say how many people actually left. many stand by with garden hoses defending their houses. 900 firefighters and 18 air tankers are working at this hour to push back the flames. thankfully no serious injuries. brian: if they get their money back it would be a miracle. it's extremely unlikely every single cent will be paid back. we know good news. some money has already been paid back, steve.

>> are you thinking about getting a seasonal flu shot this year? i got one. ali got one. you may want to roll up your sleeve. researchers say standard shots were twice as effective against the winter flu as that newer stuff you squeeze up your nose, the nasal spray. if you want the shot, you better move fast. health officials in texas set up a drive-thru clinic to administer the vac seen. they began the day with 1500 doses but were forced to bring in more supplies after running out by midmorning. people want the shot. alisyn: we have an i couldn't tell date on that horrible case at yavment new haven, connecticut police went back into a research lab finding new evidence in the murder of grad student annie le. news came on the same day that friends and family were gathering at a memorial on new york's long island to remember the 24-year-old. 300 people attended the service held at the synagogue of le's fiance. her funeral is set for saturday near her hometown in california.

brian: ali, a colorado family gets quite a shock as they wake up in the middle of the night to hear a large elk thrashing around their pool. the elk had wandered into the yard and walked on to the pool cover and fell in. >> i could see he was having a lot of trouble keeping his nose above water at that point. >> usually afraid of people but this time he just wanted the most help he could get. brian bryant family nudged the elk to the shallow end of the pool where he walked out on his own. well, it's a happy ending to a story. how many times does this happen now a restaurant. maybe it did. maybe it didn't. steve, tell me some dirty little secrets. steve: that's right. brian, a web site called slash food.com. put together things some restaurants do because times are tough and they are trying to save money. a number of sports bars, when you order beer, what they will do is start to fill it up and

then rather than using really expensive beer they just top it off with seltzer because it's cheaper than beer. the more beer you drink the more seltzer they put in. alisyn: i have long suspected they do. this get a bowl of chips in mexican restaurant. do these chips go in the garbage? no. have you got to be kidding me. they go back to the next new incoming table. here you go. of course they do. you don't want to throw away perfectly good chips. somebody at slash food was looking through the chips and they found some pineapple rindz. >> what's this? >> is your chapstick in here? >> i was looking for that. also. if you saw the movie slumdog millionaire, one of the most searing images is of those kids in the back room who were taking super glue and gluing the lids back on to bottled water.

according to slash food.com. apparently a number of restaurants where especially a lot of restaurants here in new york city they will say would you like water? >> bottled water. >> flat or carbonated which means you have got to buy the water. i would say tap because i'm a cheapskate. as it turns out they say that a number of restaurants actually take, for instance, a bottle of water, and once it has been sold, they will take the empty bottle and then take it in the back and fill it up. alisyn: with tap water and reglue the top of it. here is something that i believe happened to me yesterday. i always ask for decaf. i always am a little skeptical are they really serving me decaf? it's important that i have decaf. here is what happened yesterday. the guy comes by and said here is your decaf. i see him hit the next table down the road. coffee? coffee? coffee? is he lying to me or him. they claim it's decaf. it's not.

steve: one story where apparently somebody was working in a restaurant. where witnessed this very thing. the waiter brought back a cup of coffee and said the person says this has got to be decaf but apparently it is not decaf. so the person in the kitchen takes it and says ok hands it right back and says ok now it's decaf. so you really do have to be careful. because that happens to me all the time. one other thing, they tell a story about how at one restaurant, apparently one of the first chores of the day is to take the cheap nondairy creamer, dry stuff, mix up a great big vat of it and then in the little creamer bowl, what they would do is fill it about half way up with the cheap powdered stuff and then on top of that they would top it off with real milk. let's face it, some people because times are tough are trying to make their restaurant dollars stretch a little further. alisyn: that's nice of to you

say. i had worked in restaurants many, many years. it's not just times are tough. sometimes you are -- i'm sorry, you want this to be decaf. there you go. add a little water. decaf. steve: if you have got a story about something weird at a restaurant email us at friends@foxnews.com. alisyn: trying to silence health provider humana because it disagrees with the administration. peter johnson jr. is here with his prescription for truth next. steve: first the aflac trivia question of the day. when this shoe store added aflac to its employee benefits package no direct cost the company...

