will he ever learn? we'll talk a little bit about what happened. >> this welfare protest actually a middle school field trip. it's part of the school's social justice training. >> a protest? >> yes, that's right. our slogan comes to us from john in tallahassee, florida. "fox & friends", "fox & friends", it's good for the brain. more you watch, the more you gain. >> good morning, folks. who knew that the white house needed a six second delay until yesterday with joe biden? you saw it right here live on the fox newschannel. joe, joe, joe. >> gretchen, you would think since senator biden, when he was senator biden was a big fan of the show, he would know after watching earnest bordinin that you're always miked and always caught on camera. >> earnest did not say a four letter word. he said a much longer one. >> he did. >> absolutely.

>> actually, for a lot of people in america, didn't you need some levity? at least it made me laugh. secretary of state hillary clinton, another person in the obama cabinet back in washington for another round of sensitive meetings. she'll meet with the delegation of top pakistani officials about whether they should be recognized as a superpower. pakistan's support is key in the fight against al-qaida. yesterday, secretary clinton and four more of the most powerful members of president obama's team were in mexico trying to figure out how to beat back the drug cartels and stop the violence that recently killed two americans. defense secretary gates also back in the u.s. where he will reveal changes now to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. gates is expected to announce a more humane policy that would give gays in the military more flexible legal options. the president wants to repeal the policy that allows them to serve in secret but discharges

them with their sexual orientation becomes known. this morning, construction on 20 more apartments in east jerusalem was approved and israeli's prime minister benjamin netanyahu tells president obama in a private meeting he has no plans to stop building in that area. the president called on israel to stop construction as it tries to restart peace talks between the israelis and the palestinians. the palestinians claim east jerusalem is the capital of their future state. google says its site is still available in mainland china but some searches may not work. sensitive search terms like tiananmen square crackdown, of course, that's being blocked. google is rerouting some searches to the hong kong site to avoid chinese censors. the sex abuse scandal at oprah wen friday's south african school settled out of court. the former head mistress sued oprah for defamation claiming that her name had been down as a

result of the scandal. the women met and worked out a deal. the trial is supposed to begin next week. those are the headlines this morning. >> what happens today with health care? a lot happens. some you will not see. for instance, you know that bart stupak, a democrat from michigan had about 10 other guys on his side and said, we can't go along with this health care thing because it does provide federal funding for abortions at clinics and community centers and stuff like that. so a deal was struck according to, i think, "the washington times" and said rahm ran into bart stupak at the gym on capitol hill. they said how about an executive order? the president will actually sign that executive order today. but it's interesting. even though it was a very public debate in, you know, in the papers and here on television, this will be behind closed doors. there will not be any media involved. apparently, they don't want a picture of the president signing it. >> senator baob casey will be

there and 10 others. it was down to six at the end. some bailed and left bart stupak on his own. in the end, a lot of people think he bailed on the entire process. this is interesting, rahm emanuel has to go back to the gym to work out this deal. shouldn't it be nancy pelosi that works out the deal? >> they don't let her in the men's gym. >> i don't know if i believe this meeting or not. after all this debate, they come up with an executive order? no doubt they were thinking of all these options long before sunday but the main thing now today is can the republicans actually stop any part of this process because the senate continues the reconciliation today. that's when they go through all these amendments and vote them up or down and they have to debate it at least for 20 hours. but republicans are in a tough position, i think, here, because if they continue to try to stop this measure and it's only a situation they're trying to run out the game clock but it's still going to go through, how will the public see that? if they can, in the other case,

actually make a difference in this and send it back to the house and have to do a whole another vote on this whole thing, maybe what they're doing is the right move if you're a republican. >> there's one that tom coburn, one amendment that tom coburn has offered up. it's an amendment regarding viagra and we'll tell you more about that a little bit later on. it's so specific that if the democrats go on record, it could make them look bad. that would mean they would have on change it which means they would have to send it back to the house. nonetheless, the meter is running and the senate is expected to pass the so-called reconciliation bill in a couple of days. it's not about republicans and democrats suddenly getting along. it's about change the health care reform bill that the congress just passed and the president just signed and caroline shively is up early this morning in washington with a look at what needs fixing. and there's plenty, isn't there? >> there's a lot the republicans want to change. the reconciliation bill basically fixes what house democrats didn't like in the senate bill and throws some of the sweetheart deals that senators put in there in the

first place including the cornhusker kickback but does a whole lot more than that. it gives medicaid to states and fixes the donut hole for seniors and adds a medicare payroll tax on investment income for families making more than $250,000 and cuts $60 billion more from medicare and delays the tax on cadillac insurance plans that many unions don't like and pulls school loans from banks and has the government handling them. here's the president's take. >> while the senate has the last round of improvements to make on this historic legislation and these are improvements i'm confident they'll make swiftly. >> but republicans are offering a long list of changes they want in the bill. listen to just a few of them. for one, no double counting medicare savings and you mentioned this one, steve, no erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders and there's the bureaucrat cap and trade concept, it says if one government agency grows under the program, another one has to shrink. it would also repeal new powers

given to the health and human services secretary. even if the changes are made, some republicans say the whole plan is still a disaster waiting to happen. >> this will all end up rolling into a giant ball like a -- like a huge massive asteroid headed at earth which is basically going to land on our children's heads as debt. >> now, the senate gets in about three hours from now. we're probably looking at about 10 hours of speeches before the day is

>> perhaps they did not know their children would be going to the room just outside of the

door of the governor of the great state of minnesota. and rather than just looking at the door and seeing if he'd walk in or out, they were demonstrating. they were talking about welfare. >> well, that's slightly important for a parent maybe to sign off on, that there might be a political agenda attached to that school field trip. usually it's like can you bring a car seat to sign off on that? who is going to be driving? >> or promise want to bring a carbonated drink. >> or candy bar or something. there's some people, particularly a school representative that's defending the action. >> i think it's appropriate for kids to be learning about how citizen groups can come together and influence be it the governor, be it the legislature. >> meanwhile, a fella by the name of joe nathan who teaches at mccallister college says if they just say oh, we're going to go out and protest, that's not education. he says that's indoctrination. >> i agree. >> yeah. >> imagine seeing your kid on

television protesting something without knowing it. >> might be a little hot under the collar. coming up on the show, the next hurdle for health care. implementing it and our next guest says president obama should take a page from president bush. >> and a pilot dies in the middle of a flight. >> i got to declare an emergency. my pilot is unconscious. i need help up here. >> i need to get this thing on the ground. i'm flying a king air. my pilot is deceased. i need help. >> coming up next, meet the hero who helped land that airplane. ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm. you and your tasty whole grain. this can only end one way. [ crunch ] wheat thins. toasted. whole grain.

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human services secretary under president bush. good morning to you. >> how are you? >> i'm doing fine, thank you. thank you so much for getting up so early. so a lot of focus was getting on the health care reform bill passed and having the president sign it. but you say having been in a position similar in the last couple of years under george w. bush, that implementing it is the key. how do you go about doing that? >> absolutely. there are a whole bunch of rules that have to be written, complex regulations that will implement the bill that make the bill actually work and put it on a real-time basis so people can understand it. and if you just kind of let this thing sit there and not really put a lot of attention on it. it's not going to happen. as the head of the kaiser foundation says implementation is not self-executing. it doesn't happen on its own. you have to be heavily involved and make sure you're doing it in a way that people can understand. >> that's so interesting. i think a lot of people including myself would think this bill passed and everything goes into motion. who actually will be in charge, then? >> well, that's an excellent question.

the best analogy i can give is, you know, the lord may have written the bible and given it to moses but the rabbis actually interpreted the rules for the jewish people. so you've got these federal career officials who at department of health and human services, department of treasury, at the i.r.s. and they're all carefully watched by the office of management and budget and they write the rules and then they go through a very long administrative process to make sure that the rules are, you know, in compliance with federal law. >> you're making my heart go -- because i'm thinking of bureaucrats, a bunch of them in charge of this whole thing. let's take a look at the things that will go into effect before 2014. there will be a 2.35% medicare payroll tax. an investment tax. a tax on medical devices and in 2014, insurance mandate penaltys will go into effect. so what i see there that happens imminently is a lot of tax. >> yep. well, that's the way they wrote the bill for budgetary reasons.

they put a lot of taxes up front and then the so-called goodies, the subsidies as part of the exchange are going to happen later in 2014 and that was partly for budgetary reasons but also partly because it's going to take a long time to write the rules to make the budget -- to make the subsidies and the exchanges work. it takes about 831 days to write a complex rule according to a rutgers study and that might not be enough time in this case because it's incredibly complex, this one. >> you're making a lot of people nervous this morning. the former health and human services deputy secretary under george w. bush, thanks for getting up so early. appreciate it. >> sure. >> coming up next, you won't believe this story. a pilot dies in the middle of the flight. you're going to meet the woman who helped bring that plane down safely. can you imagine that? and a town that's banning dogs from barking? forever? isn't that what they do? a man from that town who has five dogs and helps rescue other dogs says what's next? banning babies from crying? he joins us now. ♪

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>> couple quick headlines for you this morning, the government web site that lets you track how government dollars are being spent is about to be relaunched. they have worked on usaspending.gov for the last year. no word on an exact relaunch date. act fast and be ex fliexible wih dates and you could score a travel deal. round trip tickets for as low as $98. they all have summer sales but jet blue's sale ends today. air tran tomorrow and frontier on friday. steve, brian? >> speaking of flying, imagine being in the middle of a flight when you hear over the p.a. system there's a serious problem with the pilot.

