steve: what the general says he needs to succeed and it's more than just personnel. brian. brian: the "new york times" missed the boat on acorn and they admit it maybe they should have been watching fox news. they actually promised to from here on in. you have to hear this one and their excuse. their slof began this hour comes from paula over in maryland. "fox & friends," if you set your snooze, you lose. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: welcome, everybody. something new today on all of your tv's we look different. first day of wide screen "fox & friends." people are bigger. there is a black stripe at the top and the bottom on some of your televisions. it's just a little benefit for watching fox. gretchen: people are bigger? uh-oh.

gretchen: bigger? you know the tv adds ten pounds already. brian: we are wide screen. we have a lot to tell you about including what iran has done already. third round of missiles for the iranian revolutionary guard. and they have done this in two days. if you went to bed thinking i heard about the short range missiles. you missed the late round. these are the medium range missiles they just shot off. steve: they could hit israel. brian: 1200 miles they could go. steve: bases in the middle east, portions of europe. this on the heels of the obama administration getting rid of that missile shield in europe. is this really a good idea? gretchen: also on the heels of the dictator being in town last week, ahmadinejad, the leader of iran, spreading his hatred on the floor of the general assembly last week. no coincidence the war games are on. then you had the leaders of western leaders coming together

in pittsburgh at the g-20. hey, we just found out iran has this nuclear secret facility known about for three years but we are making public for now. no coincidence to test fire missiles. when we get together on thursday. the talk also solve everything. after that they will not test any more missiles and decide to close those nuclear programs that they are currently running. brian: what is so significant about what you said is that this, what the president said on friday when we were doing our show, is that these facilities are too big to be energy plants. they have to be weapons plants. so the refrain has always been from iran from, rugs sharks from iranian people and their allies, we are athrowd have nuclear energy. now we are falling calling them out and saying we know these are too big to be anything but weapons plants. here is senator kit bond will be joining us today will be talking about hillary clinton on iran.

here he is yesterday on "fox news sunday." >> today's action in firing the missiles is really a poke in the eye to those who think that diplomatic efforts and agreements and inspections are going to change the way that iran is going. >> we don't believe that they can present convincing evidence that it is only for peaceful purposes but we are going to put them to the test. steve: senator hillary clinton has got a good point. brian: secretary of state. steve: ok. if f. it's just for peaceful purposes, why do they have it hidden in a mountain in a military reservation? gretchen: ridiculous on its face. the entire world knows what they're up to. again, we are talking about, let's think of something new. oh yeah, sanctions. robert gates, the secretary of defense, seems to know what tougher sanctions might be. he says that china will be a

huge part of this process though. whether or not they will go along with putting sanctions specifically on energy forces for iran. apparently that would hit them in the gut. again, i come back to this meeting on thursday, guys. they are going to sit down and talk for the first time in 30 years we are going to sit down with iran. will that change this war game situation? stay tuned for that. brian: i don't think china is going to do it gasoline imports. they know how to refine it but they ship it in. china has deep energy ties with iran. they are not going to do it. big story today out of russia is even though president medvedev continues to say we are open into sanctions, into sanctions. the alliance is too thick for them to think that russia is going along with real strict hard sanctions. they say the right thing. when it comes down to it, they consider iran to be a regional ally. gretchen: russia should be a friend because we took down that missile shield.

you would think that russia would maybe be a little bit more on our side with iran that remains to be seen as well. steve: it's part of their war games, their drills. iran says they are probably going to fire off another one of these medium range missiles today. let's talk a little bit about what was on another network yesterday, last night, general stanley mcchrystal was on the 60 minutes program. weave got a view of his quarters h his personnel. gets up at 4:30 in the morning, runs for an hour. he would like some more troops if he is expected to win in afghanistan. listen to this. >> are you confident that you will get what you ask for? >> i'm confident that i will have an absolute chance to provide my assessment and to make my recommendations. >> but you are already under pressure not to ask for more. how does that effect what do you? >> it doesn't affect me at all. david, i take this extraordinarily seriously. i believe that what i am

responsible to do is give my best assess: brian: he was given that assignment in march or may, in the spring. now it's done. it's been delivered as of august 30th, at the very latest. yesterday, extraordinarily, secretary of defense gates says i'm sitting on that report that includes the troop request. i'm going to give it to the president a little later on down the line. what are you waiting for? steve: what's the hurry? brian: if you read the report and listen to the general. there is urgency in the next 12 to 16 months to turn this thing around. why are you waiting? why is anyone's opinion worth what general mcchrystal's opinion is worth. if senator biden thinks we should bomb from afar or. powell said i would hesitate putting troops on the ground. he is on the ground. set one you gave the job to. gretchen: excellent point. generals can you find them like that jury case you can find someone to disagree with primary

opinions. if you put this guy in the position and told him at the time i'm going to listen to what you say. then it is a slap in the face to not listen to it after the fact. brian: do you agree this seems to be, even though george stephanopoulos parroted it. this is a battle between the defense department and the white house. steve: also we saw in mcchrystal's report on 60 minutes, he doesn't like the expediency that the things happen at the pentagon. it is a big bureaucracy and things take time. of course, if he wants to talk to the president of the united states, you would think that general mcchrystal would pick up the phone and he could get him like that. brian: he talks to him all the time, right? steve: here is he talking about how often he speaks to the commander and chief. >> how often do you talk to the president? >> i talked to the president once since i have been here. >> once in 70 days? >> that's correct. >> you can imagine ever saying

to the united states, sir, we just can't do it. >> yes, i can. if i felt that way, the day i feel that way, the day i'm sure i feel that way i will tell him that. brian: excuse me, you missed the lead, once, since have you been here? how could you possibly not be talking to your general in afghanistan, the right war, the war that you ran on that we have to win on and you can't pick up the phone and call him and see how it's going? gretchen: just not to add more food to fodder here, there are probably a toton of aides, david martin didn't ask the follow up question. do aides speak to you on a daily basis? steve: it would be nice to speak to the boss. gretchen: busy with health care. brian: democrats and republicans want to be able to question general mcchrystal. he has not been made available. why not? steve: ultimately what he said about the situation in afghanistan, mcchrystal said things are probably a little worse than he thought before he got there he also explained why,

outside his headquarters in afghanistan, they, for a very long time, every time a service member killed in afghanistan, they brought the flags to half-staff. that is no longer the case. here is the general explaining why. >> we have gotten to the point where the flags were at half mast all the time. i believe that a force that is fighting a war can't spend all its time looking back at what the costs have been. they have got to look ahead and have their confidence. i thought it was important that the flags be up where they belong. brian: doesn't like the lounge in the quad area,. steve: the garden. brian: where you can sit and relax. when you are in the field you can't relax. outpost you can't relax. he wants to replace the cafe with a rifle range. time for everyone to feel the effects of the war. brian: we will continue to follow this story throughout the week. meantime, let's talk about this amazing development with the "new york times." you know that big acorn story that we have been telling you about for the last couple of weeks? well, apparently, the "new york times" now admitting yet again,

at least their ombudsman admitting too slow off the mark that's the quote. acorn already admitted being too slow in the van jones situation. he was the green czar who signed that petition saying that 9/11 was an inside job by the government. how he ever got into the white house remains a mystery but then he became a czar. now they say they are going to reassess their situation at the "new york times" how they do their coverage. they are going to assign an editor to look specifically at their opinion pieces, i guess, to determine whether or not they're being fair and balanced. but you have to wonder how the "new york times" can operate as a business today when they have their ombudsman calling them out for a second time in a month saying you are not covering stories in a fair way. >> steve: in particular, they missed the senate cutting off financing for acorn. and a couple of other big developments that were big news. how could the "new york times" not do that? well, apparently clark ohio

state, -- hoyt the public editor said yeah we haven't heard anything about it how is that possible, if they were watching and i know for a fact they have got the fox news channel on in the "new york times" newsroom. we had those videos from big government.com on. how could they not see that? how could they not see? see, the very first acorn story they did was about how acorn versus the republican, it was a political thing. hey, "new york times," it was not a political story it was a story about corruption. steve: how you can miss the biggest public corruption story of the year. gretchen: charlie gibson hadn't seen the story either. brian: i will leave it to the cablers. gretchen: the story of the week conservatives draw blood from acorn favored foe. if you don't think that headline has a political motive, it does.

brian: if you are at a party this weekend or cocktail party and you noticed everyone was talking about the news. it isn't a coincidence. it turns out america is engaged in watching and understanding and digesting news. steve: about politics. brian: highest rating right there any time than any non-presidential election year. very closely, 36% of the country. somewhat closely 42%. knot at all 6%. and not closely 16%. here is what significant. it was a little bit higher last year at this time. if you go back to 2004 it is six points ohioer. steve: i think the "new york times" gotcha head lynn. they're not getting them from the old ways. they have got to start watching us. brian: new ed editor involves. gretchen: najibullah zazi getting ready to face a judge. is he expected to be arraigned

tomorrow in a new york city courtroom. disturbing new report finds the government is only prosecuting one out of every four suspects charged in terrible cases. how can that be? 42% decline from 2002. suspects often go free because the evidence isn't strong enough to actually bring them to trial. the study done by a data research group is from syracuse university. an arrest three decades in the making, did you hear about this over the weekend? director roman poo polanksi awaits extradition back to the u.s. he was arrested this weekend in switzerland. he was there for a film festival. l.a. county authorities seized the opportunity to arrange the arrest three decades after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. women safire has passed away.