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brian: all right. we told you first about the shocking story and we told you on wednesday the government ordering an investigation of humana. one of the largest private insurance companies all because the company sent senior citizen as letter explaining how their benefits would be cut under the president's proposed health care reform plan. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell furious. >> this gag order, mr. president, this gag order now applies to all medicare advantage providers. shut up, the government says. brian: peter johnson jr. is here with the prescription for truth. specifically, are you allowed to do that, peter? >> no. you are not allowed to do that. brian: a violation of one of those amendments we worked so hard to acquire? >> the first amendment. what they are saying, the government is saying is, you know, you don't have a right

under our contract with you to send this kind of information out. and, as i said, i looked at it, everything they said was pretty objective and was absolutely truthful. and what we're seeing now, i believe, in terms of the discussions on the baucus bill in the senate finance committee is that we have not a health reform act but a medicare reduction act. our health reforms being financed by taking money, literally, out of the pocket of seniors and saying, listen, i'm going to take your dollar, 70-year-old senior citizen, i'm going to take this dollar, too, that you had in health care. i'm going to give it to you, brian. you take it. you take these dollars. you don't need these, older american. we are going to fund what we say is 40 million americans based on the $2 we are taking away from you. and a lot of these senators on the republican side, based on the 500 or so amendments that

they put into this bill are very upset about it. brian: first off, you have two kids. don't be giving away any money. >> thank you pretty much. brian: they are starting to hammer this out. it's no longer senator baucus sitting by himself saying this is the plan i came up with. they are starting to work it out. we are finding things about medicare advantage that could really be upsetting. >> medicare 10 million people under the baucus proposal cut to 125 million. under the president's plan about 175 million. but what's interesting about this humana letter that's on the internet is senator baucus complained publicly about humana in sending this notice out to its subscribers. now, he complained publicly, who acted on it? his former aide at medicare, then who is head of regulation at medicare. he is the guy that acted on it. so baucus makes a political partisan squawk to his former aide at medicare who is also a

member of the obama transition team on health care. and then they shut down the humana discussion about what is going to happen with medicare advantage. it's kind of very disturbing thing. but that's the state of where we are. this has become extremely partisan. this has become extremely, hardly debated. brian: but senator olympia snowe word is from her actions and her tone is she could be going to the democratic side. that's significant. >> they are pushing senator snow big time to push over to the democratic reform plan. but, on the other side of the equation, senator nelson of florida, former insurance commissioner, a democrat, is trying to protect some of the people in florida who have medicare advantage. he said hundreds of thousands, if not millions of floridians will be affected by these dramatic cuts in medicare advantage. brian: thanks for the prescription, peter. thanks for satisfying us, again. let's go to steve to tell us

what's coming up next. steve? steve: thank you brian and peter johnson. biden vs. clinton. want to know who helped president obama to go with joe? the answer and other juicy secrets revealed coming up next. first on this date back in 1789, congress passes the judiciary act, officially establishing the supreme court. on this date back in 1908, the first model t was known as the tin lizzy. number one song in 1983 billy joel's "tell her about it." ♪ . .

>> the kflac answer is mean joe green. melinda kicked off the g-20. coincidence? yes. they are the world's most famous couple right now. but now we're learning new details about the obama's marriage. >> christopher anderson, the author of the book about barack obama. you have written three books on presidential marriages, the clintons, kennedys and bush family, but you say the obamas are different. how so? >> there is always strain in a marriage and hostility in the the case of the clintons. not so this time. there is not a sense of competition or rivalry. one person doesn't feel smothered or eclipsed by the other person. that makes for a strong relationship. people don't realize michelle has always been a full partner in this to the extent of making important decisions sort of for the president, really. >> in fact, we've got a