>> i got to declare an emergency. my pilot is unconscious. i need help up here. i need to get this thing on the ground. i'm flying a king air. my pilot is deceased. i need help. >> we'll have you hand fly the plane. >> all right. you want me to disengage the autopilot? >> five delta whiskey, affirmative. i'll disengage. >> passenger doug white successfully landed that plane. there was a reason why, it was because of the approach of a group of air traffic controllers. among them, lisa grimm, lisa, congratulations. i know they awarded you for your courageous action in orlando. first off, you've been on the job for how long when you get this call? >> how long that day or how long -- >> how long overall? just months, right? >> just -- i had just been checked out a few months prior. less than six months. >> right. >> you get this call, you hear

it and what is your job now? do you bring doug in and doug doesn't know how. >> right. i just at that time wanted to try to be as calm as i possibly could to keep him as calm as he possibly could and try to give him the confidence he needed to feel that he could fly that plane and get it down safely with his family. >> sure. now, as i understand it, doug white was taking his family back home. he had taken off from marco island in florida and actually there was another pilot flying the plane and he's in a great big king air which he owned. mr. white owned. but had only been in it one time. he owned it as an investment property and the pilot has a heart attack and dies. he only knew how to do one thing, that is run the radio. you were working on landing some other jets at the time. they asked you to come over and help. why? >> they knew that i had pilot experience. they knew that i had prior to becoming an air traffic

controller flew for a corporate company in had time in a lear jet and i had a flight instructor experience so they wanted to get somebody with pilot experience to help them through this. >> and in particular, the kingair that he was flying is a very complicated airplane. he had learned some on a little cessna but it would be like going from a kid having a learner's permit to suddenly being in the nascar race. there's that much difference. logistically, you were in miami. he was somewhere over florida. could you tell from his voice that he was scared? >> the initial -- when i plugged in, yes. he was at that -- the panic had started to set in and he needed to know he had people there behind him helping him and were willing to do whatever they could and there was a lot of air traffic controllers that did a lot to make sure that he had the best possible chance to land that day. >> you settled him down. someone else brought him in. what do you tell him first? get in the seat, push the pilot out of the way who has passed away and then what? >> well, he couldn't get the

pilot out of the way. joe who had passed was too big for them to move. so luckily, he had some pilot experience and i was able to talk to him and use some of the layman's terms and help him get through the situation and calm him down and get him to start flying it as if it was a cessna. bring it as basically -- as basic as i could. >> and what was extraordinary about it is the fact that here this guy has his family, his daughters are in the back seat so he's not only worried about himself but his family. you were able to talk him through it. had you ever flown that kind of airplane before? >> i had flown a similar type, a complex turboprop but not that particular kingair, no. >> you helped him and he landed safely and we know you were honored a couple of days ago there in orlando. lisa grimm, job well done. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> all right, lisa. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, we'll go live to

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>> did you see obama hug nancy pelosi. twice he called her one of the best speakers the house has ever had and obama is either really excited about health care or totally wasted. >> ok. there you go. thank you, jimmy. all right. it is 27 minutes before the top of the hour. time for headlines on this wednesday. on the heels of health care, president obama pushing -- continuing to push to overhaul the financial system. this morning, he'll hold a closed door meeting with senator chris dodd and representative barney frank to talk about just that. this as wall street is on a nice run. the dow gaining over 100 points. biggest gain in two weeks.

102.94 yesterday on the big board. >> fort hood shooter about to be transferred to jail. he will move from an army medical center in san antonio to the bell county jail. the army will pay for extra security and medical care there. but for security reasons, officials will not say exactly when he'll be moved. hassan's lawyers plan to challenge the move and says he needs to be in a hospital, not a jay. he's paralyzed from the chest down. he's charged with 32 counts of attempted murder and 16 counts of murder. >> toyota says it will give a new accelerator to any customer unsatisfied with the repair job. millions of cars, of course, have been recalled and a michigan man doing prison time for reckless homicide after a crash wants a new trial. i think that's a minnesota man. he says the accelerator on his toyota stuck and that's why he rammed another car in an intersection at 70 miles an hour. three people were killed. brian? >> all right. no love loss between these siblings thanks to a $500,000

winning lottery ticket. three siblings in connecticut are not speaking to each other. there's a lot of love loss and now they're fighting it out in court. two sisters used to be gambling partners. even had an official agreement to split all winnings and then one started to play with their brother and they won a big jackpot. the brother and sister split and the other sister got nothing but she wants her share citing the written agreement. >> it's good that sisters have a gambling deal. >> as long as you're happy. >> meanwhile, take a look at these pictures. a spring storm blowing through parts of colorado and making it tough on some drivers. you can see roads closed there as well. and the cleanup crews are out en masse this morning as people in the mile high city and portions of colorado get up, get ready to go to work and off. as you can see, there's the storm picking up on radar and the satellite, the white stuff on the eastern half of colorado moving into western kansas where it turns into rain. a little warmer in front of that, through portions of the great lakes and down through the rio grande valley. it is dry in the eastern third

and the western third as well. currently, temperatures are in the 30's and 40's across much of the northeast. meanwhile, you've got some 50's down along the gulf coast and the central plains, 60's across texas. already on this wednesday. then later on today, things are going to warm up. we'll have 62 out at the airport in new york city. good day to go pick up some of the sticks in my yard. meanwhile, 57 in cleveland. 50's in the northern plains. but as you can see, it's going to continue to be a chilly day out west. denver should top out, 35. and that's your fox travel cast, mr. brian kilmeade. >> brian, this is just a year too late as you discussed yesterday. >> i feel bad for you, gretchen. if it was next year, the vikings were playing the saints, they would have a shot at tying the score or winning the game despite losing the coin toss in overtime. what am i talking about? nfl owners got together and decided to change the overtime rules. at least for the playoffs. they voted 28-4 to approve a rule that says if a team wins the coin toss, then kicks a field goal, the other team will

get a chance to score before they lose. now, if the second team kicks a field goal, play resumes like it was, right? that's in sudden death. if the team that won the toss scores a touchdown, the game is over immediately. that would have helped. but not saying the saints wouldn't have eventually won. they certainly won the super bowl. meanwhile, washington wizards guard gilbert arenas will find out on friday how much jail time he'll get for bringing guns into his team's locker room. he should go to jail for three months. arenas is currently under suspension for the remainder of the season. washington, as we just heard again, it's about horse racing. the second leg of the horse racing triple crown, the preakness had always allowed fans watching the races from the infield to bring their own alcohol and i'm not talking rubbing but last year, that stopped. as a result, attendance dropped by 35,000 fans. so to bring those fans back, guess what they did, the same

thing that brought chris back to beefsteak charlie's with the all you can eat bar, they're cutting the cost of admissions from $50 to $40 and offering all you can drink beer specials for $20. >> so for $60, you can get in and get really drunk. >> right. but you get to pay them and you don't have any cans that you're sneaking into your shorts. >> are they offering extra money for a designated driver, too? that's a really good point. >> yeah. >> take a horse. >> right. they changed that and you stop going. >> how many shows is there a heckler? >> i'm worried that's what's coming up on your radio show. >> coming up on our radio show -- i don't think this is the time. >> fine. >> we could count off on that spot. moving on to what's going on over in afghanistan, the fighting there has intensified in the helmund province as the u.s. continues its efforts to take back the area from the taliban and the lieutenant colonel oliver north embedded

with the pedros, a u.s. air force rescue squadron that medevaced six marines today alone joins us now from the province. good morning to you, colonel. >> gretchen, what you've just seen happen behind me is they're scrambling now for another medevac. they've pulled out and saved the lives of nine, the pedros are absolutely remarkable. i've got standing beside me major robert lindblum, the operations officer. tell us the story of how they got to be called the pedros. >> it dates back to the first rescue unit from vietnam flying huskies in 1964. we like to uphold that tradition here. >> they're remarkable. they're not just aviators. they're also the pararescue. standing by me, major united states air force. tell us what a p.j. is. >> they're rescue specialists trained in any way to infield to get to the site where the wounded are, to be resourceful on the ground and solve the problem, to treat the wounded

person and then to come out. this mission here medevac has the p.j.'s flying on board the h.h. 60's, arriving on scene and getting a turnover from the ground force medic that initially treated his wounded, taking the wounded and putting it on the helicopter, providing in flight care and get him to a hospital to follow and care to get him home to his family or back in the fight. >> absolutely amazing. i've watched it. we've been riding along with them today, gretchen and with just a little special something right here because it's "fox & friends" and early in the morning. robert, you got some special thank yous. >> i do. first of all, i want to thank all the families of all the troops that we have here in the theater because obviously without their support we couldn't make this mission happen. and for me -- >> come on. >> for me i'd like to thank my wife rachel and my daughter celebrating her first birthday tomorrow. >> gretchen, it's remarkable tribute to what we've produced in america. the young men and women who are serving out here in this country, absolutely astounding

and what they do in the lives that these guys have saved for the pedros. >> colonel oliver north, thank you so much for bringing us that touching story and happy birthday to that little girl whose daddy is far, far away. thanks so much. >> goes to show you the sacrifices these men and women are making over there. there are a lot of birthdays missed and a lot of anniversaries and a lot of stuff but they do it because that's their job. >> right. and also, there's about to be another major action as they try to take back kandahar so that probably will be the unit to be called on. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, young americans stand to benefit most from health care reform now. will it cost them big time later on? we have two youths. young people for a fair and balanced debate. >> and take a look at this video. two thugs try to set an internet cafe on fire but they're not tough enough for a brave guard. that's the guy right there. what happens next? find out straight ahead. get him! imagine skin so healthy, it never gets dry again.