he wrote a column called on language tracing the origin of words and phrases like proof is in the pudding. former president george w. bush had this to say quote, he was 79 years old. those are your headlines this morning. brian: sticking nose into politics by telling new york governor not to run for reelection. why does the president care? a fair and balanced debate next. n

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steve the white house is reportedly pushing for democratic new york governor david paterson to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. but with national issues such as health care reform and afghanistan spiraling out of their control, why is the white house suddenly concerned with state politics or in some cases local politics. on our panel this morning, a commentator for federal news radio. dan gilgoff and democratic political strategist peter phelps joins us on the couch. what is this democratic white house doing? it's not investigative when the president's people say hey, governor, you have no chance at winning so get out. >> well, it hasn't happened very often publicly. i think you have seen on the

republican side certainly when governor swift of massachusetts was. in the republicans were eager to see her step aside mitt romney who they thought was a better candidate and somebody likely to win. steve: you are talking about republicans in a generic way not like george bush said you have to get out. in this case it's the white house. >> they made sure she stepped aside, too. we got somebody who could do the job. in the case of new york, in is a blue state. next year we have lots of other states to worry about that are not so blue. the last thing you need to do is give the republicans a free throw and say here, we have this unnecessary problem where we have this accidental governor who can't do the job. we have somebody else, andrew cuomo who. i don't know if you saw the vma's when kanye stepped in. this is kind of like that obama goes i'm sorry, dave, i'm going to let you finish your term but andrew had the best approval ration of all time.

steve: dan, let me get you in on this as well. the white house knows if you look at polls right now democrats are in a very vulnerable position come next midterm elections. they would like to stack the deck. >> i think that's true. i think some of this in the case of governor pa patterson is personal. steve: you are saying payback. >> paterson was on the airwaves talk about race being a factor to him and president obama. i think that some of this and you combine that with a low approval ratings of patterson. it's no mystery why obama wants him out. however, i think this has back fired to some degree. because now we have a lot of democrats talking about the racial politics of this and this is what the obama administration wanted to get beyond. steve: absolutely. >> >> i think it's an example of

obama's inability to procedure advertise what's important. we have a 2 trillion-dollar deficit. we just heard he has only talked to mcchrystal once in 70 days but managed to give over 120 speeches on health care. steve: maybe the line was busy. >> he is not focused on what are the real issues of the day. and i think this is just another example of him jumping in on small matters like the gates situation. steve: peter in. >> i know you want to weigh in on this. more with this first ever little group of political pundits in the wide screen edition. >> yeah. >> in about two minutes. president clinton says there is a right wing conspiracy to get president obama. the panel is going to take that one up next. they don't just clean up neighborhoods, they protect them too. dozens of crash collectors fighting crime? withyou will meet two of them. !d

steve: former president bill clinton speaking out this weekend and accusing republicans of a, get this, going to sound familiar. right-wing conspiracy. but this time against president obama. >> your wife famously talked about the vast right-wing conspiracy targeting you. did you look at this opposition on the right to president obama. is it still there? >> you bet. sure, it is. it's not as strong as it was because america has changed drem graphically but it's as virulent as it was. steve: really? why is the clinton conspiracy finger never pointed at the left? always at the right? we're back with our political panel. what is going on here. >> i think will there are fierce partisans on both sides of the aisle. i didn't think they like to admit that president clinton is

wrong. what the democrats with are doing is taking honest disagreements on policy issues and trying to personalize them and saying there are reasons for it that are either racist or conspiracy related and they are flat-out wrong. almost as if some of the left-wing extremists really think they are the only folks who can be the authorities on race issues. steve: no other side to any story. >> exactly. that gives the allusion that there is some kind of conspiracy. it's really just partisanship and sadly the left wing is just as -- steve: is there a right-wing swirs conspiracy. >> i don't think so. i think you saw do you the bush administration people were knee-jerk reflexly anti-bush. it didn't matter call for a cure for cancer and it would call for investigation. >> rallyes to george bush's press availabilities with a gun strapped to their leg. i mean, what's happened is i don't like the fact that he has called it a right-wing conspiracy because i believe with you. i don't believe in personalizing

disagreements. but have you seen an intense campaign since the summer to plant things through repetition that are not true. like when governor palin put on her facebook profile that the health care bill had death panels. you now have a situation according to polling, objective polling where 64% of republicans either think that president obama was not born in the u.s. or aren't sure. where did they get that idea? it's not the people who are showing up to the town meetings. it's the leadership. >> either you are flat-out wrong, if you look at the actual legislation, if you look, for example, at like page 3 1 of the house hr 3200, you will see that there is an end of life panel. end of life. >> a suggestion by republican senator. >> with a panel that will determine end of life. steve: hold on, the two of you. that suddenly is health care. we have talked about that ad nauseam we are talking about the right wing conspiracy and we have not -- hold on we haven't

given dan a chance to talk. >> i think this represents some trouble for the obama administration. because i think that this represents the fight club politics of the clintons. i think that last year's primaries was an attempt by the measure voters to put an end to that now here we are with those sharp edge politics. i think that president obama's increasingly close relationship with the clintons has up sides and down sides. this dredges up old fight club politics. and obama manhattanned to campaigned on getting beyond. steve: that is monday's fight club. thank you very much. gretch and brian, what's coming up? brian: funny you ask, steve. here is gretchen. gretchen: another thorny issue. one great debate is health care for illegals. the president promised it wouldn't happen. hold your horses. wait until you hear what democrats are now going to push for. brian: they take out the trash more than one. garbage collectors who are cleaning up crime and happy

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gretchen: welcome back, everyone. if you are just waking up and looking at your tv screen holy cow bigger. wide screen. we hopefully are not wider but the images are wider and bigger. some of you may actually see a strip on the black strip on the top and bottom of your screen. nothing is wrong. it's just -- we're just keeping up with the joneses on technology. steve: it's really cool. kind of looks like movie style. if you have any questions, go to fox news.com/wide screen tv.

they should answer all of your questions. brian: will we get paid more? gretchen: wider paychecks? brian: movies get paid so much. steve: that's stretching it. gretchen: exactly. brian: i got it. gretchen: let's do a couple headlines. bernie madoff's sons about to get hit with a major lawsuit. planning to sue the brothers along with uncle and niece for $2 million. picard tells 60 minutes that they used madoff invest. s as personal penny bank and had to have known about the scheme. >> my belief is yes, they do. the reason i believe that is they were officers of these companies and directors in certain instances as well. and also compliance officers in a very highly regulated environment. clearly they would have to have known what was going on. >> so far picard and his team

have filed 13 lawsuits to get the money back, including one against madoff's wife ruth. steve? steve: gretch, a man who snuck into the grizzly bear exhibit at the san francisco zoo has undergone a mental evaluation. zoo officials say bear were inside when 21-year-old kenneth herron climbed into the pin. a zoo visitor alerted the staff which immediately jumped into action. >> a warning shot from the shooting team was fired to keep the bears at a safe distance from the visitor. the bears were safely secured and returned to their dens without incident. steve: the guy wasn't hurt, thank goodness. he was charged, however with misdemeanor trespassing. he is lucky to be alive. brian: now time for german election results i took german in high school so i will take this story. angela merkel has won a second term. she will now work to form a new center right government with a pro business free democrat.

she says the biggest goal of her second term will be fixing germany's economy. congratulations. steve: meanwhile, one candidate for south carolina office has some serious fire power. instead of meeting at a town hall somewhere, dean allen held a campaign at a shooting range where he raveled off an ak 47. one lucky supporter. constituents paid 25 bucks for barbecue food. a clip of bullets and a chance to shake dean allen's hands. the republican is hoping to be the state's next leader of the state's national guard. now it's time for sports. brian: with me, thanks, steve. [ laughter ] brian: hoping for somebody else? gretchen: want to see what football story you are going to lead with. one exciting finish with one team yesterday. brian: you're going to be very angry. sunday night football first. you went to bed we didn't. peyton manning looks really good. easily turk the desert into peyton's place as they took on the defending nfc champs. he had a four touchdowns.