15-second sound bite, chris, to set up the next point. here is obama from the campaign. listen to this. it will be familiar. >> yes, we can to opportunity and prosperity. yes, we can heal this nation. yes, we can repair this world. yes, we can! >> so during the campaign he used the slogan effectively, "yes he can," but when axelrod came to him and said, we will use the slogan "yes, we can," who got him to use it? >> michelle. watch his speaking style. he is famous for it. he was, as people who knew him in his political career, a lousy speaker. michelle whipped him into shape and said look at jesse jackson and jeramiah wright.

get fire in your belly when you are talking to them. it is funny she shaped him as a politician. alysin: another major decision michelle was behind was who was going to be vice president. hillary clinton was in the running. you say in the book, michelle said, do you want bill and hillary just down the hall from you in the white house. could you live with that? what did you hear about this? >> it was interesting. she had the inside track at one point and he was -- there was an idea of having biden become secretary of state, which joe biden talked about and putting hillary clinton in the presidential spot. it was michelle who said, can you live with them down the hall. michelle has always weighed in. he said, she's my chief counsel and advisor and i ask on all major decisions. >> for a while, she was really

angry at him because she was putting his job ahead of of their marriage. >> it it happens a lot. a woman gives everything up to take this on. ironically, she made the decision, when he decided to run for the u.s. senate, she said, i can't rely on him to make me happy. i have to do stuff for myself. she changed. alysin: interesting. "barack obama and michelle." >> straight ahead, another symbol of america's weakness. the president's speech was another leg on the apology tour. we're going to show you a sound bite or two and let you decide as we report. alysin: they're tough as nails, but have hearts of gold. meet the crusaders out to rescue dogs and keep bad owners in check. >> uh-huh. >> far away from dog fighting. ( folk music playing )

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it is thursday, september 24th, 2009. thanks for joining us. we start with fox news alert. three terror suspects due in court this morning accused in a plot to blowup sites across this country. but are we suffering from a pre-9/11 mentality? michelle malcolm weighs in on that. >> is president obama displaying more weakness? >> those who used to chastise america for acting alone cannot stand by and wait for america to solve the world's problems alone. >> critics say the president's speech was another leg on his apology tour. you decide on that. alysin: and a woman implanted with the wrong embryo. his it gotten out of control? a doctor says he will no longer perform the procedure. our slogan this hour is from david in wilmington, north carolina: as i awake in had the morning, the other networks are boring and i turn to "fox and friends" and my day begins.

thanks. >> hi, this is kid rock, you are watching "fox and friends." >> the question is kid rock watching now? is >> why wouldn't he be? >> rush limbaugh. >> we are sweating while doing this. >> they usually sweat us out in the control room. rush is working out with us and hopefully we can teach him something. >> i think a lot of people watch in the morning. >> at the gym, i hear you join me at the gym. i am glad one of us is working. >> alisyn is here today. gretch is off. >> the top commander insists there is no debate over him and president obama over the war there. general stanley mcchrystal is also saying he will not resign. mcchrystal is preparing to officially send a report to the president on troop presence in afghanistan and he's expected to ask for about 40,000 additional

troops. >> well, acorn is suing two young filmmakers that made the camera of acorn employees giving advice on how to run a brothel. acorn claims the video was obtained illegally. meanwhile, the i.r.s. becomes the latest agency to cut ties with acorn. acorn has been helping the i.r.s. with volunteer tax assistance program. >> are you thinking about getting a flu shot? roll up your sleeve, the shots are twice as effective against the winter flu as the newer nasal spray. you better move fast, health officials in texas set up a drive-thru clinic to administer the vaccine and began with 1500 doses, but were forced to bring in more supplies after running out by mid-morning. >> there will be no sunday service at this church in georgia. residents are getting their first glimpse of the devastation caused by massive flooding. it it left at least 10 people

dead and destroyed thousands of churches, homes and businesses. this woman fears that she lost everything. >> the refrigerator was floating on its back in the kitchen. the water, we've got water marks as high up on the walls almost to the ceiling. it's just heartbreaking. >> residents are also concern body bacteria because it is believed sewage plants flooded in four atlanta area counties. well, despite a wild performance, tom delay delis getting another chance to hit the dance floor. ♪ >> that is right, the hammer survived the first round of elimination last night on "dancing with the stars," but two celebrities will hangup their dance shoes. >> fantastic. >> i think so. >> i'm shocked. i never thought he'd survive.