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>> if you're up and at it this morning, only 17 minutes before the top of the hour. let me tell you what's happening right now. three gitmo detainees transferred to the country yesterday. nothing from you over there, brian. the three middle eastern detainees will be allowed to contact their families and enjoy other freedoms. they just can't travel abroad. 185 detainees are now left at guantanamo. and check out the video of an alleged arsonist trying to set a russian internet cafe on fire. a guard tries to stop him. but he strangles and punches him and another thug comes in to help out his first buddy. well, the first guy still manages to start the fire but the guard is able to put out the flames. the men allegedly hired by a rival cafe. that's jealousy. brian? >> i would say jealousy is one way to label that. more than 30% of our nation's uninsured are young adults.

so why -- so while health care reform may seem like a victory for them, could the future costs do more to hurt america's next generation, the youth, so to speak, than help them. jason thinks he's, he's the author of the new book called "obama zombies, how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation." that's his. jason, if a bunch of young adults from 21 to 26 can now stay on their parents' insurance, how is that bad for your generation? >> well, one of the most explosive realities i write about in "obama zombies" is it's hard for liberals to sell socialism to hard working older americans of that generation. but you can do it to young brats who are high on mary jane, down loading porn from their dorm room waiting for barack obama to deliver them a strawberry scented welfare check. the reality is this is a fiscal time bomb and adding another government program on top of the other insolvent government

programs is a torpedo aimed at our financial future and every young person should be opposed to it as i write about it in obama zombies. >> alicia, you don't agree? >> jason is so good at hyperbole. i love it. it wakes you up in the morning. when you look at this legislation, you have two million people who are going to be able to stay on their parents' health insurance until the age of 26. i wish that i still qualified for that. i wish i qualified for that when i was looking for my own health insurance at 24. and it also means there's a catastrophic plan, low cost, it's going to be available to people under 30 and people over 30 if premiums are larger than 8% of what you make and overall, this is going to bring down the deficit. so i don't see the down side here. >> there is a downside, brian. and one of the things i talk about in "obama zombies" is this entitlement mentality. alicia just said you're 26. you can stay on your parents' insurance. my goodness, have some personal responsibility and integrity and get your -- get the government's grubry hands off our wallet.

i mean, americans don't want to pay for my health care or your health care, brian. they want to pay for their families or their children. >> are you concerned some of your young friends will lose the incentive to go out and get that job with benefits, they'll stay at the deli making ham and swiss because they get their parents' insurance? >> no. i don't have that concern at all. i think most young americans are eager to get to work. are eager to use the educations that they've been awarded, that they've worked very hard for and so i think that this actually sort of incentivizes people to go out there, to take risks and listen, one of the benefits here is that this gives cuts to small businesses, many of whom employees are under the age of 30. >> that's not true. it taxes businesses who don't hire -- who don't provide insurance. >> no. it gives them a tax credit. >> the fact is, you know, on page 122 of obama syndromies i talk about the current entitlement. >> you are pushing that book hard, jason. >> i should be because young people are getting screwed and

have been lobotimized by the liberal machine and it's affecting us. the obama administration uses the 18 to 35 demographic as shield and sheep to push america into the socialist abyss and it's time we have a new generation who cries history and says get your government off our freedom. >> final thought, alicia? >> jason, i think you are very smart and i think you are very out of touch with our generation. listen, as a whole, milennials as a hole believes in an active approach to government. >> that's not what america was founded on. it was founded on individual liberty and personal responsibility and not founded as an activist government so you should buy "obama zombies" alicia. >> all right, we'll end at that. what it's going to be like staying with mom and dad on their insurance. mom and dad rebutt after this. only kidding.

straight ahead, one town is trying to muzzle barking dogs forever. can you do that? and what's next? crying babies? beg to stop. we'll talk to a dog owner that lives in that town next. and my favorite part of the happy meal has to be a toy. i'm a boy. i'll get a boy toy. now i might not get one. they always ask you do you want a boy or a girl toy? >> you want a boy toy, brian? >> i was saying in respect to the drive-in at mcdonald's. >> huh? >> why do i let the other anchors in? i may not get one either. ? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

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>> all right. welcome back. a canine canudrum. a town in new jersey instituting

a ban on dog barking. what's next? banning babies from crying and good luck with that. bill brewlard and his dog ben live in piscataway where it's all happening. they join us live. ben is not going to talk to me. >> no. >> so bill, currently in piscataway, they've got a rule where you got -- if you got a barking dog, you can get in trouble with the law between the hours of 8:00 in the evening and 8:00 in the morning. now they're talking about making it 24 hours a day. and if your dog is barking, they can fine you? >> yes. >> this is an attempt, ok, to certain dog owners are not very responsible with their animals. >> ok. >> and if you tie them out and leave them outside all day, they get lonely and they bark, ok? now, responsible pet owners don't leave their dogs out. >> sure. >> this is just a way, i don't know what they think they can do. they can try it. but i don't know how you enforce it.

>> now, i understand that piscataway a while back instituted a limit on the number of dogs you can have. >> absolutely. >> what was the limit? >> the limit is three dogs in the average sized lot. >> i can't believe that. where they would limit the number of dogs you would have. what if you have a bigger lot? >> you can go up to four or five. i believe if you have five acres, you can go to five dogs. >> you said there are irresponsible dog owners. do you know who these people are? they're screwing it up for everybody, aren't they? >> absolutely. whatever neighborhood you live in, you know the ones that are not responsible with their dogs. >> so what they do is they go to work or just leave in the morning and the dog just barks all day? >> exactly. >> you've got how many dogs? >> right now, i have five. >> you've got five dogs. >> do you have five acres? >> no, two of my dogs are fosters. >> so you've got some of the fine print where you're allowed to keep that many. >> right. >> what about your dogs? if that dog saw what? it would start barking. >> perfect example, deer. deer pops in and jumps over the fence, you're going to hear a

ruckus. but it's very short because i'm right on top of him, you know, you get -- you know, i mean 30 seconds worth of barking, it's over. >> you know what? i have lived next to barking dogs and they don't bother me unless it's the middle of the night and, you know, it's -- besides, i look at it like the neighbor's dog is barking, there must be something out in the yard that maybe i should be concerned with. >> exactly. the people of piscataway, do they look at this as overreaching by the local government? >> as far as i'm concerned, owning an animal, you have to be responsible for that animal. you have to feed it, you have to house it, ok? and part of that is making sure you don't annoy your neighbors. >> all right. well, i annoy my neighbors but in other ways. any talk about just broadening this out and if you got a noisy kid, they'll come and find you, too? >> well, we won't go there. but absolutely. all right. here is a statement from the mayor of piscataway, brian waller. he says "this change will give police the mechanism to enforce

the law during the day while there is no widespread problem, the township has received enough calls that amending the law was warranted." so it sounds like it's heading for 24 hours a day. look out, bill, because you could wind up with a fine if ben starts barking in the middle of the day. doesn't look like you're too concerned. >> no. >> all right. bill and ben, we thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> that is a beautiful greyhound. >> thank you. >> how long would it take that dog to run back to piscataway from here? >> full blown out, they run at 55 feet a second. >> is that right? >> yep. they're second to a cheetah. >> all right. cool. >> i mean, they're fast. >> ben was a class a racer so he's -- he was a very good racer. >> all right. it's good to have you. put ben back in the taxi and go home. all right. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, bill. stay there for a second. coming up, the guy in charge of tarp calling out the president. he says the program to help struggling home owners is meaningless and he has the facts to prove it. you'll want to hear that. then sarah palin calling out

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>> hope you're having a fantastic wednesday so far. it's march 24, 2010. thank you for sharing your time today. now that health care reform has become the law of the land, the g.o.p. is doing what it can to stop it. but do they really have a chance at anything? a live report from washington straight ahead. >> all right. what's a happy meal without the toy? not happy, perhaps? why some people want the toys banned. steve? >> thank you, brian. meanwhile, she is accused of breaking up the marriage of sandra bullock and jesse james and now she has been fired. find out why that angry girl is looking for a job. meanwhile, our slogan this hour comes from randy. up there on the curvy couch, steve and brian, they're no slouch. gretchen, she's the morning queen.

best news show i've ever seen. >> you're watching "fox & friends"! that's a great way to begin your day. >> and i don't know if we planned that on purpose but that was the king. that was don king. >> that is the king. fantastic. >> thanks very much for that slogan. let's kick off this hour with a couple of headlines for you because just this morning, construction on 20 more apartments in east jerusalem was approved. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tells president obama in a private meeting he has no plans to stop building in the area. why is this controversial? well, the president calling on netanyahu to stop the construction in an effort to restart peace talks between the israelis and palestinians. palestinians claim east jerusalem as the capital of their future state and that's why they don't want any building by israelis. sarah palin set to testify in a tennessee court next month against a university of tennessee student expected of hacking they are personal email account. david kernel whose father is democratic state representative michael kernel admits he

correctly answered personal security questions and addressed -- and accessed palin's account, rather, in september 2008. he's charged with identity theft, fraud and obstruction of justice. a fox news alert now, more than one million baby slings are being recalled after being linked to three infant deaths. the slings are made by infantino, the affected models are the sling rider and belissimo slings. they say they can suffocate in the soft fabric linings. the company will offer free replace wantmenments to custome. they say the $50 billion campaign to stop foreclosures by reducing mortgage payments has been disappointing. the report says the u.s. treasury failed to measure results properly for the home affordability modification program and many delayed foreclosures -- and may delay

them. it's complicated, isn't it? when president obama launched the program in 2009 he said it would help homeowners avoid foreclosure but only 159,000 households have successfully completed trial periods. sandra bullock's husband alleged mistress got the boot. angry white girl clothing line is dropping michelle mcgee from a modeling gig because of photographs showing her in a nazi uniform. the owner says he can't be associated with "any white supremacy nonsense." mcgee claims to have had an 11 month affair with jesse james. bullock moved out of the couple's home after news of that affair broke. those are your headlines. >> let's talk about topic a and that's health care. yesterday, of course, the president of the united states signed a health care bill into law. now, what happens today is he's going to sign something else. now, over the weekend, i was listening to the whole brouhaha with bart stupak and those who said this health care bill,

there's federal funding for abortions in there and somebody described the president as being very, perhaps, the most pro abortion president in history. well, later on today, he will sign that executive order that specifically makes sure that federal funds cannot be used for abortions but he signs it in private. no cameras will be there to record that moment. >> yeah and guess who else is going to be there. 12 others who for a while, some of them stood by bart stupak and they'll be there, i guess, claiming victory. the only senator there, senator bob casey, he is a pro life democrat and remember, bart stupak said before he caved that if something happens where he doesn't get what he wants here, there's no future essentially and i paraphrase for pro life -- pro life people in the democratic party although he didn't plan on leaving it. now, what about today, gretchen? it's reconciliation time continuing. they call it a -- it's going to be a blizzard of amendments as more and more are introduced as

the g.o.p. is really using their last gasp to, perhaps, get their point across and get some input to a fix it bill that will really be the law that we go by unless something goes wrong in the next 48 hours. >> let's ask caroline shively because she's in washington now with a look at what's on the table to be fixed. all right, caroline, it's a complicated process, right? they have to debate for 20 hours and the republicans and democrats are going through all these amendments and deciding whether or not they're accurate. is that how it works? >> you're right. it's going to be a very long process. 20 hours total, we'll probably have about 10 more hours of senate debate on the reconciliation bill left today. it does make some substantial changes in the health care bill just signed into law including throwing out some of the sweetheart deals that senators put in there. but here's some more of what you'll find in those 150 pages. for one, it gives more medicaid money to states. it also fixes the prescription donut hole for seniors. it adds a medicare payroll tax on investment income for families making more than