no wonder he starts. there is wayne, makes the nice one. gives the colts a lead. class clark who helped me and fantasy team. touchdown crabs. goals win 31-10. cardinals are now 1-2. here is a stunner. almost as good as the viking game. gretchen: oh please. gretchen: come back and beat the champion steelers. carson palmer ryan leonard barely gets his first down two. plays later would it be? palmer. endriveway touchdown. bengals hang on 21-20. steelers fall to 1-2. one at home or on the road. gretchen: here it is. brian: 12 seconds, favre, greg lewis. that is incredible. lewis, keeps both feet. in they reviewed it. it stands, vehicle kicks win

dramatically 27-24. something else important. san francisco is a lot better. favre is 40 years old has gotten a lot better this year that is incredittable. adrian had less than 100 yards rushing. so everybody. gretchen: i'm all for age ghoomg play. we are getting older too, right? brian: especially steve. steve: especially. brian: we will move to something else. promo the radio show. steve: go ahead. brian: the judge andly be talking on fox news.com. you can listen online. i totally blanked out on all my guests. steve: good guests and people across the country can. gretchen: one thing we have been talking about over the summer and into the fall is health care reform. now it appears as things heat up again this week with regard to the government-run option and whether or not that will sneak back into the plan, something else could speak back in there

that could get a few outraged this morning. some liberal democrats are looking for health care once again for illegals. this will be incredibly important because the president, during that speech two weeks ago, emphatically said that his plan and anything he signs off on will not provide health care coverage. brian: which is why congressman wilson yelled out "you lie. gretchen: now, congressman michael honda is saying this legal permanent residents should be able to purchase their plans and also be eligible for subsidies if they need it. undocumented, if they can afford it, should be able to buy their own private plans. it keeps them out of the emergency room. steve: that's the part right there. illegals in this country, if they can afford it, should be able to buy insurance through the government option. the government-run health care option. steve king, a republican from iowa, responded, quote: if anybody can, with a straight face, advocate that we should provide health insurance for

people who broke into our country, broke our law, and for the most part are criminals, i don't know where they ever would draw the line. gretchen: i guess people are getting in line to say hey, if the president is going to be listening to a lot of different options this week, we might as well get on board too. 20 other members of congress who signed this letter agreeing with congressman honda that they should have a crack at health care insurance as well. brian: crime fighting. gretchen: garbage collectors you are talking about. they collect your garbage and fight crime. acting as crime fighters to help the local sheriff's office. two volunteers. they join me from orlando. good morning to you, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> good morning. gretchen: let me start with you, how the heck do garbage collectors end up fighting crime at the same time? >> well, when you guys are sleeping in the morning, we are

out there taking care of your garbage. we might see somebody walking by close to your house, we take care of those, too. gretchen: the operation is called operation boldo. businesses on the lookout. how did it start? >> we have been doing this for many years. now we are showing the community and we are working with the sheriff's department. gretchen: i understand that the municipality manager came up with this idea a few years ago. was it hard to get you guys and gals who collect the garbage on board to do this second job? you don't get paid more for it, do you? >> no, we don't. but, like we say, we have been doing it for a long time. so, just part of it. we just keep a little bit more eye to what is going on in our surroundings. >> pretty much everything. gretchen: what you have picked up on in the middle of the night

or during the day? what crimes have you been able to stop? >> like car burglaries. you go in the alley way. usually not there on your route. next thing you know it's a stolen vehicle. by us going on in the morning, we're able to keep going. gretchen: juan, what other things have you been able? >> breaking. in i have seen breaking ins. people breaking windows, trying to steal cars. we see a lot of stuff. gretchen: sheriff teaches tips like recognizing these type of signs. here is the flip side of this. do you ever fear you are in danger because you are working overnight? >> every day we are endangered out there. whether it's with the job or whether it's with people out there. we just got to do the right thing whenever it happens. >> gretchen: all right. well, hats off to you guys doing your job as garbage collectors.

thanks for sharing your time with us this morning. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. gretchen: a fox news alert. iran tests another missile and putting israel in line of attack. military analyst lt. bill cowan is next with what you should know. steve: many laws passed after 9/11 were heavily credit i see sod by the left. those same laws may have led to the capture of domestic terrorists this past week. we are going to talk to a former army jag captain about just that coming up straight ahead. @@ ♪

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attending synagogue services. social security is going to be shelling out more in benefits than it takes in. that is due partly to a spike in early retirement claims from laid off seniors. this will not effect payments to retirees but it will add to the federal deficit. great. brian, over to you. brian: developing story this hour. iran placing military muscle successfully launching missiles that some say can reach israel and u.s. bases in the gulf. in fact, they can. third round of missiles are medium range and can go 1200 miles. fox news military analyst lt. colonel bill cowan is here. what's new about this third round of missiles? when they are doing it or what they are shooting? >> well, brian, i don't think there is anything really new about it they have fired some of these missiles in the past. what's interesting is they are firing these missiles just as they get ready to have meetings with six major world powers about their nuclear weapons program. you have two things going on at the same time. missiles and weapons. iran is doing a little bit of

chest thumping to try to look like they can talk on the same playing field with major powers. brian: now we find out about this other facility. we knew about the other facility when the transition team came into place for barack obama when he won the election. he was told about the facility. how do you feel about the timing of the announcement in pittsburgh on friday? >> well, listen, what a great point to bring up. first off, i'm reminded a little bit of novemberville chamberlain trying to deal with hitler he wanted to talk his way through the world's problems. we have president obama knowing that the iranians have cheated and continue to cheat on nuclear weapons program. is he more interested in engagement. at least up until a couple days ago than he is in really toughening sanctions or action against the iranians. brian: i understand the only sanctions we are looking at whether it's energy, fuel, and equipment. those are the type of sanctions. how -- how do we hurt iran the most? how do we get their attention without blowing something up? >> well, i will tell you, a

great way we could do it. we could do more to support the legitimate iranian political opposition and the regime over there is scared to death of the iranian opposition. that's a political opposition inside and outside the country. brian, that wants to see a regime change over there during the past elections we did not stand up and support the opposition and we could have. we ought to be doing it because the regime is terrified. they remember ayatollah komeini took over power because the people turned him over. they are not able to turn over ahmadinejad because of his hold and grip on secret service. brian: i watched thomas freidman a very respected columnist of the "new york times" say the word in the arab world what they fear worse is israel not taking out the nuclear weapons of iran. the biggest misnomer is that the arab world would reunite against iran. what does your personal experience tell you? >> no question that arab nations

and viewers need to understand that the iranians are not arabs. the iranians are not ethnicity. they look at fear because of the history of fighting with them. nuclear-powered iranian government with ahmadinejad at the head threatens all of the middle east and the middle east would probably love the arab state would probably love, indeed for the israelis to do something. they will yell and scream a little bit if they do, behind closed doors they are going to have signs of relief. brian: we will see what happens because d-day begins on thursday. you look great in wide screen. thanks for joining us. >> thanks a lorkts brian. gretchen: that's why he wore black. three domestic terror plots against americans foiled by federal investigators in a post 9/11 world. did heavily criticized laws like the patriotic act actually play a role? we talk to a former army jag captain coming up next. a stern warning for from defense secretary gates. don't set a deadline for afghanistan troop withdrawal.

why he is saying it could be a disaster.

gretchen: welcome back. could be the most dangerous terror plot since 9/11. but it was busted. did post 9/11 laws make it possible to uncover the alleged plans of zazi and his associates? steve: former army jag captain tom cadet joins us now live. tom, when you look at how the law enforcement expertly did bring this plot down and also the thing down in dallas and the thing in springfield, illinois as well. have you got to wonder wait a minute, everybody is whining and complaining about the terrorism act and terrorism laws and all of that stuff, it worked. >> it did work. we think it worked. we certainly this it had a role

to play in this case. it's important to keep in mind the far left wants to portray the patriotic act as sort of like this right wing plot. >> hatched by dick cheney and john ashcroft. in reality, the predecessor of the patriotic act was passed under the clinton administration in 1996 and in response, very reasonably so to the tragedy oklahoma city bombings of timothy mcveigh. more or less an extension of a lot of measures that the intelligence community and law enforcement had been asking for for many, many years. if you look at what was done by other administrations in the past generally more liberal than bush administration in times of crisis it pales in comparison. what comes to mind is abraham lincoln habeas corpus during the civil war. enterment camps. jfk had done very questionable creative things in the fight against the communist during the cold war. gretchen: very interesting to hear the historical pepper.

a lot of people look back a couple of years and use that as their barometer. here is some of the ways in which the laws like the patriotic act would have played a role. sharing information between agencies. it's amazing to think that wasn't being done between recently that. >> also is historical context. after the vietnam era and nixon and so much the really outlandish things did he foreclosure intelligence domestically to spy on vietnam war protesters, we basically put up a wall between foreign intelligence and domestic law enforcement. you know, what changed is the modern era of domestic failure and really foreign intelligence and now law enforcement have become intertwined. they need to speak to each other. that's the only way you are going to be able to interdict these guys. steve: key word in last sentence is modern. as times and technology changed thanks to the patriotic act can you tap in when necessary cell

phone. we found a bunch of stuff on the guy's computer. >> what got the authorities on to zizi is this trip he had taken to the region of pakistan, which is basically, you know, al qaeda's equivalent of for the brag. that's where these guys are trained and developed. that got him curious about hill. it wouldn't be enough to get a civilian judge to find probable cause to issue a warrant. gretchen: that's scarey. alarm goes off in your head he is going to al qaeda camp. hello. >> pre-patriotic act a judge in the civilian court is going to get probable cause. you can't say probable cause trip to the world considered a hot bed. what the patriotic act allowed authorities to do is say, look, we have decisions about this guy. we are going to start running surveillance on him. start running phone taps, electronic surveillance that revealed a lot of the this information that probably broke this up plot interesting stuff.