>> i was shocked to see him in it it and survive this long. >> christopher anderson, who has written "barack and michelle," had a tid-bit he didn't talk about. after the president candidate would give a big speech and people would yell, "yes, we can," by the message and he would say when he walked off stage, "they're drinking the juice," like they are a take-off on the kool-aid quote. >> oh, boy. that is a story. speaking of speeches, president obama showing tough love to the nations of the world and standing up for america, you decide. >> like all of you, my responsibility is to act in the interest of my nation and my people. i will never apologize for defending those interests. >> so he won't apologize. michelle malcolm joins us from the rocky mountains. michelle, you think he put that

in there because he's been accused, by people like you, when he goes out on the world's stage of being on an "apology" tour. >> yeah, i think he was definitely having a little moment there with that and protesting too much, i think. talk about "drinking the juice," they were drinking something at the u.n. general assembly and it's actually -- it's quite disspiritting because i think the subtext of self-loathing was read by everybody there and properly interpreted as trashing this country and its great values and great exceptionalism and i think that when you talk about defense, it makes this country great and unique. you are sending a message to the rest of the world that we are on an equal, moral plain as the

country is run into the ground by dictators. >> michelle, i was wondering, too, if he was playing to "i'm not george bush," was he playing to the rest of the world or america? he brought upright away, first thing i did was close gitmo, then we don't torture from now on and i'm going to join the human rights counselel, it seems like fun. if i have time, i will quit iraq and zap nukes. he wants to be anybody, but george bush, it it seems. >> yeah, and he wasn't playing to the domestic american left here. he was playing to the international "human rights community" that wants to hear the same sorts of things. this was capping off the last leg of of the last eight months of this apology tour. he's gone to latin america. he's go gone to the middle east and europe and soundeded the same themes with little effect. this is not going to make them

like us more, not going to make them change their ways. it is really galling to me that he stood there in the shadow basically of ground zero and at a time when we are trying to crack down and stop the jihad plots, he didn't say a word about that. we heard about violent extremists, but never identifying the worst threats to the country. >> in fairness, he said to the rest of the world, it is time to end being reflexively anti-american, that doesn't work anymore. you southbound like you don't think that went far enough. >> of course not, he's playing lip service, it it is a wink and nod. people can look at what he says and what he has done or not done in terms of getting these enemies accountable for what they are doing and empty words, more empty words. >> it is interesting because he said he would not apologize for the policy to defend the nation,

but he's apologizing about what george bush did with global warming, interrogation at gitmo and things like that. the highlight of the day for pure entertainment, much to the horror of families that have been so deeply influenced by momar khadafy, he said some crazy stuff. michelle, we will boil it down to 42 seconds, i think, take a look at this. >> tired of having jet lag, suffering from jet lag. this was created in the laboratory and it got out of control because it was meant in the beginning to be used as military -- kennedy in '63 or '62. the president of of the united states of america, we want to

know who killed him? somebody who by the name of lee harvey and then another killed jack harvey, why did he kill him? >> yeah who, needs those notes. that was the u.n. charter. so, michelle, what is your take on 98 minutes, he was all over the place. one quote was "why did america go to afghanistan, those planes came from j.f.k." >> yeah. this was a great disgusting exercise in moral equivalence and crazy america bashing. he would have been welcome at a certain pulpit at a church in chicago that i can think of and unfortunately there was no 98-minute rebuttal time for the victims of the lockerbie bombing for the man who stood there and complained about the west being guilty of terrorism. it it was disgusting. >> uh-huh.