$250,000 a year. that's among some other taxes. it also cuts $60 billion more from medicare bringing the total cuts to half a trillion ask delays a tax on cadillac insurance plans that many unions don't like plus it pulls school loans from banks and has the government handling them. democratic leaders do think they have the 51 votes to push the reconciliation bill through this week with no changes. that would mean it goes straight to the president's desk, he signs it and congress is done with it. but republicans are pushing, as you mentioned, a long list of changes including making sure big government doesn't get any bigger and that sex offenders don't get erectile dysfunction drugs. here's their game plan. >> we're going to offer substantive amendments on all those issues and hopefully some of them will pass. if they do pass, it does go back to the house. >> starting as he remember as tonight, it is vote-a-rama. i didn't make that phrase up. it's official. those are rapid fire votes that could finish tomorrow night or possibly friday. republicans are trying to slow this bill down. steve, gretchen and brian, back to you. >> all right, caroline shively with the very latest.

they're going to debate for 20 hours. they've already done seven hours and they have that vote-a-rama. the g.o.p. sees this as the last chance to effectively change health care reform. to put their stamp on it and she just mentioned the -- the viagra amendment that tom coburn has offered up that would keep sex offenders from getting viagra and other pills that do the same thing. it's brilliant because if democrats say, you know what? they shouldn't get viagra, they will then effectively be making a change to the particular bill and then they'll have to go back to the house. but if the democrats say, look, we don't want to make the change because we don't want to have it go back to the house, then democrats will be seen as standing up for molesters and sexual abusers to get their viagra pills. >> it's crazy. who would have ever thought they'd be debating such a ridiculous point with this whole -- i mean, the idea that they would be even allowed to have these pills is beyond my

imagination. >> we have this 2,000 page bill. you think it would already be in there. >> it's so crazy that -- i don't know, there seems to be other bigger issues and like that should even have been on the books to begin with. let's talk about the republican party in and of itself, brian, they're not in total agreement about whether or not they should be doing this delay game right now. some believe that would not be good news for the republicans because they can't change health care reform now. if it's going to pass ultimately, why delay the process? >> why not run on it and run against it for november and talk about repeal and run on that rather than going to this bill which seems as though they've already lost after a long 14 month holdout. here is mike pence, the congressman talking about how he still wants to take his case to the american people. >> we are determined to continue to take our case against this government takeover of health care to the american people. if we find ourselves in a new renewed republican majority in

2011, we will work in every way to repeal this legislation and start over. >> ok. so that's one of the plans right there. another plan unveiled by somebody who officially does not hold office right now and that is governor sarah palin. on her facebook page yesterday, through her political action committee, she unveiled a list of 20 names, i believe, and these are lawmakers who voted for health care and who are in districts that were carried by mccain and palin in 2008. >> you got three in arizona, two in colorado. two over in florida, two in indiana. one in north dakota. two in ohio. two in pennsylvania. one in south carolina. one in tennessee, virginia and two in west virginia. they're going to be targeted and she has the money to do it, gretchen. $2.1 million overall. >> uh-huh. well, and she still has a lot of public support. people will probably -- many people will still listen to her and what she recommends. in the meantime, how do people feel about the economy right

now? because remember, that is what a lot of people wanted to be front and center in the last year is fixing the economy first. well, this is a startling result from this question in a fox news dynamic poll. do you think it's possible the nation's economy could collapse? 79% believe yes, it could. only 18%, no it never could and 3% don't know. >> this is one thing i think the parties agree on. 72% of those that -- of that total, democrats believe it could collapse. 84% of republicans say it's going to collapse and 80% of independents. after last fall, not this past fall or the fall before that, who would have thought that was going to happen? a lot of people can't figure out how the economy fell off a cliff and slammed into a wall. >> also, in that poll, nearly 3-1 voters think the national debt is potentially a larger threat to our nation's future than terrorism.

>> so, you know, it's a ticking time bomb. you keep adding on to the debt and eventually we run out of money. look at the debt service right now. we were wondering who is going to fix it all? take a look at this poll and the answer is we don't have any good answers. if you think the president is going to fix it. 62% of you say no, he doesn't have a plan. 71% of you say that congressional democrats, no, they don't have a plan. and 79% of say congressional republicans, no, you don't have a plan. >> well, everyone is kind of down about the prospects. >> they should have polled for treasury secretary tim geithner. i wonder how he would have polled as far as how you feel that whether or not he can fix it. who will fix it? if the american public has lost faith in both political parties and the president of the united states, maybe they should have asked if tea partiers are going to fix it. i don't know. who do you think? let us know. >> i think tim geithner is busy right now. april 15th is around the corner and he's probably busy not filing his taxes. >> good point. turbo tax makes it easy.

that's true and more people are doing that now to save money. 12 minutes after the hour. something that's long overdue. i'm not a big mcdonald's guy but my children are which shows i'm a bad parent. >> what are you talking about? >> take the easy way out. >> you get the veggie burger. >> that's good. but it's still -- it's technically i'm not comfortable with it. what i do, i always get -- i've gotten to the window at mcdonald's in particular and they say, do you want a boy toy or do you want a girl toy? and i ask for the boy and 90% of the time, i end up with the wrong gender toy. that's not a problem in santa clara county, california. >> the first in the nation that required calorie counts on menus and stuff like that. now what they're saying is kids should not be enticed into eating this bad food just for the sake of a toy. here is a woman who says it's just not fair but then a guy who says it's good. >> i don't think that's fair. i don't think that's fair. you can still eat here and get

toys because they have like instead of french fries which is fattening they have like apples, little slices of apples, they have milk instead of soda. >> why not do it when we have a health crisis like childhood obesity. one in three child in santa clara county is overweight or obese. >> all right. what do you think? should happy meals be banned because they're a bad enticement? i guess i'm a terribly bad parent. i have three of those little r2-d2 characters at my house right now. >> if you're going to ban the toy, then ban the swings in front of mcdonald's. a lot of times your kids say i want to play in those swings. >> that's totally true. >> it's not just mcdonald's. it's all the particular fast food franchises that offer up the little toy in it. email us right now friends at foxnews.com. good or bad? >> meanwhile, should the g.o.p. throw in the towel on the health care fight? that's what some are saying. our political panel is next. >> and a new weapon in the war on terror, a very hot chili? we're not kidding. whatever it takes, right.

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>> 17 minutes after the top of the hour. the passage of health care is creating a new risk now in the republican party. the question is this -- keep fighting or simply move on? on our panel this morning, john gibson, fox news radio host. rick newman, chief business correspondent with "u.s. news & world report" and democratic political strategist. good morning to all three of you. so great to see you on the couch. >> great to be on the curvy couch. >> what do you think about this? the republican party in a bit of a rest right now. some saying we should give this up. if it's a delay tactic and can't change this whole health care reform thing, we're wasting our time. >> they may be wasting their time. who says this bill doesn't need amendments? i mean, they're going to put all these amendments in because the republican base wants to know, are you guys trying to change

this thing or just rolling over? there's a lot of anger. the republicans want to use it. last thing they want to do is give up and say to their people, we just let it go. the bill is flawed. everybody knows it. the polls show it. so what's wrong with the amendment? >> couldn't they be in trouble of then turning off some voters for things like pre-existing conditions? both republicans and democrats agree on that or at least most of them do. and if you're going to fight something like that, can it backfire? >> you remember the chant from the contested election in 2000, sore loserman? we know the republicans oppose this. it will be hard to oppose the amendments that come in. they can't do it in congress. they have their issue for the elections in november. they're basically campaigning for november. that's where they're focused. >> anything wrong with that. >> no, there's not. we know where they stand and hard to see where they gain extending the same thing over and over. americans are tuning this out now. it passed. we're sick hearing about it. it's been 14 months and i think

everybody wants to move on. >> i know you're a democratic strategist but do the republicans have a point, that in fact they have to send it back to the house and do it some kind of fix it, maybe it wouldn't pass? >> i think at this point, the bill is on course to pass. here's the mistake that the republicans made from a strategy perspective and i'm a democrat. they had a real opportunity to make meaningful change in this bill and they chose rather to engage in partisan attacks and use it as a campaign issue when there were some issues that they raised that were legitimate. now they want to block the very amendments that, a, include some of their own. b, that are popular. and c, that will also contribute to reducing the deficit by $25 billion. so they really have painted themselves into a very unfortunate corner here. and once, i think, the information starts to get out about some of the immediate benefits of this bill in a broadway, they're really going to have problems in poking holes in them. >> you can bet democrats, republicans are not going to be taking advice from democratic strategists. i mean, with all due respect.

>> it usually doesn't work that way. >> sorry, it doesn't work that way. they think they know what's best. well, they -- >> they had a chance. they had a real chance. >> look, you got it through. you rammed it through. good. now, live with it. >> republicans are trying to say, there's a lot of things that are wrong with this. we're not going to stand for it. we're not going to roll over. people are going to vote for us because of that. and the last thing they want to do is take democrats' advice to sit back and roll over. >> i got to wrap it up there, guys. we can continue discussing this in the break but we have another topic for the panel and in just 10 minutes, senator jim demint, republican from south carolina joins us to talk about the g.o.p.'s game plan to repeal the bill. in the meantime, our panel does stick around for this. the i.r.s. will be the chief enforcer of health care reform but that's going to cost billions and guess what? the funds not available? so what gives with that? and for the first time in more than 100 years, the national anthem was played at a college baseball game. what took so long? sports sedans in the world