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commander speaking out on the sacrifice of war. >> and i believe that a force that's fighting a war can't spend all its time looking back at what the costs have been. they have got to look ahead and have their confidence. brian: plus, what the general says he needs to succeed. it's more than just troops. steve? steve: brian, democrats could change direction and now tax those cadillac health care plans. who is going tfeel the pain? a lot of you, coming up in the middle class. our slogan comes from jack win in guatemala. the screen at "fox & friends" is stretchen so we can keep up with steve, brian and gretchen. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: welcome aboard, folks to "fox & friends" for this monday morning. we are now seen in wide screen. it's a little given different. you will notice on some of your tvs a black bar at the top and something down low. kind of looks movie style. they call this wide screen so we

can put more stuff on the screen just for you for first in cable news to do it. brian: i actually bought a wide screen tv. i don't know what i bought it for it seemed to lure me in. but now it makes sense. gretchen: now you can write it off. steve: now you can watch yourself on tv. brian: let me rush home. gretchen: headlines for a sunday lot also of stuff going on. zazi the guy building bombs. is he getting ready to face a judge. getting ready to face a judge tomorrow in a new york city courtroom. sturebbing report finds the government is only prosecuting one out of every four suspects charged in terrorism cases. that's a 42% decline from 2002. suspects often go free because the evidence isn't strong enough to apparently bring them to trial. the study done by a data research group was completed at syracuse university. an arrest three decades in the making. this morning, director roman

polanski awaits extradition back to the u.s. this as the culture minister denowpses him calling unfair. he was arrested in switzerland. he was there for a film festival so l.a. county authorities well they got smart. they seized the opportunity to arrange the arrest three decades after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. hundreds of thousands of filipinos desperately trying to. death toll climbed to 140. many lost what they owned a month of rain in 12 hours. officials expect that death toll to rise. would new york governor david paterson be dead meat? that's how one prominent democrat describes pattern's political future predicting he will resign before his term ends next year. this comes just as paterson was saying over the weekend on

national tv. he intends to seek reelection. >> i am running for governor in 2010. i don't think that this is an issue, other than for the people of the state of new york to decide. gretchen: the governor was also quick to say he has never been told by the white house not to run in 2010. and alaska newspaper apologizing now to sarah palin for a printing of a demeaning caption. when the governor was speaking in hong kong, the fair banks daily news minor printed the caption a broad in in asia. a broad as in trip and a broad as in a woman. admitted the term was offensive and apologized. it seems to me newspapers do stuff or don't do stuff and then they get away with it by saying apology later on. brian: three minutes after the top of the hour. no apology here.

former press secretary of the white house dana perino fresh off i think your debut on chris wallace's political panel. correct, dana? >> yes. like the first day of high school. i was nervous but i enjoyed it very much. it was a great panel. wonderful show. steve: dana, let's talk about what's going on in the news. we understand from the iranians that there is a really good chance that today on yom kippur, the holiest day on the jewish calendar they may test fire another missile. they test-fired a couple yesterday. this on the heels of their stunning announcement. oh, yeah. we have been building this secret nuclear plant in that mountain on that military installation but by shooting off these rockets over the last day or two, what are they trying to say to the world? >> i think they are trying to flex a little bit of muscle. i thought that the obama administration did a great job rolling out that news last week. what will be key is to see what happens in october. will would he be able to iffocus the world's attention on very

serious sanctions so that we can build internal and external pressure in iran so they don't see that they are going to be more secure with a path for a nuclear weapon that they would be more secure in the world this they gave that up. gretchen: what are these talks going to achieve. apparently the leaders of the western country also get together with iran this thursday. timing is very important here is it a case of the fact that each dreation thinks that they handle the situation differently and in the case of the obama administration that's sitting down and chatting will change the circumstances? >> you know, we tried it a lot of different ways, trying to get the different countries together. russia and china had been lukewarm in support before. you could get a sanction here and there nothing serious enough so that he you could effect any change. what i think will be interesting to see is whether or not the united states of america is willing to walk away from those talks next week if they aren't going anywhere. if we don't, we are going to leave the president with only

two choices. do we want to avoid this scenario. we'll want to avoid a situation where president obama has a choice to make between accepting annual iran with a clear path to a nuclear weapon or a military option. those are the thoses we don't want him to have to make. said our intelligence shows iran has frozen their weapons program back in 2003. therefore, world, stop hyping this threat from iran this whole push by the americans to have you are jest action against iran is nothing but hype. now, it comes out they had this secret plant. now it comes out that we knew about this all along. and that we shared this with the others on the security council. what is the double standard with this new administration and the old administration? did you sense there was an anti-americanism among world bodies? i think that's true for all presidents but certainly during the bush administration it was

stronger and more vocalized. i remember when that nie, the national intention estimate came thought 2007. one of the most frustrating times i had had. after that sentence it says but we don't know whether they have started anything up again. that is the key point. that's why, brian, when you were talking earlier today about what thomas freidman said, he is right. these people -- the people in the region are extremely nervous. and they want to see some action taken. the only way to actually change their behavior is to get agreement on some seriously draconian sanctions. steve: sure. dana, they made it clear that apparently the united states government uncovered this new facility during your administration's, when they were in power. why didn't anybody tell anybody? >> well, remember, a lot of these information is top secret. can i only tell you what has been reported in the papers. i will also say that we had a very good transition where intelligence was shared early on, including, after the

primaries when the two candidates were running for office. one of the things whatyou need o is work closely with your allies to have a rollout like president obama did last week. i think they did a pretty good job on that. brian: what does the turmoil within the iranian government mean for negotiations in the fact that most of the iranian people look at ahmadinejad as an unworthy and unjust and illegal rural? >> it could go one of two ways. the way that we would want it if to go is for that are to build enough that we realize they are headed in the wrongs direction and that their path for nuclear weapon is making them less secure it could got other way as well. weave know that ahmadinejad controls their secret service and their intelligence and that people are very oppressed. we saw in the protest after the election that there are young people and others who are trying to get information out of the state control that they are given in iran. but, you know, their government knows how to crack down very strongly, they could become even further isolated which could

become a problem for them, for the innocent people of iran and also for the region and then ultimately for our security as well. gretchen: let's talk more about that region because we have got a pesky problem with afghanistan right now. and yet the defense secretary robert gates was talking about timing and whether or not it's a good idea to send out signals about definite dates before drawl. let's take a livable to what secretary gates had to say and then what mcchrystal, the general in charge in afghanistan, had to say as well. >> taliban and al qaeda, as far as their concerned, defeated one super power. for them to be seen to defeat a second i think would have catastrophic consequences in terms of inner jizzing the extremist movement, al qaeda recruitment. operations. fundraising and so on. i think it would be auto ahuge setback for the united states. >> the secretary talks in terms of 12 to 18 months to show a significant change.

and then we eat up two or three months just on sort of getting the tools out of the toolbox that really hurts. average organization when someone asks when you want something they pull out a calendar. but in a good organization they look at their watch. we really got to get that way. >> so what the general was talking about there, dana, was the fact that time is of the he is accepts in afghanistan. that's why a lot of people are scratching their head with their report. the obama administration taking a backseat to it now. your thoughts. >> i thought that general mcchrystal last night on 60 minutes did an amazing job. who wouldn't follow him into battle. is he very strong in his beliefs and commitment to accomplishing his mission. he has said he needs additional troops in order to win. and i understand that the administration needs to have review. that's fine. i wish it wasn't being done out in the public. we owe it to ourselves and afghanis to get this right. i was not a fan of timetables being placed on troops leaving

iraq. ultimately that's what we ended up doing. it's moving forward and it looks like it's going to be ok. those terrorists and our enemy do wait. they will wait us out. do you think 12 to 18 months bothers them? it doesn't. brian: dana, what i don't understand is general mcchrystal has talked to president obama once since he was put over there and running the job of afghanistan war. talk to him one time. secretary of defense yesterday says i have mcchrystal's plan. i'm not going to give it to the president yet. i'm going to sit on it for a little while. can you educate me on what i'm missing here, why that seems so disconcerting? >> i am surprised to hear that he had only talked to general mcchrystal once since getting him in place over there that seems -- i would want to check on that and if that's accurate i think it is quite disturbing because you have a total disconnect between a hand picked general to accomplish a mission and white house that is very focused on lots of different things. they have their plate full. afghanistan is so critical to our future. and we have so many men and

women in uniform who are there that their confidence is being undermined by actions this administration is taking. repaleudisiating a policy that they put in place and then saying it's going to take six, eight weeks, maybe longer before they get it worked out. it's unfortunate that it's being played out in the public. we owe it to ourselves ourself and afghanis to get it right. steve: general mcchrystal took cameras into what literally was a war room. he showed how he had a couple hundred people in there because he wanted everybody on the same page. one more sound bite. that is regarding the fact that with so many people listening in, isn't there the possibility of an information leak? listen to this. >> do you worry about security leaks when you have so many people involved in these things? >> i am less worried about leaks than i am about the people who don't know what we are trying to -- ignorance. so i think it's a trade-off. i think i come down to this side every time. steve: what do you think about that, dana?