lots of delegations did walk out during his speech, just from boredom, i think and then of course during a.m.ime ahmadinej. what can be done? for better or worse, this world forum where world leaders come in to vent? >> they vehicle denied him a visa in the first place. there are exemptions to the u.n. to justify bringing the dictators here and probably the one sane thing i agree with him with is that the u.n. should be out of the united states and he wouldn't be complaining about the long jet lag he had. >> the only thing i would say, three or four years ago he said to come in and grab the nuclear material, take it away, welcome it back, as bad a guy as he is, that is what president bush wanted to see happen with other nations. >> all right. >> yeah. >> let's talk about homeland security and the attitude today. we saw this huge cell get

unfoiled and are trying to capture the guys that could be involved over the last 10 days. do you think this current administration understands on the homeland security level what we are up against? >> no. i think this administration is blaming the bush administration for everything that is inherited. the one good thing it has inherited and never will credit is the counter-terrorism structure in place that helped unfoil this plot to begin with. unfortunately, this had administration and the department of homeland security and many people who run homeland security agencies are still operate under a 9-10 mindset. remember that something as simple as random bag checks was challenged and brought to court by obama's friends at the alcu. they don't want random or targeted bag checks. they accused that of being racial profiling. you have a just department attorney general who pledged to rid law enforcement of any signs

of racial disparities. his legal friends have gone to the u.n. complaining about this and trying to dismantle the entire counter-terrorism structure that bush put in place. a couple weeks ago i reported exclusively on your show what is happening at amtrak. you have highly specialized rail security unit made up of special forces, military, it's been completely dismantled as a result of cronyism. i talked to my sources there and they have told us that it is not security that is first and foremost in their minds. it is labor issues and overtime that dictate their deployment decisions. >> it's all about the money. michelle, sit right there, we want to continue the conversation with you since you are up already out there in colorado. straight ahead, the aarp has president obama's back when it comes to healthcare reform. what are they getting in return? michelle malcolm will talk next

about how aarp could be getting kickbacks if a new bill goes through. >> then thousands of couples rely on iv s treatment in the u.s., but one doctor who used to give the treatments says he will not do so anymore and what he says may surprise you about your alternatives. ree r thevla

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report that talks about medicare that if a house bill cuts medicare by millions of dollars aarp stands to gain. michelle, make sense of this had. >> yes, this is quite interesting to me. there was a gop report analysts point out huge disparity in how private insurers like humana, which democrats are going after for communicating what happen with obama care, are are being treated, and the aarp. both groups offer supplements to medicare coverage. humana offers medicare advantage program, as do private insurers and semany seniors are on the plan. the aarp has a plan for meda-gap supplemental coverage to add on top of of the bare-bones coverage you get from medicare. according to g.o.p. analysts, aarp has made hundreds of

millions, close to a billion dollars, on the royalty fees for this program. under the democratic plan they would be exempted from the kinds of treatment the private insurers are getting and it is being characterized, not just by the g.o.p., by independent analysts as "kickbacks." >> sure. it is extra ordinary. the feds are saying to humana, you are sending stuff to your customers saying what we say. you are trying to scare the elderly people. you got to stop it it. it is a gag order against that company. then you have got aarp, which stands to make hundreds of millions of of dollars if healthcare reform goes through in this encarnation and then there is -- does the government say you can't do that? no, it says, go ahead and send the stuff to your members. a lot of people think they have joined aarp, an advocacy group for the elderly, but they are out to make money.

>> yes. and this all should be transparent. every time the aarp talks about what the obama care plan would or wouldn't do with regard to medicare cuts, they should disclose this potential fnot flatly plain out conflict of interest. steve: sure. >> thanks to g.o.p. analysts, we know about this and i think that it should cause what is left of of the card-carrying membership to question whose interest the aarp are looking after. steve: real quick. any effort to derail aarp commitment, this is aarp sounding off, will not succeed. the only benefit aarp is looking for in health reform is relief for millions of americans crushed by soaring prescription drug prices and relief for americans who need medicare. michelle, congratulations and thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, guys.

>> all right. straight ahead, a woman implanted with the wrong embryo. his ivf gotten out of control? we'll hear from a doctor who says he will no longer perform that procedure. >> president obama heading the g-20, a live report on what the president will see in pittsburgh. >> beautiful town. ( folk music playing )

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steve: in california, a raging wildfire caused by combustible manure, fueled by strong winds. firefighters don't expect to contain it until saturday. authorities ask families from 2200 homes to get out of there, but can't say how many left. air tankers are working to push back the flames. thankfully no serious injuries reported.