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>> welcome back. the individual insurance mandate in the health care bill requires every american, of course, to purchase health care by 2014 so families who violate that mandate face fines of more than $2,000. and the enforcer -- the i.r.s. but should a government tax agency be in charge of health care? we're back with our panel, john gibson, rick newman and tara. we were talking in the break that in the situation if you are due a refund from the i.r.s. and you have not purchased health care, they can fine you by taking away your refund. but if you are not due a refund, will the i.r.s. be capable of coming after all these people and enforcing this new law? >> well, part of the reason why the law is being implemented in 2014 is some of these -- some of

these challenges can be worked out. the reality here is that the i.r. s., i think, is a good place to house. the i.r.s. is not going to be taking over health care. they're going to be handling the enforcement side of ensuring that people buy insurance and if not, handling the administration of the penalties. >> that still makes people very uncomfortable. >> it's comforting to know that the i.r.s. is going to be out there backing up health care. i'm sure a lot of people find that a comforting thing. >> the i.r.s. has trouble figuring out who is paying our taxes. this is going to be kind of an enforcement nightmare and it seems likely for maybe a few years and maybe many years, it's going to be a wink and nod situation where, yes, we're enforcing this but we don't really know how exactly. it's going to take -- >> i have great confidence in the i.r.s. they will get the money. >> all right. well, one of the reasons that the i.r.s. maybe would need to get the money is somebody has to pay for health care and one of the things now that they're lobbying out there is a tax,

what the europeans have, the v.a.t. tax, may come into existence. the debt commission set up by obama may recommend this to not only pay for health care but for our national debt. do you think this is going to happen? >> probably. i mean, this is -- the country is being europeanized, value added tax is a big deal in europe. i suspect they're going to have to look around and find a by to get this money to pay down this deficit. it's either a back tax or go out to the military and i suspect they're going to go after both. >> just to clarify this. we've been adding to the debt for the last 10 -- every year for the last 10 years. the federal debt, the total debt is now $13 trillion. that's before health care reform. if we cannot add a penny to that, social security and medicare, we'll have to pay it down at some point. >> probably have a value added tax no matter what. >> i thought health care reform was going to save us money. wasn't that the whole argument? >> the c.b.o. was projecting that health care reform will save $138 billion. in the second decade, it will save $1.2 trillion.

i do believe the health care reform and oh, let me note, the c.b.o. did not score prevention which is known around the worldwidely accepted by economists, if you're healthier, your health care costs come down. that's not even considered. i believe that the deficit will be reduced. i don't believe it will be reduced by as much as the c.b.o. projects just because it is a government program. >> you believe we'll have a v.a.t. tax, do you believe the commission will recommend a tax for americans like europe. >> i believe the debt commission will recommend some sort of revenue enhancer tax and cutting spending because that's what they typically do. they offer to cut spending -- >> here's we go! >> final thought. >> cutting spending. >>re out. what are we willing to give up? are we willing to give up more tax money to the government or service? >> we can give up those. >> all right, i have to leave it right there. brian and steve, take it away. >> thank you very much. straight ahead, the next weapon in the war on terror.

the hottest chili pepper known to man? we are not kidding. >> for the first time in more than 100 years, the national anthem was played at a college baseball game. what took so long? and -- >> brian, because this next one is actually a tag team thing. in a stare down right now. get ready for wrestle mania 26. it's this weekend but we have the champ in a stare down with the other champ, brian kilmeade. john sena here first. úñçqç?p>p

>> here's the shot of the morning. the president and joe biden making that big speech the other night out of a door behind the president, the guy walked out. whoops daisy, i'm going back in. he appeared to be lost. he wandered almost into the cross hall that led to the east room just as the president was speaking. >> can you imagine if that was a salahi back again? if i see a woman in a red dress walk out. >> whoopsy daisy. how embarrassing. if you know who that guy is -- >> it looked like robert gibbs. >> i don't think it's robert gibbs. >> not enough gel. >> if you know who it is, email us. we're curious what his name is and what his position is that he can just roam around there in

the white house. >> he's probably part of the secret service if i had to guess. >> not secret anymore. >> might be. might be. >> in a few minutes, we'll talk to senator jim demint, not bragging, just telling. he's a republican from south carolina and he's got a way forward before the g.o.p. perspective when it comes to this bill. he doesn't like it. he's taking action. meanwhile, some headlines now at 27 minutes before the top of the hour, defense secretary robert gates is demanding a detailed study of the pentagon's information operations. it comes amid a separate pentagon operation into defense department official michael furlong. he was hired, private contractors to run an off the books spy operation for tracking possible insurgents in afghanistan and pakistan and got into some trouble because of it. then said everyone should have known about it. >> fox news alert, pirate attack fails off the coast of africa killing one pilot. european naval patrol says it got an s.o.s. incentive spanish ship to the rescue. when it got there, gunmen on the panamanian flag merchant ship were repelling pirates from

three boats. one of the pirates was killed. six others arrested. >> meanwhile, the newest weapon to fight terrorism, chili peppers. indian military officials say they'll be using the thumb sized pepper to make tear gas for hand grenades. in 2007, the guiness book of world records cited that chili was the spiceiest. experts say it will be an effective nontoxic weapon since its pudgent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts. >> they'll fight it with beano. meanwhile, california prosecutors say michael jackson's doctor should not be allowed to practice medicine. they want his license suspended while out on bail. conrad murray charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death, as you know, prosecutors say murray used poor judgment in giving jackson a powerful sedative and he faces four years behind bars, if convicted. gretch? >> for the first time in more than 100 years, the national anthem heard before a baseball

game at a college in indiana, a mennonite school. >> school officials originally said the anthem places love for the country above love for god. and that it's a symbol of war and militarism. they recently changed their mind and said they want to make outside visitors more welcome. >> let's take a look at what's it like outside. 74 plows trying to clear more than a foot of snow in denver, colorado. and as you can see right there, we don't have that video. instead, we've got some video from pompton lakes, new jersey. over the last several days, there has been a deluge. keep in mind, the grounds were already saturated and there has been a lot of flash flooding along low lying areas. meanwhile, today, things are going to dry out in pompton lakes, new jersey and throughout the northeast although we have a little lingering shower activity in portions of new england today. biggest storm is moving through the central plains. in fact, it looks like just to

the -- let's see, to the east of salina, kansas, a thunderstorm at this hour moving through the manhattan, kansas, area down through portions of the rio grande valley and up through as well the great lake states. meanwhile, later on today, things are going to warm up. right now, we have temperatures in the 30's and 40's across much of the northeast. 40's and 50's down south. 50's across much of texas right now. meanwhile, later on today, the high temperatures, cleveland rocks at 57. kansas city where everything is up to date, it will be 54 degrees. san antonio along the riverwalk, almost 70. it will be 76 today in tampa. in pittsburgh today, a reading in the 50's. >> bring up pittsburgh, steve, because ben roethlisberger back in the news for the wrong reasons. the outstanding steeler quarterback has a request for a d.n.a. sample. there's been a request for him and it has been dropped now. that according to his lawyer. investigators are looking into a claim by the 20-year-old georgia college student that roethlisberger assaulted her outside of a nightclub three weeks ago.

all right. more of the news in the world of sports. jose canseco says he's been subpoenaed by a grand jury investigator investigating whether roger clemens lied to congress when he denied using performance enhancing drugs. canseco has been told to appear before the grand jury on april 8th. here's what canseco tweeted about. it's like the godfather, he said, just when i thought i was out, they drag me back in and now it begins again. in his book "juice" canseco wrote he had no knowledge of clemens using drugs, and they are illegal drugs and they are good buddies. one of jose's few good friends. >> meanwhile, repeal and replace. that's the new slogan coming from the republican party this morning. south carolina senator jim demint is a republican and is introducing a bill that would roll back president obama's health care and replace it with something else called common sense solutions. so far, 12 republican lawmakers have co-signed the bill and the senator joins us live from d.c.

good morning to you, sir. >> great to be with you. >> great to have you as well. yesterday, the president signed the health care bill and according to the vice president, it was a big deal. as we know from the vice president. comments caught off mike there. what are the republicans going to do because, you know, thaurz a new gallup poll out that shows more people are warming up to it. >> well, before i forget, i'll just encourage our viewers to go to repealitpledge.com and help us elect people in november that will help us repeal this bill. certainly, with all the hype and propaganda, we would expect a bump in the polls but as people find out what this does, they're going to be more and more disenchanted and they're already very angry. i mean, in fact, this week, we're having to pass a one month fix for what we pay doctors to see medicare patients. this bill needed to have something in there that made sure that if you have medicare, you can find a doctor. but seniors are going to find in

a few years that they can't find a doctor and over half of the people who get this new insurance are going to be on medicaid and over half the doctors already don't see them. so i think as people began to discover what's behind all this propaganda, they're going to like it even less than they do today. >> senator demint, what can republicans do now, though? because some are now saying that a rift is going to begin within the republican party. those who believe that they should try and stop the process of reconciliation and those who believe that we should just move forward towards the election. where do you stand on that? >> well, the reconciliation is almost a side show. i mean, they had some taxes. it takes over another industry, the student loan industry and it puts tens of thousands of people out of work. but it's not going to change the basic health care plan that cuts $500 billion from medicare and raises taxes on almost every american and puts debt on our

children. so the thing we're doing this week is a side show. we're going to do everything we can to stop it or expose what's in it. but the real battle is in november. the campaigns in november are going to be, i believe, focused on repealing this bill. making sure we get candidates who will repeal it and i think as americans, again, find out more about what's in it, there's going to be more and more anxiety and anger about what's been done to them. >> uh-huh. so the repeal will come if the republicans gain power. if they gain the house. >> that's right. >> if they gain the senate. but in the meantime, there are other issues. education, immigration, energy, senator mccain says forget it. what does senator demint say? >> well, the president does continue to have a very ambitious agenda that we've already taken over general motors and chrysler, the largest insurance company in the country, the largest mortgage company, and he does have cap and trade on his agenda.

he wants to take more federal control of education and our financial sector so republicans are just trying to hold back the tide until we can get some reinforcements in november. >> so should they play? should they go in and start negotiating? senator lindsay graham met with senator schumer and the president on immigration. should that continue? >> i think senator graham has come back and said based on what happened with this health care process that all good faith is gone. i don't think you're going to see republicans trying to work in a bipartisan way for more debt, more spending, more government takeovers. that seems to be the only thing on the president's agenda right now. >> senator, right now, you know, the democrats, they've got the majority and in the run-up to the vote on the bill, i'm sure you heard this, democratic congressman hastings who is on the very powerful house rules committee, he said "there ain't no rules here. we're trying to accomplish something. all this talk about rules when the deal goes down, we make them

up as we go along." that's what a member of congress on the democrat side and the rules committee said. so when the going gets tough, they make it up as they go along. >> well, it's really horrifying when you consider that all of us take an oath to protect and defend the constitution that defines a very limited role of the federal government. but when they want to get something done, all the rules, the constitution, everything is out the door and i think that's why you just -- you see millions of americans who have never been so angry, so sad, so upset, i think you're going to see a real emotional passion charged debate going into the elections this year. and i think you'll see -- you'll see a new president in 2012. >> interesting. another one of those rules is the bill may exempt staffers who work for congressional committees and the president himself from buying into these state run exchanges which is another interesting irony in this whole entire thing. senator demint, we got to wrap it up there. always great to have you on the

show. thank you very much. >> and the battle goes on and the late nights continue. meanwhile at 18 minutes before the top of the hour, coming up, a doctor ready to hang up her stethoscope. she says the health care reform compromises the hippocratic oath. >> and wwe champ john sena is ready to rumble this weekend. but first, as you can see, he's making his way to the curvy couch where he would -- could snap all of our necks just like that. >> bring it on, pal! >> first, the trivia question -- .