>> i think that the general is making the decision that he thinks is the most important for him to be able to accomplish his mission. i don't second-guess our military generals when they are on a path. i think they deserve our support. and i think what he is trying to say is that people need to know what we're trying to accomplish. and if the military can keep its focus, on that, they will be able to protect the girls and women of afghanistan and give them a better future. we owe it to them. it is going to take a long time. what we are doing with it is completely different than what we dealt with in iraq. the ill literacy rate in afghanistan alone is tremendously high. they will can't hold classes when they're building their own military. gretchen: we have a fox news alert. we have just learned that president obama will travel to copenhagen on friday in an attempt to bring the olympics to chicago in 2016. the first lady also set to attend. more on this developing news as it comes in. brian: wow. more dana perino. she is stick around because president clinton claiming right wing conspiracy against president obama.

when we come back, dana weighs in. steve: plus, president obama might have a lot of kids angry at him if he gets his way. why is he pushing for longer school days and shorter summer months coming up straight ahead.

gretchen: president bill clinton asked if he believes there is a vast right-wick -- right-wing

conspiracy against president obama. >> sure it is. it's as virulent as it was. they are saying things like when they accused me of murder and all that stuff they did -- fund mentally he and his team have a positive agenda for america. their agenda seems wanting him to fail. gretchen: if it's a right-wing conspiracy why are so many democrats against the president's health care plan. we're back with press secretary dana perino. i can hear you chuckling. take a crack at that question yourself. why are so many democrats against the health care plan and pundits who basically put obama in office. >> i would ask whether there was a vast left-wing conspiracy against president bush, too. there is always people on the fringe that have very hardened

in their views that's what it's going to be. you are targeting people in the middle. on health care we auto should look back to the early 1990s when president clinton was in office. they really got the full debate going in the country dry. we have republicans and democrats coming to the table saying the status quo is unacceptable. what can we do now. would president clinton agree that the cb somplet a vast right wing conspiracy because it it is that nonpartisan organization who has scored these bills and said how much they are going to cost. that's what's really driving the opposition to the legislation gretchen: right at a lot of those tea parties it's not just republicans, it's democrats, it's independence. it struck me when i heard president clinton say that, dana, that he has to say that doesn't he? >> no. yemp gretchen he has to because, in a way, that's how he

explained away a lot of things that were happening during his administration. i mean, that was the automatic excuse, waste wasn't it? so don't you have to kind of continue along with that vein of thought? >> i don't think you have to. i can think you can elevate the debate. rise above it guy by the motto that good politics means you have good policies. if you don't have good policies you don't have good politics. that's what's happened with this health care bill. maybe if they would have approached it in a different way, not the republicans on halfway on some of the issues that we know we can agree on like preexisting conditions and portability meaning taking tour health care from job-to-job we might have been able to something sooner than what we have now. gretchen: they already have the 60 votes if they wanted to pass it. >> sure. they don't need a single republican. they really shouldn't need a single republican to get this passed but republicans want to be able to get somewhere. gretchen: country would like to see a bipartisan effort.

>> yeah. gretchen: thang thank you for joining us as do you on a monday. have a great rest of the week. >> bye bye. gretchen: nancy pelosi leaving tax certain health care plans to pay for the rest. among those targeted police officers and even firefighters. phone scam targeting veterans. what the v.a. wants you to look out for. that's coming up. i never thought it could happen to me...

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america customer is suing the bank for. he is serious about the -- the judge calls the suit income prehence cybil. brian: makes sense to me. gretchen: 52.2% that's what the unemployment rate is for young americans. yikes. highest since world war ii. 9.5 million jobs have been lost. let's get the guy on the show who is suing for the billion trillion. i like that. brian: i want to borrow money. speaker pelosi wants to tax health care plans with generous benefits. they are known as cadillac plans. steve: that's right, brian. not just the rich who have these cadillac plans. it's a lot of middle class. joining us from atlanta is georgia representative tom price. good morning to you, congressman. >> good morning. great to be with you. steve: great to have you as well. under this particular plan, the so-called cadillac plans great if you are employee you really

want it. they would tax the insurance companies per se and not the individual directly ultimately it always gets passed on back to the consumer. >> sure, corporations don't pay taxes. the people who buy from the corporations insurance companies do. this plan gets worse with every passing day whether it's going to tax plans. last week we heard from senator baucus that his plan would put people in jail if they didn't get the plan the government wanted them to get. these are all the consequences of having a government-run plan which is why the american people have said look, stop the madness. let us have a plan that we want. not that the government wants for us. brian: when you talk about getting a deficit neutral plan, millions by taxing insurance policies maybe very low deductibles and very desirable. if you tax these signature nasa and very successful insurance companies, why wouldn't they pass it on to the consumer. that's the way business works.

they have got to find a way to make the profit. or lay off people in their own company. >> you betcha. it's a job killer and corporations always pass taxes on to the people. it's the only wave they can do it. no money is made out of thin air. that seems to be what the speaker believes or senator baucus or the president believes. if they are going to get the plan that they want, then they have got to tax people and got to slash medicare benefits. that's not where the american people are that's why you have heard the kind of objections across the land. the good news is though is that there are plans throughout hr 3400 that gets folks insured. that solves the portability and preexisting challenges that allows patients and doctors to make decision and address the lawsuit abuse we have got and we can do that without raising taxes a penny. let's embrace that plan. steve: we just had dana perino on talking a little bit about some of the plans the republicans have. are the democrats really

listening to any republican ideas or are they just nodding yep, great idea and thought putting them in their bills? >> that he is why you have heard the concern about the white house and the speaker. certain live in the house they haven't been listening tote frub plans at all. we have positive solutions. we would love to sit down with the president. we have been asking for weeks and weeks to do so. in the senate there is a little more cooperation going on sill still at the end of the day senator reid says he is going to jam it through if he has to. brian: going to be a great beak because we are going to get veeght voting on the record and we will see what it looks like. >> thanks, brian. steve: iran has fired another missile. this one has people on edge. with israel in range of an attack, are we, and the military in the middle east in danger as well.

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>> hello, i'm here today to apologize for my speech on wednesday it was just so long and so rammably and it didn't make any sense. i watched a tape of it and i was like, who is that guy? those of how do not know when i travel i have a large tent that i like to bring with me. for this, i am scorned as some kind of weirdo. despite my high diplomatic station, my tent and i were turned away by central park, west chester county and worst of

allic gelwood, new jersey. the computer with my speech crashed so i had to write one at the last minute on loose leaf paper. and that made me look crazy. this is crushing that i put my speech instead of watching the in-flight movie taken. brian: is he not even exaggerating the real speech was even more rammably than that. steve: brand new staff member in her first skit used about the dirtiest word you can on television the censor missed it. they say she is not going to get fired. in. gretchen: i thought it was in the rehearsal run through. steve: west coast got -- east coast got it and west coast got the word freakin'. gretchen: largest range missile in its arsenal. joining us from the white house

is mike emanuel. mike, the iran nuclear issue hot topic on the sunday political shows. what are the top officials saying because some of those missiles were short range yesterday and now they are ramping it up. >> you are absolutely right. good morning, all implications are the u.s. has been watching the situation in secret facility revealed late last week. yesterday defense secretary robert gates had this to say about that. >> certainly intelligence people have no doubt that this is an illicit nuclear facility if only because the iranians kept it a secret. if they wanted it for peaceful

nuclear purposes, there is no reason to put it so deep under ground. no reason to to be deceptive about it keep it a secret for protracted period of time so. >> the digging at the site apparently gave it away. ultimately the u.s. british and french talked about what they know about that facility. since that revelation, of course, as you mentioned there have been the rocket tests, the long range missiles firing today. so the iranians continuing to defy the world and show that when he have got. and basically trying to threb a lot of people in the middle east saying look what we could do to you. gretchen. gretchen: meantime, iran continues to show its defiance firing off all those missiles. what do you think that is all about? i mean, obviously it's in response to the fact that the western leaders called them out last week, right? >> well, from past experience, a lot of people will tell you that some of this is for domestic consumption. showing off to the iranian people because obviously ahmadinejad has problems with his own people. trying to play on a little nationalistic pride. also threatening the immediate neighbors and threatening israel as well. so, perhaps time with the jewish holiday even. so, there are concerns what this

means. revelation of secret sites where do we go from here? gretchen: two very important spokes are russia and china with regard to sanctions. what do we know about those two countries today? >> there seems to be a lot of skepticism with a lot of people whether or not russia and china will definitely get on board if more saxes are the way to go. you saw the u.s. british get up and talk about the site. meeting behind closed doors briefing the russians and chinese about. this a lot of the people are worried when push comes to shove whether russia and china steps up. we will be watching what they say very carefully to see if they are definitely on board with tightening things up against iran. steve. gretchen: mike emanuel live for us at the white house this morning. thanks very much, mike. >> thank you. gretchen: the president just announced he will be going to copenhagen. brian: not to touch the iranians or war plans but to fight for