>> friends and family gather to remember murdered grad student annie le. the memorial was in long island at the synagogue of le's fians . alisyn: a procedure hailed a miracle, but for one family it became a nightmare. they discovered another woman had been implanted with their embryo. dr. sammy david was part of the team that performed the first successful ivf in new york city back in 1983. he will no longer do ivf because he says the risks are too high. dr. david, thanks for being here. you have soured on iv f, not just because of horrible stories like this one this week, but for many reasons. why? >> i think there are countless couples being advised to do in vitro that may not need it in

the first place. there are many treatable causes for infer tillity and you don't have to resort to high doses of drugs. the risks of of the drugs, the risk to the baby and mother and excessive cost of i.v.f. sa alisyn: this week the woman was accidentally impregnated with the wrong embryo, that was rare. how could this happen? >> there probably was a mix-up in the laboratory, in the embryo lab. if there was labeling of the test tube, it it happened inadvertently, it was not meant by any means. alisyn: of course. the alternatives out there. for many who are infertile and struggling with it, in lie u of iv f, what can they do? >> a complete history should be done. you have two patients and 40% of infer tillity is male related

infer tillity, so the doctor should not gloss over the contribution of of the husband. >> it is often seen as a woman's problem. one thing i read in your notes and i had not heard elsewhere. you said simple antibiotics could cure it. how? >> there could be a silent infection. if the there doesn't look, they won't find it. i have had patients become pregnant one month after antibiotics. you have to look for everything. alisyn: there are treatments people can do that are simple and used to be seen as alternative and i think now have a proven track record. such as? >> acupuncture, chinese herbs. a acupuncture increases blood flow and can alter hormones, as well. alisyn: how do herbs work? >> balancing the hormones.

alisyn: "making babies" is your book, it is a three-month recipe, basically for couples before they get to inv vitro. doctor, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. alisyn: tomorrow, thousands of muslims will gather in washington, d.c. for islam day of prayer. the man who planned the event apparently represented terrorists in the past, but there are two sides to the story. we'll tell you about it. he pitched his tent on the wrong man's lawn after donald trump forced qaddafi to bring down the tent, the dictator rambled for 90 minutes. plus, tough guys with tattoos that have big hearts for animals. the men from "rescue ink" join us live. luci: i'm luci romberg.

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steve: wow! hilarious. you can make it up or read the text. >> he did talk about jack ruby and lee harvey and referred to the president of of the united states as "our son." alisyn: he said created in a laboratory as a military exercise. they bring that up all the time. never gets old. >> the big story today in most circles is general mcchrystal has decided to talk to the "new york times." he was given the assignment to come up with a strategy, a way forward in afghanistan. it it was the president's belief when he took over from george bush, we lsimply must win the war. general mcchrystal has a report that has been done and he hasn't gotten it it. he says forget it it, i'm not

going to resign, we're still on the same page. it is healthy to have a robust and fierce debate. steve: the republicans want to know what the president is going to do, is he going to fight to win or is he going to cut bait and pull people out? here is john boehner yesterday on obama's change in it afghan policy. >> a decision, the president doesn't come to a decision soon, what will happen, we will miss the window of getting more troops into the theater as the spring occurs when additional troops are necessary. alisyn: right. time of of the essence, i think general mcchrystal is set to send the troop request to the white house today or tomorrow, maybe as many as 40,000 more troops he's looking at going to afghanistan. the president says he's shifted strategy, not necessarily to leave, it's he is not sure a troop surge now will work. he's still --