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>> the answer to the trivia question of the day, tommy hilfilger. there you go. the winner is joe in connecticut. congratulations. meanwhile, she is a doctor and she's ready to, apparently, hang up her stethoscope. she says the health care reform bill compromises the hippocratic oath that she took. dr. elizabeth is joining us right now from tucson, arizona. good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> we want to hear your story. why do you feel that if this health care bill is going to in

the future affect you to the point where you cannot live up to the oath that you took? >> well, the hippocratic oath says very clearly that we pledge to do what is in the best interest of the patient to the best of our ability and judgment. the senate bill, for example, required that physicians have to follow the regulations of the secretary of health and human services just to even participate in private insurance and the regulations and guidelines are set by the government. when i look at what has just been said about a member of congress saying they make up the rules as they go along, i don't want someone with that attitude telling me what i have to do for my patients. >> right. >> my allegiance is to them. >> i understand how you would feel. after having worked so hard to become a doctor and then you feel like this goes contrary to what you stand for. but here's the news. the president has signed this into law yesterday. and the republicans on capitol hill are trying to make some

fixes to the fix bill but it sounds like it's going to pretty much steam roll through. does that mean you're going to wind up hanging up your stethoscope? >> well, if this goes forward without the changes and the challenges under the constitution as are being planned, then yes, i would be forced to leave a career i love and i've worked hard at, because i will not compromise my principles to give my allegiance primarily to my patients. >> right. >> and this violates that oath very clearly. >> dr. vliet, what does your patients say? >> my patients are very concerned about this. at the very time in our history in medicine when we focus on individualized care and understanding the genetics that make people different, we are looking at a one size fits all approach to like they have in england where a government panel decides what's best when they haven't seen the patient.

and i think that's a gross intrusion into the physician-patient relationship. my patients are very upset about it. and many of them are very concerned about what's going to happen to them both the young ones and the older ones. >> all right. dr. elizabeth vliet joining us today from tucson, arizona. thank you very much for telling your story. thank you, doctor. >> thank you. >> meanwhile, so can this bill be fixed in the senate? we were just talking to the doctor about that. making republicans and democrats happy? former speaker of the house newt gingrich will join us live. that's newt right there. and one teenager getting surgery on both wrists for, get this, texting too much. it's true. you'll meet her. she'll tell her story when "fox & friends" rolls on. [ male announcer ] as long as we're winding up our doing dials,

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the president's $1 trillion overhaul of the health care system. >> today after over a year of debate, today after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. >> gretchen: but is the fight over for republicans and the american people? we'll let you weigh in. >> steve: then there is the vice president of the united states yesterday. >> some are calling with the curse of joe biden. he said that at the white house. do you have a problem with that? brian? >> brian: it was interesting. this welfare protest actually a middle school field trip part of the school's social justice training. that's right. social justice training.

we'll explore. our slogan comes from jim in wisconsin. come check us out and we'll show why we feel that our "fox & friends" is a big bleeping deal. >> this is james and you're watching "fox & friends," the most, well, prodigious show in the cable news genre. >> gretchen: he would have never said that bleeping word. he sounds way too -- >> brian: classy. >> gretchen: joe biden did. we'll bring you that sound bite, most of it is just like that. bleeped. we'll bring it to you in just a moment. >> brian: i could tell when he was going off the prompter just a little bit. i said, oh, oh he's looking down a lot. that means he's making it up. that's got to have everybody in the white house holding on to someone like dustin halfman in tootsie. refused to go off the script and got everyone in the control room nervous? i just got heckled and i'm not going to repeat it. >> gretchen: a fox news alert.

a high stakes summit with pakinstani leaders being in washington. secretary of state hillary clinton delivering opening remarks. are we going to listen to them now? she's going to meet with the delegation of top officials about whether they should be recognized as a nuclear power. so far the u.s. has been noncommittal. but pakistan support is key in the fight against al-qaeda. other headlines, another fox news alert. hillary clinton back in washington. we just did this. she's going to be talking about israel as well as pakistan. right? okay. this is a live picture right now. we just showed you that from that u.s.-pakinstani summit. hillary clinton is very busy today. now, here is the israel story. this morning construction on 20 more apartments in east jerusalem was approveed and israeli prime minister netanyahu tells president obama in a private meeting he has no plans to stop building in the area y. is that important? because the president was calling on netanyahu to stop the construction in an effort to

restart peace talks between the israelis and palestinians. the palestinians claim that east jerusalem where they're building the condos, they claim that's the capital of their future state. a government watchdog agency is criticizing the obama administration's mortgage plan. they say the $50 billion campaign to stop foreclosures by reducing mortgage payments has been disappointing. this report also says that the u.s. treasury didn't measure results properly for the homes affordable modification program and may delay foreclosures in many cases. when president obama launched the program, he said it would help 3 to 4 million homeowners avoid foreclosures, but only 169,000 households have successfully completed trial periods. defense secretary robert gates also back now in the united states where he's going to reveal changes that the military don't ask don't tell policy. he is expected to announce a more humane policy which would give gays in the military more flexible legal options. the president wants to repeal that policy, which allows

homosexuals to serve in secret, but discharges them if their sexual orientation becomes known. the number of women delivering their babies by c section has grown by more than 50% since 1996. the cdc says now nearly a third of all babies are born via c section in the united states. the government doesn't think that's a good thing because c sections are more dangerous, some say, and cost more. just the same, women who have one c section are more likely to deliver their second child that way. that's exactly what happened to me. >> brian: really? >> gretchen: yeah. >> steve: it's 4 minutes after the top of the hour. president obama plans to sign an executive order on abortion today. the order will reaffirm long standing restrictions on federal funding of abortion. wendell goler is live at the white house. this is essentially the deal the president struck with bart stupak and company to get his vote on the big deal a couple of days ago. >> yes. the president will sign the order this afternoon in the oval office.

he will do it quietly, no fan fair, no ceremony because the executive order is frankly angered both pro choice and pro-life lawmakers alike. it's part of a deal he made with pro-life democrats in the house led by michigan congressman bart stupak to put up a fire wall between federal funds and the insurance exchanges to be offered by the states that have an abortion offered. that got stupak and other members of congress to vote in favor of the bill that the president signed yesterday. since some people will get federal subsidies so they can afford the insurance, there was concern the money could indirectly fund abortions under the executive order, no health plan will be required to offer coverage for abortion in plans that do cover abortion, policy holders would have to pay for the coverage separately and that money would have to be kept in separate accounts from taxpayer money and states could ban abortion coverage in plans offered through their exchanges. now, that is frankly, not enough separation for some pro-lifers. they plan to challenge the

executive order in court. it is too much separation for some pro choice lawmakers. though the white house says it really doesn't diverge from existing practice. the fact it's an executive order has troubled some members of congress. stupak released a statement yesterday saying other historic protections, including even the emancipation proclamation were executive orders. steve? >> steve: all right. wendell goler. did you enjoy the music we were playing during the break before this? >> for folks who didn't hear, they were playing arrested developments, mr. wendell, which is my theme song. >> steve: you don't dance on camera ever since danny tario retired from dance fever. thank you, wendell. >> gretchen: what a great tune. now we have to move to what the republicans plan to do with this

whole health care reform thing. they're now going through all these amendments. they have to debate tore 20 hours, then they hold a vote, it's called votarama. that could begin as soon as tonight. do all the republicans agree on this strategy? do they agree they should be delaying what some say is the inevitable, that health care reform now is law? >> steve: plus, there is the whole question of whether or not they should go along at all with anything the democrats come up with 'cause so far the democrats have been union -- republicans have been unified in all things democrats. but it would be hard for republicans say no to education or no child left behind. they might have to pivot, in which case the president can't make the argument that the republicans are the party of no because they would be going along with some peoples. >> brian: mike pence, some say is getting divided at this

juncture. >> we are determined to continue to take our case against this government takeover of health care to the american people. if we find ourselves in a new renewed republican majority in 2011, we will work in every way to repeal this legislation and start over. >> brian: because with a limited debate, unable to filibuster, reconciliation may be not the time to throw a blizzard of amendments together. a lot of people saying maybe that's being a sore loser. coming up later, newt gingrich's perspective on where the gop goes from here. looks like they got health care and it was a massive celebration. what the speaker would do if he was in charge. there is something else when it comes to being in charge. this national health care program that's coming our way incremental criminally over the next ten years, even though we'll be taxed leading up to that before we actually get any

services, what about some of the program going forward? obama care. who will get it? should the congress get it? should the president get it? there is provisions to make sure they don't. >> gretchen: well, whether or not they want it is a different question. but senator chuck grassley, republican from iowa, he's steamed about this. here is what he said. it's unbelievable that the president and his closest advisors remain untouched by the reform they pushed for the rest of the country. and he wants to propose an amendment to force all political appointees, from the president on down, to take their own health care reform that they pushed for the rest of america. i think this is astounding that the lawmakers are not required to do exactly what the american people are now going to be required to do. >> brian: senator grassley says there is a special carveout that insulates top level staffers as well as congressional leaders. so they went out of their way to make sure they wouldn't have any part of this. >> steve: it's the particular people who worked on the bill. so the president doesn't have to

take it, also members of congress and their staffs that worked on this particular carveout and what we're winding up with. also, one other nugget, chicken nugget, is going forward, all fast food places and restaurants as well have got to tell you how many calories are in whatever you're buying and how many grams of fat and all that other stuff to help you make healthy choices. >> gretchen: that's huge because they already do that in new york city. when you go to a restaurant in new york city and you start reading how many calories are in the food, it does affect the choices that you make. i wonder how this will affect restaurant business around the country when people -- in good and bad ways. it's good to know the calories, it's also sometimes bad because people won't order as much. >> brian: that's true. a whopper, shocker. >> steve: a lot of people go out once a week, so they figure, i've been pretty good all week, i don't have any idea what the calories are at home, so i might as well go crazy. >> brian: if you're the

president and you live in the white house, you need someone to introduce you to the legislation. he chose the vice president to introduce him. >> steve: he did. how did that go? >> brian: the introduction was a little longer. i saw one moment of tension where the vice president was talking and you saw the president take that step forward. he goes, i know you don't like when i do this, but i'm going to do it anyway. >> gretchen: his body language? >> brian: wrap it up. he complimented him and then as they were about to change at the podium, the president steps up, the vice president steps back, something happened. >> steve: we've got the tape. watch this. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barak obama. [ applause ] (bleep). >> steve: if that were me, my mom would have run up there and washed my mouth out with soap. or somebody should have beeped

it. >> brian: rahm emanuel is known for his cursing. >> steve: with an open mic a foot away? >> gretchen: if you were watching this live, did you hear it watching it live? >> brian: i heard something and then i go, i wonder if that happened and all of a sudden i looked down, did he just say? i think he just said? >> steve: yeah, he did. what do you think? e-mail us about the vice president's beep. some of you are angry that the vice president of the united states would use that kind of language. >> brian: the press secretary said he was right. >> gretchen: yeah. he basically said that what joe biden said was right. it was a big deal. okay. coming up on the show, new information about exactly how long you should be working out each day. it blows all the other guidance out of the water. >> brian: i think it's 12 hours. then a teen-ager texted so often, she got carpal tunnel surgery. she's mortified and wants other kids to hear her story.