the it 201 olympics? steve: to chicago to his hometown. he says the kids around the world are smarter than our kids. in fact, he would like american kids to go to school, you know how we got like two, two and a half three months some cases of summer vacation. he would like that shortened, shrunk and kids going to school more so they learn more. but the big question is, will that work? don't we already go more than any other nation on this earth according to some of the statistics out there. right now our kids spend 1146 instructional hours per year. singapore, taiwan and japan all less. so we are already number one in the hours in the classroom. gretchen: the important other part of that statistic is that they beat us in most academic tests. so if those kids in those countries are going to school less and they are doing better

at tests then we need to ask x. how our kids are being taught more with fewer hours. i think poorer kids would do well to go to school throughout the year studies would show they don't have parental influence to help them during the summer. brian: give the kids answer just to beat us. this is something you might have republicans and democrats actually have agreement on. both sides might want to do this. here is the president. now he says i no longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas not with maliyah and sasha not in my family and probably not in yours. but the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom. kids from disadvantaged homes their schooling stops abruptly. two homes and sings gel parent. gretchen: that would help for retention throughout the summer. if you are a parent a lot of

kids go to after school. what would ham to those businesses. go later hours in the day and throughout the summer. what about summer camps? this has huge ramifications rather than just saying let's do it. steve: if our kids are already going to school more than kids in asian countries. the problem is what is happening exeen the time they go in the classroom and out. there has got to be a better way to teach it quality of instruction or something like that? just know that the nea is a very powerful and lobbying unit. they're facing a loss of federal fund;' "wall street journal" reports bank of america has suspended current to housing and community group organization. a spokesperson for bank of america says the bank will not enter into any further agreements with acorn until more assessments can be completed. acorn has been under fire as you know since the release of those

videos that we are showing you right here. showing employees offering advice on how to evade taxes and even smuggle illegal immigrants into this country. steve: police recovered a body in the hudson river. they say it is likely the daughter of slain newspaper heiress. she is believed to have jumped to her death off a new york bridge last week. she reportedly had been struggling with financial problems and alcohol addiction for years. her stepfather jumped from that same bridge in 194. after brutally murdering her mother. police say she left a note but had refused to make that public. brian: pope benedict celebrating mass and celebrating young people, scheduled to meet with the arch bishop in bragg. he served mass for more than 100,000 worshippers yesterday.

remain faithful to religious tradition. gretchen: former camp to migrant workers complex for sex offenders. pastor richard recruited inmates to prisons now some 35 sex offenders live in the complex. more than three miles from the largest town. even though it's called miracle park. local are even though it's risky, his hands are tied. >> phone scam going around. telling them the department of veteran affairs need credit card information to update prescription trfings. any want them people who know they are not changing the calls. if you have any questions call this one 877-222-8387.

steve: not stopping paraplegic climber chris waddell from trying to conquer the mountain. after being paralyzed in a ski accident when he was 20. he went on to become one the most decorated paralympians of all time. if he succeeds. reach the top on his own power. good luck to him. gretchen: amazing feat. today is yom kippur, the holiest day on the calendar. devout jews around the world will be in prayer and fasting. spending a good part of their day attending synagogue services. i think at night it's time time for sports. brian: battle it out and knocked it do you understand honed it here is a sunday's nfl action. first up, that's me. best game. steelers, bengals, cincinnati

bengals stage heroic comeback. that franchise is coming back. convert on fourth down and then you will watch carlson palmer endriveway caldwell. 23-20: drop super bowl champs 1-2 on the year. on to brian's best player. can we have the full screen? guess not. this week's winner is peyton manning. threw for four touchdown passes. 379 yards. the colts rolled over the cardinals on sunday night football. now let's go to best catch. easy one. 12 -- there i am again. 12 seconds left brett favre old, greg lewis isn't. time running out. favre finds the time, wow, what a great job of avoiding the sack. they beat the 49ers to the vikings in miraculous fashion. as you know, gretchen, the play stands as called. both feet were in.

the vikings are undefeated. gretchen: this is what the re frmt did. he took a pummelling after he released that ball. brian: should be a rule anyone 40 shouldn't be able to tackle. gretchen: it's not flag football, brian. 41% of americans say global warming is exaggerated. why do we keep hearing the exact opposite. he says scientists are selling out for political reasons. steve: great. g.o.p. lawmakers leading the investigation into the cia senator kit bond is here at the top of the hour to explain. ♪

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brian: glad you are up. is global warming more fact than

fiction? even worse, has it become a political tool? that's what our next guest says. a man with a very unique perspective on this entire matter jack smith former goggle gist and astronaut. did we mention he walked on the moon and former senator from new mexico. dr. schmidt also just resigned from the plan tore society over his firm belief that global warming is not man made. harrison, jack, tell me right now, what makes you think that? >> well, the science of climate change certainly isn't settled. there has been a very slow warming since about 300, 400 years ago. about half a degree per century. brian: right. >> that warm something taking us out of what was called the little ice age. very, very cold period. but the biggest problem is that we have science, if you want to call it that, being used for

political purposes. strong froovment for the government to take more and more control of our liberties. now, the alleged human cause global warming is being used as another way in which to take some of those liberties away from us. in fact, the increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is largely an increase in carbon dioxide in the oceans. the oceans soak east most of that up. there is really no evidence other than the sun is controlling our climate. that's a fact. >> you are withs at the other scientists. have you talked to others with with wide swath of damage, do you think they though what i are saying temperature dedon't want to say it. >> it's awfully hard to determine people's moat rations

but the wrim primary growth of global warming are climate modulars and complex programs to try to model something that is too come politics mexico to model. people who no eddling well make it clear it's just too complex and you better depend on observation. observation tells us that nature is the primary mover in climate. particularly the sun. brian: so harrison, you are in a unique place to try to buck the trend because cap and trade is coming to country near you, which is ours. it's going to cost people a lot of money. already made its way through the house. this is going to be coming up again. thank you for joining us and sharing your time. >> well, thank you and good morning to everyone. brian: all right. straight ahead. the "new york times" now admitting it was slow to report the acorn and van jones story. why the paper is appointing a will you editor to captures the

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gretchen: "the new york times" managing editor says the paper was slow off the mark to report the acorn story.

now they are appointee and an editor to monitor opinion media. >> good morning. steve: how they can say we are a little slow? they did not have anything about it, even after the senate cut off funding for acorn. they are calling it a political thing rather than a correction thing. what is calling ogoing on? >> it is like charlie gibson after the fact. these people just do not get it. when we say they live in their little world -- it is true. these people do not visit the real world.

when they see the real world, they sit through the lens of the right wing zealous up to no good and fox television. the same time they see thiay the washington bureau chief has been denouncing fox news for their coverage of acorn, saying it is not this news. gretchen: he says in his article, some others her said they're not immediately aware of the acorn videos on fox. how could they not be aware of those undercover videos? >> it is telling you there ir world view. i do not believe they were aware

of it. their world is so insulated. ask them about different kinds of chablis, and they know all about this. steve: you are clueless. this is shiraz the other love now. >> "the new york times" seems to report with a slanted that is left of center. gretchen: who's quote is that? >> that is the assistant managing editor. gretchen: here's another quote. one of their top people did not think the discussion of prostitution by low levels of acorn was top news.

it is only illegal. >> not only illegal, but something that caught the attention of the united states house and senate. it was a national news story, but lost on "the new york times." steve: thank you very much for joining us. gretchen: this is a fox news alert. overnight, iran test fired another missile. how this will affect your safety. senator bond join us in five minutes. steve: an uproar over a controversial video about teaching kids about alternative lifestyles. no one group is fighting against it.

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business, testing more missiles overnight. this one could reach israel. steve: the unemployment rate is sky-high. we are putting two wars and health care reform getting pushed through the congress. what is president obama doing? going to copenhagen to try to get the olympics for chicago. brian: now demanding coverage for illegals. is there really the way to get health care through? our slogan this hour -- "fox & friends" is one small toys for man, but one small benefit for mankind. gretchen: thank you for sharing your monday morning with us. if you think it looks a little bit different, although letters are so much bigger, that is

because we are wide-screen. we just want to point out that we are getting up to speed with technology steve:. sometimes if you have one kind of tv in one part of the house and another type of tv and another part, until today, it looked like two different programs. this way, everybody gets to see exactly the same stuff. just another added benefit for watching fox news channel. brian: this is a fox news alert. fox news has confirmed president obama will go to copenhagen to make a personal bid for chicago to host the 2016 chicago games. the white house says the president is making a quick trip, but plans to arrive on friday. the olympic committee is days away from deciding to vote on co will host the games. more details coming up at the

bottom of the hour. gretchen: terror suspect najibullah zazi will be in court tomorrow. he is believed to be the mastermind. two other people are also tours with helping with the alleged plan. with security footage from the deadly oklahoma city bombing edited? newly released security tapes showing the chaos immediately following the blast. an attorney says the recordings appear to be edited because four cameras and four different locations go blank at the same time. 168 were killed in that bombing and hundreds more were injured. bernie madoff's sons will be

sued. they say the family as madoff investments as a personal piggy bank and had to have known about the scheme. >> my belief is that they knew. denver officers of these companies and directors of certain instances. -- they were officers of these companies and directors. they would clearly have to have known what was going on. gretchen: so far, his team has filed 13 lawsuits to get the money back. those are your headlines for monday morning. brian: iran test fired another missile. the obama administration is considering severe sanctions. will that be enough to tame iran? is a military option still on the table? steve: senator bond joins us from washington, d.c. good morning, senator.