>> if you are not fighting to win, get out. alisyn: well, it is possible they would do a strike on stronghold of the taliban and al qaeda rather than -- what i've heard them say, the troop surge worked in iraq, there is a different set of circumstance necessary afghanistan. this is not iraq and there are not iraqi security forces or afgh afghans that would fight along the surge. brian: move the troops out, protect the people, what about the election? it seems up in the air. it wasn't up in the air in the spring according to the president. listen to him. >> al qaeda is stronger in afghanistan and in the borders of pakistan than any time since 2001 and we have to go ahead and take care and finish that business. >> if the afghan government falls to the taliban or allows al qaeda to go unchallenged, that country will again be a base for terrorists who want to kill as many or more people as

they possibly can. >> this is not a war of choice. this is a war of nesesity. those who attacked america on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. this is not only a war worth fighting this is fundamental to the defense of our people. brian: so the president sounds clear, he wants to win this for our people. in the meantime, mcchrystal is going to make his case. he told the "new york times" regarding this strategy, "we should not have any ambiguities as nation or coalition. we are putting young people in harm's way i believe success is achievable. i have not considered resigning at all." because there was some suggestion his opinion doesn't square with the administration's he might be out, but he made it clear yesterday he is going to stay the course. alisyn: right. he is spoeaking to the "new yor

times" because of the rift brian: this islamic day of prayer. finally, the mission statement read as though islamic leaders and those who go to mosques in the area will go and have a demonstration on capitol hill to show the rest of the world how great life is in america. steve: all about patriotism and muslims. it's got a lot of people going, you got to be kidding me. one organizer is a lawyer from elizabeth, new jersey, president, the man there. he apparently, this attorney has represented a number of clients with terrorist roots. for instance, he repped a man accused of the '93 world trade center bombing. he represented a guy who back in 2007 was a baltimore cabdriver who pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist

group and he also was the attorney for a guy who was convicted of selling fake i.d.'sto some of of the 9/11 herivitys. he has history. alisyn: controversial enough that now some major muslim organizations are not going to be participating in this national day tomorrow, including the islamic society of america and the council of american islamic relations. so they're distancing themselves from this, but they say they expect -- this organizer expects at least 50,000 people from hes all over the country to come and again there will be no political speeches, just prayer. brian: yeah, he will join us tomorrow to talk about what he will try to pull off tomorrow. by all indications, will pull off, it is just the level of participation around the country. 23 minutes before the top of the hour. steve, start us off with what else is happening.

steve: all right, brian. the three suspects arrested in the terror plot here in approximate new york will be in federal courtrooms. the expected lead er azizi will be in the courtroom, along with his father, where he may be transferred to federal lockup in new york. his father is expected to be free on $50,000 bail. meanwhile, authorities continue to search for more suspects. they also searched a staten island storage facility looking for possible chemical agents that could be used in an attack. alisyn: and the tent comes down. libyan leader momar qaddafi's plan to sleep in a tent in new york didn't go so well. yesterday the tent was dismanteled. he tried to set up shop at two mansions nearby in riverdale , new york. john fitzgerald squashd that deal and he joined us earlier to tell us how.

>> they said there would not be cars and were offering more money. alisyn: you stood to gain a lot of money, $50,000 was the beginning offer for the two places. it would go from there. were you tempted? >> not as soon as we knew who they were. alisyn: guadalajara au qaddafi the -- >> an announcement could happen on temporary replacement for the late ted kennedy's senate seat and the governor of massachusetts is reportedly leaning heavily toward naming paul kirk. he is a long-time aide to kennedy and the chairman of the j.f.k. library foundation directors. it it sounds like he will be in, mr. kirk. alisyn: josh harmon was on tour and when he came home, it was a surprise at his son nathan's school. take a look at this.

[laughter] >> my gosh. alisyn: that is so nice. nathan said he was so happy he didn't know what to say. he even got excused early from class to get a head start spending time with his dad. harmon surprised his other three children that same day. that is heartwarming. >> that brings a tear. all right. brian. brian: let me tell you something else that is heartwarming, especially if you are the owner of the nets. seems like you could have gotten a new owner for the team. they may get their first owner from outside of america. the russian, the richest man in russia, made his money selling metal, he will buy the nets for $200 million. he is 6-7 and made a fortune in metals and i guess kept it. he bought part of the arena in brooklyn, which hasn't broken ground yet. it might go through if they break ground by december. watch this amazing shot, a shot

i couldn't even make. the longest basketball shot in history. texas taa&m fired from the top the football stadium into a hoop on the field. is it it real? students insist it is. the group made up of six students goes around making basketball shots from crazy areas and places. >> that is awesome. and there it goes there. brian, if the rich russian does buy the nets, are they going to change it to the niets, that would be funny, because a lot of people think that is the chance of them winning the title. jay-z is in bed with this guy. >> literally in bed with beyonce. >> millions of young american girls go to bed and take dolls with them. >> i know.