>> steve: all right. what's next? the president signed it yesterday and now the health care reform bill is undergoing the complicated reconciliation process. is there any way that tweaks can be made that will satisfy everyone? will it have to go back to the house for another vote? let's talk to a guy who used to run the house, newt gingrich is joining us from our nation's capitol. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: what do you make of what happened in the last 24 hours? >> well, i think, first of all, that the president won an enormous victory. nobody should be confused about that. he gambled a great deal and he won the vote. he now has created the largest government-run health system in the world. he's basically taking over the insurance companies. he's going to set all the rules for health care in america. it's an enormous centralization of power.

i think it won't stand. i think in the end, it will be repealed probably in february of 23013 -- 2013 with a new president and new congress. at the moment, the left is feeling emboldened and i think you'll see them do more, not less. i think you'll see them go for broke on immigration, on taxes, on energy and really try to impose a very, very left wing agenda while they still have the majority. >> steve: the republican opposition was unified, not a single republican voted for it. although i think 33, 34 democrats voted against it. so there was bipartisan opposition to it. but the people on the republican side, mr. speaker, who were against it, some of them have been marginalized by people on the left. >> let me say first of all, the real bipartisanship increasingly is conservative and moderate democrats with republicans and independents against a monolithic left wing democratic partisanship. the attorney general of

louisiana, a democrat, joined one of the lawsuits about states' rights, for example. you're seeing a bipartisan effort to stop a secular socialist machine and you're seeing a very partisan democratic machine. here is what i think -- where i think they'll go next. they want to bring up immigration next and further expand their reach and further increase the number of people who owe their lives to government and so they've decided they're going to attack the conservatives on two grounds. one is racism and the other is that it's inappropriate to ask tough questions and to raise tough issues and anybody who is doing it is an obstructionist. what you're going to see is not the audacity of hope, but the audacity of raw, pure power in an effort to stifle everybody and so if you say there is something wrong with the bill, you're either a racist or obstructionist because you no longer have the right as an american to question those who have power. it's a very audacious gamble, but it's designed i think to set up the immigration fight as their next step because they

want to consolidate power as rapidly as they can before they have to face the voters. >> steve: newt, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. up next, a teen-ager texted so often, that girl wound up with carpal tunnel syndrome and now she needs serious surgery. she says she's mortified and wants other kids to hear her story. then a field trip to join a welfare protest? those are fed middle -- middle school students on a class outing. what?

>> steve: now it is time for news by the numbers. first, 15%, that is the pay cut that executives bailed out companies will get.

the white house pay czar ordered just that. next, five years, that's how long gift cards will be good for thanks to a new federal rule. finally. and one hour, a new report says that's how long middle aged women and up need to exercise to maintain their weight. you need to work out at least one hour, seven days a week. >> brian: every parent knows that a teen-ager's obsession with texting can be expensive. but did you know it could lead to surgery? >> gretchen: oh, my goodness. any found that out the hard way, she was sending more than 100 text messages a day and now needs surgery for her carpal tunnel. good morning to you,an anne. >> good morning. >> gretchen: how old are you now? >> i'm 16. >> gretchen: 16. and how long have you been texting? >> well, i got my first phone in sixth grade, but it didn't get out of control until high school.

>> brian: now can we see your arms? you have to walk around with those braces because of texting? >> yeah. it's a fair punishment, i guess. >> brian: when did the pain start? >> well, i really started noticing it the beginning of this school year. yeah, my hands would go numb and i would drop things all the time. >> brian: what were you thinking? is there something wrong with my back, my shoulders? did you think it had anything to do with the texting? >> i really didn't. my mom was actually the one who was like, it's probably because you text all the time. and unfortunately, that was true. >> gretchen: wow. this is like ground break not guilty a bad way, that this may be the end result of all of us moving towards this technology. you say you were doing about 100 texts a day. i know that sounds like a lot to some people, but for people who work on their black berries and such, many people are sending more than that. have your friends now stopped

texting so much so they don't get what you have? >> some of them have. but i have other friends who text as much as i did or more, but yes, you're right. i heard so many people who are like, oh, my blackberry i have the same thing. >> brian: do you wish you never started? >> yeah. i do. it's really embarrassing now, like, to walk around with the braces and things. i definitely wish it hadn't happened. >> brian: have you thought about running up your phone bill and talking on the phone? >> yeah, i do talk on the phone a lot more now, but also i just -- i don't do the silly texts like hey, what's up, and unnecessary communication. >> brian: yeah, just my dog is on fire, something that is an emergency to get you to use it. >> yeah. >> gretchen: what are the doctors telling you about your prognosis? do you have to have surgery? can you go back to texting or what's the prognosis?

>> i definitely -- i've cut down on texting. i haven't quit 100%. she definitely says i should stop texting. right now surgery would be the next step, but it's not 100% necessary at this moment. >> brian: right. you felt if you had the i phone, you wouldn't have any problems. right? >> at least that's what i'm telling my parents, right. >> gretchen: maybe your bills have been lowered as a result. so maybe that's the silver lining. anne, thanks for sharing your story with us today. >> thank you. >> brian: new health care plan, you can get your surgery up until you're 26 years old. so take your time. >> gretchen: i'm wondering if they'll have to put a warning on phones now eventually. >> brian: i think the parents will do it. >> gretchen: probably. coming up on the show, take a look at this video of a brave guard taking on a guy trying to burn down an internet cafe. we'll show you how this ends. >> brian: the best part of the happy meal, the toy. now you might not get one.

that controversy coming your way. >> gretchen: the gaps on hospital gowns, you may never be forced to expose your assets again.

>> brian: all day today, ben and jerry's was giving out free ice cream. it's true. they were giving out free ice

cream and starbucks was giving out free pastries. everybody is getting cocky now that it's free health insurance. eat what you like! diabetes? who cares! diabetes is free! >> brian: that is awesome. >> steve: it is funny. >> brian: very funny nonresponsive he needs to go to the doctor. the mental one. >> gretchen: let's do a couple quick headlines because it's half past of the hour of 8:00 o'clock. the senate continues to fix the health care bill as it debates reconciliation: expected to burn the allotted debate time, start not guilty 30 minutes. what exactly is on the table to be fixed? caroline shively is live for us in washington to explain. hey. >> hey there. we do expect them to go to about 10:00 o'clock tonight and they'll be totally focused on this health care reconciliation bill. there is a lot packed in the bill, including throwing out some of the sweetheart deals

that senators put in there the first time. but it does a lot more. that includes cutting medicare by 66 billion more than the senate bill. that brings a total of more than 500 billion over ten years, raises taxes and fines by 50 billion more, it fills the medicare prescription doughnut hole for seniors by 2020 and gives more medicaid money to states for at least the first few years. democratic leaders hope they have the 51 votes to push the reconciliation bill through this week with no changes. but they do acknowledge some amendments might pass. meaning the entire thing will have to go back to the house for another vote. republicans are pushing a long list of changes and looking further down the road at potentially repealing it. here is part of the argument on the floor. >> so let's listen to the people of this country who say they want these things out. that's not how they want the congress of the united states to do business. let's take them out. let's give them, let's stop this legislation and let's start from the beginning. >> i would strongly advise

against these scorched earth tactics, this health reform bill, passed and signed into law, it's now for the bitter partisan rancor to stop. >> we might see the first votes as early as today with a final vote before the week is out. steve, gretchen and brian, back to you. >> steve: caroline shively live in capitol hill, we thank you very much. you'll see it all on fox, of course. now headlines on this wednesday. on the heels of health care, president obama continuing a push to overhaul now the financial system. this morning he's going to hold a closed door meeting with chris dodd and barney frank, the leaders on the democrat side and the house and senate. the opening bell set to ring in 30 minutes. the dow with a nice head start, gained 102.94 points yesterday, the biggest gain in two weeks. >> brian: the alleged fort hood shooter is about to go to jail. he will move from an army medical center in san antonio to

the bell county jail. for security reasons, officials are not saying exactly when he'll be moved. the army will pay for extra security and medical care. his lawyer says his client needs to be in a hospital. he's paralyzed from the chest down. >> gretchen: natalie hollowway's grandmother speaking out about an underwater photo that to show her remains. she doesn't think the image is natalie. >> it doesn't look like anything to me. i've looked at it i don't know how many times. they say that is a skull. it looks like a rock. >> gretchen: she adds that she believes her granddaughter is in the hands of god. >> steve: meanwhile, check out this video out of russia. an alleged arsonist, right here, trying to set an internet cafe on fire, but a guard tried to stop him. then another thug came along and

tried to whack the guy. one of the guys manages to start the fire, but the guard puts the flames out. the man allegedly hired by a rival internet cafe to torch the joint. >> gretchen: design increase britain are working to build a better hospital gown. stylish designs have been unveiled as part of an increase of patient dignity. they're just thinking of this now? gowns that snap down the side to replace ones that flash open at the worst possible places. i guess the fury behind that was that it would be easy to use the facility, right? that's why they had them open in the back and also for doctors to have easier access? >> steve: i think it has to do with surgery and stuff like that. you don't want to have to do that. >> gretchen: let's have brian figure it out. >> steve: yeah. you are our apparel expert. >> brian: it turns out they are looking to save money on thread.