>> it is a pleasure to be with you and "fox & friends." steve: you are our first senator who we have had on wide- screen. >> i do not need a wide-screen. i have been on a diet. steve: what did you make of the fact -- sounds like they are going to test fire another missile today. what is going on? is this just to progress in the eye -- poke us i the eye? >> that is what i told chris wallace yesterday. it is a couple of missiles in the eye for those who believe that the diplomacy can change iran. we have now seen iran lie three

times to the international inspectors into the world, and then caught red handed. they have tested missiles which can deliver weapons. they have had secret weapons facilities. and they want to talk about it. gretchen: senator, i guess we should not be surprised at just a couple of days after some of the western nations called out iran that they would fire off these missiles. this is what they do. let's move forward with this discussion. if the obama administration is going to sit down and have talks with them, where do you think that will go? how do you convince russia and china to get on board with these severe sanctions? >> obama made a major concession to russia without getting

anything in return in advance when he agreed not to do the land-based missile launch system to protect against long-range missiles. he granted russia's most highest wish. now he is in a position where he says i did something for you, will you joined the international community? we absolutely have to have sanctions. a nuclear-armed iran is not only a deadly threat to israel and its neighbors, but it is a threat to the rest of the world. the only when we are going to get out of that short of military action, which i do not believe anybody wants, but will still have to be on the table, is to apply tough enough sanctions that the people of iran, who are already protesting the phoney election of

ahmadinejad -- see if we can change the path of iran. brian: i look to the comments from the russian foreign minister. president medvedev was very encouraging over the last few days. here's what the foreign minister said. there's no evidence iran has done anything wrong and there is no clarity regarding legal issues. so we're already backtracking. if we do not have russia and china, we are spinning our wheels. let's say they are not on board, then what are our options? >> right after medvedev spoke with obama, he made a comment later in the day that said the sanctions do not work. there are several things that the united states can do. i have co-sponsored a bill with senator lieberman to give the president the power to sanction any international oil shipping

companies that transport the refined petroleum into iran. that would be a tough blow. it puts the squeeze on a lot of people. it would also put a tremendous squeeze because one of iran's greatest vulnerability is the lack of refined petroleum to produce gasoline. if we cancel the down, that put even greater pressure on iran. we ought to combine that with broadbased financial sanctions to cripple their banking systems. steve: senator, let's talk about what is going on in afghanistan. yesterday, defense secretary gates was on cable. mcchrystal was on "60 minutes" last night. here's a sound bite of the secretary of defense talking about how if we lost in

afghanistan, how that would really help recruitment for al- qaeda. >> the taliban and al-qaeda, as far as they're concerned, defeated one superpower. for them to be seen to defeat a second would have catastrophic consequences in terms of energizing the extremist movement, al-qaeda recruitment, operations, fundraisingg, and so long. it would be a huge setback for the united states. steve: mcchrystal these more troops on the ground over there. why is the administration taking so long? >> first, i agree with bob gates. anything like kate black of withdrawal or a pullback in afghanistan would -- anything like a lack of withdrawal would reenergize al-qaeda and all related terrorist groups.

what is happening now -- i think it was for the revealed in the statement apparently made by mcchrystal last night that only once in 70 days had he talked to the commander-in-chief. apparently, president obama is not comfortable with being commander-in-chief. he wants to dally on deciding whether to except the plan that he charged general mcchrystal to develop, which is a very thorough and detailed plan. obama can go to copenhagen and be on the letterman show. he can be on everything except the food channel and fox talking about it, but he cannot talk to his commanding general. gretchen: let's listen to that snippet of mcchrystal. >> are you confident that you will get what you ask for? >> i am confident that i will

have an absolute chance to provide my assessment and to make my recommendations. >> you are already under pressure not to ask for more. how does that affect what you do? >> it does not affect me at all. i take this extraordinarily seriously. i believe that what i am responsible to do is to give my best assessment. >> how often do you talk to the president? >> i talked to him once since i have been here. >> you have talked to him once in 70 days? >> that is correct. >> could you imagine ever seen to the president of the united states, sir, we just cannot do it? >> yes, i can. the day i feel that way, i will tell him that. brian: what is your take on this, senator bond? >> i think general mcchrystal is right on. it is verunbelievable that the

general in the field said that the next nine months to 12 months is critical. and if we delay any longer, we may be in a position where it cannot stop. and the taliban and al-qaeda may have gained so much momentum that we will not be able to turn it around. i itthink it is deplorable that the president continues to dither. we need mcchrystal to testify to the congress and to the american people to say what he said a- assessment. -- say what he said in this assessment. brian: senator bond, we will be talking to you more. we will be finding out why you decided to leave that committee. gretchen: more than two hundred

schools have ordered this the deal showing a little boy in a polka dot bikini announcing he is gay. is this an appropriate lesson fr kids?

gretchen: we are back with senator bond, republican from alabama.

-- missouri. sorry, senator. let's talk about the cia and the committee that you serve on. some of the reports that have come out are a slight bit erroneous. you're not leaving the committee. >> i am the vice chairman. i am the leader of the republican side of the intelligence committee. i agreed with the chair, dianne feinstein, last spring that we would conduct a bipartisan review of all the interrogations to determine what was effective, what was not effective, and if there were any activities that went beyond the bounds. and weaver went to have a bipartisan review and report -- and we were going to have a bipartisan review and report by the end of this year. unfortunately, we have spent

hundreds of hours going through the documents. going through the documents is not enough. you have to interview the people who were directly involved. as a result of eric holder's decision, we cannot do that. brian: because they are afraid of incriminating themselves. >> exactly. before eric holder was confirmed, i had a long discussion with him because some on the far left, the aclu, code pink wants everybody investigated. they want to prosecute cia agents. i asked him if he was going to reopen the reviews and the investigations that have gone on of terror the investigations.

he assured me and members of the judiciary committee that he would not. it was only based on the that i approved his nomination. i am very disappointed. it is not me. it is the people who have done the work who are now put under the gun of a possible criminal indictment, criminal charges, and we should not be interviewed in the. we have to give them a miranda warning that says anything you say could be used against you in the court of law and you have the right to remain silent. nobody was in that position should be giving an interview to a congressional committee. gretchen: some will wonder whether they may be giving up their lives and their time to continue to fight for us acosta world if they will be prosecuted later on for their actions. gretchen: senator, we have to wrap up there.

thank you very much for being our guest. brian: we will have you back and we will focus just on that. thank you very much, senator. next, trouble at schools. videos like this showing to kindergarten students. gretchen: 28 liberal lawmakers were universal health care will not get passed, and now demanding coverage 40 rieglefor ?

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the recession helping social security go broke even faster for the first time in two decades, the social security administration initially no more than it is taking in. visual said it has created a brush of early retirements. steve: parents in california pushing back after learning that over two hundred schools in the bay area have ordered the video that you are watching right now. the cartoon is part of the new curriculum on alternative lifestyles. it shows a young boy in a polka dot bikini going into the ladies' changing room and then announcing he is gay, and then clicking with a couple of stray police -- flirting with a couple of straight boys.

some parents think it goes too far. troy, what did you see in the school? >> in the hallways and in the classroom, saw pro homosexual posters. i contacted the civil justice institute, who then informed me about the film, and then informed me that they had been investigating this district. steve: you have a kindergarten student. what are you worried about? >> i am worried that the district is taking its own morality and wanting to supplant our moral teachings and going into subjects that we have not even broached with our child. because the teacher will

undoubtedly see this interview, i want to make clear that our grievance is not with art teacher. she is excellent. our grievances with the school board and the administration, who are very much at odds with the voting public. steve: over two hundred schools in the state of california around the bay area have gotten permission or are going to be allowed to show this material. what would you like to happen? >> first, the schools are all throughout california. not just in the bay area. we've of like to stop these films from being shown. more importantly, for the schools to realize that this is promoting transvestitism and homosexuality -- they should allow the parents to opt out. and for the parents to contact

us for free representation and we will leave more than happy to do that. that is what we're all about, to make sure the parents' rights are respected. steve: at what age should they can learn about homosexuality? is that something that should be taught by the school, or something topped by parents? >> it should be left up to the parents as far as we're concerned. bullying should not be allowed on campus, but that should not allow the school district to promote these lifestyles the have mental, psychological, or medical ramifications for children. this is a parent's rights issue. it should remain in the home. parents should be able to teach their children the kind of morals and values that they think is a copy for their child.

tolerance is a two way street. steve: thank you very much. off we go to the green room. gretchen: a very interesting discussion. the obama administration asked the new york governor not to run for reelection and now local democrats are claiming his death in the water. why is governor paterson insisted he still in the game? brian: with all of americans problems, the president is going to call the hagecopenhagen to pd for the 2016 olympics. gretchen: he should call a general mcchrystal i sink.

steve: 47 years, we have had the annual fox news college channel. if you're an undergraduate in college majoring in journalism or communications, we would like to see your best news story about a certain topic. it could be about anything. we have had on all the winners for the last seven years. gretchen: you could win $10,000 for your efforts and another $10,000 for more schools. the winner will appear on our channel. all you need to do is go to foxnews.com. brian: the biggest story right now is about iran. steve: this is a fox news alert. iran continuing to show off its arsenal.