>> so do i. there is a company called american girl doll company that has some very expensive dolls. both my daughter his these. it was their big present for the year. that doll costs $95. >> what is is significant about that? >> the thing about the dolls, they come with a life story, a script that tells in this case, the girl's name is gw en thompson. gwen's story is heartbreaking. gwen thompson's mother was abandoned by the father, they wound up home and wills living in a car. for $95, you can buy a homeless american girl doll. >> jackpot. >> it is not just you buy the doll, steve. you then take the doll to a tea party and lunch, which is $100 at the american doll store. girls go there for birthdays or come from out of town and you

bring your doll. she gets a sandwich and lunch. >> tell me it it is plastic food. alisyn: i don't know. it is a lot of dough. so much money. i think if you are going to raise awareness of homelessness with your kids, maybe you could give money to your local homeless shelter. >> my daughter katie called in. there is a girl they also sell, i don't know the life story, but one of the able-bodied dolls had a foot chewed off by my dog. my daughter katie put the injured doll into the wheelchair, throwing out the other doll in the wheelchair. i don't know if that is is allowed. it is a fantasy world that costs a lot of money. >> that is quite a story. you can take your doll, in addition to having lunch there, have the people at the doll store comb their hair, but they charge you $20. alisyn: of course they do. >> this afternoon president

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mike, tell us what the focus is about this unprecedented sharing of the security council meeting. >> the president will basically talk about nuclear nonproliveration, stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. they will pass a resolution that will get unanimous approval. they will not mcnamees, they will not say iran don't develop nuclear weapons, they will get approval. the question is whether this had is really a big development or not because a lot of people suggest that perhaps these resolutions aren't worth the paper they are printed on, but he will chair this two-hour meeting talking about nuclear issues throughout the world. >> mike, the security council meeting, isn't libya on the security council? isn't qaddafi going to be there close to him? >> it will be interesting. if you give him the microphone, you have to wonder if he will run long. 15 minutes yesterday turned into an hour and a half or more.

perhaps meandering and ambling, questioning the origins of h1n1 flu and the enemy assassination, you name it. >> it was alarming for me. the g-20, what is going to happen? >> they will talk about the causes of the global financial crisis and how to avoid it happening again. they will look at the root causes and you may see the allies from around the world pointing the finger at the u.s. and it will be interesting to see the american response to that. >> the president is off to pittsburgh, reporting live from the white house. thank you, sir. alisyn: thanks. >> thanks. motorcycles, muscles, tattoos, not my past, we're talking about puppies. don't let these tough guys fool you when it comes to rescuing animals. they have a real soft spot. "rescue ink" is here next. >> the ink part has to do with tattoos. and bill has plenty of them and joins us today. >> good morning.

live from washington today, john boehner is our guest, minority leader who says healthcare won't pass. he is like the only one in the town who says that. we will ask him why dochlt terrorists have a new weapon of of choice and have they brought it to the united states? and what will the president do about afghanistan? it is a hot topic in this town. every leader says send more troops now. what will the white house do and say? is see you in 10 minutes live in washington. xwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxw%

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here we are today. steve: "rescue ink" is not like a company, but talking about tattoos. when you hear someone is abusing an animal, how did you rescue them? >> first, we get the e-mails which are sent to mary, and then she will send them off to our detector. then we make sure that we know what we are getting into. anagel makes -- angel makes sure of that. alisyn: you are the investigator, an angel. so what are some of the situation that you have found ourselves in? >> lost dogs, stolen dogs, after doing the background and

everything. we know exactly who to go to. brian: don't you have to control your temper? >> we have a television show coming out this friday. brian: you are not afraid to show your motion? >> i cannot go there but -- alisyn: you are a tough guy. >> go to www.rescueink.org. we are not like any other rescue group. we are the people that way for the person to come in and do with the problem. steve: we are going to take a

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