hospitals are pro-slits. there you go. overtime may never look the same again. let's start with the nfl playoffs. the league owners voted overwhelmingly, 28-4 to approve a rule that says if a team wins the coin toss and kicks a field goal like the saints did against the vikings, the other team will get a chance to score before they lose. if the second team also kicks a field goal like the vikings never had a chance to do, the play resumes and the current sudden death rules where the first team scores. the team that won the toss score has touchdown, game over. what is kurt warner going to do now that he's retired? how about dancing? here he is at a charity football game dancing. the man can certainly cut a rug. kurt warner can dance. we got further in. you can see him eyeing the dance and then was able to mirror the dance. kurt warner dancing. you can get that also on dead

spin.com, kurt warner after a flag football game has some fun. you never know. football players tend to do good on "dancing with the stars." >> gretchen: yeah, they have chad ochocinco. you're not going to believe this story, i have a feeling. in minnesota, i have no allegiance to this story, but there is a charter school called the south side family charter school and apparently six 7th and eighth graders were going to go on a field trip to visit the governor and what the parents may or may not have known is when the kids got there, they were doing what you're seeing on the screen here. they were going to protest. they were going to be involved in political activism and bring signs that they no doubt made at school before to protest the welfare system. >> steve: right. here is the thing, if you look at them, keep in mind they are just outside of tim potenty's office. i saw a we had holding one that said scrooge polenty.

there is a political component. he is a republican, so does this line the kids up on the opposition side? here is the executive director talking about how the trip is appropriate for these young minds. >> i think it's appropriate for kids to be learning about how citizen groups can come together and influence, be it the government or legislature. >> steve: is it influencing? is it educating or indoctrinating? >> gretchen: apparently the school does base its click klim around social issues but school officials said the parents did sign off on the field trips, but were not told the specifics or the issue behind tuesday's protest. so even if you're sending your kids to a school and you know that that's kind of the background of it, you might want to know as a parent that they're going to end up at the governor's office. >> brian: my son's class in fifth grade banded together, wrote letters and showed up to get a stop sign put at the end of the road.

that was something we all could agree on. a stop sign is a political. >> steve: was there an anti--stop sign group? >> brian: there was. >> gretchen: there would be now. >> brian: the opting was my uncle who lived across the street in one of those condominium, did not know my son was there. we didn't know why he was there. next thing we know, he says, i don't really want a bunch of people skid to go a stop in front of my place. next thing you know, it's my uncle against my son. >> steve: what happened? >> brian: my uncle took the brutal loss. my son beat my uncle. >> gretchen: maybe we need to send your son down to santa clara, california 'cause he likes happy meals. apparently out in santa clara county, they do not want kids to be able to get a toy with their happy meal. in other words, it would be potentially an unhappy meal for them. they say that getting the toy is the enticement for kids to eat food that is not good for them.

we all know as parents that that's usually what the kids want. they want the hamburger, but also want the toy. right? >> steve: chicken nuggets. >> gretchen: yep. all those things. so should they get rid of the toy or not? here is what some average americans think. >> i don't think that's fair. i really don't think that's fair. you could still eat here and get toys 'cause they have like instead of french fries, they have like apples, they have milk instead of soda. >> why not do it when they have a health crisis like childhood obesity? one in three child in this county is overweight or obese. >> steve: here is the problem, who is driving the kids to the fast food restaurants? the parents. clearly it is the parents' job to be the police for the child. it's not the government. this is another one of those crazy rules that out in san -- they came with a mandatory calorie count posted everywhere. they're trying to jam down

everybody's throat. >> brian: i don't mean to be above it all, but if you want your kid to eat healthy, do what we do, stay home and eat fluff. it's full of nutrients. we haven't been able to find any, but it tastes good. >> steve: anything in moderation. >> gretchen: i'm looking to what -- responding to donald trump. not just that voice in my head. coming up on this show, if you're a veteran, will your health care plan change because of the president's new law? military expert will answer all of your questions. >> steve: and stone cold steve austin is retired from the ring, but he's drinking coffee. here to battle it out on the big screen. he has definitely softened up since retirement. come on in, you're coming up on "fox & friends."

>> brian: since president obama signed a health care bill into law yesterday, we've been receiving dozens of e-mails from concerned military veterans, servicemen and women and their families asking how this will affect their coverage and their benefits. peter is the executive direct of american legion. he's here to answer some of those questions. i appreciate it. thanks so much. let's get started. >> thank you very much for having me. >> brian: let's go to this question. i heard tricare, used by military families is not an approved insurance under the new health care rules. can you check this out? did you check this out? >> yes. we checked this out. we've been part of the debate since the beginning and she can rest assured that her benefits are secure under the law that was just signed by president obama yesterday. the american legion was a vocal advocate in insuring the benefits are safe under the new

law, so she's safe. tri care beneficiaries will receive their benefits under this new law. >> brian: i am a 55-year-old female, says judith. a veteran who served in the navy as a medic. i have no insurance and all my medical needs are taken care of by the v.a. hospital. now will the bill affect a veteran's medical coverage? >> first let me thank her for her service for the country and let me tell her that her v.a. access to health care is not in any way negatively affected by the new law. the benefits that she's earned through her service to this country will still be recognized through the department of veterans affairs. under this new health care reform bill, as it was signed, she can still access the health care, the quality delivery of health care through the department of veterans affairs that she's earned through her service. >> brian: that's all the specific questions i have for you right now. but overall, in the overall scheme, what's something else that military veterans should know? >> they should know that under the new law, the president, the

secretary of defense, and the secretary of veterans affairs has assured the american legion, nation's largest veteran service organization, that those earned health care benefits that our american service members gained through their service and sacrifice to our country will not in any way be negatively affected by the final bill that comes out. while there is a need to focus on health care reform for the nation overall, we focus on making sure that service members, that they're earned benefits to access to quality health care through the department of veterans affairs is secure now and into the future. we will continue to do that. >> brian: this bill is over 2,000 pages long. we have questions, you're in the studio. people watching right now, where would they go if they're a veteran or serving now to get those questions answered, where do you recommend they go? >> i recommend they go to www.legion.org. the american legion has been a vocal advocate in insuring that any health care reform package that comes through, makes sure the benefits of our nation's

veterans and heros are secure in whatever final version of the overall national health care reform bill is passed. so if they have any questions, they can contact their local department of the veterans affairs or contact their local american legion or contact us here in washington, d.c., it's what we do and who we are. >> brian: if you're involved in the military and people that are know this, they get answers and they get things done. those who have questions will get answers if they go to the places you just brought up and we'll have that on our web site later. peter, thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> brian: meanwhile, up straight ahead, we go one on one with wwe hall of famer and actor stone cold steve austin. we used to wrestle against each other before i bulked up. first let's check in with bill hemmer who also has bulked up. >> that's stone cold steve austin? >> brian: yeah. >> i was a huge fan when i was like 14 years old. >> brian: stone cold, meet bill

hemmer. >> nice to see you, man, you look great. kick brian's butt, okay? >> brian: bring it on. >> in 11 minutes, we'll talk more about the confusion about what is the irs's role in this health care reform bill. we're trying to figure this out. also, a judge will decide this morning as to whether or not that videotape of that woman in seaworld was dragged under by that giant killer whale, will the public see that videotape? we'll talk about that. see you in 11 minutes.

>> gretchen: wwwe hall of famer steve austin, he left the wrestling ring after an infamous ring and he said he's been

building an acting career. >> steve: that's right. in his latest film, "damage ," he plays a guy who just got out of jail and is lured into the world of underground fighting. >> brian: do you know how much money you can make beating that guy down there? >> not enough? >> under the right management, tell him how much. >> six figures, one fight. >> all i got to do is whip that guy down? >> well, you got to earn that fight. >> can't be easy. >> steve: that guy. look who is here! bill hemmer. it's stone cold steve austin. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: it's interesting, now you're a big movie star, back in the day before you became steve austin, you were born with another name. and you were telling me an interesting story about why you didn't want to be known as steve austin. >> i started my wrestling career

under my real name, steve williams, i started in the dallas area and they shipped me to tennessee. i needed a new handle there. the booker came around and asked me what my name was. i couldn't be steve williams. he gave me 15 minutes to come up with something, so he stuck me with steve austin, which i didn't want to be because because i was a lee majors fan. it ended up working out. >> gretchen: what does injure driver's license say? >> steve austin. does not say stone cold. >> brian: i don't see you as a fighter. tell me about the movie. >> i have some tender moments in the movie. not quite shakespearean yet. i'm working on my acting chops. i had a lot of fun making this movie. it's challenging and i think this is a starting point of where i want to go. i started my wrestling career as being green and inexperienced in the ring and turned into a fantastic pro wrestler. i want to do the same.

>> gretchen: here is the interesting thing, your last fight was against wayne the rock. right? >> yes. >> gretchen: we had him on the show recently and he starred in "the tooth fairy" as an actor. you're coming off still as an actor. >> i'm not the tooth fairy. this movie specializing in knocking people's teeth out. but trying to -- i want to push the envelope and be more than just an action guy. but that being said, you got to crawl before you can walk and walk before you can run. i got to take the right steps and make the right decisions and plan accordingly. >> brian: are you in touch with your emotions? >> i would like to think that i am. as an actor. >> steve: as an actor, pretend we're not here. let's see you cry. >> gretchen: oh, come on! >> steve: it's a challenge. >> i've got to refer back to that carpal tunnel story. >> steve: you're tearing up. >> i am. i started tweeting, but haven't

had no injuries tweeting. but i ice my wrist every day just in case. >> brian: because you also are with the guy i broke in this business with, sly stallone. you did that movie, "the expendables ." what it's like working with him when we come back. >> gretchen: more in two minutes.

>> brian: coming up this summer, "the expendables ." what was it like? >> it was a lot of fun working with sly. i had an incredible two-day fight with him. sly accused me of breaking his neck. i don't know that i broke sly's neck, but i think it was aggravated. but i'll send him a get well card today. >> brian: you're staying for the after the