this one can travel up to 1,200 miles, putting it within striking distance of israel, u.s. military bases in the middle east, and parts of europe. this comes days after president obama revealed the existence of the secret iranian nuclear site. this is just days before the iranians are scheduled to sit down with u.s. and european union officials for talks. brian: new york gov. david paterson be dead meat? it is predicted that he will resign before his term ends. this comes just after he said over the weekend on national tv that he is very aware of his situation. >> i'm blind, but i'm not oblivious. i realize there people that do not want me to run. i've never gotten an explicit message of christ by the white house that says i should not from -- message authorized by the white house.

gretchen: this morning, director roman polanski awaits possible extradition back to this country. he was arrested this weekend in switzerland to he was there for a film festival. l.a. county authorities seized the opportunity to arrange the arrest three decades after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old. steve: and custer has turned a former camp for migrant workers -- a pastor has turned a former camp for migrant workers into an apartment complex for sex offenders. it is more than 3 miles from the nearest town, which complies with law. even though it is called merkel park, local residents are outraged. the mayor says it is very risky, but he cannot do anything. his hands are tied. brian: german chancellor angela

merkel has mull won a second te. she says the biggest goal of her second term will be fixing germany's economy. gretchen: age is just a number to the south political lady. 109-year old anna farris still wants to win every event at the annual senior games. her family says she does so well because they try to keep her out of her wheelchair as much as possible. wow. 109 years old . congratulationsyea, anna. brian: when you talk about everybody's agenda, can you believe an issue that really caused contention a few weeks ago when president obama was

addressing the nation about possible illegal been covered in the health care plan when the congressman will soon yelled out "you lie." it turns out some liberal democrats in the house want that part of the plan. gretchen: at least 20 have signed this letter that says this. legal permanent residents should be able to purchase their plans and they should be eligible for subsidies. what about the idea that they are here illegally to begin with and that maybe they should go home for health care? . steve: or they should sign the guest book on the way in and get on the road to becoming an american citizen. stephen king, who is a novelist, but also the namesake of a congressman from iowa responded.

he said -- interestingly enough, he makes the argument that for the most part, illegal aliens are younger and in better health. if they are allowed to buy into the system, they could wind up saving us money. i'm not making that up. that is what congressman honda says is one of the rationale for allowing illegal aliens into the government plan. gretchen: vice-president joe biden could not remember the name of the website that he was launching. remember recovery.gov? he was asked about that and it slipped his mind. then be put $18 million more from stimulus funds to revamp this program, and guess what? today we are ready to agree

launch the new website, recovery.gov. have you gone to it yet to see if there are any big-time changes for $80 million? steve: it looks better. i will show you what it looks like. gretchen: does it tell us how they are spending our money? steve: it is supposed to. for some reason, some of the data that was in the website -- it said something like they were paying $2,000 a pound for cheese and meat. obviously, the data had been entered incorrectly. nonetheless, they are spending $18 million to fix up this website that is less than six months old. brian: they want to now have been updated web site so you can have better real-time information about where the $787 billion is going to do you can also call if you have any

information. gretchen: and they're asking the public to help. they say it is so much more attractive and user-friendly. it will allow the public to find detailed information about products in their own states and neighborhoods. what about people who write in and say things like those signs on the side of the highway are a waste of money for stimulus funds to let everyone know that the project that they are currently watching. brian: the phone number could also be a number that you could call if you see waste. steve: as i look at this, there's not a real place -- there is a contact number. interestingly enough, you put in your zip code and then you will be allowed to see how the stimulus money is benefiting your neighborhood. suddenly this is going to personify the $787 billion.

wait a minute, they are rebuilding the train station. brian: some accountability, perhaps. steve: some politicking. recovery.gov. gretchen: we have learned that president obama will go to copenhagen to fight for his hometown of chicago to be home of the 2016 summer olympics. should that that'll be at the top of his list? a live report when we come back. steve: terror plot against new york city scheduled for 9/11 of this year, but it was foiled by the feds. did heavily criticized laws like the patriots back play a critical role?

gretchen: this is a fox news alert. president obama is announcing

that he will go to copenhagen, denmark to make personal bid for his hometown, chicago, to most of the 2016 summer olympics. steve: the president will arrive monday morning. mike emanuel is life aevve at te white house. >> he is going to make a personal bid for chicago. the white house announcing president obama will be leaving thursday evening and will return to washington friday afternoon. the president and first lady will both make presentations to the international olympic committee during friday's session, making the case for chicago and talking about how the united states eager to welcome the ideals of the olympic games to the u.s. the president said within this great country of ours, there's no city better than chicago. mr. obama calls it a city of

legendary sports figures, sports fans, and the city like america itself where the world's races and nationalities come together. >> that is why i think there one of the most exciting parts of illinois games is that all of the plans made in chicago exist within minutes of the city center. easily accessible to commerce and culture, park land and water. we do not want these venues to be all over the place pretty want to host these games where we live, work, and play. >> chicago is competing for the 2016 olympic games against madrid, tokyo, and rio. back to you. steve:. gretchen: is this the right time for the president to head overseas for an olympic bid with pressing issues on his pocket. brian: the founder of the media

research center, brent. we wanted to comment on this news. should the white house be worried about the perception? >> i think they should. this is head scratching time. this is evidence that this man just cannot stay away from the spotlight. he's telling us on the one hand that we have an economic crisis. he is telling us that we have to solve health care right now. you have his military commanders in afghanistan backing him to please get off hmake a decisiont more troops. they say thery are about to lose the war, but he is talking about the olympics in copenhagen? steve: you always set up a situation and then you turn it around. what would the media do if george bush were in the issues given the same situation with

all this stuff going on? george bush is going to fly to copenhagen and makes the case for crawford, texas to be the home of the olympics? >> they would be ripping his head off. they would say he was not ready for primetime. able to use not a series president. they would say he is not being presidential. -- would say he is not a serious president. by the way, it is a bit of a slap at michelle obama. his plan was to send her, and i think that was perfectly appropriate. apparently, they've decided she is not very good at this. gretchen: every american citizen would love to have the olympics in america. the bottom line here is that -- will not that be one of the first questions that the press briefing today?

or maybe it will not be, unless it is asked by fox? >> are you invited at the white house? steve: sure, we have a correspondent there. >> they will ask a couple of questions. as long as this man is in power, the national news media will be on his side. they will be his megaphones. they are in bed with this guy until the very end. they are not going to ask him tough questions. other leaders have done this. putin has done this. tony blair has done this. i do not recall in this country that we send our president as salesmen like this. steve: thank you very much for joining us. . brian: straight ahead, a plot against the united states planned to happen during this year's ninth such 11

commemorations. did policies like wiretaps -- congressman peter king is next. bill: good morning to the three of you. steve: congratulations to megyn kelly. bill: big time. good morning to all three of you this morning. what is iran up to? there's breaking news from iran. we're all over that. republicans say health care reform means no fewer than eight new taxes. michael steele is here to make the case on that. al gore is getting an interesting position of his own. see you in 10 minutes. . these days, everyone's looking to save money. switch to nationwide auto insurance,

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bill: a teraflop plan for the eight year mark of 9/11 has been foiled. it proves the usefulness of the patriot act and wiretaps, programs that were criticized in the past. steve: joining us now is peter king, a republican. this proves that it was working. people are trying to sell the patriot act? river. yet here it is, protecting us. >> the fbi is working more closely with local police. roving wiretaps, it used to be that every phone a person had, now you put a cap on the person. people calling from overseas? terrorists contacting people in

this country? this is absolutely essential. it is important for the patriot act, to allow for wiretaps. gretchen: does the patriot act that expire? or as the obama administration said that they want to continue it? what is fascinating to me is that this guy went to al qaeda training camps. without the patriot that he could be able to come back as a u.s. citizen without being trailed. >> there is no silver bullet. we have to have so many things working. the police support the fbi, support homeland security. this is not pretty. not always done in a way that will please everyone. brian: here is a special challenge for you.

this guy is a naturalized citizen. he can come and go as he pleases. by all accounts, he was a nice guy with his coffee cart. had a thing that said "it's a love america." he was playing a political game. -- "so i love america." he was playing a political game -- "histi love america." he was playing a political game. >> we have these new factors that we need to stay ahead of. steve: in particular that i was trying to build a hydrogen peroxide bombs. you are more concerned with increasing funding to make sure that nobody ever lets of a dirty bomb, some sort of an atomic device. brian: we lost that funding. >> we did.

$73 million for radiation detectors in new york city. we believe that the next attack will be coming from the start -- suburbs. a dirty bomb is the greatest threat. we need at least $40 million. the obama administration when zero. how they can explain that in this day and age is beyond me. gretchen: hopefully they will change their mind after they see this arrest. >> i would hope so. steve: can you stick around for the after the show show? gretchen: [laughter] >> he does not know what he is in for. brian: ok. gretchen: we will let keep you away. >> brian is in a hot bed.

steve: in massapequa. [laughter]